INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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Fell asleep, slept through thr return call anther day in the pool. It might be as long as a couple of weeks . I talked long enough to make Sure they understood what I was seeing. They are replaceing the whole unit. --it's ubder warranty--(iifetime) no charge for the unit.
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LIke this one Chevy? Sassy - hope you are securely planted in bed not touching anything electric or battery powered. Try a wireless mouse. I think the one I have in unbreakable. I used to carry it around with my work netbook in the car. Know I didn't treat it very nicely. Best thing ever invented - wireless mouse, keyboard. I know you have a laptop though.
Mommy - My advice for colonoscopy. I'm not a water drinker and mine was done in December. If his doc allows and he has no other restrictions use apple cider. Somehow that cut thru the nastiness of the prep some. I could chug it at room temp. DH I think mostly used water. He survived as did I though I got to be the guinea pig here.
GolfGirl - I know what you mean about the house. We are 45 minutes from our docs and an hour from DD (but that could change on a whim). Don't know how long we will stay out here. But house is paid for and can't really see DH crammed up next door to someone. Not a pretty sight. He puts on headphones when the dog crunches her dog food for pete's sake.
Speaking of DD. Last saw her June 26. I was supposed to go see her Sat. but she has to work. Holiday crunch time already. She works in corporate office logistics for major retailer. She promises - maybe - she will come out the next weekend.
The Dallas zoo had a baby boy giraffe born. 6ft tall, 120#. The Greenville SC zoo has the female back with the male. She had a stillborn calf this summer. So sad. They have a nice live cam. I keep forgetting to tune into the Colo. Springs giraffe cam. Eagles are beginning to build up their nests. Love them.
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Yes Littlegoats! That was the one! Sometimes I just have to give up posting a picture, whether I try AOL, IE, or Chrome.... So what's wrong with this Daughter of yours? We need to have a sit-down with her, and then smack her on top of the head, and say what's UP kid!
That's what my GS needs with him and his Mom. Except he wouldn't care... Ha! I love that boy with all my heart, but I can't make him change how he acts around his Mom and his Brother.... so I'm glad I don't have to see, hear, or know what is going on there....
Yes... we can't let Sass out of bed.... I think her DBFFFFFFF has a screw-driver, so she should be all set. I don't know about that one..... but Sass, as long as you don't get hurt, we will keep him around..... YOU shouldn't, but we can leave him out on the porch. And throw him a morsel or two.... maybe a bowl of water.
I know Rosie.... they have to be REALLY sick before they give in and go to the Doc's...... And we had better not say anything, or laugh the whole way to the Doctor's. We must feel sorry for them.... and feign remorse. Remorse because they are such dinks!
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Hi, I'm semi awake. Went to Lowe's for part's DBF going to replace all the water valve turnoffs thingys in the house.
Rheem who now owns marathon is replacing the water heater. Not sure all the hoops I have to jump through.
So they are standing behind the lifetime part. COOL........AHhh very cool for the next couple of weeks.
Iknow EVERYONE has shit going on. I had the one visit with Spookie, Phyliss, and Chevy that were sublime. I just want everyday that way. Whine.
MAGS: perfect-------------rotflol
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chevy thanks! I saw that on warm and fuzzy.
I went to local Humana office this pm, told my story of woe. They called my piece of chit pcp, who called rads place, who FINALY said it's questionable if broken. Now waiting for referral to Ortho.
It's still swelling, don't know how much is LE
Also changed pcp, effective sat
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Evening Owlettes. You may find it hard to believe, but I hate to complain. You know, sometimes you just have to get it off your flat chest, so I come to BCO. You can always tell when your caregivers have reached the point of not wanting to do it any more, DH doesn't make my soda stream lemonade any more, and my cousin manages to be doing something at church every single day. I mean literally. She sings in two choirs, leads two support groups, helps with flowers and bulletins and anything else they ask her to do. I know she loves to feel needed, so she always says yes, but the fact is, she's needed here too, and she just doesn't have enough energy for both. So I do without. Because I'm not going to complain. It is hard enough to feel the way I do without feeling that if I need something I have to impose on someone else. I was such an independent person, ran my own business for 18 years, it has been a real stretch for me to be dependent on other people for everything. I'm tired of it, and I know they are too. Right now I just feel stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Nothing that needs fixing, I just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.
