For Older People with Sense

macatacmv

Good Morning. 

SAS glad you can see again. We caught the feelings behind your posts if not every word. 

Chrissy it is funny to read about your winter coming when we are excited about our spring and summer on the way. We just came through some rainy days which has made the grass grow and the plants look so healthy.

I am having some trouble sleeping lately, but waking early means I have some quiet time before my kids get up. I truly love them, but they bring activity and energy to the house that hasn't been here for a while. My son has had anger and anxiety since he got home from Iraq a few years ago and I have to remember that he has changed. Now he has to come to grips with my changes. He said to me yesterday so what do you do all day just sit around? Since I am not working I think he meant. My whole perspective on a productive day has changed. 

Life is so interesting. I just watched the elementary school bus pick up the kids from the neighborhood. It seems like just yesterday we were in the mad rush to get ready to catch that bus. Now we are in a whole different mindset. I am enjoying that time has slowed down for me. Life is very precious and every moment counts.

It is bright and sunny today. Hope ya'll enjoy your day! 

3jaysmom

hi ladies..woops don't know what happened!!!thought a little "roo" was good, since chrissy started this thread.. have a good day, you moms.hahaha

3jaysmom

i'm so glad you got the glasses back, sas.. here's a hint, i always click on the "B" in the beg of the post for bold.. that way I can read it, too..

  Mac, its wonderful that you understand how it is for your son.. mine is not socially appropriate, but doesn't have PTSD as a reason.. well, his is not war related, but IS the result of my divorce.. over 20 years ago.. he never WAS the same, but thats' a way too long story.. I'm so grateful for the sons and fathers, that have fought for us: and so many of them came back with wounds you can't see. a long while ago, i was involved with viet nam soldiers returning, and therapy groups for them..

  it really IS amazing how fast they grow big!!!

   Happy mothers Day, to you all!!!!3jays

SoCalLisa

Sounds like a plan 3 jays...just hope I can remember to push the B...on my android tablet there is no option for that or for any of the little things above this box, like smilies and photos..

Leah_S

Hello all! Thanks for reminding me about Mother's Day. It's not Mother's Day here but now I'll remember to call my mother. She'll appreciate the call though she won't remember afterwards about it. She has Alzheimer's and it's just getting worse. I don't think she remembers who I am unless she's told. The only consolation I have is that she doesn't have pain from difficult situations that she would otherwise - she's not aware of my Stage IV dx, not does she remember (though she was told) that her sister passed away recently. The thing with Alzheimer's is that the person who has it doesn't suffer but the people who love her do.

So....... had a breast MRI last week. I've never had trouble with MRIs before but this time wasn't so easy. We had a very rainly winter this year (thank G-d, the drought before that we had was terrible) and as a result things are BLOOMING! BLOSSOMING! GROWING! Yep, all the things I'm allergic to and that set off my asthma. So there I was lying on my stomach, remaining breast through the cute hole designed for it and the rest of my chest lying on that table with my lungs compressed. WOWSER that was uncomfortable. I was having difficulty with my breathing towards the end. I just hope the results are good. I'm having a prophy mx and TE placement and BS said if mammo, U/S and MRI are clear then we won't do a SNB. Got the results for the mammo & U/S, which were fine so I hope the MRI is the same. I already have mild LE on the other side so I hope to avoid bilateral. Pre-op is Thurs 24th and I'll get the surgery date soon after that so I figure probably late June.

Happy Spring to all (except Chrissy - Happy Fall to you!).

Leah

susgul

Leah, good luck on the MRI.

Susan

Alyson

Hope every one has a happy mother's day. Having family around for lunch so had better get a move on.

Big hugs.

Gingerbrew

Leah good luck on the MRI.   No SNB would be nice.

Ginger

QCA

Leah, glad the mammo and US were clear and here's hoping you get the same result with the MRI.

