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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    Welcome Mimi & Patty.  I too had a long nap now awake when DH came home from work (he works late on Sat night) and was singing at the top of his lungs in the shower.  STFU!  Now he's snoring and I'm awake @ 2 a.m.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    WHY CAN'T I SLEEP??????????????

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    hi Carolyn, IDK but me too! 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    I want in, too!

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    hi Maddy!  You're in like Flint!

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  • Njmom3
    Njmom3 Member Posts: 143
    edited February 2014

    I was so excited when I feel asleep at 1145 pm. I thought wow a normal nights sleep...  Guess not!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    This really $uck$!

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    My DH and I work opposite schedules.  I work days and he works nights.  I'm a light sleeper.  He lays down and crashes so hard you could set off a bomb by his head and he'd keep snoring.  I don't usually wake him up when I get up at 4:30 but he always wakes me up when he comes to bed at 2.  I can usually fall back asleep but some nights, like tonight, I can't.  Dammit.  Maybe I should go start a load of wash.....

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    Night Owls -----

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    And then there was one?  Sunday paper just came so off I go to read.  Good night/good morning!

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  • mostlymom
    mostlymom Member Posts: 466
    edited February 2014

    my daughter was dx with bc in spring of 1998 when she was 28.  i researched online and had a binder full of information.  i thought i knew a lot about bc.  i was dx 2/23/11 and found i didn't know diddly....  my daughter, on the other hand, knew too much....  she was been my rock and although dh tries, she is the one who got all of us (including our son) through all this even though she's been more scared than i have been.  dh is 75 & i'm 70 now - she moved in with us a year-and-a half ago and is a tremendous help.  this site has also been invaluable - i have cried on my bc sisters shoulders and told them things i haven't been able to discuss with my family.  i need to exercise more - walk more - eat less, etc., etc., but i am a lazy, procrastinating, self-pitying, silly, stubborn so & so....

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2014

    When will I learn too quit messing with the owl gallery? I did learn also, thatthe undo button only works once. If you mess up that once then it's back to the beginning----OH CHIT.

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  • mdnghtdeb3
    mdnghtdeb3 Member Posts: 130
    edited February 2014

    Welcome Mimi and Patty! Great group of ladies here will offer you great advice, keep you strong, and even cause a laugh!

    What is it with our adult children? Wow! I am sure they are afraid. It's hard to watch their supermoms become any less then the glue that holds everyone together, but with that being said...they are also adults. It's time for them to step up to the plate and take some responsibility for their actions, or lack of actions (at least that is what my DH says). I, too have an adult son who has been MIA since my dx. Okay, that isn't entirely true. He did show up at the hospital for my surgery, but not one phone call or visit. Ginger, I think you have the right idea...we need to tell them how we feel. I may do just that today! 

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2014

    MM_ Chit your not.......I said something to my counselor that was similar ---he said----It was because I didn't want too. BIG difference... We tend to be very hard on ourselves. When and if you change your mind you will. If you don't , you don't. Hugs

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2014

    SASSSssssssssss!   What the hell?  Is it just me, or have your owls taken on a life of their own?  They have suddenly became almost life-size!  Ha, ha!   Now we actually DO have owls governing us!  I can't even change my own avatar, but YOU can co-ordinate, manipulate, and motivate those owls to become giant bird-men!   This is so cool!  Now don't go makin' them pea-sized again!  Unless you have to...image

    Morning Teka...    Did you see what Jazzy did?  That was a GOOD one Jaz!   I sent it to my Daughters.

    Midnight!  Nothing is too silly to ask here... Are you kidding?   If we don't know an answer, you can bet we will pretend we do... 

    I'm just here because I care about you gals, and sometimes we just want to have fun!  .....  Like me and Cam...  SHE is, or was the master of having fun!   Can't spell worth a damn, but we all know what she is saying...  Our brains have been programmed to accept anything she says...   We don't understand it, but it doesn't matter...  We don't get graded here....

