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Jackie, I'm so sorry..... guess everyone was expecting this, but it is never easy................... Sorry little one...xoxoxo
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Sandra I cannot believe how much Mike has changed since I met you both at the airport, and he, riding in the front seat of our car and you in the back seat with me, and it was YOUR bucket list cruise to Alaska, only 2 short years ago.
I am offering a picture I took of a Lotus Flower (while in Tahiti) to all that are facing challenging times. Love, Di
( I posted this on a different forum)
Sandra, this is for MIKE and YOU, and your 2 girls and son.
There is much symbolism about a flower that grows in the MUD and emerges above the murky water to an awe inspiring bloom. Love & HUGS,
Di
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Anne, Mountain Lodge Park was between Monroe & Washingtonville--it was a compound of ranch homes--a few down in the glen along the entrance roads, then a circle (Orchard Circle) girding a hill (we were on the downhill side), a couple of blocks up at the very top, a pool and a general store. (At least that’s what I remember--my aunt sold the house in 1959). As with the families who stayed in Borscht Belt bungalow colonies (little tiny cottages with minimal kitchenettes, surrounding a central communal kitchen & dining hall), the dads would stay down in the city and work Mon-Fri., the moms & kids on weekends. I think there were three things that contributed to the demise of the Borscht Belt: as to the huge kosher resorts, the era of the “restricted” (i.e., no Jews allowed) hotels, golf courses & resorts ended and the only reasons for Jews to go there were the food (abundant & kosher, but fewer and fewer people kept kosher), the entertainment (and the rise of Vegas & Atlantic City lured the biggest names away) and the cooler mountain air in summertime--and the advent of affordable window air conditioners made it unnecessary to leave NYC to beat the summer heat. Some of the bigger resorts kept going for awhile by adding winter sports, but couldn’t compete with nearby ski areas.
We didn’t go to Brotherhood Winery until I was older and in college. (Legal drinking age back then was 18). I was fascinated by the process, and preferred their sweet “May Wine” (like a riesling flavored with strawberry & woodruff) and semi-sweet Rosario. Then we discovered Lancer’s and Mateus Rosé, later Soave Bolla and Lambrusco--we thought we were so sophisticated back then! When we graduated and moved to Seattle, we’d take trips down the coast into the Napa & Sonoma Valleys (hard to believe how few wineries there were back in the early ‘70s) with a side trip to San Juan Bautista for Almaden. Tastings were free back then--and so began my wine education.
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Jackie, so sorry to be hit with two losses so close to each other. Hugs and condolences. Dara, I’m stumped as to the elevated Ca levels. (I love how Auto-Correct typed “valium” levels). Perhaps it’s the nuts, but I doubt it. Could it be that the chemo might have leached enough Ca from your bones such that it’s now circulating in the bloodstream?
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Sandy, sounds like old home week here. I've lived in Bloomingburg and MIddletown since the 60's a Chicago transplant , via Washington DC. We lived here when my son was 2and a half during Woodstock. I remember the hippie cars breaking down in the middle of Bloomingburg and just being left there. Also the planes flying over our house as they took overdoses to the hospital in Middletown, didnt have one in Sullivan Co. at that time! Saw Paul Anka at The Concord, he got his start at Browns hotel , I believe.The big famous old ones are gone, Except for Mohonk, which is still wonderful, in New Paltz. We used to go to Brotherhood, when the tastings were actually in the wine cellar. iked May Wine too and Holiday wine.
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We never considered Mohonk part of the Borscht Belt--it was shangri-la for the rich WASPy folks. I finally went there my senior year in college for a statewide student-peer-counselors' conference. It was the height of leaf-peeping season, and it was utterly gorgeous.
