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

VSB2015

To anyone living in US, I just ordered a wig and it seems Medicare does not cover or even contribute to the cost of a wig. Is this true?

carolehalston

Just made a quick trip to the Piggly Wiggly to buy apple sauce, apple juice, bread, bananas, sports drink. Food recommended for after-stomach- virus nutrition. I just got over the virus I picked up from my mother and other elderly patients at the nursing home. DH came down with it last night and is resting in bed. I just did some research about the virus and learned that it's normal that my stomach still isn't comfortable dealing with food.

I'm normally a politics junkie but this Presidential election has me watching H&G instead of MSNBC and CNN. It's all too much coverage. I'm so tired of all the candidates, even the one I half-way support, that I hate the thought of seeing any one of them for four more years! I've talked to a lot of people who wish we had a None of the Above selection when we vote in Nov.

IllinoisLady

Carole,

I've always heard ( when the stomach is queasy ) to use the white food diet -- potatoes, eggs, bananas, white toast, as it is supposed to be very easily digestible foods.

Assuming the H and G is maybe House & Garden. Here it is called HGTV -- so not sure. We watch that a lot here too. As I'm something of a political junkie too, while I can't say I'm thrilled about a lot of what is going on in politics this yr. I'm far from blacking it out. Still I will attest to extreme annoyance this yr. for sure since it has been upended with the you're fired guy -- really sick of him.

Jackie

Wren44

Our TV station had a clip of Christie's wife reacting to his woman card remark. Nice eye roll and trying not to laugh.

bonnets

Beautiful day after rain yesterday, which we really need. There is a brush fire on the ridge not far from here that has so far burned 2,000 acres!

Went to go to my senior players group rehearsal and the darned car was deader than a doornail. Put a new battery in this winter when ity was dead and below zero, it's not that, these fancy keyless cars. The start light doesn't go off and the motor is making a high humm. Spent the last hour with Mitsubisi getting a tow arranged .Waiting for them `now.

Tomorrow go to my surgeon to discuss My Gallbladder sono and possible surgery. If I do the surgery will be Tuesday. Hopefully laparascopic . That will give me almost 4 weeks before we are supposed to leave for a cruise on Chesapeak Bay. Hopefully that won't be a problem. Any one had that surgery?

Got 2 funerals this weekend, DH cousins wife Friday and friend from church on Saturday. Growing old is such fun!

Chi, My hubby is stubborn too, the usual reply when I suggest new clothes is "I don't need it!" I tell him he doesn't have to need it, can get something he just likes. No! rather wear the same ole , same ole, T shirts or flannel shirts. Actually convinced him to get a second pair of sneakers the other day!

IllinoisLady

Eye role - roll

Jackie

ChiSandy

Bonnets, I was going out to dinner four days after my lap-choly, and driving within a week. You'll likely even go home the same day if you are early on the schedule

carolehalston

HGTV--that's the channel, Jackie. Yesterday I watched Fixer Uppers. It's amazing what a person with some design and decorating skill can do with a small dated house. It makes me want to bring somebody in to redo my house!

We're having a lovely rain. A perfect kind of day for dh to rest and recuperate.

Bonnets, good luck with the surgery. Very irritating, your car not starting. I love the keyless function. Occasionally I climb into my Prius, press the button and realize I forgot to drop the key into my handbag.

IllinoisLady

Carole, I am always amazed at how creative most of the people are on HGTV. Dh and I watch a lot of that program. Of course, I know what you don't 'view' behind the scenes as it is all happening ( mistakes and all ) make it all look un-complicated and they do such great transformations. Of course, within that is often the moving of a doorway or putting a whole kitchen where it has never been --- but I almost never watch one of those programs without wishing for a huge lottery win so I could find a designer and crew to come put my house back together. A few things were 'dated' when we bought the house, but not badly. We have been here nearly 14 yrs. now and those previous plus several more are not quite dated and stale. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I don't have a keyless car, but I do have one where the key is a funny straight piece of metal with a couple of cut out areas. It fits in the fob/handle and you push a button to make the key come out or go back in. A couple of times, once when the key was in the ignition still and once when Dh was sitting inside, I got out, shut the door and all the doors locked on me. Not a cool thing to have happen with the keys still in the car. Going to have to go down to the dealership and find out what gives. Don't like thinking I need to have my car keys in hand ALL the time, or at least any time that you might exit the car but ordinarily would not take the key ( like when I stop at our mailbox on the main road, or get out to feed the feral cats ) and feel the door needs to be closed. I also don't wish to have a third key to hide. Most of these newer cars don't have good hiding areas as we tried that with my old Blazer and it didn't have decent spots. You had to be a contortionist.

