Fuzzy's Romp Room

sas-schatzi

Veggy In your pocket babe

Crog Yeah for walking.

Granny dukes which abbreviation was that. Was it on the other page ?

Hello to all Gail, lauren,special K,sommer, Wren, TT, Nancy, Chabba

 Fuzzy, I hope you are able to take the discrimination thing on the rode. Take those idiot discriminators out to the wood shed.

dogeyed

VEGGY, I am so happy to be in your pocket.  I am overweight, tho, so I'll nibble a little spot in the corner pocket seam so I can hang my gut out of it!  Can our possum come too?  We have a baby one in our heating vent.  Husband and the dog discovered it late last night whilst I was snoring on the couch, ye olde possum was staring innocently up thru the vent at them.  Yesterday when I went out to check the mail (I rarely do) and inspect where a car wreck had happened a half-block up the road with a fire engine blocking the roadway, I almost fainted in the carport.  Felt really heavy all over.  I'm fine today, tho.  Love, GG

madpeacock

In your pocket Veggy! 

Hello everyone - been lurking recently and not feeling chatty. Two more days of school and then my house will be full and loud again... 

SpecialK

crog - glad to hear you are making progress and washing windows, I have been thinking about you!

FireKracker

Damn, miss 1 day and veggie is probably there already....any room for me...wait......i go and hold her hand.

Lauren---about the get together...dontcha think we should wait till after your exchange?I am in and am tryin to keep my calendar open for anyday during the week...

Sas.i was askin you avout the abbreviations on the valium...I really had to think about what you were talkin about.

Hi everyone.had to get all the questions and answers done before i forgot.

We will get together.....all are invited to MYC.

hugggggggs K

sas-schatzi

Granny, sorry I went back three pages and couldn't find the post on Valium. So, I don't know what it was that I abbreviated-so sorry.

Lauren your exchange is in three weeks, please make sure they don't make you too big. My PS maxed me out at 850cc's. They are heavy and fall in my armpits when I lay done, which has it's own set of problems. I have said ever since there should be a rule about the amount being put on the CONSENT FORM. Please check in with whippttmom ASAP to check what size she recommends. You will need to know what the PS is planning to put in, so call his office ASAP so, you can tell Whippetmom. You will then have to take several measurements of your height, torso----all I'm not exactly sure of., but you can find it on SIZING 101.

Fuzzy in reading back the last three pages you mention you have had 18 (?) concussions? Have you been evaluated for permanent brain injury?

LaurenM730

Veggy - in your pocket as always... Seems like everyone is in, so here comes the bus. Honk honk. On my way!!!



SAS - thanks for the advice on the implants. I didn't even ask what size he plans on using. I've met a lot of his patients at PT and no one looks big at all. I am by far the biggest of the bunch. Although I know I'm going to be smaller after the exchange. I'm kind of liking the size I'm at now, but I couldn't take any more fills. I will call tomorrow to find out.



Granny - yes, definitely after the exchange. Maybe some time in July when I know I'll be back at work. Good thinking- I clearly don't have my head on straight these days.



You ladies are great- I miss the days when I can't stop by to say hi. Just know I'm always thinking of you all!

dunesleeper

GG, better watch that fainting stuff. I hope you are still feeling OK, but if it happens again I hope you will get it checked out.

I wonder how Veggie is doing. I know I hopped in her pocket with the rest of you, but they make you take the jeans off for surgery. 

I have had a terrible day today. I feel like I am on a treadmill that I can't get off of and that is going too fast. I just can't keep up. I tried telling my mom this and she told me I have to calm down and I replied that I can't. Well my exhasperation must have come through as yelling because she got snippy with me. So I told her I would just hang up, and she said ok then. Wow. Totally blown off by my own mother, the only person in the world I believe cares about me. Great!

I'm pretty sure I am going to retire. I just can't do it. Sorry world. I just can't do it. With this level of stress I will definitely have a recurrence.

dunesleeper

Oops sorry everyone. I thought veggie was having surgery, but I see she is meeting her new team. OK. Guess I'm still there.

dunesleeper

Hugs back to you Nancynow!!! I hope you get that note and your boss chills.

It appears I will be able to keep my medical coverage if I retire. I will just have to pay my portion. Now I have to find that paper (god only knows where it is) that tells me how much pension they will pay me for early retirement. If I can pay my bills, including my part of the medical insurance, I'm outta here. I'm just . . . so . . . done.

