CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Just peeking in to say hi.
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in your pocket, M0mmy. How cute, Gma!
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Mommy ..make room for me in your pocket too !!
Iris ..I need someone to deliver and unpack for me as well !!
Hi to all x
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Pockets will be plenty roomy for Monday. And if we need additional room, there will be plenty of room in my purse
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I'll Bring the chocolate!!!
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gma, your chocolates are adorable, i want one!
Bad night, lots of muscle joint pain, trying to do a little gum time
Did i tell you Lori Hernandez, the olimpic gymnest who won dancing with the stars, well she showed up at my gym, not sure why but i looked like a pr thing or something. She is just as cute and tiny as in person, with huge smile
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Feel better, Iris--hope the gummies can block the pain.
Gma....awwwwwwww!
Mommy--in your purse, then. A lot more going on in there to keep me occupied.
Off to the gym in an hr. My housekeeper's at her ortho--the cortisone shot to her knee failed so she's trying the Hyalgan gel today, getting fitted for a brace, and setting a date for a TKR (she goes to Rush, and its surgeon Dr. Berger--the guy famous for same-day joint replacement surgeries--is booked at least 6 months out).
Then temple tonight (Rosh Hashonah), with challah (whole wheat), apples, honey and Port (may crack the 1985 Warre's or a good Aussie imitation) upon our return.
L'Shana Tovah--may this year be a good one for all!
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L'Shana Tovah, Sandy and all!....
In your pocket and your purse, wherever I can fit best, Mommy!
Hope today is better, Iris!
Sending love and hugs to all;
Octogirl
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Mommy: in your purse!
Gma: that's the box of chocolates I want.
Sandy (and anyone else reading this for whom it's a concern): L'Shana Tovah.
I do still read, though the crazy for me is learning networking. Well, OK: a weird infection on my shin that's spiking my temperature. And of course the first thing I thought was "Don't wanna go back into the hospital!" though I have every expectation that I'll be fine if I leave it alone.
'Cause that's where our minds go, even if all the doctors reassure us that it's a routine CT scan, amiright?
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L'Shana Tovah to all!
And likewise scans that are utterly benign/NED.
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Hoping the scan will show that the growth in the axillary node has started shrinking.
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Waiting in the nuclear waiting room for the result of a pregnancy test, haha!!! And then, so long as our birth control has been working (no method is 100% I've been told, even though I've been on Lupron since November and haven't had a period since starting what my oncologist affectionately calls chemical castration) I'll be granted a bone scan and then wait for those results. Heehee!! Crazy lady cometh...
Edited to add: not pregnant. Now wait for the bone scan
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In your pocket, falconer!
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Another treatment down.
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Falconer ..in your pocket for the bone scan !!!
Mommy glad you have another treeatment done and dusted .How many are you having ?
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Will be over July of next year. I get treatment every three weeks which usually is once a month.
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Ducky ..Where are you ??? Missing you !! I have found our beautiful Beppy's milk carton that she had made especially for you ..
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I second that milk carton!!!!!
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ducky is likely hanging with all her peeps, or that is what i would wish is keeping het busy
Survived another round of chemo yesterday, today is tired day, hanging in my lazy boy with a novel really tired, feet are a mess they hurt in any of my shoes, sandals., loose ones as my feet seem to swell by enď of day
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Love you all. In pockets though I may not type much.
I hurt for all of your losses. Pray for all of your needs. Rejoice in your wins, big or small.
You are in my heart.
We are working on our home. It is a royal mess. When completed it will regain the shine it once had.
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Iris ..rest up , and take it easy ! Hope your feet feel better soon ..
Robin ..great to see you !! So you're in your new home , doing renovations ..??? Sounds like fun ..
Tomboy ..Hi !!
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Robin, now is the fun part, enjoy turning your new place into your special place
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Finally approaching the exchange I use to exit CrazyTown. I went from rash and mild discomfort to 102 temperature and what looked like a salmon-colored leg warmer (remember them?) in less than 72 hours. My doctor took one (long) look at me and ordered me straight to the ER, though she graciously allowed as how I could drive myself as I was still oriented. (I'd driven myself to her office.) Not surprisingly, admission through the ER set off AAAALLLLLL my PTSD--IV lines in both arms of a patient who had unilateral breast cancer? though the X-ray table/machine that reminded me of the room where I had rads was totally not their fault.
But I'm being sent home tomorrow with a prescription for Bactrim and a blister/infection combo that apparently looks like the anklets used for 'work-release' inmates from the local jail. (Don't worry--that was funny; the nurse didn't mean to hurt me. He'd asked "What's that?", and I turned my ankle to show him. Later, I asked him, and he explained.)
All the medical hullabaloo was upsetting but unarguably necessary. What got my nose out of joint THAT far was that the hospital's IT department never did come up with an adequate explanation for why my laptop couldn't access the hospital's wifi, despite working Just Fine, nay automatically, on the several systems I've used. The best they could do was "Your computer has 2.77 GHz, and our new wifi system requires at least five." (No, you're right: that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. GHz is the measure used for the processor speed....and my computer has 2.00 GHz.) Finally, a sympathetic weekend-shift nurse just logged me into the physicians' network.
