INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Chevyboy

Morning my bright and cheerful sunshines!   And even Blessings is getting back to her "old" self... I mean just self!  THAT was sooooo cool what you said about  "brilliance is only outweighed by our our humility!"  Yes!!!   That is exactly right! 

MADDY!  Why did you take Maddy out of your name on your bottom?  I almost didn't know you...!

Looks like Sass went postal, or coastal, or wherever!  See, she takes these pills ALL AT ONCE, and then wonders why she is either sleeping or hallucinogenic.   Even I know THAT one.

Phylliworldtraveler!  You made it to WHERE?   Do they let you go that far, I mean without some sort of Police escort?   Sorry about Big Alice, and her not being able to accompany you...  just as well, I guess.......  Yes.... you can embarrass your Son any way you see fit... 

Yes Maddy, I was watching DWTS also, but decided sleep was more interesting.... I made it through that big guy, trying to dance...  Man, if I danced that badly, I SURELY wouldn't want the WORLD to see it!  I mean the Pole Dancing is a piece of CAKE compared to that... !!  He gets an A for effort though...  I think when a person gets a certain age, they should hang up those dancin' shoes.    I'm not there yet.  As you can obviously tell...

Blessings, you know Vinnie called, and said he had a head-ache.... so he is just trying to probably back out of all that he promised.    Just as well....  Him with his needles and me with my cane, just wouldn't have worked out at all......  Either that or he is out with Phylli.... those two are like Thelma and Louise, you know!    And YES..... Houston, you really DO have a problem" now!  Ha, ha!  That was funny...!

Fiercelittlebluebird!  WHAT did you do this time?  Charlie is the Father?  Do we know him?  Ha, ha!  That story was the best.... So it works THIS way.....  "If you have a big head, that means you are smarter????"  You guys made that up!   Right?  Now the rest of us feel like 2 shades of inferior or something....

BUT!  I have a big butt!  So there!  Well, not actually tooooooo big, but big enough.

And Cammi, little runt of the litter, are you feeling poopy again today?  Guess what?  I got 6 eggs yesterday!   Or did I already tell you that?  I am having a hard time trying to eat them all.   DH won't touch them.....  he has this notion, that since they are "fresh" there must be something wrong with them...  probably wouldn't drink fresh cow's milk either...  unless it has been handled beyond all recognition......  

Even fresh mushrooms, that we used to have growing on the tree-stumps in the ditch!  His Dad saw them one time, and went and picked up a bunch...  We cleaned them, and fried them with bacon grease and garlic, and while his Dad ate them, we all waited for him to fall over dead.... but he DIDN'T... So we waited a respectable amount of time, and then we went and got some more, and cooked them and ate them ourselves!!!!!!!!!! 

So that just goes to show you.....  something.....

vinniemyers

I'M back!!   Yes good sleep last night and a very busy weekend... worked Sat and Sun. Oh well... 

 No you are not scaring me away... and dinner late last night with Chevy was awesome! See you again tomorrow night right Chevy? 

Another busy day today... 8 ladies all from out of state.  I am going to try to post a pic of the map we have on the wall of the shop showing all the places women have come from for tatts since last Jan. Its pretty f-ing crazy that BC has affected so many... it never seems to stop...!

This week I am putting the final touches on planning my trip to Australia where I have 37 ladies on the list already. I don't think I can take more than 40 in a week and still have any time for fun... but I will try. Hoping to go the last week of September and first in Oct. 

 See you all later tonight... if I can't get to sleep... which I probably will not be able to do... got lucky last night with the help of a Tylenol PM...

4sewwhat

Chevy, if you had dinner last night with Vinnie, why did he have to get lucky with Tylenol PM?

FierceBluebird

Cause she gave him a headache with all that chattering on and on about......something.  Had to take Tylenol pm just to get some shut-eye.

Chevy, I have so many eggs it's crazy! I can't keep up either. Over 4 dozen! Made a yummy quiche on Sunday. Hardboiled a dozen. Looking forward to dying them at Easter.

And I eat wild mushrooms but only the "foolproof four". Love chicken of the woods!

Sas being so quiet is making me nervous. She's up to something.

camillegal

OMG Chevy u can' hang out with Vinnie--he'll think we're all like u, no wonder he had to take a Tylonol PM--I'm sure he took at lest 2 or 3

Yes our brains are bigger and that story was so funny, it really is kind of a curse with this big head, but as u get older u get used to that I guess.

