Fuzzy's Romp Room

thefuzzylemon

LOL!!  I'm going to guess ... Four Pounds Lighter!

I have more useless knowledge in my nugget than the average bear (I think)...I heard that somewhere that there is 4 pounds of...it.  LOL

luvmygoats

Dunes - I had my first one in December.  My prep except for tasting OMG nasty was not so bad.  Not really crampy for which I was grateful.  Something called SuPrep.  Do get some hemorrhoid wipes.  This might be TMI but I put one on a wad of tissue and pat, pat, pat, not rub.  I was only allowed clear liq. the day b4 which included tea, coffee with sugar only.  The best thing I found was apple cider, not apple juice, the kind with no pulp.  Cut through the taste of the prep stuff and I could chug it down at room temp.  Made jello and managed not to get not too hungry.  I did make sure I had a snack in the car for the trip home.  Before BC it would have scared the crap out of me.  Now its just like one more thing to get through.  DH has his on Friday too.  I'll be pocket jumping.  Your mom taking you?

Fuzzy - dog dancing sounds good.  We did a little today.  Dog (19#) on leash for potty times cause DH was painting the patio.  In your pocket too tomorrow.

See you've posted since I started this.  I also got more sleep than I thought I would having had a barium enema years ago and found the prep much worse then.

thefuzzylemon

Hello Luv!!  I don't know when I might need that procedure but ... that was really helpful information!  Thanks for being in my pocket.  I need it.  I had a meltdown the last time I was there!

sas-schatzi

Yoo-hoo fuzzy-I'm on line

thefuzzylemon

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

thefuzzylemon

Sassy Sas!!  Miss you!!!  MISS YOU MISS YOU MISS YOU!!!

But...sooooooooooooooo happy happy happy for you

How are the projects going?  Thursday, if ya get a few minutes, give me a jingle!

sas-schatzi

Gals, i'm going to be bitchy here about everyone who thinks their guys are bitchy , are unkind, or  whatever flips you off..........................my DH GREG was dx'd 3 months behind me......... our life was hell .....and then he died. It didn't matter what our life was like before. Once I was dx'd --he was as tight as tight could be----once he was dx'd, I was as tight as tight could be. We HAD and CHOSE to cleve unto each other. YES, I came here to relieve stress, BCO saved my sanity. You think you have it bad ....try to have two active cancer patients in the same household. The company I worked for had 5000 employees. They had 4 with my stats.

thefuzzylemon

That must have been very challenging.  But, please remember, we come here to relieve stress too...it's our special place. 

sas-schatzi

Ah fuzzy---yes but sometimes I think people forget how challenging a dx is, it collapses our lives. DH rolled with the happening, and then I rolled with his happening, and then on and on............then

ridergirl

Fuzzy luv best of luck for your appointment tomorrow.  Reallly hope you get your questions answered so you can make a plan. I think that loss of control part is a large piece of what makes us nuts about this whole thing - pretty much everything is decided by and planned around what our MDs want us to do, and when. For me it is anyway, little bit OCD and my life needs to run the way 'I' want it to...so this appointment stuff makes me crazy!

Supposed to have planning CT and i guess tatts? done tomorrow .....frickin' terrified at the prospect...may still say no...gonna be a long night here.

In your pocket tomorrow Fuzz ( hey maybe i can skip my appt if I go to yours instead?)  will bring refreshments

Love and hugs to all of you

thefuzzylemon

You are sooooooo right.  It beats up everyone ... and you know how messed up my nugget has been so that doesn't help anything!  He was lucky to have you...and you to have him

sas-schatzi

Chevy--call --furhter info about your hands

Next chapter from veggy's thing about blood pressure

thefuzzylemon

Rider....I'm in your pocket too, hon.  I think you nailed it.  I was a total control freak.  Now, I feel lost and so much different than anything I have ever felt in my life.  Super messed up. 

thefuzzylemon

Goodnight everyone!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

sas-schatzi

oKAY GALS SAY NO--- when you don't know or are not comfortable ---SAY NO

dunesleeper

Good luck tomorrow Rider.

Tomorrow I will pack all that delightful prep stuff up to take to mom's house. I'll use mom's plumbing for the prep. hehehehe. This is how much she hates my house. She would rather me do that at her house than for her to have to come here. Oh well.

She had a skin cancer removed from her arm yesterday, and today she went back and had the stitches done. She saw the hole today and it shook her. She had told me they marked an area about the size of a quarter. I guess they went pretty deep too. Supposedly they got it all. Hopefully it stays away. It was the squamous cell kind, not melanoma. Still . . .

I really hope I can sleep tonight. Only one xanax today. After the colonoscopy I may try to cut back to a half or 3/4.