Sunny day for tomorrow I'm told. That is nice. I've been getting a little extra work. My little patient is in the hospital again. UTI which I think happens rather easily to some of the older folk. We will see. After, I think another re-hab stay will likely need to happen.

Jackie

ChiSandy

Awful cold, gray, rainy, windy day. Good one to stay cooped up in the Family Surgical Waiting Room. My friend made it through her BMX just fine--all nodes negative. Didn't look like there was anything but DCIS & ADH. If that pans out in the final path report, she's done with treatment--no rads, chemo or hormonal therapy, just concentrate on recovery.

Gordy is having a blast down in NOLA for Jazz & Heritage Fest. Tonight he ate at Arnaud's. Tomorrow, he'll see my friend (and once & future houseguest) Gina Forsyth play fiddle in Bruce Daigrepont's Cajun band. I think he also has tix at Tipitina's one night, Snug Harbor & Spotted Cat another.

Bob & I are holed up here in the Oak Lawn Hilton till he releases my friend (he's her PCP) on Fri. This way he can go in early to read EKGs and finish early enough for Hospitality Hour in the hotel's concierge lounge--then it's off to dinner at Cooper's Hawk.

IllinoisLady

People who are "being" are fully present. They are totally engaged
in the moment. This engagement includes an easy appreciation
and sense of connection with whomever or whatever they are
relating to at the time. These people are aware of a job well
done or a difficulty surmounted and will respect and often
acknowledge the person who has accomplished it. "Being" is a
state of heart and mind that is receptive and able to listen carefully.

Sallirae Henderson

Chevyboy

Jackie, my Chevy Cruz has the same type of key fob... I push buttons to open and lock the car... But if my key is in the ignition, and I turn my car off, once in park, and open the door, the bell (warning sound) comes on until I remove the key. It doesn't lock by itself... When I am sitting in the car I DO push the lock button on the dash... like if I am waiting for DH to come back out... When I put the car into any gear, the doors lock.

I carry an extra key-fob, which I ordered from the dealer, and then he had to program it... It's always in my purse.... just in case.

Yesterday, I put the emergency brake on, while I was on a hill.... THEN when I started to leave, that dang warning sound, AND light went NUTS! So then I remembered the brake... and released it.... Kind of funny.... the car is smarter than I am!

Anneb1149

Morning all, VSGB- sorry if I got the name wrong- it's on the previous page. I think the trick with the wig is the same as for bras- you have to get a prescription for it to get MedicaRe to pay for it. I've even heard the correct wording for it and most wig places should know how to word it.

I am aLso a big fan of HGTV, Property Brothers being my favorite. A friend of mine recently went on a cruise they were on. She said they are just as much fun off the camera as they are on. The only thing that bothers me is the continuous repetition of the same four shows- Fixer Upper, Property Brothers, Like it or List it, and Flip or Flop, with a few HouseHunters thrown in. When I first started watching, they had different shows all day, like Designer Challenge- where 3 designers would present the people with their ideas to redo whatever room, then they had to choose which option thy liked best, they also had another that I can't remember the name of, where the spouses had very different ideas of what the wanted and the designer had to figure out how to please them both.

