I'm bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

Marple

I would like to apologize for my "creepy" comment.  I did not intend to offend anyone and feel I may have.

wishiwere

Sharon, you are fine.  It can be creepy sometimes to feel someone is monitoring our threads, but not posting then all of a sudden attempts to cause problems and chimes in. 

We still love ya! Nicki often brought a chuckle to our group and it's too bad she can't join us.  We all need someone in our lives who can make us laugh, or roll on the floor with laughter, and Nicki could do that with one pic so easily!  I have NO idea where she got them, but always enjoyed it!

Marple

Yep, we can all use more laughter that's for sure.  Thanks wish.

Anonymous

I PM'd you, Wish...

wishiwere

  I didn't get it Feliciia?  Are you sure you mailed it out?

badboob67

alright, dangit..........WTF is going on here?

Anonymous

I'm with you, Diane.  Heck, I don't login for 12 hours and I don't even know what I missed!!!!

You know, we are fighting bc, no energy should be wasted on fighting each other.  Right????

Hope I didn't just 'step into it'.  This SUCKS!

Bethie

wishiwere

Okay then...back to theIOS's and SOI's at hand, right? 

IOS...still no path back on kitty but I did have to take her back this morning before work.  they're only open till noon, so as she lay sleeping peacefully, I passed by, threw a towel over and quickly tried to get into her box for transport.  I have to say that even with the towel around her, she still managed a fight at the box!  UGH Hated to do it, but I had to find out If the incision was infected, starting oozing light pink fluid last night.  Much as her name implies (Lucy is short for Lucifer and yes, b/c she can be the devil cat, cat from H*ll-o and many other names)  anyway.....she is perfect at the vets, just not at home.  So we get there, and I walk in to a lobby with 5dogs waiting their turn, and one in the exam room, literally howling like banshee!  Thought he was hurt, although the techs all said it was only a protest and he wasn't.  meanwhile, Lucy had made herself nearly invisible within th box, by hiding underneath.  i think her hope was, we'd treat the white towel and not her   Poor girl.  It not infected, but antibiotics are to be given 2X a day....I should tell you this cat has been described by those in my family as one of those down under creatures whose name eludes me.  So...we are back home and vet says we should definitely have the results by Monday.  I hope :9

SOI!  Only a 1/2 day of work and neither the hips/thighs or back are spasming tonight!  Yeah!!!!!!!!

Is tonight your night TRACI? Hope you are enjoying it enough for all of us!

LuAnn?  Any news on your boy or his own?

Marple

Good luck with Lucy Wish.  I love the name Lucy........

Anonymous

No worries, Ann. One of the features I love most here is the "Ignore this poster" button. Sorry I missed whatever was said, but ignoring certain posters makes life much, much easier...

Luann, I wish I had some FF miles to give you, but I used them all recently to help a friend fly from the west coast. Can't immediate family use the military HOPs to fly? 

Traci - I genuinely hope you are, ummm....TOO BUSY to post!

wishiwere

thanks Sharon...she is a sweet lucy most times..just a wild woman at the other times!

Felicia? II still  did not get your pm .

I did get Nicki's email if anyone wants it, pm me, K?

Marple

Wish, her feistiness may keep her going.

flyrzfan

careful wish...you might get ganged up on just for offerring....I'm high fiving Felicia...CGASL what anyone else says...Nikki is a warm, funny caring member of our family and we miss her posts!! Nikki, you need to just make a ghost account and not sign it...we'll know it's you! I can't believe her post was deleted...

Anyway...no max - not native to DC, how'd you know?   :P

Traci...GOD I HOPE YOU ARE BUSY TOO...I was making a little tune up for you to the likes of "cocacobana" but I'm afraid it'll get deleted if I post it here. Suffice to say, you are a having a good time!

wish - still keeping Lucy on the prayer list. Thanks for giving us an update!

Felicia - I know what you mean about the ignore button...it's just SWEEET.

Alright...all this sex talk has me determined to get my "mojo back" as they say so I'm outta here for tonight!

say with me now....GO EAGLES!!!!!!!! (sorry Felicia, I love you dear...but all's fair in love and football).

