Illinois ladies facing bc
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Hugs and prayers for WendyTY ---
Jackie
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have
into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Good morning everyone,
Alfie is helping me this morning --- this is one of the only thing wrong with kittens --- anything that moves like things on a computer screen are fair game. This should be fun. Nothing special today. I'm a bit down in the dumps for WendyTY though I am like that for anyone who is having problems of some kind. I ( like everyone else here ) just wish I could reach out and make it go away. Maybe I will just send her some Alfie kisses. They are great for what ails you.
I hope you will all have a good Sunday. I'm going to work -- here at home as that usually goes quite far in helping me adjust my frame of mind and get to a place where a lot of my flexibility returns. Cooling trend coming -- good news for me. See you all later.
Hugs, Jackie
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This has been a rough week. I am grateful we have each other. I wish all a day that brings some peace.
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WendyTY - I just know you can "do this"! Be tough girl...you know our motto! Many, many, many HUGE, GENTLE, WARM hugs to you! We are here for you 24/7! Love ya...0
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Hugs and prayers for WendyTY
And Thanks for a great quote today, Jackie.
Laura, I sent you an email.
Navy
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WendyTY - thinking of you and praying for you. Hugs to you too.
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Hi Girls....I have to say that this week has been an emotional roller coaster ride for us. Losing Ginny after she fought so hard to fight this disease and are dear WendyTY has had a reoccurance and is in it for the second time. As I sat on the lake so calm and peaceful, thinking about how we all met. Each and everyone of us was brought together because of BC. Over time we have developed deep friendship's, that have turned into a very loving, caring and supportive circle. Jackie provides us with wonderful quotes each day and this week her quotes have truly hit home. Each of us here have fought this disease in our own way. But it comes back to us here that the Illinois Girls are tough!! To the girls in tx take one day at a time. For the ones out of tx remember to enjoy life. Life is too short not to enjoy it with your friends and family..
WendyTY we are here for you...your circle of friends who will support you as you fight this beast.. Please let us know what we can do for you, big or small, your circle of friends are here.
As for me I am off to dream land now. Tomorrow is officially the first day of school....so let the fun begin. Oh I am so looking forward to a holiday break....lol
Have a wonderful evening.....sweet dreams....hugs to all
BJ
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He's finally here!
Robin, NAVYMOM - asked me to post this (TOO CUTE, Robin! You are one proud Mom/GrandMom):
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Navymom....OMG what cute boys you have!!. Thanks for sharing with us. Give that baby a big smooch on those chubby cheeks from all of us here. Enjoy your family time with them.
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Navymom What a little blessing. I am so very happy for all of you.
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Navymom, Sooo cute! Hope you had a wonderful time with them.
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Navymom… I forgot for a second I wasn't on facebook. I was trying to "like" your post. What a cute picture.0
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Beautiful, sweet, warm fuzzies! Thank you for sharing Navymon & Laura.
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Oh NavyMom....what good lookin' guys you have. Thanks for sharing!
Too bad you're not just a little closer, Jackie. Mary Jane and I are heading for Tuscola today! We'd just take you along!
I hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good Monday.
Rita
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Adorable Sailor Boys! See my surgeon tomorrow for my first post-op. Having a lot of pain in the underarm area where she did the sentinel node incision. Pain like burning and stinging (maybe nerve pain?) and it is a wearing kind of pain, not constant but frequent. Seems to help if I keep a small pillow under the arm. It does not appear swollen, red or hot but just draining my energy. I can't get anything done in a days time sitting around with a pillow under my arm!!!
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Hi everybody. Thanks Laura for posting the picture for me. The baby is wearing the same little sailor sut my son did at 3 months old. I gave the outfit to my DIL at her baby shower. She had already seen it in pictures, so when she opened it she KNEW how important it was to me.
What an emotional rollercoaster I have been on. The day before they got married is when I had my bad mammo followed by a bad ultrasound that had all sorts of vascular activity around the lump. I KNEW what I was dealing with even before the biopsy was scheduled. Then my son was shipped from Great Lakes to Pensacola, FL about 8 hrs after I got the Big C dx.
