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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2010

    Har-har.  Like you, I am a remarkable amateur household sleuth as well, however what I am missing Kleenex, is a call & response mantra.  Will work on it!  

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2010

    Yes!  I'm instituting the call & response mantra practiced by Cookie tonight!!!

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited August 2010

    Love the mantra......kids have all flown the coop................wonder? ...do you think I could teach the 2 cats and 1 dog?

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited August 2010

    Yep...the dynasplint.......I seriously need a industrial hand cart to put it in the car when I travel. It takes up half my living room. And yes faith it is crazy they can get me that and no medium black gauntlet.

    HOWEVER

    Saw BS today...he was nice, he felt really bad about what I tough time I had. He was in the room thirty seconds and saw my arm and said you need to be on antibiotics, that is an infection not "classic" LE. He is hoping that the antibiotics take care of it, he says that's why my arm was so wierd looking and bumpy/lumpy.  He says for now absolutely no compression till infection is cleared up.

    Likely cause, burst blood vessel when I was packing.

    Makes sense I had sharp pain in the area, and felt like I had pulled something.

     Downside is super xray steriod proceedure is now cancelled for tomorrow, Was kind of counting on that to get me better for work, but I can deal. 

    Oh...and then the elevator went all crazy on the way out and we were terrified, and I thought only I could get killed leaving a cancer doctor's office. Then the cab I went in crashed. I am ok, just little headache.

    I am feeling much happier tonight. I have a date with the rack. Oh and hubby home TOMORROW!!! 

    Hugs and cookies and cheesecurds to all

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2010

    Cookie girl-you have had a day.  It's late-go to bed and try to think positive about the antibiotics.  All my good ju-ju headed your way!

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  • Mybails
    Mybails Member Posts: 29
    edited August 2010

    Hi folks

    I'm 51 and was DX in Feb and a unilaterl with immediate diep in Apr.  I have two girls.  My room cleaning solution must have made an impression because they warn the grandkids to clean their rooms at our house or else.

    Timing is important!  It must be a garbage pick up day with time for them to "discover and recover".  I go in the room with green garbage bags and take anything on the floor, dressers and bed that doesn't belong.  Drag the bags to the end of the yard and call to advise them that they have only a short time til the garbage truck arrives.  They tend to get the hint.  If they treat it like garbage must be garbage! 

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited August 2010

    Welcome Mybails your my kind of Mom! Love it!

    Cookie my friend I think you had better find a priestess to remove the voodoo curse! Good luck with your new job! Call me and tell me about it, you know I travel the big state of NY maybe you will be working in one of my towns.

    My MRI came back just fine whewwwwwww, now maybe I can sleep :)

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited August 2010

    Yea OG!

    PM me...will be upstate but I have a great visiting opportunity for you and hubby!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2010

    cookie, how was "the rack?"  I wonder if you will notice improvement after just one treatment?  You probably need to use it repeatedly, but let us know if it is effective and how long til you feel good again.

    A short while ago, when my mid-back was hurting, I did end up going to PCP's PA, and against my better judgement I did let them take two xrays of my rib area.  (I don't like any more radiation hitting that area!)  The preliminary look was normal, but they get sent out for a more thorough reading.  Since this is the first inner view of my rads area, and it has been a bout a year since my rads treatment, I am very curious to know if my one lung shows any scarring or fibrosis; or really if any effect of the rads can be seen in there.  It feels o.k....can't wait to ask about it. 

    As for my sore spine, I guess tight muscles were at the root of it.  They wanted to give me a script for drugs, but I instead went for a one hour massage,  I felt much better in two days.

    On the teen front, my oldest and I found an apartment near campus for him.  Win-win, everybody happy about it.  Since it's HIS place, I just bet he keeps it neater than he does MY house.    

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2010

    Hmmmm, maybe I should find my 15 yr old an apt near campus-oh wait, that's our house.  She just goes out the back gate & she's @ school!  E- I'm glad you had a win-win!  Those are rare & very precious.

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited August 2010

    Rack was ok, but it really ruins the design of my living room.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2010

    Cookie--Good grief, what a day!  I'm so glad hubby will be home soon and you are safe at home!Sounds like you're going to have to redecorate to incorporate the rack.  Good excuse to spend money, I suppose. . . 

    Mybails--that's a great way to get rid of clutter!  

    OmahaGirl--Congrats on the clean MRI results!  Hoooray!!!

    Saw my PS yesterday, last drain is out, no revision surgery needed, everything healing beautifully!  A GOOD doctor's appointment and I didn't cry! 

