For Older People with Sense

chrissyb

Lol Lisa.



Thanks AJ for putting the link in. There are not enough words to describe how beautiful that shawl is!! Magnificent!!!

QCA

I absolutely must learn to knit or crochet!  We have loads of my MIL's crochet work, like afghans and tablecloths, but she didn't use the fine yarn on anything.  My 2 aunts did, and we have a lot of doilies and what do you call them, antimacassers? that they made, and they also tatted.  Wonder if I could learn to knit or crochet from a book.  Has anyone?

chrissyb

Kathy check out you tube. There are close ups of everything you need to know which will make learning so much easier! Just make your first project something small like a pot holder while you are learning and getting your tension right.

chabba

Thought I'ld share this picture from our local news paper.

chrissyb

Chabba what a beautifully calm photograph! Love the sunset and the moon at the same time and the reflections on that still water.......stunning!

chabba

chrissy, Gary Iverson , who took that pic, is one of our best local photographers.  He is a professional, has his own website.  I've posted a lot of his pics on Life's a Beach topic.

Edited to add:  He does an exceptional job with his wonderful wild life shots.

purple32

chabba

What a pretty and serene scene.

THX for sharing.

QCA

Thanks for the info about youtube, Chrissy. I'll check it out and start trying with some small things.  I'd really like to be able to make a baby blanket for new DGS who's  coming after Christmas. 

Chabba, that's such a beautiful picture.  Thanks!  Love the moon and the sunset together.

DH is scurrying around getting ready for the great annual Outer Banks fishing trip.  He and 6 friends have gone every October to Portsmouth Island for the past 10 or so years and it's a really big to-do for them. They leave next Thursday and will return the following Wednesday, so now they're planning suppers and who's going to cook, etc.  They used to camp, but now stay in "fish-houses", which at least have electricity and bathrooms in them.  They get to and from the island by ferry.  Not my idea of a vacation, but to each his own!  Besides, he always feels like he "owes" me after this trip! (Heh, heh.)

chabba

Kathy, I suspect I would enjoy that trip a lot more then my DH even though for many years my idea of camping ivolves three stars instead of four!  Not that I've ever stayed in either type of hotel more than a time or two.

SoCalLisa

I am with you Chabba

chabba

macatacmv

beautiful pics chabba. we are having a nw kinda day here, wet and slighly foggy. At least what I think of the nw usa weather. I have never been there, one of these days

chrissy, I am in awe of your talent with your hands. That is a beautiful piece of work and with all the love put into it will be a cherished item to whoever is the recipient.  

ginger, that was an amazing piece of lace work that you posted. (I think it was you) esp with the little baby inside of it. What some people can do with a piece of string and some needles.

My ENT doc called yesterday and no infected plug of mucus in my sinuses. I do have a severely deviated septum, but since that is not causing the cough or any breathing issues it does not have to be dealt with at this time. So back to pulmonary.

I did have a great short visit with my son. we got some stuff put away for the winter and brought in the house plants. We went grocery shopping and pet food shopping. I did some cooking and we went out to eat. All in a little more than 30 hours.

There is an annual Blue Fish and Striped Bass Fishing Derby happening here now. All the men (well most of them) and quite a few women are in fishing frenzy mode. It is pretty crazy. All the trucks have fishing rods and coolers hanging off of them. It lasts a whole month.  To each their own.

Hope your day is bright no matter the state of the sunshine.

my DD sent me a post card with this sentiment on it

Advice from the Sun

Keep it light

Rise to the occasion

Look on the bright side

Set your sights high

Renew your energy

Keep a sunny disposition

Be brilliant! 

purple32

Nice sentiments, maca ..thanks for sharing.

So good to hear about the visit with your son!

hang in.

barbe1958

Purple, do you mean you think you got LE in your fingers because of the sleeve you wear? I wondered about that. I asked my PT and she said you have to wear a gauntlet as well as a sleeve so you don't get it in your hands, but I see SO many people just wearing the sleeve!!

I chickened out going the gym. I have some surgery at the end of the month to take out an abdominal mass and I think I'll wait until then....maybe.... 

Wren44

I have a question. I'm approaching the date of my diagnosis and am wondering what day to count as my cancerversary. I had a mammo 11/01, a recall 11/03, a biopsy 11/12, and got the results 11/15. Then 3 surgeries as you can see in my stats.

gardengumby

  Wren - just celebrate all of 'em.    My mammo was 10/20, callback 10/21, final Dx 10/28 (after some additional testing between those dates) and surgery (MX) 12/20.  I'm not EVEN counting the DIEP, blood clots, and etc....  But I think I'm definitely gonna hoist one on the 28th, for my 2 year I'm still alive cancerversary....  (as up to that date I kept trying to convince myself that I was going to wake up from the nightmare)

SoCalLisa

I count it from my dx, but I should start with all the false negatives compliments of Kaiser...

chabba

I count from my dx, that was the day my life changed.  The report was on my PCP's desk when he got in from hospital rounds that morning.  He told his staff to call my surgeon, the one that removed my gall bladder a few years before, and make an appointment. I knew when I heard his voice, he sounded like he was almost in tears.  After telling me he started to tell me his staff was arranging an appointment when one of them interrupted to tell him I had an appointment in four days.  After that everything was a blur until I finished Rads. Not a normal life even two years+ after Rads.  Does it ever return to normal?

barbe1958

I only remember the date of my double mast, Dec 16th. It all started for me on October 1st that year (2008)!!! How ironic!!

