CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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well we on the east coast are waiting on the storm, love being as close to coast except when coastal storms hit
Stocked up on milk and tons of other stuff and if power goes out, will be eating or cooking up freezer stuff
Hope for storms heading out to sea but the are saying it is not like sandy....that hit directly on my town and lost power for 8 days, oh fun
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Wow, Di, that's terrible about the young girl and the other shootings. Bobby was two when his father became a cop. He was real excited about it, because he was fascinated with cars from the time he was a baby, and with police cars and firetrucks especially. He is still into cars and knows a lot about them and is self taught on repairing them. He loves doing things like that, including fixing the air conditioner in our house. He is twenty three now and is doing his graduate studies and is doing his student teaching. He applies for law school this fall. He's a nice kid. I was reading about Renaissance men recently and that describes him perfectly.
What did your GS say about the gun? I hope it doesn't scare him off from going to the beach. I am so sick of people preying on others and making people afraid, especially children.
Sandy, good luck on your cadillac surgery. That's what my husband calls it. He had his three years ago, first his left eye, then three weeks later the other one. He did just fine and has better eyesight than I do. If you look at his eyes in certain lights, they have a glimmer to them. The next year, (May)he had a detached retina in one of them. We didn't know what it was, and he wanted to wait until his regularly schedule eye appt. I dragged him off under protest as soon as we could get in and the next day he was in surgery. I am determined to get that man to retirement, and stuff keeps happening. Last May, he was paralyzed from transverse myelitis. It is similar to Guillain Barre. He wanted to come home and "rest on the couch", when it started just after work and he collapsed in the parking lot. He wanted me r Bobby to come and get him. I told him we'd come and get him, but he was going to the emergency room. Two other cops carried him to one's truck and sped him off to the hospital. Because the paralysis was spreading up his chest, they said he could have died if he had just "rested on the couch". Three weeks in the hospital, six months off work, intense PT, and I would say he is 98% cured. A little numbness in his heel and some tingling here and there. All these things with him happen in May. Why May? I have no idea. I was diagnosed in May, the day my mother passed away, the day he was in the hospital having his first cataract surgery. This May, he was working out after work, and was doing leg presses. Another cop comes in, and suggests that he can press more than my husband was, so my husband says, well I can press I think it was 110 or 120 pounds. So, he does, and there goes his knee. So, off work again, MRI, PT, doctor draining fluid off it with the biggest needle I have ever seen, while hubs is screaming in agony. His sergeant was in the work out room not long after, when they were joking and he said look I can press 120 pounds now. Sarge said he would whip his butt.
We are all doing the low carb thing. My husband is a diabetic, and he lost weight with it, so we are all doing it, with my Bobby and I sometimes having our treats, like my fast food and pudding last night. I need to stop excusing myself and stop eating junk just because I want it and exercise.
Iris, I wish we were closer to the beach here. It takes about four and a half hours to get there. We go to the Redneck Riviera, aka Gulf Shores. Actually we stay in Fort Morgan. Love those sugar white sand beaches. We still get the effects of the hurricanes here. Closer would be nice but the flooding and stuff would be horrible. You batten down the hatches and stay safe. Although I would have to go out to the beach before it gets bad, because I love storms.
Di, from your picture, I would not believe that your birthday coming up is that one. I wouldn't have guessed anywhere near that. I want them fountain of youth injections.
I am about to head out to get stuff to make a pot of soup, then go stock up on cleaning supplies and paper products. But, first, another cup of coffee. It looks a bit like rain, here.
Have a nice day, all.
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Lisa, my bff had transverse myelitis. Two plus years later she still struggles but has made a miraculous recovery.
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Molly, I had never even heard of it until he got it. They had every doctor around looking at him, doing all kinds of tests, including the one where they stick that big needle in the spine. In the emergency room, the doctor dragged a sharp instrument across the bottom of his foot, and he didn't react to it. It was scary. It's been fifteen months since it happened. I'm glad your friend is fairly well recovered, considering some of what I have read on the TM forums. I don't think most people would be able to tell he ever had it, but I can tell that he still has a few issues. If your friend has anything to recommend, let me know. One of my sisters is a nurse anesthetist, and she told me that one of the surgeons had TM, and one year later , he was back operating. Because of the numbness in his right heel and achilles tendon, we drive him to and from work. I wish I knew how to teach him to somehow get back to driving himself. He can do it, if he has to, but he'd just won't.
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hand controls for gas and brakes. Check at your car dealer or mobility stor
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Lisa, as spookiesmom said, my friend got her vehicle retrofitted with hand controls. After she was released from outpatient rehab she started going to the gym nearly every day and working out both on the floor and in the pool.
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well it looks like the storm is going to bypass this portion of the coast, yeah for that. Beach erosion still on going and some serious wind for some but does not look like any power outages here
I think I scared the storm with my monster torch Light!
May go sightseeing along the bay just to see the waves
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glad the storm passed you by, proud. Stay dry and safe!
