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thefuzzylemon

Good Thread Information on the insurance/reconstruction/MX options...

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/71/topic/799628

Anonymous

Linda - Bridges of Madison County - I liked the book, read it twice, but the movie better because it moved along well, except the adult children which bored Hubby to pieces and they were so so so.....  But Streep has this way of sighing or oh-ing or moving her hands that says it all.  A good writer will write dozens of pages that they can soon cut to a single paragraph but fills out the story and characters in such a way as Streep does.  She can take printed pages and their sentiment and do the same.   B of MC - Hubby said of the husband who did not look at her at dinner, that he would have left that guy a long time ago.  I said, but she loves him, this is their inherted family ritual.

LOVEEssa

duckyb1

My favorite actor Clint Eastwood......Bridges is my favorite movie (is even my secret question on my online banking account).........however, I think my Clint made a total ass of himself at the Republican convention talking to the chair......what the hell was he thinking.....but still love him.....lol



Side-note. No way I could hold pee for all those hours, no matter how much control I was taught.

Anonymous

Taken 2 - Watch Taken 1 first, and do know Taken 2 is almost as action packed but shorter.  And sorry but now you will be viewing from my opinion on the parents.  I am right, the 2 movie discredited his extreme intelligence and heroism for me, but I am always the one who looks for the way to stay safe and not play a victim role.

Another Liam Neeson film is Unknown - keeps you not knowing to the end.

Here are my recommendations for some televisions dramas if you have not seen these, highly loved shows.

Northern Exposure from around 1980s.

Brothers and Sisters from 2006 - 2010 or so.  120 episodes.  Sally Field. Colista Flochart. Laughter.  Both of these shows, We need laughter.

Also Castle.  Started in 2009 or so. 

thefuzzylemon

Love love love Eastwood...I didn't mind his "chair talk". He's an artist...I can dig it.

I watch Pawn Stars a lot. Seriously interesting as bits and pieces of history.

I got a haircut tonight. Couldn't stand it any longer. Its a little punk rock....Cyndi Lauper inspired. Now I'm going to color it up a bit; ) muhahahaaaa

dunesleeper

Wonderful news Veggy. BEST news! That makes us all very happy!

SpecialK

veggy - excellent news!

sas - greg pawelski's member name is gpawelski, it comes up in the member list

ridergirl

So get what you ladies are saying about the fuzzy mind etc and it's been driving me crazy. In the process of organizing literally everything I own because I just feel so...lost. Same thing happened with the driving, was on a street i've known all my life and couldn't rmember what lane I needed....driving me nuts. 

LoveEssa the thing with the meds mix-up - i've had that for the last few days just like you said. Am staring at the pills and can't figure out what to take when...even though I've been on them for months mostly.  Just about decided i need to get one of those pill organizers but for mr its just one of those concessions i just won't make yet.

(((hugs)))

ptdreamers

Veggy, Great news.Very happy for you.

Anonymous

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For me pill organizers didn't work either.  Sure, you get assistance w the did I or didn't I take that one.  IF you remember to keep it organized.  I didn't.  I would forget to take or to take from the organizer, so in a day I was no longer organized and over on some, not so on others.  Have tried everything.

I thought this plan helped the most.  I started it a month back, to remember to take it each morn or eve or whenever.  Placed 7 of ea on tray, the t3t4 and melatonin.  I take them in morn and before bed, so in same place by bed.  I could see that I took one bcz say 5 were left of morn pill and 6 of eve. In eve it was 5 and 5 etc.  Then I have the daze hit and take wrong one anyway, next day do it again??? Then know I did it and do it again!! wth.  I had little gatherings of pills around house of what I needed where I would need it.  The metformin by dinner table, when 7 day supply ran out, did it again.  Breakfast mets by sink, Afternoon b12 and d3 by computer.  This helped tremensously bcz I am a forgetter. Can take it 5 min before and not remember.  But now I see if I have more than one in a place, have to detail which is morn and eve. Sucks.  Mostly worrisome bcz I have some alt choice pills that could kill me off if I do too many.  So I have only one or two at my disposal each day, Hubby replenishes them.  But I am so much better than a few yrs back before I knew it was cancer. 

