INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Holeinone

Teka, thanks for letting us know about F. Bluebird, do you have any more details? 

Bluebird,  keeping you close in thought & hoping this is a small bump in your road to better days...

Sas & dwill, wonderful memories about your parents, nice to hear. I was not close to my mom, sad, &  I wish it had been different. I had a bond with her older sister, my aunt Maxine...she died of bc at the age of 83...

Teka

FBB, expander removal surgery!

Teka

sas-schatzi

The memory falters------it didn't happen -----or maybe I'm right and haven't found it , but here' a glass link and I;m going to find or seek what I think I remember 

http://www.antiquesaltshakers2.com/statesshakers.h...

Teka

sas, sleep sleep

Holeinone

thanks Teka, I do remember now that she needed to get that out to have a MRI....damn, my memory is scary. I have always had a sharp memory, but since PFC....Yikes..

Teka

camillegal

Oh Thanks Tek for tellg us I've been thinking all kinds of things. Oh poor FBB surgeries are so hard on u'r body too.

Dwill I loved u'r story about u and u'r mom==even tho it was a very sad time it was a very loving time--mine is similar and I miss her all the time, sometimes I want to call her and tell her something and I think Oh no after all this time. And with me I miss my dad so much, I was actually closer to my dad cuz he was much more oh whatever than my mom so I'm more like him and I was so lucky to have them so much of my life too. My dad died 8 yrs ago--so I was very lucky that way. And he got to hold Joey and talk with him and kept on saying he's going to be big and tall feel his feet and hands they're so big and he's got to grow into them. So far he's been right.

JWoo

just jangling around in FBB's pocket! Hope everything went well. 

Such touching stories about parents.  Thanks for sharing. 

Luvmygoats, glad your eyes are doing well! Sunday may be a washout for us- i will take the rain though!

camillegal

Hi Jwow glad u'r jangling, are U doing all right?

JWoo

I am doing okay Cami. having a little LE flare due to all of the PT stuff i have been doing (for LE)  One more day in my workweek, and am ready for it to be done. I can't wait to retire! only 30 more years to go….

How are you? and I keep looking at your photo trying to figure out what is happening there..

camillegal

camillegal

Jwow that's my GS at Halloween. u can hardly see it--Oh LE is a struggle to have do u wear all the compression crap? or does this help u not to wear it.

JWoo

ahhh- ya- it is such  a tiny photo!  

wearing it now. i got a few long sleeve athletic compression shirts, and have sleeves and gloves to wear when i work out, but i am not looking forward to wearing them once summer shows up here! with the hot flashes that tamoxifen is giving me + 110 degrees with high humidity, I will be doing good to not pass out. so far mother nature has been kind, but i know these mild temps wont last much longer. I keep trying to convince the BF to move to England, but he isn't game.  He's from Illinois, so loves the heat here. I would rather be buried in snow most of the year. 

camillegal

I know they are so warm and them get itchy--(well to me anyway)

JWoo

yep- so itchy! i think it is from it pulling hair. making me bonkers

sas-schatzi

Jwoo=itchies----i was crazy with them---wide spread----someone told me to use ice packs over the areas----it worked to quiet IT for a time. Then we mad sure the packs were on ice and avaiable all the time

camillegal

Good Morning Ladies and maybe 1 gentleman and one lady on the pole and one ankled monitored women--OK u all know who u are--nuff said

Well this is the Holiday week-end and it's a quiet one here anyway. Oh we'll do the ham and all but Joey is staying home and I will too cuz of his foot and he's even awkward on those crutches.