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Greetings. Am new to this thread. Long story short: IDC Sept. 2014. Lumpectomy, rads done. Ongoing Aromasin. Had 3D 6 month recheck Aug. 2016. Going for biopsy Sept. 8 on the GOOD breast which had 3 previous benign biopsies and 1 aspirated cyst. The irony is the biopsy date is 2 years to the day of first diagnosis on the right breast. Am completely unravelled. How can this be??? Am truly in CRAZY TOWN. Anyone have a similar dilemma????
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CWP ..welcome ..I am exactly like you ..had my 2 year 3D mammo and ultrasound 3 weeks ago ..and they found a lump in my good breast .lucky the breast clinic I go to does everything on the day , so they did a biopsy straight away ..I was nearly sick waiting the 2 days for my results. !!! They were B9 ..it was a fibroadenoma ..so hoping yours will be too ...stay with us here , and we will all be in your pocket on the 8th !!
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this is why there is a crazy town hoping your stay is short and all works out well,
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Just got back from the shore (Margate this weekend with my daughter), and the storm was a huge threat...........well guess what............nada, nothing.........hope NY does as well...........
The only thing was the ocean......I didn't go to see it......my daughter did, I could care less, at 81, and 30 years owning a shore home.....I know what big waves look like..........LOL
So the summer is officially over.....will be going down one last time next weekend with my son to North Wildwood at which time he wi ll close up......my daughter wi ll be staying open, but not sure how much I will get to her house..............
Came home to a beautiful clean home (clean when I left it, but I mean sparkling).......another one of my sons (remember I have 3 sons, and 3 daughters).........had the women that clean his home every other week come to my[ house.....he got the keys from one of my daughter's, and had the women come here.............he said "Mom they will be back every other week.........next time they will do the windows and the blinds..........how lucky can one Mom get......I told him "NO", but he insists, just like he did with the Medical Alert.......you know (I've fallen and I can't get up).........when I know he is headed this way I put the medallion on so he thinks I wear it all the time............one day his oldest son came (24), and before leaving said "Nan where is your medallion:............I said "hey don't tell your Dad"...................3 year contract, and you can't get out of it......ugh......
Sula your my "baking hero"..........everything looks lush.......so glad your back for a spell.......hope your well
Molly been thinking about you, and of course Wyatt....hope he is getting along.........
Talked to. Beppy and she sounds good......preparing for her venture into treatment, and will all me when she is done...........she's my girl.......
Well I guess I have bored everyone enough.......so I will say hugs, and TTYL.......
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Ok all I"m making something it send to Beppy - if you want to participate - just let me know and I will add your name.
Edit - deleted flower as I found some cardstock to write our names on.
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CWP: yes, you're well and truly in CRAZYTOWN--I'd guess that a great many of us have been in exactly that 'dilemma'. But I hope that you'll come out the other side. As many of us have.
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cwp, welcome! Sorry about your good breast. I don't blame you for needing to join us.
Duckyb, you have the loveliest family. What a blessing to have your son do that for you. Wyatt's Okay. Not great but he's the strongest person you'll ever meet.
Gma, love the idea. I will work on one. Praying for our Beppy.
Love you all.
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CWP, welcome to CrazyTown--may your legit visit here be a brief one, and if you get the “all clear,” do hang around to blow off steam!
Tomorrow will be my last day of the kind of messed-up vision to which I've become accustomed. Wednesday morning is my first cataract surgery. I will be one-eyed till Thurs. morning, when I will be allowed to take the eye shield off. Then I will either have to walk around, glasses-free, with one good eye (at least in terms of clarity, distance vision and astigmatism) and the other still messed up in all three respects; or wear my glasses, with no change to my left eye but the right lens way overcorrected. We won't know what my true right eye reading correction will be for a week. I could, as my ophthalmologist suggests, have the right lens removed but that would look ridiculous; I could have it replaced immediately at LensCrafters with a plain clear blank for appearance's sake; or wait a week and have that lens replaced with one with only a reading correction. Of course, my glasses are also photochromic with anti-reflective coating. I could just wear drugstore reading glasses and close my left eye. Then if all goes well, we do this all over again next month with my left eye. I'd almost be inclined to leave bad enough alone, except that my cataracts have gotten so ripe that only my ophthalmologist can visualize my retinas, and not very easily. I'm tired of having to wear lighted reading glasses (which since they don't correct for astigmatism still distort), and of not being able to see people's facial features if they're backlit. Those of you who had cataract surgery, how did you manage between surgeries?
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ducky, you will love supervising your cleaning person, not to mention the nifty clean house with no effort by you,
Sandy, we'll here's hoping all the cataracts are gone soon and you have dandy fine vision
Me, started a pesky uti over the weekend, like when else would I get One! Called doc and will go in for a pee in the cup shortly
So fun
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hello all,
Thanx for your replies. Will have all of u in my pocket this Thurs for the biopsy. Going to pick up the 3D mammog report today so I can review it b4 so I have an idea what the are looking for. goin for that horrible stereotactic biopsy. Had one years ago. Horrid!!! Back into the restless anxiety filled nights. Hah and all this on my 2 year cancerversary date, how is that fair??? Also left breast already had 3 biopsies and an aspiration . And the right breast is the one that had cancer.. So now the good one causes problems. FCOL 😡😝😖😡
Well, am done ranting and raving. Thx 4 lending an ear.
