Thinking Out Loud.....

duckyb1

Joan......anyone who will listen...........LOL.............

Yea, birthday came and left.........it was great......only 2 did not make it......my grandsons came home from Chicago.....another grandson from Missouri.............

The only 2 not there was my gandson Vincent who is going to John Wales Culinary School in Rhode Island, and my grandaughter-in-law who lives in Chicago with my grandson Kevin..........she just started a new job with Big Phama, and has limited time off.......but they were there in heart.........loved it....

A great evening.........now I am looking forward to Sunday which is a baby shower fo rmy grandson's girlfriend who is expecting in July................I know, I know, but he told me yesterday he is giving her an engagement ring (she has no idea) and it is gorgeous...............he needs all the support he can get.my DIL is not happy and is making his life miserable.my son is not thrilled either, but is behind him and helping him in every way he can.neither is fond of the girl, but she is so sweet, a lovely girl, and thinks my grandson walks on water, and he feels the same way about her.

If they are left alone this will work, if the negative feelings contnue it won't..........I told him yesterday.......your a grown man.......you need to do in this life what makes you happpy.............'you have always been a wonderful son, and just tell them your giving Lindsay a ring this weekend, and you would so love it if they gave you their blessing...........cause you love her, and this was bound to happen anyway, it just happened sooner then you thought...

Hope your doing well Joan.............miss you.........hugs.

Joan811

Ducky, love your party stories...it is amazing that so many made it. 
It's so nice that your grandson knows he has your support during this time.  I hope the shower went well and that love will abound among the parents and other family members.  They will figure it out....if the parents let them.
Yup, quiet here...

duckyb1

Anyone around..................

Joan811

Hi Chris, glad you signed on. What are your kids doing for the summer?

Hi Ducky, hope all is going OK.
Quiet all around here.

duckyb1

Hi Joan.............was looking for someone to come on..................hugs, and have a nice day all.............

rumoret

Just signed on and decided to check on how this post was rolling. I posted this years ago because I felt life was like a train ride and none of us should miss the ride.

Life is going great....my grandson is now 8 1/2 years old and my granddaughter is 6 1/2. My mother who was diagnosed triple negative in 1999 at age 69 is now 85 1/2 years young.

So everybody......find that inner child....and come on board the train. THINKING OUT LOUD is what this train ride is all about!

All aboard!!!

Hugs,

Terry

duckyb1

Hi Rum..........not sure I have ever had the pleasure, but always enjoyed your thread..............

For some reason it died out for a while, and Joan I I tried to set a spark under it..........not too successful, but want you to know we're still here and kicking...........

So happy about your Mom....I am 80, and stopped my Letrozole back in Dec 2014.....I toughed it out for 4 years, and then decided enough was enough........I hope and pray I get to be as fortunate as your Mom.....

Good luck to you and her.............so glad to have finally talked to you.....hugs.

rumoret

Thanks Ducky...I hope you have continued great health and what appears to me a great sense of humor. I wrote this original post not realizing it would become a little gem. I hope others will find this little thread and just THINK OUT LOUD!

Hugs,

Terry

chrisct

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sheila888

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blondiex46

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duckyb1

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Joan811

(((TOL)))!

Somehow I missed this reunion....I sure do miss the daily posts.

Terry, nice to meet you...this thread is a great idea and has had a following of really wonderful women for awhile. Life happens and we focus elsewhere, but it is good to come back here to catch up. I am glad your mom is doing well and that your grandson is growing up. It's a great age.

Best wishes,
Joan

PS - Hi Ducky, Chris, Sandy, Sheila, and anyone else who is listening in!

duckyb1

Hi Joan........miss you girly..............was talking to Chevy about ;you the other day on the Crazy Town thread.........love the thread..............Joan you need to come over and join us.......what a great bunch of ladies.........no crap, no nasty, and we love each other..................stop by..........hugs.....

sheila888

Missed you all

Sheila

duckyb1

Hi Sheila.......Happy Thanksgiving..........hugs

Joan811

Remembering Blondie, our newest angel.
She posted here when she could....
She will be missed by all she touched.

duckyb1

Yes Joan she will.......such a lovely lady..........

sheila888

Blondie was a good person.

I felt so sad when i heard.

She never complained

RIP sweet friend

sheila888

duckyb1

It is Sheila...........so good to see you again..........hope your doing well....hugs

sheila888

Hi ducky..it's good to be connected again.

I'm doing OK...

