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Enerva

Well i am still here trying to meditate but cant stop thinking about my appointment this thursday. Night Alyson  

Alyson

Will be thinking of you.

Big hugs and keep warm.

Anonymous

Smaarty and Alyson, very cute Owlettes! Where do you get those pix?

Enerva, are you still awake? Please refresh my memory, which appt is it this Thursday?

mostlymom

sas - i found the owl pics in various places - some i've had for quite awhile & don't remember where i picked them up.  they just tickled my fancy.  thanks for liking them enough to put them in the intro - i feel quite special!

Alyson

This owl is ready to put her head on the pillow. (No doubt 3am will arrive and I will be awake.)

Chevyboy

Morning gals....Okay, so I went to Costco for the appt to have my hearing checked.... And AGAIN, she could not do a test, because there was sooooo much wax in my ears!  I had been WORKing on this, and thought I had gotten most OUT with the ear candles, because you can obviously SEE it! 

We had "lunch" there.... THAT was the only good part.  She said I have to go get them REALLY cleaned out before she can do anything.  And I'm pouting.  I called our PC while at Costco, requesting a referral for the ENT....  Waiting..... waiting......  and nothing.....

3 hours later I call the ENT, and make an appt for Thursday....  They said they can use this instrument, even vacuum, and promise to get it all out! 

My PC had flushed them once 2 months ago!  And nothing came out, but they said they look "fine now!"  So I go home from the flushing, and got tons of wax out, that they apparently didn't give a "hoot" about!   That's why I didn't want to try THAT again!

Yesterday I then used Peroxide in very warm water, and tried flushing them again with the Water-Pik.  Nothing....  !  I used more ear candles...  and get more out!

PC finally calls back and tells me "She won't give you a referral, because she can do that herself HERE! "   I politely reMIND them, that we DID this, and they said my ears were FINE and I went home and had to use candles to get the wax out that they DIDN'T! 

So I made the appt to go back for the useless cleaning, cancelled the ENT appt, which I couldn't go to without a referral.  THEN I got this bright idea, that why can't we go to the Urgent Care place, close to our HOUSE???  So I called...  !  I'm going in today.... AND the DOC that will BE there today, is the same gal that USED to be our PC!  We LOVED her, but she left that practice!  And we have been stuck with Dr. Dud!   I cancelled the appt. with Dr. Dud, and I think this must be a "sign".... 

A gal said YES, we can make sure your ears are clean, before you leave....  And maybe THAT way, I can hear something with my hearing aids once again!   And that is my latest saga.... never mind the tooth... 

Smarty and Enerva...and you other gals talking about fills?  Do you mean after your surgery, you have temporary expander things?  And you get them slowly filled until your skin stretches?   Well it makes sense, but I can't imagine how much that must hurt!    I had something similar, with the MammoSite Device they put in for Radiation. And before the treatments start, they have to keep "filling" that "baloon"  enough, to expand the area to be radiated.  And that hurt!  But probably NOTHING like the "build-a-boob" they are doing with you gals!    Do they then remove that temporary, and replace it with a permanent one?    Oh man, it just makes me shiver, thinking of what you are going through! 

So never mind me talking about my ears, which are considerably insignificant, and not NEAR as much of a medical issue as you gals! 

I'm just whining...  I don't like my PC...  And I think that is why DH won't ever go to her, or get a physical!   He would rather go to Urgent Care!   There are other gals in that practice...  Maybe I can CHANGE PC's?  I have to call the Insurance and whine to them.  Just pissed me off that she wouldn't give me a referral for the ENT which SHE had SENT me to in the FIRST place, when I lost my HEARING!  

camillegal

OMG I have had no recon but the more I have read or heard about it, it's not as easy as they make it sound at the beginning. I remember my BS say we can do this if u want and it sounded like no big deal, since my restaurant and playground retired I just said don't bother, I didn't care. So I chose to be flat--but it doesn't bother me.

