MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Eph3_12

Yes the Bellagio ceiling is his Native.  It was amazing!!!

 

Anonymous

strawberry Rhubarb???  Oh YUM!!!  Gotta get me so e!

Momine

Eli, grrrr! I finally managed to get my h1C down to 5.4 from 5.6 (last stop before pre-diabetes), so don't tempt me with ice cream and iced tea.

Betty14

Hey everyone..

                        I'm new to this section but not new to BCO...I'm 48 years old but I have young kids still at school...my youngest is still in primary school. I guess I don't consider my kids to be 'grown up' just yet. When they leave home and are capable of supporting themselves then I'll consider them to be grown up though they will still remain my 'babies' forever lol

From the few posts I read so far it seems this thread is quite light hearted and fun. Hope to be posting more of my insights here soon:)

<A big wave to everyone>

  

barbe1958

Hi betty, I first read your avatar as betty loves stress!!! hehehehehe

Momine, I reached over 10 before they considered me pre-diabetes as in Canada 5.3 is what they want to see. I am finally on Metformin as I tried for over 6 years to reduce my fasting sugar by diet alone and couldn`t do it so they knew my fasting sugar of over 10 was the real thing. How have you managed to keep yours in the norm? Diet? You have an amazing diet from what I have read over the years.

Momine

Barbe, partly diet, mainly lots of veggies and minimal refined starch. I also do a fair amount of exercise.

elimar86861

Welcome, bettylovestrees!  I also thought it said "stress" and had to look again.

Momine, Eating the fruit (and now veggie) bars instead of ice cream is me being good. 

Betty14

Barbe,

             The way I carry on sometimes you would think I was addicted to stress lol..i'm a bit of a drama queen at times;)

Betty14

Hey Elimar,

                       haha...I might have to change my avatar name....thanks for the welcome.

 

 

barbe1958

Saw this on FB and just had to share! Eat cheetos with chopsticks to avoid the dust. Though, personally, I LOVE sucking the orange off my fingers! The best part for me.

lovewins

love it Barbe good one....learning to use chop sticks was on my bucket list.  I accomplished it this year!  Love to cook with them!

NativeMainer

Hmm, will that keep
the orange off the lips, cheeks and tongue?

elimar86861

Careful, Native, showing any visible orange dust on your person will get you profiled as a drug dealer now, even if you are just a habitual snacker. Perhaps you have noticed others observing you as a snack, with looks on
their faces generally reserved for those suspected of narcotics
possession.  I've seen the looks.  It's not the addicting orange snack that causes the problem, but the fact that one bad apple had to drag Cheetos into their smuggling operation earlier this year and now innocent snackers have to pay the price.  Why, oh why, didn't they just use a Pringles can?

  (Actual false-bottom Cheetos container from Oxycontin bust in MA.  Truer than strange!)

NativeMainer

Elimar--OMG, I did
NOT hear about that!How can anyone
violate the sanctity of a Cheetos can????????I hadn't noticed any odd looks, but I'll be looking for them now.

elimar86861

Not too much going on with the Middie gals, eh?  Me neither.

I don't have anything cancer-y on the event horizon until I go in for my 5 year mammo the end of next month.  I am not anxious at all.  I am just a little torn over whether I should get additional US (back up on mammo, for dense breasts like mine) or whether I should ask for MRI at this 5-year juncture, just to have a really good look.  My Breast Center does have its own in-house MRI  now, making it more convenient than before if I choose that.  What I am afraid of is that MRI might be too sensitive and light up over some unidentified nothing, which I then could not ignore and the whole apple cart would be upset until I ruled out BC.  Guess I am leaning toward US.  It is no secret that I have a fetish for that gliding feeling over the US gel.  Very relaxing.

So, you can see, compared to everything else I have endured, that is hardly something worth mentioning.

Betty14, I hope we did not "stress" you into changing your user name.  Hope to get to know you better and that the time difference doesn't deter you from posting with us some more.  (There is a thread of insomniacs you could find.  They would be up and chatting during your daytime.  Also, a thread of Aussie sisters.  Not that I am sending you away or anything.)

Barbe, I see you have followed suit and now, like Eph, have a pic with your new glasses.  Lookin' good!

What?  No birth announcement from Marlegal yet?  Is the baby waiting for Friday the 13th, I wonder?  (I know I would.)

