CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Prayers Lucy still going on....
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Hi Everyone! -
Mommyof2-Pets are usually a joy! We used have a Lab, but after our last dog, I came to realize I can't lift a big dog anymore. I hope to get a smaller dog when I'm feeling a little better. DH misses his back porch companion. He watches every sport known to mankind and is used to having his dog sit outside with him.
WelchLori- My daughter has 4 children, the youngest two are 4 year old twins. The only girl (one of the twins), is horse crazy. She has been riding since she was 3. During our last hurricane she was terrified for the horses at the stables where she takes lessons. After the storm passed, my daughter took the kids to "help" the owners clean up the stables. I am so glad they are learning at a young age to be responsible with animals. Such a great life lesson.
I too loved reading the whole "Adventures to CrazyTown" - So many diverse women with amazing bonds. My closest sister lives just outside Roanoke, In. She lives on some beautiful property that is designed for birds sanctuary.
Proudtospin- Thanks for the welcome. Glad you are having a good day. Anxiety is no fun. I'm off my Anxiety meds for 14 days while I finish a course of meds for an infection. I get terrible bouts of anxiety when my Thyroid hormone meds are not working right. Today was a major fatigue day. I don't seem to be bouncing back from my 2nd BC surgery. Of course patience is no longer one of my personality traits.
Impressed that your treatment Center has "extras". Everyone on this adventure needs to be helpedlong the way!
Off to watch NCIS! Chat later🌺🌺
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Ready to Rock - 3 yrs, here you come! Good luck!!! ...and lead the way!
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WenchLori - your horse is BEAUTIFUL. My husband took my son and I trail riding for mother's day. I miss being around them so much. I keep telling myself when my son gets a little older I'll get back into it. My goal is to keep on trucking and the day he goes off to college I get to pick out my pony. I hate being sad! How does the saying go "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a (wo)man!"
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Welcome, Three! Queenmomcat is the Acting Mayor (she was Beppy's, aka SlowDeepBreaths) Deputy.
I'm deep in the CrazyTown dump tonight. My longtime friend Maryjane (our sons met in first grade and our husbands met as colleagues at their hospitals) passed away today after relapsing following a long slow rally from a severe COPD crisis and a broken hip (she had been a smoker till five years ago, and a very brittle type 2 diabetic since I've known her). We last had brunch the weekend after Easter, and she was quite frail but in good spirits. Sat. night, while we were in NYC at a show, her son called to tell us she was in the ICU on a vent & dialysis, her heart was failing and she wasn't expected to last the week. He & his dad were going to see if her heart would hold up through the weekend, and they would withdraw life support once all of us had a chance to say goodbye.
But midday today I called him and he told me she had just died on her own only minutes earlier. I walk through my living room and there are little things all over to remind me of her: the Baccarat crystal pieces she loved to both own and give, Christmas cards of her son and whatever Jack Russell terrier was the doggie du jour. (She showed Jack Russells and a German Shepherd—three generations of the latter; and at one time kept two potbellied pigs). She had been an equestrian till a riding accident; she graduated from Eastman and was a symphony violinist before becoming a PR liaison for the Chi. PD and then retiring to raise her son. We’d traveled to Disney World together, shopped, dined, and dished. She loved martial arts (before her osteoporosis set in, she kickboxed), architecture, Madonna and the movies. And she was an amazing cook & baker: when she hosted Thanksgiving, we had the ubiquitous green bean & mushroom casserole; but with fresh green beans & mushrooms, homemade bechamel sauce, and crispy onions she deep-fried from scratch. And she always wrote thank-you notes and sent flowers. Whenever I’d call, she’d ask cheerfully “and how are you?” and you’d know instantly it was not just a convention or nicety: she meant it sincerely. There wasn’t a phony bone in her body. I miss her beyond words.
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Hugs for all.
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So very sorry for your loss Sandy.
Prayers Molly.
In all open pockets'
Love you all.
