INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

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Teka

Love your Avatar!

I'll only post Spring photos, no matter the weather in the North Country.

Anonymous

Blessings and Cami, thanks so much for sharing! 

Spookiesmom: YAY! Better than fantastic! Happy dance!

Thanks, Teka!

vinniemyers

Bluebird... Hope ur feeling better everyday... one day closer to tatts?

 I'm still up but am gonna try to crash here in an hour or two... Have a bunch to tattoo tomorrow but I am looking forward to it... Today was fun... one lady had the tattooing done FOUR times at her PS office and he was mad that she was going to go to a "tattoo shop" to have the nipples done... what the hell... he billed her each time...WTF!!!  Oh well I sick of whining you all have way more shit to deal with than me and I hope everyones day tomorrow is GREAT!... 

 Some weather guy said something about snow here in Maryland on Tuesday... UUUGGGHHH!  I need some sunlight on my bald head not snow!

Talk to y'all in the... tomorrow night... V

Anonymous

for Spookiesmom:

Anonymous

Good night Sharon! Good night Cami! Good night Vinnie! Good night Owlettes!

GOOD NIGHT JOHN BOY!

Smaarty

yeh, I think the east owls are in bed.  Hope those who have stuff tomorrow are able to get some sleep. 

Happy spring! (It is here).

blondiex46

I am here....Happy Spring!!!

Anonymous

Blondie, sorry you're awake at this hour.

Smaarty

blonde, why you up? Is it suppose to snow again?  Someone said all the snow was gone?

Smaarty

be right back, gonna get some ice cream.

Smaarty

I'm back. Who's here? Anybody?

Anonymous

I'm here, Smaarty (was busy PM'ing you). Ice cream? I'm going to get an apple.... Enjoy your ice cream!

Smaarty

all gone! Pm you back.

Blessings2011

Sorry - this is mean....

Anonymous

Blessings, funny! How are you doing? Bringing out the spring pj's?

Blessings2011

SNOW IN MARCH????

Hope you can open this....

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10153850133885858&set=vb.566480857&type=2&theater

Anonymous

yup Blessings, it works, and that's so funny!

Smaarty

can't imagine it being that bad. Funny. I would never live in snow country! Ever!

Smaarty

gotta go to bed. Have to be up early tomorrow, taking GS to have his lumbar nerve block. Hope this finally stops his pain.

Anonymous

nighty night, Smaarty! Hoping it works, too

camillegal

Good Morning all

Smaarty we all hope it works for u' GS.

And the weather  is so funny, but not funny.

Thank u Vinnie for sharing so much with us--if I wasn't deboobed I would definitely lie, cheat and steal to get to u--I've seen pictures of u'r work and it is masterful. Don't ask me where cuz I honestly don't remember it was a while ago and I wondered why everyone talked about u and u are a master. Awhile back I saw a tattoo on a deboobed women that looked like a banded top, it must have taken forever but it was such a wonderful Idea (I'm no a tattoo person) but this made me one, it covers her whole area and I really thought it  was a little top, and thinking she could wear so many things that would be V neck and no one would see her scars. Thank u again for talking with us, u r special.

FierceBluebird

Good morning,  just a quick update. Standing on the steroid ledge and waiting to get talked down. If they didn't make me bipolar by cleaving my skull in two, this steroid crash will. Super emotional and either feeling high or in the abyss.

I am reading much better thanks. No need for bold or caps anymore.

Thanks sassy for all your advice and help.

Vinnie, it is so ironic that you appeared here when you did. I literally would say "one step closer to tatts" each time I finished a treatment and it gave me such courage. 

Saw my radiation oncology team on Wednesday and I asked how long would I have to wait before I could have my expander out.  The lead doctor said,  "if I were you I wouldn't bother completing any  more reconstruction" .

I am devasted. Surgeon got all the tumor so I'm confused about why this doctor said that. I didn't hear anything else she said after that. It is a terrible thing when a doctor takes away all your hope.

Holeinone

Bluebird, 

So sorry that doctor said that ! Was someone with you? That was so cruel and insensitive. Hoping you see your MO or RO soon and have a more of private appt. where you can ask ? And he/she can explain what that " lead doctor" was trying to say. 

I cannot imagine how hard it is right now, with the steroids & this bull..... to have to try to make sense of. You have all of us behind you....lots of love, hugs & support...

camillegal

Bluebird that sounds so disappointing, but he might have meant don't even think about it now-cuz he has this on his mind It's not easy for a Dr. to think ahead when u've had this setback---this is like saying to him that's not an urgent surgery and u'r body has had enough. We never know what they think actually. Some Drs. think that way not realizing what this means to a woman. So I'm sure u'rll find out what he meant but ask him or another Dr. why he said that, cuz u feel sad about all this. What u had is a huge surgery so this had importance to him?????

We're here bluebird so let us know.

ziggypop

Bluebird, 

It's hard to imagine what you are going through right now, I have only ever been on mild steroids & having drugs mess with your emotions on top of recovering from what had to be a scary surgery (even with us all in your pocket) and then having a doc say something so unthinking? That is just awful. 

If you are able to read better and things aren't jumping around - then you are getting BETTER. The steroid stuff will pass too & then you can deal with the reconstruction. Maybe that was what the doctor was trying (ineptly) to say ( like Cami said). One thing about docs, too, is that they all tend to focus on their own specialty & expect you to think of that as being the only thing too. 

Sending thousands of hugs your way. If need be, we'll go take that doc out for you. 

ziggypop

One more thing, bluebird, you're right that nobody should ever take away your hope & I know you still have it because you are too strong to let anybody do that. But I have a lot of extra hope - so I 'hope' you'll accept this to add to your stockpile ~

FierceBluebird

Zigs, thank you so much!  I have your hope rock in my pocket and the next time a doctor says something I don't like I'm going to konk her in the head and see how she likes it!

HOPE!!!!

comes in handy more ways than one

ziggypop

LOL - yes - I purposefully sent you a nice big hope rock. You're getting better Bluebird, that's hope right there.

sas-schatzi

Bluebird, so happy you are seeing better.  On the advice thingies. You're doc is an analpore. (asshole). Don't you just wish when you talked with someone that stupid and mean ----that you could just hit the DELETE button?

New learning for me: I am now on 50 mcg of cytomel. 25mcg of cytomel is the equivalent of 100mcg of levothyroxine. So, I'm on effectively 200 mcg of levothyroxine. My dose before all this started was 25 mcg. of levothyroxine. It's amazing. So many things working better. I am convinced now they have no clue what the normal dose of thyroid should be.

New question: So, many sources have obesity as a risk factor for cancer. For me, I have had two officially dx'd cancers. Question:What does it mean that I had a rapid unexplained weight gain within the preceding months of the cancer? Does anyone else remember having a weight gain within the year before cancer?