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2010

    Hooray NM!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2010
    If I'm not mistaken Mainer, that's the FIRST doctors appointment you haven't cried at, right? You done good! Laughing
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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2010

    Barbe--the 1st in 3 1/2 years! 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2010

    I'm proud of you sister!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2010

    Thanks!

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited August 2010

    Good Job NM!

    Question did anyone see SATC 2? Did you think the whole Samantha subplot was absurd since she was a breast cancer survivor?

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  • Kleenex
    Kleenex Member Posts: 764
    edited August 2010

    Cookie - glad the doctor has an idea for your weird lumps/bumps, but sorry that it appears you've opened a mummy sarcophagus or something and have become ever so slightly cursed...

    Mybails - oh, man, you are my new hero! The garbage bag idea ROCKS! It's just the sort of slightly insane thing that would get results. Sadly, my husband would probably try to use it on me...

    Elimar - I hope they don't find anything interesting - I frequently wonder what the fate of my assorted body parts that got zapped will be. I imagine that I am a teeny bit short of breath, but sometimes I attribute that to the Tamoxifen tampering with the moisture levels of my assorted tissues... Mostly, I try not to think about it, because there was no choice. I could've removed both breasts and an arm and my head and I'd still have been up for radiation. 

    Joni - too bad you're so far away. The girls could share an apartment. Or we could trade them for a while...

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited August 2010

    Went to the beach this afternoon with fluffy beach-reading material, Janet Evanovich's "Ten Big Ones." My husband thought he was going to have to give me oxygen from my laughter attack.

    "The door flew open and Carol stood in the doorway, holding a bag of Cheez Doodles. Her hair was smudged with orange doodle dust and stood out from her scalp like an explosion had gone off inside her head. Her mascara was smudged, her lipstick eaten off, replaced with orange doodle stain. Doodle crumbs stuck to the jacket and sparkled in the morning sunlight."

    quote, page 53

    from page 54: "You've got no self-control. You need Chips Anonymous."

    Well, I don't wanna give away the whole sub-plot, but when the gramma talked about choosing to be fed her orange doodles by a naked man -- I had to consider the thought that the author had been lurking along on our thread and used our collective material for this character development.

    Too close to our wack-doodle conversation to be a coincidence, right?? So help me if later in the book she starts stringing them for Christmas decorations and ornaments, we may need to consult representation.

    Love to all of the middies!!!

    It's the weekend!!!!!

    xx00xx00xx00xx00xx

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  • arby
    arby Member Posts: 126
    edited August 2010

    Hey Cookiegal  we're headed to WI in a few days...I've never been there so we thot it was high time to see the Dells and Dodgeville, home of my favorite mast.swimsuit store, Lands' End..  Where do you get your cheese curds?  I'd love to tour a cheese factory.  I hope the heat doesn't follow us on vacation.  Our final destination is Goshen, IN.  Since I'm all about exercising to keep feeling "normal", we'll be taking the bikes along and riding a bit everyday.  But miles may not be as easy to figure out as they are in our farm area of NE.   I don't know of anyway to keep from gaining wt on chemo unless it is to refuse the meds to keep side effects at bay.  The alternative then is to be throwing up and living with diarrhea.  That happened the first treatment, then my onc gave me serious side effect pills and a shot to make the sessions and weeks between tolerable.  Steroids put on the # as did inactivity from feeling so lousy and it was winter and not a time to go to the gym to catch "bugs".   Somebody else please give the gal some hope to maintain or lose wt on chemo.  I like this thread...best wishes to everyone here.  arby

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2010

    Oo-Oo-Oooooh!  Wouldn't that be something, Faith?  Who knows who this thread might be inspiring/corrupting?  (See if they are washing those Doodles down with wine from a box.)  The one redeeming factor of refering to the beloved orange snack by the brand Cheez Doodles (rather than Cheetos brand) is that the phrase "doodle dust" can come of it.  Love it!

    I don't want to create snack factions, but can I be so bold as to ask if anyone out there has done a side by side taste test?  That would be right up my alley and I'd do one in an instant, but for lack of regional availability of the Doodles.  There are a couple off brands around here, but nothing to match the orange-a-liciousness of the actual Cheetos snack.  Are the Doodles really comparable, I wonder, and would it just come down to personal preference?  

    Anyone conducting a taste test, report back.  Especially you, Janet Evanovich!

