CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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LOL..........this is a new "Great-grand baby"...notice the "GREAT.......I have 6 now, and our new June baby will be #7..........as far as Grandchildren go......I have 18 of those......LOLAges for the 18 Grandchildren is 33 down to 16............10 boys 8 girls......included in he 18 is a set of twins.........
Then there are 6 Great-grnchildren...they are another set of twins...they are 5 girls and 1 boy.........the oldest of those are twins 5 and their mother is a twin........identical .
When my grandaughter who is an identical twin had identical twins, they said that was rare....just a twin having twins is unusual, but to have them be identical like their mother is even more odd.......however, because of Gra'yons disability she did not grow like her twin sister did, so they don't look as much alike a their mother does with her twin sister.........the one in the wheel chair is twin to the one standing next to her.you can see they look alike but not identical....but they are identical by birth.....
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My grandson-in-law was running for Pa. Congress which he did win, that is what the picture was about in the newspaper......
These are my identical twin grandaughters.......I can't even tell them apart most of the time.....they are the oldest of my grandchildren....the guy is their brother.
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you clearly Gave them some fine genes
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Can't take the credit for that, I'm just pretty ordinary............but thanks anyway
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bs. They get that beautiful smile from you
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duckyb , I think you are a beautiful woman . Your children , grandchildren and great grands obviously come from a long line of good looking people . Grayson looks just like her twin. Funny , I would have voted for your grandson in law just because of the photo . What a gorgeous picture . Congratulations on his win.
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Thanks ladies......that is Alex my grandson-in-law, .....and he worked really hard for it.......it's hard with Grayson, but she is a real trooper, and goes to PT outside the house 3 times a week, and has in home therapy 5 days a week........my grandaughter has most of it to do by herself because Alex is at the Capital days at. at a time,, but my son, her Dad takes Grayson to CHOP one day a week......he calls it their "date", and she loves it..so we try to make it work.........0
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I have to tell you a funny story about the picture of them as a family.......when I saw it, and saw Grayson holding her Dad's face, I said to Kira. (grandaughter)......OMG, that is adorabl
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LOL.....sorry didn't finish the paragraph.........anyway.....when I said how adorable her doing that was, Kira said to me........yea Nan it is to anyone who sees it..........but the truth is he was talking and she wanted to say something so she was telling him while putting her hand on his "mouth".....not face..............."Dad, can I say something now"...............LOL
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Ducky, that's awesome, and I'm sure will be a family told story for many years to come
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Ducky ..BaHaHa ..too funny ..!!!!! Gorgeous photo. !!
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just wanted to share something I wrote....it is on Breast Cancer.org:
can't figure out how to link it
Topic: Share your stories of gratitude for your caregiver
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duck you deserve to be proud of the family
Me, why the heck do I have a nasty head cold or Something! Got pt myself this after so need to psych myself up for it ,
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Di ..I read your post on the caregiver thread... Beautiful story... Congrats on the 48 wonderful years together. 😘 I can relate because my hubby has given me his strength and love to prop me up through this awful diagnosis too. !!!
Iris ..sorry your are dealing with a cold now. 🙁
Beppy ..Hope you are recovering well ..I miss you so much !
I'm getting so excited ..We leave for our Fiji holiday this Friday ..🙂
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Iris...your typing has improved so much since your surgery. I am hoping the cold is of the 24 hour or less variety.
Ducky - so happy to see you posting and sharing your gorgeous family with us all.
Lucy - have fun, soak it all in!
Beppy - missing you. Hope your holiday was beautiful.
QMC - Brava!! Thanksgiving went spectacularly well here in CT!
Di - I will be reading your post today. Just got home from PT and OT
Speaking of PT/OT they suggested adding speech therapy. For the cognitive side effects (Alzheimer's like) from my hormonal meds. Wow! Never knew there was help for it that did not involve medication! Seriously contemplating....
Love you all...again I am at my memory limit...need a journal I think...