My shrink grew up in Monticello, and was a medical student during Woodstock. He was a volunteer medic, treating mostly “bad trips." When Gordy & I went to “A Day in the Garden" back in 1998, we kept seeing teenage Hasidic boys walking along the roadside. Gordy, then 13, started singing softly, “The rebbe don't like it......rockin' the Catskills, rockin' the Catskills..." (That's my boy)! When we left about 10 pm, waiting in traffic after Pete Townshend closed the show with a full gospel choir backing him up on “See Me, Feel Me" as the sun set, one of the young “yeshiva-bochers" came over and asked wistfully, “Was it as wonderful as it sounded from back here?" He was obviously committing a major Hasidic community no-no by even being outside the borders of his little village (delineated by the “eruv," a wire strung along telephone poles) on Shabbos. Hope he made it home with nobody the wiser. (And I wonder if he became one of those rebels who eventually left the fold and faced the challenges of having to function in a modern Western society).
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Illinoislady, I just saw your mention that your ex passed yesterday. I'm so sorry for the loss. You are always so very supportive of all of us, and I hope you're doing ok.
Hope all else are doing good. Safe travels Anne, and Sandra, thinking of you and your family daily. Dara
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Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.We need to literally "count our blessings," give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have. -Shakti Gawain
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Hmm, cloudy out so not sure if it will rain. I think maybe the same chance as yesterday -- about 20 % but just seems pretty cloudy at present. I won't mind if we don't have a hot sun though it didn't feel too bad yesterday.
Dara, thank you for your kind words. I will indeed miss my ex. So glad we were able to have a successful friendship after we parted ways. Though there are people I choose not to spend time with, there is no one I truly hate. That is a harsh emotion, takes a lot of work, and doesn't do much for a person personally. I've never understood why people HATE ( or thought I was odd that I didn't ) their ex's. Life is wonderful --- you get some great choices, and I must have chosen early on to see hate as not productive. I wish I had good sense about some other things.
Start my doggie/animal care for my employers today and going through Sunday. It will be fun. Of course, being asked to do THIS kind of chore likely could NEVER be a burden for me. Not sure just why I'm so in love with animals, but it is a yoke around my neck that I don't want off. I am trying hard to scale way, way back in the ones that live at our house. The only thing that keeps me from being deemed a hoarder is that I don't take in every one I see. The only ones who may find their way here are the ones I can afford to have neutered/spayed or that have owners who absolutely cannot keep their pets any longer. That keeps my population at a level that I can usually handle. The last 5 or so yrs. I've been really careful. I've already figured I'll be well into my mid 80's before it is REALLY quiet here pet-wise --- so we are trying to totally avoid any additions.
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Sandra, sending love and supportive thoughts your way. Nice that your children are able to be with their dad and support you too.
Welcome to new friends here! You've come to the right place for support, advice and just general good chit-chat.
Cloudy and cool here in western Oregon today. The leaves are beginning to turn and with a a bit of crispness in the air and the college football season beginning this weekend, my favorite season of the year has arrived!
I enjoy reading posts about the summer camps and resorts you folks on the east coast experienced growing up. We had nothing like that out here on the left coast.........no escaping the big cities in the summertime to the "Shore" or the Catskills or 6-8 weeks long summer camps for kids. Seems like a totally different world, but a world that was probably lots of fun!
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Mild and dry today (though pollens & molds are sky-high). Looks like until Monday, Chicago will be doing a credible impression of San Diego (without the saltwater or the mountain backdrop) weather-wise. Storms Monday--of course, that’s the day I’m playing an outdoor festival.
I never went to sleep-away camp, not even Girl Scout camp--my family couldn’t afford it. Instead, when we were little we stayed at my aunt’s summer house in Mt. Lodge Park (technically, the Shawngunks, not the Catskills). At summer’s end, our dad would take us up through the Adirondacks to visit cousins in Montreal--which was truly exotic for a Brooklyn kid.
