INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

sas-schatzi

Spookie just catching up on the BACK pages-------Your welcome -LOVED having you Glad you made it home. That was a stinker of a storm even for Florida. Finally, learned the stuff I should have learned weeks ago about this stupid low iodine diet. I did not need to deprive myself of much and I never needed to feel hungry all the time. Fats. Bacon was completely allowable. Fats, satiate. Okay satisfy---whatever. Nicole from RO's office took me to the nih.gov site. That list was soooooooooo much better, than what they gave me as a allowable foods.

Sweet pea, love the House-----what fun. Post more pics----as you get settled in L&H&'s sweetie

sas-schatzi

Chevy, the three positions I saw that said ---there were three main yoga positions and then gave pics, hmmmmm I don't think I'll go with a further description. Just know it was /is keeping me limber.

Off to sleep you owlettes, a sweet night(maddy) & tomorrow. 

JWoo

loving the photos ladies! i think next Thursday, let's make it a point to all post at least 1 photo that is at  least 20 years old. whatcha say? 

Blessings2011

THROWBACK THURSDAYS!!!!  

Pawprint

Just checking in to say hi. Love all the pic's from days long ago. And omg...Teka, that toilet statement cracked me up ) 

Can't sleep well tonight because of muscle/back pain. Gave me a chance to read lots of the pages I've missed. I hope you are all sleeping well tonight. 

Chevyboy

Morning little Dumplings! 

I sent that picture to my Daughter's, and the youngest one said "How can anyone THAT homely grow up to be THIS gorgeous?"  Ha, ha!

She really DID, but man, some of those hair styles the girls wanted were enough for me to ask, "what MIRROR are you looking in, to think that is attractive?"    I think she was thriving in her "little rebel" stage at that time... 

Both girls near the Golden Gate Bridge...

And on our way to Orlando... about 5 years ago..

Yes, I know.... still big-hair! 

Dutchess... How fun to have 4 in the family! It was just my Brother and I... He is a drummer in Nashville... STILL.....! But we talk and laugh all the time!

Spookie!  We DID wear a lot of dresses in those days!  No jeans or slacks to school either...  And in the 50's, our skirts were almost down to our ankles... with those barrel white socks, and loafers!  Or Saddle-oxfords!  We were "STYlin!" 

2nd... I made MOST of their clothes... all dresses... My Mom crochet'd their sweaters.... But it was fun...  We didn't have a lot of money to buy "new" clothes when they were little, and my MIL worked for a place, that made clothes, so she would bring us home lots of material for their dresses...  Remember Butterick patterns?   Do they still have those?

I'm sure your "recon" was just fine!  But we always wonder if ours could have been better, right?  At least I would...  I just hope you are doing okay....

You doing okay Blondie?  I've HEARD the Red Devil is just the WORST to go through... but if it does it's job, I guess it's worth it!

Cammi!  I didn't have a LOT of hair, just learned to tease the dickens out of what I had, when I didn't wear hair pieces!   My Grandma used to say that I would go bald, because I colored my hair...  this was maybe 50 years ago...  I haven't YET!  Ha!

Nettie... Cammi said important stuff to you...  So if you read it slow, and break it down with more spaces, and a paragraph or two thrown in, you will know exactly what she is saying!    What she is saying is, just don't take life too seriously.   And just have fun... like we do! 

And shut up Cammers, about the magpie stuff!    Your brain is "fuzzy"?

Who knew?

Nettie, I thought you were talking about MY DH!!!  This is exactly HIM too!  They love to tease everyone else!   Whether it's the Doctors' or sales-clerks, even checkers...  Women always get the funniest remarks from him!   So now I tell him.... "can you please wait HERE, while I talk to the Doctor?"   And then he goes and walks around, visiting all the other people! 

Smarty!  You ALL matched!  Ha, ha!   I LOVE the old pictures! 

Sassy is BACK!  Yay!  Man, I know as much about Yoga as I do about shoe-ing a horse!  I used to do the splits.... about 100 years ago, but it wasn't called Yoga... It was called Acrobats! 

