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I love that.... "Mrs. G"...... Hah! We are not doing the eye drops anymore.... Thought they were making him dizzy, and light-headed.... I looked it up. One can actually do that, I read! His eye is great.... and his mood is better.... I just want him to feel good, and then he is happier....Goes back in on the 5th for final exam.... He can see out of that eye just as good as the other one! It's kind of like a miracle to us....
Love all the dishes you guys! Just trying to get rid of all my odds & ends.... also bedding, and craft stuff that I don't use.... What Janie and her friends don't want, I can always donate.... just feel bogged down..... BUT I bought a 2 drawer metal cabinet to keep all our important papers in, and receipts, monthly statements, etc. So that's all done. Going to watch the NFL playoffs Sunday.... Janie coming over, and we'll watch it together & snack all day....
JWow! Nice post.... ! You are so thoughtful! Hi Loverly! We can always count on you.... bye gals! Talk to you later! xoxo
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Jwoo, Liked what you said about CPR. They did a push here to train as many people who were willing to learn and now Seattle is supposed to be the best city to have a heart attack and survive. It's a requirement for teachers, counselors, and people who work with the elderly or disabled.
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Almost forgot Susan.....
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Yogagirl, in regard to your question about Ambien, it is probably because of the FDA recommendation based on next- morning impairment associated with the higher dose
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm334033.htm
Everyone is different and doctors need to learn to listen to their patients. However, I do understand their need to protect themselves in this sue happy society
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yoga girl: new MD's always want to mess with your meds, no matter how much you tell them that such-and-such dose works for you. I don't know how old you are, but the guidelines are 5 mg for those over age 65. 10mg not recommended for that age group. Blackouts and falls potential problems. Could be one reason why MD cut you back? Or others in your group? Sorry that other things do not work for you. Maybe after a "trial" of 5mg you can convince MD to go back to 10 mg. Or one of your other doctors?
JWoo: Thank you for the birthday greetings. That was a lovely long post! I'm so sorry that happened to your Grandma. That was a terrible thing. I would be getting a lawyer, myself! **don't nobody hurt my Grandma** I loved mine dearly and miss her everyday, even tho she has been gone since 1988. You keep visiting her as much as possible. You will be happy that you did. I'm glad to be able to look back and remember all the times I took her out to lunch, and when I took her back to her home in NC after moving away 40 years earlier,, and her FIRST and only plane ride. It was a trip! Make some good memories, my friend.
Lovely dishes, Sas and Zills.
Happy Anniversary, Susan!
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Hey SAS and e verybody. I haven't been around for awhite. Back for now I have a brain mri scheduled for next Friday because my vision got blurry and I see double around lights since Saturday. I do not want anything else to go wrong, well, who does after all.
I am having a good spell with sleep getting very sleepy at about 8PM and waking about 4 or 5AM. If I can keep it sort of on this cycle I feel best. Inevitably it keeps moving and I wind up 12 hours off. At least now I know what happens and my husband leaves it alone.
I was sure sorry to read that Leah is gone. She was on a lot of the threads I always read.
Take care
Ginger
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Ginger OMD, sorry you are having problems and hope all works out well, BUT damn glad to hear from you chickie, been ever so long.
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Gingerbrew, I had the same symptoms you do. I had cataracts. Arimidex, Aromasin and Tamoxifen all can cause preexisting cataracts to get worse or can cause them. You might ask your oncologist for a referral to an ophthalmologist.
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The Chinese have a centuries old a greeting. "How's your liver?". When I first read that I laughed. Imagine walking on a lane and running into someone and you say in greeting "How's your liver?" Here that would be considered quite odd.
So, how's your liver? Mine--- is so so, would be quite a bit better, if I laid off the wine and cigarettes. But life is short and I enjoy both.
Tomorrow is the 23rd. I have decided that's the anniversary of all my stuff.
