I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

IllinoisLady

Enjoyful

Still no biopsy results.  Seriously?  

juliaanna

SunflowersM, There is a double strength flu vaccine that is recommended for folks over 65.  From what I heard, Medicare was not paying for it in 2012.  Around here, only the physicians were getting supplies, not the clinics like they have at Costco and the pharmacies.

Blue, Hope you feel better soon.  

Athena, Sending positive, healing thoughts your way.

Craze-E, hope tomorrow is the day you get your results.

Wabbit

E ... are we going to have to sic our posse on those test results delaying idiots?  I have a hammer I could bring.  That seems appropriate.   

Wabbit

I can't find where anybody said anything shocking but I'm going to post this anyway.  

 

Now it's up to youse guys to give the kitty a reason to look like that.

suzieq60

Just dropped Poppy off at the vet to board while we are away - she didn't meow once in the car - usually does when she recognises the roundabout near the vet. It's only until Tuesday afternoon, but I feel mean.

Looking forward to seeing my bubby - Steve is going to absolutely be heartbroken to leave him when we come home.

Had an awful day at work - I finished some code and demonstrated it to the business analyst and testers - they then decided it should provide a warning in a different place - spent all afternoon trying to get it to do it - did so but it's not 100% fullproof, so now I'll be thinking about it all weekend.

Cranky Susie (who will be in a better mood tomorrow when I see little Nick)

Enjoyful

Pat Toomey's remarks re: the background checks bill just confirmed what everyone already knew:  Republican congressmen don't want to support anything the President supports.  Because they don't like him.  

Those assholes are hurting people and our government and they don't even care.  I don't understand.

Anonymous

Whooooooaaaa - Juliana - THANK YOU  Next year I go to the Doctor's ofice - even tho it's a lnger wait!  hadn't heard of that b4.  SERIOULSY THANK YOU THANK YOU - this flu was AWFUL.

Anybody over 65 - make sure you read Juliana's post!!!

IllinoisLady

E, I read Toomey's remarks as well and I don't get it either.  I guess it comes down to the same thing as the airline sequester that the Senate has fixed now.....if it doesn't somehow have a huge personal impact they can all just keep on whistling while doing all possible to stop the Pres. from doing what is the right thing. 

My viewpoint would be.....don't be surprised that it is noticed and adjudicated during elections.  JMO but the rt. while possibly stopping the President in some ways will not get where they want to go.

Amused at the clever Bush library tactics of letting people pick the scenario for the WAR he instigated.  Clever but I don't think in the end it is going to do that much for him.  First you steal at least one election and then you have to steal the truth from history so you won't look so bad.  Sad....just sad. 

Jackie

gardengumby

Not over 65 yet - or I'd already be retired... 

Sunflowers - I do NOT like the side-effects of Advair.  I personally haven't experienced many of them, as I take it VERY rarely.  BUT - right now I'm more worried about developing full-fledged COPD.  If I cannot get my lungs under control I won't have much of a life.  To be honest our allergies are one of the primary reasons I'm not really very high on remaining in Western Washington - but - I have not been able to budge my hubby.  He's rather stubborn, and I'm really rather fond of him    so where he is I will be also.  Hubby has actually taken Advair more than I as his asthma is more of the acute variety and mine is more insidious - but when he takes it he gets really terrible stomach pain in addition to becoming very distant emotionally.  I get a bit hyper and end up hurting people's feelings because I become insensitive.

Though both of us have albuterol inhalers - he never uses his (he gets rebound asthma if he uses albuterol - gets a bit better and then a zillion times worse).  I use mine VERY rarely.  Most asthma medications screw with my mood.  But letrozole also screws with my mood - so this time the Advair in conjunction with letrozole is in some ways not quite so bad.  The letrozole depresses me (or maybe it's the lack of oxygen!!! ) and the Advair hypes me - so they seem to offset each other a bit.  Anyway, I haven't noticed quite as much of an effect with Advair this go-round. 

crazy4carrots

From Think Progress:

On Wednesday, a five-year-old Kentucky boy accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister with a gun he’d been given as a birthday present. The weapon, a small rifle, was manufactured specifically for children’s use.

The boy’s weapon was a “My First Rifle” .22-caliber gun from Keystone Sporting Arms’ youth branch, Crickett. Crickett’s website markets itself “especially for youth shooters.” The firearms come in several neon colors, and the website even has a “kids corner” featuring pictures of small children with guns:

Crickett does not manufacture bullets. The company offers books for “Grades 2-3 and up,” and says their guns are “ideally sized for children four to ten years old.”

The militarization of children has been tragically spotlighted in the aftermath of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut last December. Since then, the country has paid heart-sickening attention to the myriad accidentalshootings that have taken place around the country, and the growth of a market ofbulletproof children’s clothing.

In one week alone last month, four people were shot by toddlers.

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So --- think of all the children's toys that have been taken off the market because they've been deemed "dangerous" -- Jarts, anyone?  Or the strict regs about infant car seats, cribs etc.  And yet, a company is allowed to sell children's weapons with no problem?  What is wrong, wrong, wrong with this picture?

River_Rat

 "And yet, a company is allowed to sell children's weapons with no problem?  What is wrong, wrong, wrong with this picture?"

I'd love to hear the rationalization for that...I'm sure Wayne LaPierre is working on it....disgusting piece of inhumanity.