Jwow!  You'll have to remind us...   TBT?  How fun!   I'll have to climb upstairs, and find some more pictures...  I'll call a Priest for the trip DOWN...Ha!   And I'm not even Catholic.... but I'll call one, just in case.

Oh damn Pawprint!  When I first glanced at your post, I thought it said "mustache" pain..  But if it's your back, which I'm assuming it is, can you take Aleve for that?    If I take 2 before I go to bed, I usually don't wake up with some new ache going on somewhere... 

Okay gals...  what IS today?  Friday?  It's supposed to be in the 70's here!  

camillegal

Was I here before? I don't member, bit I do smell bsolutley luscious--I wish I could go without clothes so my tru aromas can spread easier. I have to learn how to download pics. I still haven't after all this time. So TBT are FUT to me still. My eyes won't stay open---I don't know what the temp is here, but I do knowI'm freezing so I'm still all bundled up.

Anonymous

Chevy, of course I remember Butterick patterns (and McCalls and Simplicity)! Still have bunches in the closet. I made most all my clothes in high school and beyond as my parents didn't believe in "fashion", anything that sort of fit was ok to them. Beautiful family, by the way!

Smaarty, cute picture, reminds me of growing up!

Pawprint, good to have you check in, hope you're feeling better quickly.

sas-schatzi

Oh girls, I'm going through Phylyleftthismorningwithdrawal. She's on her way up the coast to St.Augustine. Then onto the Carolinas. She has a whole plan on things she wants to see and take pics. 

Except for the pic that Spookie took we didn't get a single pic Duh.

I laid in the supplies for the lock down 21st to the 24th. Forgot a few things, but the most important are here.

Sent the gift money to DS for house closing by wire transfer. Never had so much trouble giving money away. No one wanted the transfer till next week. Went through the story that I'm going to be radioactive. I wasn't subjecting the young women there at the bank to exposure--even secrectively----who would know? ME. So, I say "lovely young woman help me solve this problem?". Everyone was so nice after that. They were nice before, but then they got it.  

Not supposed to be near anyone younger than 45 and definitely and most importantly no prego's and children.

Did I say BACON-------Ah,the food of life. I'm getting this down finally. Breakfast--eggwhites(yuck), Mrs. Dash, BACON, and Triscuits. Coffee--Gevalia (really, specifically, on the list) made with distilled water.

BTW the problem things that this RAI 131 can cause are BC, LOL, got'em on that one....a pre-emptive strike. Also, stomach. Seriously, though I had YouScript pharmacisit and poor RO working overtime on whether it 's metabolized through my defective 3's ---(read 2d6 thread). It's not

Did find a mice research article saying that it can affect ER+ BC. But at the rate I'm going, there will be nothing left to cut off or out. 

Doc's don't know it yet, but I WILL BE getting that precancerous colon polyp area OUT if another polyp shows up. But that 's on june/july's agenda.

LOLOLOLOLOLO I'm back you silly gals. Love the idea about what---retro-Thursady  

Totally, loving all the old pics

Chevy did you have HAIR.

Holeinone

Cami, Happy Good Friday..

LOVE all the photos, keep them coming. Sharon, I could be you only 1968 or so...are you tall or sprout young? I am about 5 ft 10'....DH has a scanner, but I am on a I Pad, if I was not such an idiot, I could probably scan them to his lap top and then post them..? 

Blondie, thanks for the shout out about Zometa. I got the infusion yesterday, feeling a little foggy, slow, I know you guys are all thinking so? She's always a "little" slow...happy to have that done, I have no idea if it will make a difference but I want to believe it will. 

Jwoo, thanks for the reminder about getting our wishes in order. I have done most of it, but I could do more. 

I am making potato salad for a big surprise "60" th party tonight. I have a baby shower to attend tomorrow. Busy weekend, hope I can push myself through it.  Darn, I might of over cooked the red spuds! 