Sandra - Ryan's reluctance to get help must be very frustrating. As I've said, one of my DD's has had some emotional problems. One night ( she was about 17), she came into my room, crying that she couldn't stop the voices in her head. For some reason, I never aSked what the voices were saying, but begged her to give me 24 hrs. I had no idea where to start, and didn't want to make the situation worse. I went to work at my school, and went in to the administrators, whom I haD great respect for. They told me to make sure wherever we went that they knew my DD's issues were emotional- not drug or alcohol related. She was there for less than 48 hrs when they called us to come pick her up- I was astounded- I said she's a minor and you haven't even talked to us to get some background on why she ended up here? They said that's right- she "says" she no longer feels like she's a danger to herself or others, so we can't keep her. She said that mainly because she was a minor and was not allowed to smoke. Second time pretty much was the same. I finaLly took her to a private psychiatrist who said she had Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Disorder and PTSD. I could recognize the signs of all of them when I knew whAt to look for. He tried to put her on meds, but even when I taped them to her toothbrush, she refused to take them. There were several years of very scAry situations with her. She went from living with one guy after another, until she started dating the guy responsible for the PTSD again, And three weeks later was pregnant with my precious Victoria, and has been with him since then and as you know, just gave birth to her third child. They live a very unconventional life- right now living in a warehouse with plans to move to the middle of no where and live in old box cars. She also experimented with many drugs, and snuck out of the house at night. She became pregnant but the same guy at 15, but had aN abortion, which I didn't know about for many years.Other than the plans to move away from society and be survivalists, she has been mostly stable since Victoria's birth. There have been some scary times, one of them being her beating the crap out of her new husband outside of the reception hall on their wedding day. But over all, she is pretty stable. Right now I am a little worried aBout her, becaUse she has taken zero time to recover from Alexandria's birth a month ago. Alex is eating every hour to hour and a half, and my DD retuned to life as usual within 4 hours of leAving the hospitAl.

Other thaN that, todaY is my oldest grAndson's 17th birthday, aNd we are all going out to eat at Outback tonight. He is definitely becoming a young man, with a lot of common sense and maturity. We were laughing last night about the night I was reading a book to him, and I stopped for some reason, aNd he finished reading the book to me. He wasn't even 3 years old. And it was not a book we read all he time, so I knew he hadn't memorize it.

Places to go and things to do....

Anne

carolehalston

My Prius will not lock the doors when the "key" (actually a small remote with lock and unlock buttons) is in the car. So you can't lock your "key" in the car.

DH is much better today and ate a bland breakfast this morning. BUT...the a/c doesn't seem to be cooling the house. The a/c man has promised to try to make it here this afternoon. I'm hoping the unit is low on Freon.

ChiSandy, your son may have chosen the wrong weekend for Jazz Fest. Last weekend was perfect weather but this weekend there's some chance of rain. However, nothing dampens the enthusiasm of Jazz Fest attendees. We live 45 minutes away and don't go. We have gone in the past. The crowds are huge and the food is very pricey. We've become "old fogeys"! Blue grass festivals are more our speed.

Fortunately, it's a rainy, overcast day. Hoping the sun doesn't come out to heat things up with the a/c not working.

bonnets

Hi Ladies, starting to cloud up here. Rain again tonight.

Went to the surgeon this morning, GB surgery is scheduled for Tuesday. Hope it's not much worse than when I had my tubes tied, also laparoscopic. Also hoping after that it doesn't make my IBSD worse. Have read some people have diarrhea as a side effect!

Need to call and see if they found out what is the matter with my car. Also is a keyless, was dead yesterday. The battery is only about 2 or 3 months old, so it shudn't be that. Probably haven't put 500 miles on it since it was put in. Keyless took some getting used to.

Wren44

Bonnets, I'm with you. I am so tired of looking at plaid flannel shirts!

Chi Sandy, Ooooh, Arnauds. Some of the best food I've ever eaten.

Ade

I recon I'm the new girl on the block here. I was diagnosed with Mucinous Carcinoma in November with a lumpectomy that was "surely just a cyst", had a bilateral mastectomy right after Christmas, and was on Letrozol January through mid April.

I lost my insurance due to my husband turning 65 & his going on Medicare but in May I will be 65, eligible for Medicare, and can return to my oncologist to discuss med changes.

I HAD to go off the Letrozol because I couldn't take the mental and physical pain & turmoil. It was AWFUL! I became so I didn't even care if I lived anymore. I have a very loving family & church folks but just couldn't cope anymore. I feel SO much better OFF the meds now. A friend had the same intolerance and was switched to Aromasin and is doing much better, which gives me some hope at least.

I have felt quite alone as healthy folks, though they love you, don't understand where you are. This is why I sought out this site...to find some 'birds of a feather'.

Had anyone had these problems taking hormone therapy? I think that if all of the meds do this to me I will have to stop taking them altogether - and I wonder what my chances of the cancer coming back would be then. Meanwhile I hope my oncology visit in a week will shine some light on the problem.

Hope to get to know you. :O)

Chevyboy

Hi Ade! I think some of us do well on one thing, but other's don't! I mean SE's happen, even though we read the insert, and like me, I don't believe any of that will happen to me.... I couldn't take Tamoxifen....Lost my hearing from a stroke near the 8th cranial nerve in my brain-stem. But I know others who find they can take it with no problems! It even SAYS "stroke" is one of the possibilities....