TeresainTucson

Dune and Nancy, hugs to you both. I hope things work out the way you want and need them to!

Madpeacock I hope that is a good thing

Veggy, how'd it go?

dogeyed

DUNE, thank you, lady, for advising me on the fainting thing.  I've been having a little trouble catching my breath, too, must be my extra weight, hard on the whole body, but I'm just not in the mood to lose the weight yet.  Still, I've been a little concerned about my general health indeed.  I don't know how VEGIE is doing this cancer a second time.  And hey, I know about your temper thing, DUNE, just like NANCYnow said.  I was on the phone with my Mom a couple days ago, and it was the same day I almost fainted, and I was complaining and finally I just couldn't talk to her anymore, and I stupidly said, "Yeah, I'd better get off the phone now before I go crazy."  I worried it might have come out all wrong.   I have been mulling over the idea of cutting our calls back from two a week to one a week, and NO WAY can I do that to her.  Originally it was to check up on my folks more, they're in their mid-80s, and as it turns out, for the last five or ten years, I've been all screwed up and it's me who needs all the checking on.  SIGH. 

But as NANCYnow suggested, we are doing the best we can.  My anger is getting ALL out of control.  I don't see how I can go from doing good to so dang poorly, changes week to week.  DUNE, I'm glad you've worked out the retirement thing.  I had to "drop out" when I was in my late 50s, back was killing me, bunches of problems from a car wreck, went on disability.  It's a relief not to have to go to work no more.  I hated every day of work, pretty much.  Altho when I worked on newspapers, I did like that.  Later I thought I'd moved up when I switched to a graphics dept in a printing company, doing writing and editing stuff, but it was a big mistake, still I hung in for eight years of mostly hell.  Ohhhhh, I just feel so lousy, didn't sleep good last night.  Thanks again, Dune, for looking in on me.  GG 

Wren44

Tuesday we scrambled to get the spare room livable for a family member flying in, went to see the relative in ICU, DH dropped me off at my hair appointment, and took the bus home. Got off the bus in one of the construction zones around my neighborhood and tripped on the sidewalk and fell face first. Managed to ruin my fairly new glasses, which took months to find, and gave myself a black eye, skinned knee, bruised shoulder and maybe a mild concussion. For the rest of the day I had a horrible time remembering words and what I was trying to say. Yesterday I was just a little spacey and had a headache. Went today to have my eyes checked for the new glasses and can barely see with dilated eyes. I'm ticked because this would have been the first month without a major medical bill. Grrrrr. At least I didn't break anything besides the glasses. Guess that's pretty good news at 71.

madpeacock

Oh Wren, what a bad week! Hope you're feeling better soon....My mother did something almost identical at exactly the same age a couple of years ago and busted her new glasses too. She had a black eye, bruises, scrapes. 

dunesleeper

Wren, that sounds like a nasty fall. I imagine you will be feeling that pain for a while, probably throughout your whole body. Take it easy!!!

GG, I feel you about wanting to be the one caring for your folks and then having the taables turned on you. Then, I can't even pull myself together enough to pretent I'm OK. I told her today about the retirement thing. She is not happy. You know how you can tell through their silence? I don't know if I will be able to retire or not, but I have an appointment with HR in the morning. I'm trying to get disability retirement. If I qualify for that, it will give me enough money to live on. Being constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown may seem disability enough to me, but I don't know about them.

SpecialK

Oh wren!  I am so sorry!  Take it easy, you will probably be sore, but I am glad it was not worse!

sas-schatzi

Just a reminder to start posting the intentions here( Catholic Thread) for the novena to St Francis that starts on June 1st and ends on June 9th the Day that Theresa is professed as a Lay Franciscan. I put the link to this page so if you wish to invite others to join us. They can post their intentions after this and I will know where to start combining. I will notify, on the 25th, everyone I have on my PM list. L&H&P's sheila

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Folks, I was going to invite anyone that wanted to join us --tomorrow. Bur after reading the last missives. Please, join us. Write your intentions after going to the page. The prayers will be posted daily starting June 1st SAS

sas-schatzi

Hmm this applies to too many of us right know, we all need too get our heads examined--concussions, fainting, music, yelling at the cat, depression, discrimination causing depression. My oh my,

Have an adventure this weekend, do something out of the ordinary. I'm going to a special restaurant. A war of the chefs competer. Or whatever they call it. Our reservation is at 5:10 pm. DUH, not 5:00pm or 5:15 pm. Sounds like a docs office that schedules every 10 minutes. Trying to be funny, kind of flat.