All right who's getting a test this week--I;ve changed mine to Friday but still have D, but now (last night) I was throwing up but I think this is flu thing, how am I supposed to know it stars he same way.

I'm totally staying kind of in bed cuz I feel like chit-

But I'll check in later

4sewwhat

2nd, waiting to hear an all clear when you get your reports back today!

Cami, feel better!  We're you eating those crazy shrooms Blue and Cevy were?  I think you re supposed to snort or smoke some of them instead!  I get mine in pill form, seriously, I do!

Blue, I agree, but then Sas is ALWAYS up to something!

Linda-n3

Cami, I wonder what chemo you had, and I wonder if it was one that causes peripheral neuropathy. The neuropathy can affect ANY part of the nervous system, including the autonomic  nervous system, and the GI is part of that. Diabetics often get neuropathy that causes diarrhea. I don't know if there are any actual tests to figure this out, but if this has been a problem since your first chemo, with what I have learned about neuropathy, I would suspect this COULD be a cause. However, I doubt that many of your docs will agree - they seem to have an incredibly high rate of rejecting anything that isn't in the textbooks or the drug prescribing info! So many of them know what they learned in residency and fellowship, and they TRY to keep up, but the number of drugs has increased so fast, it is impossible!

ziggypop

Ol' 57 you crack me up, there just aren't that many people who can go from creation songs to crotchless panties all in the same breath, no wonder you tired 'Vinnie' out. Still don't know how it is that you can not tell:

 <<<<< This........and......This  >>>>     Apart

I know the online dating thing can be tough, but once you see the guy in person you SHOULD be able to tell when you've been played. Maybe those old eyes of yours have just sizzled out from all the things you have exposed them to. I swear we have to watch out for you ALL the time. Go away for a day and you're in trouble again. 

camillegal

Hi guys--u'r quiet today.

Linda I do have peri-neor--found that out along time ago--but u'r right on the nose--the Drs. very rarely will say this drug or chemo has caused this to happen to u--Cuz u know I have my theories and I would tell them and I would be looked at like they were in disbelief cuz the computer textbook never said that. I do remember before it was documented from Mayo clinic I ws saying my brain felt funny and I swear I called it chemo brain and they laughed aand said oh like u'r funny--then about a few yrs later this big study came out fro Mayo talking about this and it was true, not a fallacy and it could last for whatever time it wanted to--they didn't know why but it was real--I of course said haha u thought I was going crazy--but it was my theory At 1 point my Onc. was checking on something that I had a reaction to and it was weird one--so she actually looked it up--and said less than 1% of people get this (I don't remember now what it was) but I knew then I was going to have crazy things and I too have said this is still from some chemo that turned my whole system around--my theory--too. But there is no reversing it now. Cuz I never had it before chemo.

Chevyboy

Oh, sorry Vinnie!  I can't make it!  But yes, dinner was lovely.... I mean on that cabin cruiser, at midnight..... all those stars..... (in the sky) and yes, it was great!  Didn't care for the fish-eggs and ham though....   We'll do it again sometime..... as soon as I get over the sea-sickness..... GOOD LORD I was sick!  But up until then, it really was a fun night to remember..... other than breaking my heel getting off the boat....  and then you trying to help get me out of the bay.....  And all you had was that stupid little life-ring thing!   I could have DROWNED!   Thank God for the fishing-boat that stopped.....  You really didn't have to stand there laughing your ASS off....

But yes.... maybe some other time..... I have to think about that one a little more....

Chevyboy

Geez Lil-shit!  He blabbed!  Thought he could keep a secret..... guess I told HIM though....Hah!    It really WAS fun, but I meant to keep it under wraps.... I mean, well you know what I mean! 

4444444444....  He just had a head-ache....  It was from me smacking him in the head with my cane....   I TOLD him to come through the door.... but Nooooooo!  He tried the window!   And I thought he was an intruder....  in that boat....   So what is a gal to do?

Fiercly!  WHY do you have eggs?  You been takin' MY eggs?    WTH is "chicken of the woods"???  Is that Vinnie you are talking about?

camillegal

So Chevy tell us what meds u are on so we can share u'r delusions and enjoy things the way u do.--Cuz u know it's the meds.

Chevyboy

It's the chocolate cokes..... and a wild imagination... I actually don't take anything, other than 2 Aleve this morning....  But I worked outdoors, so maybe it's the fresh air?   I also had chocolate ice-cream with one of those little oranges cut up in it....  Do all those things, and you will see things the way I do....

Blessings2011

Oh, Vinnie..... little did you know what you were in for on this thread..... 