Chabba, define "normal". We've lost the innocence of our own mortality and looked into the barrel of the weapon that will kill us. How many people out there know that feeling? THIS is our normal (I HATE the term "new normal").... 

lassie11

It was almost 9 year ago for my first diagnosis, 3 1/2 for the second one so I can't pick a date - and if I did, what would I do with it? Life goes on (lucky me) but in the next several weeks, we interrupt this normal life for a breast MRI, a colonoscopy, a bone density test and a meeting with my oncologist. I'll take those interruptions for the opportunity to have precious time for whatever pleases me.

ptdreamers

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Grenville Kleiser    The "new normal" is all we have is now.

chrissyb

Barbe my mx date is the 16th Dec but dx was the week prior. Although I discovered the lump six weeks earlier and went through the is it or isn't it hormonal etc I didn't go to the doc until 5th Dec and got the appointments the following week. There are many dates for all of us and up to each of us to choose which one we want to use.

SoCalLisa

We went to the Zoo today...fun

 

barbe1958

Lisa, you have two the same!!! BUT I LOVE the images!!! Great faces!!

I had a "bad" mammo on October 1st, 2008 where I bled fresh, red blood all over the plates. The tech, with HUGE eyes WIDE, told me to not worry, but "be concerned". I KNEW there'd be an ultrasound after that one!!! And so the journey of ultrasounds, biopsies, MRIs, lumpectomies and then final diagnosis of cancer. "Take them off!" I said!!! Some people thought that was a rash decision but I'd had since October 1st to consider it. In fact, those of us more aware of our odds of breast cancer have had YEARS to think about what we would do if we got the final diagnosis. This was my FOURTH biopsy over the years and it was getting pretty old. I'd NEVER had a mammo that didn't need extra shots and my first mammo was when I was 21!! 

Wren44

Barbe, being called back was pretty routine for me also, but last year it just felt different. I was really relieved when BS was able to get clean margins at the chest wall. It was really really close.

I took a shelter cat to the animal eye clinic. The office was decorated with photos of many species eyes. One poster had about 20 different eye shots and an exam room had a photo of a fish's eye taken with light shining thru it. Very cool - and appropriate.

QCA

Love the zoo pictures, Lisa.  Thanks for posting them! 

Alyson

Have been MIA for a few days. We were away at a church gathering which I am not even sure how to talk about because we are very upset at the way things are going. I cannot believe that folks who call themselves Christian can be so vindictive against others who might be different and will not allow liberty of conviction. Enough said about that.

Now trying to get myself organised for Australia. We have three days in Melbourne then on to Adelaide and then to see Chrissy.

Feeling cross with myself because I have given in and taken the prednisone for my bone pain - they cannot decide what is the cause of it. And even worse I have had to use a stick, it really makes me feel mad.

Big hugs to all

macatacmv

Alyson, hope the excitement for the upcoming trip out weighs the unpleasantness of the memories of the church meeting.

I can sympathise with the prednisone complaint. If I stay on it much longer they want me to go on anti b s too. Oh, a walking stick? I would rather see you be safe than sorry. But I understand the feeling of being  angry at your body. 

Have a great trip! 

chrissyb

Oh Aly I'm so sorry that you are feeling so bad about everything!

I'm so excited and I'm counting the days!

It's all go for me for the me for the next few weeks. Next Sunday is my nieces engagement party and then the following Sunday we finally get to meet DD's fiancés family at a luncheon ( that should be interesting) and then Aly and Cunny arrive! Yay!! Can't wait to see them again!



Hope everyone is well and doing okay.



Love n hugs. Chrissy

Isabella4

Lisa. love those zoo pictures. Fantastic, as always.

Not having a very good week, in 8 days I have lost 3 dogs and one canary, creeping around wondering 'who's next!' Just one more grave to dig, when I can find the energy, or whenever Gson comes, whichever is first. Always puts me in a quiet, reflective mood for days...bringing up all the 'what ifs' in my mind. But this time all were VERY old and just died natural deaths, still doesn't help me much though ! The oldest one was just over 18, so had a long innings...but when they're always around you, you just see three great big holes ( and a tiny one for the canary, I shall miss his singing this coming Spring ) My kitchen is emptying by the day !! I shall replace the canary in February, that's when they start to sing...I love to hear the trilling song filling the house.

Just had a new printer fitted, and seem to have about cracked how to use it reasonably easily... for me!  I can even manage to print pics from my camera, just by putting the card directly into the printer.. ah ha... something new for me, but it's probably been around for donkeys years for everyone else ! I got all brave and changed the size of the font on my pc. For some reason everything had just gone massive, so I fiddled and I fiddled, followed some instructions I found and everything went back to normal ! AND I didn't loose anything ( my greatest fear) in the process. I always seem to need to abduct a 5 year old to come and tell me how to make changes ...just NOT brave enough.

Just off out to buy myself a new wardrobe, a triple one. I am getting so sick of not having enough room. Would you believe I already have SEVEN double wardrobes dotted around in the bedrooms, 2 big ones in my room, but am STILL stuck for space. I hate to see clothes hanging up on the wardrobe handles or draped over a chair, but that's what I am getting to now ! plus my ironing pile is about lifting the roof off, no point in ironing when there's nowhere to put the clothes when ironed. I can just about get another wardrobe in my room, so spent this morning shifting furniture around, with a little help from one of my girls, to get the new wardrobe in when it comes.  I have given up trying to reduce my clothes....apart from a few I am selling on ebay... I make a start, and in the end there are 2 piles , one with 99 items to go back into the wardrobes, and 1 pile with 1 item on that I just MIGHT throw out !! My DD goes mad at me, she has more than once sort of skirted around 'what will we do when you're not around, and I have to sort this lot out ?'Well, I shalln't be here to see what she does  hehehe. Told her to fire the lot if she wants! She won't be finding any 6" minis and black Goth clothes she might like, among my clothes, so why not !!

Isabella.