For Older People with Sense

SoCalLisa

It must be Spring...yea

kathindc

Lisa, gorgeous flowers.  My poor flower bed got torn out when we had to have our sewer line redone.  I must say the city tried to save most of my flowers.  My DH never liked it but I loved it.  I am giving him back his grass.  Whoa, I just realized I'm not allergic to my flowers.  I'm allergic to grass, weeds and tress.  Oh well, I already told him I would put sod down but I was going to have a small flower bed.

SoCalLisa

Most of my flowers are in pots of some sort...

QCA

Just lost my entire post I was writing.  Windows decided to configure updates just as I was about to click submit.  GRRR!

Anyhow, I love the flower pictures, Lisa.  Not much blooming yet around here except daffodils and Bradford pears, and wouldn't you just know there's a freeze warning for tonight.  This is the way our weather is, 70's one weekend and 40's the next.  It;s supposed to be cold the whole weekend, and rain too.

It's spring, though.  I've sneezed about all day!  I do take a claritin daily year round, but my spring allergies go right on.

Yes, I am excited about a granddaughter after 2 grandsons!  I adore both of them, but it will be a nice change to buy girlie clothes and toys that aren't plastic miniature chain saws, leaf blowers and the like! 

I too hope Isabella finally got into the hospital with her back. 

Kathy

Gingerbrew

I hope so too, Isabella has suffered long enough with her back. 

A baby girl is so nice. I have 3 boys and 1 girl. Now I have 2 boy dgc and 2 girl dgc. 

You can teach the girl to sew and play dolls with her and except for a certain stage around 2 1/2 they play quieter. Ask me who has a 2 1/2 yr old dgc right now who is practicing making trumpeting screeching elephant sounds. It is a stage and then it will be peaceful for about 8 more years until preteen hits. But AH those in between years are heaven.  Mine is able to stitch now on hte little 1945 sewing machine I got her. Cranks out a nice ittle chain stitch. 

Laters all 

Ginger

barbe1958

I've checked Isabellas "friends" on Facebook, but they seem to all be US!! No daughter....

QCA

Barbe, I did the same thing and couldn't find her daughter either.  I know Isabella mentioned looking at her daughter's facebook, but apparently they weren't friends. 

Kathy

lassie11

I think from an earlier (way earlier) conversation that Isabella has one Facebook account for friends and another for family.

Alyson

Have exhausted all my leads re Isabella. I think you are right about the two facebook accounts. She certainly didn't want her daughter to know what she was writing her so unlike my daughters who know how to post here if needed her daughter has no idea. I am really worried.

Have done a bit in the garden but it got too hot.

Elisimo

Update - MO called after getting all my blood work back and I am no longer stable. My tumor markers have jumped up a bunch all of a sudden and now he has added a full body CT to the brain CT. We are waiting for the pre-approval from the insurance company and hopefully I can get it done before I go to Japan. I won't get the results until I get back so that is a bummer. At least I will be with my DD#1 and her family for a few days. I really do miss them. I still have this headache and it is making me crazy. I stay up as long as I can sewing then I try to sleep, but wind up going shopping, which makes me really exhausted so I sleep for 2 days. I hate this. Oh well I may be getting switched to something other that Famara next month. Will have to just wait and see.

Hugs to all. AJ

kathindc

Elisimo, so sorry to hear your news.  I will keep my fingers crossed you can get the CT scans done before your trip to Japan.  That is not an easy trip to make whether you leg it or do a direct flight.  Where does DD#1 live?  My son and his family live in Hachinohe.  He works at the Misawa air base.  Went over in '99 to teach for a year in the JET program and stayed for three in the program.  Met his wife there.  They have blessed us with two lovely grandchildren.  I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.  ((((HUGS))))

gardengumby

Thinking of you Elisimo.  Enjoy your trip to Japan and your family.  Don't think too much.  big hugs!!

SoCalLisa

AJ, so sorry to hear about the tumor markers...you can deal with that when you

come home from Japan..one step at a time...hugs...

QCA

AJ, I'm so sorry to hear about the tumor markers.  Know you will be in my thoughts and prayers.  And like Lisa said, one step at a time.  Hope you can get the scans done before your trip and can enjoy your visit with DD and her family, plus seeing the sights in Japan!

Kathy

Gingerbrew

AJ I am wishing you a wonderful trip and scans of no note. 

Love Ginger

chrissyb

Oh AJ I'm so sorry that your markers are going up again.......that's really not what we want to hear. Have fun while you are in Japan and hopefully the results of your CTs won't be too scary.



Well today we have been talking wedding plans and finally have some decisions on the dress, colours and decore......yay!!!......I can now start planning in earnest.



Hoping your days are good and your nights even better.



Love n us. Chrissy

MaryD911

After many years I decided to recheck breastcancer.org and was delighted to find this new topic.  I think my age, 77, might even make me the senior member.  Like duckyb1 I live in Pennsylvania in Lancaster.  I am a native of Philadelphia.  I was originally diagnosed with BC in September of 2001.  I had a lumpectomy. radiation and then six years of first tamoxifen and then arimidex.  I enjoyed good health until November of 2012 when some hip discomfort resulted in a diagnosis of metastatic bone cancer.  I had radiation treatment inJanuary of this year and am now on Aromisin.  Unfortunately, my original oncologist is "out of network" for my insurance plan so I am seeing someone in this area.  He is throwing his plans at me such as monthly infusions of bisphosphonates.  This leads me to know I am going to have to make many decisions in the upcoming months.

