CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Ducky: I admit nothing. But I wanna see your pictures and raise you a hike up the mountain. Cloud. Whatever.
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CLOUD RAINIER
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Slow......I lived right on the main highway that runs through Yakima.........(called the Fruit Bowl of the Nation), and all you had to do was drive down the road and make a couple turns and we were there....such an amazing place........
They grew the biggest Pears I had ever seen, and actually picked them........also picked Appls........my husband when he was there before we were married and was there alone in the barracks with his buddies.......would go out on the weekends to pick.....he also did Bing Cherries, and Sickle Pears...............many have no idea how much of the fruit comes from Yakima, Washington.................
Made many a car trip along Ellensburg Canyon, and went through Snoqualmie Pass in the dead of winter, when the snow was almost to the top of the telephone poles............just a gorgeous place................
There was a place there that made donuts...........they were called Spudnuts.........according to the owner they were made with potatoes.....to die for.........and he also made his own root beer........Oh the memories.........0 -
Love the story Ducky!
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I absolutely ADORE Rainier cherries! Who knew? They must be the only cherries ever named after a cloud. But it makes sense because they are a little bit of heaven in your mouth! Haha. Teehee.
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Ducky, My DH was born in Wenatchee and he grew up picking fruit. Some of his siblings still own cherry orchards. His family stopped doing apples long ago. It's sad to see all the orchards being sold off to build homes. He moved to Western Washington as an adult, but most of his family remained and still live in Wenatchee. Both places so very different, but equally beautiful. I bet the two of you would have great fun hearing each other's stories!! Did you ever go to the town of Snoqualmie to see the falls?? I must dig out my old pictures!! I love talking about Washington. Oregon too!!
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Jackie..........OMG.....Rainer cherries are the best..........very expensive here in the Philly area, but i don't care.....when they come in I buy them........
Slow had been to Wenachee several times........and yes have seen the falls.............We only drove through Oregon on our way to Washington, but it too was majestic.........driving along the Columbia River was amazing.......and not hard to see why they called Washington The Evergreen State..........but so funny I never knew that part of the country existed.................
Pa. is nice, but it does not compare to the Pacific Northwest.........now I was also in Idaho, and thought it showed me nothing........totally not impressed, but go a state over and the entire countryside changes.........
Always wantted to go back............another dream my husband had, not to be fulfilled............oh well........I have my memories.......
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Duckyb: Cherries? fresh Rainiers? Pears? (drools helplessly) Wait while I mop my keyboard and cats off. My corner of Michigan's but a pale shadow of that, though we do at least get peaches...I don't remember peaches being big in Washington, but then i haven't cruised the fruit belt in maybe twenty-five years. I think I'll go hug a Honeycrisp and whimper.
Slow: Yep. That's Rainier.
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Queen...........Peaches are best know in Georgia, but Jersey beside their great tomatoes also has great peaches...................and OMG.....Jersey corn is to die for.........especially the white corn................
Nothing like Jersey tomatoes, vadalia onions, some good sea salt and best grade vifgin olive oil..................do that with some fried italian meatballs, and you win my heart............that is a super summer meal........0 -
Ducky - thanks for the memory trip. My grandpa (Pappy) who died in 1959 used to take us for Spudnuts when I was little. Precious, long ago memories.
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Minus.................Oh I can taste them now...................aren't memories great.............
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Hello Crazies - long time away, can't keep up with this thread, and today I had my annual mammogram and did not even need to go to Crazy Town, because they always give me results right away, and I felt so confident it would be NED, see you next year.
BUT Today was different, and I was told they'd inform my doc and send me a letter. WHAT? Is it because I am 6 lucky years away from initial diagnosis? and these are routine now? Maybe the radiologist was not there? I don't know, and was not smart enough to ask WHY so I am back in Crazy Town, circling around, trying to find a place to hibernate until I get THE LETTER, or a Doctor's office calls. Argh. Drat, and so on and so on. Does anyone know if they do it differently after 5 years?
Dsgirl
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I don't have an answer dsgirl, but you came to the right place. You just set a spell under the 🎪 with us, and we will help you get past this 🎢 and then we will all 🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🎉🎈🔔 another year dancing with NED.
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Good Evening Crazies
I really love this town. Its magical mix of crazy town adventures and stories that encompass the BC journey, but maybe more importantly, surpass the BC 'story' as we share the many and varied parts of our lives on this thread. I am am so grateful to have found this big top/ red tent /CT that can hold space for all of it.
Sula that's a great and mineralizing way to extract everything from the shells. My dad and his family were fishmongers and did all things with fish bones and shells, but I don't ever recall them being blended! And of course they are your instruments…. was music your first passion?
Rain, Hope you finished off the tomato project and are nesting as you need/want to in prep for your surgery. Thinking of you.
Poppy, Re the shelter, I can't imagine, nor would I want to really, the misery that must occupy a persons heart, causing such a heinous act! It is heartbreaking.
Ducky you are a magical raconteur. Yakima, your mother, the plate, 'are you nuts?' all you share. I now more than ever want to get to Washington state
Tomboy- I hope the ocean and breeze are nourishing you and that the random sounds have become familiar enough so you can not be on high alert.