When my aunt sold the place and moved to FL, we went to a day camp that was held in East Flatbush (one neighborhood up the ladder from ours, Brownsville) at JHS 285 for grades K-3 and Tilden HS (my eventual alma mater) across the street for grades 4-9. (At grade 10 you could become an unpaid, but non-tuition-paying, jr. counselor, which I did until I switched to jr. lifeguard at Tilden’s pool through my college-years-summers). The tuition was modest, as it was partly Bd-of-Ed-funded and used preexisting facilities. Counselors were generally younger schoolteachers and coaches. We were picked up after breakfast & dropped off before dinner at our grade schools M-Fri.--hot lunches and daily ice cream or watermelon were provided, except we had sandwiches during field trips and hot dogs & burgers during cookouts at state parks on L.I. (We had to BYO marshmallows for toasting). Field trips were to zoos, museums, the airports (where we got to ride around the tarmac in TWA planes while flight attendants passed out our box lunches), the beach (usually Rockaway, Riis Park or Manhattan Beach--less crowded and easier for bus parking than Brighton or Coney Island, air force or military bases, ferry rides to Staten Island; and for the “teenage” groups, to Steeplechase indoor amusement park (with a rooftop “horse race” ride and the famous parachute jump) at Coney Island or into the city to see either a B’way show, Radio City Music Hall, or a “Seventeen” magazine fashion show--followed by a jaunt to the Horn & Hardart Automat where we were given a roll of nickels and turned loose. (Our parents always supplemented that with a couple of bucks’ worth of quarters). The Automat food was nothing special, but in those pre-vending-machine days, being able to put in our change and either open the little glass door to retrieve a sandwich or pie or stick a mug or glass under a spout and watch cocoa or soda come out was a real thrill.
Day camp ran through mid-August, so families could take vacations before school resumed after Labor Day. Those last weeks in August were when we’d go to the Catskills. I never got to go to the famous resorts until annual group ski weekends (“Snow Carnival”) in college at Grossinger’s, the Pines & the Concord. Of course, I was a dreadful skiier and spent most of my daytime at the indoor pool or having snowball fights. (Evenings I will leave to the imagination).
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Jackie, I am sorry about your loss, you are a rare gem to remain friends with your EX.
Sandra thinking of You and your family, any improvement with Mike?
Sendin "Hi from Di" to everyone.
Light rain today on and off....I love it!
Hug,
Di
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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority. Rick Warren
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Morning all,
Bonnets, I am most familiar with 94 and 208 and the Sara Wells Trail.
Sandy- my neice and her family live right across the street from Orchard Circle. At least I think they do.. When you pull out of their driveway, there is a sign that says Ochard something, and I know they are between Washingtonville and Monroe. My nephew is in Monroe and has worked for many years with the Washintonville Ambulance services there.
Jackie, I am so sorry for your double loss.
I rode 10 1/2 hours yesterday from upstate NY to Fayetteville NC, which is where by brother lives. The plans were that we would stay here today, then drive to my son in SC, which they say is less than a 3 hr drive. Unfortunately, the weather seems to not want to cooperate. So we have come up with multiple options. We may leave here this evening, to get to Rob's before the storm reaches us. Plan B is to leave early tmrw, again trying to avoid the worst of it, plan C is to skip SC completely and have my brother meet up with my s-i-l somewhere mid way between here and Atlanta. I would be perfectly content to dig in here until it's all gone. But Nancy has had another skin cancer removed from her forehead today, and Scott goes back to work Mon. Based on the last one, the initial recovery is pretty major.
I stayed with my sister the whole time I was in NY. She is a very heavy smoker, and she smokes in the house. You can smell it the first time you walk in, but you get used to it if you are there long enough. When packing my stuff up, I packed just enough to get me through my 2 days here in a little carry-on, planning not even to bring my bigger suitcase in. Wow, when I opened the carry-on, to get my stuff out last night- the smell of the clothes is awful. I am so glad I didn't bring the big suitcase in. I will probably wait to tackle that until I am in Ga. Thank goodness, I have extra clothes at my son's house.
Welcome to Odds, and anyone else I may have missed. I have been in NY for the past two weeks, for my older brother's funeral and hanging with family.
