Fuzzy's Romp Room

thefuzzylemon

Isn't that funny!!!  I can't believe how many photos came up for that!  Hats, TShirts ... and a very, very special drink mix!  I was laughing pretty hard!

So, I checked the Urban Dictionary ... oh my.  They use the wrong spelling with the actual "drink" reference.

Wren44

Nancynow, OK I understand. Maybe SKK will be like the cat who treed the bear because he didn't like other animals in his yard. Once they've lived the hunter life, you can't keep them in.

madpeacock

Well, that Fuzzy Naval explains a lot. But I don't care. I'll take one!

Nancynow - we had a kitty that was digging in my neighbor's trash after Christmas one year when it was (literally) zero degrees (yeah, in Georgia!). She came to our house, climbed the stairs to the deck, and balanced herself on a 2-inch strip outside our kitchen window, two stories up. Made a place for her in our garage. A few months later, she gave birth on our BRAND NEW deck furniture. I gathered the new family up - it was April and still cool at night - and made them a place in our garage. We eventually found homes for all 3 kittens and mom stayed with us for 17 years. Over the years we brought her in a few times for storms, cold, etc. and she would explore for a while and then get really freaky. Her home was outside! We put heaters in the garage, heated beds, the works for that cat.  

Teresa - Really? Really???!!! What an @ss. 

Anonymous

sheila888

This is for Teresa's employer.

Anonymous

Some fighting move,

sas-schatzi

Not catching everything b/c it's blurry.but-------------have swelling on portion of forearm related to what would be described as proximal to site insertion of arterial line.--------Sucks. Really-------but if i get LE ----They will pay handsom;y b/c I refused premedicaion  multiple times. ------moffitt was Grand in all aspects except this one thing.\

They negated LE. They said I had a 3 percent risj factor---------isaid ------No----they didn't get once a patient says vo.------to proceed means an assault and battery----a criminal offense------what I'm writing right , I have no idea what makes sense b/c i , can't see wll without glasses, but it apparently doesn't shut me up LOL ------I can't dp spell check b/c the screen can't be seen without the magnifying glass. ----------well anuones pocket I have to be in tomorrow. I there on the bus Pocket. please anuome wanting to be inc;uded in our Novena let ne know----------we are formidible inour novenas--------if i have written anything that is risque. ----only b/c O can't see. But I think I'm doing pretty good. and the incision is happy. What atyping joke. sas

SpecialK

sas - you are doing great and making me laugh at the same time!

TeresainTucson

Thank you Fuzzy!! This week I figure I should find out about unemployment and I am talking to my Doctor too. It should all get worked out one way or another I want to know, if he didn't fire me then what did he want to talk to me about the day he called me into the office? I just still can't believe it.

 Maybe when it's spelled naval it's to avoid any bellybutton lint? (Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference).

sheila888

(((SAS)))    

Anonymous

sas-schatzi

Veggu, All are going to dislike  me for what I say , But i have to Say what I believe is true. A BMX. Everyone says it's a personal choice--------I believe that to a appoint. You have a changing scenario. What are breasts worth it if they kill you. You are  going for a mx . But you have an entirely  changing scenario--- with er/ rg/ her. Why keep the things that may cause you death These  words are  not meamt to cause  you pain. If this breast is so troublesome, how can the other breast -----not harbor trouble.  But for time.  You have had 2 years for trouble to show up and damned if it didn't -----yes? ---Get rid of the other breast..........it's a time bomb. I accept that all Will come down on me as saying something that isso o persomal . and i should'my have offerred such a sstromg opimion. But I stand in frint of it and at each side, I love you veggy-----Must say what I beleive wiyjout hiding it.  Will correct dpelling when I ccan see

sheila888

SAS...You can't sleep either ??????

sas-schatzi

sgeula to sheula

sas-schatzi

Can't tupe too well , bit jappy to  be here sjeila to sheila

sas-schatzi

Sheila---what a hoot I can't see the keys vcery well-----------have to leave off reading glasses b/c of incicion

sheila888

I understand everyting you are saying....don't worry about the typing...who cares...

