INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Holeinone

Luvmygoats....might be a silly ?, but why do you ladies continue to see the breast surgeon? Mine said, he did his job, goodbye...

Golfgirl

camillegal

Blondie I really don't know but I would fire me, I told him my phone isn't working and it would be cheaper (much) if he got me one of the phones on his stuff. IDK he doesn't listen to me at all. So he might not even notice.???

U know Golfwoman LOL  u'r right, everyone still sees BS, I haven't seen him since my last operation, well unless they're talking recon or something else??? I told him he left me breastless and what else does he want, well he did take my GB after but I never saw him unless he wanted to give me certain tests. Well he did do my procto he said he wanted to cuz he already knew I was goofy  he thought he'd do it even tho he usually doesn't, Well I told him he just wanted to see my ass. And I immediately farted in his face and I said I always wanted to do that to someone and now I did. Cuz he knew I wanted to be awake too and most Drs. don't like that, that's why he really did it. Cuz no one wants to be awake and Drs. prefer u not to be actually, since he knew me it didn't seem like it would bother me. That was his story, but he let me be awake.

grammaB

Phyllis, that bread looks so good! I'd make some too if I could eat wheat...low carb/high fat diet to control my diabetes.  I miss bread and butter so much!  But I do get to eat a lot of butter on other things.

Cami, didn't you say you are working for DS or SIL?  Maybe I got that wrong....surely he wouldn't fire you.

Wren to this point, my MO has said nothing about doing any scans or ultra sounds or anything.   Don't have a clue if he handles it or my PCP orders it.... I'm going to put that question on my list for when I see him in Feb.

luvmygoats, I've been searching both Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video and neither have Saving Grace.  They both have the TV series Saving Grace which is actually on my list waiting to be watched.  I totally thought I had watched it on Netflix, will have to search online, after this discussion, I want to watch it again!

GolfGirl, mine said the same after my 1 month check.  She did say if I needed her for anything to call.  I don't have dog ears so no, really don't need the surgeon.

Smaarty

hi guys. I'm home and this is Kylem. Came in at 8'9, 19-1/2" at 3:11. His name may  still change. All the kids have a y as the second letter in their name.

His mom is definitely sore. He came pretty fast once things kicked in. I like being there but it's hard to watch when they are in pain.  I've seen 7 other births, but not my own. Had my eyes closed. This will be the last baby in the family for awhile until my granddaughter has one in about 4 years. 

I have never seen the BS since the bmx just the PS.  I don't know what the process is after I'm done with the PS. I know there's no more mammograms but that's it.  

The beer bread looks good, is the recipe going to be posted?

Teka

Lovely Baby!!

4sewwhat

Such a miracle each time.  I miss those days.  Lost 4 then had 4.  Never tried to prevent more, just wasn't in the cards.  I better be around to see my grand kids!

My BS is done with me too.  Since I had recon the PS did the follow up. Nothing left there for him to do!  Maybe a follow up at a year but other than that I can check himmoffnthe list of docs. Same with the RO.  Couple of check ups then they are done with you too. That's fine!  He was great but told him I never want his services again!

Been reading just not writing.  Hard to catch up!  Keeping busy with the kids home. Laundry, dishes and need to grocery shop!  Cupboard is bare since they have been home for 2 weeks now!  Nobody has killed anyone yet, so I guess another successful break from school!

Anonymous

Smaarty, he's beautiful! Congrats!

Trying to catch up. About BS: mine had me on 3-mo appts, then Jun and just saw in Dec,m.we'll be making another 6-mo appt for June, then decide about next one. She knows I'm still seeing PS and MO every couple months, they're a great team, they all worked together previously, so we'll just see. Haven't been released from anyone yet

Blessings2011

grammaB – whereabouts did you live in the forest in the Sierra
mountains?

Pawprint – I have no emergency pack, either. I keep
saying I’m going to make one.

Mostlymom – love the Bluebird of “happiness”… reminds me
of Grumpy Cat!

Chevyboy – Your mom must have had some VERY vivid
memories of Loma Prieta!

Sassy – the Tylenol content is why Kaiser changed us all
from Vicodin to Norco.

Smaarty – I am a grandma of six, but never went through
childbirth. I married a man with three sons. I was in the Delivery Room with
two of my granddaughters. Awesome! Ten-plus pounds, both of them. Kylem is a
sweetie!

Phgraham – Hey, I like Holy Crapamole even better than I
like Holy Samoley. Thanks! Also – I’d never seen “NFI” before… gonna borrow
that, too!

Camillegal – if I’m at home I always forget to turn my
cell phone on. Those are the days I get a gazillion texts and voicemails.
Sheesh! Ya think folks would learn that about me already! Call me on my home phone!

Holeinone – I haven’t seen my BS since my one-week post
op visit and she yelled at me for still taking pain meds. At that point, I was
finished with her! I also haven't seen my PS for over a year.

Wren44 – hope all your appts turn out o.k.! 

Teka – I love that icon with the hearts coming out of its
head, but the eyes are a little crazy, and why on earth does it have a Miley
Cyrus tongue?