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Queen, bummer about that infection. Were you able to prevent the ER personnel from sticking the wrong arm?
I have another theory about why your laptop couldn't access the hospital wi-fi--and it is exactly why my husband, who needed to read echocardiograms and review patient records, was unable to access his own hospital system's portal while in a hotel (and, a year earlier, while a patient himself, recuperating from emergency surgery at a different health system's hospital closer to home): security issues. His laptop was preloaded with the Mt.Sinai/Holy Cross (strange bedfellows) system's internet access software, whose firewall ran smack dab up against the open networks of the hotel and the hospital where he was a patient. (Having taken off 3 weeks from work, he had to work online from his hospital bed, otherwise his office overhead wouldn't be met, his nurses wouldn't be paid, and we'd have had to forfeit several months' worth of draw). When in his bed at St. Francis, the only way he could access Mt. Sinai in order to read echoes & charts was by having St. Francis' I.T. guy hack him into its private secure physicians' network; and at a Hilton, instead of being able to use the free wi-fi we get as HHonors members, he had to buy secure internet access at $15/day from Hilton's ISP.
But I don't work in I.T., so maybe that's not the reason you couldn't get online in the ER.
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ChiSandy:
1. No, I couldn't stop them from putting an IV line in BOTH arms--fever of 102 plus a touch of PTSD agitation will do that--and trust me, my MO's going to get a polite but very very VERY firm note about this. He's the attending MO for this hospital (not sure if he's the only one for the (teeny by Chicago standards) system) so he'll be heard, if he chooses to speak.
And I know the staff do talk to one another; the last time I was here (October 2015, cellulitis in face), I pinned the attending physician's ears back when he joked about my refusal to wear the hospital johnnies AT ALL by snapping "I feel like I've spent the entire summer stripped to the waist with strange men staring at my tits. You're here to treat an infection on my face, so that's all you'll see." The next time I saw Dr. MO, a few days after being discharged the first thing he said was "Don't worry, I'm not going to examine you."
2. You mean you have A theory, with a grounding in how hospitals' Internet access is configured. While there may be an explanation for why my laptop couldn't access this guest wifi, despite having accessed others in the past, I'm not sure the explanation I received was a valid one; I plan on running it past my hardware/IT teacher when I get back to school next week. (I need to apologize for missing his class anyway.) All I know is that I was fine two years ago, in the room next to the one I've got now, with a different though equally crappy computer; there have been changes in the hospital's network hardware and Internet accessing, I'm sure, but this was odd.
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i am very much spoiled regarding computers. I worked for many years selling programing for marketing projects but, i had xa programmer who made me look good and was able to fix all my mess ups. Since he was Indian and here under a work visa, he was insecure about certain things so he would fix my messes without showing me what i had done.
Oh well, this week is my off week from taxol, yeah for minor vaca
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Programmers who can make you look good are worth their weight in gold! Lucky you.
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QMC, first sorry about the infection and the trauma. I woke from emergency surgery with a bp cuff on my bad arm. I was not happy. My theory about not being able to access the WiFi is that all the IP addresses on that network were taken. It takes time for them to drop and be available for use even after a device is not using it any more. It happens at my work on our public WiFi all the time. It even happens sometimes on our password protected guest Internet.
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QMC, bummer that you're still in the hospital and that the ER staff was clueless about LE (despite the circumstances). I've taken to carrying the ugly pink plastic LE Alert wristband in my purse as a supplement to my pink-emblem MedicAlert bracelet--hope if I need it I get the chance to slip it on before the EMTs can uncap their needles.
Speaking of my MedicAlert bracelet (faux-Pandora with charms), I didn't take it off yesterday when lying down for a 10-min. power nap. I felt it was a bit too high up on my forearm, fearing it'd create divots. so I shook it down to my wrist before catching my zzz's. Then in the shower, I noticed a huge yellowish bruise on my forearm right where the bracelet had been. Of course, my mind took the express train to CrazyTown--maybe my mild anemia has a more serious cause? Went online to find out that in most cases it's due not to leukemia, myeloma or MDS, but rather to "sh*t happens" as we age. Could also be from blood thinners, and I take a daily baby aspirin. Asked Bob if I should stop taking it, and he said "Absolutely not--you're prediabetic, have high blood pressure and LDL, and a terrible family cardiovascular history*. Better a few bruises than a heart attack or stroke." So I'm keeping plenty of arnica gel and concealer on hand till it's long-sleeves season again.
*Both parents, 3 out of 4 grandparents and maternal uncle.
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QMC ..oh my gosh !!! I'd be very upset over it all too !!
Molly ..so good to see you .How are you and Wyatt going ?
Sandy ..I bruise and bleed so easily these days ..I think it's just old age too !
Iris ..Hope you're feeling well !
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