Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

blondie: so sorry about the shingles, hope they resolve quickly

Happy Birthday to Sandra and Val! 

So glad you two were able to get together, Sandra and Thelma.  You look happy in the picture and you both look pretty.

Blondie, just what you DID NOT need--shingles.  Hope you get some relief.

Mommarch, I don't know what Hodgkins disease is.  I'll have to google it.  But it sounds bad.

Cammi, we miss you and hope Joey is taking good care of you.

Hi to everyone not mentioned.

Thank you all. DD had her bone morrow extraction yesterday afternoon, as her Onc had to leave to fly back to Egyept for a family er. We probably will not know the results until after the first of the year.

I thank each and everyone of you for the support I have received in the past 3 years on this site.

You are all awsome

sandra: very happy for you that you get your surgery so quickly, praying it all goes smooth for you this time.

Brrr,

The winter picnic looks inviting, but a bit on the chilly side.  As long as there is no wind I could sit a spell -- a very short spell. 

We are not going to have sun after-all today.  Well, I can always hope the forecast is wrong, but it is fairly likely we won't.  I guess we have to go in steps --- and to that viewpoint -- at least it quit raining.  I'm not sure when it did as I kept hearing rain on the roof long after dark last night.  During the afternoon so much rain had come down that there were just puddles all over the yard and definitely in any low places in the road etc.  On the way to town we kept an eye on the large drainage ditches alongside the road. 

We don't think much of our engineers around here that create the pathways for run-off to collect in our lake.  They keep digging the ditches deeper and deeper and that is not actually the answer.  It hasn't worked well in the past and still doesn't.  Some one filled up some of those ditches with rick-rack ( somewhat flattish stones of a good size )  and they are ok.  Though not all of it, those deep ditches just fill up with assorted debris that clog up the pipes that have been installed for under the road -- and when they get full of too much --- the water just sits on the road and anyone's yard that is nearby. 

Going to work tonight about 6 p.m.  Work is good, always for me. 

I hope you all have a good Saturday with at least tolerable weather. 

Mommarch -- you are one of us. 

Blessings

Jackie

The picture is gorgeous! It was 75 in San Antonio yesterday. Even though we had three freezes in November, the temps keep bouncing back. We all want some nice cold weather for a change. At least some of the trees are in the middle of changing colors and dropping leaves so as long as you stay inside in the air conditioning, it looks like autumn outside.

I've had a problem keeping my husband from doing what we wants to do after cataract surgery on Monday. Today I duct-taped him to the recliner. He responded by sticking his tongue out.

I found that on Pinterest! You get started looking at the pictures, and one just takes you to another.... Or you can type in any subject, and so MANY come up!

Sandra, what a good sport he is! Ha, ha!

That is a really pretty piece for winter and X-mas too.

Jackie

Sandra.....just knew you you were "clownin' around".....love the pic of you and our resident clown Mimi!

Poooooooor Mike....taping him to a chair.....

for me day 2 after left eye cataract surgery(with a black eye) I drove myself to my "dooms day mammogram" and core biopsy.........that was 366 days from the all clear mammo the year before....and the next week I had the right eye done.....had to have a laser procedure a few weeks later after the area of the capsule that holds the new lens clouded on that eye.

The doc at the breast diagnostic center put off my stereotactic biopsy for two agonizing weeks before I got a diagnosis although he did talk to me as if I had cancer....is was a doc that relocated from Parkland hospital in Dallas.

Yeaaaaaa TCU!!!!.....they won today.....my Dad graduated from there when I was a kid, he is smilin' down from heaven!

Mommarch you & your daughter is in my thought.

Blondie.....gentle gentle hugs lady....I feel for you

I had shingles in my 40's....over several dermatones, agony!!!!!...I did order Lidocaine cream which help for about an hour at a time.....I also slept on a under inflated air mattress......I did get a shingles shots when I was around 60, as I never ever wanted to deal with that again!

I went to get my Reclast IV at the infusion center at the hospital last Monday (due to my osteoporosis) which was to take 15 minutes but my veins were not cooperating and they needed to draw blood and send to the lab before they could order the Reclast from the hospital pharmacy....3 nurses and numerous pokes in ONE arm they finally "struck gold" and a total of 3 hours....the actual IV infusion took 15 minutes! Husband and I "dined" in the hospital cafeteria.

Chevy, Hubby and I use to picnic in the snow all the time when we were cross country skiing, with lunch in our backpacks....we would take off our skis, use a foam pad and sit on our skis with the foam pads on top of the skis, the little birds would beg for crumbs.....they would even sit on the toe of our boots...I do have pics somewhere of the sweet little birds.

Puffin, are you coming to Seattle in May for a cruise? Are you going with a birding group?....we have been on several cruises where the birders had set up "camp" at the bow of the ship on promenade deck on the Golden Princess, had there folding stools, lots of food from the buffet, large lens cameras and lots of chatter....thought they were spotting whales, until we ask. Are you going to Alaska? Spring is my favorite time to go to Alaska!

Sandra....surgery again....wow you are on your way to being done! Are you ready for #6

I saw PS a few weeks ago and he said there is a NEW approved implant, Mentor anatomical with great success....will see him again this week don't know about surgery #6 (I put this off for a year!) but one implant rest under my arm, and needed fat grafting.