~ ~ ~ 

House is now undecorated and clean, but attic and Tuff
Shed are crammed with tubs and boxes. Went to PT appt this afternoon and she
let me go. The “stretching and strengthening” exercises are making me worse. So
now it’s on to the next level… MRI of my spine? I do have acupuncture and
myofascial release massage next week. Arghhh.

SOOOO sorry for all you Owlettes getting nasty weather
right now! 

It was 70 again today… I had to wear a sweater to the clinic. (OW!
Who threw that snowball at me?)

Holeinone

Well, I think my ? About the breast surgeon was a little lame, lots of mx in the group, but mine was a quickie lumpie, no fuss, no muss...

Cami, does your surgeon still keep you as a patient? That is one good man. He takes his ( what's it called, the oath thing?) seriously, doesn't he?   

Smaarty, what a day you have had! The baby is beautiful, how exciting....4 boys ? 

4sewwhat....are you feeling ok? Good to see ya here, busy one.

Nicky...we miss hearing from you, hope all is well in the south of France...

Teka

I miss the old faces.

Really, with an arrow in the head,dead!

luvmygoats

Not sure why I'm still seeing BS - every 6 months. Says we might go to a year. But by golly the best breast exam I've ever had. Are they all so thorough? Wish she was my MO and not the a** I have. I know I should change but I tolerate him every 6 months. Another female MO has moved to that office a friend sees. Stupid me thought she was too far away not realizing how few times I would see MO. When I started this journey I was still working hospice and had to limit docs not in immed. area. I had patients I could walk to from MO's office he's that close in. She would be who I would switch to if I needed more intensive tx  - which of course hope I continue to need only the a**.  It is a very large statewide practice so I wouldn't need to go far to find another one. The one I never saw again was my RO. I went one week after last rads and that was it. She was pretty nice/good too.

Blessings - I don't understand that icon either. Maybe he's panting for your love??? It was 71 here yesterday but struggled to get to 41 today and that was a chilly 41.

Smaarty - congrats on the sweet new great nephew.

Anonymous

I see the BS once a year. I have my mammo, then go straight in to see him. I don't have to wait for results. He tells me immediately.

savgigi

Holeinone, I had a lumpy also. My BS sees me twice a year for a couple of years, then yearly after that. I have a mammo right before I see her. In Aug they just mammo'd the lumpy side. Feb will do both. I have roughly the same schedule with the RO and MO for 5 years. The BS is in a practice that does only breast surgery and the hospital is a certified breast center. The follow-up schedule may be part of that certification.

Spookiesmom

Had 1 fu with RO, discharged me. BS is every 6 months. MO is every 3 months for now. Must find new one due to Humana dumping this oncology practice. It's all over FL and NC. Just dumped them!

Teka

Health Insurance.

Wren44

I see the MO unit every 6 mos until I'm off Arimidex. She doesn't really do anything except ask about side effects and do a brief breast exam. I've never had a scan and they're not planning any.

Holeinone

thx to all for the info....I live in a small community, but we do have a new hospital, the center where they do the mammos, the radiologist just comes in 1 day a week to read them, or do follow ups...my surgeon was my favorite Dr., I guess I will have an appt. to get the port out sometime, maybe after rads....

grammaB

Smaarty, he is a beautiful boy!! 

I was done with my BS after 1 month post, visits at 1 week, 2 weeks and then 4 weeks.  I only saw the RO once pre sx and that is all.  The MO I will see every 3 months for 3 years, then every 6 months for 2 more years.  I didn't need chemo, rads or hormone treatment.  As with everything bc related, each hospital seems to have its own protocol.

Blessings, I lived in Arnold on Highway 4. 4400' elevation.  It is further up the hill than Angels Camp and Murphys.

Smaarty

ladies, going to bed now. Long day and I was up early. I hope those of you on the east coast are doing ok with that storm. Wish we were getting some of that. If it doesn't start raining soon, we're going to be in big trouble.

Sue

sas-schatzi

Helloooooooo Owlettess....Wide awake, pain semi, ready to play anyone up?

Smarty great kiddo.. what fun........

Blessings, I have been lurking on Hermit's b/c so many are from there. Nice group. Fast too. You made some more comments on hermits thread of the diet your on . If I get one of my burst of energy days, I will have to go back and look at the diet. Sure, I read some years ago that the person that came up with it did it a very long time ago---30'40'50's very long ago. Somehow it got thrown away by orthodox people in control at the time as quackery.  It was rediscovered(but never was forgotten). Obviously, it works.  AS Cami mentioned awhile ago I like to know the hx of things. The diet used for diabetics for so long now just wasn't/isn't doing the job. Please, write often about it. I know I find it encouraging to read about your success with it. 60lbs and 4.4%HBA1C and feeling good says it all , with good lipid/triglycerides/HDL. Who put you on the diet? What kind of oral hypoglycemics were you on? Insulin? How has this affected your meds? Details? Did you have to be convinced to go on the diet?

sas-schatzi

Badger, you went back and read from the beginning, how funny, all the night meanderings of sleepless minds. Loved our visit in Melbourne. Too short. 

