Illinois ladies facing bc

Good Morning everyone!

Joan - so glad you are doing well.  I am the same with morphine - it's puke city.  Glad you are going home tomorrow!

Cathy

Hugs Joan.

Drains out!  Woot.

Joan- wishing you a speedy and comfy recovery.  Glad to hear all went well! 

Smerf- where do you live in Glenview (if you don't mind saying).  I grew up in Glenview and my parents are still there.  Small world!

 Adey is now

Adey... No drains for you. You had them quite a while. I am now sporting 4 drains. Yuck. May have them 3-4 weeks. Sure hope they go faster than that. Any ideas how to disguise them other than big, baggie shirts? These see worse than my BMX drains.

Joan.....wow !!!!! Already looking way ahead and finding good solutions to your present situation.  Here's hoping you lose those drains really, really fast. 

Rain today and maybe over the week-end but it will/has begun to pull in warmer weather and that is just not a bad thing.  I'll be using that famous soap...Murpny's to wash all my kitchen cabinets and polish them.  Needed new knobs ( I bought really cheap ones 9 yrs. ago to tide us over till I found some I really liked ) for my whole kitchen ( 25 ) and since the cheap ones were working I never got around to it. 

A couple of those old plastic things have broken....so got busy and found some nice ones.  So, cleaning is definitely scheduled into my week-end.  Comes at a good time of yr. anyway.  Big intentions to do plenty.....might as well include cabinets.

Hope you are all looking forward to a great week-end. 

Hugs, Jackie

Joan, I hope that the drains are out soon. I'm so glad for you that PS said surgery went so well. You are nearing the end of all the yucky stuff!!

Joan, I know the LE will get under control as soon as you are healed enough to do the PT.  I also know you must be very frustrated as you are a very active woman.  Don't you think all this will be history by the time summer comes along?

One luxury I allow myself is to have a woman who cleans my house twice a month (well actually she keeps the marriage together as DH is a very tidy person, so more of a necessity than a luxury).  I purchased all these "Green" cleaning supplies and she told me she refused to use them as they do not work.  We do use a GREEN dishwasher detergent as, Robo, I too was concerned with how caustic the regular powders are. I also at least feel that all cancer cases are increasing. I also feel that all autoimmune diseases are rising (Crohns. Colitis, allergies).  I hope I am just sensitive to the numbers and  that in fact they are not rising.....maybe just more being diagnosed.

So pretty outside.  There was a mistake and I showed up for work and the teacher  who ordered me  had it wrong. I was thrilled to go home......such a great day. My cat is purring like crazy as she likes me home for company....so cute!

Hi:

Edited to reflect my calmer demeanor.  This morning I was alerted by MANY that my email account was hacked by some horrid person.  I spent the entire morning trying to clean up the mess.  Caryn, Wendy and Kater let me know and helped me figure out what to do.  I changed my password, alerted as many mail contacts as I could and did a scan.  Thanks ladies for helping me. If any of you get a "weird" email from me....delete it.

Here is what I learned from this experience. 

1. Look over your e-mail  contacts in Yahoo.  I have never updated my list and it was begun in 2002!  Many of these people I do not even know anymore.  Perhaps 50 of these contacts should have been edited before now. All of them got the bad guy's message using my name.

 2. Change your password (facebook too) immediately as the bad guy gets out as many as he can and then sends out a second bunch. He knows you will likely change the password when you catch it.

 3. Do a scan immediately. Notify facebook and yahoo of the problem.

4. Tell the bad guy to go to hell as loud as you can.....but never open the email and send  that message back to him via his spam.

At least he didn't have me selling penis enlargements or viagra from my home pharmacy!

What a mess!

Susan

Joan - Glad to hear the surgery went smoothly.  4 drains.. yikes. I bought those stick-on pockets for my last surgery, but they weren't always reliable.  I felt much more confident just using big safety pins to pin the drains inside my shirt, or on my pants waist. 

Susan, I got one of the spam emails, but knew right away what it was. I've gotten these several times from various friends.  One of my friends had her acct. hacked after using a public (!) internet cafe in Mexico.  All of us in her address book got emails in Spanish from her account for weeks!  LOL.  

Robo - I didn't know you were a runway model, but yes, I can totally see it now that you mention it.  I also keep forgetting how close you are to me.  I'm near Schick and 59.

Just thought I'd share this article link that came in my recent sonography newsletter.  Some interesting statistics (from a recent study) about the accuracy of detecting breast tumors using mammography, ultrasound and MRI. This is the line that sticks out to me:

 Eleven cancers, or 10 percent, were not found by any of the three screening technologies, said the study.

Here is the LINK to the whole article.  

Lago, you get tech.  Can you tell if the hack was thorugh YAHOO or FACEBOOK.  How could the latter get an email account from my account?

Have a great weekend.

Susan

Zap, that happened to me last year.  I too had e-mail contacts going back years - my son's soccer coaches, former teachers etc.  And the worst of it, all my doctor's and nurses got e-mails!  So embarrasing.,  I have since learned that aol and yahoo have poor security so I shut down my aol account and got g-mail.  I use yahoo for junk mail and gmail for real mail.  And yes I didn't change my password in time and a second one went out. 

Also unfortunately you're right about the autoimmune disease and alllergies too.  One theory is we're too clean.  Third world people do not have allergies, and interestingly as we've gotten rid of worms and parasites, our allergies and Crohn's disease has increased.  Can't win!  So put away even those green cleaners and let the kids and grandkids play in the mud. 

Joan, glad you are home and sounds like you're doing well.  Showers are one of those things you really appreciate after you haven't had one for a few days. 

Robo I remember when I was a kid it was 1 in 10 women got breast cancer.  Now its 1 in 8.  Definitely going in the wrong direction and probably multi-factorial.  In general our health is not improving, but breast cancer seems frustrating to me because there doesn't seem to be strong facts on how to prevent.  

Westieluv I want to meet your westie. I love westies and bull dogs.