I was told I had a brain tumor at 11:55. At 1:00 pm I had a bx that confirmed BC. I went straight away like a good little nursey and told my boss about the brain tumor. What a bad move. She relieved me from work b/c she needed to know that I was safe to work with patients. Never worked again. Lost my career of 40 years. BC, brain tumor, and loss of career in less than 4 hours. Went home and had a pretty decent party with the neighbors.
It worked out okay in the most bizarre sense b/c Dh Greg was Dx'd with Lymphoma 3 months behind me. His course of events was awful and he passed in August 2010. If I hadn't been disabled b/c of the brain, I would have never been able to care for him. It was an insane time. Can't imagine working and all the insanity.
Then the brain tumor grew and had it out March 2012, Then thyroid cancer dx' in Jan 2014, but likely present in Jan 2009 b/c they grow oh so slow.
Way to many anniversaries.
So, Jan 23, 2009 is it. All consolidated into one. 7 years tomorrow.
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Gingerbrew, good luck on your MRI. I have had double vision since breast rads ended in Aug 2014. The MRI at that time was clear, then they found ocular myasthenia gravis. That seems to be the cause of the double vision as the brain tumor that came later was in another area. Myasthenia is a much better Dx than brain mets. Let us know how it goes.
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Ginger, you are on the same sleep schedule as Chevy. She usually checks in quite early. Please, stay close I've missed you. You are such a nice person and were so helpful to other members. AND you always made me feel good, Bless you.
Lisa-e is right cataracts can do what you are describing, but what's nice is you are having the MRI. All my stuff was incidental findings. I was in prophylactic pipeline when BC was found. Brain tumor on right was an incidental finding on an MRI post symptoms after a left sided concussion. Thyroid was an found to be a goiter on yearly CT. I insisted it was cancer even though the pathologist called it negative twice. A second opinion at Quest found it in both lobes. Diagnostics are our friend.
Rule out diagnostics are great.............You're doc is certainly doing the good thing. Rule out the worst and work with the easy.
So, happy you are here, please don't go away again...........
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Lisa-e Welcome here. Do we know each other? Apologize if I've forgotten.................
Split glad to see you are sticking around, love your sense of humor. It's our greatest friend
Glennie HAPPY BIRTHDAY,(FORGET IF I've ALRAEDY SAID IT FORGIVE ME)
Have to go back and catch up. Had a great dinner at Carrabass on a gift card from Stephen.
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Thanks, everyone, who thought about Rituxan... yes, it is used for MANY off-label purposes. The drill will be to pre-medicate with Tylenol, Benadryl, and SoluMedrol, then start a VERY small drip. If there is the slightest hint of reaction, the process is stopped, additional meds are added, time is given for SEs to subside, and then slowly started again. So glad he will be in a hospital to do this.
He'll actually be in the Chemo Infusion room, next to folks who are getting chemo and other drugs. I gave him a little inservice on "Infusion Room Etiquette."
I LOVE those glass cup and plate snack sets. In the 50's (when EVERYBODY joined clubs), my mom was in a Club called "Stitch and Bitch" but no one sewed. The mostly-newlywed ladies (about 20, I think) just met once a month at each others' homes and drank wine and ate snacks and Mom made sure I wasn't listening at the closed hall door. They were together for more than 70 years and the last two members just passed away. I inherited my mom's snack sets and still have them.
Whoa, Ambien - I might as well drink a dozen espressos. It keeps me totally awake for 24 hours.... BAD drug for me. I asked the Pharmacist about dosing, and she told me that the standard 10 mg dose got changed because "they" figured out that Ambien does not clear the body in 24 hourslike previously thought.
Instead, it builds up in the bloodstream, and in an elderly, or frail, or sensitive person, they may end up with more like 40 mg in their systems at some point because of the cumulative effect. So doses got lowered. But she also said that docs were saying to some patients that they could double up. Not me! Never touching that stuff again!
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Sas Happy Anniversary. Kind of a sucky one but you are still here so it was a blessing as you are to us! Treat yourself today.