Good night.

sas-schatzi

well that was relly bitchy, not sure why, but it's the first time in about 3 months that i'm drinking too much. Could be the answer. Going to do ananswer to Veggy's thing from pages ago about BP. Don't want it connected to this cus I want to put it in the --TO DO REMEMBER LIST......

sas-schatzi

Veggy, to your concern about Blood Pressure------it was of no signifanct change. I write this under the influence of wine------but will try to write it as too put into my archives, so I can retrieve it if the question comes up again

I'll write till the point that it gets irritating --then i'll submit and fix latter L&H&'s sheila

sas-schatzi

Histories great--goes back too Hale-1733---griusome experiment-----never knew it till now. Had to see the beginning to see how it differed from the current.

Blood pressure: two measurements that define so much, and have an impact on us that is so major and is not taught to anyone quite well. If it were taught well, then those that were taught well, could teach it to there patients, quite well.

The top number- is called SYSTOLIC that is the number that is associated with the top number that a Bp machine shows.

What is normal----the true answer is no one knows. What the American Heart Association(AHA) has done over 5 decades is revise the answer. I came into it in the 60's, the formula then for Systolic BP was 100 + age=SBP. So, a person 70 yrs old would be expected to have a top or systolic of 170. Anyone reading this today would go----OMG.  The new considered normal for the systolic measurement was 140 and revised down with the perfect being 120. BUT 140  was considered the top normal from say till the 80's middle to late 1990's. It hasssssssss been pushed down by the AHA since, to a level that is troublesome IMHO, that is they want to see SBP lower than 120 and approaching 110. The problem with this is is the science is too young. People are being put on medication at an undertermined time of need.

What does the systolic measure? Forget the formula and think what it affecfts. The brain, the kidneys, the limbs, all that is peripherhal to the body. SO, The meaning of a high sustained blood pressure MEANS is diseases that affect the brain, kidney, extremities. BUT the science is too young too measure this, it's basically from this last 60 years, with some really bad science behind it for 200 years. The bottom line is we don't know what is normal. What we do know is the affect of sustained and intermittent hypertension. It leads from top to bottom--strokes, heart damage, heart failure(CHF), Great vessel vascular disease(Aorta), peripheral vascular disease-mostly demonstrated in lower limbs, but can involve upper limbs and torso-body, cirrohosis(long standing history of CHF, and kidney damage to the point of being referred to as one of the causes of End Stage Renal Disease--ESRD. So, ignoring a high sustained measurement of the systolic number leads to death with a really sucky time getting there.

The lower number is the DIASTOLIC--it measures the heart at rest after systole. Systole is associated with contraction of the two lower chambers of the heart. Particularly, the left lower chamber b/c it is the high pressure system pumping oxygenated blood out to the body.  If this number exceeds 90 over a prolonged period it definitely will lead to heart failure. 

What does it mean? The accepted numbers have also been revised by the AHA over decades. 60- 90 was once acceptable-----now the 90 is being pushed down. The cardiology community wants to see the number in the 60-70 range.

Whats it mean? The numbers are in question. We have scientist making conclucions based on data of a few decades. In the space of all time thats a blink of the eye.

VEGGY yoo -hoo ----what does it  mean to us. Blood pressure is NOT a number that sticks........it flows like a river....it changes by the moment based on whatever----the whatever can be by any of our sesnses--sight, feel, taste, smell, activity, moments of rest since activity, anxiety..  add any adjective and it can change BP . Our Bp changes on the moment, based on whatever. Just the moment i picked up my wine glass and savored the taste of the wine:)

I do know you don't want me to tell you about the feedback system of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

The bottom line is if you are in current "accepted range" your good. If you go to the docs office or anywhere medical and you get a higher then normal reading --that's expected. Fear, exersize, a tickle on the skin i.e bug feeling, mostly anything,  can elevate BP. In the 90's,  a study was done  naming it "White Coat Syndrome". BUT for decades, we all called it that b/c it was absolutely evident. Finally, someone did a reproduceable study, published, and it became official. We could use the words "White Coat Syndrome" with science behind it versus empirical observation(redundant)LOL.  

Typing and saving

sas-schatzi

Veggy--------all your senses are realllllly, you can take hold if you accept that, it's totally hard , but can be done.

Anonymous

On my way out the door to my PS's office. They had me come in last Thursday to drain a seroma. Today they are going to check on it. This whole week I had severe pains all over and very tired. No fevers or upset stomach to deal with.



Sas- I'd like to call tonight about 8:00, if that's okay.



