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  • crog234
    crog234 Member Posts: 801
    edited March 2014

    yeah Ducky..  That is great.  Thanks for sharing!!!

    Cindy AKA Squishy

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  • 1toughmomma
    1toughmomma Member Posts: 87
    edited March 2014

    Oh how I have needed to know there are others out there as sleep deprived as I! :) I haven't slept thru the night since my mammogram that started it all in October. First anxiety, then surgical pain, then expander pain, then surgical pain, now pain from fat necrosis and some stupid rash that wakes me up. BUT other than that life is good :) Looking forward to reaching that new normal when all is healed ;)

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  • ziggypop
    ziggypop Member Posts: 1,071
    edited March 2014

    Dutchie - YAY for Grayson; that is fantastic. 

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  • 4sewwhat
    4sewwhat Member Posts: 2,093
    edited March 2014

    Ducky!  Thanks for popping by and sharing this with all the ladies that have seen Grayson's many milestones.  I bet they enjoy the updates!  I wasn't around for the first part of her journey but know her story. It is amazing to see how far she has come. I wish my nephew had been so lucky.   

    She is beautiful and you can see the determination in her eyes. Wonder where that comes from?

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  • 4sewwhat
    4sewwhat Member Posts: 2,093
    edited March 2014

    Hi Kimberly!  Sure is one crazy ride, right?

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited March 2014

    OMG! I'm gone for 8 hours and there's 3 pages to catch up. I can't remember everything, so hi everybody, hope all is good or getting better. Cute kid pics! We have a 2 month old in the family, probably last baby for a long while. Majority of our kids are done having kids.

    SAS, the GB was 3 months before the breast shit started.  Someone said they're getting their GB out soon. That was easy, it'll probably be orthoscopic, so 3 or 4 little incisions. Nothing like having your boobs sliced off. That wasn't that bad either. I don't think I'm normal!  Nothing has really been that painful. 

    I'm done, only the 3 surgeries.  I read on another thread of someone having the implant coming through the muscle after 9 months. REALLY? WTH?? How often does that happen?  Better not on me, I decided I like having boobs again and now I want nipples TOO! So hoping to see if the timing with Vinnie works out. Don't care if I have to pay for them. His looks so GOOD!  (Nipples I mean) (tattooed ones). 

    (I haven't had anything to drink!) really!  I worked on the quilting sample today, learned a new technique. I'll take pic later, too tired to get up and dig it out of my stuff.  Gonna have to do something about dinner soon. I liked it better when I wasn't doing anything around the house!

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  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 5,712
    edited March 2014


    Yay Ducky that is awesome for Grayson!!

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited March 2014

    Thanks ladies.....appreciate you kindness....just wanted to let you know.....so many have followed her from brith.....she is a fighter.....thanks again, and hugs.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited March 2014

    Ducky, Thanks for the pic. Grayson is awesome.

    Blessings, Ha! I'm ahead of you. I only have 1095 more AI pills to go. They are not going to suggest 5 more years and I will not listen if they do.

    Hugs to all who need them.

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  • FierceBluebird
    FierceBluebird Member Posts: 758
    edited March 2014

    Oh Vinnie, I would definitely be a challenge for you. After my mastectomy the skin was left too thin and it burned off while they were cauterizing  and formed an eschar.  Then if that wasn't enough, during radiation the rest of the skin burned off. It's now a mass of scar tissue that I was hoping would be repaired during my final reconstruction. Of course I could probably always get a bluebird in flight done or something to cover all the burn scars, but heck I'd need a whole freakin' flock of bluebirds! 

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    I hope this isn't too graphic. I'll delete if so. This was taken two weeks before what was left of my skin went south.

    Love all the cute kid pictures. Hooray for Grayson! She's a fighter too!

    I am improving greatly everyday. I can finally see well enough to type and correct and went for a nice walk in the woods today. Teka loved lady with teacup on her head! I still have some hallucinations and vision cutouts, so I can relate to Alice's tea party. 

    This is my absolute favorite painting of a tea party by Mark Ryden:

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    Even when I was a little girl, I had my totem bird.  Sas, Blessing, Teka and Chevy missed out getting painted because Shatzi chased their cats off.  luv couldn't get her goat to stop eating all the plants.  Poor Ziggy required CPR after her elephant sat on her head. Wrens hate bluebirds so she refused to get in the picture. And everyone else was smart enough not to join in the lunacy!

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

    Sadly, you've suffered through such misery!   *Hugs*

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

    Everyone, have a restful Sunday!

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  • dutchiris
    dutchiris Member Posts: 855
    edited March 2014

    OMG Bluebird, that must be so painful.  And it got worse after that?  Yikes!

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  • myra104
    myra104 Member Posts: 102
    edited March 2014

    I will catch y'all tomorrow night but just want to say yay Grayson!  She is such a sweetie!

    Fierce my heart just breaks when I see that...what comes to mind is F**K cancer! I want to punch it in the face but I guess that's what you were doing.  Thanks for posting that picture, BC makes us stronger than we could have possibly imagined as we melt into a puddle of tears.