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Okay Sass.... Now I KNOW prophylactics are just a nice way of saying rubbers.... Now what were you saying? They sell them in pipe-lines? I'm probably missing something here...
I got where you had major CF's on this day years ago... Don't think about them.... Just keeps you awake at night.... And listen little missy.... You should NOT smoke.... drinking is fine, but smoking will really hurt those lungs of ours... I am a poster child for not only pole-dancing-gone-bad, but for also how-to-screw-up-your-lungs-with-asthma-from-smoking. I'm just trying to teach you something helpful.... I heard weed is even better than smoking cigarettes! Oh wait... am I actually advocating a joint now and then? Just listen to me..... sometimes I actually get it right...
GINGERBREW! Where have you been young lady? Hiding out in the snow somewhere? Good to hear from you again!
Blessings! GOOD one! "Stitch & Bitch" !!!! Hahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaahah! Yes, we must have friends so we can bitch! Otherwise it would all build up in us, and that is not a good thing......... That's probably what made us all sick.... we held it all in, and it came out, and that's how we all wound up in the same place. THAT'S IT!
And yes that's me.... "Olderly and frail" and even sensitive and stuff! So don't mess with us folks.... Going today to meet-up with DH's dear Nephew... He has this "thing" to check my "check engine" damn light that stays on.... So that's our big Saturday.
Theresa, my 91 year old friend.... YES, there IS someone older than me.... Well she has this problem with Diarrhea, sometimes... So they won't give her anything for it, unless she screams bloody-murder... So I snuck some Immodium AD in to her... in a brown paper bag... concealed you might say.... Now she has her own stash.... WELL.... I also took her 5 chocolate Bon-Bon's and a couple dark chocolate covered coconut candies. PLUS they finally gave her a water pill, now on a morning schedule, for her swollen ankles....
THEN.... now get this.... She ate all that candy at once! At ONCE! And she got.... you guess it..... diahrreah! So we blamed the Lasix....! So she took 2 Immodium AD and it stopped.... THEN she told the Doctor.... He said you dumb bitch, it is NOT the Lasix! So she has to take it as prescribed.
So I told her it was PROBABLY all the damn chocolate you ate! You scarfed it all down! At once! Next time I will just bring you a box of Ex-lax since you like chocolate so much and have to eat it in one sitting !!!
That just means we both have to behave.... We learned.
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Hunkered down and watching the snow falling. Started around 9 a.m. here. They were saying that we could see anywhere from 5 to 10 inches here. One model was even showing a foot of snow!
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Amazed that there is very few cars out and about right now. Usually there is a lot of them even if its a light snow.
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good one Chevy!!
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chevy. Too funny. Glad Mr c is doing well.
Sas. Happy anniversary. What a horrible time that must have been for you but super glad you see the positive that came out of it. - all the time you it to spend with dh. Plus. Seriously. You have saved my life and no telling how many other people you have reached with the threads you started and your incredible knowledge. Love ya
Brr. Sick of this cold weather. Another day we won't get above freezing. Too muddy outside for kids to be out and about. Would be better if it was snow not sleet. I have been having more back pain then Normal. Blaming it on this cold weather and pushing things too far since dss are home. Gonna take it easy today.
Hugs too all.
Hootie hoo
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Blessings, best wishes to you and husband with his treatment.
Ms. Sas, I could not settle down last night, so after reading your post here, I read your earlier posts to try to understand where you are coming from ( I hope you don't mind).
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That was some valley you have been through in the few years span.Just want to give you a tight squeeze hug.
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Ahh, Ms. Chevy, my "morning coffee". Love the look of snow, but I am so glad I don't live with it.
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Patty, good rest. Saw your backyard...
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We had snow flurries in North Central FL!! Can you believe it?
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NOOOOOOOOOOO
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Couldn't let you gals stay out of the storm, now could we?
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It is 57 degrees here right now! And beautiful sunny weather! I see it is 47 in Orlando....
Spookie is going to go hibernate....
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