    Maddy!  That was so funny!  Those two gals are hysterical! 

    Hi Ginger! 

    Oh Hi Mimmi!  Is that okay to call you that?  I usually don't even ask, I just do it anyway...  Yes, I think your kids are just afraid...  

    Or just don't worry about it....  You'll get through this...  wait..... I have this song saved, that my Daughter gave me...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYNOXRifXKQ

    Sometimes your family is just lost, in what they are feeling, and they are afraid to reach out...   Some kids are just wrapped up in their own lives, and make us feel like they aren't interested.... But they are... in their own way....  But that's what we are here for...   We can take up the slack....  (I heard that somewhere)  image

    Morning PattyP!  So this is your 2nd time around also!  Dang!   Did you take Tamoxifen or any of the others after the first time?  I always wondered if taking those helped!   Just stay strong!  It's best for you too.   I don't think you are taking enough drugs... We have to get you on some sort of regimen that will help not only the pain, but your sleeping!  So you need a Doctor appointment for this.... Or ask our team of medical experts...  Ha,ha!  I mean they really CAN help!   I am just being facetious here  (big word here Cammi) but even Nurses and Doctors get cancer, and some of them are on here, so they will help you!   And we care... Glad you stopped in!  So now you are indebted for eternity to this site. 

    2nd Time!  Spooky has been sideways for some time now...  She knows, she just wants to see if WE notice!   Like I said, I don't want to screw up my Avatar, to change it, because I don't know HOW!  And SHE gets hers sideways, without even trying!   She's a brat!

    Sorry Tang...  All you little owls, Badger, Carolyn,  GG, (Holeinone), Maddy,  and NinjaMom.... GEEZ, I wish I could help you sleep.... Maybe just forget about nights, and sleep whenever you can during the day?  All of you should just go out and party at night.... leave open time during the days for your sleep?

    MostlyMom....  You forgot beautiful, wonderful and full of chit!  We ALL need to exercise more, AND walk... even eat less, but at MY age, I figure  that I can do almost anything I WANT to do, or not!  If we are over 70.... which I am older than most anybody here, then that means we have a free pass to do anything we want!    Well most things!

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited February 2014

    Welcome Mimi and PattyP. Sad days and sleepless nights are companions to many here. 

    This is a fun and active thread and busy 24 hours a day. If you step away for a bit, you will find you have days of pages to catch up on! 

    Glad you found us!

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2014

    Maddy Chit I lost an owl?

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited February 2014

    sas, 

    I am not computer savvy!

    Practice makes perfect?Shocked

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

    Mornin all==yes isn't it something when we sleep 5 hrs. and it's a surprise and we're so happy, when in our previous life we slept longer automativlly.

    Welcome Mimi and Patty and really this is a 24 hr thread so anytime someone's here.

    And yes it's true Chevi is much older than 70 so, she should do what she wants, if she can still do it, which as we all know is a chore. Shhhh, poor thing she can't even get arrested for going nude, they think she just didn't iron her clothes)

    I was going to talk about our kids but Teka said it concisely---and I really don't think they want to hear about it, not because they don't care but because they could always come to us to make them feel better. My GS--u all know Joey came to me last nite and sat down and said he was worried about me??? I said why--he said u seem extremely depressed today and I want to help-Of course I started laughing he's n ine shat's he gonna give me-? Wll I just told hime I've been very tired (which I have) and he rubbed my back and hugged me--now they notice,more than our kids.

    Patty what do u take for pain, cuz my meds are always right next to me and now I don't wait long when it starts, I take them so they don't get a big hold on me-addicted-schmadicted who cares now, as long as it helps.

    It's still snowing WTF--it's getting higher and higher--(like me mostly) but the snow isn't fun.

    OK BBL

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited February 2014

    Cammi, I kept reading your  post over and over again, and I actually think I know what you said!  