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  • arby
    arby Member Posts: 126
    edited August 2010

    Hey Cookiegal  we're headed to WI in a few days...I've never been there so we thot it was high time to see the Dells and Dodgeville, home of my favorite mast.swimsuit store, Lands' End..  Where do you get your cheese curds?  I'd love to tour a cheese factory.  I hope the heat doesn't follow us on vacation.  Our final destination is Goshen, IN.  Since I'm all about exercising to keep feeling "normal", we'll be taking the bikes along and riding a bit everyday.  But miles may not be as easy to figure out as they are in our farm area of NE.   I don't know of anyway to keep from gaining wt on chemo unless it is to refuse the meds to keep side effects at bay.  The alternative then is to be throwing up and living with diarrhea.  That happened the first treatment, then my onc gave me serious side effect pills and a shot to make the sessions and weeks between tolerable.  Steroids put on the # as did inactivity from feeling so lousy and it was winter and not a time to go to the gym to catch "bugs".   Somebody else please give the gal some hope to maintain or lose wt on chemo.  I like this thread...best wishes to everyone here.  arby  ps.  Thanks for the inspirational site at rainbowswithinreach.  The colors were delightful the sandcastles, amazing. 

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited August 2010
    Forgot to say hello to Mybails, and welcome!  You too arby.
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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited August 2010

     ARBY It's funny, I lived in Northeast wisconsin, and I have visited Northwest, and Southwest WI, I am USELESS on the other parts of the state. Have never been to Madison, or the dells. However you may be able to hit the Wisconsin State Fair for CREAMPUFFS! I actually like the bar curds more than the state fair type, I think freezing enhances the chewyness. There is a cheese factory people visit...look at discoverwisconsin.com, I think it's on there.

    Enjoy!

    In other news I am headed upstate TODAY...not to prison, but headed back to WORK after a year. Had to buy a real bra today, have been in sports bras all year. Ended up with a Mad Men-esque long line number, the regular ones hurt my scars too much.

    It's so odd, it's like I got used to being a full time cancer patient, now I am going to be normal-ish again.

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited August 2010

    cookie, goodluck to you on your first day back to work, hope all goes well for you.

    Love n hugs. chrissyb

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited August 2010

    Faith, you should let us know the secrets of representation because from what you quoted, I totally believe Janet E is a lurker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  But must say E & Kleenex you both just kill me!  You are so funny!  It's 11:40 PM & DD & I just finished rearranging the living room-one of those wild hair things that we both totally got into!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2010

    Faith--I LOVE Evanovich's books, and I remember that section!  Hilarious!  I was listening to it as an audiobook in the car during work commutes and almost had to pull over  I was laughing so hard!  Such fun!I want to be an old lady like Gramma when I get to be a lot older.  She has soooo much fun.

    Elimar--great idea about a side to side taste test.  I've got to go grocery shopping soon, I'm going to see if I can find Cheez Doodles, I know I can find Cheetos.  If I find both I'll report back!  

    arby--hello and good for you for working so hard to keep the weight off during chemo!  I'm impressed!  I didn't have chemo, so I have no advice to give, but I do admire your determination.  I was so tired during rads that I didn't even fix meals, so I lost some weight, but apparently I had a really unusual reaction to be so tired.  Glad you found us, sorry you have to join the club. 

    Cookie--isn't it odd how we can get used to being a full time cancer patient?  I went through the same thing when I went back to work.  After a week or so you will find that you really like feeling more normal.  Good luck with the new job! 

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  • Kleenex
    Kleenex Member Posts: 764
    edited August 2010

    I think I have an idea for the next book I have to select for my Book Club! Doodle-dust is snort-worthy. Meaning "both the aliteration and the visual image make me snort with laughter," NOT "I am going to organize pulverized Cheez Doodle particles into lines and snort them." Although.... naaaah. It would be too hard to explain in the emergency room.

    I've actually had both Cheetos and Cheez Doodles, albeit not side by side in bowls to compare. I was always a Cheez Doodle girl back in Arizona, but I don't think I've seen them here. I probably WOULD have seen them, because of all that time I spend searching like a madwoman for the Cheetos Balls Elimar uses to decorate her Christmas tree. The Doodles, as I recall, are puffier, with a superior mouthfeel upon compression with the tongue against the roof of the mouth. I also found their cheesiness to be...cheesier, I guess. Now I'm going to have to look for them, because I'm salivating...

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited August 2010

    wont be around for a few days. stupid drs. didnt listen, i now have what they think may be MRSA for the 4th time... anyway, will be back in a few ivs...welcome maybillls sp and arby .. will see you soon. maybe someone will have a laptop i can borrow to fight the boredom... light and love, 3jaysmom

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