But all is going well now. I am NED and the little family is healthy in Florida. And yes, I already have flights reserved for my next trip to Jacksonville which if you must know is in 37 days,
Jwatrlily--I had that burning pain too. It is very annoying but will get better as the numbness sets in and then that is another weird sensation but at least not at all painful.
Hope everyone has a great day. Weatherman says it should be good all week. We are going to see the tall ships on wedne3sday.
Navy
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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
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Navy -- count me in. What total charmers --- should have gotten on here juat a bit sooner but you will find this later. Big hugs -- and bless your dil for this picture.
Rita ---- wow !!!! If I didn't have an appt. to get my eyes checked would I be tempted to drive us to Tuscola today. Well, it would be difficult but doable as I could just go early and plan to get back home in time to do my work. Sigh !!!!
Juanita, I'm sure your thanking Navy for the info on your arm. I was I presume, very lucky. My surgery was through, fast, and painless all the way through --- including the weeks afterward. I went out of my way after leaving the hospital surgery day to go to the V.A. and pick up pain pills which I threw away after two years un-opened. I was surprised because i thought for sure it would be a problem. Hope you will get relief soon.
Got to go and get ready for my eye appt. See you all later today.
Hugs, Jackie
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jackie.. I have an eye appt too today..good luck!!!
As far as dentist appts go, during chemo...etc..dentist should know what is right to do and not to during chemo and be extra vigilant as your immune system is a bit different. A broken tooth Brat... poor thing!!!! Do go and they will know what to do!!!!Good luck to you too Lago!!!
navy...WOW!!!!How awesome!!!GREAT boys indeed and you have to be off the charts in happiness!!! You deserve this soooo much!!!!
Jackie...your kittie sounds too adorable for words!!!!Enjoy and love the computer screen being attacked!!!!
I am too overwhelemd here as to keep up with all that is happening some times. I have my prayers goin for you WendyTY....DITTO to all blackjack SAYS as we are ALL in this together and we all can be in this situation at anytime. Whatever is needed here, I am there too. We never really stop the fight just because we are in remission, it is a constant vigilance, you live life, you enjoy and know it is a gift BUT you are always aware of the other side of it and now when one person has it here, we ALL are in it together in mind and spirit.. and what a gift we have goin here!!!!!
ALL those in TX. keep it goin as you are one step closer to the end and a new life .
Let the sunshine today warm your hearts and let it be a good day and whatever it takes to do that!!!!!
Hugs,
Donna
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Oh that baby is so cute Is he healthy-looking, or what?
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NavyMom what a handsome pair those two make!! Cute picture!!
As for me.. yep, we are looking for a new nanny.. This one is causing way too much undue stress that I can not afford to have.. Today's was she needs to leave at 5 on Friday for a NAIL appointment for Sat's granddaughter christening.. KNOWING that I have to go to Indianapolis on Friday to see an Onc.. and won't be back until 10 pm or later.. she then tells me she's tired with the hours she works.. Guess what.. these are the hours we agreed on..
Thanks for letting me rant.. she's driving me nuts..
Waiting for the house painters to get here.. they are lost.. LOL.. and then off for my morning walk.. to get rid of some of this stress..
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Marina --- I am not surprised about the nanny. There was never a positive sound since the second day out of the gate. Good for you -- you know when to quit struggling with a situation that does not fit. Some things are not meant to be. Your 'nanny' needs to realize what four letter words are all about I think. If she is tired with her four letter word -- then I assume she knows she too has made a mistake and it will be a blessing for both of you to end the relationship.
Eye exam went well. There were some changes which I expected, but not huge ones. Still I always choose to fill the prescription as I basically only have one eye that sees well --- the other eye only keeps me balanced in a peripheral way so I feel the importance of having the best correction I an able to get.
Donna -- hope you have a good eye exam as well. Little Alfie gave up trying to catch the words on my screen and laid down right in front of the monitor and had a little siesta. He is such an adorable little guy -- bites hard though. I think I may have to bite him back so he gets it. Just teasin'. One of these days if i can keep a camera out long enough to get a good picture of him....and ah yes Wendy --- my lake too.
Onward for the day. I'll check back later.