We are all different.... if one doesn't work, maybe another one will... As for me, that experience scared me so much I wouldn't even TRY anything else..... and that's all our own choice. BTW.... what is "GB" surgery?

Bonnets... sounds like something is draining your battery? A Dealer should be able to diagnose that pretty fast.

Carole, it's "rainy, snowy, and cold" here.... Ha! Supposed to have this for about 3-4 more days.... Yuk!

bonnets

Chevy, GB, gall Bladder surgery! Hoping I don't have any of the lingering side effects, what with my IBSD. They called on the car, can't find anything wrong, but this is the second time in 3 or 4 months this is happened. Only drive it a couple of times a week. Somethings gotta be doing it.

IllinoisLady

Hi ADE, and welcome. I did find pretty much on my 5 yr. pill so I wouldn't be a lot of help. We just never know how any body's body is going to handle some of these things. I hope you can find something that will help you and that you can tolerate w/o major issues.

Bonnets, I don't know how old your car is, but I think some of them ( Dh many yrs. ago was a Mercedes mechanic ) need to get out on the road somewhere and be driven at a fair speed -- maybe 60 or so, for a few miles. I may be talking through the hole in my head, but he is always telling me that I should get on the Interstate more than I do. I have not had the trouble you mention though as when I go very far --- 20 or so miles from here on the 'old' highway, the speeds do change so I'm going faster or slower depending on where I am. Hope that helps.

Jackie

Chevyboy

Okay Bonnets.... got it.... (GBS).... Yikes! It will be over pretty soon....! About your car....I looked up what it could be.... If it does this a lot, even though your battery is pretty new, it COULD be a bad cell in it.... OR the alternator is bad.... but if you took it in, they should know.... right? Leaving a dome light on, might do it also.... So it might just be in the battery itself.... and needs to be replaced.

Yes Jackie.... I remember DH telling me we have to run it FAST! ("To burn the bugs out")..... Those guys were so full of chit! Their middle name is "speed".... Fast is always better.... so many times on the high-way, fishtailing amidst my screams..... Sometimes wouldn't you just like to get out that iron-skillet & let them have it? Funny how things all settle down, when they get older.... Their brains become engaged again, and common sense takes over.

Ade

Thanks Chevyboy, & Jackie!

I had a surgical menopause by hysterectomy in my mid 30s and went through an awful mental crazy time until I discovered a topical wild yam cream natural progesterone. I was afraid to take estrogen because of the cancer warnings that just came out about then, so I didn't. Anyway the cream worked wonders on the mental & physical results of having no estrogen production and I was using it right up until my diagnosis last November. My biggest fear concerning going on the hormone blocker therapy was the return of those terrible not-myself symptoms...and it happened. I know how bad it can get and empathize with those who can't stand it anymore. Just hoping another med will work for me to keep cancer at bay - but not holding my breath because its function will be the same. At this point I wish I could go back to last fall and this be just a bad nightmare. But I will cope with God's help. Could always be worse. :O)

IllinoisLady

Ade, that is the spirit. One foot in front of the other. I think the majority of all of us here had many a sort of " why me " periods and somehow wondered why we had especially it seemed been targeted. Well, that is the way it is with the equal opportunity diseases. Just take heart that no one ( if it is meant to be ) is spared. Many have eaten right, watched any medications, exercised, got plenty of sleep and made time for play too -- those like me who weren't particularly watchful or very health conscious, we all got it dumped in our lap. Many times it was really lousy timing and felt worse in that we had so many yrs. of good mammograms etc. we thought we had snuck in under the wire.

Although it sounds like I'm a bit touched and though I'd have never believed it, I do have to credit my diagnosis with waking me up, and helping with something of an attitude adjustment. I had become a bit complacent with life --- doing a little too much existing and falling out of tune with all the beautiful gifts that are a part of this Earth along with us. Now silly things amaze all over again. I can marvel at the bark on a tree or a huge amt. of ants in one place scurrying around carrying things to and fro, or pretty white billowy clouds congregating in the sky above me. I can enjoy a conversation with friends, or get lost in a good book. It is almost hard to believe that I spent who really knows for sure just how long, just putting one foot in front of the other and just getting by.