Levity.  We need some "jocularity". A prize for whomever identifies whose most famous for "jocularity".

dunesleeper

I don't think I can muster jocularity at this time, but this too shall pass . . . I hope. I only cried a few times today and not as terribly as yesterday. Improvement is good.

sas-schatzi

Dunes, Sorry, hope things improve. Think about a cancer counselor. I started about the 7th month into it and am still going. It's now 3 years. It made a difference. Not sure how things would have been , if I didn't have one. I don't think they would have been good. I see you have already posted your intentions. I've found the novenas help focus my energy, for a concentrated period. We then tend to wait to do another one for 2-4 weeks. It also, helps to be not as focused at least for me . L&H&P's sas

dogeyed

WREN, a black eye and a possible concussion!  Wow!  In a single bound, minding your own business, too.  Oh, I know you are so sore from that, and your glasses, and another bill.  I have much to be thankful for, that's for sure.

DUNE, bless you, child, your Mom being silent and you crying all day.  I KNOWS how you feel.  Well, us cancer people have got it rough, that's for sure, nevermind all the echoes of guilt, pain, anger.  We cancerettes is VERY screwed up, for I think every woman on this website has expressed such similar feelings at one time or another!  I was hollering out the other day, "Step right up, come on inside, anyone need a good beatin?  She'll do it.  Got any ne'r-do-wells?  She'll tear them from limb to limb!  Have you seen Stella?  She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile!!!"  Hahahaha.

Jocularity... been a lot of those people.  One that pops into my head is from the movie "Tonto," with Red Skelton in it, he's riding in the back of a taxi, sharing it with a man who used to sell cats for a living!  He goes something like, "They're easy to care for, no clothes, no shoes.  Why, used to be, a good day is when I'd sell five cats by lunchtime."  That was one crazy movie.

VEGGY, we are awaiting your news and how your appointment went.  I'm praying for you, girl, praying hard.  Love to all my sisters, Gail  

LaurenM730

Do you think one can get used to having no sleep? My TEs keep me up all night then I feel like when I finally fall asleep my son comes in and tosses and turns all night. More like kicks and head buts all night... Then my DHs alarm goes off they daughter comes down. This is a vicious cycle. Maybe that's why I'm a forgetful bitch lately...



Imready to fire my nanny. She's been with us for 5 1/2 years and has become complacent. She pays way more attention to my son than daughter, and she clearly has no idea how to discipline, or do laundry. I worked from home yesterday and I'm on a conf call and my both my kids were outside the door screaming. My DH comes home to this and she says she can't pick him up becuase he's too heavy. He's not even 3! And her job is to take care of kids. Shouldn't she be able to pick him up??? I'm just so aggravated with her lately. I want to get rid of the bottle, but she just gives it right back to him. And then I tell her to water it down and she makes it mostly juice. I might be a control freak but they're my kids and I'm the boss!!!



It's too early to be this aggravated. Told you ima bitch. Sorry for the rant...

madpeacock

Jocularity - Father Mulcahey from MASH. 

Lauren - sounds like your nanny is not respecting your wishes as the PARENT of the kids, and yes, she does sound rather complacent. Need to light a fire under her - she can be replaced! 

sas-schatzi

Madpeacock--you get the prize-----FR. Mulcahey it was, I loved the way he said it too.  Great advise to Lauren !

Lauren-so, so, so agree with Madpeacock. If you only could find someone like _____(?) from the BRADY BUNCH---you have a right to be angry damnit. I have two nieces that went to France as AU PEres(sic). They lived in with family. Took care of the kids, cooked meals(how many a day I don't know), did housework---They were paid, but part of the deal was they were off certain nights to take classes at a university. I can get the name of the company if you want. One niece was from Mexico and the other was from Michigan. Not sure if both girls went through the same agency. The agancy did background checks and troubleshooting i.e. if the family was unhappy with something or the girls were. One niece was very unhappy with the first placement and the company made quick arrangements to change her into a second placement. That's why the second niece went into it.     As far as your TE's, thats why it's so important to get sizing right on permanent Foobs. The Foobs can be as bad as the TE's if not sized right. Again please check with Whippetmom--Deborah. I didn't find out abouther until foobs were in.