The whole time I was there, I had a frozen chicken pot pie at my sister's house and one cooked dinner and one take- out dinner at my cousins. Every other night we ate out. We also ate any lunches we ate at restaurant. It was fun, because there always was family with me, but my system has totally gotten messed up. I was not very happy to go out for dinner again last night, so I just got a small grilled chicken salad. I have asked my brother to take me to a grocery store today so I can cook dinner tonight. My daughter in Atlanta says her boys are already making lists of what dinners they want while I am there. Deciding what to cook each night is the toughest part of cooking for me, so I am happy for their help
Prayers aNd hugs for Sandra and Mike, and Ryan.
Anne
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Hope the weather cooperates, Anne--Fayetteville is lovely, but not during hurricane season (been twice, and was very thankful it was May each time). As to the smoky clothes, ugh. My singing partner has smoked for almost 50 years, has cut down but can’t quit. At least I got him to stop smoking in his car (we usually travel in his because he lives way north of me and we never tour north of Madison, WI). It reeks of Febreze, which is not fun but doesn’t bother me the way third-hand smoke does. (Third-hand smoke-stank transfers from surfaces to your clothes). As he gets older and the hearing in his good ear deteriorates, he needs to stand closer to me on stage and sometimes I want to gag (smoker-breath smells like spoiled pickled herring & onions). His wife is allergic to everything, so she makes him do his smoking outdoors in the driveway. (Bless her). My mom smoked until she was 65--3 packs a day for 50 yrs., the first time she saw her family doc after my dad passed, he pleaded with her, tears in his eyes, to quit. So she did. But growing up in the 1950s, I thought everyone’s mom & house smelled like that. Wasn’t until Bob & I got married, moved across the country and set up our own apt. (and he hadn’t started smoking yet--yeah, he’s a cardiologist who smokes 1/4 pack a night....outdoors only, no matter the weather), and came back to NYC for our first holiday visit that I realized how awful an indoor-smoker’s house smells. I always demand a non-smoking hotel room when I travel, but sometimes (especially in Europe or in semi-rural areas of the Midwest or PA) I have to walk through a smoking-allowed corridor to get there (holding my breath the whole time). Many of us who live in big cities (especially the more politically liberal ones) forget how much of Middle America still smokes....and resents any attempt to regulate it. (I’m sorry, but your “freedom” to swing your fist stops short of the end of my nose). Until recently when we toured by car, meals out on the road were often fast-food takeout or outdoor picnics, because those rural diners reeked of smoke.
All I will say is “God bless Febreze.” (And smoke-free music venues--no more having to shower at 3 am before I can bear to have my hair touch my pillow).
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When we are conscious of being part of a wider universe,
we can begin to see that what we do matters.Every action
we take has a consequence somewhere, whether good or bad.
Everything that happens affects a part of the whole body of life.
Having this knowledge of being part of something larger may motivate
us to contribute to the greater good in whatever ways we can.
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Very pretty outside and not going to be a hot temp. day and I'm glad about that. Will stay busy until Monday night with some extra duties but it doesn't make me a lot of difference. It is just a bit harder to get things handled here at home since some of my afternoon work hours are taken away. It is just a brief interlude and before I know it I'll be back on the standard schedule.
Part of me ( though loving the hopefully better less humid weather ) hates to see the Fall coming though I do adore the season. I just don't know where this summer went. Sort of same old routine --- we didn't get some of the things done that should have been, while having issues that presented as the "now you have to type". Too many of those so we have some chores that may have to now wait for Spring. So funny how summer can go so fast, and yet winter be so long.
Hope you are all going to have a perfectly great day.
