For those starting chemo in June

mary1220

Gosh Janie, I hope this helps. It seems we all have just a little different thigs going on thanks to the chemo. Ya know it has to do harm, and good but we are alive and kicking like h#l*.Wow, you did have a lot of nodes taken out girlfriend. I am glad they are getting something that might help more going for you. P.J. Glad all is well in Texas. We are getting snow flurries today(and yesterday). Hubby is home so I can do some cooking tonight. Kids will be over Sunday for ham. We may be shoveling the Easter eggs out Sunday Morn.Now theres a song, It snowed on my Easter Eggs. Later girls, bunny Mary

janie44

OH the Easter Bunny is running late this morning....but it does not matter anyhow......because he is white on white today...........snow fell on my easter eggs....yeah yeah yeah.......they are hiding underneath the snowhill so very white.....snow fell on my easter eggs yeah yeah yeah...

NancyLee13

Janie--Is there a tune to this? I was trying to figure it with a Beatles background because of the yeah, yeah, yeah or is it Jingle Bells? I'm packing to leave for Easter with the Plentywood crowd. I'm also cleaning my living room trying to find a file folder on one of the kids. I know I brought it home and it is IN HERE somewhere. My house has become very cluttered again so it's time to weed and toss. Today is my 3 year anniversary as a BC survivor. Gosh, I remember getting that call SO clearly that it doesn't seem like 3 years, but then again we've all been through so much during this journey that it does too seem that long. My goofy co-worker/friend/caregiver just called me and told me that she has forgotten 3 phone numbers today so she thinks she's having a mild stroke. I thought she was serious for a second, but then she laughed and said Not Really. I never use the phone book when she's around because she's a walking phone book. She NEVER forgets numbers. I told her to blame it on menopause cuz that's a good excuse. Well, better get back to packing and tossing. I have my yearly complete physical "with the works" on Monday so keep some good thoughts for me in the afternoon--ok? Have a wonderful Easter everyone--I'll be back on Tuesday. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

NancyLee13

Janie, Mary & PJ--I just forwarded to all of you the cutest little rabbit thing that my sister sent me. It's your chuckle for the evening. Love to you and yours at Easter. Life is Great Smiles NancyLee

mary1220

Hey you little playboy bunnies, Oops, thats Easter bunnies. Wow you could hang a tail on me but that wouldn't make me look like a playboy bunny. Maybe the big old Easter bunny with a little bed head going on. I hope NL has a great time and all of us deserve a koodoos for 3 long years. We may be a little beat up from the ride but we are all brave troopers. I colored eggs lastnight for the grandkids and I have their baskets ready, along with a gift. I made my grandaughter's eggs polka dot because she likes them. I got hubby a Cubs skin for his cell phone. I told him it is fron the Easter Bunny, he likes it. I don't know why anyone would put themselves through such pain as to root for the poor ol Cubbys but he does. I am a Card. fan. Well I better get a shower and face the day like I mean it. I need another cup of coffee first. Have a good Sat. and a GREAT EASTER. It is 8 degrees with wind chill. The Easter Bunny will freeze his uh, ummmm, hugs Mary

janie44

Hey Little Bunnies -- Easter, Playboy, or Snow, Whichever you choose to be today!

NL - Nah, I was just being silly, picking up on Mary's idea for a song....didn't devote more than a few seconds to my composition, so there was no method to my madness, as usual.

Three years! In a way, it does not seem that long, and in another way, it seems like an eternity --- but bottomline... we are all here, alive and well and continuing this journey together, fit and fiddle and ready to go.

I was a little aggravated the other day bc of the LE etc. My daughter had given my # to a friend who was just dx'ed. She called and as I reassured her, I found myself being reassured and snapped back to my usual upbeat self. lol

Mary, love the polka dot idea. I do not have any little ones around this year, so I may just do something for the grown kids and maybe their "little dog too." and cat...can't leave him out...he would let me know about it. Wonder what a big tuxedo cat would look like in bunny ears....

