I Come to the Garden...

Meece

sheila888

I missed you  Meece  ♥  

Sending Hugs ♥

Meece

Thank you, Sheila!

barbe1958

Amen

Meece

I hope all of you wonderful ladies are doing well.

barbe1958

Status quo here. About to start a new job in Investing and Insurance. Just passed my first level of insurance exams with the same 78% that I got on my mutual funds exam! Good to be learning new things, but scary to start a totally new career at 56!

QCA

Good luck, Barbe!  I know you can be successful in whatever you do!  

Hope all who are mothers have a happy mother's day!

Kathy

barbe1958

Thanks Kathy, I started last Thursday (2 days last week) and was pleased with how well I did in the environment. My "presentation" during role-playing (still training here!) was impressive and I know it!! The other guy just folded like a suitcase...hehehehehhee

Meece

I am really enjoying the new church we are going to .  We sing a lot of the "oldies" but a few new ones mixed in.  DH heard the pastor was suffering a migraine one Sunday and he sought him out to tell him a couple of possible ways to get some relief and a few days later he received a letter from him thinking him for his concern.  The wife of our Sunday School teacher called and left a message last night.  This is more personal communication from this church than we ever received from our former church (other than scheduling our service in the nursery.)

Eph3_12

There is almost nothing better than knowing your church family has your back!

QCA

That is so true, Joni, and Meece, I'm happy you've found this church.  We're lucky enough to enjoy a close-knit church family and I wouldn't take anything for it.  They're like rocks for us, and so are we to them.

Kathy

Meece

It is certainly a different experience.  It also makes me feel that we have more accountability.  A good thing.

3jaysmom

Hi 

guys: really miss you, but in bed a lot! Meece, I'm glad your new church is so great!It will make a big difference in you I know it!

  Keep on prayin, ladies!  3jays

barbe1958

You are all in my prayers...always...but 3jays, I must admit, you are usually near the top!

3jaysmom

Thanks . Barbe. ^{Hope some day to be well enough to work my way DOWN haha 3jays}

3jaysmom

In keeping of the idea Meece first had.. Here's a vine I'm growing, it went crazy this spring.  Enjoy.. I know I am!

3jays

QCA

Hey, 3jays, it's always good to see you post.  Your vine is beautiful!  Do you know what it is?  Doesn't look like a clematis, but ?  You know you're right up there in my prayers too.  Hope today was a good one.

If anyone will, please say a prayer for our friend Doug.  He's been losing weight and last week had fluid withdrawn from a cyst on his pancreas.  The results show precancerous cells, and tomorrow he has a biopsy.  Not looking good.  He's one of the finest men I've ever known, a real servant of God and lots of fun too.  Just always doing something nice for people.  If he does have pancreatic cancer, he'll be the 3rd or 4th in our church, and it's not a huge church by any means.  Thanks for your prayers.

Love to you all.

Kathy

barbe1958

Kathy, Doug is now in my prayers....has anyone investigated your area for cause? I'd get ahold of the CDC or something...that is just too many diagnosed in one small area!! How many in all above and beyond your church? Any idea?

QCA

No, Barbe, to my knowledge this hasn't been investigated.Would you have any idea of where to start?  BTW, I'm also the 9th to get bc and most who've been diagnosed live in the immediate area.  We've also had one young girl with Hodgkin's and a few more with other cancers.

Doug's biopsy is done but no results yet.

Kathy

3jaysmom

Doug is on the prayer list , now Meece.. t it's called a "sky vine" we bought it at Butterfly world. It IS a clematis, but I didn't know THAT for more than a year.. I'm using super-thrive on my plants, lately, and they're doing really well, as you saw. It's hyper B-1 vitamins.. who knew?   3jays

Meece

I love the vine, it is beautiful

Meece

The property I lived on from 1984 to 2004 was away from the city with the nearest neighbor 1 mile away. Since 1972 eight people have lived in the house and three of us have come up with some sort of cancer.  It has been on my mind since Matt was dx'd.

barbe1958

I thought that was a clematis, 3jays, but someone asked before me. 

As for high incidences of cancer in an area, I'd start with the CDC. Wouldn't that make sense? Or the local newspaper - give them the scoop!

QCA

We have clematis too but 3jays' looks like a different variety.  I've never seen one like it around here.  Ours is a white double that grows around the mailbox at the road, and DIL's is a beautiful purple just covered with blooms now.

Doug's doctor said the biopsy looked good, but the path report's not until Tuesday.  Thanks to all for praying for him.  With the pancreatic cyst, he was told to definitely watch his drinking as that's often seen in severe alcoholics.  Doug, however, does not drink at all, which is well known to us and his other friends.

Kathy

barbe1958

I HATE when docs try to turn the blame back on us!!!!!!!! 

Eph3_12

Go see Mom's Night Out for some great entertainment!

QCA

Doug's biopsy results are back.  His wife said today that the pancreas itself did not show cancer, but there are precancerous cells in the fluid from the cyst.  To remove part of it they'll take part of the pancreas and the spleen.  Entire cyst can't be removed because it's somehow growing around a major artery, so part of it will have to be left.  So, good news and bad news.  Surgery will be scheduled soon and I'll keep you posted.

Will check that out, Joni.  I could use a good laugh!

Kathy

barbe1958

Thanks for the update Kathy, he is still in my prayers.

QCA

Thanks Barbe.  

Kathy

Hindsfeet

Hi garden sisters! Hope you all are doing well. Good to see that you are still visiting this site. My last cancer dx was almost 2 1/2 years ago. I rarely think about cancer except when I go in for annual mammograms. I went in recently for my annual mammo's. Today, I saw my oncologist and got the biopsy results. My oncologist thinks my cancer (invasive, grade 3 with the her2+++) migrated to the left breast wall. It was found right on the chest wall. Now I have the grade 3, her 2+++ invasive in the left breast...not on the ducts, on the wall! I'm back to square 1. Not sure what I'm doing. My oncologist wants me to go through treatment for the her2+++ but Herceptin was toxic to my heart. I hate the 15% co pays for the PET scan, MRI, and the echocardiogram....plus surgery. Never stops. I hate the bills after it is all said and done. Pray God gives me wisdom. I' feel at lost to how to feel or what to do. Life is busy for me, so part of me just wants to ignore it and live.