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  • walker2222
    walker2222 Member Posts: 558
    edited February 2011

    Lynniea best of wishes today

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011
    Hope the docs work up a cancer-kickin' treatment plan for you today, Lynniea.  They are all somewhat nasty, but doable, but the best part is you are moving a step closer to putting this in your PAST.
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  • sunangel27
    sunangel27 Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2011

    Howling wolves?? That is what I feel like doing at times!!! heheheeeeeeee

     elimar.......don't get me started! I will have to go get avacados and onions!! I LOVE it and lots of onions in it too.....guac.....

    Marie, and mj :  it sucks......sometimes I just want to understand why we have to lose those so dear to us so soon......it just doesn't make sense...         and NO NO parent should have to lose a child.......

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  • sunangel27
    sunangel27 Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2011

    Lynniea thinking of you today!!!!!!

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  • Raj20
    Raj20 Member Posts: 1,112
    edited February 2011

    Today I am very upset  because  of Income Tax. I got medical re-imbursement against  my medicines during 2010-11 financial year i.e. mar 2010- Jan,2011. My accountant  has  added the amount  as my inclome  alongwith my salary income  for calculation of  Tax. I am now planning  not to take any amount against re-imbursement  of medical expenses from my office to avoid payment  of income tax  in next year. This is govt. policy.. no one can run away or hide it. Instead I will  join insurance so that atleast  the expenses be made through insurance not from my office.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    Raj, I am sorry for your tax frustration.  But also something in me also feels like the world is a smaller place...there you are in India in your daily life juggling the medical expenses and ins benefits, and here we are halfway around the world reading and RELATING.  I was kind of saving this humor pic for closer to the U.S. tax deadline (and it's April 18 this year everybody) but I like it so much, I'm not going to wait...

                                     Ziggy

    In case if you don't know, Raj, that is ZIGGY, a newspaper comic character from the 70's.

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  • Raj20
    Raj20 Member Posts: 1,112
    edited February 2011

    elimor, I agree with you  as this problem is not  only mine. This world has changed  to death. No alternative .. just  to be in self realisation and keep mum. 

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2011

    why is it the 18th instead of the 15th E?

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  • Raj20
    Raj20 Member Posts: 1,112
    edited February 2011

    In our country  dateline is Feb .

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    Eph, I heard it was due to a holiday falling on the 15th this year, something that Wash. D.C. observes. 

    In order to be a know-it-all, I looked it up and it is Emancipation Day.  It honors about 3,000 people who were slaves or in servitude in D.C. and those lucky ones got freed and compensated 9 mos. before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamationand now they get a whole day to themselves, but only in D.C.  And now this year tax procrastinators everywhere are celebrating!

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited February 2011

    Ohhh, I was so happy looking at the grandbaby pictures and laughing at the "famous" relatives and then there smack in my face is the word TAX! I will be a procrastinator then for sure :)

    Once upon a time in a far off land (I was 18) I had lunch with Cheech and Chong. I ran into them at the YMCA where I was having a cheap lunch during my work day. They were very funny and when they asked how many kids were in my family I said 2 and Cheech said my parents had
    "good rhythm" (catholics) I am sure at the time it went right over my head, it wasn't until I asked a friend about it that I understood.

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  • leisaparis
    leisaparis Member Posts: 587
    edited February 2011

    My father's cousin married Stonewall Jackson's daughter. That's as close to fame as I'll ever get.

    lynniea...good luck today

    Chrissy...love the new pic

    one of these days I'll have to put one of myself on here, just to give ya all a glimps of my fat little face

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  • VickiSam
    VickiSam Member Posts: 407
    edited February 2011

    Does anyone else suffering from insomnia?  I continue to have bouts ... sucky!

    Thinking about life, breast cancer, recurrence and 'what if'.

    Vicki Sam 

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited February 2011

    I have bouts of insomnia so often that it's my "new normal."  (By the way, I detest that phrase.  Is it new or is it normal?)  I get the What ifs? and the Why didn't anyone tell me about that BEFORE I signed papers and the waking up from a nightmare of reliving radiation or one of the surgeries or whatever in a total panic. I've learned to just get up and watch TV or read or clean house or something. 

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  • lynniea
    lynniea Member Posts: 611
    edited February 2011

    Home from DR.  Appt.  I am having my port put in on March 9th for chemo and a sentinel biopsy at the same time.  I start chemo on the 16th of March.  They are doing dose dense AC------> T 4 weeks each every 2 weeks so that is 16 weeks.  No surgery until after.  Praying other biopsy comes back negative.