Thinking of you all, Hope everyone has a Happy Easter and feels decent...

sas-schatzi

Hole-in-one, you have such lovely friends....what a treasure to have so many that want to gather to celebrate all the milestones. Everytime, I read about one of the gatherings you are making something for, it just makes me smile. So, I thought I'd just sit back down and tell you that

luvmygoats

Sassy about your wire transfer. That's when I sweetly say I want to speak to
a bank officer (or set up an appointment). DH went to bank to move around some
utterly worthless CD's (interest that is). Officer says "we've never had
an online appointment made b4". I really do live in a one horse town.

Loved everyone's pictures. Chevy your 1970 picture of big hair looks like
some of mine. Wore my "hair" to nearly all football games.
Ponytail/bun and plop on hair.

Sharon did you grow into those long legs? They're about as long as I am
tall.

Yesterday was glaucoma doc and bone density. Glaucoma pressures better, the
good thing is even with the bit higher pressures he sees no changes in the eye
- been going to him 7 years. Bone density had tons of stupid questions like do
you take tamoxifen. Well, no but I take Femara. I just wrote it what I felt
like. It's a walk in app. and darn it at almost 2 in the afternoon tech was at
lunch. Blew nearly 1.5 hours there but nothing else is down where they are.
Lovely restaurants and hospitals/docs. Didn't need rest. was on way to
WallyWorld. Did manage to buy an Easter dress at Ross - black/white not such
Easter colors but just my thing. Will put on short black sweater over it and
I'm good to go that is the T storms hold off.

Made the Lowe's jaunt with DH today. Mulch, pavers to put the fire pit on,
seeds for me. I did my exercise by digging up where gopher tunneled in yard and
plopped in the sod DH dug up. No sense letting bermuda go to waste albeit with
a few weeds.

Nettie1964

Busy

• Hubby buying new truck
• Babysitting granddaughter
• Concert and crawfish boil tonight
• Fish fry at brothers tomorrow
• Church Sunday morning followed by lunch at moms
• Easter egg hunt and grill at my house Sunday afternoon

I'll be ready for work Monday so I can rest.

Blessings2011

After 7 weeks, I FINALLY got back in to see my Acupuncturist this morning. 

One needle hurt so bad she had to take it out. It was the one connected to the meridian that controls the hand and fingers. I've had more joint pain and stiffness, and a new bout of arthritis in my ring finger that has been aching lately. She said the energy was really blocked. Before she took the needle out, I did feel my hands loosen up, though. 

Now she's going on vacation for two weeks.... and I can't see her again for three more weeks. I need this every week!

My head still hurts where that needle was. 

I had to eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Easter Egg to make it through the day.

camillegal

Oh u peeps are busy, BTW this is peep time anyway. Hope u all will feel good when this week end over with. Everyone sounds like a big Easter weekend so that's good, happy times and Blessing an Easter egg candy is right in order.

ziggypop

Wow am I behind. I'm just going to try to do a little ketchup here in some random order that I am sure noone will understand. 

Sassy - synchronicity - at the end of the bed I took pics of, I put in Lily of the Valley ( just before you wrote) and I have some in a couple other places that I put it in last year. Crocuses too are very much favorites of mine - I've put in at least a hundred little bulbs since I moved back here - but I also just ordered some special ones to be shipped here in the Fall - some pink ones that are called snow crocuses that bloom even earlier than the rest, and some really lovely white ones - I will put them in a special Sassypatch. And then you will have to come and see them & then you can visit Claire Truesdale too. And you can see Chevy if she's still living in the doghouse with me - and I know she'll show you some great dance moves. Do you have Christmas tree lights up all year? I LOVE that. I like the little white twinkly ones and the big fat colored ones .. so pretty. Am glad you and spooks and phyllisteaksandwich are having a good time.. no surprise there. 

Chevszter - Your house is so sweet.. it looks like it came right out of a fairy tale. I bet little kids knock on your door all the time just because. Too bad you're living in the doghouse with me right now, but someday they will let us out. I've been singing "PleeeAse release me, let me go.." in my best Patsy voice for awhile now & it'd probably work better if you joined in instead of messing around with Vinnie and that pole. A 'crick' to my mind is just a little trickle of water that only really gets going if it rains & but the cricks run into creeks that are bigger - maybe a couple feet of running water at least all the time. But mostly I just like the word 'crick'. 

