MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Anonymous

welcome home, Eli! You really ARE an overachiever! Rest up and heal!

chrissyb

Welcome home Eli!!! I have been checking each day for word of you and I'm so glad you have been the ever over achiever in the healing department.......you go girl!!! Now you rest and recover.......so good to see you through!

Love n hugs. Chrissy

heartnsoul76

Hey Elimar, you did it! You got out sooner than ASAP! Silly things like medical procedures can't keep a good over-achiever down. Yes, a hospital is no place rest, glad you are home.

Eph - I'm scared/excited to see that movie too. Are you going to an IMAX to see it? I can't believe how anxious the trailer makes me feel - can't imagine the whole movie.

Valjean

E~ Welcome, welcome home!!!! Take it easy, let yourself be pampered.

Gentle hugs.

staynsane

Yay Eli- May your plumbing never have to be "snaked" again!

barsco1963

Welcome home Eli! So glad that the fine Dr let you come home sooner rather than later. Let the healing begin! Thinking of you.

Welcome to the middies Carla. I sure hope that you can get to the bottom of what is causing you such pain. Stick around for lots of fun, support and encouragement from everyone here.

elimar86861

I saw my scar when I showered today and it looked fabulous, almost better than one from the previous surgery that looks like the remnant from a knife fight. Yes, I am still sore, but I would say that pressure (from edema and -gas-) is causing most of my woes today. I cannot begin to tell you how great it feels not to be wearing any foreign devices in or on my body. Yahoo!!! After healing, I will be at the mercy of the follow-up scanning (same as B/C, which of course I am still being monitored for but am a lot less worried about,) so as great as i feel, in the back of my mind I know I am not nearly out of the woods yet.

Trying to achieve a nice balance between mobility and resting today. Have a few loony hospital tales to share, but I will save those for during the week. What's a hospital stay without a bit of annoying nonsense, right?

jocanuck1951

Very happy for you E! Hooray for great plumbers😎 Jo

Eph3_12

Ok -Gravity is VERY intense! Sandra Bullock deserves another Academy Award. George is wonderful to look at.

This afternoon the "Classic" series at the movies was showing "The Matrix" (I know, how can that possibly be Classic already?) I had never seen it on big screen & it was even better than the 1st time on the TV. Loved it. Keanau is so HOT in that movie!!!!!!!!!!!

marlegal

lol Eph...agree that Keanu is easy on the eyes! Sounds like Gravity is a must see from all I've heard. Will have to find a movie buddy!

Eli, slow and steady girl...you're home, take it easy for a while. Ger some meat on those bones!

cakes

Eli - Glad hear you are home and on the mend. Take care.

Valjean

E~ Just a simple, "Hey there!"

Having my yearly diagnostic (this time) mamm tomorrow morning (actually THIS morning, as it is Monday AM already). I'll be glad when that's over. I so hate that dang plate trying to insert itself into my chest - damn, that hurts!

later gators!

barsco1963

Val - hoping for a quick, painless mammo for you today that shows nothing but healthy tissue.

Eli - I trust you are relaxing with a good book or some senseless tv show and letting your overachieving body heal some more.

macatacmv

Val, thinking of you this morning. Hopefully only minor squishing and all good news.

Eli, yay for the fast turn around time in hospital, first shower, and feeling of freedom from medical devices!!!!!!! Now it's healing time.

Has anyone here heard of  tong ren healing? I should probably post this question on the alternative thread. But anyway, I took my friend up to a session on Saturday and am still trying to decide what I think about it. She felt some healing and seemed encouraged by the kind people. They were willing to treat her unlike some local acupuncturists. 

I am resting up for my appt on Wednesday with the rheumatologist. I was lucky there was a cancellation in her schedule.

elimar86861

Val, once again I have every confidence that you will do just fine with your mammo. Can't remember if you get your results same day. Hope you don't have to wait for them and can come back quick and let us all know the good news.

p.s. Around here, "pampering" just means meeting with a touch less resistance whenever I ask someone to do something. (There was still a handprint on the shower wall from the work we had done LAST WEEK., and my son was reluctant to clean that because it was not his handprint. Yes, really!) My husband IS doing all the cooking. While that sounds great, he never met a spice he didn't like and I am all about blandness right now. Gotta watch him.

macatacmv

E, we crossed posts. Lol about the pampering. How quickly they forget what we do(did) for them. I don't understand why we gotta ask for something to be done when we just do it. My DD makes a fake crying sound whenever I ask her to do something, it makes me laugh. Eventually she gets around to whatever it was. It's nice having her here,tho.

barsco1963

Eli - Your son sounds like he might be around the same age as mine. More than once he has commented "I didn't leave it there" or "I didn't dirty it" etc.......