So, I am grateful everyday for what I was passing up that has been returned to me. There is a quote ( and I put in a quote here almost every day ) that says something to the effect, " I didn't say it would be easy, I said it would be worth it ". Maybe life hands us lemons some days, but somewhere along the way we will learn to make good ole' lemonade.

Hope you will come back and visit with us often.

Jackie

IllinoisLady

Chevy -- looking for my iron skillet as we speak. I do sort of think some cars could get a little sludgy -- and I think catalytic converters made some issues and even maybe some of the cars with computers doing a lot now get funny --- so I don't always think it is a bad thing to rev it up just a little now and then, but I think my 50 an hour on the old highway is good enough. You know what they say --- you shouldn't drive any faster than your guardian angel can fly and so far she hasn't told me just how fast that is.

Anyway, back tomorrow --- but maybe late.

See you all then.

Jackie

bonnets

Our road is 45, then turns into 55, so I do get a little speed in. they are still trying to figure out whats wrong. The start button stayed green and the engine had a high pitched hum/whine for an hour or more after I tried to turn it off! Who knows.

Been concerned about the possibility of post surgery diarrhea, am schedualed for the gall bladder Tues. Have had several people warn me about it. After dealing with that for a long time and being better on Gluten free, im scared of having that as a SE. Old age is such fun!

Ade, I'm on Arimidex , but almost decided to quit in the befginning. MOstly cuz of the worsening of arthritis. Only have a year to go!

ChiSandy

Welcome, Ade. Before you give up on aromatase inhibitors, try two steps. First, try a different manufacturer of generic letrozole (nobody can afford brand name Femara (Novartis) any more because no Medicare Part D will cover it). They don't tell you this--but generic medications only have to contain 75% of the dose of the active ingredient in the original patented drug--and the rest are various binders, fillers, dyes, and coatings. One maker's formulation might be easier to tolerate than another. The version of letrozole with the shortest inactive ingredient list is Roxane (Boehringer Ingleheim), next is the brand name Femara ($2700 for 3 mos. in the US, $588 online from Novartis UK in Canada--so skip that), then Teva. Most people report mild if any side effects from the Roxane, then Femara, then Teva. (Some tolerate Teva's letrozole better than Femara). The versions reporting the most problems are made by Sun and Accord. Ask around at the preferred pharmacies in your Part D plan's list and ask if they can order you the Roxane or Teva versions.

If they can't, or if you've tried every letrozole (except Femara--and if you can afford those prices you can probably afford hire someone to have your cancer and take the drug for you), then on to step 2: ask your doctor to try you on anastrozole (Arimidex, slightly less outrageous for the brand name version than is Femara)--and if at first you don't succeed, go back to step 1 and shop around for the generic that you tolerate best. If those are unbearable, ask for exemestane (aromasin). Some women who can't tolerate the "ozoles" do better on exemestane, since even though it is an aromatase inhibitor it is non-steroidal in action. (Not the kind of "steroidal" you think of when you hear "cortisone," "prednisone," "dexamethasone" or "testosterone"). Again, go through the various generics until you find one you can both afford and tolerate. If all those fail, talk to your oncologist and see if tamoxifen will work (before AIs were discovered, all women with hormone+ bc were put on tamoxifen--bear in mind that it has its own risks, interactions and side effects). If you can't (or shouldn't, given other health issues) tolerate endocrine therapy (or are not willing to give up quality for sheer quantity of life), discuss what's most important to you with your oncologist. You are not legally bound to follow your doctors' recommendation. Only you know what is most important to you.

Carole, Gordy is unfazed by rain or heat when it comes to festivals. His first Jazz Fest was in downpours so heavy that the Fairgrounds racetrack was turned into shoe-sucking mud that would have made Woodstock jealous. His second was 98F and so muggy we both got heat exhaustion--even Ray Charles cut his set in half. And he's weathered triple-digit temps at Lollapalooza. (He draws the line at Bonnaroo and Coachella).

Chevyboy

Bonnets... before I took my car into a dealer, I had that same problem! Sometimes it would stay "on"... I mean some sort of "fan" would keep running after I turned it off... I had to start it again, then turn it off once more, and it quit.

My Nephew, who has one of those hand-held gadgets that "diagnoses" engine problems, would give him "codes" as what was wrong, but he didn't know the codes! I gave up on him trying to help. I took it to a dealer... instead of a garage to have it checked. We know those mechanics are certified, where auto-repair businesses can hire anyone they like...