Jackie
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The sad fact is that if you go by actual weather patterns rather than the calendar--whether by the astronomic (equinoxes & solstices) or the “meteorological” boundaries of summer & winter--Illinois does have longer “winters” than it does “summers.” We are far likelier to have sub-40 (even subfreezing) temps and snow (whether measurable or flurries) extend further into meteorological & astronomic spring than we are to see "Indian Summer” extend into actual autumn or “peekaboo” glimpses of spring during winter or of summer during spring. And we are likelier to see these cold temps & snow show up as early as late Oct., the peak of “autumn” however one defines it. In my 20 years growing up in NYC, I don’t recall snow as early as Nov. nor as late as April. I never encountered below-zero temps in NYC--maybe once, overnight, but up in Catskills ski country. Here, kids’ Halloween costumes usually include coats, not just sweaters. The only May snow flurries I’ve ever encountered (other than atop a high mountain pass) were in Chicago (three times)--and I remember an 8” snowfall with 16F temps one early April, on second Seder night. (I remember it vividly--it was after we played a late-night gig and I had to dig and then rock my car out of its parking space so I could get to work the next morning. My back was never the same after that). And I’ve engaged in snowball fights in the bleachers at Wrigley on opening day. I remember getting off a plane returning from Phoenix one early May, greeted by 18F temperatures at Midway (the passengers’ vocabulary as that was announced as we taxied to the gate was extremely colorful, especially among those who hadn’t bothered to change out of their shorts & flip-flops before leaving Sky Harbor).
Right now, we are in astronomical summer till the autumnal equinox on Sep. 22 (late this year, with early winter solstice coming Dec. 20--so a shorter-than-usual fall), but entered meteorological autumn (Sep.1-Dec. 1) yesterday. Weather will be mild & dry the next couple of days. But San Diego called--it wants its weather back, so we’ll go back to hot, sticky & stormy starting Tues.....for now. Here in Chicago, we don’t have gradual evolution into the seasons: autumn is usually summer & winter duking it out till winter wins, usually fairly early; spring is the opposite, with summer prevailing fairly late.
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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
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Sandy you are so right. When we first came back home (I/we had lived in southern California for 25 yrs. ) the seasons seemed to me so ideal. I missed the changes that signaled different seasons --- and oddly enough, in southern Cal. we had no clouds or very, very few and not the big billowy ones you get almost always here. When first home we generally didn't turn on our a/c until mid to late July and now and then Aug. So, only using it a bit more than a month and a half. Now it is usually at least three mos. and sometimes more of constant use. Winters can be harsh here, though Dh and I have found them for the most part pretty tolerable. Partly due to four-wheel drive which has allowed us to come and go w/o having to wait to do anything.
We have had our nut trees shedding ( partly due to the squirrels up in the trees eating ) the nuts and some of the early leaves starting to come down. It is slow right now, but it is obvious that we are not far from Fall. Though we have had lots more rain than normal keeping the trees a lot more moist and the lawns green.....there is the "tired" look that begins to show in the leaves and the lawn which still grows somewhat but does w/o any true vigor. I don't feel ready, but most of the time I'm not, having felt that I needed to accomplish so much more.
We too will be losing our moderate temps. that have been so enjoyable and go back into the harsher 90's. Ugg.
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Growing up in NYC we had four distinct seasons, with changing seasonal clothing fashions. By late Aug. I would get antsy, wanting to wear my brand new woolen school clothes and trendy new shoes. In Seattle, we had two seasons: cool and wet (woolens), mild-to-warmish & slightly dryer (cottons). True winter clothes were for skiing in the mountain passes. We’re only going back up into the mid-80s starting Tues. but the mugginess will be back too--and the storms starting Wed.--just in time for my cataract surgery and the followup appt. Thurs. down on the SW Side.
A bit nervous about my tomato plants: I don’t trust my son to water them over the weekend, nor to guard the slowly enlarging few tomatoes left on the vine from the squirrels. Have to leave for Oak Lawn tonight and won’t be home again till late Mon. aft. Bob is working, housekeeper is off. Lawn needs its granular fertilizer watered-in, and I barely know how to operate the sprinkler (not on a timer)--totally beyond the ability of my son who can barely work a microwave (though he can do practically everything else online). Since Bob & I are staying over tonight in Oak Lawn and after tomorrow’s party I’m headed straight out west to Geneva for the folk festival, Gordy will have to Uber it down to the party & back-->$50 each way. Only way around that is to not stay over tonight--and Bob is always bitterly disappointed when I can’t join him in Oak Lawn on the nights he needs to stay down there.