CWP
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CWP I'm in your pocket! I have had many scares with mine too - they all were benign. Praying yours is too!
After Beppy gets her surprise I will put a picture up, but not until she sees it
If you aren't creative and just want your name on the present, send me a pm and I will add your name.0 -
Hello fellow crazies....
been away for a week or so involved in work etc....doing wheelies through CT every night however.
Good thoughts and healing everything to Beppy....
I really envy your family Ducky they are so numerous and good looking....they deserve their own zip code! and what a gift to get such help...we could never get my mother to let anyone in the house...ha! the medallion...we got one for my dad but he "lost it" about a week later and we had to order him another one he kept "losing" them...basically he didn't want to wear it.
cwp...welcome to crazy town...hope your stay here is short but either way there is always someone here for you.
Octo, sorry I missed you at Labor Day...did you get up here? If you are coming around these parts let me know, we'd love to see you.
Sandy,
good luck with the cataracts..my husband had one after he had a detatched retina about 10 yrs ago..something that runs in his family..his younger brother had one a few years before in his 40's and the cataract surgery went so smoothly it was amazing...now he doesn't even need reading glasses ..unlike me!
Gma,
I'm going to try and do something with that drawing and send it to you... if I can't make it work please just sign my name!
Still trying to schedule my vajayjay magic wanding so I can get this ooph done....I am a bag of nerves...aches and pains that come and go....I guess I'm a pretty terrible hypochondriac...my cancerversary is in 10 days and I'm going nuts over here..not to mention the always ominous Pink October on the way.
The thing is if I relax and breath all the aches and pains in my back and butt go away and I relax and my stomach unknots....just thinking of anything sets me off!
I was interviewed by the BBC this morning and was fine until I had to go into the studio and then everything stated hurting...and during the interview I was fine (distracted) ..leaving stuff started hurting again until I was finally in the car and on the way home and relaxed...bingo pain goes away....
I think I'm PTSD'ing pretty bad right now and really need to get myself to a doctor and calm down! I don't drink so that's out of the question and don't want to xanax it up...but I'm so nervous I keep feeling like I'm going to cry and I don't cry! So......that's where I am.
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Sula, In your pocket (metaphorical, external) for both the transvaginal ultrasound (ugh--had one a few years back when I had uterine adenomyosis) and the “demolition & removal" of your "egg factories.” Isn’t amazing what an endorphin high performance adrenaline can produce? Please do clue us in as to when and where we can hear (or see) the interview. Have you been on NPR’s “Splendid Table” yet?
The surgicenter called this morning--zero hour 9:30 am tomorrow. NPO (except bedtime meds with a sip of water)after midnight--and NO meds at all in the morning.........except Xanax. (There is a God). I will probably be spending the next week or two with my progressive lenses perched low on my nose, just for reading. My distance correction is pretty mild in that eye, but the astigmatism correction is considerable--I hope I don’t feel like I’m looking through a warped antique windopane when I have my actual glasses on. Will probably have to remove the right lens--or not wear my current glasses at all when I read, relying instead on readers....perhaps closing my left eye because it’ll still be astigmatic before I have its cataract removed. I’m finding myself right now closing my right eye when I read, especially the computer screen.
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Sula, I had several episodes with the magic wand. Not fun but not as bad as cystoscope. Sandy, in your pocket for your surgery. Love you all.
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Sula, I didn't get up their Labor Day...just needed time at home. Definitely will let you now when I come up. and please pull up a chair and join us when the CT stuff hits. we all get it (I know you know that). I've been having a bit of it myself....just a bit overwhelmed right now. and just got a message about another family member in the hospital. Geez. So much worry. Anyway, I hope to see you soon, hang in there and in your pocket for the wand stuff and all of it.
Sandy, in your pocket too. Hope it goes well. Take that Xanax!
G'Ma, maybe it is just that so much is going on, but I can't figure out how to make the flower work. Can you sign for me? Thanks so much for doing this!
I talked briefly with our Mayor Slow today. She is heading for treatment tomorrow and in good spirits. Hope I can get down to see her and the rest of the SoCal gang soon! I love our Mayor. Yep, as Molly said: love you all.
Octogirl
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Hope Beppy has big pockets--she’ll need ‘em.
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Best to Mayor Slow, she is in my thoughts every day
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Yes Octogirl - no worries just tell me if you all want your name on the surprise for Beppy. Making it today and sending it out asap.
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GMA ..lovely idea ..please add my name for me ..
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Same here, GMA
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GMA.......me too
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Chi........I had cataract surgery........the biggest problem was getting my eyes to dilate......but then I was told t keep them closed and not to open them at all......but I cheated.....(nosey).....
I had no problems at all with either surgery.......it was done 2 weeks apart.....and was completely uneventful........I went to highly specialized place right outside of Philly that does just cataract surgery.........the Dr.'s are all Opthomologists.......all I had to wear when leaving was dark glasses to block out the vivid sunlight that day......and remember to put in my eye drops (can't remember for how long)........which I also had to do pre surgery.......
Probably one of the easiest surgeries I have ever had done....good luck with your 2nd eye......0