    Thanks for all the nice comments re my pics:)

    I will figure out who the criminals are on this board eventually...I grew up playing clue.

    3 hrs if sleep last night just took a Xanax to see if I can counter act those dang steriods yet!!  Spring training game tomorrow for the local cancer center, first social outing in two weeks so wish me luck with no side effects!

    Hugs

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  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited March 2014

    Ducky – Way to go, Grayson!

    Tang – I have an insanely huge head. Hats never fit me. They just look
    stupid, like they’re sitting on top of a big beach ball.

    Gardengumby – if it’s not too personal, may I ask why you
    were sitting in a car with your DH at 5:30 a.m. just SMACKING??? 

    KimberleyAnn – welcome to the place where everyone knows
    your name…like CHEERS! Only no one will call you by it…. They’ll make up
    something else…

    Wren44 – Not that we’re counting or anything….

    FierceBluebird – Oh, I’m so sorry for all that pain from
    rads. But too graphic? Never. We deal in real here, dear one. xoxoxo LOVE the tea party
    pic…. I’m sure DH would love to see me with a trout on my head. (It would have to be a really BIG one, though...)

    ~ ~ ~

    Almost over my cold, still lounging around in my jammies all
    day, though. Luckily, nothing pressing on the calendar. Tomorrow I may go out
    and start planting some color spots in the garden. Should be in the 80's. I have an old rusty
    wheelbarrow that I have plans for…

    Nighty-night, Owlettes!!! (And Mr. Owl…)

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

    SHEESH! I was pages behind yesterday, gone all day today, now am even further behind. I will never catch up so why try? So if I've missed anyone or anything, so sorry.

    Myra, welcome and thanks for the photos, makes it easier to get to know you! Love the smiles!

    Vinnie, master of the tit tats joins us now? Welcome! Hope we don't scare you off. Congrats to your sister, 5 years is an important milestone.

    Bluebird, how are you today, sweetie?

    Sassy, new avatars everyday? Can't keep up with you! Are you on roller skates "walking" the dogs?

    Ok, let's see what the last 3 pages have in store for me....... 

    Aha, everyone must be asleep the thread is quiet. I must be the only one awake, seems like I'm talking to myself..... So, catching up:

    Debt, love, love, love the hat! Need to get me one with a long straw.

    Anita, what can we do for you, Sweety?

    Teka, thanks for the smile, so needed it after the day I had!

    Myra, really, bringing a camera into the bedroom in the morning and you're on chemo? Not cool! You need all the restful sleep you can get, now you'll start sleeping with one eye open? Too bad you can't turn the tables (er, camera) on him in the early morning state! Catch him at his first-thing finest. Is this the only practical joke for the jokester? You kids are adorable, love the photos.

    Smaarty, ouch! Thanks for not sharing photos with us! And, yes, let's not let the secret out about our great weather (although it was very overcast today).

    Fierce (or FierceBB, or just FBB for short, not to be confused with the other FB of course), thank you for the photo! Have to admit I didn't do rads (2x BC is enough, thank you), have never had the case to see it first hand. Thanks for edumacating me.

    So Blessings, gardening in your sexy pj's again? The neighbors will talk! Remember the sun screen for the delicate areas.

    If Vinnie visits, is he our "+1"?

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  • FierceBluebird
    FierceBluebird Member Posts: 758
    edited March 2014

    Good morning! Ok, it's 3 am and just woke up from nightmare( probably from seeing that darn photo of me) but if you can't sleep, this is the place to be. 

    2ndtime, I changed from bluebird to fiercebluebird to give myself some fighting moxie.  Luckily, most women don't get burnt like  that! I'm just special that way.

    I say anyone who is doing a project post a pic! I'm living my life vicariously through others right now but would love to see some pics.


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

    Fierce, you go girl! I have a totally new respect for those going thru rads, and I'm sending you oodles of hugs! You truly are fierce!

    I'm living vicariously through everyone too, my life is so lonely and boring, I understand. 

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  • ADJ
    ADJ Member Posts: 226
    edited March 2014

    earlier, I had spilled my Pepsi all down my electronics.  Some of them, anyway.  So what time is it really?

    Anita

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

    Ducky, I loved this.... You posted it on the "Peaceful" thread...

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    And I was thinking of you and Grayson.... thank you for posting that sweet picture of her.

    She looks like a perfectly normal little sweetheart!

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

    Ducky beautiful picture and she looks so strong.

    Blue OMG just looking I felt pain--what a horrible time u'r having all the way around. (((HUGS))) to u and u are fierce. U r truly determined. And u'r winning and u will win.

    I'm so far behind on this thred--it moves like a skyrocket==Isn't that a song like afternoon delight. Oh my thinking. My afternoon delight now is a nap.or cookies.

    Just stopping in to say Good Morning

    BBL

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

    Man, you guys were a bunch of wild Indians on that last page! 

    No, it WAS Vinnie-whats-his-name that called me Sweetheart!   I think I scared him off....  And you guys didn't HELP!  He plolly thinks I am some pot-smokin' Denver person, covered with temporary tats!    And that I am not real! 