Anonymous

Bonnie, my son's meet and even church was cancelled for tomorrow due to the foot of snow we're getting. But that means I'll be home to watch the game! Hope the birds brought their snow shoes! 

saint

Hugs all! ......I have wanted to post this for a long time.....

When I first started posting & chatting on the internet I learned immediately that the virtual world is just like the real one: peopled by all kinds. I will never cease to be amazed by ppl who never grow up! I guess the fact that some ppl have NO life or lack of control over their world might explain why they have to exercise whatever little powers they can find--even if it's only on a silly internet site........

There are things sadder than bc; like ppl who don't have any honor; lie to everyone (including themselves) about everything including who they really are; can't connect with others & are unhappy in every aspect of their being. I have met them in the real & the cyber world.  I truly feel sorry for them. I pray that they find  enlightenment & peace; that the rest of us be given patience & compassion in the face of it all.......

Be well & stay strong 

wishiwere

Well said and AMEN to it!  thanks Saint!

I should mentiion for those who keep bringing up the SEX talk!   My dd bought me a rubber for christmas!   A rubber keyboard that is.  Weird thing.  It rolls up to a 4inch circle when not in use.  The kitty can no longer disconnect me from the wide--web, no can my spilled or spillled or splashed drinks!   Yeah....but..it's hard to type on...so not sure if I'll continue with it.  The idea was fine,  the factors...not so conducive to typing...dh hates it, as he can't tell I'm busy typing any more from his chair and interrupts

hollyann

Wish, your cat is like me.......Sweet most of the time and wild the rest of it  AND her name is Lucy!  Special prayers for your little kitty Lucy......Hope all goes well with her........And for those who picked on Nikki...SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!.........Hugs love and prayers to all my bc sisters and brothers.....Lucy 

PSK07

WTH is going on?  I assume that 'clara' was/is nikki?  Hey - get your butt back here!  All I can say to people out in the virtual world is "lose the hate". That's becoming my new mantra. There's all kinds of stuff out there and all kinds of people and I find it far easier to ignore than react.  Felicia - I read your posting on the comments discussion and I totally agree.  I have to say that I haven't been here long enough to understand everything that's going on, so if it isn't intuitively obvious to the casual observer, it isn't worth the effort.  Ugh.

Diane - What great news. There's a special place in heaven for the person who pulled the strings that got you in with Legal Aid and with the LA person in finding a way for you.  My SIL went through the worker retraining thing after a big layoff - her suggestion is to push, push, push. There were a lot of people applying and the ones that got in were the ones that didn't take no for an answer. No shrinking violets allowed!

SOI - I went to a retirement party last night. A co-worker retiring after 42 years. THe nicest, sweetest lady you could ever know. Well, her family was there - 3 daughters, son-in-law, SO, grandkids - and one of her daughters pulls up this laptop and says that there is a special message from Barb's son-in-law who's serving in the Army Nat'l Guard in Iraq. Special video call. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. LuAnn - I immediately thought of your son & hope and pray that he is packing his bags and will be on your doorstep toute suite!

This morning a friend and I started a marathon - ok, half-marathon - training program. We did our first 2 mile pacing run, and then we have weekly training sessions (with homework!) til June 29 when we run the big one. You know, you can do weights twice a week, go on the elliptical 3 days, walk to the gym, but one stinking short run CAN KNOCK YOU OFF YOUR LEGS. Man, they are tight and sore.  But, we weren't the last ones in. 

Wish - hope Lucy is ok.

Sex is a four-letter word around here.

Red wine awaits. xxoo 

Anonymous

Don't post much but read lots.

What was done to nicki is a common occurrence.

A group of women who were permanently banned from BCo have decided that they need to get revenge on the women they think "did them wrong"

One of them posted a cryptic message here earlier crying innocence.

It is all because they believe they were unjustly banned. They weren't. They posted horrible and hateful posts to the women here and even to the moderators. One of them claims she was has had the worst cancer experience than any other woman on earth, she never did chemo, but still, no one suffers like she does.

She has several names here. Posts all over. She has a beef with Nicki so she uses her names and her other evil friends to "report" all of Nicki's posts.

It is so freaking childish. 

Nicki needs to be here. All she does is give to people. She is a kind person who helps others.

But this little lonely clique spends their days watching everything she does and tries their best to hurt a good member here.

