Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Thanks so much. I just told someone that when I was 20 I couldn't imagine being 70 and today I still can't imagine it. It did however get here a lot quicker than it seemed it would. I feel so blessed all of the time --- and maybe that is why I seldom consider my age as much as the things I need to do and the things I want to do --- which is mainly to continue to easily do what needs to be done in my little corner of what is always pretty much a wonderful world to me.
It is also quite a wonderful one due to the richness of all the people I get to share life with -- ups and downs, defeats and victories, helping me always to savor my blessings and to know that together there is always someone willing to help me rise again if I take a tumble. Knowing all of you is going to make this day full and happy with very meaningful.
Blessings one and all,
Jackie
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Happy Birthday Jackie!!! Once you turn 70 you get a whole week to celebrate, so live it up.
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Happy Birthday Jackie,, Enjoy your special day and celebrate
Just got back from spending the day in Schaumburg with grandchildren at one of their soccer games then out for lunch and back to their house till our ds got home from work to go to the next soccer game. We helped him out for the weekend since he had to work overtime and our dil is not back from Serbia until later today. She has been there for a week for a family emergency. Glad to help out but glad to be back home. We will go back to watch the GS soccer game when he plays an earlier game.
Ritajean, thank you for the nice compliment
Sandra, glad to see you and mike smiling and enjoying yourselves.
Puffin, your schedule seems very busy and fun
Hope everyone is having a great day.
EmmA
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Yay sweetie love the smile
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looks great Sandra! Shuf
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Good morning...I have not been here for awhile and have not read back yet.. Please forgive me for not keeping up! I will read later...
Jackie, it sounds like your birthday was Sunday? I want to wish you the happiest of birthdays and a great year ahead! You are amazing, and at 70 years young, you run circles around others! Your wisdom and compassion for others seems boundless. Thanks for being here to start our days.
I did read about the kittens, and I hope they thrive and have homes.
My kitty finally got over her respiratory issues and has now become attached to us and follows us and plays much more. We finally have a real cat!
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe
with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure
words, but to pour them all out, chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep
what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of
kindness, blow the rest away.George Eliot
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Good morning sweet friends,
This is a quote that has turned up a lot in my in-box and I always usually feel ( since I believe the helpers in the Universe arrange some events for us ) that I should go ahead and use it ----- and the bottom line is that I love it anyhow. It makes such perfect sense to me.
Joan, thank you --- the cake is looks yummy-sinfully caloric as all cakes should be. I did indeed have a great birthday yesterday and so far ( pretty new at it though ) I'm loving being 70. The real delight is that it feels amazingly good considering some of the aspects to the life I've lived. I guess we all learn at some point that there is no one way to feel, just as we all have different ideas, so the hours turn into days, and the days eventually form a yr. and we are older but still feeling much like yrs. and yrs. before.
I am so very, very grateful for that. There is so much I want and need to do. My purposes in life are not huge, but they don't have to be. Each little thing anyone does to help the world and or someone in it is enough because the good things create a whole big thing at some point and so the little things make you a part of a major thing --- all have a part and all can rejoice at the goodness of a creation.
Today, I will catch up. I did morning chores yesterday and then just treated myself to only doing things I wanted to. Since I didn't sleep in like I thought I might -- that was good enough for me.
The sun is shining and it will warm back to a better level for us. Time I think to put the sweaters away and move onto a little more normality for this time of yr. Forgot to say Joan......sure glad little kitty is back to herself. I have cats that do the 'allergic' reaction thing a couple of times a yr. so am used to it. Being a multiple cat/animal person it is easier for me. If a few aren't playing and are laying around for a bit --- it doesn't change much of anything here.
Onward for my day which will be a bit fuller as I make up for my rather lazy one yesterday. See you all later -- when I check in again.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Sorry I missed your birthday, Jackie.
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Jackie, Happy belated birthday and wishing you many, many more!
Sandra, So happy to hear how well Mike (and you) are doing now!!! You both look great! Good for you.