Chevy I do understand, cuz I get my ears flushed too--but so far it works really well so I can't say much about it. But every so often it has to be done or I can't hear all I hear is echos, very aggrevating too.

Oh I'm ready for ZZZZZZZZZZ again, tis is recockulous how tired I am, I can't even enjoy TV--I fall asleep when my phone isn't ringing and when they wake me up I'm sure I sould like it and sound angry, cuz I am--I just want to sleep and when my cat isn't cuddling my DD says she watches me sleep for at least an hr., just watches me--she's as goofy as some people I know ---Ahem, not mentioning any names people might be familiar with.

sas-schatzi

Good Morning Owlettes )

We all must be sleeping a little better. I did wake up and watch a little of Peanut and Jeff Dunham on the kindle, Still warm under the covers.

Chevy, ask your Urgent care doc if she can't take you as a private patient. If she's not part of a corporation thingy, she may. Tell her about my group, if she' in business with just a small group they may consider changing to the business model that my folks use. Here it is: 4 partners, 2 non-partners, 4 ARNP's, 1 PA. Two offices--35 employees at one office , and 25 employees at the office. It's called Royal Oaks Medical Center and Urgent Care Center. They have two docs on duty at each office 5 days a week, one doc in each office Sat 9am-5pm, one doc in one office on Sun9-5pm.  The doc schedule M-F is one doc 8am till 4pm, and one doc12-8pm. Plus the ARNP's. They have Xray and lab. Able to do IV's and casting, EKG's.

Each doc can schedules private patients. This can be done even on Sat &SUN if they are on.  Each office takes walk-ins or urgi patients. The cost per-visit for established patients is the same as walkins. Insurance copay at standard rate.  We had to use it for DBF recently as a new pt. walkin(urgi)---no insurance...cost $47.

 The beauty is: I can be seen seven days a week. I switched to them years ago b/c I couldn't get a same day sick visit with my private doc for several episodes and would go to them.

The concept is so smart.

BTW-Ear Candling. Remember when we had the discussion. I still would like to see what a Mass Spectrometer said was in the candle. But the only time I did the candling when I had a bad earache it worked. Someday WE will take on the FDA and NCCAM for their fraudulent science and reports.

Teka

sas,

sas-schatzi

Spookie , we were so cold... doesn't compare to up north, but I had so much clothes on

Smarrty great a date, now the count done begins. What you said about the TE's being in your armpits. Ask Whippetmom if this normal when the foobs get to a certain cc level. I haven't a clue.

Be back DBF needs help sassy

Chevyboy

Sass, I can't find the picture I took after using 5 ear candles in one ear.... But they each had more wax than this picture does..

It's probably hare for anyone to believe that it really works, if they haven't had to use them.... but honest, so far, it is the only thing that has worked.

I'll see today if they can get it all out.... If not, I'll just do the candling, because I know it works...  I've never used a candle in these ears, that weren't full of the wax.... I just haven't used more than 5 at a time!  But I've never used one, and it came up empty.....

IllinoisLady

Abysmally  behind again......so here is what I need to say:

Love, Lilli

Shellshine

Owlettes, love it. Maybe I'll come here and visit after all the other mainlanders have gone to sleep and I need someone to play with.

Holeinone

hey Owlettes, 

Hoping if I rant & whine I will feel better, here goes...I had a node show up in my PET scan, after lumpectomy that looked "hot" or suspicious. So today after my 11th rad zap, I ask RO about it. Is it still there, did it show up in the CT for the simulation. He said yes, still there yes they are keeping a eye on it, not for me to worry...I told him yah, right...that's alI the f:"k I do, and read & be entertained from you guys...I did not use the "f" word, my Drs. Are Mormons, and Mormon men  can say bad words but not the little lady...so, I should of asked did it shrink during chemo, can we biopsy it, but NO, I freaked out & shut up, went home...cried in the car....better now, but wish I could be a little quicker when I have there attention. To this guys credit, he really asks how I am, MO tried, or went through the motions but never felt genuine.

luvmygoats

Holeinone - so try more direct. What are the plans besides "watch it"? See if that grabs him. I'm a great one to talk big - I don't like my MO either. Is the node axillary or supraclavicular or inframammary and in path of rads? That's the 3 I think of, prob. more but think those are the most common. Or is somewhere else altogether? When do you see RO again? Hugs from here. Remind me where you are again.