Last, but not least, welcome KLJ!

barbe1958

I've seen news of a new citizen Logan on Facebook......

Eph3_12

Just finished a mini-fest of Cheetos; get to leave work now for lunch

marlegal

Quick stop...please join me in welcoming Lance Patrick, my newest grandson! Lance joined our family Monday afternoon. He and his mom, our dd, are doing great. So is big brother Cole, who of course has no idea at 16 mos what's in store! I know some of you had dd in your prayers and i thank you. Hugs to all

Now for a regular night's sleep not on baby watch!

KLJ

Congrats marlegal! I will be welcoming a new grandson any day now too! Little Easton should be joining big brother Jayce this week I hope! Baby watch continues for me. I am sure my daughter is getting tired of me asking "any contractions" every time she calls LOL!

Thanks for the warm welcome Elimar! Have a good evening. I'm going to sit back, watch a little T.V. and see if the phone rings. Off to bed with the phone beside me soon!

heartnsoul76

Elimar - I would definitely choose the U/S. I like that gooey feeling stuff, too and I haven't had an U/S since my diagnosis 4 years ago! I'm feeling deprived. I have dense breasts and they offered to let me have an MRI but I would MUCH rather have the U/S. My cancer center doesn't seem to offer it in place of MRIs but I think I'll go about changing that policy. Do they do the U/S the same day as the mammo or do they alternate them every 6 months? I think I'm going to ask for alternating them. Ha - like they'll do what I want them to!

About 2 weeks ago I was tested for the BRCA genes, plus about 30 other new ones that are now available for testing since the Supreme Court ruling last year. I didn't meet my insurance company's qualifications when I was diagnosed because they want two relatives in the same line with certain types of cancer. I've been dabbling in genealogy the last few years and recently found out that one of my mother's aunts died of metastatic cancer when she was in her 50's. So that met the criteria - my mother and her aunt. So now I just have to wait for the results - maybe another week. I only have a son and two brothers and a nephew so at least there are no girls to worry about. So I guess this is just to help in my own decision-making plus it should help the big picture of the relationship between genetics and cancer. Dr. Henry Lynch is considered one of the fathers of genetics in cancer, but in the 1960s none of the other physicians paid attention to him. Now one of the new 30 diseases they test for is the one he based his research on. Here's an interesting blurb on his story and how the medical community FINALLY focused on genetic causes for cancer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC14831…

Momine - looks like my 88 year-old mother and I may be taking a cruise around Greece. She is a wild and crazy woman. When she was in her mid-70's she took a 3-month cruise around the world by herself. Plus in the 1970's she took the QEII around the tip of South America and then back through the Panama Canal. And then several trips to Europe. So she can sing that Johnny Cash song, "I've Been Everywhere" and mean it. They did stop in Athens but she wants to see more of Greece. She said it's the only place left that she feels unfulfilled about, haha. So, I'm hoping this trip comes about. Looks like the best time would be September to mid-October. Since it will be a cruise, what are some of your favorite ports that you would recommend?

Boy, I'm missing for a while and then blah, blah, blah.

Marlegal - congratulations on your newest grandson! Now rest up, I think you're gonna need it!

KLJ - nice to meet you and congratulations on your upcoming new arrival!

I gotta admit, I'm looking forward to being a grandparent.  I miss holding babies.  And kid's birthday parties.  Clowns and magicians and once we had ponies.  

Momine

Heartnsoul, you can't really go wrong in Greece. Most of it is beautiful. As for ports, the one on Hydra is a classic, complete with picturesque donkeys (no cars allowed) and white-washed houses. On the mainland Nafplion is gorgeous as is Galaxidi and Monemvasia. Back in the islands, Simi has a famous harbor front and Chios is supposed to be impressive also. Syros is a fairly big island and has much to see in the main town. Then there is Mykonos, Siphnos, Paros and the list goes on.

elimar86861

Congrats, Marlegal, to you and your family!   KLJ, maybe Easton will get lucky and get born this Friday the 13th.

