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

Nov 6, 2020 11:38PM Betrayal wrote:

Sandy: You are correct that when it comes to the "bottom" it is better to stay on top. Those additional polyps found in September are long gone but due to the pre-cancerous state of one from June (the reason for colonoscopy # 2 since they were not sure it had been removed in entirety) and the number of polyps found in both June and September (>6) entitled me to join the annual colonoscopy club. Whoopee!!!

My Dad had colon ca which was successfully surgically excised but remained on the annual colonoscopy list for the rest of his life. He was my hero for more reasons than one but the best was the year he escorted my mother to her work Christmas gala even though he had a colonoscopy the next day. She would not go unescorted so he took his jug of Golytely, asked for a margarita glass and drank it through the entire filet & lobster meal as all others enjoyed their repast. Of course, we figured everyone else thought he was a "lush" and had a few laughs about that.

Your songwriting return sounds exciting. The news should provide you with lots of catchphrases, how about "Lindsey's lament" since he can no longer toady up or "the electoral college isn't a college at all", "Supreme Court justices injustice", etc. all parodies of today's political environs and fodder for your next legal muscial.

I am being facetious and I envy you your musical abilities. I cannot carry a tune to save my life and am the resident lip syncher when it comes to even Happy Birthday. Have fun being creative and share your results with us.

Nov 7, 2020 09:16AM IllinoisLady wrote:

Another stunning day as all have been for awhile. Should be about 75 today. We do have good times -- so maybe this is Indian summer week. Sure has been nice and not too windy either. Hoping to pick up Dh later from the hospital. He has been up and walking and able to stand up striaght for the first time in almost two yrs. It was something he so wanted. I have to say he really had a sort of chimpanish look since his arms came forward with the rest of him. He said ( I know a grain of salt due to anesthia ) that they took out the three lower vertebra and smoothed them out, put spacers in and then the vertebra with cement. I don't know -- the Dr. was due to call me, but never did. It will all come out later. Also hoping for less back pain, but I don't know when your 81. If nothing was wrong with your back I'm not sure you wouldn't notice it at times.

Lots to do today and I'v e started going back to my job and always lots to do here. I will have Dh's jobs for awhile in addition to my own. Okay with me.

Sandy -- good luck on new compositions. I liked Betrayal's suggestions for parodies. Trump hasn't been good for much but he has kept the commedians in material this whole 4 yrs. and Sat Night quite lively.

Not sure how all those will play out, but oh I so look forward to being bored so to speak with government soon and not seeing a constant stream of whomever sits in high office.

Enjoy the day ladies. I hope it is pretty for all of you.

Nov 8, 2020 08:04AM IllinoisLady wrote:

I wish you humor and a twinkle in the eye.
I wish you glory and the strength to bear its burdens.
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey.
I wish you peace--in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner
of the heart where truth is kept.
I wish you faith--to help define your living and your life.
More I cannot wish you--except perhaps love--to make all the rest worthwhile. -Robert A. Ward

Nov 8, 2020 09:43PM Wren44 wrote:

I heard someone say to just put the TV in your bathroom along with a good book and plan to just sit. I was thinking his plan was pretty risky too.

Nov 9, 2020 07:33AM petite1 wrote:

Good morning, ladies. I haven't been on for a few days. It took a while to catch up. Down here in Florida it has been wind and clouds for several days. It looks like it will stay that way until Eta finally cuts across the state and pops out the other side. I think we will be in the center about Saturday, subject to change. It will be a long gloomy week.

Nov 9, 2020 08:46AM IllinoisLady wrote:

Don't expect perfection and things to go the way you want them to when it comes to people, business, your prospects, and your social life. When things don't go according to your desires, when the weather of life is foul, be creative and consider what may be the higher reasons why this is happening and why you must adjust. Perhaps it's to gain forbearance, patience, inner strength, flexibility, or the ability to withhold criticism while serving as a loving model.

Michael Goddart

Nov 9, 2020 02:39PM MCBaker wrote:

Tippy had some kind of white organic thing clinging to the hair under his eye. I got most of it off. He was due for a bath, so I pulled at it without him complaining and it came off.

He slept most of the day yesterday. For the previous week he has been extraordinarily barky and out of sorts. It had nothing to do with mama's emotional status. I refuse to swear to that, however.

Nov 9, 2020 04:04PM IllinoisLady wrote:

We have cable tv. here ( took yrs. to get it here in the woods ) and we each have a bedroom tv as well as a big one in the living room. Most of the time tv tends to cause me to nod off -- so I have no issue with one in my bedroom. I always make sure to set the timer because I seldom make it thru a whole half hr. segment of anything.

