CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
Comments
-
Just a quick fly by ..It's school holidays and have had my 7 year and 4 year old grand-babies staying with us last few days .So I'm busy !!!! We are off to Inflatable World today with them .
Iris ..Sorry about the sinus problem ..J know it's no fun 😞
Rainny ..Congrats to your son ..That's great news that he has such a wide choice !
Mommy ..A hug for you !
Hi to everyone else ..
0 -
well my primary thinks i should check on headaches with nuero so a visit to nyc nuero is on tap next week
Caution theses days
0 -
Good morning everyone 🌞
Sandy, I just had my appointment with my ophthalmologist yesterday morning and everything has returned to normal. Yay me! I have a little calcium behind my right eye but no swelling this time around. My MO was concerned my eye issues were chemo related although he's never had a chemo patient's eyes affected before. It's always me to introduce docs to new and weird conditions. I tell them if it's out there, it'll be me that gets it. My ophthalmologist also feels it may have been the chemo. Who really knows? I have 20/20 vision with my glasses on so I'm happy. I have my FU with my MO next week to see what the next step from here is. I also have an appointment with my PCP next week, he wants to go over my depression/anxiety meds to talk about possibly making a change. I'm not sure I want to mess with that at this point... unless he can give me my normal usual before BC self back and I don't think he has that kind of power.
Poppy and Molly, thank you for your well wishes! They worked!
Iris, a big YAY to a great report and no cane! BOO to your head aches I pray they go away ASAP!
0 -
Hugs to all!!!!!
0 -
lori you know, it may be as sandy suggested, just a sinus issue. I woke up this morn with mild head pain but after a nice shower, i do not have it so who knows but nuero thinks we should check it out and i agree
Was thinking about getting humidifier as house is dry but my sister tells me her experience is they leave a nasty white film all over
Whatever, damp and rainy today but off to gym
0 -
Iris, good idea on the nuero check.My only experience with a humidifier was I ended up worse than when I started but we are all different. I didn't have it long enough to see if it left any residue behind.
0 -
lori, my sister was living along the so not sure if her experience was really from salt air. Oh well, will check em out anyway
0 -
Humidifiers won't leave that white film if you use distilled water and filters.
Lori, keep a good relationship with your ophthalmologist; since you're on Tamoxifen, and if you haven't already had cataracts removed, you should get an eye exam—an optometrist is okay—annually or even semi-annually to check for cataracts, which are a side effect of Tamoxifen. But cataract surgery is a breeze.
0 -
Hi all: just checking in after being out of the country for ten days or so, work and fun combined. I went to Costa Rica, my first time there. The beach was lovely, work was productive, so all in all a very good trip, though I've been traveling too much lately and I am tired! Retirement looms!
But came home and lodged squarely in Crazytown...while dressing for the beach I noticed a mole I'd not seen before, on my stomach, and I don't like the looks of it at all. It is small, but dark and irregular. Fortunately, I already have a dermatologist apt. on Friday: made because after I pointed out a new spot on the bridge of my nose to MO, he suggested that I just go ahead and see derm for a baseline checkout/checkup, even though he didn't think the spot on my face was likely of concern. (maybe just an 'age spot' and he was being kind in not saying so?). But no one has looked at the one on my stomach yet. So now I am getting more and more anxious just thinking about the appointment.....Sigh. funny how one little spot can cause so much worry...
On a more happy note, congrats on your son's acceptances, Rain. Molly, I know I missed your birthday while I was traveling, so if I forgot to say Happy Birthday, I hope it was a great one!
Sending hugs and greetings to all!
Octogirl
0 -
Lori ..Great news !!
Octo ..I had similar experience last year ..Looked in the mirror and to my horror saw a really dark mole on my stomach that I'd never noticed before ..Had it taken off 2 days later , and it was B9 ..I hope yours is too ..It doesn't take much to put as in CT !
The weather has cooled enough to start our morning bike riding again ..So we are heading out after breakfast ..I know I will be exhausted as it's been months since our last ride ..
0 -
Sandy, thank you, I've made an appointment to be seen again in 6 months due to the tamoxifen as you suggested. I forgot to mention that info to my ophthalmologist.
Lucy, a bike ride sounds wonderful. Oh wait, I don't have a bike or the energy to ride it. I'll have to put that on my to do list ASAP For now I'll settle for walks around the pond :-)
Octogirl, welcome home! Your trip sounds like it was very enjoyable even if work was involved.
0 -
octogirl, Coast Rica is supposed to be fabulous. What a great opportunity. I second the hoping it's benign. The spot on your nose sounds like the Actinic Keratoses I have been getting TX for. Hopefully everything goes well for you. Second post op appointment tomorrow. Hopefully the sutures come out.
0 -
Molly50 -- Belated Happy Birthday, and congrats on not having any surgeries scheduled!
Your comment reminded me that when I was just starting chemo a month after I was diagnosed, I was waiting for a test (bone scan or something), and they FORGOT about me, too! I was so out of it I hadn't bothered to drag myself up to the desk to ask why it was taking so long! The technician had actually gone home, along with nearly everyone else. Gah. But I was having so many visits to the Kaiser center then, I practically lived there, so I was reconciled. (I did actually change insurance right after, when the new year came with Open Enrollment, though!) They actually found someone who could run the test and I finally got it after waiting even MORE... watching the cleaners vacuum the empty waiting room... I had almost forgotten that!