Have a great weekend ladies...........

mary1220

Janie, like a tuxedo cat in bunny ears.LOL. Hey seriously, hubby is home less than 24 hours and we have 1 coat and 2 jackets on the couch. I don't remember putting hoors for coats on the couch but maybe I don't remember. I went to the bathroom and there was one square of paper left, just enough to make it look like there was paper left so "he" wouldn't have to get a new roll out of the hall closet which is so far to walk(right outside the bathroom door). O.k. he is tired so I will let it ride for today but tomorrow we start a new chapter and I call it picking up after ones self. I have a whole 9 more days left of this bliss. I have to cook. Have a good night. Mary

mary1220

Hey Janie, do something for the grown kids, I do. I make a little bag or basket with some nice goodies and a gift. Just some little something. They like it and I have fun doing it. My mom always did stuff like that for us and I really appreciated the effort. Frankly crapping out those colored eggs in the yard are kinda a drag but you get use to it. Mary

PJB

Hey, girls, hope you're having a happy Easter. We got 3.4 inches of snow yesterday! Of course, it's pretty much all gone now. All except the little snow blob Nathan made. Crazy stuff. Pretty fun.

Paula

janie44

Happy Easter,

Mary, I did do Easter up right and everyone was pleased including the tuxedo cat with his little basket of catnip mice.

Make hay while the sun shines girl. Not many unintrusive days left now! I remember back when I was first married and was disappointed when I did not see the ex's car when I pulled into the driveway.....after a while, when I DID see it, it was like "oh crap, he's home." Of course, Tooling Tim has some redeeming qualities.

PJ, Snow in Texas! Wow! The weather has been cold and windy here, but no snow. I am wondering what to wear to work tomorrow.....yuck,,,,I must return after a two week break. Of course, I contracted with someone else the first 4 days and I am still writing reports for them. There is so much waiting on me, I am already feeling overwhelmed.
Hey NL, Happy Easter in Montana!

mary1220

Hey, glad everyone is hopping with bunny love and easter eggs. I am glad ya'all had a great Easter.It was cold here but no snow today. I think it is going to start a warm up. UHHH; when I wrote hoors on the couch it should of been hooks. Now hoors could of been a miss spelling of a much worse crime and that would have been a whole new problem with much stiffer punishment for hubby. We are trying to decide where to venture off to and I really hope it is someplace kinda close. One of us will say where ya want to go? The other says I don't know and we go on with a different conservation so we still don't have a clue. Later girls. Hugs, Mary

NancyLee13

Hi--I substituted the K for the R in you note without even thinking about it. It's like those jokes you see where they put the word the in a whole bunch of time and your mind just sifts it out and doesn't even see it. Right? Snow on Easter--That's just not right. It's really COLD here. I went out this morning and took a hammer to the water trough so the sheep could drink. I was standing at the kitchen window watching them try to drink with this ice on the top and I felt sorry for them. The ice was a couple of inches thick. Anyhow, by tonight it was frozen again, but they all got drinks. There's no school tomorrow and I don't have to go to work, but I don't have the day off really because I have to drive to the clinic in Glendive for some more tests. I'm hoping that it doesn't snow again because the roads are pretty clear right now and I'm a little tired of icy and snowy roads. Hope everyone is having a super vacation--Nite all Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

mary1220

Hey Girls, NL thats cold and we have had freezing temps. but they are a warming up. We say we are leaving tomorrow. We were going to Tunica, to gamble. We were going to Gulf Shores Alabama. We were going to Savana Ga., then it was Tunica again and now it looks like Baloxi. We say we are leaving by 6 a.m. but who knows. We have to be back by Fri. afternoon. I may be here tomorrow and maybe not. Who knows. Mary

mary1220

Hubby is right, he is driving.....driving me NUTS over where we will go. I am going to Wallgreens and get some Russ. Stover maple eggs on sale mmmmm.bye, Mary

janie44

OH Mary. Love Russell Stover. Love Maple.

Now I will be thinkg about those tonight.

Still cold here. Wore my winter clothes today.

Have a good trip wherever you go, even if it is Walgreens.

Hey PJ and NL

NancyLee13

Hi right back at ya--I just brushed my teeth with my Orawave 2 and I gotta say that 2 minutes seems a very long time to have a toothbrush buzzing away in your mouth!! But my teeth sure feel good when it's over SO.....It's raining here now or I should say Snaining because as the temp drops it's starting to turn to snow. SIGH!! I have to go back to Glendive tomorrow to have a pelvic ultrasound of my ovaries because the doctor didn't like something she felt today--Oh, JOY!! My friend Cindy went with me today and she's going to actually take me tomorrow because I'm on dizzy drugs as of tonight for my back and I'm not supposed to drive. I just didn't tell them that I have to drive to town 10 miles in the morning and teach school for 2 hours and do daycare for 2 more before we leave for the appointment. That all should be very interesting. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Well, vacation's over--Have fun on your trip???, Mary. Nite all Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