Two other women and I made 240 cream cheese/pineapple party sandwiches today at church for a birthday party tomorrow.  A church member is turning 100 years old and her birthday is on Mother's Day so her family's throwing a big reception.  The church ladies (which cracks me up--remember the Church Lady on Saturday Night Live?)  are making the food.  I'm not going tomorrow since I want to see my children on Mother's Day, so at least I've done my bit for it.

Sas, I'm so glad you can wear your glasses again!

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers!

Kathy

chrissyb

Hi all!

Leah what wonderful news with al your scans!  Sure hope the MRI follows suit so you can have the Mx.  I'm keeping everything crossed that the outcome it all good.

Sas, Yay! on being ableto waer your glasses again!  I'll bet that feels good......lol.....and no more squinting at the screen trying to read.

Kathy those cream cheese and pinapple sandwiches sound really good!  I'll have to try that combination.  Enjoy your day with your children tomorrow! 

Alyson, Happy Mothers Day to you!  Hope you enjoyed your lunch with the family and I hope you got spoiled.....lol

3jays love the little roos......lol.....so cute! Thanks for that lovely! 

Lisa have you managed to get your android doing what it's supposed to with the new format?  I've changed my browser to Chrome as even updating my IE still didn't get thing working properly on my laptop.  Chrome seems to let it run the way it's supposed to with no gliches.

Hi ya Ladie and Susgal!  Not sure if you have joined us before or not but if not welcome to a great group of women.  Jump in anytime the mood takes you and I'm sure you will get to know us in no time at all!

I have had a wonderful weekend (it is late Sunday afternoon here).  DD1 and the boys came up yesterday and stayed overnight.  We went to the Italian restaurant for dinner and had a wonderful meal!  There was so much food that we bought what was not eaten home and we have enough for dinner tonight!......lol.  We were celebrating both Mothers Day and DD1's Birthday which is tomorrow.  After a late start this morning I made strawberry pancakes with maple syrup and cream for breakfast then got the fire going in the lounge where we sat and chatted and laughed until it was time for them to leave and head back to the city.  I love having them come to stay and the house seems very quiet and empty when they leave.  The boys are growing so much and keep surprising me as they are turning into young men at aged 16 and 14. The conversations are really something to listen to.  Well DH has just got home so I guess I should go and make us a coffee.

Hope you all have a wonderful Mothers Day!!!

Love n hugs.   Chrissy 

Kaara

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms out there!  No cooking for me today...yea!

sas-schatzi

Happy mother's day to all !! sheila

Isabella4

Today is my 9 yr anniversary....unbelievable.

Nine years ago I was a quivvering wreck, convinced I wouldn't make Christmas.

Nine years ago I was just about to set of to hospital for my BMX, panic stricken, and tearful.

Now I bobble along living with Arimidex .

Isabella.  

QCA

Isabella, congratulations!  Your bobbie-ing along and the pictures you draw with your words make all our lives better!

Kathy

Kaara

That's great Isabella...congratulations on 9 years!  You give us all hope for a future.

chabba

Isabella, Wow, 9 years.   Congratulations!  The way you work and manage your farm amazes and inspires me and your descriptions of your life there fascinate me.  I hope this summer blesses you with much joy and that any crisis that comes your way will be easily resolved.

Will your traveling friends return this summer?  If so, you know we will enjoy hearing about them again. 

Wren44

Congratulations Isabella. That's really something to celebrate.

chrissyb

Congrats Isabella!!!  9 years is wonderful!  Here's hoping there are many more good years to come.  Keep enjoying your life and keep including us in your adventures as you make our lives a little better each day as we visualise your words of your daily life!  We love that you share with us.

Well had my INR done again this morning and to my horror I am 4.3!  I have not changed the amount of coumadin but my system seems to not want to stabilise......ugh!!!!   No more for me for a couple of days so the level can drop again and then start back at a lower dose.  This is sort of like playing snakes and ladders with all the ups and downs but none of the fun!

Hope you are all enjoying your Mothers Day!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy 

3jaysmom

LeaH; I'm so sorry for the pain you must feel with your mom.. glad we remindeed you to call, though im sure you do, anyway.. and i hope the mri is good, so it will be smooth sailing for you.. im so glad they agreed to the prophy masectomy!!! am praying for you, round the world , for blessings...

