STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER

ElderBerry - I, too, am fed up with people who refuse to get Covid vaccine because they made up some hair-brained excuse. That's not politics, it's drinking the Jim Jones Kool-Aid cult syndrome. And it is ruining our economy, our health care professionals and the few months many of us have left. They don't trust science/medical professionals until they are sick, then they run to the hospital and take all treatments offered, just like they understand how the treatments were discovered, tested and produced. I have no patience left.

Elderberry, just got into with an old friend on FB. Everything is fake this, fake that. Apparently there is no covid crisis. Just the US gov't and other countries spending $ on a useless vaccine. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! His wife has a horse farm and uses a parasite drug on them that stops/prevents covid. I looked at the studies (yes they are there) and they don't show much use full use. As far as the vaccine goes , this is what we have at present . We can only hope that better vaccines are being worked on. I'm pissed off right now.

KIDI - Where do they live? Do they look at their local news? It's not hard to find out some areas are getting overwhelmed by COVID.

https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/07/29/surge-covid-19-cases-arkansas-leads-shortage-icu-beds/

If they're on another planet, then they probably won't catch it. On this planet the unmasked unvaccinated are in trouble.

I have stopped taking my cancer meds to heal from a rare skin reaction resulting from the combo of getting the vaccine during my Ibrance cycle while I already had a rash. I just had the second dose, but I won't restart Ibrance for several more weeks while the vaccine does its thing building up the antibodies. I'm risking cancer regrowing to do this. My MO wouldn't allow this except the risks involved with the Delta variant are significant.

I've even given up bread/wheat for this so I'm really steamed that the virus continues to spread.

Very sorry to hear about Jaycee49. Sigh

SerenityStat, thank you for that link. That's a thread that I don't read - I view it as private place and I don't want to eavesdrop.

Waves2Stars, about your diagnosis, you only have to tell those who you want to tell, and you can do it on your own timeline. There is no obligation to let everyone know what is going on with you, and you have every right to not say anything until you are ready and until you have more information. Obviously immediate family and close friends and possibly some work colleagues - those you see regularly and those who will step in to help or will be affected by the changes in your schedule - will need to know, but no one else needs to know. Some people prefer to let everyone know; others tell very few people and only on a need-to-know basis.

SerenityStat, no problem. I did read Jaycee's post in the link you provided. But it was because she'd only been posting in that thread and the Brain Mets thread (another I won't read because I don't want to intrude) for the past couple of months that I didn't realize she had reached the end stage of her life. I knew it was close but didn't realize it was here.

She will be missed on this board!

So sorry to hear about Jaycee. In addition to her thoughtful perspectives and knowledge it seemed like she entered each battle with the determination to win. It is a beast. One day we will have better detection and treatment that works the first time and not be a trail of failing treatments.

RIP, Jaycee. She was fierce until the end. I always appreciated her passion and her beliefs. She will be missed.

Waves2Stars depending on your treatment you may not lose your hair. My husband knew right off and until I knew the plan then we told our kids who were already grown and our parents who were alive at the time. Best wishes for speedy recovery too!

Hurray for the toilet Ctmbsikia!!

Trishyla: this doesn't belong on "Steam Room" but I want to respond to your comment on crows. I recommend any book written by corvid researcher John Marzloff, particularly "Gifts of the Crows : How Perception, Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds To Behave Like Humans "

I live right under the flight path of crows returning to their main roost at Still Creek in Burnaby. It used to turn the sky nearly black with birds but since much of their roost has been paved over by Costco, a Nissan dealership etc the commute is more in the hundreds, not thousands. I wonder where they have set up the new roosts. Crows have regional dialects and even within a region, the clans will have have different calls. Even mates will use calls meant only for the mate.

A fun, light read is "Raven Master" but Christopher Skaife (Yeoman of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London) At the time of the writing he was in charge of looking after the Tower's famous ravens and actually lived in housing that is part of the Tower.

Caw. Caw.

LizabethM, I am sorry that you have lost a friend. It's possible, and painful, to be furious and sorrowful at the same time. You have reason to be both. Steam and Weep. Hugs.

Lizabeth how sad to hear and I am sorry you lost your friend. I know when I was diagnosed I urged everyone to get their tests and my SIL still will not get one because she thinks it "hurts". Cancer hurts. Still can't convince her even though she knows all I've been though.

ctmbiska I almost never wear a bra any more. Ended up with MX even on one side. Decided too uncomfortable. With COVID hardly get dressed even most days since not going anywhere any more and only put on clean pajamas after I shower.

LizabethM: I am sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. I am sorry she chose to have naturopathy as the only treatment, not as an adjunct to traditional Western medicine.

Hugs