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Hello owlettes, hope You have all had on ok week, got my service dog stitches out
today and just need to catch up on taking care of me. I hope You all take care, hugs
and prayers coming Your way. Very run down and working on help for better machine
and other thins I need. Thanks for all Your caring ears and loving hearts.<HUGS>
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sleep is not coming easy for me tonight.....can't shut the brain off again. Thoughts are jumbled and sort of racing too.((hugs)) everyone!
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mags, if you're what the cat drugged in, then you need to get your bottom out of that tub, find a big fluffy robe, curl up with 1 or 3 glasses of wine, THEN call Chevy in the morning.
Hope next week is better for you and all others here.
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smarty what great idea like I said that what you're talking about ,you're fortunate that you had somebody taking care of you. I started treatment with hormonals when I was re diagnosed almost 5 years ago and I have never had anybody ever bring me food, bring offer to bring food or to come and take care of us. I know you're grateful for what they do n u r entitled, it is almost over.
colonoscopy well I got pills I didn't drink
Hey Foots how you doing feeling okay
I am here 4 a bit. unfortunately I was up all night went to sleep at 3 o'clock this afternoon until like five I'm not complaining anymore I'm just sayin it is what it is I can breathe oh now it's really important
sorry I forgot who is here and who wrote what and whatever Patti said she takes notes its 2 o'clock 230 in the morning finish gone girl didn't like the ending talk to you guys later have a good one bye
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Rose where do u live if u don't mind me asking
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mags sorry l&h&p's
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Morning gals! So okay Sass.... sounds like you have all things coming together.... Does that mean DDBBBFFFFF can come in off the porch? Did he have on his aluminum hard hat, with jeans and suspenders, standing there in his work-boots, with no shirt and a screw-driver in his hand? No? You did all this without him?No-wonder he feels un-loved and un-appreciated.
Mags... when things get like that, you just have to say the hell with all you guys, I can do this on my own. I know we sometimes need for others to think about US instead of themselves, but maybe they are just being mindless, hurtful and little chits. We DO want help once in awhile, but if we depend on them, for our happiness, or even our every day needs, we will be stuck with just ourselves.
I say get out of bed, do as much as you can... then go back to bed with a good book, a glass of Sass's White Sangria... maybe a pitcher I mean....! Or else get really mad, and stomp your foot down and say "the hell with all of you" I have OTHER friends and family, and I don't NEED you.
Or else just get up, keep your pajamas on, and go to Walmart. Looking at some of those people, who have NOTHING wrong except no clue of a dress-code, will make you feel just soooo much better!
Blondie! You got pills? Isn't that like cheating? Do they work the same? I'm sure you will let us know.
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Oh Chevy, I'd love to do all those things! DH actually made me an eggnog last night, with way too much rum – I like to actually taste the eggnog, not just the rum, so I kept getting him to add a bit more eggnog to it ("while you're up, honey?")
Oops, big D. Be right back.
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Yeah. He totally forgot that I have to have something to eat that night even though he can't on Sunday.
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Ugh. Just can't seem to get it to stop this time.
So, I stopped driving because my head was so messed up and I didn't really have anywhere I wanted to go, so we got rid of the car I'd been driving. Last time I drove, I was on my way to a doc appointment when one of the tires separated on the turnpike and DH had to rescue me. When it blew, it took out part of the front bumper. Then the car sat for months in the driveway and we finally traded it out for some work we had done on the house. So I can't even go to Walmart without getting a ride. I'm going to be starting rads in a few weeks, and it hate the thought of asking my cousin to drive me there every day for 6-7 weeks. And I honestly don't know if we can afford a car. We've never financed one, just bought outright, DH's Honda is a 2003 and still runs great. Well, I guess I'll talk to him about it. I don't see things improving any time soon with cousin's schedule; with Christmas coming up she now has choir rehearsal on Saturdays as well. And of course she has to have time for her favorite recreation, shopping. OK I guess my real problem is, I'm feeling neglected. Waaaah. Poor poor pitiful me.