    And Joey.... Yes, he does know and feel when you don't feel good!  You have been so quiet, and I feel sort of obligatory teasing you!  Doesn't make any sense, but I don't care..   So I know, and HE knows...  So you have to pretend... 

    Sass....  Give it another 48 hours of constant surveillance, and swearing, and see if that helps! 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    Coffee anyone?

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited February 2014

    Hi pepperm and mimimim, I'm still trying to find my owl, problem I forget what he looks like?

    Agree with Cami-----addicted schmicked---take your pian meds around the clock======they don't work have the pain management doc find a system that works.

    H-I-!---I found a new find, now I need to find it'sname, I did know it's name, but forgot it,hope it doesn't take long, sometimes it's been days of searching, can't afford to do that today, need to find my owl.

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited March 2014

    good morning all. Wow. What an awesome welcome from all. Thanks !   So I haven't slept all night in like 7 months. Then I finally found sonething to do at night and I slept all night like a baby.  Like 7 hours.  Wow. Amazing.  

    Yes I do take meds. I take anxiety meds and morphine er 3 times a day wether I need it or not. I also take diladid as needed.  But it just doesn't give me the relief it used to. I really don't want to tell mo because I can't imagine taking even more. I am so scared of addiction and blowing thru the strong meds now. What will I be able to take in the end for pain if my tolerance is built up so much now.  I also see a pain mgmt dr. I have had radiation for the pain but no help. I have had a kyphoplasty for fractures but that caused more fractures. Just my luck.  I am  in the process of doing a rfa. That's where they burn the nerves in that area. Surely can't send pain message to brain without nerves. Rfa supposed to last about a year before they grow back.  Wow my list of things to do when I can be up and about again is HUGE.  I have been crazy worried about my young boys being so upset and crying so often.  My husband always says it could be worse they could not care.  True.  After seeing so many responses about adult or teen children I think I am going to have to change my attitude about their responses.  Hurts so much to not be able to fix their hurt. That's our job, right?  My mom lived with stage 4 cancer for 20 years. I remember distancing myself from her because I really didn't know what to say of do. Thought not talking about it would help her not think about it. So I totally get why your teen/adult children r going thru. Luckily mom livedonv enough I got to apologize like a hundred times. 

    Chevyboy - I took arimidex for 5 years and completely changed my diet. Totally eliminating (of almost anyway lol) sugars, fried foods, fast foods et. Now that it is back I say screw it - bring on the sweet tea, frenchfries and blackberry cobbler. I have lost like 40 lbs since new dx. Down to just under 100.  Mo says eat anything u want.  Yea. I have always wanted a dr to tell me that.  Mashed potatoes, hoho's woohoo!!!!   

    Dang how does a simple response turn into a book again for me. Oops sorry ladies.  Again thanks ladies 

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited February 2014

    ok so reading my post I sound like a whiner. Grr

    Better attitude - I did have 11 years between before that damn cancer came back. I got to do so many things that I am truly thankful for and I have many more things to do before I am ready to check out. 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited February 2014

    ((Patty)) it's not whining when it's the truth!  And even if it was, this is us, so g'head and vent! ♥

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited February 2014

    Mimi & Patty, 

    Truly, on this *thread* members are the safety net!SillyHeart

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited February 2014

    16*F and sunny in the North Country.

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  • tangandchris
    tangandchris Member Posts: 1,855
    edited February 2014


    Melatonin worked last night, but I should take it earlier next time. I feel like a zombie right now and of course my 4 year old is up and ready to take on the world.  :)

    I did start feeling sleepy so I laid down, and next thing I know I woke up. lol :)

    Happy Sunday Ya'll. Hope you found some sleep to those that were up late. ((hugs))

     

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

    Patty we don't like the word whine, wine yes but not the other say whatever u wat to after all where else can u, whenever u want. We're all in situations that are not pleasant, but I have to say u'rs sound horrendous to have so much pain. The procedure u'r will be having sounds actually interesting and if it works wonderful.

    Hey Teka--16--wow are u filling the pool today?

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