All of Yall with Jerky husbands who also may be wonderful husbands sometimes - Just know that if it's more than the run of the mill tired of each other's stuff, that there are options. Sometimes it just isn't worth it to try to make things work if all that happens is that you end up hurt. All the stuff - financial & care and all ... it can work out other ways. Hugs if you are going through bad times - it's awfully hard. 

Cami - What do I do? I kicked around for a long time doing some stuff but getting myself in a lot of trouble. Then I went back to school & really hit it hard and did well. Am working on my PhD (but reconsidering for a number of reasons). I was teaching at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Then my pop got really sick (cancer all over), my mother who is 86 has dementia. So I moved back to Ohio to take care of my dad & then I was diagnosed, then a week after rads ended he died. I don't want to put my mom in assisted living - so I'm living here with her. Right now I don't have a 'job' but I'm thinking that I would like to do something that would allow me to make some cash but still stay with my mom. 

Nettie - Worrying about mets is rough; from what I can tell from my own experience and what I have seen on these boards, many women have this fear come on strong after chemo/rads etc. end. I think, (putting my psychoanalysis hat on here) that it's that we are actively involved & have a team of people actively involved with doing whatever we need to to stop the disease. Then all the sudden that ends and we're supposed to not think about it anymore other than taking our pills. But then there's time to 'think' and have all the built up scaredness that we pushed aside for a long time surface. From what I can tell it just takes some time & then that fear dissipates. Someone (on these boards) said she had done therapy & what they had her do was imaging the very worst scenario. Just sort of go all the way there. So I tried that & one thing I realized was that if I were in that worst spot, one thing I am quite sure that I would regret would be having spent any of my time worrying about things that might not happen and that I had no control over. That, I think helped me. 

Long post .. more later

camillegal

 Oh Ziggy u r a good hearted trooper making sure u'r parents have been taken care of-To me that means so much, such love and respect but it's not easy I know but it's nice to hear. Oh no wonder why u understand all these big words, jeez what do u and Chevy talk about--her vocabulary is so limited like mine, in fact I think I just used a big word for me, I am impressed so maybe Chevy throws one in every so often too. OK I get it, U'r teaching her so when she writes here she's going to sound smart, but we all know the truth behind her past, so make sure u tell her  the stilettos tell it all and now we see the high hair so we can really tell.

Teka

FierceBluebird having surgery again today, private posted the following------------------------

Please tell everyone happy Easter for me!

ziggypop

Fierce bluebird - Right there in your pocket. There in your pocket with flowers and wonderful wine and mangos and lots of baby animals. Just waiting for you to get better so that we can dance on a ledge and sing really loud (and offkey). 

camillegal

OK explain why--she just got out of the hospital--what is happening??? Anyone know.???

ziggypop

And how very like you baby blue to be wishing us all well while you are going into surgery. 

sas-schatzi

FBB in your brain and in your pocket -------go girl -----believe and have faith, and keep cancers evil & hatred from you Your spirit and soul can never be affected if you say NO. God love you and may all the saints in heaven be at your side . esapecially St. Michael.  Father Solanus please, intervene in our dear FBB behalf. Amen

camillegal

Amen.

Sas do u have any thinking about this surgery, I'm so confused.

sas-schatzi

Ziggy, OH MY---memory--forgot we had the talk of Hudson. PLEASE, PLEASE find Claire and give her the biggest hug from her teacher from Paramedic school. She'll tell you exactly who I am. God love her. She is one of his treasures. Hardest working volunteer I have ever known. Then ask her for updates on everyone I would have known. She'll know who they would have been. Tell her I send love in abundance and thanks for knowing her, and having been touched by her life. I was her teacher, but she taught me so much by her character and being. No accolade can begin to describe her and how she brought volunteerism in EMS respect.