Hugs

Joan811

Sheila, I like the image you posted.  Beautiful.
Hi Ducky......

Hard to believe she is gone from us.
I am so glad she got to go to Florida.  She always dreamed of it but never thought she could go....next thing I know, she was making the trip.  She was happy there.
She was a very special lady.

Fly freely, my friend!

chrisct

Hello ladies - long time, no post.

Was sad to see that Sandy passed.

DD is starting year #5 in college. She changed schools a couple yrs ago and some credits didn't transfer and then she couldn't get into a couple classes when she needed to...so.... she is on the extended plan.

DS is starting year #3 - doing pretty well - could do better in some classes - I hope he raises the bar for himself a little bit. He had a job over the summer working in a flooring manufacturing company - they really liked him so that is encouraging.

DD works at LLBean and they like her there as well. And one of her professors likes her too. There are 2 classes that she could take next semester that have trips. One is a tropical bio class and the other is desert bio. The tropical bio class trip is to Costa Rica so of course, everyone wants to do that trip. Her professor that teaches the desert bio class said he wants her to go on that trip and if she signs up, he will push for her to be able to go. I guess a limited number of students can go. He said she is fun and enthusiastic. I asked her in what way she shows she is enthusiastic and fun and she said she says things like, "That is so cool!" or "That is so gross, but it's so cool!" I hope her enthusiasm and personality can make up some for her less than perfect grades.

What brings me here is that I wanted to let you know that my mother died recently. She was declining, but I didn't expect her to die now. She had dementia - but I wasn't sure what kind. I suspected it might have at least started as vascular dementia - but didn't know for sure and won't know - they didn't do an autopsy. Even though I felt as though I had been losing her slowly over the years and she was pretty much gone most recently except for the occasional quip - she really couldn't say too much at a time - it is still difficult now that it is final. I have a knot in my stomach. I already had a knot in my stomach, so I suppose now I have a bigger, tighter knot.

When my father was making calls to family the day she died, I found out that in addition to the people in my family I already knew had cancer, there are even MORE people that have cancer in my family! wth?!!

My father was recently diagnosed with MDS - luckily it is a less bad form - only 1 type of blood cell is affected - he's getting weekly Procrit injections to try to raise his red blood cell count (or hemoglobin or whatever they are measuring). I don't really know what will happen with that condition.

One of his brothers has lymphoma and another brother has multiple myeloma!! I had an uncle on my mother's side that had lymphoma (he beat it and died from something else) and my mother's mother had multiple myeloma at age 81 (died a couple months after diagnosis).

With my father developing MDS and so many others with similar blood disorders, I wonder if that puts me at increased risk of developing MDS after chemo - like Robin Roberts. Yay - something else to worry about.

And in addition to all that cancer I already knew that my aunt (by marriage) has stage 4 breast cancer and her daughter, my cousin, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer (age 31) (she had neoadjuvant chemo and recent surgery showed clear nodes - so that's good) AND I found out another cousin (late 40s) has cancer (not sure of the details, but I thought I overheard my aunt say something about it being in her bone) omg

I knew that my family seemed to have a tendency to develop cancer - but an aunt and uncle had lung cancer and I don't smoke, so I thought I might dodge that bullet. A grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer around age 70, but she lived to 92 - grandfather had prostate cancer - lived to 89... Other grandmother had mult myeloma at 81 (and possibly breast cancer but the mult myeloma was what was going to kill her so they didn't focus on the bc). So I figured if I lived long enough I would probably get bc - I just didn't think I would be 42. And I thought that since my uncle beat lymphoma, I thought that even though my family might tend to develop cancer, they respond to treatment, so I might be okay. So far so good, but what is up with all the freaking cancer?!!!! Probably our poisoned environment, hormones, and antibiotics and pesticides in our food all were contributing factors.

Ugh.

So that's my life - I hope everyone here is doing well.

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duckyb1

Hi Joan...............hope your doing well...........away most of the summer........just getting back to reality.........hugs

Jojo0529

Terry -great post. It is nice to see some of you come back. I see our stats our similar. This is a scary ride.

sheila888

Hi.Jojo.It is so nice to see someone posting again. This was our sisterhood .

I don't know why everybody disapeared

duckyb1

Sheila888......so glad to see you...........hope your well..........are we all still ...THINKING OUT LOUD....

sheila888

hi ducky.....good to see you here. I hope life treating you good.

Sending hugs

duckyb1

Very good for an old broad.............LOL..........