Chevyboy

HoleinonegolfgirlGG.... Is this all you?  Ha!  Go ahead and cry.... I did too today.  They couldn't fix my ears.... just used a rake and a shovel and a garden hose, and still could not get the wax out....   Now they hurt, and I can't hear.  Finally got a referral from that UrgentCare Doc, and I'm going tomorrow to try what the ENT can do!  

Don't you all just get plain discouraged, when it seems like no-one can help?   I think I'll go fix a drink.... a chocolate coke is what I need.... sniff.....

Anonymous

I guess I'm very blessed. I love my MO. She hates to give her patients bad news, but when she has to, she's very considerate of our feelings. When she has good news her whole face lights up. She's thorough, takes all the time I need to answer all my questions, and she usually gives me a hug. When I've had tests like the bone scan last Monday, she calls me herself to give me the results.

I made chicken & noodles for dinner. We eat about noon as Jim leaves for work at 1:00 pm.

I'm thinking really hard about taking a nap. As a matter of fact I'm sitting here like a tightly coiled spring ready to spring up out of this chair and go read myself to sleep.

I'm reading a really good book, " One Light Still Shines. " it's by the widow of the Nickle Mines Amish School shooting. Very interesting. You'd think he was just a very evil man, but he had just never recovered from the loss of 2 of his own children. No one understands what made him snap. He actually loved the Amish and worked along with them. Her faith in God really sustained her through that horror.

Naptime........

luvmygoats

Paula - I'm kinda in the same situation. My DH goes to work about 11 am (always early) and get off at 9 p. Some nights later like tonight with an ad coming out so they have to reset signs and stuff. Gets home about 10 p though I know your DH is later than that. He takes an hour nap b4 going to work.

I made a 2.5# turkey breast in foil yesterday. It was not a commercial one like Butterball but pkg. from grocery. It was so good and surprise it was boneless. I will do this again with some gigantic chicken breasts (not boneless).

Have to go give stinky dog a bath. Have heat lamp warming up in DH's bath. Yuck but has to be done.

Chevyboy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNdNzg-CTQ

You  guys, remember Ducky talking about her Granddaughter Grayson? One of the twins?   She had major problems when she was born?  This is her now!

Blessings2011

(((((Holeinone)))))

O.M.G. - yesterday was my first Acupuncture treatment. Originally it was a referral from my MO for joint and muscle pain from Femara, but after the last few weeks of acute back pain it became even more important.

The good news: the woman I saw used to do Acupuncture for Kaiser (it's a covered benefit.) She now has her own clinic for Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, which, I have to admit, fascinates me. Also, I had to lay on my stomach for the first procedure (first time since BMX and recon in 2011) and my saline implants did not explode.

The bad news: the first procedure I got was Moxibustion/Cupping - where she lights a small fire in a glass cup and immediately whacks it onto your back, or wherever there is tightness (a blockage in energy). I have never, ever felt anything like it. I thought there was a giant octopus on my back. She left the cups there for ten minutes, then pulled them off. Wherever the darkest circles are, that's where the blood flow is restricted. I wouldn't say they hurt, until last night when they sort of stung... this morning I have seven giant purple hickeys on my back. 

The next thing she did was to put needles down the top of my scalp - like a part down the middle of your hair. That hurt, too. Needle on bone... yikes! She left those in for 15 minutes. 

