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

IllinoisLady

Just saying hi this evening....it is hard to keep up here.  You all sound strong, competent an confident  -- or now and then gullible.  Nothing so wrong with that.  Maybe it is another way to hope......because in that regard I'd have to say I'm gullible as well. 

Hopefully I'll get up to speed ( in a month or two ) and learn to identify you all better.  I'm not near as sharp as most of you....but that is part of the joy in sharing the company. 

Hope you all have a great night. 

Jackie

Ang7

My family also wonders why I keep coming back to this place.

Reading about all of your lives somehow keeps me grounded.  If that makes any sense.

RetiredLibby

Even my DH, Mr. Perfect, is puzzled why I spend time on BCO. I remind him that my bc came back, and I remain for the community. I don't venture much outside here (certainly almost never to the alt threads!) and only occasionally chime in outside here to help -- mainly because I had a recurrance and that terrifies newbies.



I stay here because I know a lot of women, have been around a long time (date on avatar not withstanding, I joined in July 2007), and have friendships here I cherish. And I can help women here on this thread, too.



Libertroll

pupmom

Ang, that does make perfect sense. This board and the friends I've made here have put bc in perspective. It's not the overwhelming boogey "man" it was before. I now know the disease can be managed and one can live a normal life even after that dreaded dx.

1Athena1

I am so keenly aware of the fact that I need BCO that I don't even bother to justify it to myself. You enter the cancer world and you don't get to say when you exit it.

Mostly though, as my dear friend the libertroll has just said, the friendships here are invaluable to me. They have helped and enriched my life more than I can say.

PERMISSION TO RANT AS A RESIDENT OF THE CITY WHOSE MOTTO IS "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION":

So the Republican Party platform this year has written in --amongst many other things-- that the party does NOT support DC statehood or expansion of voting power in congress ('you have all these democrat workers who work for the federal government, so the federal government is democrat, so they have enough representation in congress' - that's how someone from the party reasoned it on NPR this morning - I am paraphrasing). And the platform will also call on the DC city council to expand gun ownership riules (I forget the details).

Big GOPvernment!

I live in a dictatorship, and I am in the capital of the "leader of the free world." The irony never ceases to amaze. Some of our rulers would like to shove imaging devices up our vaginas and guns down our throasts, we have no vote outside a house committee on Congress, and the people who do this are so stupid that they couldn't find their rear-end in the dark if they had a torch and a map.

And our city representatives never seem to have met an anti-corruption law they didn't like to break. 

Thank you for listening. :-)

CLC

"[T]he people who do this are so stupid that they couldn't find their rear-end in the dark if they had a torch and a map." 

This made me chuckle.  It would be entertaining to see them try.

lassie11

I like to come here because I learn new stuff - like Athena's post above.  Primarily though, it provides a grounding place for discussions about breast cancer with the effect that it doesn't become a constant in my conversations elsewhere.  It's perhaps a focus point and life outside here carries on mostly as before.

IllinoisLady

Sounds like part and parcel of the Bobsey triplets...Romney, Ryan & Akin.  I too treasure the many friends I have made on BC. Org.  Hadn't a clue how to "blog" when diagnosed, but knew I needed to be hooked in with people here because alone was not the place to be --- and I stay because it is my security blanket now. 

Jackie

Anonymous

I'm with HL. Only hang here, and HAPPY TO HELP if one of the gangstas need support, information, entertainment, this is my place - venture out to read for information that might still help ME ( going into year 6 on Arimidex) but have learned my lesson(s) from various sources at BCO to just stay quiet. Feel I still have valuable experience to share, but no longer willing to take the flack for it.

Interesting reading for today ( for those not reading the New York Times) chuckled with the reference to Colonial Times, heck, we learned that analogy FIRST here at Yes/No.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/collins-the-sexual-spirit-of-76.html?_r=2&hp

Blue - understand completely re: hot & cold, remember to drink LLOTSA water after strenuous massage...gotta pee out that lactic acid, or whatever the toxins are that are now floating about inside..

Chickadee

Athena, surprised they haven't figured out how to disenfranchise PG and Montgomery county. Lots more Dems to run off if they could.

crappy night last night, literally. Big D and heartburn that brought on big V. Don't know what I did wrong that's for sure.

gardengumby

Hi ladies - been busy lately, so haven't been here as much as I'd like.  On teh BCO theme, my hubby also wishes I wouldn't spend as much time on it.  The reason is a little different.  (Actually, two reasons...)  one, he sees me get depressed - sometimes severely - when someone I "know" disappears with no word, and I get scared that she has died.  two, I spend basically every minute at work on a PC.  He doesn't want me spending time on one once I'm home.  He has had a number of bouts with some fairly serious skin cancer, so is very aware of the fact that once you have cancer it's claws never leave your mind, even if it appears to be gone from your bod.

I love the fact that I've found some like-minded souls with whom I can share my thoughts.  At work I need to be fairly circumspect (though everyone knows I'm a liberal, I still cannot just speak my mind unreservedly).  I'm a bit of a hermit, so don't spend much (any) time socializing - which is actually one of the reason I'm a bit nervous about retiring....  work is about the only interraction I have with other people.

Yorkie, I think you and I had our nipple reconstruction the same week.  When are you planning on getting your tattooing?  I'm waiting until after our Hawaii vacation, so won't be doing it until January/February time range.

Whoops, gotta run!