Paula
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Jackie - me too - Happy belated B-day. Of course you know that once you hit 50 you get to celebrate for a whole week. Once you hit 70, you get to celebrate for the entire month.
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Yipee -- a month -- I can do a month. All that cake though, burp !!!!
Jackie
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Happy Belated birthday Jackie
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Belated Happy Birthday, Jackie!!! I hope a lovely lady had a lovely day! Wishes for many more!!
Sandra, so happy to hear that you and Mike are having some fun!! Enjoy!!
Ohio
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Thank you Puffin. I'm really happy to have finally gotten this milestone handled. I try not too --- but like many I have often projected my age as 70 when I wasn't quite there. I'm already working on myself not to do that. It isn't too big a deal, but I think of my charge who has been almost a hundred for a long time --- and just this past June she was 99. Now --- she is almost 100 and I so hope she gets there and beyond if her health keeps her in a reasonable spot. But she ( with how she has talked for the two and a half yrs. I've waited on her ) is something of a reminder that you can be almost anything --- but you still can't get there till its time. So, I'm thinking --- no need to rush.
It has been a very nice day here. Gentle breezes, and nice but not over-bearing warmth. The kinds of days that I really enjoy. I think we will stay a bit warmer now which is ok with me. When it is like today, we can have the door open and the fans circulating some air.
Hoping you all have a fantastic day. See you tomorrow.
Jackie
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
Morning,
Another catch-up day for me. Bill paying yesterday, and glad to have that over. Have to re-stock pet food and supplies today and give a ride to a friend. It will be a wonderful day and I'm going to work today as well. I somehow expect to turn up at work and find the new little tiny puppy. She could not come on the 11th. her 8-wk. birthday, as she didn't have enough teeth yet. So, though it hasn't been long --- I keep wondering if my employers will surprise me by just having her there.
It would be a very NICE surprise for me to be sure. Animal lovers are rarely, if ever, disappointed and I'll be thrilled. Now to be sure afterwards that my charge doesn't FEED the dogs portions of table food. This has been an on-going problem for the longest time. The solution lately is that the resident dog must be put in her crate during meal times. I was told last time I was there that two men ( apparently it was thought that they were yard workers ) came in and were feeding all sorts of table food to the dog.
I was quite tickled to say the least. Though it was a far out tale, my charge can still come up with a story to cover her tracks when she is "caught" mis-behaving with her food. I say yay for the age of 99 and coming up with that explanation. May I remain clever if I get to that age. I'm not clever now so it would be a good feat for me.
Be back later, some time after work. See you all then.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Thanks Teka --- sounds like the puppy is coming over the week-end. I do usually work one of the week-end evenings --- either Friday or Saturday night. I didn't ask how likely it would be that the pup might make it on one of my work evenings. Just thought --- it would be a nice surprise and maybe I'll just wait. Who knows, it may end up throwing a monkey wrench in the works. I hope not though. A couple of yrs. ago when Sasha ( the little Yorkie came ) she just did wonderfully well. Never kept anyone up at night ---- just slept in her tiny crate and nary a whimper at being AWAY from home.
Well, that makes me cross my fingers hard enough to get instant arthritis. Of course I hope she is able to incorporate herself just as well as little Sasha did. Better for everyone. She has a new crate awaiting her. If she is restless --- maybe she can be put in with Sasha for a short while.
Jackie
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happy birthday Jackie. shuf
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Kicks,
I just got back from a Casting For Recovery retreat here in Utah. The experience was worthwhile and enlightening. I actually want to pursue fly fishing more. Being on the river was a spiritual experience. I loved it. The volunteers during the retreat were helpful and kind. The only thing I didn't like was that I was the only advanced breast cancer survivor at the retreat. I have issues that the others can't relate to, but we all share this journey and have our own fears and joys. You will have a fantastic time!!!
Bonnet,
How are you doing? I just heard from the GI doc regarding the biopsy and it is breast cancer! He was very concerned about a bowel obstruction. I assured him I know what they feel like and will call him at the first symptom. Start Taxol on Thursday. My MO assures me that my quality of life will be good even on chemo. Hope you have good news..