Anonymous

gg - I've made an appt. to see my doc next Tuesday.  Taking a "poll" and most of my friends with asthma seem to be taking Singular.  Sure I have the "remains" of bronchitis, viral, from the flu - and it's triggered asthama.  Am allergic to almost all antibiotics, so refuse to go that route.  This is TMI, but only mucus in am when I wake up - and it's not green so don't think it's an infection.

Head-desk-brick wall. So loathe to add another medication to the pill box.  Go the ok to stop arimide after 5 1/2 years in february, can't tell if I feel better cuz got flu march 2 - oh, well....

ENJOY - call the docs - it is ridiculous that the hammer bearers haven't gotten results by now.

Bren-2007

Hi Everyone,

Was hoping to see if Enjoyful got the biopsy results yet.  Also checking on Athena ... sure wish we would hear something.

Sunnyflowers ... Hope you feel better soon!

hugs,

Bren

suzieq60

Hi girls - all ready to go, but I'm an hour early Steve takes forever to get ready, so I just got him up. Meanwhile, I've locked up and just waiting for his toiletries to put in the bag and we're set.

Athean - hear our ROAR!!!

IllinoisLady

Suzie, hope you have a wonderful time. 

Athena ( roaring with Suzie ). 

E....how horrible to still be waiting....entirely too long.

C for C, and RR ---  what total insanity  --  it is true that kids often seem to grow up a bit quicker, but encouraging the process and in such a way is beyond the pale.  JMI but kids should be kids for as long as they can.  They are going to be  ( at least that is the huge hope ) responsible adults for a very long time. 

Had a major, major pour down right before I came home from work today.  Knew we would have rain, but seldom here do I have to turn my windshield wipers on full blast.  It was a long way home or so it seemed.

Jackie

CherrylH

The NRA will day you're never too young to exercise your Second Amendment rights! Disgusting.

IllinoisLady

Enjoyful

GOOD NEWS:  Biopsy results negative for cancer.

BAD NEWS:  False negatives for bone biopsies are common.

*headdesk*

Oncologist is fairly certain it's cancer so we're going ahead with the Tykerb/Aromasin clinical trial. 

Gosh, I'm SOOOOO glad I went through torture for nothing! 

Enjoyful

Illinois -

I'm an honorary black person.  Does that count?

IllinoisLady

I'm an honorary three dollar bill.....

Jackie

Yup -- it counts.

alexandria58

Wait, what??? Why bother if there's common false negatives?? Any chance it's true negative??  Hoping here.

Also waiting to hear from Athena.

pupmom

YAAAAY, E!!! So good to hear good news on this dreary, snowy (can you believe?) day!

IllinoisLady

Enjoyful

Alexandria -

Yes, there's a chance it's true negative but the PET/CT and MRI point to cancer.  I signed up for a clinical trial today and as part of that they're scheduling a CT and bone scan.  Perhaps those will shed some light on this very murky and frustrating ordeal.

Why order a biopsy?  Well, first of all, I didn't KNOW that false negatives were common.  Secondly, I was hoping for an answer one way or the other.  Last, I was hoping to learn the cancer's pathology.  It's been mutating and changing each time it's come back.  I wanted to make sure that we were treating the right type of cancer.  BUT....I guess we won't know.

alexandria58

E - it must be so frustrating!!  Fingers crossed for true negative, but in any event, rooting for you.

IllinoisLady

from Ringside Seat....no surprises here:

GUNS DON'T SUPPORT SENATORS. VOTERS DO.  

It has long been axiomatic among political professionals that gun-rights supporters vote based on the gun issue, while those who favor more restrictive gun laws don't. Consequently, office-holders believe that contradicting the National Rifle Association (NRA) carries a political cost, while supporting the NRA's position doesn't, even when the group is at odds with what most Americans want. That may partly explain why expanded background checks, which polls have shown enjoy the support of nine out of ten Americans, weren't able to overcome a Republican filibuster to pass the Senate.

But that conventional wisdom may turn out to be wrong. A new round of polls from Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm (but one with an admirable record for accuracy) shows that senators who voted against the background check bill have suffered losses in their standing among home-state voters since the bill failed. And polls in Louisiana and North Carolina show Senators Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagen, both of whom are up for re-election next year, getting high marks from their constituents for voting in favor of background checks.

Meanwhile, Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire has been getting the kind of news coverage few politicians want, with angry constituents confronting her at town meetings over her opposition to the background-check bill. She made the national news when the daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary principal went to one of Ayotte's town meetings and asked her how the "burden" Ayotte was worried about imposing on gun-shop owners stacked up against the burden on victims of gun violence.

Perhaps by the time the next election rolls around, all this will be forgotten. But at the moment, it looks like, for the first time in many years, those who oppose any and all restrictions on guns may actually be paying a price for the position they've chosen to take. Imagine that.

Anonymous

I have a new mantra:  TRUE NEGATIVE, TRUE NEGATIVE, TRUE NEGATIVE

this is really enough to make even a crazy person crazier - really, more apples & sugar cubes, plus wine, going your way!

Enjoyful

My horse comes home on Saturday, I have hard cider in the fridge, and tomorrow is my last day of one of my Jobs.  Life is good!

CherrylH

Crazee E, welcome homey.My new BFF!!!!!