    And no, dangit!  I was NOT in jail....  with Phyllidink!     And what the hell is a "proclivities"????  (at least you SPELLED it right lil-shit!   I was raking PINE-NEEDLES you dink!  And I have to do MORE!  But it snowed!  Does anyone know what we are talking about?

    YES!  Sass, I am in treatment..... not for what you might think, but I'll think of something.... Okay, wait.... I am in treatment for trying to burn a candle at both ends...THERE!

    44444444444!  NO....  I was NOT moving POT!  Ha, ha!   DH says he has heard that a lot of people are moving here, just for the availability of it!  That CAN'T be true!  "Rocky Mountain High" must have come from SOMEwhere though!  Can't really see why anyone would want to screw around with their brain, for ANY reason!   I mean I was always just too scared to try anything....  I mean NOTHING!   Except when/if  it really does relieve pain, that's completely different...  but I'd still be scared....

    Except that time my little Brother and I bought a pack of Spud cigarettes, and nearly DIED from smoking some!   

    But Lil-shit found the rest and added them to her stash!   Her and Cammi....  I think they are in cahoots together....

    Lilgoats!  They were talking about adding little goats to us city dwellers!  I know cows have to be next!   The article mentioned the cheese these folks make from their milk.... 

    So guess what?  I am chickin-sittin again for a week!  I got 7 eggs yesterday morning!  The girls have been BUSY!  Even a little one on the straw, just inside their gate!  Must have run out of room up on top in their nesting area!   We take them over treats & chit...I mean stuff...

    Yes, love the pictures Myra! 

    Cammi, your whole family is amazing!   Why aren't you teasing me lately?  God knows nothing stops lil-shit-ZIGGERS!   She is relentless.  She is like a dog with a bone...  And do any of you see any sort of connection to her avatar and ME?   No-one has mentioned it!  Bet you don't see what they are?  She is insinuating that I am still using a walker!  But nope!  I now have a designer cane.... one with flowers and vines and paint and stuff! 

    Sass, can you make her mind?   And Tang "looks sexy"!!!!  You GO girl!  Yes, so do I.... with my cane, and a sleeping bag on.

    We acquired a "Kimberly!"  Don't let us scare you girl-friend....  at least me anyway....  Most of us are pretty normal, and rational, but then again, not so much...Ha! 

    LittlemissFierce!  You are beautiful!  No matter WHAT they try and do to you!  Good God that looks like it HURT though!  Don't ever delete...  We can't do that here...  We will track you down....  image  I love the Tea Party picture.... Are you SURE you gals are not making a political statement?  Is there some hidden agenda here, somewhere?

    Okay it's Sunday.... I have a date with Vin.......I mean Nascar.... so I have to get all prettied up....

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

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

    This picture was on another thread!  Thought of you Blue-bird!

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  • myra104
    myra104 Member Posts: 102
    edited March 2014

    ha, Bergun county is where my cracray hubs grew up, he is 19 yrs older than me.  He is the first older guy I've  dated and i hit the jackpot...he will always keep me laughing through the darkest of days!

    The early morning glamour shots was a little much;)

    Love the bird pics, we have a bunch of bluejays in our yard...but no chickens, goats, horses, pigs, whatever other farm animals y'all have.  I will visit said animals though!

    Yes on posting projects!  Great idea for all the crafty peeps, which I am not but love others creations, great day to all!  Hope you all feel well today!  Falling off the grid for the day:)

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  • dutchiris
    dutchiris Member Posts: 855
    edited March 2014

    I hope I can get back to working on my projects.  I have some that need staining and a finish.  I have one large bookshelf/sofa table thar needs some trim then I can put the finish on that too.  I would live for people to see what I've made.

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  • FierceBluebird
    FierceBluebird Member Posts: 758
    edited March 2014

    That bluebird picture took my breath away!

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

    I know!  He was just beautiful!  Just like YOU, little Fierce!

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  • ziggypop
    ziggypop Member Posts: 1,071
    edited March 2014

    Okay you little moxie filled bluebird, I am going to do something that I know I will regret and will only happen once in a blue moon - I am agreeing with Chevy (there, I said it). You are beautiful bluebird, here's the picture I have of you and it's truer to life than an photo can be because it's a picture created over time not just in a moment. So my picture, I see a woman who is tender as can be with animals, I'd guess that birds come and sit on her shoulder. She's smart and witty and funny and most of all kind. She cries, but wipes away the tears and pulls herself up and gathers her moxie to face whatever challenge awaits. She comforts others even when she herself is in pain and she laughs with a wonderful laugh that is as pretty to hear as any bird singing. She is spiritual but never preachy and draws her strength from nature and will never lose her faith or joy in the beauty of the world around her. She should never be hurt, because she never hurts others. She's got these scars, but is prettier than any perfectly plastically unflawed super model could be, because those scars only serve to remind the ones who love her of how truly beautiful she is and how blessed they are that she is there in their lives. 

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  • 4sewwhat
    4sewwhat Member Posts: 2,093
    edited March 2014

    Good Morning Owlettes and Mr. Owl!!

    Here's Brunch!

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    Ha, I figured the Avatar out.  Now I'm as smart as Sas or a Smart Ass or Something!!!

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