geeze we never talked about egg coloring, maybe we will I don't know ---he usually goes by my other DD1 and they do them on Friday nite but not this yr. So Leslie might have to do it--I hate that stuff--I never liked doing kid stuff, I did it but I didn't like it as a kid why would I like it as a grown up. I remember having newspaper all over the table and something with vinegar and food coloring when I was a kid and my sister and I complained thru the whole thing--are we done yet? That's about all we said. My mom never helped but I think she liked the look of having different colors in a bowl when company came. Cuz no one really cared?????????????? There is a little girl (Joey's age) that is an atheist here and she not only doesn't believe in God she doesn't believe in Santa or tooth fairy--and tlls everyone Well Joey said he doesn't believe in the easter bunny cuz bunnies just can't do these things but he does believe in the tooth fairy and Santa, and I asked hm why--and he said anyone who doesn't believe in God can't be right about other things too. So so far he really believes in Santa and the tooth fairy, of course I embellish stories about it and we talk about God and Jesus all the time==again I'm a big story explainer.

Oh I'm talking about nothing again, u know how I am. Just talk say nothing. that's me. But u guys always put up with me. Thank you.

Chevyboy

Morning gals!  Hope you are doing better JWow, and less itching!    I only wear compression stockings, but not for Lymphedema...   Just for plain old edema in one ankle...  they really help, but I can't imagine wearing like a whole long sleeved SHIRT ....  I can hardly get into my stockings, even with this device that makes it easier to put them on with...  Man, I would have to have 2 people helping me put that on!

And I'm pretty sure the Camster is insinuating that I color my hair?  AND I'm a tramp?  Okay yes!   I AM in charge of the Chickens for a couple days now, you see...  SO, I will feed them and clean their water, and squeeze them till I get enough eggs...Ha, ha!   JUST kidding!  I DO pick them up sometimes...  and they really ARE pretty. But I don't think you can train them, or anything... or sleep with them?

Probably not...  So I'll just chicken-sit them, and leave it go at that.

Yes, happy Easter to all of you!  Hope your head feels better, Blessings... Ouch!  

Lilshitziggy, I loved your post!  Geez!  You make so much sense sometimes.... I can't relate...!   A "crick?"  You just made that up, but that's okay.... I gotcha....  Our "ditch, or crick, or creek" or whatever it is, is usually dry... except when there is flooding up above, coming down from the mountains, or when they turn it on for the farmers way further downstream, like in Ft. Morgan, etc....

So we must get busy planting!  I have to get Rhubarb starters... or whatever they are called!  

And you got it right, talking about wives and husbands and stuff....  Sometimes things really ARE rough, and we're lucky if we can come through it in one piece... or at least move on to pull ourselves together....  

Sometimes, I think SOME women are afraid to think about making it on their own...  and they can't find their way out of that "box".....  But like Jackie always said....  just take 10 minutes to think about it... if you made it, then go for another 10.... and so on...   Women ARE stronger than they think....  Not like me and Cammi, but most women.... Ha, ha! 

Anyway little friend Ziggers, I loved your post...!   I DO have a dog-house out back...  It was Lacee's, and man that thing is HUGE!  Enough room for a HORSE I think... but I had it all carpeted and comforters thrown in, even pillows...  So it IS big enough for both of us, when we get delegated to the dog-house again...Ha! 

It was just sitting out in the alley one time!  So I said, "Now who on earth would leave a perfectly good dog-house out HERE, just waiting to be dragged in my YARD?"  So I did! 

Lacee was just a puppy when I scarfed that house!  I mean she wandered around in there, like it was her castle!    I even installed a micro-wave, and a bathroom.... like SASSY did!  (just kidding..)

LittleBlueBird....  Hope you are okay!  Let us know...

Am I the only one that does not know what a Hudson is Sass?  Am I supposed to know?  Does Cammi know?  If SHE does, and I DON'T, I'll really be worried! 

And Spookie....  Sass and my Daughter in Orlando LOVE Christmas, and trees, and lights.... and I'm sure DD would LOVE to leave hers up forEVER if she could... I mean if her DS's would let her...Ha!  I love little lights all over too!  I put them in my shell hangings, and all over my garden!    It just means happiness, and celebrations!

I just want to know about "Hudson".... it's code or something....

Dwilli!  That post was beautiful...  So many happy memories!