mary1220

Hey Janie, I don't need the candy but boy, those are good and on sale. How can I pass that up? I will go the end of the wk. and get kisses for 75% off for the grandkids(and me). NL good luck girl. I hope it warms up all over this wk. We are talking Tunica again. I said lets stay home and build something, really thought that would spark him but no, he wants to go some where. Hope P.J. survived Easter. Goodnight ladies, Mary

janie44

NL, Hope all is well. When do you get the results?

PJ, Did you OD on PEEPS? Or maybe snow cream?

Mary, save some chocolate for me (yeah right, like I didn't get a new stash at Eckerds Sunday). Those new 100 calorie candy bars by Hershey are delicious! Small, but delicious.

Well, I must get in the shower and outta here. A zillion kids to evaluate this week.

Later girls,

Janie

PJB

Hey, girls. Mary, what is Tunica? Savannah and Biloxi I've heard of. Tunica sounds pretty exotic. Hope you're on the road to a good time and not pummelling your husband about now....

NL..... good luck at the doc today. Let us know what they find out. Only good, we hope.

Janie, what kind of evals are you doing on those kids? For learning disabilities? Emotional?

Not much up here. Calling some more contractors, getting more estimates for work on my mom's house. Looks like she'll be here at the end of the month. I'm excited. Now, anyway...

Later, girls,
Paula

NancyLee13

OK--I have been VIOLATED!!!!!!! If they EVER had told me what a pelvic ultrasound was comprised of---I probably wouldn't have gone!! OK, so that's why they DIDN'T tell me beforehand probably. So I went to WebMD tonight and looked and there are actually two ways that they can do it--from the outside like a NORMAL ultrasound or on the inside. Guess which one I got??!! It looked like a light saber from Star Wars and she hands it to ME to put in place --Yuckamundo--Here's hoping that's the last of those I ever have to have. Ok, it's over, NancyLee--it's over, NancyLee--I just keep saying that to myself and I'll get over it. I get the results "By the end of the week" and I quote. I tried to get the technician, who at this point knows me better than most people on Earth, to give me a hint as to what she was seeing, but she was just really evasive so I gave up . On a brighter note and entirely different--Chicken Pox is running rampant through the local grade schools and of course, through my daycare. We lost another 2 kids to it today alone. And it all started when this little boy went to get that stupid chicken pox shot and he got a mild case of the stuff with just maybe 20 of the little spots and the doctors said it wasn't chicken pox--that he just had a heat rash. Well, he has older siblings in school and they got chicken pox and gave it to the next kid and the next kid and I called the county health nurse last week to report our 2 cases at the daycare and she told me flat out that there were NO other cases in town and it was only at our daycare. I told her I knew of 3 kids at Lincoln school that had it and she said "No, you're misinformed. No child has it except the kids in your care." Well, I think I had the last laugh because today she was over standing at the front door of Lincoln School sending kids with Chicken Pox back home!!!!!! HEE<,HEE<,HEE!!!!!!! I just smiled sweetly at her. Every child who has CP so far has had that shot. They don't get as bad a fever and they have fewer than 500 spots, but they still GET it so I kinda wonder really if it's worth it to have your child immunized. So, I'm gonna shower and feed the wild dog--it snowed all day and is cold here so he's in the house smelling of Wet Dog--and then I'm gonna head to bed. Long, eventful day--Nite All-- Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

PJB

NL, I've had a couple of those ultrasounds and they ARE quite the eye opener. Hope your results turn out well. And hope YOU don't get visited by the chicken pox.

Hey also to Janie. I guess Mary's on the road and hopefully having fun. Or perhaps she's just sitting there steaming in the car...

Paula

janie44

Hey all,

PJ, I do comprehensive evals which means I look at everything. If a child is struggling and interventions have not worked, they refer to me for a complete evaluation. If there is a learning disability, I find the processing strengths that account for learning strengths so those can be used for novel learning, and also find the processing deficits that can be linked to academic deficits and make recommendations as for techniques that can help the student to learn in a more efficient manner. If it is emotional or something else, I make recommendations accordingly. It takes approximately 10 hours per child for testing, scoring, interpretation and write-ups, but....that is not ALL I do. Thus, why crunch time is stressful. Most referrals come in this time of year.