Mac - my guy doesn't make the crying noise but he does at times express his objection to it. Oh they are so hard done by aren't they? I remember having chores to do every Sat. morning and they were to be done before going anywhere. With 6 girls we had a rotation schedule so you didn't get the same job every week which I guess was fair. But of course the boys had no chores. What's up with that?

elimar86861

Here's a tale from the hospital: I got to my own room at 2:30 in the afternoon. By 5:30 I was up and walking laps around the floor, which I continued to do a few at a time reaching a total of 12 that first day. I had dozed a bit in between but, by 9:30, I had just had my vitals taken and was ready to get a few hours of real sleep. At 10:00, someone comes waking me, saying "I have to put your Fall Risk bracelet on." I said, "I'm not a fall risk. I already did 12 laps around this floor without help and didn't fall once. And why on Earth would you wake a patient up for THIS? You could have come at 4:00, 6:30, 8:15, whatever, when I was awake. This is ridiculous and I'm not wearing it." She said, "Oh, here everyone has to have a red or yellow bracelet. Everyone is a fall risk. No one is a green." Long story short, they never did get one on me AND when I get the hospital feedback questionnaire, this will get a whole paragraph.

You also have to realize that if everyone is a fall risk, then it would only be necessary to identify the high risk people with a red bracelet, as everyone without a bracelet would be assumed to be "yellow" anyway. Duh!

Still, I was happy enough to realize that neither my common sense nor feistiness had been surgically removed; and I have always found hospital policy debates to be therapeutic. (Where are the toolbar smileys when you need them?)

Anonymous

LOL Eli!!! The surgical removal of common sense, feistiness, and/or sense of humor would be the greatest assault on our seemingly "slice and dice" selves!

Loral

Eli ...Your nurse...

Wow!!!!!

marlegal

lost a post!

Eli, loved that story! I don't think you can handle the real thing yet, but what girl doesn't love a good lip gloss?

marlegal

Valjean

E~ Lol on your Fall Risk bracelet commotion! How crazy they are!!

No results today for the mamm. Never on the day it's done. I will call Wed morning (gone tomorrow) or I'll get that silly letter notification in the mail. Had my DXA also; those results should be received by my Dr. in a week I was told.

Good to have you back E~

I have my toolbar up above but it doesn't work for me. I can highlight each square but they don't work. I really miss the Bold.... oh, well.... certainly not the end of the world! lol

macatacmv

ha, Cheetos lip gloss!

E, glad you are home, out of the risky place to fall down.

barsco, I know, we always had chores when I was a kid too. Every Sat morning. No fighting you knew what you were suppose to do and did it. My kids use to argue over whose turn it was to do the dishes until it was too much for me and I sent them to their rooms and did it myself. Wait, that might have been their plan all along.

My DD is trying to help me by cleaning out my shop, but she is "allergic" to dust. So she worked 3 hours yesterday and is now too sick. These kids!! It was a nice thought.

elimar86861

Mar, How thoughtful of you to recognize the delicateness of my digestive system right now. That is the perfect solution!

I would like to be able to say I am back to wolfing down my favorite orange snack food, but that would just be wishful thinking. Although Cheetos ARE "low residue" (which is the kind of diet I have to be on for a while,) there's no need for me to push it. I'll get around to them soon enough.

It would be another story if the Cheetos Cannon qualified as a home medical device though!

Eph3_12

Those strawberries look like they've had the jam scared out of them!

barsco1963

Lol Eph - I thought you were losing it until I scrolled to the top and saw that Eli had changed the picture.

Eph3_12

That is not out of the realm of possibility however!

Katlebbie

El .... I am so happy that you are back and loved the bracelet story! I hope you continue to get better each day!

Love all the new posts.....who would have thought cheetos lip gloss????

heartnsoul76

Those strawberries are so cute! Gonna copy that idea for a future Halloween party.

Elimar - nothing like a good hospital policy debate, eh? And so typical of them to come in when everyone is just going to sleep!

I had my 3-month MO appointment today and UGH! She scheduled me for a brain MRI next week. I knew if I mentioned the pain I sometimes get in my temples that this would be a possibility. I said something to my son last night about being reluctant to say anything and he said "Wouldn't you like to know that everything is alright?". My doctor said the exact same thing today so that's the way I'm going to try to look at this.

The close monitoring is good, but it's bad... I don't want to do it! I sense an Ativan moment coming up!