  I sabella 9 years!!!a great accomplishment, and you're still working HARD on that farm!!did you get the "sprucing up" done in the kennel still raining???

 chrissy, it is amazing that your GS have grown, just since i've known you.. hope you all had a good mothers' day. it was quiet here.. but, its a synthyroid night.. the prednisone makes me jumpy, so glad it IS quiet.........3jays

AussieSheila

I shall kick my heels up (ROTFLMAO) HaHa, with you Isabella, I celebrate 17 yrs tomorrow.

I just wanted to get my four teenagers up to adulthood back then.......now they are parents too......I guess I got what I asked for.

 ............DH's mother passed away 16 yrs ago today....I can't believe how fast that time has passed.

Sheila.

chrissyb

Sheila congrats of your 17years!!!!  Wow!!!   Inspirational!   Time sure does fly by......turn around and the weeks are gone and the next thing you know it's a new year!   Watching our children grow and get to adulthood gives us all a sense of achievement and then to watch grandchildren grow...........well that gives us a sense of being old..............lol.

3jays I had a wonderful Mother's Day, thank you.  Quiet is good!.....lol......I was on prednisone for the drug allergy and I'm so glad I wasn't on it for long............that drug is    n a s t y! 

Have a good one all!

Love n hugs.  Chrissy 

macatacmv

Congrats Isabella and Shelia. Happy days to you both!!!!

I remember a time when I thought if I can just make it to when my kids are both over 18, and lo and behold that has happened. It is funny how life can seem so slow and so fast at the same time. Slow looking forward and fast while looking back.

My Mother's day was perfect. Both my kids are home right now and if I keep my nose out of their arguments, I am fine. LOL We went to church, went for a walk on the beach, sat beside the water in the sun, came home and made dinner together, ate and I left the room while they argued about who would wash the dishes. It felt like old times when they were teenagers.

My son has started back at his summer job at the shipyard today. He does so much better when his time is structured. So the house is quiet right now since my daughter is still sleeping. LOL

Leah, hoping the MRI is as clear as other scans. My mother had some sort of dementia at the end of her life. She thought my son was in Israel instead of Iraq, but every so often the fog would clear for her and she could see us. I am thankful for those days now. I miss her so much, even tho she was gone long before she actually passed. It must be hard to be so far away from family.

3jays ((((hugs)))) 

Chrissy, what an up and down roller coaster for you with your levels. I hope they level out soon!!!!!

I feel like I am walking thru molasses most days now. I am not sure if it is the arimidex or post rads fatigue still or the breathing issue. Sigh! I am thinking of taking the summer off from work, because I just cannot see my being able to deal with customers and my quality of work would be so poor. It is not fair to people to be so vague about when I will reopen, they need to be able to plan how to get their work done somewhere else. A friend says to just make up my mind and stick to that decision. LOL I wouldn't be asking her advice if it was that easy for me.

Has anyone here worked with a health coach? My health insurance co. has had a RN call me to help me. I am not sure how she will help but she wanted premission to speak with my PCP. She said I need to see a pulomnary specialist so hopefully she can falicitate that process. But because she is from the insurance co. makes me think she is looking out for their interests. We shall see, I'll take any help I can get!!

hope everyone's day is wonderful

Nancy 

Dilly

Isabella, congrats on 9 years! And Shiela, your 17 years is inspirational! Congrats and best wishes to you both for many more good years ahead.  -- For all of us.

Leah, good luck with the MRI!

Sixteen for me since my first dx - and upcoming 2nd dx IDC, 2-year mammo this week has me trying to keep busy and my mind otherwise occupied.  I've had the same (beloved) BS the entire time, and she sees updated family photos - all the things I've had life for - over these years. Adding gkids, a foster daughter....From 7 year old GD, to now 4 yr old GGD....all the kids growing up, all that good-life stuff.  I think the BS appreciates the gesture.

Leah_S

Lost_Creek, I'm sure she does appreciate it! You're showing her what she helped to give you.