Slow- the mother /child relationship is indeed so complex. I am not a mother, but my relationship with my mom continues to evolve in intensity. Some of it magnified recently by this new BC journey for me…. TBC
Katy Dear Katy- your candor and wide open sharing is so healing. Thank you for your presence and wisdom. I am curious, did you begin the hospice course with Jack?
I'm home, sitting, feeling strangely 'normal' ( CT town normal), after my first H treatment. I say it that way cause I actually feel more like 'myself' than I have in a while… at least a month. Is it the H? or just the relief to get the journey started?
I'm thinking of all of you here, even if I haven't touched it specifically- Octo, PTS, QMC, Pennsygal, Lucy 55, Mommy, Luv
Oh and food for thought- the beef shank that I used in the bone broth-because we have established food crazy here too
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This moves so fast i was posting as you posted Dsgirl - that is unsettling- yes sit here, but also how soon can you contact your MO or doctor? these answers/results should not take as long as they sometimes do. Breathing with you.
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Dsgirl.. I hate the wait too.. Probably because you are now routine.. They weren't going to give me my results when I had my mammogram 3 weeks ago.. But in the end they did because they could see how stressed out I was.. and everything was fine with mine.. I would ring your doctor to get your results early.. to put your mind at rest. (Hugs)
Gaia.. Your meal looks so good :-)
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Christine- that beef shank is PORN!!!
I did start the hospice classes. Jack doesn't attend. Because he is so sensitive and hasn't gotten his senses all cluttered up like we humans have.
He already knows how to act. It's me that needs to learn. The classes make me cry. It is a profound honor to me to travel even a few steps with someone on this path.
In 12 weeks we will be able to start visiting hospice patients who want a little fur therapy in their homes. I'm very grateful to be able to do it. Very grateful I have this special animal in my life.
Glad you sound so well, and so grounded. But then, you always do. 💞
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For me as much as for others who may need distraction: assuming I have Hulu and Netflix, and a reasonably fast Internet connection AND am on the fast track to CrazyTown waiting for a test. What do I watch? Comedies? Engaging? Make me some suggestions.
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I love the inspector Lewis PBS series- set in Oxford, England..very good writing and acting.
Also watching Newsroom. VERY good. Jeff Daniels like you've never seen him before. Exciting and engaging
I watch both in Amazon Prime.
If you haven't done Downton Abbey I enjoyed all 6? Seasons so far. Worth it just for Dame Maggie Smith, who btw, is a recent bc "survivor" ( hate that word- she kept it quiet, but her strength and class and humor are amazing to me. At any age!)
They all distract me quite efficiently.
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I'm on the other spectrum. Action, zombies, scary movies, scifi love all that stuff. Give me a good Bruce Willis, blow everything up kind of movie.
Netflix came out with new series called Sense8, liked it. I can't take credit because Eileen recommended it.
And love all the cooking shows like Chopped.
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Gaia, the sounds were not part of the regular noises. I have been coming here for 15 years, and am very good at deep relaxation. These were things like call and response (bad) whistling- two people at opposite ends of the street. And people's motion detector lights kept going on. Not normal for bath lane. I think someone else was up besides me though, the second time the patrol car came, it had on those big white lights, shining them right in the houses. Car alarms going off, etc.. I am just glad I wasn't out where I usually sit! I might have had some 'splainin to do! Today I heard the man next door telling his friend there have been many car and garage break ins. So I guess other people are sleeping with one eye open, too. Bath lane has changed. But whenever the economy is not great, crime does go up, every where
dsgirl, it may just be that now you are back to regular screening mammon, where they don't give you results the same day, as opposed to diagnostic mammon, where they do. Hope that's it, but welcome to crazy town.
Katy, meant to tell you, I loved your phrase "pharmaceutical grade mojo", you have an a very apt and unusual way of putting things, keep up the good work!.
Beppy, thinking of you, and I hope things are going good, and that you aren't in too much pain. I hope you are getting good things to eat, while staying cool.
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I've done Downton Abbey, but thought it jumped the shark after about Season 2, although I loved Smith. "Oh dear, I must have said it wrong." PBS does some interesting stuff--Wolf Hall caught my attention, though I don't know if it's up on Netflix or Hulu.
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gaia, was just trying to understand why you started coming here in may, and, were dxed in june with stage three, and didn't start any therapy till just this week? Didn't they give you all the tests before your surgery to find out if it was anywhere else? Or you didn't want to know
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Italychick: whatever floats your boat! though that said, I can see a really fast-moving whizbang action flick being a grand distraction. Twenty-eight Days Later had me on the edge of my seat--interesting to see Eccleston and Gleeson acting in what was in essence a zombie movie. Hmm. May have to watch that before my consult with MO next!
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Jumping the Shark.... I just love that expression.
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Slow, are those clouds for real???
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Started with Happy Days--two-part episode, of which the first ended with Fonzie in mid-air over a shark. Off to bed for me.
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The show that distracted me post surgery was Doc Martin because I happened to catch a marathon on PBS...no idea if it is on Netlicks, but keep meaning to look.
Yes, the beef shank is food porn. especially to deprived me, since as of yesterday everything turned to metal (in taste), day four post chemo . And got hit with a bit of D for the first time (wouldn't call it big D, just unsettled. knock on wood).
Felt pretty much like crap all day but I didn't feel crazy. finally popped an Ativan. Not sure what took me so long. Off to bed....wish me well, crazies.
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((((octo))))
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Wishing you well, Octo. Always.
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