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  • mscal02
    mscal02 Member Posts: 522
    edited February 2011

    I saw on the Dr Oz show that tart cherry juice helps with insomnia and other things. Drink it an hour or so before bedtime. I tried it and it really works. My DH drinks it for inflamation in his joints. I purchased it first in the natural foods section at Kroger for around $5 a quart. I found it in concentrated form at walmart in their refridgerated juice section for $8.88. It makes 3 quarts. The Whole foods market charges $8.00 for a quart. I was glad to find it at Walmart.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2011

    I find that if I keep calm, and just pick up my book....then my body allows itself to shut back down. If I get up and go on the computer, it takes longer to settle down again.

    Sounds like a good plan Lynniea!

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  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,946
    edited February 2011

    Cherry juice? Will add it to the cd I am still waiting for....looking forward to it since I am easy to hypnotize!

    Insomnia....I woke up at 4am...made some hot chocolate (apparently form the mess in the kitchen!), went back to sleep only to have a teacher call me at 6:15 asking baout subs!! ARGH! Fell asleep again until 7:30 and then was groggy for a couple of hours...obviously interupted the good sleep!....things will get better!(repeat after me....)

    Yes, I agree Barbe..if I read for awhile, I sleep. always worked before...but I can't seem to relax in this new place I am in (well...new since surgery...6 months? Still does no tfeel like home)..i can sleep at my friends' places ...can sleep in hotels...can't sleep here....obviously need to swich my brain off somehow....next time, i will just come on to this website if I can't sleep (though my spelling ends up being CRAZYwrong!)

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2011

    Sandee, the spell check - if you remember to use it - is the ABC icon at the end of the tool bar above the posting box.....

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  • VickiSam
    VickiSam Member Posts: 407
    edited February 2011

    Native Maine --  Hilarious!  I agreed ...I do not remember signing up for any of of this .. and the multiple symptoms .. I personally think that if we are given a list with all side efforts during and after treatment ... the majority of us .. would run for the nearest exit.

    My new normal ...

    Vicki Sam

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  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,946
    edited February 2011

    Thanks Barbe! I am actually a very good speller..just when I go too fast (ie. not paying attention) or have taken a sleeping thing, my spelling suffers (and the messages get odd). I will try to remember the spell check though at those times! (my memory has been way off these past two weeks...forgot my purse and keys at school tonight and had to run to a friend's house to use her cell phone to call someone who was leaving shcool to ask if he could drop it off! )yowsers!

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  • VickiSam
    VickiSam Member Posts: 407
    edited February 2011

    Barbe,  I've tried reading .. I get stimulated - mentally ...  Cherry Juice .. I will try this.

    Thank you,

    Strength and Courage,

    Vicki Sam 

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  • mscal02
    mscal02 Member Posts: 522
    edited February 2011

    Be sure to get tart cherry juice!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    Well, I laughed about THIS latest news today, but I don't know why...

    Better think positive: Pessimism can block therapy

    If you read the few paragraphs at the end, it recommends what VickiSam was just asking for...getting the honest information uf front.  Wouldn't that be a novel approoach?  But wait...WAIT! 

    This article is really saying that if doctors can earn your trust and get you to believe that you will have a positive outcome, then you may very well experience a placebo effect and actually experience a more positive outcome.  Wish I never read the article, because the next time the doctor looks in my face all sincere tellling me I did great with treatment and my prognosis is all wonderful, I'll just think it's some Med-School Method Acting and that he's trying to work some placebo juju on me.

    "While there's a lot yet to learn, for now doctors should at least try building closer relationships with their patients to encourage trust in recommended treatments, said Mass General's Gollub " 

    So, you will want your doc to be a pretty convincing con artist, that you can actually believe in all the positivism projected onto you, to get the best effect.

    What I mean to say is articles like this disturb me.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2011

    Notice they don't say MAKE THE TREATMENTS BETTER, they just say get the patients to TRUST IN the recommended treatments.  And the Academy Award goes to...

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2011

    Yes, I am the first to admit in having trust issues when it comes to doctors.  I am probably a lone isolated freak that way.  (She wrote facetiously.)

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  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,946
    edited March 2011

    tart...got it!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited March 2011

    Oh, sorry that I thread-jacked the tart cherry topic with my disgruntledness. 

    The singlemost thing that has improved my (formerly awful) sleep pattern is Vitamin D.

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  • Sandeeonherown
    Sandeeonherown Member Posts: 1,946
    edited March 2011

    Really? Not doing it for me but then my heart and mind are not settled so it does not really matter what I do at the moment...this too shall pass.

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  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 2,264
    edited March 2011
    Lynn that is the same chemo cocktail I had, more than 5 yrs ago now.  I'll look forward to seeing you write those words in the future hon :)
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