For Older People with Sense

Leah_S

Good news! Scan shows Stable! And all is well with my brain. I'll probably seen an ENT to find out about the vertigo, but at least it's not mets.

And - mazel tov to the royal couple.

Leah

Elisimo

Leah - what great news!  Doing the Happy Dance for you!

Valjean

Wonderful news, Leah !

3jaysmom

i forgot it was Friday, and i have a pt appt with le therapist. shes sorting out le/ms symptoms, one i can't miss!! so, ill be watching it as recorded, while im gone, ill record it.. so, it may be jumbled up, but i won't miss it, at least.

   Isabella; im gonna look for the canary bird here. we have a tradition with yellow roses in our family. my grandpa never called my nan anything but "rosebud" and, i have them here, as do all my family. but that one sounds lovely. roses do really well here, as do orchids...   enjoy your day tommorrow, ladies...

   Marybe: tape it, then you can watch it sat or sun. when you've recoup from your eye surgery..     3jays

Alyson

We are having a wedding party. Have made the cake.

Here in NZ and Australia we are very used to watching things through the night, when we play sport against England over there its always going to be the middle of the night for us as are most royal events. This Royal Wedding is not too bad a time being in the morning in London.

Must think about some dinner as friends are coming over later on.

Hope you all enjoy the spectacle of the wedding tonight, its something the Brits do with real style..

QCA

That's great about your scan, Leah!  I'm so happy that it's not mets, and hope you get some help with the vertigo---that is very hard to deal with.

Marybe, good thoughts and prayers for you tomorrow with your cataract surgery. 
There's been so much progress in that area in recent years that it's astounding.  About 20 years ago I took my dad for his cataract surgeries, and back then they were done almost a year apart.  Hugs for you tomorrow!  I'll be doing that myself sometime in the future.

Well, I shan't (ooh, doesn't that sound very British) be staying up late or getting up early for the royal festivities but no doubt will watch a good bit of it tomorrow.  It will be good to see a happy occasion in world news for a change!  

Kathy

Cyborg

I was at this event and BAM! I meet another survivor. What a fantastic lady! Hope we will be friends.

Cyborg

Yay, Leah

sas-schatzi

ducky my husband lived across the street from the Catholic grade school in Drexel Hill backin the 50's. Went to see the old house in the late 70's and the family that bought the house from his parents still lived there. You are so blessed to have so many family memebers around

I end up in aplace with no family close, after coming from a huge extended family --88or 89 first cousins aunts and uncles.-====Typical irish cath. family. --------now nada----------sucks big time.

SoCalLisa

We are in Spain and watching the Wedding on TV with the Spanishj

translations over the dialog..

BarbaraA

Leah - happy dance!!!

Marybe holding your hand!

Elisimo

Marybe - holding your hand today as you go through surgery and then home to rest.

Dilly

Leah- great news! Stable is good. Hope you can find the cause of the vertigo - it's so disconcerting!

Holding Marybe's hand too, or a foot if there are no hands left....

QCA, how did 101 Dalmations go? 

Amyjo thanks for the update on your community - such terrible storms this year in so many places.  And thanks for the lovely flowers.  Our daffys are about done, the lilacs and dogwoods are blooming. Clematis is trying - but I need a better trellis.   The oaks and  cedars are throwing off pollen already and we'll be covered in yellow dust soon... No roses, the deer like them too well for us to bother, but they leave the mums alone (although the rabbits just love the young yellow mums and will strip a plant of every flower, leaving the leaves untouched...)

Spent yesterday and the day before working outside, raking and burning leaves and tree debris trying to get cleaned up before burn bans and then fire season take effect.  I'm sure I got weeks of weightbearing exercise done in one fell swoop... Today is going to be something more moderate.

I'd intended to try to watch "the wedding" but fell asleep.  First thing this a.m., I checked to see "the dress" --- now that's what I call a beautiful wedding dress...

Wishing you all a good day!

barbe1958

Thank God for our Raleigh sisters! I pray others have been as blessed.