Okay, so Happy Easter to everyone.... almost here!  xoxoxoxo

camillegal

Chevy I assumed Hudson was a place or school, not the car.

Teka

Rosa_Aurora184161

Hi! I wonder how many of you, who are taking Tamoxifen are having
insomnia problems and sadness (depression?) What do you do/ take to help
you? What about melatonin? Is it safe to take it with Tamoxifen? Thanks.

Teka

Rosa, Welcome!

dutchiris

I don't have a problem with insomnia but I do want to welcome you here.  Sas or someone else probably would probably have the answer regarding melatonin.  I had more issues with depression and guilt early on in treatment. Now the episodes are few and far between.  Lack of sleep sure wouldn't help the depression and depression can mess with your sleep.  Maybe getting a handle on one might lessen the other?  

ziggypop

Hi Rose Aurora, I'm on tamoxifen and I had trouble sleeping for awhile mostly because the hot flashes and night sweats. My oncologist put me on effexor which helps a lot. I also had some depression/anxiety for awhile, but I don't think it was because of the T, it was because of the reason for being on the T. The effexor helps with that a little too, but I think (for me at least) it was a matter of time and working out some coping mechanisms. 

I haven't taken melatonin, but I'm sure you'll get some answers about that soon. 

Good Morning everybody.. cami we colored eggs, Had a couple friends and thir two kids staying here for the last few days - two boys 3 and 5 - cute as the dickens whatever the 'dickens' is. FBB - still right here in your pocket & Chevy brought some chickens so there's poop all over in here, but we are all having fun anyway and we're happy 'cause we know you're going to feel better very soon. Chevy - Hudson is where I live and Sassy used to teach classes here. Jwowsome - I have a mild case of le & after awhile just quit with the sleeve and glove most of the time because I just couldn"t stand them and they didn't seem to help anyway. Hope yours gets to the point where you can go without the compression. Hope everybody else is good - hae to go get ready to go to Indiana..will bbl. 

Chevyboy

Rose!  I took Tamoxifen for awhile, and started taking Melatonin for the sleep problems.... But for ME anyway, it caused diarrhea....  I mean REALLY!  But I didn't connect the two, for a week or so!

Finally I had to take Imodium AD to take care of THAT!   I was taking like 4 pills a day.  When I finally connected the problem, to what I was taking, I quit the Melatonin, and then I was fine...  didn't have to take any more Imodium AD after that.

The SE's usually last a couple weeks, for me.... then you might get NEW ones...Ha!  The leg cramps at night were the worst.  I think each woman reacts differently!  Hope this helps...just if you find yourself running to the bathroom all day long, then maybe stop the Melatonin?

FierceBluebird

love you guys to pieces! Teka, thanks for letting everyone know why I was off the grid for a few days. It was rough going into surgery just days after being in hospital for pneumonia. But surgery went well and I'm home again. Thought the anesthesia people were going to have a heart attack when they saw I had pneumonia. But I had to have the expander out so I can have brain MRI. 

And my surgeon who could have just done a slap dash job since I was kind of an emergency he fit between cases, really took his time to make righty match lefty, despite my not even having finished the fill process. He is a true artist despite all my problems. I just hope he put a blue or pink gummy bear in there, cause I hate the green ones.  They taste weird.

And you know how people say stupid things to you? I had a friend say "its a shame you're having surgery on Good Friday. Because Jesus died that day and so did my aunt when she was having surgery on a Good Friday. Let's hope your surgery isn't around 3 pm when Jesus died."   Yikes! Thanks a lot!!!  I came to at 2:50pm with 10 minutes to spare!  Whew!   Lol

Teka

Friend!

You need a----------------------------------------------------------------

Wren44

FBB, That is one for the record books. It's probably the most tactless remark I've read on BCO. Hugs.

Chevy, Are you going to color any of the eggs? Or do they lay colored eggs (like Aracunas)? Or just have omlets for Easter breakfast.

Teka

FBB, please may *your friend* never have to join the threads!