Spookiesmom

Hehehehe I'm gonna rat on Sas. Not only does she like Christmas lights, she has a fully decorated tree in her living room!!!! And other decorations scattered around. 

camillegal

Oh I love it--when I lived alone I always had a tree up and lights all over (in fact my kids left my lights around my window) and sometimes I would change it up for the season, like eggs, or flags so keep on going Sas.

sas-schatzi

Ziggy wrote that with every word of truth,  but left it by itself in case you can print it off and  take it to her. I hope Hudson has done something to permanently recognize her contribution to the community. Funny story --I thought it was funny---one of Hudson's volunteers caught me of guard one day and said-he asked for a 50% increase in pay. I said "What?". He said "50% of 0 is still 0" His initials were T.S.  She'll get it. 

So understand the story of caring for parents. Went through the same thing. Dad was a trial,  but every moment, retrospectively, I would have only been better charged to deal with all the hospital /dialysis errors. Dad lived through the F**king horror of dialysis. 7 months with me, 5 hospital and dialysis errors. 4 --I caught, the last I didn't catch.

The last, they did thurs dialysis, then a friday dialysis----back to back to dialysis can be done for medical reasons. His was done b/c the hospital didn't do dialysis on the weekend. He went into cardiac arrest on that Friday dialysis. It was done out of convenience for staff. 

The irony, I spent the entire day with student medics teaching how to run an arrest. His arrest team and surroundings were the most f**KED UP--------1917 BUILDING, NO CRASH CART, NON- ACLS TRAINED NURSE, NO SUCTION, NO OXYGEN.  That took along time to get over.

But never do I regret them being with us. 

Mom was different, lived with us for 13 years and my sister for 5. Wish she had been with us for the 18. But it worked well, Twin had retired that last 5, they played allot. Odd the day mom left, I knew she'd never be back. I have premonitions. 

sas-schatzi

Spookie ---yes the whole house is designed around Christmas. YAY. The remants that I can't or won't put away are just that-------can't do---won't do----or their high, ------the tree has a dress----I describe it as a dress b/c at  one look, it looks like a Ballroom dress from the 1800's   It started as a cover, but then evolved. I kept it off, just for Philly's visit----and then you sweetie came. I wish we had put the dress on for you to see ---It's very special. Beautiful. It's perfect in the antique room.

Alas, hope DS's next house has an antiques room , b/c this house he's closing on this week  couldn't even come close to the hand me downs,

In the family, I'm the keeper of the history of the historical pieces. Tough job when we all went to so many less children. I have started divesting where I can. But it's hard b/c now states get in the way.

Spookie so where did you put the jar?

I talked Phylly into a platter before she left. Meant to check it today for pattern. I know it was Federal glass. What's fun about that is FG produced a pattern for all states . I didn't put an envelope on the glass. Wouldn't it be so cool if I gave her NEBRASKA.

dwill

Hi Sas, Reading your last post brought back memories of my dear late mother. I dropped out of grad school and moved back home to take care of my mom who was in the last stages of renal failure. My mother never saw a nursing home.  Although she had 7 kids living, it was only one brother and myself that took full care of her.  The others either could not stand to see my mom in her last stages or didn't have the time to give care to someone who is fully incapacitated.  I loved my mom so much, I would do anything for her and when bathing her and taking care of other needs I would do so to allow her have as much dignity as I could.  My mom stayed home until her last days and then died in the hospital with us kids by her side.  My tribute to my mom now is I live in her house almost 20 years since she passed.  I swing on her wooden swing on the patio--which I get refinished as often as I need; it was her favorite place to be--swinging on the patio.  I plant flowers and bushes and trees in the yard she loved planting in.  My mom lives within me.   Sas--thanks for bringing the memories to the forefront  again.  My mom was and always will be the most important person in my life.

sas-schatzi

Aw Dwilli, such a story, , such happy memories----so happy---God bless you Dwilli-------so, happy in this blessed period of our belief in God that we can carry such happy memories. God be with you L&H&P's sassy