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thanks robin, i know my typing is bad but good to hear that you think it better
Interesting that they are suggesting speech therapy to you. Dang but there are many forms of pt and such. My pt person starts off by asking me what day it is and playing with me regarding left or right things
Just guzzler a bowl of soup and hope it scares the cold away
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Have a wonderful vacation Lucy!
Stay warm, Iris and all!
Octogirl
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Have a fab vacation, Lucy! Love, prayers and hugs to Beppy ALWAYS. Love all of you crazies especially the quiet ones.
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Thanks Octo!
Iris, would never say your typing was bad as we all have been able to understand you perfectly fine. I am just noticing there is a difference and it is a positive thing! XOX
Edited to add: the speech stuff threw me for a loop. Never would have made the connection on my own. I really have nothing to lose...so hard to accept an offer of help.
Edited again to add: I figured out the word that I was trying to find Iris...your writing style has changed...gosh, it was so tough to pull those words out of my head... :
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Thanks ladies.........they are. wonderful family............good luck to everyone having things done, and also to Lucy for her travels....etc.........everyone in the cold stay warm, and everyone in the warmth, oh you are so lucky.........LOL..........gonna be cold this weekend........
Did my stress test today......walked the treadmill......and made it to wheree they wanted my heart rate........will not take the Lexiscan shot to increase the heart rate.........so I walk, and walk, and walk.......LOL......bad knees and all.......but I did it.......Yea for me........till next year when they do it again.....(if I'm here..lol
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Wow—speech therapy for AI-related cognitive effects? Who knew? If I found I needed speech therapy, it would pretty much mean the end of my performing career. The PT/OT I get is for LE & cording.
Ducky, I had the full cardio workup a few years ago after a near-fainting spell (after returning home from a long slog in the snow) that wasn’t reflected in my EKG or Doppler echo. Because I was heavier and had very arthritic knees (this was before I got bionic ones), they were going to give me the Lexiscan shot because they didn’t think I could walk long enough without pain to get my heart rate up on the treadmill. But when I read about the side effects (which were reiterated to me by the tech) and had an ordeal getting an I.V. started, I decided to give the treadmill a go. Did the full 9 minutes…in UGGs, no less. All tests were dead-bang normal. (The fainting spell was later determined to be intermittent mitral valve prolapse caused by “sudden relaxation after extreme stress & strain” and was diagnosed by my PCP with just a stethoscope and an ingenious mind—he had me do a couple of Valsalva maneuvers, such as holding my breath and then releasing it, and listened for the murmur. I asked him how to prevent another episode and he said “don’t strain yourself, but if you do, make sure it’s near something soft to land on”).
Iris, I think cyberspace can be a disease vector—late Sat. night I caught your rotten cold from 900 miles away. (Actually, pretty sure I caught it from my manicurist on Wed.—she kept coughing into her elbow). Trying desperately not to lose my voice—the show I’m in opens Thurs. and we run through Sunday matinee. Guzzling tea, water, & broth, spraying my throat with Singer’s Saving Grace, sucking on honey drops & slippery elm lozenges, and popping Vit. C’s like they were M&Ms. (Too late for zinc lozenges). Hope I don’t get laryngitis—if I do, hope I can start the Medrol dosepak early enough for it to kick in by curtain time Thurs. night. If I can't, that means a Medrol shot in the keister.
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Sandy - may yours be of the 24 hour variety also. If not, may it be under control by showtime.
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robin, i think know my typing is bad so no offense taken but very interesting to me that you see a difference in my typing. I think the hydrocephelus was this creepy thing in my body that it took a special doc to see my issue. Think I will tell the pt guy today. It also helps to motivate me to keep it up.
Sandy, sorry you seem to have caught my cold but......got the Cure! During cancer treatment I lived on the big pots of Kale soup. So yesterday made a pot of soup, broccoli rape and beans, ate it plus drank up a couple cups of ginger Tea! My magic cure and feeling better today. The idea is to scare away the nasty bugs! Got to get the old vitamins in food is my theory
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Iris, you are an angel! Thanks for the soup idea--exactly what I needed to hear on this rainy day.