Anyway, on a more pleasant note I have five kids, seven grands and two great-grands.  Lots of blessings in my life so trying to look at the latest as a bump in the road.

MaryD911

I actually joined this board in 2001 at the suggestion of my oncologist.  I wonder if listing me as joining in 2005 makes me four years younger ---- I hope so!

chrissyb

Hi Mary and welcome to our little group.  So sorry to hear that you are once again dealing with this beast.

There are a couple of trains of thought with the bisphosphinates, some say they are great and strengthen the bone while others say the down side of them is that they can make the bones too brittle so they break easier.  It a sort of devil and the deep blue sea kind of thing....goodluck if you are going to do some research on them.

I think age is realative, some days I feel like I'm a hundred.....lol......so I wouldn't worry about your age here.  You have a large family but the more the merrier I say so I'm guessing you get many laughs.  Grand are just the best, I have four (all boys) and it will be sometime before any will be producing great grands.........the eldest is seventeen......lol.  I had three children but my son, the youngest, passed away thirteen years ago when only 23.  I have two daughters, and right now I am busy planning the younger of the two's wedding with her.  It will be at the end of September so here in Australia, an early spring wedding.....should be lovely!

I didn't join these boards until a year after being dxd stage IV, actually I never found them until then........there were many times in the years prior when I could really have used the knowledge that is here but never mind, I got through and am here now.

Hope you enjoy coming to our little thread.

Love  n hugs.    Chrissy

barbe1958

Oh Elissimo!! How very, very scary when you are already getting headaches! Of course your mind goes to the dark side, but I hope it comes back to the light, too! I also hope that your thoughts don't darken the visit with your DD. You are in my prayers, sweetie.

With love,

Gingerbrew

Hi Mary, 

I am 67 and it is nice to be slightly junior to you.

This is a nice place and I hope you enjoy our company. 

Hugs Ginger

luvmygoats

AJ - You are in my prayers.  Hope all your tests get done b4 your trip and ENJOY your trip to Japan.  That is an order.  Come back refreshed.

Wren44

MaryD911, Welcome to the group. I'm 72. I think we have someone here who is 78, so you may be a youngster. Sorry the beast is back.

AJ, Best wishes for good scans. Enjoy your visit. That will be good medicine.

SoCalLisa

Hi MaryD..I was on the boards back then too..I am now 70...so sorry you are dealing with this monster again..hugs to you

Gingerbrew

Oh my goodness, I am 67. just a baby here. lol

We are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary tomorrow.  Doesnt seem so long, I think that is probably a very good thing!

Love Ginger

QCA

Welcome to you, MaryD.  We're all different ages but are, shall we say, seasoned.  I'm 63.  I'm so sorry you've encountered the beast again.  You're obviously a smart lady to do research on the bone strenghtening drugs prior to going on them.  There's also a  "bone thread" on this site.  I hope you'll enjoy getting to know our little group and come back often. Glad to have you!

Happy Anniversary, Ginger! Hope it's a wonderful day for you and your DH.  It is a good thing when it doesn't seem as long as it's been, isn't it?  DH and I will have 33 years next month, and neither of us can believe it's been that long. 

DD's 4th and 5th grade chorus did "The Jungle Book" tonight and it was the best one yet!  Really enjoyed it, and enjoyed DH's fantastic set too.  (And my tissue paper flowers!)

Chrissy, glad you're getting into the wedding prep well ahead of time.  A spring wedding should be lovely.  Have you thought about your outfit yet?  That was a hard thing for me.

Hugs to all.

Kathy

chrissyb

Happy Anniversary Ginger! 

Kathy what I will wear to DDs wedding hasn't even crossed my mind seriously yet......I'm hoping to lose a few pounds before I need to start looking and in the event that I can't find something I'm happy with, I have a beautiful sari that my girls gave me sometime back and it will be worn if nothing else suits.  

Ginger Dh and I will have been married 44 years come July......its amazing how quickly the years have passed but when you sit and think of all the things that have happened over the years you wonder how it could all fit in that time.

Oh, I would like to ask you all if you could help me?......nothing to do with the beast, but the dress that my DD has chosen is beautiful and her dress maker can do it no problem but it does have a panel of crochet that forms part of the train and DD has asked me to crochet it for her.  My problem is that it has no pattern and I need to find one, like a table runner etc that I can extend to create the look she wants.  The one on the dress is not visible enough in the photograph for me to see exacly what it is but it looks like large pineapple and flat snowflake.......its fairly closely done and then connected with a diamond pattern.  What I'm asking is, for those of you who have crochet patters could you check and see if you have something like that that could be copied and emailed to me?  I would really appreciate it.

Love n hugs to all.   Chrissy

SoCalLisa

Wish I could help you Chrissy, not my forte :-)

Alyson

Is it like this Chris?

Alyson

Here is a link to a pneapple pattern http://www.maggiescrochet.com/pineapple-snowflake-suncatcher-free-pattern-p-1784.html#.UU6trVeU8eo