That whole period was pretty much a nightmare... as I'm sure you all know!0 -
Hugs to everyone!!!!
0 -
Good morning! I'm off to get my port flushed. Such fun! NOT! The fun part is afterwards...I'll be getting my supplies to start my garden this weekend! Yay!
Healing hugs to All 🤗
0 -
I remember those days Wenchie and I agree Not Fun!!!!!
0 -
gee, i have no gardening skills, my sister got all of them. Was talking to her last night, she has a pal who hhayas set up a tiny house on the rear of her property, the pal is now setting up composting and not sure what all. Can say that the tiny house idea looks cool on tv but not gonna think it for me
0 -
Anyone have any idea on how to stop Emotional Eating? I am out of control ladies and need help.
0 -
Gma, If you figure out how to stop please share. I am doing the same. My belly is expanding. I am trying to drink herbal tea instead of snacking but it is not working. April, thanks for the bday wishes. 4 more weeks of restrictions and then PS said I can have my life back. I told him no thanks to having nipples made. I will get tats at some point instead.
Tomboy, thinking about you!
0 -
I've been emotional eating as well. When I got so sick last month, I lost 10 pounds. Now with the two biopsies I've had within the last 2 weeks.... I'm eating everything but fruits and veggies!
I'm trying not to hide underneath the Crazy Town porch. I know my breast biopsy results are in because my electronic chart notified me by email that my chart had been updated Tuesday at 12:01am. Of course, it only says my results are in... not what the results are. So I have called my doctors office everyday asking for the results. Each time, I'm told the nurse will call be back. Well, this morning she called me back and within 6 seconds we were disconnected. I called back and was told they are having phone issues. So frustrating... and crazy making! LOL my DH just walked in while I am typing this and he was on the phone with the docs office trying to get my results. Now my hands are shaking.
0 -
I know what to do - I just don't seem to be able to control it. The 2-day diet study I was in was awesome, but since my Beppy and my mother passed, I lost total control.. The food plan gave you lots of things to eat instead of sugar/junkfood and you ate a snack between meals. No lack of food. I need to be accountable to someone I guess. The basement steps are getting closer.
0 -
Poppy and Gma, thinking of you! (wish I had some words of wisdom on the emotional eating thing, but I don't...)
Octogirl
0 -
Gma, I'm also on the binge eating program and I don't know how to get off! My DH bought me a lot of fruit and vegs. I ate all of those and went after my potato chips and Mt Dew! Uuugh
Poppy, keeping my fingers crossed you get good results from your biopsies! It's nerve wracking enough without phones making things worse!
Molly, I agree with you on making nipples. No thanks! I like the idea of being able to wear my sundresses without you know what popping up! Yay! You'll have your life back before you know it!
Hello to everyone else 👋
0 -
Poppy, I am on pins and needles (where IS that Ativan?) waiting for your results. Praying right now for good news.
0 -
oh gee, i think i just cleaned out my home stash of stuff and tossed a really old thing of some sort of anxiety med
Sorry as would have sent to you
My old moto has always been to stay busy at times like this
0 -
Poppy ..Waiting nervously with you ..Is your doctor's far away ? Can you drive there and get your results ?
GMA ..I have emotional eating disorder too ..But the opposite way to most people ..When I'm anxious or stressed I have to literally force myself to eat ..But when I'm happy I stuff myself all day ..Like I'm celebrating with food 😵
0 -
Molly and Lori, I would say no, too. It would be one more thing not to have to deal with. Maybe tats. Ya, I've thought about this.
Now the nurse is saying that since the doctor is out of the office, she can't release my biopsy results until he reviews them. The day of my surgery, he said he would leave instructions for them to be released to me. My DH has called them multiple times today. I think he's even more anxious that I am. It just seems ridiculous. I like Gma's suggestion to drive over there. It's about 25 minutes away, so it's doable.
0 -
For crying out loud! Don't these doctors know that they are doing a kind of psychological torture on people by not relating the results--even just the basic results--asap???
Ugh!
I hope you get some sort information soon, PoppyK!
0 -
I find one way to at least sideline my comfort-eating is to eat with other people who know about your diet efforts. Kinda hard to go for the lobster-truffle mac & cheese when everyone at the table knows I’m supposed to eat low-carb—so I had no choice but to have the tuna-avocado poke instead. The toughest thing is avoiding Dunkin’ Donuts, Baker’s Square or Hoosier Mama Pies when I pass them—not so long ago I would plan my routes home to include them. It helps not to have junk in the house—or to put it where it’s harder to reach, with better alternatives right up front at eye level. But it’s still a challenge. I get into trouble when I’m eating alone—either out, or at home where I know there’s stuff my guys can eat but I shouldn’t. When all else fails, I try to fill up on water, coffee, berries or a tomato. Keeping my hands busy helps too.
0 -
April ...Exactly !!! It's so wrong ..
Poppy ..I have been thinking of you all day ..
0