I'm getting very hungry Sheila to Sheila

sheila888

I still type with 2 fingers....without glasses will be very difficult...they all look very blurry

sas-schatzi

Sheila ----- duh-----my typing is really bad without blasse---------seruous bad whenI thijk it's rught

sheila888

Well sweety....this Sheila here will watch some TV...maybe I get sleepy.

You go and rest your eyes.

See you tomorrow.

good Night and big hugs ♥

sas-schatzi

Sheila to sheila _yeag we are kindred spirits-----------------you van't believewhat it yook yo wriye that statement

sas-schatzi

having to wriye without glasses-------very weird.

 Nust do so b/c of incisiun. and llck of glasses

sas-schatzi

oh my the misspellings

chabba

Just thought I' check in to say good night

LaurenM730

Im going to second SAS on the MX.  I know it sounds like a terrible option, but it can be the one that saves your life...  That's all I'm going to say because it is such a personal, and huge, decision and I definitely didnt want to hear what people were thinking when I was making my decision (I had a BMX 1/23/12)

SAS - even with all the misspellings, I know exactly what you're saying and I'm laughing!

fuzzy navels/navals all around

madpeacock

I went to my Onc yesterday - all is well and fine with me, whew - but she and I have a really great relationship. We're about the same age, both have autoimmune issues (she has lupus, I have Hashimoto's), she's heavily into complementary/alternative treatment & supplementation, and we have the same crazy curly hair issues! So we covered all of that yesterday, along with our recent beach trips, destressing, and more. Then she sighed and said she had to vent. She just lost a triple negative BC pt a couple of days ago. She said, "I get so mad at triple neg! You throw everything you have at it and it's like it just laughs at you and keeps growing no matter what. It's so FRUSTRATING!" I love her passion. It is what made her keep testing me until it turned out that I was NOT HER2+ after all (false positive on first test, then neg twice) and did NOT need chemo. I told her I didn't want her to wake up in 20 years and realize she didn't care any more. She had gone to speak at our hospital's BC support group and said there was so much anger in the group and it surprised her. I told her that was why I never went...

Anyway, just sharing my day yesterday. And Veggy - there's a not so subtle message in that story for you - seconding the others on considering the BMX...I'll never be the first to recommend overtreating, but triple neg is scary...

SAS - keep on typing even if you can't see!  

Be careful when you  bring the bus my way - raining pretty hard this morning... 

dogeyed

TERESA, one time I basically quit work, which was I refused to do the unfair work assigned me, and they said I was to turn my stuff in (worked at home).  So, I went down to the Employment Security and said I was unjustly let go and wanted to apply for SS unemployment.  So, I did, and I received the check several weeks later, and in the meantime, my boss filed an appeal.  So, I called back down to the Employment place, they said I would keep getting checks.  Appeal took a long while to get on the calendar, I got another job, and when the letter came giving date of hearing, I wrote to judge that I wouldn't be coming in (I made sure that was okay) and that I would let the record speak for itself, which when I applied for unemployment, I wrote out in a brief paragraph what happened on the day I was let go.

NOTHING can trump you continuing your medical leave, and you should receive some monies now from the gov since your employer ain't gonna pay you no more.  THEN the ball is in your employer's court.  He can appeal, he can let it go, but I CAN tell you that I was told no matter the outcome of any appeal, I could keep any monies I got!!!  That's one of the reasons I didn't attend the hearing months later, becuz I knew she would get her cash back and I could keep mine, no matter who was right (I was).  Maybe going back down to the ES place is in order, or if you must, get disability from the SS people.

THAT WAY, you can be SURE to go back to your financial people and get that extension thing for your home.  I just want to encourage you to try to reach some final sort of stamp of approval on all this, for crying out loud.  THIS IS NOT RIGHT, and when I think of the shape I was in when I was in chemo, oh my gosh, I would have gone to the Mayor's office and had a seizure, I reckon, to get what the hell was coming to me.  Women have not fought all these years in the court system to get assistance with a MAJOR and DEADLY disease, only to end up with some crappola getting away with firing you by pretending you quit.  What horsesheet!!!!