HnS76,  Not sure you could get US in place of a mammogram.  I've always had it in addition to one.  I'm not even sure if an MRI could be substituted for one.  Since you don't live in a cheap, backwater town like I do, maybe your Breast Center has, or will soon be getting, the US screening machine.  That is suposed to be the wave of the future for dense breasted gals, and it is done in conjunction with an annual mammo.  My Center didn't get the budgetary o.k. to get that, so I have to ask for the regular diagnostic US.  I don't know if that creates a problem with insurance, but they always seem reluctant to add it on.   Good Luck on the genetic testing!  With that worry removed, you will be able to enjoy the travels with your super-cruising mom all the more.

barbe1958

Marl, why did I think he was named LOGAN?????

My doc ordered an US on my chest as I had some suspicious lumps a couple of years ago. When I went in to the breast clinic they said THEY decide if I get an US!!! They wanted a mammo first and I said I had nothing to mammo!!! They insisted, but then I wouldn`t let them pull the tiny inch of skin on my LE side into the mammo!! They finally conceded and `let` me get an US. Idiots!!!

(The tech said òh we do mammos on ladies will LE all the time!` I said, well, you shouldn`t!!!!!) I don`t think she even KNEW what LE was even when I used the big word lymphadema!

Tomboy

Barbe, is that true? even with lumpectomy? i wish, cause my first  B-Sh*T B.S. had me doing them. and i did develop breast LE. my new B.S. is having me do breast mri's,last time, AND the next time. and the last mammo i had, they were trying to squeeze in skin that was properly on my side, under my arm to take a look at swollen nodes. in no way could it be considered my breast. Pi$$*D me off, and hurt.

barbe1958

kathe, I had LE before the mammo! But, having said that, anything can set off LE.

elimar86861

If cabin pressure in a airplane or pressure of a blood pressure cuff can set off lymphedema, why is it such a stretch to believe that mammogram compression of damaged chest and nodes could not do it? 

Eph3_12

Heartnsoul--does your Mom want to adopt me?  I'd love to cruise to Greece.  That 3 month around the world cruise sounds divine too. 

Has anyone heard from the newlywed, Dianarose?

Tomboy

elimar, that is true, huh!? then how come they still do them on us? seems like by now they would have a better way. i am so done with all of this. i am very depressed today. am just done with it all. not to mention that  i was on the everywoman counts program, when i got diagnosed. and now california is getting rid of that program, and now i have to choose a state medical plan that doesnt make any sense to me. and i am not working yet, so i must. and so far, it sounds like they will only pay for clinical trials! i don't want to be forced to have to do clinical trials. and i dont think that i can stay with my drs that i am already used to, and like to complain about! and i see nothing for LE therapy. ok i am officially a third world woman. if i don't make enough money to qualify for regular health care, and if i do get medi-cal, and then abuse my card, i could end up in prison, where i would then get healthcare. i think. so, maybe i should just go try to rob a bank. if it works, i have money. if it doesnt, i get healthcare in prison. Gaaaah... 

MinusTwo

I agree about the Mammo.  When I found the lump that turned out to be recurrence or mets, the doc approved a ULS instead of an MRI.  The center insisted on doing a Mammo before the ULS.  I argued with everyone except the CEO, but finally gave up because I was too scared about the lump.  Turns out they couldn't see anything on the Mammo since I've had a double mastectomy w/implants (no duh), so they went to ULS and immediately to ULS biopsy.  We're just not as dumb as they must think.  I hadn't thought about the LE.  I'll argue harder next time.

heartnsoul76

Momine - thanks for your input on the beautiful places to go!  I'll see which ones are on which itinerary to try to get the best ports in.  Then I'll turn it over to a travel agent so they can find the good deals.  I used to be a travel agent for American Express - that's the only job I regret quitting, haha.

Eph - I'm sure my mother would adopt you!  I'm the one that's been delaying this trip - y'all would have been back by now.  I've had some health problems over the spring (back, bronchitis, teeth, UGH!) but I finally decided I'm never going to feel good again so I may as well go for it and hope we can successfully hobble around.

My BS advised me not to let the mammo technicians pinch me when they're trying so hard to get a shot because it might cause lymphedema.  Needless to say, he's my favorite doctor - he pays attention!

Elimar - I'm only supposed to have annual mammos but they said I could alternate MRIs every 6 months if I wanted to.  Maybe I can alternate U/S every 6 months.  But I'll have to check to see if they're using an U/S screening machine.  Is that the difference from regular ultrasounds?

Kathec - I'm sorry you're having such a bad day.  "Gaaah" seems like an appropriate response.  I hope everything gets worked out very quickly to your satisfaction.