Hey! I AM one of those Walmart people with no sense of a dress code! I don't even put on makeup when I go! Or do my hair! Wait! I don't have any hair to do!0 -
Mags,
sorry to hear about your situation.
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Amen to that Teka
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Mags, the American Cancer Society will try to help with transportation. If that does not work, call your cancer center, talk to the social worker. They might have drivers. In my rural community there is a service will drive people to Dr. Appts. The drivers volunteer, and they get paid for mileage. I think it's gov program.
If you could get help, it would take the pressure off of the cousin. Maybe she could help with food & housework. My rad place was very close to home. I drove myself every time. DH took me to all the chemo treatments, but by the time rads came around I wanted him to go back to a normal work schedule. Radiation, for me was easy. Chemo was torture. I hope your rads are also a cake walk. Emotionally, I hit the wall during rads though.
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I have an old friend, a survivor of BC, who is now a counselor for ACS, I'll ask her if that's a possibility. Thanks for the suggestion!
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good suggestion Holeinone. I know the cancer center where I go does that.
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candy corn makes my teeth hurt, those cookies look yummy!
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yup!
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Blondie, I didn't like the ending of Gone Girl either. As a former counselor, I forsee trouble ahead.
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Has anyone seen the movie yet? I read the book & will see the movie, maybe tomorrow night.
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I want to see the movie, haven't read the book. We saw The Judge the to other night, good movie.0 -
Mags! I'm just so sorry for all that is going wrong, or FEELS like it is! You need help! Maybe ask your senior center also, or someone with AARP in your area, if they offer rides for women in your situation. Ask the Rads place.... And ask your Doctor! I know if you live in a senior center, they have vans that take them to stores, and appointments and stuff... I would ask everyone I could think of.
It's hard enough to even think about doing this, but it will be over soon.... I know 6 weeks is a bitch.... But try and get help on that.
My DD and I watched the biography of Shirley Temple today!
She brought over "Pizza Salads" from this neat little restaurant close to here.... It is wood-fired pizza crust, then a mixed salad put on half, and folded over! It is one of my favorite lunches!
Anyway, what a great life that Shirley Temple l had! I didn't know she had breast cancer when she was only 44... A double mastectomy. But she went on to be Ambassadors to several countries, and then serve as WHAT was it in the White House? The first woman ever to serve in that office.
Really an honorable life.... She passed away of COPD.... because she was a life-long smoker, but didn't ever want the public to know.... She was 87 I think when she died this last February... So a long life anyway! Janie and I have watched almost all of her movies..... What a little doll she was... So talented. It was fun watching her "grow-up."
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Chevyboy- She was a very neat woman. Most child actresses don't make much of their lives and she did. She was obviously gifted. It is just sad that her parents robbed her blind and squandered her considerable earnings as a child star. I read that some where and thought pitiful, she could have been set for life.
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good evening ladies.
SAS - hope things are looking up for you.
Spookie - glad you changed pcp's.
Foots / you have a service dog ? I don't think I knew that.
Holeinone - candy corn. Yum yum my favorite. Now you got me wanting some.
Mags / vent on. Not a problem. I hear ya. I hate hate bring dependent upon someone else. Just remember it's for a period and then your done right. Already had your last chemo and hopefully radiation will fly by with no se. You can do this ! Hugs
Blondie - no help in 5 years ? Wth is wrong with people in your area? No sourhern hospitalty it seems like. Wish you were closer I would def bring you some grub. Glad your breathing better.
Def not wanting to see Gobe Girl. I don't do sad movies or books. If it isn't happy it isn't for me. The only time I wanna cry is when I can't stop laughing.
Hugs to all I missed.
Hootie hoo.
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Love it! how cute! Frostbite... ha ha!
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