CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Hi all: I've been traveling and just got back and catching up: Mommy, so glad the scans were clear! Yay! Cubbie: I'm with Sandy: the dexascan isn't something to worry about: it is an easy test and they can figure out how to address the results if need be...Lucy: wish I could come to Oz this year! Glad you are enjoying the new place. Say hi to the wallabies for me.
As for me, we close on our new home a week from Monday! Very excited! We probably won't move in until March: there are a few things we want to do construction wise before getting our furniture in there...we are going to replace a few windows, and there is a perfect place for a hot tub right behind our master bedroom: but you have to walk around from the side portal off of the dining room (we call porches 'portals' here in New Mexico) to get to it...Solution: have the window guy, who is also a door guy, replace one of the windows in our master with french doors...then we can get our hot tub!
The house is small, smaller than our rental here, but I think I have a plan for fitting most if not all of our furniture. The house is on 1.5 acres of land, however, so it will be the biggest piece of property I've ever owned! Can't wait to get settled there....
Hope all have a great weekend!
Octogirl
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octo- it will be so much fun for you to start decorating the house and getting everything ready.
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Hey crazies. Cubbie, I hope your dexascan results were good. Mine were just a teensy bit worse so I am good for another year of avoiding bisphosphonates.
Octo, congratulations on the new house. Lucy, I hope you are settling in to your new home. I have to just say I LOVE my new MO. I have no idea why I tolerated such a crappy one for so long.
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Molly ..so good to see you ! Glad to hear you've found a good MO..it's awful going to someone you're not happy with .
Octo ..your new home sounds wonderful.. A wine before bed in the hot tub sounds great ;-)
Iris ..How are things going with you ?
Well ..have had a steady stream of visitors to see our new home ..Two friends coming for morning tea today ...have to clean up and organize the food ..
Jo ..Hi !!
Hugs to all
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hi lucy, thanks for asking
Spent day in nyc, shunt still needed adjusting, hoping this is it. Feel fine now but i was pretty bad walking today and really needed my friend to help me. Hoping this is right although i will still need to go in to check it out after a week or two
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Hubby and I had a very tiring day yesterday. We had to go to a funeral for his uncle who passed away on Saturday.
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mommyof2- sorry for your loss.
Lucy- how's the unpacking coming along?
Iris- I hope your issues with your shunt have been resolved.
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Back home tonight from Las Vegas--where we stayed an extra day because our flight last night was cancelled due to an ice storm. (It was hairy here last night, but all melted by morning). Flight was only 1/3 full, because most of those travelers whose flights were cancelled had to stay at the airport overnight and wanted to get home ASAP today. We just held over in our timeshare suite (using HiltonHonors points for the extra night), had a lovely steak dinner last night and took the monorail up & down the Strip today before first having lunch & then heading to the airport. Gordy had a row to himself, and Bob & I used the middle seat for reading matter & pillows.
Unfortunately, even though we flew on senior fares and were TSAPre-Check from Chi-Vegas, not so on the return. Truly a PITA having to get out of my shoes, take out my iPad and put everything--including my rollaboards--in separate trays. I set off the scanner...not with my orthopedic hardware (R tibia, L ulna & hand) or knee replacements, but my underwire bra! One of my rollaboards was pulled aside to be re-scanned, as the TSA agent said it "didn't show an image" first time through (can suitcases be "vampires?"). But I was pretty systematic about putting everything back together, so for me it was no big deal. For some insane reason, the scanner lit up at Bob's shoulders--where there's no metal whatsoever! He was really pissed off at having to be patted down (I always get the pat-down so I'm used to it). His carryon was pulled aside for random inspection, and I'd never seen him so furious as when he had to rummage through it afterward to retrieve his wallet, belt, keys, watch and paperback. (He doesn't fly as often as I do, and when he does he is definitely used to being TSAPre).
Sorry for the loss of your uncle-in-law, M0mmy. Seems at our ages, we go to far more funerals than weddings (including friends' kids' weddings).
I wanted to make sure I could get to sleep last night in order to check out in time this morning, so instead of microdosing a little indica (sativa actually makes me more aware of my pain) with my CBD I took a CBN capsule instead. (They're not cheap, so I usually use them as a last resort). Unfortunately, I took it first and then had my CBD. Bad idea. Fell asleep for a couple of hours, but awoke from a dream needing to pee...but I was so stoned I could barely turn over. (I guess that's what kids today mean when they refer to "couch lock"). It took sheer force of will to turn over, sit up and walk to the bathroom...and then I couldn't get back to sleep for more than a few moments at a time, awakened every time Bob kicked the mattress (he has restless legs syndrome but refuses to do anything about it). It was only then that I remembered what the budtender at my local MMJ dispensary told me: that CBN should be used to stay, not fall, asleep--so it should be taken only when the CBD starts to kick in. This experience really reinforced my aversion to being stoned (or buzzed, for that matter). I guess I really am a control freak.