Hugs, Jackie
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Marina:
Some arrangements just don't work out and it sounds like the nanny situation didn't work from the start. My sister-in-law (the one who adopted the two kids from Vietnam) had an au paire (sp?) from South Africa. They only work for one year and the one she had prior to the young lady from South Africa was from Thailand. I am not sure if you have considered this sort of thing. I know there is the language issue, but it did work out for my sister-in-law when the kids were babies and English wasn't as important as day-to-day baby care. They are usually very young, have energy and can offer a cultural twist to the family, which may or may not be desired. The au paire (how is that spelled?) from Thailand traveled with the babies to visit me with the family and she taught me how to make some Thai dishes in her broken English. Just a thought.
Susan
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Adding a big hug and best wishes to WendyTY. Keep fighting!
Welcome to Teri. Not a club we want to be in, but since we do qualify, this is a wonderful group of ladies to share with.
NavyMom - That picture is so wonderfully heartwarming.
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Navy- Thanks for sharing picture with us.. they both look handsome and you have a right to be proud mom and grandma~!!
WendyTY- I am very sorry about your news and my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family..
Marina- I am sorry that you have to find a new nanny... I hope you can find the nanny soon and hopefully this new nanny will be good as or close to first one you had..
My dh had 5th interview yesterday and he has 6th interview on Wednesday... I can't believe he is getting all this interviews within 3month and so far turned down 3 times.. It is crazy... and that's not enough, he came home late (again) and was very upset because of his boss... His boss wanted go over the mid year work evaluation with dh and it should took only half hour the top but it took more than hour because his boss wrote down something which has nothing to do with work evaluation and made look like dh's fault and dh tried to correct them.. Everything else was 'on target' but two of them his boss wrote down as 'needs improvement' and I read the evaluation paper dh brought and I didn't know what to say.. it was outrageous and it does look bad on dh's promotion.. Dh covered so many emergency shift and one time he even worked 6 days in a row 12 hours shift... and that's not all of it, he has been working so many overtime and I can count in one hand how many days he came home on time from work this year and most of time, he didn't have time to eat lunch because was too busy and yesterday wasn't no different, he told me not to make his lunch because he couldn't eat his lunch from yesterday and it still in the fridge at work... that's pretty bad.. he is been working 15 hours or more... So, basically, dh did everything what his boss asked him to do and done it right, then he got back stabbed from his boss... what in the world... Now, it makes me wonder, is this boss doing something behind dh back not to get him promoted?? who knows, I don't know what to think at this point and I feel hopeless and helpless.. I hate to see dh all stressed out and frustrated... If he was all by himself, he probablly quite long time ago.. I am just hoping that one of these interview will get him out of his misery... Sometimes, it makes us wonder, maybe moved to IL wasn't meant to be.. We've been here little over 3 years and it's been crazy... I used to say 'life sucks and love stings before I met my dh but now, sometimes, especially now, life sucks....
Thanks for listening...
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Hi All. Spent the weekend in the hospital with a bloodclot. So I am now on coumidid. Anyone else have to be on this? Did it have any effect on your chemo? Onward
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I doubt they will keep you on coumidine (coumidid?) . I bet you will be off it by the time you start chemo. Didn't your doctor tell you how long they were going to keep you on it?
BTW I'm head back home to IL today. I hear the weather is nice. This is the 3rd rainy day in MA. Yesterday was just nasty down the cape. Glad to be going home.
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Onward, I do not take Coumadin, but have taken Plavix for a number of years --- since a stroke I had in 02' or '03. It did not seem to have any effect on doing my chemo or anything else I did connected with my cancer -- never instructed to do anything different -- just I'm sure duly noted on all my paperwork for surgery ( lumpectomy ) for which they may have had me stop the drug for four or five days previous to the operation. I now don't recall --- but I think you will do fine.
Elf -- I'm so sorry life for your dh has become difficult. Somehow I always wonder when bosses behave in certain ways if they are actually "reacting" to their own inadequacies -- especially when their employees MANAGE to do what MUST be done and GET done at a certain time. This is not a lot of consolation for a negative situation. I only hope that he can "find" a promotion soon and hopefully end up with a "boss" that is easier to be around. I feel a ton of frustration but if you and he keep taking the high road it has to finally lead to somewhere good. Somehow I am on the second to last page --- missing some of the posts. So whatever I'm missing.....I'm with you.
See you over there --- on the next page eeeee eeeeee.
Hugs, Jackie
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Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. Paul Tournier0