Hugs!!!

dunesleeper

sas-schatzi

Veggy--of course, we are in the same time zone

Chevy,chevy,cHevy, CHEVY, chevy,cchhevvy.... that damn manicure I wrote about a way back--went balastic. didn't know if it was exzema(SIC) gone wild or streptococcus. Did diluted bleach baths later than earlier--hate the DUH. Now I can say I wish I woulda done it day one. Had to do three. Couldn't believe what popped out. Remember when I said we can escalate a battle into a war. Well let it get almost to a war. Then stepped in. Stopped the war and brougth it back to a major battle, then a followup to clean out the enemy.. Haven't been on b/c couldn't type b/c fingers hurt so bad. Had a thought yesterday as I was driving. If you've been wearing bandages for the last year--have you been putting a prednisone cream on your hands? Learned the hard way about 12 years ago that's a huge --NOT TO DO--Never cover up a prednisone cream with a dressing. At the time I said how can I be in nursing from 69 to 2001 and never hear that or learn it. Never came up. makes a minor thing into a huge thing. Hope this hasn't happened to you. Now at least if this is the case, you know too. Sorry I missed your call. Veggy's calling tonight, if you get a chance call tomorrow.

Fuzzy----fun, fun fun new puppy, just like a new baby that has the energy of three or ten  babies. The chewing --learned only in the last decade--buy stuffed animals from thrift stores. They cost .50cents to a dollar, the pup can chew them to pieces. Yes we teach them not to chew, but by nature they chew. Give the pup an acceptable substitute that is cheap. At Pet Smart they are 8$-12$'s. Dogs are smart about what is allowed and not allowed as long as the direction is clear. Good Lord trying to teach DBF about what is okay and not okay with Dini, has caused erhh many heated and then subsiding arguments between us, as he sees Dini responding to my methods versus his.  Dini is 5 years old and same weight as Schatzi who is effectively the same age. Keep telling DBF, let them be, as long as there is no yelping in hurt, or growling, they are enjoying the play. Who am I training LOL?  I know, all of them and the neighbors. UGH.      Mental health---hmm a phrase from the sixties "fuck'em if they can't take a joke", seems good now that i'm on the downside of depression. Hope not to see the upside again. Continuing construction work--- nails...and screws..and hammers.

Lisa --went to Whippetmoms thread. Know you are doing your best to follow her guidance. But I read in your words that you are overwhelmed with the decision making. I am not knowledgeable as she. No one is, but I'll stick with you on the list of what to do if it helps. I read in your words the muddle that I felt at the same time period I was in, at your time now. Hope you understand that. Will send PM.

Whippetmom, Deborah is a blessing to us all. Her self taught knowledge of implants, is beyond the remarkable. Based on her writings, she has the ear, respect, and awareness of the PS community throughtout the USA. Probably worldwide, and that's not exagerating. Another thing that is remarkable about her is when she doesn't know or have confidence in a product--she says so. That's the mark of a truly smart person. No hedging, no games. Straight up. Still rue the day I found her when it was too late to get her advice.

sas-schatzi

Well reread last page, I was a bitch wasn't I, can you imagine the same bitch was able to maintain to write about blood pressure and sound totally cogent. Fooled me and you......

Specialk --first alcohol break since trip to Moffitt--poop---4 1/2 months--damn

thefuzzylemon

Sassy...honey don't you sweat it....this is the most open place on the boards!! You let out what you wanted to say and we still loooove you. Snippy? Yup. But, that was the moment. Funny because I wanted to ask if you were either drinking or missing Greg...or both....but I know better than to poke an aggravated tiger.....raaaaar! LOL. I hope you laughed at my growl. You are the shit and you know it.

I will hit the Goodwill and buy that pup some toys!!

Im sitting in the waiting room of the PS. Im ready to have a meltdown already....

Chevyboy

Hi gals!  Sassy, my fingers are soooooooo much better!  I took that dose of Prednisone, and that really helped, along with the ointment the Doc prescribed with it.... Triamcinolone Acetonide  ... He also said put that on first, then Vaseline, and rub all over my hands, because it is a  Petrolatum base....  I still do the mild bleach bath about once a day.  I only wear the little cotton gloves at night, after I cream up my hands.... I know about the Cortisone cream and wrapping also. 

I know the Eczema will not go away for good....  But we can at least control it!  It's always just been on the tops of my fingers.  Just dry, and kind of itchy, but if I take care of them, they stay manageable..... Hope your hands are better!  Thanks again....

Anonymous

The incision/seroma is infected. The nurse at the PS cleaned it out and put new gauze string in. She told me to clean it out several times a day and get new packing in there too. Tomorrow I go to my family doc and I will ask him to do it. Friday my son has an appointment. Monday I have my PET scan and go back to the PS. Wednesday is chemo day. I didn't get much of any break this time.

                 Meow!

Adey

Veg-

Anonymous

Adey...

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