The driving.  One of last times I drove was horrific.  I was alone in a large town I am sooooo familiar with.  Needed to get from main drag onto a state highway via a ramp.  I drove back and forth past the ramp, yes, that is the way.  That is the one to the west.  And I would turn around down road and come back to get on it and by the time I got back could not remember which it was.  Had been on this route dozens of times before.  When I finally got on the ramp that said west and to the town I needed to head toward, I freaked bcz I could not remember if I got on the east or west and if I was on east I would face head one cars on a one way ramp.   Panicked.  After that, I only drove when Hubby was with me, I love to drive and sing.  I hate his driving habits or lack thereof.  But I could not remember how to get home, the roads were foreign, even w him there I was frightened.  I gave my keys to family, said do not give these back to me until I am mended.  I have them back, about a year later and it was then two months after we realized it was cancer and I started treating for cancer instead of brain issues, the brain was improved say 80%.  I thought I had come around 100% but I am proven not true too often, very frustrating, as with the meds.

I cannot complain really, there is always a way around this stuff.  And I am able to write again, even a story or book again, all I want.  A year ago I was not in such shape, I was floundering and relearning everything, even spelling and sentence structure.  Before that I could not write at all, I was in a world where nothing moved within, I only read about cancer and adapted, I did not even have the emotions to write.  I just sat there. 

Does everyone have a bucket list they are working on?  So different than the resolutions, right?  I don't have one really, I want to write but feel lost about all the details I guess.  I wonder, is there a thread for bucket lists?

LOVEEssa 

thefuzzylemon

LoveEssa...there is a thread with Bucket lists but I believe it's in the Stage Four Forum...but I really like the idea a lot!!!

Ok.  I have a few things on my list...One is to successfully complete a mission that I am currently on...just can't really talk about...its big and could take a decade to complete (not intentional but, I'd like to see it through!)  Second is to attend both daughters weddings and play with my Grandchildren.  I would very much like to travel around and meet my sisters in an RV! 

That's bucket list stuff, right?

duckyb1

Did anyone think to set your cell phone alarm, if you own a cell phone. You can alco leave yourself a reminder on your phone. Buy your pill reminders in different colors. $1.00 stores sell them.



Cell phone is best. It's not just for phone calls anymore!

Wren44

I've had the pill boxes for years. Pink for morning, blue for evening. The one I've taken most recently is on top. That way I can see at a glance whether I've had the relevant dose yet. And it's necessary. If I brush my teeth first, I may forget the meds. I use them (a smaller version) when I'm traveling too. That also gives me an extra week supply if I forget to reorder.

duckyb1

My daughter-in-law is a nurse. She got me a 7 day one with slots that say on each one...morning...noon....evening......bedtime. Also got me individual ones....7in all, that have am..on one side...pm...on the other, and it snaps closed. She set me up, not to fail. Sometimes I get careless, and just say "oh I have to take that, and get distracted. I don't forget. I just put everything else first.....typical

Anonymous

In 12 step programs they would say I have terminal uniqueness.  "It works for youall but not or me" hahaha. 

I can see the color coded boxes helping some.  It's just that I take ....

metformin 3x day, laetrile 2x day and/or oleander 2x day, Ojibwa tea 4x day, red and black raspberry  - 5x day if taking at all, T3T4 2x day, melatonin 1x day, D3 1x - 2x daily, b12 1x, chastetree berry extract 2x, tumeric 3x, minerals 1x and different ones 1x, tyronsine powder 2x, organic lemon juice 3x in hot toddy with the powders, bioidentical progesterone cream 1x day, oils on my fat laces (stomach esp) to lower and balance hormoneshiding out in fat 2x day, cleansing oils on breasts and nodes 2x day, and more but cannot remember at the moment.  I have them around house where I take when appropriate, set up for everal days at a time.  Now I realize I cannot trust myself anyway.  ggrrr

Fuzzy - yes, those woud be bucket list things, quite popular even when one is not facing cancer or even at Stage 4.  Morgan Freeman and what's his face? darn it! were in The Bucket List movie.  I would be close to home and pets and people, but I still want to go to Prince Edward Island and the UP in MI for a few months each.  So many books to write, short stories, topics to sound off about.  Bicycling, rowing, reading, singing, playing violin and flute.  Instead I am stuck at this computer trying to earn a living so I can pay for tx to live.  Frustrated, suspended in time it seems.  But I keep on, the earning a living again is on my bucket list too.