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Thanks gals. Its true about going to more funerals than weddings. The wedding of one of hubby's friends last year was the first one we had gone to in 13 years.
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Mommy ..sorry to hear about your uncle ..
Iris .. hopefully it all sorted now ..so good to have a friend to go with you .Did you manage to fit in a nice morning tea or lunch while you were out ?
Sandy I HATE nights like that !!!!
Jo ...yes ! All the boxes are unpacked ..except the pictures and photo boxes ...I haven't had the strength yet to try decide where to hang things ...Also we have a staircase where I want to make some sort of a feature displaying family photos ..but inspiration how to organize it hasn't come yet 🤣 I'm open to all suggestions ??? :-)
Trying to get back too normal routine ..off to play table tennis 🏓 this morning.
Hugs to all
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lucy, too soon to tell if shunt is correct now. But wow, i slept to almost 11 am.......not normal for me, felt wierd when i realized the time, ususally i wake by 8 or earlier
Really wanthis shunt deal straightened out, too many doc apt!
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Closing on our new house is at nine am tomorrow! WooHoo!
Octogirl
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octo-Great. You are finally closing on your house.
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Octo ..that's great !!! Let the fun begin :-)
Iris ...you deserve a sleep in !! I can't remember the last time I slept in until 11 am ..a long time ago .. it was definately pre-kids !!!
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octo....congrats on the house, now onto decorating!
Had pet scan this morn, it is to check on if the xeloda is still working although i think it is not. Onc warned me a while back, next up i think will be ibrance, the thread on ibrance is huge but i am hoping it does not cause the dreaded hand and foot problems which xeloda is known for. I see.the onc on wed for results
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Good luck, Iris. AFAIK, Ibrance & Verzenio's SEs don't include hand-foot syndrome. Octo, mazel tov on the closing!
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sandy , it sure would be nice not to have to deal with dumb hand and. Foot stuff, will find out tomorrow
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Iris ..hoping you get good results from the scan !
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thanks lucy, weather is lousy today, so glad no chemo today,
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iris-Fingers crossed you get good results from the scan.
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Been busy ..now that the house is getting more organised we are starting to think about the garden..So that's exciting :-)
Hubby's parents , and his brother and family are coming for lunch today ..so that's a double whammy for me ..I have to tidy up , AND organize the food 🙄
Octo ..Are your renovations ready to start ?
Iris ..hope everything went O.K at your onc appointment !
Hugs to all
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lucy, thanks for asking, treatment has been changed, seems my cancer is stubborn. I need to get preapproval for the med and that is pending
At least now i wilnot be dealing with nasty hand and foot syndrome, i think my feet already feel better
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Iris ..really hoping the new meds works wonders .Great that your hands and feet are starting to feel better .
1.50 am here .. insomnia strikes again 😕
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Iris, I hope that med approval comes through quickly!
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Thanks octo, they just called and it is approved, i seem to have these things on holiday weekends!
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Iris ..great news the med was approved..and your so right ..if I'm ever waiting on something it always seems to be a holiday weekend as well !
Octo ....is that new hot tub installed yet ?
Have two grandkids staying over tonight..Hubby gets banished to sleep in the spare room ...and I have to curl up in bed and watch kids movies with them and eat popcorn!
Hugs to all
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not only is the med approved, but got a grant to cover the ridiculus cost, big relief
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iris- I'm glad to hear that you got a grant to cover the cost. Fantastic. One less worry.
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haha, Lucy, no hot tub yet! But we have taken the first step: met with the door guy and choose the exterior door that will lead from our bedroom to the patio (complete with mountain views) where the hot tub will go....chose a door but it has to be custom to fit the space where the window is now, to avoid more extensive remodel requirements...and that means it is not only pricey, it will take four weeks to get it made! It will be a really nice door, but alas, we are moving back our move in date from March to the first weekend in April! However, I can't totally blame the door: the door guy pointed out that we will need to put new floor under the door to create a good seal, so all of sudden we are using that as an excuse to get rid of the ugly carpet in the master and installing hardwood or bamboo, so floor shopping also... and then since we have to paint around the door and new windows we are putting in elsewhere in the room...might as well paint the entire room, right?
So, you get the idea, I've never done a renovation like this but all of a sudden we are transforming the entire master bedroom and spending much more than I thought...it will be worth it in the end...so now I have a back up plan: if the room isn't done by beginning of April: we are moving in regardless: will put the master bedroom furniture in the garage till it is done, and sleep in the guest room until it is!
Heading out to the new place today, to decide on a color for the door exterior (bringing samples from the door guy), and to take some measurements to figure out if all of our furniture will fit. It is progress, but slow....
Meanwhile, on a more of a Crazytown topic: I had been procrastinating on getting a new MO since moving to New Mexico, but finally have an appointment with one I hope I will like...just keeping fingers crossed that the appointment goes well (in two weeks, so that is two weeks I will stress out about what tests she might order...)
Hope all are having a good weekend!
Octogirl
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octo, renovations always seem to grow, good luck with re o and with the meet with new onco
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