Feel better, Sandy!
I'm processing the possibility that not only may I lose my ACA insurance down the road, but even if I keep it this year, I may not be able to stay with Sloan Kettering. There is no plan on the exchanges in NY that includes Sloan, and I can't see any plan at all that includes it were I to pay for insurance off the exchanges. Feeling tragic about this. My treatment is already off-protocol thanks to the insight of my MO. So I lose my MO, lose the treatment plan, and possibly lose all ability to buy insurance down the road due to preexisting condition. Waiting to hear back from Sloan's insurance department to see if there is any way to stay with the hospital due to the fact that I am still in treatment. Sigh.
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rainnyc Gasp! I truly can't imagine the stress you have re insurance. What a scary mess! I'm so so sorry. Surely SK will be on some insurance plans or they couldn't stay in business? Wishing you patience and determination to get the coverage you deserve and need. Jan
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Living in Crazy Town right now. Found a lump which felt like scar tissue but just to be safe called my MO. From there to the BS, who thought it felt like folded alloderm from my BMX/recon. She sent me to the radiologist, who after a mammogram and ultrasoundthinks it's fat necrosis, but just to be sure ordered a biopsy, which was supposed to happen after the new year due to scheduling issues. I did something I never did in all my doctor's visits- I started weeping while lying on the table. The radiologist noticed and when I explained that my husband had just been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma and that I was having flashbacks from my original DX and my recurrence was wonderful and made an extra space in her schedule for me. Hubby and I have matching appointments in 2 days. Same time, same hospital, just different wings. Our house is Crazy Town on steroids.
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Hello Lulu! I am so sorry. You and your DH are certainly in my prayers. Here's a cup of hot cocoa with Ativan sprinkles for both of you!
Sandy, I hope you feel better. rainny, so far DJT is saying even IF they dump or change ACA they will keep the pre existing condition provision. There are a lot of insurance companies dropping out of the exchanges. They hold up my state, CA, as the example of how well ACA is doing but it is because CA has tons of people on medicaid through the exchange. We are getting lots of $$ from the feds.
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Sandy - just getting over my cold - was miserable over thanksgiving. The day the boys and family left I started getting better.
Went to OT for my wrist (2x/week) this morning. It is getting better but he thinks it will be awhile before it is fixed.
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Woke up after a disturbing nightmare that I was losing my voice during an important audition, only to find that my voice was indeed getting “croaky." Sniffled up some yellowish mucus too. (No fever, though, and no wheezing). Ticklish coughing, similar to when I was on an ACE inhibitor. Called my PCP—his associate told me to immediately start taking my Medrol Dosepak, as well as a prophylactic course of Keflex BID. (She originally called in an Rx for a Z-Pack, but when I told her I had a few palpitations one evening when taking it for bronchitis back in 2013, she informed me that could prove fatal at my age and with my family hx and high LDL—so that's one more abx I can't take any more, bringing the total to 4—penicillin, cipro, sulfa are the others. No more room on the medical alert bracelet, dammit). So I'm drowning it in chicken broth, tea with honey & lemon, lots of water—and going on vocal rest except for my solo singing & speaking lines (and where my voice is the only one on the harmony note in that chord). Gonna lip-sync everything else. Voice is a bit improved over this morning, but not taking any chances. All rehearsals & performances from tonight onward will be close-miked, thank goodness—so the sound guy can "turn it up to 11" if need be. Gonna stock up on Robitussin and Ricolas en route to the L station in a bit over an hour. Going upstairs for a good strong steamy shower, too.
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Oh, Lulu22! (wryly) Welcome to CrazyTown, indeed. For me, it was a firestorm of nightmares at my first post-diagnosis mammogram, but bursting into tears is an entirely understandable reaction! And I can well imagine that the radiologist has seen this before, though I'm glad for you and for all cancer patients that she has the sense to allow extra time when that happens,
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