Spookiesmom

Ha! She SAYS it's chocolate cokes. I think she's been to the wacky weed store!

4sewwhat

I think she grows it now!!

Chevy! Good girl, trying to keep IT under wraps!  I'm glad you listened when we had that "talk". I know you have been out of circulation for a while!  Zigglette is the one that's stayed active in THAT department.

Anonymous

i keep losing my bright and witty posts.  losing the dark and swearing ones too.tomorrow are 6 mo scans for this dirty sneaky bastard tnbc.    hoping this posts so I dont have tot hrow phone and tablet out on the highway  phyllo litters

Anonymous

Tablet again.

Vinnie, I must Google you.  And I mean that in the  nicest possible way.  Will I find dragons?

Blubie, shotgun means you dole out the caramel flavored Bugles and the beer...not necessarily in that order.

Blessit, yes I'm by myself.  Sometimes I might not have good sense but I do have fun.

Chevy - get your shit together woman!  Falling off a boat is NOTattractive.  Really, I mean it.

sas-schatzi

Hi, lost on trying to keep up , but all is well, Thinking of you all with many happy thoughts that we are "blessed" each other. 

Hope all scannings and procedures are going okay L&H&P's sassy

myra104

Hey there, ct was this morning then met my friend for something to eat and I started feeling crappy after that.  Lots if abdominal cramps, sore and achey muscles, some bone pain, headaches and tired....trying to go to bed soon, will catch up when I feel better.  Hope you all feel great!!  Muah!

camillegal

Sorry Myra sometimes it just comes on quickly--just rest like u are planning and drink lots of water.

Chevy I was thinking maybe u still have the ORIGINAL coke--Hmmm that was made with coke--just a bit that's what got u hooked .Hence the name--it explains a lot.

Phyo u'r all alone?  OMG we may never see u again, u'll end up in Canada, or the UK--tell us where u land.

myra104

ha, I don't know why but thought you might enjoy this comedy skit

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BtEVQ2oRzKY

ziggypop

Chevy - pot, coke AND mushrooms??? No wonder you can't tell the difference between Vinnie Barbarino and Horseshack. Slow it dowwwwn woman. 

vinniemyers

myra104...

 sorry to hear the effects of ct got you ... my little sis sow by hot baths after to make he feel better... guess that would have been hard while eating lunch out but I do hope you are feeling better...

phgraham...

 if you google me you don't know what you might find... but anything you do find I will still be bald... no way for me to get around that... but you will never be able to tell because I am always wearing a hat... dragons maybe... fish and nipples fore sure...!

chevy... it was a lovely night for a swim ...yes? you looked so sexy with the moonlight shimmering off of you salt water soaked body!... and it wasn't a life ring!

and I don't know how you are sea sick we never left the dock... and you broke you heal off in that guys ass that kept walking up to us asking us for a light of his cigarette... I think he just wanted to watch!  Looking forward to the next time!!! xoxoxo

My hangover today wasn't too bad tho... I have to prepare to lecture at Georgetown Univ. Thursday to the PS residents... I have so much I want to say to them about all the f-ed up ways they look at and do things. Don't get me wrong but sometimes the way they are taught is not the way it works for every person needing breast recon. Everyone is different and has their own say and opinion on what they want to look like in the end. Too many ladies just do what they are told and do not force the issue of what they want and the PS's just do their thing... just what they are taught. I just would like to see some of them put their egos aside and ask " what is it that you want..." and them make it happen. I am going to share my thoughts and ideas with them on the things several thousand women have told me... the things they like and dislike... the things they may not feel comfortable telling their PS. I will be the middleman ... they might not like what they are going to hear but since I have the opportunity to talk to them ... they are going to hear all the things that all of you have told me and could not say! There will be fireworks for sure... they invited me... and not they may regret what they wished for!!! HAHAHA... gonna be a shit storm... I will keep you all posted!!! 

 as for sleeping tonight... I will do my best... much to prepare for and a full load tomorrow. 

Smaarty... got your message... gonna make the Cali thing happen for sure... Dave said something about your offer and it sounds intriguing... I will keep it in mind. Richie will be in touch with you soon... if not let me know. 

ziggypop...

 Vinnie Barbarino... I wish I had that hair!!! DAMNIT!!! lost all mine when I was in my early 20's... I have dreams of having long hair and it keeps getting in my face and stuff... weird! Just would be cool to run my fingers threw it again ... now I have to run my fingers through my sideburns or my... well other hair.... sorry but when you get old and you loose the hair on your head it just grows in places you don't want it to. SORRY LADIES... it's just a man thing!!! HAHAHAHA !!!