I am writing to the moderators to ask them to give Nicki full posting rights again because she is MISSED! 

Pam 

Jane_M

I'm pretty new here, too, but I liked Nikki.  She never posted anything offensive to me.  Even when I have been offended by someone's post, I just ignore it.  Life is REALLY too short to p!ss it away with stuff like that.

I know a lot of you are farther along in treatment than I am, so maybe you can help me.  I've been dealing with awful pain from my last Taxol treatment for the past 3 days.  I only have 1 more dose dense Taxol to go before I start radiation.  Will the pain stop once I get to radiation?  All I want is one day when nothing hurts, oozes, or falls out.  I'm beginning to feel like a wimp.  I don't want to complain because who wants to hear it?  This does end eventually, doesn't it?  

saint

Welcome & hugs Jane--that sux! You are in the place to vent or complain----let it out!  We're here to listen & not judge-----ppl here will try to help whenever they can. Sometimes we just need to let it out & this is where to do it! You have good reason to complain!

In answer to your question--I have not done Taxol--but I have done 5 other chemos & if your pain is due to the chemo it WILL stop when the chemo is out of your system. Meanwhile drink LOTS of water during tx--it dilutes & flushes your system & will help lessen se's! 

Be well & stay strong

otter

Well, my IOS is obvious.  That "disease" that has been smoldering for so long over in some of the other threads of these boards has finally infected this thread.

I guess it's true--I feel sheltered when I'm on these boards, but it's really no different from being in a large city.  Nice people, nasty people, Good Samaritans, thieves... 

Hugs to all, especially Nick. 

otter 

saint

HUGS otter----IT SUX!

PSK07

Group hug! (((()))))))

Not going to happen!  Nastiness free zone! 

Now, if I could just figure out a way to keep my co-worker from chewing so damn loudly.  That can't be put on 'ignore'!  And my husband and the Cheerios....

Anonymous

Jane, when I was doing Taxol during my original dx....it was the first time I had to call onc on the weekend.  The pain from taxol was awful.  I promise it will go away.  Just one more tx??? WTG!!!  Ask onc for something stronger for the pain.  At first he told me to take advil...that didn't even touch it.  You will be done with it before you know it, Jane.  It still sucks. 

Big hugs,

Bethie

Anonymous

Pam, Otter, Saint, I agree.......group ((((HUGS))) all around........let's keep it that way.

We're waiting for you Nikki

Wish, glad to hear Lucy is feeling better!

Diane, great news! Praying it all works out!

Traci????........getting it on??????

Jane, that really suks.....hang in there!

Marple

Pam, chewing noises, your post made me chuckle.  My dh is a wonderful man BUT the noises he makes while eating just about drive me batty.  And now his jaw clicks which adds to the medley of sounds.  As for your co-worker, get some Double Bubble gum and start snapping.  Maybe she'll get the hint.

Anonymous

Thanks ya all.  I just want you to know that I'm doing really well.  I read here everyday and think about you as I'm driving about.  You all are very special and remain in my heart everyday. 

Just like the picture, if life sends you and SOI today, just slap it away.

Love ya. 

kmccraw423

Clarasgirls - I lol at your picture.  I am going to keep that in my head when someone does or says something stupid.

I'm not exactly sure what happened to Nikki but banning women with breast cancer from this website is cruel - it is beyond cruel.  We are sisters.  For those of you who are banning one of us please act like it.

Wishiwere - so glad Lucy is doing better.  Anxious to hear path report on Monday.  I had a cat like that - I told my vet if he ever needed medicine, he was going to die because I was putting my hands anywhere near his mouth.

Love to all.

wishiwere

Well, BIG THAT SUX To those who needed it.  Clarasgirl...howdy doody!

Last night the Lucy goose started hacking up some weird stuff.  Looked like black stuff among some greenish-yellow bile.  This morning it's foamy....Not sure what that is,butI'm thinking it's an allergy maybe to the antibiotic?  I'm just not able to give her to by myself..she has 8 sharp feet it seems coming from all directions when I try to scruff her and force this stuff down   I think we need to rename her after this session to Medusa...wasn't she the mythical with 8 snakes around her head or 8 arms, or some such thing?  Simply beyond my abilities to get this stuff down here.