SASSY, you are perfectly okay about saying we should all have all our boobs and extremities and noses cut off to prevent disease spread.  SMILE.  I really do hear you and I feel your concerns.  I am glad you said what you thought best.  Sooooooo, I'm gonna say what I think is best, too!  FOLKS, if a physician says he recommends you take off both boobs, fine.  If you yourself are totally DONE with all this brast cancer routine and for your own sanity think it's a good idea to have a BMX, you check with (a) your doc, (b) your husband or very close relative, (c) and your regular gyno or doc, and see what THEY say BEFORE you commit to such a surgery.  It's not that an extra one matters; it's that regret may figure in later.  Of course, when you weigh regret with spread of disease, we know what wins out.  Me, I don't know why one boob got so destroyed and the other one is perfectly fine.  And while I know I would be okay with no boobs, I am also just as okay with one boob.  But bless you, SASSY, for sharing your fears, your feelings, your desire to help us out.  I just wanted to balance things up.

CLOSING REMARKS:  Your Honor, in the name of the Good Shepherd, I ask that all suffering beings on this earth be freed from their cages, from their negative worries, from their unspeakable horrors.  We only want the love of God Almighty in our hearts.  But sometimes survival takes up so much of our thoughts that we forget how thankful we are for this fleeting life we have, like a little injured bird who is letting go of his last breath in our hands, but let us keep singing right on to the end, from simple joy.  Love to all my sisters, Gail   

Anonymous

I know deep in my heart the left breast has to go. There is no saving it and I have accepted that. I have been questioning keeping the right breast. I know one is trying to kill me and wonder if the other will try to kill me at another time. Its not an easy decision to take both...not for me anyway. I am planning to question the doctors more. I have genetic testing coming up soon that will tell me more. I know triple negative is very aggressive and deadly. I am experiencing how quickly cancer can grow. No lumps one month and the next month have 2 lumps. There's a lot to digest. I fully appreciate what GrannyDukes and Sas have expressed. GrannyDukes talked to me about that a week ago.  I have gone through the what if's. I have talked to my DH. I have researched pictures and methods on the internet.

About 5 years ago I went for a mammo. A suspicious area was found on my right breast. Six months later it was gone. I have no clue what it was. The next mammo I had lumps in the left one. I don't know if the lumps had traveled to the left. No explanations. The right one has been clear and good ever since. It still leaves me wondering. I know it could still kill me. 

Having two separate cancer dx in almost 3 years is beyond terrifying. Right now to say both are coming off and feel 100% about it - I'm not there yet. I'm only at 75%. I don't want to get a third DX and go through this again. I need to talk more to my team. I need more of your HONEST opinions even if they do make me upset. I still have about a month. 

(((hugs)))

thefuzzylemon

Veggy ... I have an honest opinion ... and you know I love ya so I'm totally not afraid to give it.

Get them suckers off ... off they go ... bye bye old boobies ... fall in love with your Plastic Surgeon and start foobie shopping!  I felt that the surgery to have my Left removed was a cake walk compared to everything else following that.  I should be having the right removed this summer.  The only "issue" with having them both removed at once is the healing for a few weeks and not being able to use your arms much.  But ... if your DH would be part of your personal care - game on!

My TE doesn't cause hardly any trouble.  It took a little getting use to ... but it's given me plenty of time to figure out what I would like for recon. 

You wouldn't believe what the left tissue looks like ... there really isn't a scar at all.  If you could go to my PS ... you would LOVE him.  Once the surgery and 3 day hospital stay is done ... you wouldn't need to stay - he's amazing.  And ... Wisconsin is really nice this time of year

SpecialK

veggy - as someone who was a lumpectomy candidate (this is what my BS recommended during my first appt with him) I echo sas on the BMX.  I know it is a personal choice, and a hard one.  I was uneasy for some unknown reason after that first appt.  I had been closely followed for 20 years and always had at least half a dozen lumps in each breast all during that time.  I knew if I just did the lumpectomy I would always be nervous about those lumps - I can't tell a good one from a bad one - I would have been doing a self-exam every five minutes!.  So I elected BMX, and my BS never made a peep.  Turns out I had DCIS and IDC in the right breast with 2 undetected positive nodes, and the left "prophy" breast had both atypical ductal AND lobular hyperplasia that was undetected by the MRI. I figured if one breast can make cancer, so can the other - and it probably would have, so I might as well do the whole shebang.  I have no regrets about it even though it was a long reconstruction road for me.  I am certainly not trying to tell you what to do - you have to decide for yourself - but I wanted you to know my story.