Chevy, chicken sit, cheicken, sit chicken shit......nope can't do it. Glad you are taking care of the peeps. Too bad you couldn't shovel the chicken poop on tweedle dee& dum. Still can't figure out why they would get chickens............... I put mouse on NYE, hand problems by AM. Happy to at least put the mousse on the no list. Used it allot last spring when the trouble started, but didn't make a connection.

Earthquakes::: worked on a disaster committee for area hospitals one time. It was suggested a new couple both RN's that had moved from California to get away from earthquakes might be a resource in planning. Shortly after they moved to northeast Ohio we had a quake. Poor folks, they chose the area b/c of no quake activity, then the shaking started it.

I was watching the TV when the 1989 SF quake happened before the ballgame.  Lou(?)Michaels was talking and the shaking started. He had to do on air communication b/c his was the only feed getting through. He was very shook up, but rose to the occasion Remember the collapsing highway. It took awhile before the national folks were clued in that it was an over/under highway. Whomever wrote about the serendipity of why the highway was realtively empty during that time. Thanks. Never knew that.

Littlegoats, have they RR folks figured out what's up with your shaking?

mostlymom

anyone may copy my pics - it just means I've found a home for my warped sense of humor....  

kathindc

Mostlymom, I have that same sense of humor!

See what I mean?!

Chevyboy

Chevyboy

Morning gals....  Sassy, my PC told me I could be allergic to several different things, I mean with our hands etc! 

I just think my problem has no rhyme or reason... It comes and goes.  Right now it is fine... But honestly I love that cream I was telling you about...

It smells  "different"... but it works...  The "Lantiseptic" Multi-Purpose Daily Care Skin Protectant. 

Morning GrammaB and GG!    Are you feeling okay GG?  Wish I could lose about 20 pounds 3 times.... Ha!

And Phyllidinker is with us again!  You still required to wear that ankle bracelet you were issued, by the ..... ahem..... authorities?   And how are your neighbors?  Been yelling at them lately?  Or scaring the kids in the block? 

You can let me and Cammi do that...  Ha,ha!  See now?  That pain-ball gun is going to get you in trouble!  Who do you think you are?  Dog the Bounty Hunter, or BETH???  MY GOD, have you ever seen such a huge pair of breasteses in your LIFE?   

It's a wonder she doesn't have to get Social Security numbers for those "girls!"

You baked bread!  Now isn't that just precious!    Oh man, I love Beer Bread...  but my favorite is San Francisco Sour Dough... from the Wharf!  I ordered some one time from that bakery, and it was.... get this..... over $24 for 2 loaves!   Imagine how much WEED I could have bought! 

LittleBreadGoats!    Okay it IS your middle name! 

Chevyboy

Morning Soteria!  

No, Cammi.... all you need to make beer bread is BEER!  Just pour it in a baking pan, and after about 45 minutes, drink it all up.  Same thing.  It's less trouble that way....You can double or even triple the recipe, by just adding more beer...  Man, I can't even stand the smell of beer....  I just never learned to like it...  even after working for Coors for almost 19 years.   I LOVED the smell of the Malt House! 

Cammi, that vibrating phone of yours is going to get you in trouble!  It isn't the phone so much as it is your HANDLING of the calls.... I think. 

Maybe you need an assistant.... like me for instance.   Wouldn't THAT be a kick?    See, you could ask those people if they want a "Floor Furnace" or a stand-in-the-corner one...  Then you could transfer them to me, and I would tell them the benefits of burning coal, as compared to wood... Ha, ha!   And we could ask if they would like  some weed to burn WITH their wood!   And the whole world would be happy.

Cammi, don't go to the Doctors.... anymore.  They just throw a wrench into our days... and we don't like them.

No Blondie.... Cammi had to take a leave of absence....  she won't be back for a few days, until they sort out how many people got screwed up.

Chevyboy

So none of you could get a word in edge-wise?  Aren't you glad I sleep all night? 

Chevyboy

So somehow I was going to "post" another whole page, and it is not posted!  I must have forgot to "paste".... dangit!

I was SAYing, Smaarty, what a beautiful New Years you had!  That really is a miracle....!   I think we are all jealous!

And 444444444444isinthehouse!  So happy the kids haven't hurt each other yet...!  Are you feeling better? 

Morning Maddy!   I just want to ask you a serious question.... Did you take any of the Als, or like Tamoxifen after your first DX?  I'm always thinking since I quit Tamoxifen after just 14 months, that I will get BC back again, or a new DX.... 

Have any of you taken those drugs, and than had a reoccurrence? 

Blessings, I love how you "bold" everyone!  I know!  I agree with the texts....  I don't do them unless there is no other way, like there is never really a reason to text, instead of call...   I know everyone does it.... but I would just rather email or talk.

Teka

mostlymom,

Thank You!!

kathindc

I only text my daughters.  It's usually the only way they will respond as they hate talking on the phone!  I kid them that they must ignore any call from our home phone number.