Maybe take it to a dealer, if you haven't tried that? Also... sometimes the "regulator" has problems and will drain a battery...

Every woman should have a TV or Computer repairman, a mechanic, a Plumber, in the family, along with a Doctor as a Husband..

bonnets

Chevy

Mitsi is sitting at the dealer now! Hopefully today they will figure it out. It's not just the battery, they guessed, as it was new a couple of months ago and this is the second time it has done this. Last time we replaced the battery. Time will tell. Dont want to have to keep replacing the battery every couple of months!

Ade

ChiSandy you're a wealth of information and I really appreciate it! Having just started down this road the first of this year I have a lot to learn. After my birthday Tuesday I can get signed up for Medicare part D. That whole Medicare thing is new too. My friend here changed from Letrozole to Aromasin and that seems to be working fine with her so I will ask Thursday at my appointment about that. I guess my issue is that if I am completely depleted of these hormones will I have those terrible menopause symptoms return. Having gone off the Letrozole 3 weeks ago I am doing very well except for the fatigue which is bearable - unlike the extreme depression that I CAN'T live with and DON'T wish to start an antidepressant. I wasn't suicidal but didn't mind at all if I died! I DON'T want that to return EVER again so this whole treatment scares me. I have a strong faith in God and I believed even HE was against me at that time. I never ever want to got there again. I have no choice but to try a new med and hope for the best - or do nothing and hope the cancer won't return. I don't know the stats on that but would like to. Anyway thank you ChiSandy.

YAAY bonnets - only one more year to go! Thanks for the encouragement! Praying your GB surgery is a piece of cake with no problems & swift healing.

Jackie, my aunt had a message posted above her kitchen sink that read "FAIR IS FOR GAMES". She was prone to severe depression. I really haven't had a 'why me' questioning or pity party but I do wish I could go back to being "normal" again. Am debating a DEIP Flap reconstruction but wow the incisions! (Could sure use the tummy tuck part though!) ) Yes I will put one foot in front of the other, trust God, and see where I land. Life IS an adventure - I just prefer to watch it from a sandy beach gazing at the blue ocean. :OP I shall bloom where I'm planted.

Anneb1149

Mornin all,

Ade, welcome to our group. As you already know, there is a wealth of good info on here- not only cancer-related, but on cars, jazz fests, and weather, just to name a few. We also gather just to chat about whatever is on our minds, or share our daily lives, which for some is traveling, others cooking, bird watching, movie reviews, our furry family members, etc. We try to avoid politics and religion. I should say we do mention the political antics of some candidates, but don't voice our choices of candidates or try to persuade others and, as well, we do talk about spiritual feelings, but not specific religions. Please pop on often, there is always someone hear, talking about something and there are always fellow BC survivors to listen to your issues, offering support and understanding without judging. We have all been though rough times, whether it be cancer or a totally unrelated topic.

We had a bit of a scare Wed. My DS called to say he was on the way to the Dr to meet his 32 week pregnant wife- she was bleeding. They had gone through two miscarriages before having their first daughter almost three years ago. About an hour later, his wife texted that everything was fine. Not enough info for me. So I waited for my son's call. He said they did all the tests they could without getting invasive or possibly damaging. They did a sonogram, watched the baby moving, measured the amount of amniotic fluid, etc. The doctor said everything looked great, and she could not see anything to indicate any need for more tests. She said she had no idea why Anna had bled, but says it happens in 1 out of every 25 pregnancies or so, and there are no more issues with the baby or delivery than with mothers that don't experience bleeding. She suggested that Anna take it easy this last few weeks, which for Anna, automatically signaled bed rest, and the Dr said "No, I mean if you normally walk two miles a day, cut back to one or one and a half. Don't increase anything in your workouts, and maybe lower the number of reps a little. Anna is exercise addicted. But she did say, if she starts bleeding again, and has any contractions with it, or doesn't feel the baby moving, etc, to go immediately to the ER.

Meanwhile, the bAby I lef behind in Fl celebraTed her one month birthdAy and is starting to smile. And my firsT grandson celebrated his 17th birthday yesterdaY. He asked if I would get him a suit for his uncle's wedding, because all the "men" will be in suits. How do you say no to that. Especially since he is a Jr. In HS, taking all college level courses and pulling A's in every one. So, tomorrow we go looking for a suit.

Have a great weekend,Anne