INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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Week has been going okay here but pretty busy. Sunday hubby and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. Monday his cast came off and he was given a removable brace to wear. Yesterday, he started PT for the wrist. On top of this I froze 10 pounds of strawberries.
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Sensitive- I had the oncotype score done with my surgery in 2012. That is usually a one time deal though, not sure why it was retested unless the lab notified of an issue after the fact? I do know they keep tumors in a bank for 10 years in case they need to go back and do more tests on them. My MO told me that last visit.
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Shepkitty, I do mow with a riding mower. When I took over the mowing chore from my DH I asked for a bigger mower and he got me one. He thought he'd come out ahead that way. Besides I love to mow, I guess that's because most of my days I spend "running" around in circles, with mowing I can clear my head and "ride"around in circles. It's much safer that way. My big mower (Brute) is in the shop, so I used my smaller one (Lil Red) and it has one of the belt guards missing. Soooo, I spent way to much time putting the belt back on so I could keep mowing. Once Brute is home Lil Red goes in the shop!
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M0mmy has TEN pounds of Strawberries!!!!!! Ladies, we must immediately embark on a road-trip!
I make an AWETASTIC strawberry pina colada..... There was a Polynesian restaurant/bar my friends and I frequented. I devoted many, many hours of my youth studying just exactly how the bartender prepared this exquisite beverage. Who knows how many hundreds of dollars were spent, trying to dissect the ingredients. Took me twenty years to figure it out. I asked the bartender!
Strawberry fruit dip, strawberry cheesecake, strawberry shortcake.................yum!
Wenchie ~ you're so cool! So full of surprises, you talented gal
It's so quiet in here...............
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Working.
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Ha Lover- We'll get along great
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Has anyone heard from Patty? I don't "know" her but do keep her in my nightly prayers. She is such an inspiration with her sweet personality and warm heart. Hoping all is well with her and that she is just taking a break from the boards........
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Look I leave you girls to your own devices and come back a few hours later to find you embroiled in all kinds of mischief.
Shep - the 2 newest pics of Cairns are too fabulous.
Had O.T. & P.T. today. Hip is SORE! and I'm really struggling with fatigue, and S.O.B. from the fatigue.
Wenchie - Yeah for you! Riding your big zoom zoom mower. Sounds like fun.
Loverly, Sensi & Smaarty - Have a great time at lunch tomorrow. Wish I could join.
Although Sacramento is only a 6 hour drive from here. Maybe someday in the future.
Hey there Feline. How are you doing?
Sas - What are you up to?
MOMMY - So what's the plan for the strawberries? Shortcake, Jam, Beverages?
Check back later.
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i know you all aren't talking to me about the strawberries, but I put in a bid for simply eating them, frozen, like candy. I discovered, last year, that my husband LOVES LOVES LOVES home-frozen strawberries.
Not the store bought frozen ones, not even the incredibly high end ones from Le Snoot stores in Chicago. The 'factory seconds' eat 'em now once I get from the local farm stands, and freeze right away.
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We went to a music festival in Kerrville Tx, which is peach growing country. The farm stands freeze the peaches that will be too ripe to sell the next day. At the fair, they sold frozen peaches topped with whipped cream. The weather was in the mid 90's and nothing could have tasted better than those frozen peaches.
A chef from Seattle went to Paris with her daughter, who was modeling. She said she bought 2 peaches from a fruit store. They wanted to know if they were for tonight or in the morning. Now that's getting perfectly ripe fruit!
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- we were away a few days and just got back, one of the places we visited was the the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, here is a selfie of me. This is a world class museum for dinosaurs enthusiast
0 - we were away a few days and just got back, one of the places we visited was the the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, here is a selfie of me. This is a world class museum for dinosaurs enthusiast
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Shep we had one of these slither in front of us when we were on a coal mine tour, I thought at first it was a rattlesnake, but was told by our tour guide it was a bull snake. It was over 4ft. This isn't the actual snake.
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picture of hoodoos
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Junie good to see you are at SNF and getting the care you need. It is also nice your sister made contact with you.
I hope the ladies have an enjoyable lunch, as well as a good time tomorrow.
I did have one ripe strawberry from my garden today and would like to have a yard large enough to ride on a mower like wrenchie.
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The plan for the strawberries is to use them for topping ice cream, milkshakes or whatever when the mood strikes.
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Hi, Been here a bit of time this morning. My favs were lit up like a Christmas tree. Most were my housekeeping threads. Here now.