Warm nice day here though a tiny bit windy. It is just making more of the leaves detach from the trees. Sigh. We may have to leave them for Spring. I could do what is close to the house -- just don't know when I'd have time. Oh well.

Nov 9, 2020 07:58PM CindyNY wrote:

We've hit 70's for the past 5 days, oh so nice! We've cleaned up more in the yard, taken walks in the woods, taking full advantage of it. Temps drop fast as the sun sets, and the heat kicks on overnight, but worth it. I wish we had more of it, but by Wednesday they're calling for rain and we'll be back into the 50's for our highs.

We have cable tv in the living room, a Roku stick in the MB, and use an antena for a small tv when the screen house is up - now moved it into the front porch. When summer hits we like to eat dinner in the screen house with the news on. The computers can stream whatever we want really but I think the biggest laptop is 17", but that's ok if we're on the road.

Hope you all have a great night.

Nov 10, 2020 09:33AM IllinoisLady wrote:

If You Want To Be TRUSTED, Be HONEST.
If You Want To Be HONEST , Be TRUE.
If You Want To Be TRUE , BE YOURSelf….

Anonymous

Nov 10, 2020 12:34PM Betrayal wrote:

Lately I have just been overwhelmed by house reconstruction issues (just had 1 year anniversary of original damage) limping so slowly towards completion, medical issues between dodgy knee and tinnitus/hearing issues and then to put the cherry on the top of all this dreck, my DSIL informs me today that she, my DB, and two of their DD have tested positive for Covid. They live in NJ where the numbers have increased dramatically in the past week. My DSIL says her symptoms are mild but my DB has underlying lung issues related to psoriatic arthritis, so I am devastated by this news. So far he is feeling okay, but it is early in the game.

Sorry to be such a debbie downer but I just have no coping mechanisms left at this point. It is just too much to bear and there is just no escaping my stressors. Please say a prayer for my brother and his family.

Nov 10, 2020 01:35PM - edited Nov 10, 2020 02:27PM by MCBaker

Agreed and ongoing.

I had my liver ultrasound this morning. She also inspected some other organs. I woke up way early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. The doctor and I will talk on zoom tomorrow. I was afraid I would have trouble understanding him with just a phone call. I have had a couple of incidents recently where I read what I wanted to read. Much easier to hear what I want to hear.

Nov 10, 2020 02:48PM IllinoisLady wrote:

Betrayal, count me in with all the others. Sometimes it just seems so un-relenting when you want to see a rainbow. We will be here for you always.

Nov 10, 2020 08:27PM ChiSandy wrote:

Betrayal, this pandemic really does feel like being stalked but you don't know on which roof the sniper is standing. Our city's health commissioner suggested that the way to deal with this is to assume you're infected--and mask up, social-distance, handwash, and stay home either alone or with those who've been part of your household as much as you can. And today the CDC acknowledged that masks work both ways--protecting others and the wearer.

Went to get a cut and color touch-up Sat., but the stylist used a product he'd been unable to get since 2018, which he preferred because it covered grays so well--but the new formulation had a much heavier dye load, and turned my hair a dull light warm brown. It made my skin look dull, was one-dimensional, and (a concern if the state shuts down salons again) my more salt-than-pepper gray roots would be too noticeable until (hopefully) things reopen in spring. Went back today, and by using "stripping" shampoos and a dye-pigment remover he was able to get me to about as light as before, w/o having to re-bleach. But it was too reddish, so he applied an ash toner. I'm still not champagne blonde again, but definitely in light-to-medium blonde territory. I can live with that--don't want to have to go out more often than I have to (I have two other appts. this week), and don't want to get bleached (which definitely roughens the hair shaft's cuticle and weakens the hair itself). I don't want to lose any more hair than aging has accomplished.

But I do have something to celebrate tonight. I hit it off really well with my new PCP yesterday. She asked the radiologist who read my followup chest CT about the incidental finding about plaque, and it turns out he'd left out the word "consistent;" so the sentence about calcified coronary plaque should have read "...consistent with age and gender." And this morning I got my lipid panel results back: total cholesterol is 211, but every component falls within the "desirable" range--the 211 is due to my HDL being 105! (Definitely freak-of-nature territory). My CVD risk has been calculated as "0.5 of average." Yup--half of the average woman my age. So my heart likely won't kill me (unless someone puts a bullet or knife into it). She also disagrees with my husband (and agrees with my late PCP), saying I should not restart aspirin therapy. The statin is more valuable for primary prevention in women who've never had a CV "event;" and the aspirin is likelier (albeit rare) to cause a hemorrhagic stroke than prevent an ischemic one.

Nov 10, 2020 08:53PM karen1956 wrote:

Betrayal - sending you hugs. Your plate is over flowing.