Isabella, get on the phone Tuesday STAT so you can get 'er done! Enjoy your day as Princess....

chabba

Isabella, I'm looking forward to reading your reactions to the wedding. 

I've heard a couple of comments on TV expressing disappointment that the dress did not make "more of a statement" like Dianna's dress did. To me Kate's dress was perfect.  When you picture Dianna's wedding you see the dress, not the bride.  When you think of this wedding you will always see Princess Cathryn in a beautiful dress.

Anonymous

Hi All,

I had promised to let everyone know how my appt. with my onc went yesterday.  He doesn't seem to be worried about my small intestine issue and is happy I've made an appointment with a gastrointestinal dr.

On the down side, I have to have another echo cardiogram in 3 weeks to determine if I can continue with Herceptin or not.  He said I'm borderline at 50% and if I go below I'm at risk for congestive heart failure.  I was already low when I started from all the damage the adriamiacin did 12 years ago.  Of course, I looked it all up on the internet and am happy that I'm not showing any other signs of heart problems.  Now I'll have to get off that extra weight I've picked up these last few months to help myself along with all this.

On the up side, I woke up early and watched the wedding.  Never thought I'd enjoy it so much but am happy I made the sacrifice but will now have to take a nap.

Wishing all of you a great weekend.

Marianne

BarbaraA

Marianne, good news! Hope the echo comes up good, too.

I agree the wedding was pretty cool. Her dress was perfect, very simple yet elegant. And they looked so happy.

Anonymous

BarbarA,

I just had to reply that I thought the dress was perfect too.  For some reason it reminded me of the wedding dress Julie Andrews wore in the Sound of Music.  I must be really old.

Marianne

BarbaraA

Wow, you are right! I had to go look it up.

susgul

Marianne, you so are so right!  Definitely similar.  I really liked Catherine's dress.  So elegant.

Isabella4

Chabba...I really enjoyed the whole spectacle, in fact, I am sat watching the recording on TV all over again! I see you say there were a couple of adverse comments about The Dress...I am glad about that, because I also wasn't too impressed. I haven't heard a whisper against it over here, infact everyone is raving about it, so pleased that my opinion was shared by some.

I found the dress a bit bland, elegant, but bland...not enough of a statement !! Always have Diana's dress at the back of our minds here, to compare !! Catherine looked beautiful, elegant and relaxed...but...to me... bland!  I shall probably get carted off to the Tower of London for coming out and saying that ! The whole event went off very smoothly I thought. I had corns on my backside...I was sitting glued to the TV five and a half hours. I love all the soldiers, bands and carriages, and the beautiful music. I thought Catherines mother looked one of the best dressed women there, but Camilla looked a frump. Sorry, but she is NOT well liked here at all, for the way she and Charles treated Diana....wish she would curl up and wither away ! Most ( mainly women) here were saying she shouldn't have been up at the front after what she did...she tries too hard to push into Dianas boys' lives. 

I am sat watching the recording because I saw a runaway horse gallop thru' the procession as it was nearing The Mall. No-one else saw it, its not been mentioned on TV or radio, but I saw it !! It was brown, riderless and saddleless !!  DD tells me I am seeing things 'again' !!! If only my dogs could talk they would have backed me up!

Leah, pleased for you, such a relief.

Anyone heard from Marybe yet? Hope she has got thru' her second cataract op. OK. How are you feeling, Marybe. Take care.

3jays...look up on Google the rose Canary Bird, its a very lovely rose, but its opened and over within about 2 weeks. It's a single rose, quite like a 'wild' rose.

Hope you all are escaping the terrible weather thats going on. we have film at the top of all our news bulletins.Looks awful.

Turning in early tonight, absolutely tired out, its been a long day. I was up just after 6am...just to give myself time to get my dogs organised before I signed myself off for the day ! I had forgotten that I had a customer coming at teatime to buy 2 puppies, so just when I wanted to relax and finish the day off with a glass off wine I had to be all bright eyed and bushy tailed sorting out paperwork and bathing puppies....never a dull moment here.