Yesterday forecasted for our area a possible tornado, was around 58 here in Midwest in January, night before was fog advisory.  Today rained and rained and now temp dropping and it will be an ice storm if it keeps going down like this.  Wow. 

Time for those irises and nasturtiums, while I hve a connection.  Last Friday it was lost at 2 or so.

LOVEEssa

Wren44

Good Grief!!! Could anyone keep track of all that? There is a giant mediset which would work, but probably quite expensive. It's also a real chore to set up. We used to help clients fill it.

Anonymous

SPIDERWORT - WILD IRIS

Iris in general is about creativity. Wild iris in Alaska is in essences for our inherent creative potential, says Alaskan Flower Essences. Allowing us to share our inner beauty, our creative energy freely with others. For those who are blocked, unable to connect, their source of creativity is blocked.  See the intricacy of the flower?  In iris, not spiderort, there is a palette endless.  in spiderwort, the blooms are endless.  But they faint away in the sun, unable to connect with the sun like most flowers.  But they offer the ability, like cures like.

I am doing pics first, then flower essence info - as the connection allows in this wind and rain.  now blue iris.

BLUE IRIS

Patterns of imbalance are feeling weighed down by life being same old same old. Dullness. Lack of inspiration.  Positive is inspured artistry, bringing deep soulfulness that is radiant, in touch with vision and higher ealms.  For breakthrough, inner child, lightness, manifestation, career goals, feminine consciousness, menopause creativity.

FES says it is the soul's mission to build a rainbow bridge between spirit and matter. The pure light of spirit needs to be colored with feeling and the rich darkness of matter needs to become luminous and filled with inner meaning. THIS IS THE PATH OF AN ARTIST. And "it is really true that every soul 'should' express itself as an artist."The physical body needs air to breathe, the soul needs inspiration to live.  The living soul is through streaming, weaving of radiant light and color. Adding to our lives the creativity keeps us from suffocating in the mundane mechanical world.  Also for those who need passionate creativity in their life work.

LOVEEssa

SherylB

Hi all,

I am going to post this message on many of the threads please help me share it as I found out about it here.

www.GoodWishesScarves.org

They will send a free head wrap/scarf. It took about 4 weeks but the wait was well worth it. I like the one they sent me better than any others I have. They even have a little fairy with wand in crystals on the  edge of one of the tails. Too cute! They do accept donations too of course but it is absolutely free even the S/H is paid by them and they send a best wishes card signed by the staff. Just overwhelmingly generous and compassionate.

Thanks, Sheryl

Anonymous

Sheryl, I will post this on my blog under breast cancer stuff. Would you like to share a pic of your new scarf? 

NASTURTIUMS were requested too.  I remember these little annual jewels my mom used to plant on the edges of her garden too.  They were spread all over the place, all the colors of heat and warmth. 

This is very important for us.  Due to the imbalance we can get from the presence of the medical issues and needing that knowledge, we also need to keep our balance.  The imbalance is to feel overy intellectual, a depletion of the life force and emotions.  The positive offering is glowing vitality, radiant energy and warmth.  For when the thinking is over extended within one and emotions lose out on assiting a person in operating day to day.  For those whose career and studies demands itellectual energy that over powers the emotional and creative sides of us.  For when we delve into research and opt out of feeling.  An assistance.  Without the balance between intellect and emotions, there is an imbalance of the physical where there can be immune issues and hardening of the body.

Dog wants outside in rain.  I need shower before we lose power up here on the ridge.  This is Pooh's Blustery Day and then some.

thefuzzylemon

LoveEssa....was it Jack Knickelson? I didn't see it but I think I saw a clip...

Lily55

Can I ask - are you all prescribed melatonin as I read thst people with cancer should not use it but I´ve also read that you need enough of it if you have cancer - I am confused dot com.....