CLC

Hope you are feeling better, soon, Chickadee...

alexandria58

Hi.  Off the the Bronx today with my 90 year old aunt for a cousin's grandson's bris.  Bris is the  term for the ceremony of circumcism, done publically in a synagogue.  Looking forward to seeing the family, but mixed about the ceremony.  Oh well, babies have survived for thousands of years.

Happy weekend everyone.  See you Monday or so.

pupmom

GG, I'm a hermit too, but retiring hasn't made me feel more isolated. I was under so much stress at work that I could barely function. Once I left my schools I had to decompress for about 2 hours before feeling normal again. Thank goodness those days are over! If I get lonely I have my husband, kids and grands to fill the void.

I was thinking about getting the tattoos in early December. We have our Indian trip scheduled for late December. But maybe I should wait until afterwards also. Would hate to have problems and be so far away! 

gardengumby

false alarm....

Yorkie, my doctor said I could have them in 2 months, but I've chatted with people who have had regular design tattoos, and they have said that you can't get in the water for 6 weeks after a tattoo - which meant that I'd be just barely ready to get in the water when we leave - and the way things have gone for me, pretty much anything that could go wrong has.  That was why I decided to wait.  (Also, my first husband had a tattoo that got infected - it was really ugly).

Chickadee, hope you get to feeling better, real soon. 

I've had heartburn and horrible headaches every night lately.  The heartburn is, I think, due to the fact that I've been eating a few milk products of late, and they don't agree with me, too much.  The headaches go away when i get up.  My hubby is convinced I'm not getting enough oxygen (hmmmm - maybe he knows something he's not telling...  ), but this morning it crossed my mind that maybe I'm getting dehydrated at night.  For sure, when i get up I breathe different, and I drink something, as drinking a glass of water is the first thing I do in the morning.  Within about 5-10 minutes of rising, my headache is gone.  If I get one tonight, I think I'll just get up and drink some water, and see what happens.

YramAL

Athena-I found a picture on Pinterest(don't ask....as if I need yet another online amusement). It made me think of you. I'm going to try and post it.

 

Mary 

Chickadee

Whatever that was last night, thankfully it was a one time thing. Onward and upward. I did pile a bowl of ice cream on top of everything yesterday and as much as I like ice cream, I've noticed lately it doesn't like me as much.



Should of had a margarita instead! Ha!



We are getting a reprieve this August. It's almost fall like outside and anyone in Texas knows August is a month for getting out of town or hiding from the heat.

Anonymous

gardengumby - sleep apnea?  A way to kind of "test" is to buy some of the strips ( breathe right I think they're called) - try one when  you go to sleep and see if you feel different.  I use them during severe allergy season ( ragweed seems to LOVE the dry weather we're having) and they make a huge difference for me.

eta - know what you mean about the milk.  I simply can NOT describe how much better I feel having NO dairy at all.  Of course losing a lot of weight without my favorite really aged cheddar cheese ( giggle when I think of what "a serving" of it is - think it should be renamed "a taste to see if it's good") and no bloat, no stomach problems, more energy.  Did you read the Mark Bittman article about milk in the New York Times - amazing!  Sure it's on his website too.

rosemary-b

It is weird. I have no problem with dairy, but when I eat tomatoes, it is like I ate hot peppers, lots of hot peppers. Isn't amazing how unique we are?

1Athena1

Mary, that is one of my favorites. It is one of my revolving screen savers at home.

Chickadee - lol! Shhhhh! You'll give them ideas. Both counties are veritable "commie pinko" hives.

Anonymous

This comes under the category of You Can Not Make this Stuff UP.   I do miss Dave Barry.  It's on CNN, going viral  http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/us/texas-judge-warning/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Chickadee - we got lotsa room for you in MA....

Bren-2007

Sunflowers ... I also read an article yesterday that said Planned Parenthood would no longer be funded in Texas.

Maybe it would be a good idea if Texas did leave the Union.  Who needs it anyway.

It's a nice afternoon here and I'm off to mow the back 40.  Hope everyone is having a good day.

hugs,

Bren

pupmom

Unf'nbelievable! So embarrassing to admit I come from that idiot state. Escaped 20 years ago, thank Gawd!

CLC

I wouldn't mind seceding.  I would much rather just be in a country that was all blue states.  We could invite anyone who wanted to move on in from the red states. 

But, I don't think that would benefit too many of the people like this judge...or the citizens of their states.

1Athena1

What Bren said - lol!

Chickadee

Hey don't throw me under the bus.  I have to admit I chose to live here.  However, we did choose the Austin area and as everyone in Texas believes, this area is from another planet.

Part of the reason I'm glad my son is looking towards living somewhere else when we are gone.  I told him there would be little to no services for his disability. 

pupmom

Chick, I'm from that area of Texas too. It really is the only civilized part of Texas.

Anonymous

aw, chickadee, everyone knows austin isn't really part of texas - even Molly Ivins was there...speaking of remarkably wonderful human beings...

Momine

I am thinking that they are right after all when they say that everything is bigger in Texas. You just never think about how this means that the idjuts are super-sized as well.

Chickadee

Some of you may have seen my post several months ago about The Cure and the DMV. In Stage IV forum.  Went to get my drivers license renewed.  Needed new pic.  Anyway the nice young lady noted my health answer and told me that if I prayed to God he would cleanse my blood and cure me.  She said it was in the bible and that she cured her morning sickness that way.......at 3 months.  Yes, Texas is a weird place for sure.