Isabella, congratulations on 9 years. And Sheila - 17! Is that from your original dx or from Stage IV? I love to read about Stage IV ladies having many long years - it gives me hope that I can be one of them.

Leah

susgul

Isabella, congrats on the nine years!

Susan

Gingerbrew

Isabella and Shiela congrats on your anniversaries. I will be two years this month and still feel afraid too often. I want that to pass so I have more of my life without fear.  

 The weather here has been exceptional. DD DSIL and DGD came over yesterday. DD made tuna casarole for me. I had actually been joking when my husband asked what I wanted to eat for mothers day. I said tuna casarole and he told DD. I have never had such a gourmet casarole before. She made a rich white sauce, used guirre (sp) cheese along with tuna in olive oil. It was amazing. we even have left overs that need to be eaten in very small portions. DSIL put up my window boxes. Flowers aren't in yet but just the woindow boxes look nice.

Laters Ginger

3jaysmom

glad ya'll had good mothers days.. and @isabellaand @sheila so many years!!!that's amazing.. i have three, and all i wanted was to live long enough to meet my grandaughter, who's two now!!!life is good, even when its' bad...

  went to the onco, who i adore, today.. she was twisted, 'cause i cancelled thelast 3 appts. she wouldn't update my rx for le stuff, if i didn't go in!

  she said to me: whats going on with your thyroid?? she was so sure i had cancer, and thats' why i wasn't worrying about bc!!!!well, i live so poorly these days, in bed so much, i guess im not so worried, after all. it almost would be a relief somedays.. then, i see something, or someone, who reminds me its still too good to be alive right now........

  im just amazed, you ladies all have made it so long, with nothing in the hiorizon.. not like the early  days, when i thought id be dead in 6 months..

  now, i've had to do a dnr, since the choking incident, and i just pray that's NOT how i go out.. it was way  scarey!!!now, everyday is a gift. they tell me it could be tommorrow, next month, or 10 years.. i think we all living on borrowed time. i just wish i could enjoy it more!!!

  so, i take the synthyroid, which is still making me SO sick, and hope it'll get the thyroid back to the point it was after chemo...i felt     SO good , then.....

  hope your'e all enjoying the hot weather (except chrissy and the few over there...)  3jays

schatzi14

3jaysmom...are you sure it's the synthroid that is making you sick? I have thyroid disease and have had two surgeries...radio active stuff (not cancer tho) and have been on synthroid for 30 years...if anything, it makes me feel better. Have you had recent HDL/LDL blood tests? I know the dosages have to be changed often. Sure hope you are feeling better. You are dealing with so much.

Has your thyroid been biopsied? It is no big deal...I have had several done.

AussieSheila

No Leah, no such luck, but I did get 13.5 yrs first time around.....thought I'd beaten it hands down.  My M.I.Law was dxed with Lung Cancer which had metastised to her lower spine in Dec '95....was told she could make six months, but only got five.  Before and after she died they never found the actual lung cancer in her body......just the mets! Imagine how I felt after that, when the Dr told me I had mets to my skull, spine, ribs, hips, arm and legs!!

I sometimes think that, judging by the surprised looks on their faces, people I know, think I am a malingerer/hypochondriac type, but I'm not going to pop off just to prove them wrong.

Sheila. 

3jaysmom

sheila: im so sorry for the mets.. i didn't know; guess i haven't been reading so carefully..

  my onco got on me yesterday, and yes, she was right, i have let my ckups slide.. i shouldn't be too arrogant, either.

  yes, its the synthyroid that i'm allergic to...

  1st , it has acai in it, which im very allergic to, but 2 and most imp.. my body is in war mode, with the ms. it has attacked the thyroid, and rejects anything that LOOKS like it, also.. thats why its such a dreaded disease.. it turns your immune system against tself..

  for that very reason, it is a bear to treat!!  I WISH i could take the synthyroid, or others, like everyone else. i have to "trick" my body into accepting even the little bit i take........thanks for asking, though......3jays