Junie so happy, you are at the SNF. Please, do everyone a favor that goes through that hospital, write a letter to the Director of Social Services. Copy it to the CEO and Nursing VP. Identify all the confusion and resolution. You have a way with words. In general, nursing is partly to blame for the confusion too. Had nursing and the SW had a conference you would have had no confusion, b/c the nurse would have said "Wait a minute have you considered this etc.". It may have well played out that way, but it should NOT have been last minute.
Do you remember my suggestions about asking for orders etc. way back when. If you find that post again, you will see that it follows in the sense of trying to avoid exactly what happened.
On a surgical floor, this should not have been missed. It's what they do everyday. Hips and knees are rare not to go to a SNF when co-morbities are at play. Especially if the patient lives alone. Good Luck
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On the bacteria thing. I did a thread last summer. https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/73/topics/832722?page=1
The thread was on a weight hypothesis, but primarily I got into reading about the Microbiome. The bugs that live on us and in us.
The study took off around 2000. It's exploding with research.in the last ten years. What science thought they knew about bacteria, fungus, mycobacteriums is setting the science world upside down. It's as if they are identifying a whole knew area of study. NIH has just completed a whole knew building and division within NIH
Yes, we have bacteria within our tissues. This was a major discovery.
In regard to BC a bacteria called S.yanoukiae was discovered in breast tissue. The fascinating thing is--------in the vicinity of the tumor S.yanoukiae was depleted. In tissues further away from the tumor was found to be in usual numbers. The hypothesis is that perhaps S.yanoukiae is protective against tumor cells and was eventually killed off by something from the tumor. Research is ongoing.
Many studies in the last 6 years of different parts of the Biome.
Junie, it was a good deduction to not treat, but you must be vigilant. Your eyes are the common denominator. Every time they change your dressing you look at the incision and the area. Incision should be without redness. Each day evidence of swelling will be decreased. There should be only minimal drainage after surgery. Shouldn't be any from about the 3rd day on. The area should not be warmer than the other skin. Temp shouldn't be elevated. Low grade temps should be handled by increasing fluids(dehydration), Cough/ deep breathing/ Insentive Sprirometer( lungs not expanding well). Urinating without frequency, burning, or pain. PLUS, the site being watched. Any spike over 100 should be investigated.
Off on a mission
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Smaarty, Sensi & Loverly ~ Have fun
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Thank you, ShepK. Will be thinking about you ladies. Wishing you all could join us.
JunieB, I was looking at the map for the distance between Salem and Sac. Doable, but I need a buddy to keep me company. Maybe I will run away temporarily one of these days.
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Don't forget to save room for dessert!
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Wren and Queenie ~ Fresh frozen strawberries and peaches sound divine! I've had great success with my blueberries but none with strawberries or peaches. Too many sneaky wild critters!
This is my secret cheesecake dip recipe........shhhh! So yummy with any fruit. For parties, I buy the little shot glass size of Solo cups and fill 'em up with dip topped with fruit. Easy to serve and thwarts those nasty double dippers!
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Shepkitty: (moans in faux anguish) The puns, they burn! But that cheesecake dip looks intriguing--easy.
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Went to the movies for a matinee price. Saw the movie Warcraft! Loved it! Had one of my favorite actors who also is in History Channel's show "Vikings"
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Lookingforward- where is that paleo musuem?
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Jazzy the museum is in Drumheller, Alberta. The area has one of the largest dinosaur deposits in the world. Many of the dinosaurs that are on display are from a number of your states
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Thank you so much Sas for all of your help this morning! I'm so blessed to have wonderful caring members of this community such as you! I still haven't looked over my medical records, maybe that means I don't want to know??? My brain is swimming from all of the wonderful information and websites you shared/recommended.
It's cooler out now than it has been in weeks! I think I'm going to pour me a glass of wine and find my rocking chair on the deck and let all this knowledge sink in. I'll get back to learning in the morning. It's amazing how decluttered my mind is with all the ammo I have to get what I need taken care of before surgery next month! Thank you again Sas!
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Wenchie, Hugs, it's a good thing
Sensi, Loverly, Smarrty-----------Jealous, so wish I was there.
Mommy, which star?
I spent the whole day working on Beta blockers and a number of other things. On one of the most exciting sources I found out it was bogus. Haven't run into that before so it was a big time lesson. But I did get a swim in and a dinner out. So, overall good.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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we had a nice lunch. Maybe we should try to get CA girls together and anybody else close enough. But it's going to be in the hundred next week, so we should wait until fall.
Sensi, Smaarty, and Lover.
Ps. Tinker didn't have stones, so $300 bucks later waiting for test results tomorrow. He's ignoring me now.
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