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You are goodness and mercy, and compassion and undersanding. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in time of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love.
You are these things. And in moments of your life, you have known yourself as these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
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Good morning,
Lovely outside with a really nice sun that won't overwarm us today.
Judi, good to hear how much you enjoyed your retreat. Water is a very spiritual entity for many people. I am almost always comforted if I can get around some water. We all floated in it for 9 months before we were born. It has an energy, a presence that usually tends to make one feel more calm and relaxed. I use to live in southern California --- about a mile from the ocean. Most of my time spent at the beach was used in picking out a wave, depositing all my cares and troubles on it and letting it go so far out on the horizon that those things that were on it were no longer my burden.
We live now by a lake and not the sort of "horizon" I was used too --- but I still feel the calm of the water. I can't imagine not being where there is water with the comfort it can provide.
On today's menu -- I will go help my friend ( the one who had the fire ) attempt to give three kitties a bath. Their mother disappeared and they have done quite well with the hand feeding ( kitten formula from Walmart ) and wet kitten food but no mommy to bathe them on a regular basis. They really need a good wash-up --- so that is on for today. Bet I'm glad when that is done. I have in fact though washed kittens successfully. They don't like it --- but they can't really get away so it gets done.
I'm going to have to once again ( sigh re-incorporate some exercise, walking and other fitness routines in. Haven't had the time to go to the gym or even use the walking track. I'm feeling with the weather changing now ---- I can save my $12.00 ( walking track pass ) and just start taking the long walks we used to here in our neighborhood. Just have to convince Dh if he comes along that we are not going to walk down by our friend's house as the walking always stops for a long visit. We can 'stop' on our way back from the walk. Some men are sneaky you know.
Thanks Shuf --- for the birthday wishes. I have already forgotten I'm 70 so I'm definitely not having to FEEL different . Hope you are all going to have a wonderful Wednesday.
Blessings
Jackie
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Good Morning Ladies. Beautiful day here again. Good to have a few days with low humidity. Have my senior players group. We put on skits for senior groups in the county. Luckily , we don't have to memorize our scripts! We have a good time doing this.
Finally got my call from my dr on my colonoscopy biopsy, B-9! Now I can breathe again, til something else manages to pop up!
Happy birthday Jackie, if I missed it. Our outsides may age, but the inside remains the same person!
Hugs Jean
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Yay and triple yay for your good B-9 news Jean. Things seem to be turning out that way as of late for all who had health worries. Very happy for all with " good " tests. Way to go. I like that Jean, the outsides may show wear and tear but the inside is still going strong. Hooray for that too.
Jackie
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Belated 70th Birthday wishes Jackie! I've found that I've felt better and have had more energy since turning 70 last Jan........who knew?!
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Ah Jan, music to my ears. 70 is the new 55. I can live with that, really well.
Jackie
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Lurking
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Getting ready to give it up for the night. Got the three little kitties bathed this morning. Went pretty well overall. They looked pretty good, but I know they will need more in no time.
Hope you are all going to have a good day tomorrow. I work and then when I get off we will go to the Social Security office in Mt. Vernon. Then a bite to eat, and home. So, I won't be on here as much. Got some plans for Friday but they might not work out. Talked to a girlfriend and we were thinking lunch and a matinee movie ( I don't have a clue what is playing right now ) but that all depends on when her Dh gets back from a little trip to Michigan.
See you tomorrow.
Jackie
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Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature. -St. Thomas Aquinas
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Just a quick note before work. Teka, that sounds like it would be a good movie -- based on the stars and their ages. It is sometimes easy to forget that those people too are aging. In some cases ( like Redford ) they had a good head start on many of us. When I was 25 or 30 --- those men were real dreamy and could star in some way out fantasies. I guess the good thing about a fantasy is that if you are having it the likelihood of its ever happening is very, very low if not totally nil. I'm going to look tonight and see what is on here --- and already hoping that one may be one of them.
Jackie
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