Out to dinner gotta run. L&H&P's to everyone --talk latter. Sas

dunesleeper

GG, thanks for the KNOWSing how I feel. I even went off on a good friend today, was ready to cancel my trip to visit her. Ugh. Fortunately, she kept a cool head.  I like your "step right up come on in" rant.  I met with HR about disability retirement. The paperwork is started. The retirement date is July 1. Then I came into work. The powers that be allowed all non-essential personnel to go home early. So, nobody is here. The work they did is already done. They COULD have called me and told me I could do the work from home. But they did not. So I lost it a little bit again, and I told the guy who told me this that they don't give me a second thought, except to complain about my sick time. Then I told him I was retiring July 1. His eyes opened wide then. I told him if you want to go tell Lou then go ahead but I wish you wouldn't. Human Resources will take care of that. I should not have told him. Then it gets kinda funny in a sick humor sort of way. He calls me after he gets home and begs me to not retire on July 1st . . . because then he won't be able to take his vacation. Oh my. They don't give a sh*t about me but PLEASE don't mess with my vacation. I told him I would do what I could. I have no desire to screw up his vacation, but this is what they get for how they have treated me all these years. I read that women working night shifts are 500% more likely to get breast cancer. 500%! I have been begging for other work, a different job, even willing to take a cut in pay for many years. But they would not let me go. Now he is pleading with me not to mess up his vacation. It is funny in a sick sense.

Lauren, nope. I have never gotten used to lack of sleep. I have struggled with it for probaby a decade now. However, after your exchange I just know you will be much better. Have a talk with the nanny when you are feeling relatively calm. If you still don't get cooperation, then sure, fire her and hire someone who can do the job right.

Love you all!

Anonymous

I loved the surgeon! She is so nice! Not like the witch who operated on me last time. She's letting me decide if I want one or both off. She said it was my choice. I know everyone here wants to put in their 2 cents but, if you don't mind, I would kinda not. I know what I have to do and I have been doing research. It has to my decision. Its not an easy one. I had the blood test for the BRAC genetic testing and I have 2 - 3 weeks to wait for the result. I know whatever I choose I will not be happy with my decision. I was hoping for DIEP but was told that they are not done around here. I want to figure out my options before I see the plastic surgeon. I've been looking at before and after pictures of reconstruction and pictures of no reconstruction. I have even talked to some people who have had or didn't have reconsruction. I don't know what is right for me yet. Thanks everyone for being here and listening to me. I love you guys!

dunesleeper

Veggy I am glad you are so pleased with your surgeon. Yes, I must admit I was lucky in that department too. For anyone who lives in Maryland, I highly recommend Dr. Soueid (prounounced suede, like the leather). He practices at Franklin Square Hospital and at St. Joseph Hospital. He's Catholic. He's gentle. He REALLY enjoys his work. LOL. Seriously, I don't think I could have gotten a better plastic surgeon.

LaurenM730

Veggy - so glad you're happy! And I love that she's saying it's your choice. Which of course it is, but doctors never really make you feel that way. Youre in my thoughts every day!



SAS and mad peacock - yes, I'm going to have to talk to her, again. There are so may things that piss me off and I've talked to her before. The only problem is that my son looooves her. I'm so hesitant to look for someone else. Ive heard such horror nanny stories... Im so torn...



Dune - at least I'm not the only one. I thought the reason for my sleep (or lack thereof) was solely due to my TEs but I think it might be genetic. My mom hardly sleeps, it turns out...



Speaking of sleep... My husband took my daughter to Costco and the little one is almost sleeping. Sounds like a Xanax kind of night!!!

dunesleeper

LOL Nancynow. It's interesting how suddenly the dude is being nice to me, pleading with me. Of course he doesn't care that I came back from surgery early so that he could go on vacation. He doesn't care that each day he has taken off since then has been extremely difficult on me, since I had to work OT to help cover for him. Ah! No sense griping about it. My jaw just drops open sometimes at the heartlessness of these folks. God I pray I can get this disability retirement. I will actually be able to take care of myself and still be able to pay my bills. Nothing luxurious, but enough to buy organic produce and hopefully my supplements.

sas-schatzi

Just a reminder to start posting the intentions here( Catholic Thread) for the novena to St Francis that starts on June 1st and ends on June 9th the Day that Theresa is professed as a Lay Franciscan. I put the link to this page so if you wish to invite others to join us. They can post their intentions after this and I will know where to start combining. I will notify on the 25th everyone I have on my PM list. L&H&P's sheila

community.breastcancer.org/for...