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so sorry Sandy, very hard to loose a friend
Home after another rad trip, dang but i am beat and since i had to move my car by 7 am.........association still working on the paving, wow that bed sounds really good to me now
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The results are in..... (and in 23 hours no less) ..........no sign of cancer! HUGE sigh of relief!!!! Thanks for anyone's thoughts!
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Woohoo, r2r!
Thanks for the condolences. Am letting my friend’s DS & DH call the shots as to when they feel able to talk (and would welcome contact). Will text tonight, as it’s less intrusive than a call, to get a clue.
Still on the outskirts of CrazyTown. Got a text yesterday confirming my mani-pedi and warning that the prep school across the street was holding an end-of-term parents’ day and therefore parking would be impossible; so I set my alarm early, dressed, fed the cats, and called the Lyft. Halfway down Lake Shore Drive, I checked my phone again—the mani-pedi is TOMORROW! D’OH! Had the driver turn around. Spending today doing little chores—then will bite the bullet and start the highest-priority laundry items (bras need to drip dry).
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Had my ultrasound yesterday, still waiting for results. It's funny I found myself trying to suck in my stomach, then I realized where I was and what I was doing.
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MeToo, praying for benign results!! Readytorock, good news!! (((((Lucy))))) I can't even imagine. Praying. Sandy, sorry about your friend. Iris, have a good rest. Duckyb, love you. 7of9, great to see you here. I am crazy busy at work which really helps me take my mind off my depression.
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Work is the original antidepressant.
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Awesome news Ready! MeToo, hope your news is good as well.
Hugs to all.
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Love you back Molly....hugs and kisses for Wyatt.........
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Readytorock, great news!
Metwo,in your pocket for good news!
Lucy, hugs, prayers, prayers and more prayers!
Molly, I pray your depression passes soon. Prayers for Wyatt also.
Sandy, I'm so sorry to hear about your dear friend. You are in my prayers as well. I've done "the wrong day" so many times I can no longer keep track!
Iris, I'm praying for you also! May your treatments go quickly and quietly!
Hugs to everyone!
💜🙏🤗🤞
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treatments moving along. Met a woman who said she was having 54 treatments. Can not imagine that and did not ask what her issue was.
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I hope I can drop in and ask for some advice. I have a 4 month check with MO this month and I am also due to see my BS as well...she still likes to follow me. The catch is I do not have insurance because I lost my job. I'm leaning toward MO being of more importance than BS....I can't pay for both. My anxiety is always higher around doctor visits and this deal isnt helping
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Tanganschris, if I could only pay for one I'd see my MO as that's the most important appointment for me. Your BS may just be doing a wellness check? Best wishes on your decision.
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tang, i feel for you and understand your stress. I feared i would be in your situation but was able to hold on till 65.
I agree the mo is most important
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Acting Mayor swinging through....i'm not the note taker Beppy was, but I'll try; my apologies if I've missed anyone.
Sandy: my condolences for the loss of your friend; family are great, but good friends got your back. And at least you were up and dressed on the day you thought the mani-pedi was.....
Ready: my deity! results in 23 hours? And negative--even better. (does a happy dance for you)
TandgandChris: I'd take the MO if I had to pick one; you haven't had any breast surgeries since the ones listed in your info, right?
Lucy: my thoughts are with your grandson
Metoo: come join me on the porch.....
,,,as for me, I've been sucked down the rabbit hole. Again. This all started with my second post-diagnosis mammogram--MO said diagnostic mammogram, patient said yesplease! but insurance said NOPE NOPE NOPE....so of course, the radiologist saw something he didn't like and called me back for additional views. That was today. Well, he didn't like the additional views any better, so now I'm scheduled for a biopsy. The catch is that the facility only does biopsies in the morning, and I'm in an intensive accounting class for my bright shiny new academic project, computer programming in business (or wherever I end up). In the morning. So, biopsy on the third of July, and meeting with the MO (whom I like) on the first day of my equally high intensity "routing and switching" computer hardware class.
At least I got an 86 on the accounting exam I took yesterday. Back to sublimate that &($@) rabbit in more homework.