Hope Mary is enjoying her trip. NL hope you had the pox already and are immune.

mary1220

Hey Girls, I'm back. Tunica Ms. is a gambling town. We had fun. Stayed one night, hubby won $250.00 THIRD TIME HE FED SLOT. I won $30.00 on rulette, $50.00 on black jack and lost $10.00 on craps. This is the first time I ever played those three games. I just play slots. Yea, I am a big spender. Hubby however plays to win. We both came out ahead a little but no life changing winnings. We are not lucky people. We just went to have fun and we don't gamble much at all. It is a little over a 6 hour drive, just 15 mins. south of Memphis. It is a small town with like 12 casinos. With the weather looking bad and us not wanting to be on the road longer than staying somewhere we decided on Tunica. We can go some where else later. I have a bunch of things to do so I will be back later. Good luck to NL and gosh Janie, that sounds like a lot of work. I mean you put in a lot of time per child and dealing with so many kids in so many different learning problems that has to be so time consuming. I was a sub. teacher for handicapped kids for a while and it was really hard to deal with so many different disabilities. Some were physical and some emotionaland some were learning. I loved the kids but not the stress. I can only imagine your end of it all and the reports(which have to be so darn perfectly filled out), gosh. Later Mary

NancyLee13

Hi all, Mary, Tunica must be your version of our Deadwood, SD. People from here drive down to Deadwood to gamble. They even take charter buses down there sometimes. I've never gone to Deadwood to gamble, but have been there a couple of times as a tourist. The old west stuff and all that and they have the largest selection of Black Hills Gold jewelry that I've ever seen and I LOVE that stuff. Okay, the chicken pox breakout in Baker has made the state papers now. We had the first of our little itchers back today--He is 7 and can't go to school, but was cleared by the health nurse to go to daycare because his spots have all dried up and he feels great. He's no longer considered contagious, but the school is making him stay out til next week. His mom is a traveling CNA and his dad a heavy equipment operator and they HAD to go to work after one or the other of them staying with him since last Thursday. He had a truckload of homework to do today to catch up and I was helping him. This kid has the funniest little sense of humor. We laughed our way through math, reading and spelling. He left a few pages for tomorrow because he'll be back at daycare. I'm opening in the morning and then leaving at 7:30 for Glendive. There's a 2 day "Shaping the Future" conference up there and I'm going to stay at a motel and enjoy not driving back and forth. I got a call from my doctor's nurse this morning and they'd like to see me sometime tomorrow up at the clinic. How cryptic is that? I told them I'd probably drop by when we get our lunch break. Tomorrow is my lucky day--Friday the 13th so I plan on getting nothing but good news. Works for me!!! Well, better finish packing and take a shower and head for bed--Nite all--Be back Sunday night-- Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

PJB

Nancy, hope the doc visit goes OK. That is kind of weird to just have you drop by whenever. Enjoy those kiddoes today. Hope no one else brings chicken pox to your door!

janie44

NL, good luck with your news. Have you gone by there yet? Mary, welcome back and glad you did not go bankrupt. Hey PJ.

mary1220

Hey girls, it is warming up again. Hope NL got a good report. She should be back tonight. Hubby leaves tomorrow. I really hate to see him go. We do a lot together. I have been getting these darn hot flashes bad again and spontaneous combustion is only a degree away sometimes. Could I get them this bad in the cold weather? Oh Heck No! Well Hope you all had a great wk. end. I have a craft thing next month here in town. I am going to sell some stuff. I have been making necklaces and earings too so maybe I can sell a few things. I am taking a few of hubby's wood things too but we did this craft fair before and sold a little but money is tight in this small town so I will probably make a little more than the cost to get in it. Oh well, I will have fun eating from all the venders, like corn dogs and funnel cakes. Later girls, Mary

janie44

ummm funnel cakes!

mary1220

Hey girls, Whats up? I am alone again. My dog is depressed since hubby left. She really is....That Va. shooting is so terrible. I feel so sorry for all involved. P.J. did u get bad weather there? I think you got some to Janie. We just got rain but it got really bad in some places. Well it is beautiful today. Later girls, Mary

janie44

hi we had strong winds a couple of days but today was nice. pt wrapped my arm -- have to leave it wrapped - looks like the michelin man's arm. typing with 1 hand.