If I don't get to be in a timely fashion tonight I will check back with you all in a few hours... otherwise good night... see you soon chevy... nighty night!

camillegal

Vinnie throw Chevy aside and take me, I'm falling in love with u---altho I'm deboobed with no recon and not very attractive anymore, I have a good personality.

It is so nice of u you to take your time with these lovely ladies, u really do make everyone special and care that is why u r so well known. Thank .

juliaanna

Vinnie,

I'll be in your pocket during your lecture.  Give them the news-it's not about them, it is about us!! They need to start listening. I was fortunate to have a PS who did listen and I ended up with great results.  What a blessing you are.  I could support cloning if it meant more of you.

J

Greetings to all.  Been lurking. 

MinusTwo

Vinnie - we know about the hair in "older" men.  Ears and noses!!!  Good luck w/your talk.  It would be great to see the list you're going to hit them with.

Smaarty

Vinnie, don't let Chevy know about our intriguing plans, she might throw a choc coke at me. I did some checking, lots of openings, 3 in SD and 1 in Oceanside with 3 bdrms.  Can't wait, but I'll be more patient then Cami or Chevy!  Good luck with your lecture. Let them have it between the eyes. These younguns need to know its about the women, not them.  My PS was very good.  

vinniemyers

Cami...

 boobs are a SMALL part of the whole package... and a less important one in the grand scheme of things... BUT I am a boob man since it is what I do!   I do love boobs... real and not ...as all men do. No boobs, fake boobs... real boobs... sometimes the fake ones look better than the real ones...a women is a women and boobs do not define her... in my view anyway!... and I see A LOT of boobs i assure you of that. More than almost anyone on this planet!... KINDA COOL!  What a job!!! lol  BOOBS  BOOBS   BOOBS ... its what I do!!!

juliaanna... I will have ALL of you in my pocket on Thursday... they will not be happy hearing the things I am saying from a TATTOO ARTIST! Can you believe it... a tattoo artist it took to realize what looks good in a breast reconstruction. It is so hard to look at a recon and see what looks right and what does not. If you can look at it... see what does not look correct... than it can be fixed... that simple. If one can reconstruct a breast from nothing... everything is removed.. than how hard can it be to make it look good. They are starting from scratch... there is nothing there... so why does it have to look bad... ?

A sculptor starts with a piece of clay... it is nothing and he/she makes it into a work of art. A MX starts as nothing and the PS has everything at his/her disposal to make it look good. Some PS can pull it off... why not all?!! It is the same block of clay! The same tissue and anatomy. I understand that there are extenuating circumstances and everything is not cut and dry but it is basically the same for most ladies. Just make it look good... why is there so much disparity in recons? Is it the PS ... the breast surgeons... their technique... their philosophy... their attitude... or their EGO?! I do not know but it has to change... IT MUST CHANGE!!! IT CAN CHANGE... AND IT WILL CHANGE!!!  If it does , the bad PS of the world will soon be out of work because the good ones will set the bar so high that no one will go to the bad ones.  At least this is my dream... my mission!

one must educate themselves to realize what is available to them... what is good and bad. One must understand that  they are the masters of their own destiny and surgical result if one takes the helm of their journey. One cannot let their PS determine what it is the result ... they must have a say in what happens. 

I REALLY REALLY understand that the 800 lb gorilla of breast cancer on your back weighs heavy. I understand that it burdens one into listening to their PS or their breast surgeon and it is easy to fall victim to what they might say. It is just hard to be on the back end of the BC womens journey and I hear ... " well I didn't know so I did what I was told"... It breaks my fucking heart!  I am sorry to cuss but it kills me!! We need to set up a resource like BCO and maybe it is BCO that has some source to let everyone know the realities of breast reconstruction... all the real truths ... from the mouths of the ladies that have done it... before it begins... before and scalpel is put to skin. I know it is a huge undertaking and I am dreaming way outside of my trousers but it is something that is needs to be done...

 Sorry I am running on... it kills me everyday see and here this stuff... I wish I had a magic wand and could make things the way they could be... but I can only do my little part in it... and I will!!! I promise ... I will!!! 

MinusTwo...

Its not just the ears and nose honey ... it goes way farther than that... and it sucks... ! Oh well ... its what god dealt me and its what I will deal with!  Better to be bald and handsome than bald alone!!!!   LOL !!!!

V

camillegal

Vinnie u are a sweetheart