That was it - she told me to go home and take it easy, to massage the top of my scalp, and to not drink any ice water - only warm water, like tea.

I see her again next week. 

Chevyboy

Well Blessings, you have more nerve than I do...Ha!  I had read about "cupping!"  I thought WTH??????  But if it works that's all that matters, I guess.... which brings me to the question, did it work?   Or are you nursing those giant purple octopusses on your back....  Oh wait.... they are called Octopi.... plural, you know...  Same as with a Cactus...  It's Cacti.....

And also, is that LEGAL?  I mean to light a fire under your cup then whack it on your back?   I mean I think I would run!  Makes lighting an ear candle pretty TAME compared to that!   And what is that supposed to do?  Besides make you wince in pain?  And scream bloody murder!   I would have smacked her silly!

Which also brings to mind, miss Paula, you know all  Octopusses are "female"....... Hence the name!  And male octopusses are called what????  Just give it your best shot.... I'm not gonna say it...  

Chevyboy

And another thought.... I think "cupping" is in theory supposed to draw out all the bugs in your body.    And to scare any living THING from coming within 19 MILES of you!  

So if reason persists.... You will NEVER be sick another day in your LIFE!    Get a heating pad!

kathindc

Chevy, you're in rare form this evening, oops, this afternoon for you.  God, I get a good laugh when I read your posts!

Holeinone

thanks for letting me have my mini pity party...I need to be more vocal, next Wed. I will meet with him again, and I will be ready ! 

Luvmygoats, it's the axillary node ( I think) he took 7, that one got left behind..I am in Idaho

Blessings, I am going to google this Moxi-cupping procedure...sounds kinda voodoo. But I would like to try acupuncture.

Chevy, yes all me, GG, golf girl & Holeinone ...

Solteria, I watched the gal that wrote the book on some talk show...she was well spoken...

Smaarty

GG-email them and see what they tell you. Can you insist on a biospy?

Chevy-cute video, love that song.

Blessings-sounds like a weird accuputure appt. 

I've decided to sit back and not do much today. Even this little bit of typing makes my chest ache. Glad this will be over soon.

Alyson

Just thought I would pop in and see how you lot were getting on. Chevy is in real good form this evening ( your time). See you later.

Smaarty

hi ladies, is everyone surviving the big freeze? I just rewarded myself by booking a short trip to Disneyland in April. I should be all done and good to go and never look back! With the new girls, high and perky! I got on stfu thread and one of her comments was about perky new boobs. I have used that for myself to help get through this mess. I'll end up with free new perky boobs when all done! (Almost free).  I'd have to go back and see how many appointments and the like but I'm  guessing that I've spend about maybe $700 for these new boobs. Did you know that protheseis are $900 for a pair?? And the PS told me yesterday that the implants are about $1000 each. WOW!  So glad I have Kaiser! Do any of you know what/where I can give the protheseis to? Even if the next surgery doesn't work out, I'll go flat. Didn't like wearing them. 

I have done the ear candling thing but I get some wax but mostly white stuff. It does work really well.

Take care 

Spookiesmom

During my BMX doc discovered one of the nodes that lit up was wrapped around a vein. He couldn't get it out, or I would have bled to death. So the plan was to extra zap it during rads. I guess they did, that area is still dis colored almost a year later. I liked my RO the most of the 3.

Spookiesmom

Did anybody else see this on huffing ton post?  Size MMM boobs. I can't imagine this. 

Holeinone

Smaarty/Sue, a trip to Disneyland sounds like a fun outing for your new "twins girls"...

Spookiemoms, so, were you ok, comfortable with leaving the node in like that? I am sure, the bottom line is you had no choice. Maybe, I don't either, but I will ask more questions next Wed. When I see him again... What I should have asked was, did it shrink during chemo? They have the before & after scan..I also still am packing that "power port" around, so if that node is still make me crazy, I say out with it & the port....after rads...

GG....golf girl..