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When my brother and Mom still lived in Chicago, they moved from 89th and Stoney Island area, where I grew up, to Oak Lawn, while he was in High School in Oak Lawn. I had already married and moved from Chicago. When I went back for my 50th reunion, the cop at our motel near Midway recommended that we NOT go to our old neighborhood, too dangerous! Sad! My Sw side memories were of Evergreen plaza, being the only shopping mall and Melody Lane for ice cream. Long time ago!
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Good call on warning you off 89th & Stony. Evergreen Plaza isn’t what it used to be, even when we first moved to Chicago in the summer of ‘78. We were so naive back then that we thought nothing about driving to E. 63d St. under the L for what Chicago Magazine said were the city’s best egg rolls. “The Mall” to which everyone in Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park & Beverly now goes is Chicago Ridge Mall. Not familiar with Melody Lane, but Rainbow Cone is still going strong in Beverly. When Gordy was born, Bob bought the chocolate “It’s A Boy” cigars from The Dove on 61st & Pulaski, where the Dove Bar was invented: you specified chocolate or vanilla ice cream, milk or dark chocolate coating; they would then put a stick into a hard-frozen brick of ice cream and dip it into the coating of your choice. The stick would go through a slit cut in a paper plate, because the bar would get very messy: the coating was guaranteed to come off in slabs and you didn’t want to lose a bit of it. The original handmade Dove Bar weighed in at >650 calories, and was about twice the size of today’s commercial freezer-case version.
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I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. -Leo Buscaglia
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ChiSandy
I noticed that you did the CD-CRT radiation. I am hoping to "talk" them into this over the original 6 week, every day idea. I am having the nipple sparing DIEP using my tummy fat after chemo and before radiation. Only radiating lymph node but want to try and isolate radiation as much as possible to avoid my new breast. I guess it is widely available, haven't raked to RO as yet but I am at a major med center in STL. Just wanted your opinion, if you don't mind. Also hoping to help avoid lymphedema, but see that you got that anyway even without lode excision. Ugh, probably no hope for me on that. 67 yo with flabby arms! 😩
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Welcome Jiffrig --- I'm right across the river from you. .
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I'm not sure the radiation was responsible for my arm lymphedema, as my axilla was not radiated. I didn't get the fatigue that most radiation patients get, nor did my skin get irritated, sore or broken. It did get red in the front, and tan over the scar area. And it did greatly enlarge and encapsulate the serima in my tumor cavity, to the point where my R breast, which had been the smaller of the two, became a cup size bigger than the L. The redness has faded, the fibrosis greatly softened, and both breasts are about the same size. Back in the cup size I wore before surgery
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What is the schedule on that radiation? Twice a day for 3 weeks? Glad you are back to even again, just back to the way we "we were" is a win.
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Mine was once a day, Mon-Fri, for three weeks plus one day
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I went camping this weekend with one of Lew's sons and his wife and 2 of the grandkids. I put up my tent on the site beside theirs so we each had out own space. I'd had a fever of 102.2 during the week, but that had come down, though I still had an irritating barky cough.
Grandson Noah helped me put the tent up (first time without Lew) and we got that figured out OK. The 7 of us did a beautiful walk on a nearby state park nature trail. Carey had brought all the food and did all the cooking. We were right on the lake shore so the kids had fun kayaking, swimming, fishing. Both nights had beautiful campfires.
First night camping I'm laying on my air mattress going to sleep, and trying to figure out what that strange sound is that I'm hearing, when I suddenly realize it's ME BREATHING! Then this morning I'm over at their campsite for breakfast and Noah says "you didn't sleep well last night grandma". And when I said, yeah, I guess I did do some coughing, ALL 6 in unison said "ALL NIGHT LONG".
So we had a discussion and decided to close up camp a day early and go home, I'd go to Urgent Care, and Carey and Noah wouldn't have to worry about getting to their 4pm jobs on time in holiday traffic.
Well, I have bronchitis, and am now on a Zpack of antibiotics, an inhaler, and some Tesslon pearls for my cough. I'm scheduled to go on a birding vacation in Georgia the end of this month, so I'm going to relax and rest so I'm well by then.
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