Another doc visit with my GI doc this week and what she saw in my gut with the endoscopy and colonoscopy.

Neighborhood pot luck tomorrow....ugh....what to bring....

Hi Wren and GG....need to find a place to meet that is NOT in Seattle.

Cami....where are you?

Hugs to all....

Di

Di: yes, we'll be sailing from Seattle for Alaska. My best from college (we lived together for a year after graduation) and her husband are picking us up from the airport, we're taking them out for dinner and staying overnight with them and then they'll take us to the pier the next day. We got a cabin with a balcony so if it's chilly (in May can be in the 40's) we can sit inside our warm cabin and enjoy the scenery. If it's nice we can also set up tripod and spotting scope on balcony and scan shore for wildlife. I hope there are other birders on board, it helps to have more eyes searching for those sea birds. We've been to Alaska before, but that was to the Anchorage, Denali, Nome, and Homer area. This time it'll be Ketchikan, Skagway, Juneau and Victoria,BC.

Oh way, way too funny.  Love both your graphics Teka, but I'm really taken on that second one.  Well, I have said that our furry friends are guileless -- there can be no more sincere look of innocence than the one on their face. 

That also sort of points up to the fact of just how judgmental we can often get over things.  Soooo, under the list of things that I could do over would come not getting anxious and then critical over things that in the long run would never, ever make a difference.  I hope I was less judgmental than I feel like I might have been. 

Going to Alaska -- well, I'm envious.  Yrs. ago, in California we lived in a mobile home park and the people who bought the house across the street from us were from Alaska.  They did their best to adjust to  life in Calif. but never quite got there.  Sold their home, packed back up, and headed back to Alaska.  I'm not sure how I'd have ever felt, but knowing and liking ( admiration ) them just made it seem so exciting.  I wouldn't have gone then, but it is something I would not pass up not. 

The red dress is stunning.  Made me think of Princes Diana.  Sometimes I wonder -- what would she be like now?????  Likely just as stunning as she was before she died. 

Well, it is cool here, but no rain.  Much lighter ( the sun tried so hard to come out nice earlier ) than it has been for a couple of days.  We will be light, but I do think it will be mainly cloudy.   I'm just so thankful that it is not the darker gray that it has been for the previous two days. 

I will return to work this afternoon -- X-mas parties are beginning -- so I'm needed.  I don't know why, but the time just seems to be flying by.  I have a couple of X-mas cards to send out ( I'm always late with this ) so that will be on my shorter ( must get done list ) while I tackle lots of other chores.  I noticed this morning my pantry is once again a hodge-podge of I threw it there because there was no room.  So many things are out of place and it looks un-loved in there just for openers.  Well, you know at my age, when I have to do a major re-arranging job --- I find all sort of treasures and neat things and wonder how they got there and who got them there.  Always pretty sure I had nothing to do with it.

I'll see you all later.

Blessings

Jackie

Wren,

That is a very amusing statement -- leaving Alaska for its being too crowded and going to Montana.  I know what your saying though even if it does sound a little weird.  I'm sure our 'former' next door neighbors are still there.  The only reason they even came back was some needed medical treatment that simply wasn't available back in the 70's where they were. 

I'm sure most people could make almost all, if not all, of the many adjustments of going to a "wilderness" area to live but the younger you are I'm sure the better.  At my age, two miles out of town can sometimes have inconvenience attached.  Sure can't imagine living an Alaska lifestyle. 

Jackie

We woke up this morning to cooler air and the muggies gone.  Tonight we're enjoying a fire in our fireplace.  We have never regretted switching from wood to gas. 

Greetings to all.

Blondie so sorry about shingles. Loved meeting Sandra and hearing her exciting news about surgery six. Aren't we all odd to celebrate an upcoming surgery. Duct tape looks clever and I can affirm she is one clever gal. I'll get the picture up tomorrow when I have a real computer at home. Spent time today in KANSAS City . Sleeping at Jan's house tonight. Home tomorrow morning! PA the picture I have is not fuzzy.

Here I am 5 pages behind again....but I have to keep up because this is the best darned thread I've found here...with the most amazing, smart, funny, caring and yes, zany ladies.
I see a few belated BD wishes from last week...thanks again...do I have to add more years? eat more cake?
Today was a good day - I went to the Christmas Show in NYC with 3 DDs and 6 grandkids...my favorite thing....it was quite the rendezvous from DC and CT, Long Island and Boston... but we were all seated when the show started.   I felt happy and content and very filled with Christmas spirit and love for my kids and just about everybody ... Radio City Christmas Show is one last holiday show that celebrates the traditional meaning....ending with a live  nativity including grandiose processions of kings and lambs, camels, and donkeys on stage.  It is nice to not see the season sanitized of the traditions and cultural celebrations of Christmas...whether one is religious or not, it is a wondrous story.

When I got home from NY, DH had put up some lights outside.  The season has arrived.
Ten of us went out to lunch...it was hard to say "bye" at the end of the day.  Wish they didn't live so far!
Bed time for me....long day on Monday.  I will be reading back and catching up.
Thanks to all who drop by here, and especially Jackie who is faithful to post encouragement every day.
Hugs!