Anonymous

That is a good question on melatonin - I was told on a natural thread to be wary of melatonin taken too long and just did some research.  Everything on this link is supportive of taking melatonin, sorryit is a oogle / firefox search but I did the search "melatonin breasst cancer" Says take at 20 milligrams mostly, I am on only 3 mg so really wondering.  I am going to that thread to ask for that person to give more info on why she said that, and will email my endocrinologist who put me on it, he knows about the cancer and is all natural.

Yes, Jack Knickelson it was!  

Essa

SherylB

MadBlueBird,

Trying to post a pic of my new head covering. I have a big head and it fits snug which I like. I can't get it to post now I am showing my age. Thought I was computer literate but may be my old system

Oh well it's free and I can't imagine not liking it.

Sheryl

 

Linda-n3

I don't remember if I posted happy dance for Veggy's news!

Was thinking about that bucket list and realized that I have done nearly everything I ever wanted to do, except maybe become dean, but that is such a headache that I am better off without it! Still have a few places to visit, a couple projects to finish, but overall, am pretty happy that I have done the things I wanted to do most of my life.

Found I have mets to cervical spine. Will be starting Femara today. I have been feeling nearly myself for a couple of weeks, hope that continues for a few more weeks before SEs kick in!

Hugs to all.

SherylB

Linda,

I am so sorry to hear of the mets. I just had a MRI of L-S spine due to degernative arthritis, spinal stenosis severe, and an tear with bulging disc. The neulasta like to killed me in my lower back and I have been worried about mets too. I hope/guess it would have showed on the MRI but will ask my MO tomorrow.

Hang tough we will all pray for you,

Sheryl

thefuzzylemon

Linda...ugh. I'm so sorry. I must think you are handling this event well as that is what you have taught me about you - positive and motivational, understanding and forward thinking. For me, it makes me sad that this happens to my sister. ((((Hugs))))

ridergirl

My BFF has an app on her i-phone that lets you program in all your meds and then when it's time an alarm goes off, you have to acknowledge that before it will stop.  Works really well but yes I could see it would be a huge thing to set up at first for someone who is on a lot of meds. I thought I had a lot but wow ESSA no wondr you can get confused - thats a full time job program you have going on!  Hope its helping you tho, was really encouraged to read that the skills came back as one of the things I keep worrying about is surviving the cancer only to live with all the miserable aftereffects...don't know if that sounds like I'm asking to much or???

(((hugs))) to all

thefuzzylemon

Rider...I kinda feel that too...like, am I even capable any more? But, today, I think I am...that might be half the battle for me!

duckyb1

Cell phone alarm is best......a lot of those sound like supplements, and not a script. Correct me if I am wrong. If your script meds are very important, I would make sure those were the ones I did not forget, especially cancer meds. That is a huge mixture of OTC, and scripts.

sas-schatzi

Hmm med boxes, yes use one, had to turn on cable to see what day it was. Cable very cooperatively puts date and day on a particular spot.

Chevy, just haven't recovered from the manicure fiasco. Wait until my late age to get one, then end up with a problem for weeks. It will end sometime. Sounds trite, but pain is pain and itching is itching. AND when usual measures that worked for ever so long, fail. It gets tiring. Thanks for the above suggestions, I'll see what I can fit in. ))

You all know I have Dini, a lab and whatever mix--may be pit, and schatzi a German Wiredhair Pointer. The defining characteristic of a GWP is the beard. Really cute and very different. Dini chewed most of it off. Schatzi has about four strings hanging off...........Schatzi has about the cleanest head and ears --Dini keeps grooming her. Then Dini nibbles over her whole body. This is a behavior I haven't seen or read about before, keep forgetting to ask the Vet. Schats doesn't seem to mind most of it, but does let Dini know when she's had enough.

Essa wouldn't it be great to have what Wren suggested that also had a voice thingy that said "HEY time to..."

Essa will you,please, do LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY. Wanted it for my wedding. It grew wild by the side of my childhood house and was so hardy. You may have done it already and I missed it.

Ridergirl two questions 1. the story behind ridergirl   2. Is that Avatar you? If it is you ---you are gorgeous. I know BC and chemo has messed with you, but who can claim to be that beautiful.

This isn't catty, it's kind of the reverse of catty. Has anyone ever seen the Avatar for Selena Wolf. If it's her OMG she's beautiful. Whenever I cross paths on where she posts, I can't help myself, I just stare at her avatar.