Isabella.

dragonflymary

Leah, congrats on your scan.  Mazie, sorry you have so many complications going on--hugs from here to you.

Been off the 'puter for a coupla days as I went to PT and then fabric shopping, and today a pottery show.  My back is unhappy with all that, but the PT girl showed me some exercises that I hope will help.  To all in the path of these tornados, you're in my thoughts.  I grew up in Missouri so know all about tornados.  There seem to be more of them now than ever before, though. 

Going to rest as my grandkids are on the way (chaos in my future, for sure).  When they come to grandma's they get all the goodies they can't have at home so I'm ready for them--Easter candy, popcorn, cartoons, dress up clothes and, most importantly, play doh.  By the time they leave they'll be so worn out she can just roll them into bed and turn out the light!  And I will do likewise!  Dragon

dragonflymary

Isabella, what kind of puppies do you have?  You've probably said it but I forgot.

Re:  the royal wedding.  I LOVED the simple, beautiful dress.  Very appropriate when there are so many people out of work to keep it simple.  A lovely, down-to-earth couple.

Isabella4

Dragon....I breed Cavalier King Charles Spaniels...beautiful little dogs.

Isabella.

webstertoo

Isabella,

You're not crazy.  I too saw horse break away heading to the side of the street. I kept watching, 

expecting someone to get it but no more shots of it or mention by the newscasters. 

dragonflymary

Isabella, I really love Cavaliers--they are so cute.  I have a lhasa apso.  Almost got a Cavalier when my Yorkie died but here they are very expensive, like over a thousand dollars!   My lhasa is my baby, for sure. Dragon

3jaysmom

oh my, so much to say today.. 1st things 1st... congrats , LEAH>>> stable is WONDERFUL.. im happy for you.. Mazie, let me know what happens with the GI.. i was dx with "chemo-bloat" and the gi was non plussed. told me it was like a hose in a car gets overheated.. they stretch out, expand from the heat... our intestines do the same thing from some chemo tx... i wasn't totally satisfied without knowing what, if anything, we can do about it. i had gained 4 lbs. in chemo; but 5" on my waist, above the true waist. had all kinda tests, but not really any answers.. so, if you could, let me know what the GI says. pm me, so i don't miss it, if you would....

     now, the wedding.. well, in the states, they showed lots of previous ones. Dianas' included.. all the buzz... if you look up Grace Kellys dress, you'll see its' the exact same dress!! i don't think you can get better than her! and, looking back, Dianas' dress was too fussy, and wrinkled!!! i think Kate (now catherine) got it just right!!! simple, but elegant.. fits the style she's made for herself.....IMHO

     we don't like ol "horseface Camilla " much here, in the states, either, ISABELLA, and she was nothing but frumpy, but Kates mom looked fittingly like a mother of the bride... with class!!

    i heard they called kate katie waitie before, bc they broke up for a short time, and then dated a looonnngggg time. id say he was worth the wait... course, i like Harry better, just cause he's more feisty.   but i do think kate and william made a great couple, as im sure they will.. i don't think (hope) there won't be any scandal with them, as there was with Diana and Charles, and the wicked stepmother/concubine... right,, so, enough for me... have a great night, ladies. may see you later...        3jays

Alyson

Yes a horse did bolt after throwing its rider and it just went back to the barracks.

Elisimo

I got tickled when the Queen would not shake Camilla's hand.  The Queen ignored her even after Camilla curtsied to try and safe any dignity she thought she had.  I was so glad Cathrine and William did so much to honor Diana during the ceremony.  I love when they came out in the little sports car all decorated.  Everything seem to be perfectly suited to them.

Alyson

Sorry Amyjo but the Queen does not shake hands with a woman in that situation - it is not protocol. When my daughter has met the Queen (on a number of occassions) and has only ever curtseyed. You do not touch the Queen. She will shake the hand of one of her Prime Ministers (from UK, Canada, NZ , Australia etc) or male family member.