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Queen I'm so sorry you are going through this. I pray that the biopsy is benign. Unfortunately my MO is out of the office until Monday so I won't know my results until then. So I get to spend the weekend in limbo.
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I'm sacrificing a top-shelf margarita with Ativan sprinkles that the biopsy's only benign; it's right around where the bottom bar of my plastic surgery scars lies, and could be granulation that developed after my previous mammogram....but that's sure not where your mind goes. I mean, I like the radiologist and breast surgeon and RO and MO....but I don't want ever to see them again.
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Breast cancer makes paranoid hypochondriacs of us all: could a dandruff plaque or small zit be scalp mets? Is that pulled muscle really sarcoma? If hemoglobin’s a bit low, is there some tumor at play in the small intestine? Was that freckle always there, and could it be melanoma? Is that dry cough from your ACE inhibitor or a high pollen count, or is it lung mets? Is that one little flutter A-fib? And because you can’t remember the name of an old actor or musician, is Alzheimer’s knocking at the door?
Sometimes, paraphrasing Freud, scar tissue is just scar tissue. Fingers crossed, and in your pocket.
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ChiSandy- So sorry for the loss of your good friend. I agree about Cancer causing us paranoia. But, we have a true reason to be hyper-vigilant. Just glad to be able to visit CrazyTown where I know others experience the same human frailties.
Queenmomcat- Congratulations on your accounting test. Glad your studies help keep your mind somewhere else,away from worries for a while.
The itchies are driving me crazy where my incisions were covered with surgical adhesives. I can't wait until those layers of glue finally wear off.
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ChiSandy, so hilarious but true. My most recent hypochondriac moment: convincing myself AND my allergy doctor that two of my radiation tattoos were skin cancer. I am that GOOD. Hahahaha. Update on my crazy neighbor... went down to the bulkhead and my chair and broom had been thrown into the debris pile. She really doesn't want me to enjoy my little sliver of a bulkhead. In my wildest moments of hostility, I cannot imagine going to her side of the property and throwing her furniture around. Actively looking for some kind of privacy screen/wall/umbrella I can throw up there when I go down so I don't have to see her while I enjoy my beach. Any one ever use such a thing?
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Lucy, praying for better news. QMC, I would go nuts waiting until July! Congratulations on your exam results. Hi eggroll!!
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Queen, in your pocket for benign results. Great job on your test!
Lucy, keeping your DGS in my thoughts and prayers. Any news?
Sandy, so true! Every ache and twinge is some kind of beast. It's mind boggling sometimes. I'm still fighting chemo brain, does it ever go away? Sheese
Hubby and I have been chatting about our end of treatment trip a lot lately. Every day he wants me to check out this or that. Australia it is! We'll make a stop in Hawaii for a few days, then on to Figi for a few days, we'll fly to Sydney and drive up the coast to visit our dear Lucy in Brisbane for a few days. We're looking at taking at least 3 weeks of travel so we can enjoy each stop and of course we'll make the same stops on the way home. I almost passed out at the cost we've estimated so far! My hubby said "it's just a drop in the bucket" I told him I'm glad one of us has deep enough pockets to afford this once in a lifetime vacation. My pockets are ful of all of you BC sisters and I wouldn't have it any other way!
I need to get some sleep, I'm off to have my port removed in a few hours. I'm not sure why I'm awake anyway?
Gentle healing hugs to everyone 🤗
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Hugs to all!!!!
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wow on that trip! Seems like australia is the in place to visit
I have not yet done chemo but boy am i into loosing stuff. Still looking for my fav denim jacket and dang but may just buy a new one. Yesterday i drove the rad techs nutty as i could not find my life alert pendant, nice guy found it and called me to say they have it. Dang but i already lost one when i had my surgery last fall.
This rad center offered me a nuitrition consultation, should be interesting since my first sign of new trouble was tummy ache. Looking forward to it. Countdown as only got 4 more sessions. Then onto chemo is my understanding although will be meeting wth new onco person next week, hope she has a good plan for me
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