The Hermit Club

Teka

I did get around to watering the houseplants after Teka tipped the full water can over on the kitchen counter.   So much water!   I took a long nap after watering the houseplants, and now finishing up the wash.

Tomorrow, post office closed, wonder how many will be dragging out to get their mail?

Tomboy

teka. you know i will. probably 5,6 times. cause i will have fogotten its mlk day, and plus, i even forget when he tells me he's already gotten it, and some days i forget that i have already gotten it, myself! HA!

camillegal

LOL no Kath it's not me, but if I really did look like that, I wouldn't care if it were me.

Teka I was looking up coon cats, some of them are huge, is u'r a big one or just normal siz?

Anonymous

I had a great day, but then, Sundays are always my favorite. Church starts at 10:30 am. We're non-denominational. Great praise & worship, awesome preaching. Then our group of 6 including my 11 year old Grandaughter, Jana, went to Logan's Roadhouse for lunch. My BFF turned 65 today. At the end of lunch the servers came to our table and asked her to step out to the middle of the floor. They got the attention of the entire resturant, then announced her birthday while everyone applauded & yelled YeeHaw! They gave her a dessert. Of course, she wanted to hang us for embarrassing her like that. She's a real clothes horse so I gave her a bracelet for her BD.

Came home for a nice winters nap, then watched Revenge, & Blacklist with DH. 

How was your day?

Paula

Jazzygirl

Teka

Good Morning,

Teka is our female maine coon cat.   Daughter chose the name Teka, which means angel of death, before I was diagnosed with BC ;o)

Teka is more on the small side but dwarfs other cats.   Loves to play fetch but no lap kitty.   But content being an indoor cat!

camillegal

Heres one.

Teka

That maine coon would dwarf Teka!

Teka

Lily55,

I was lurking on the threads and saw that you posted on (The "Be Positive" myth) thread.

Do you post your "free flowing emotions" on this thread, but find posts that encourage you to remain positive a ?

Please, if that be true, let members know!   *Hug*

CCFW

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Gingerbrew

I have a black, silver, white male Maine Coon Cat. He is large but not against this beautiful orange Maine Coon. Wow!

Lily55

hi teka - not a plan no it just annoys me intensely when the be positive mantra burden is in the ether, its a crock of **** 

Teka

Lily, 

I would like to reach through cyberspace and *Hug* the poop out of you!

Teka

Lily, had to step away for a few minutes, please try to remember how you felt when reading part of my prior post------------

"Lily, you need another week of being a little bit kinder to oneself.   *Hug*"

Did I make you feel or?

blondiex46

Jazzy glad you went out....just want you to take care of yourself and hopefully you are slowing down...how is the car?

Lily worried about you, you can come and vent anytime you want..

Cammie me too...love sitting in my room not being bothered by anybody...

Am doing ok, went to DQ and brough ice cream sandwiches home, and of course someone ate one...chemo again on wednesday but made it through the last one, was sick until today and throat is hurting and ear also, ricola is over there.. finished the z pac they gave me!!!

Teka

I almost forgot, Dx 4 years ago, today.   Pisser!

Jazzygirl

Hi hermits- went to see the nutritionist today around my blood sugar issues. Really good conversation and going to check my A1C again to see if the changes I made to diet are helping. Going to do some journaling around food, exercise, and testing blood sugar around meals to see where we can better adjust things. I really liked her, I wish I had seen a nutritionist years go (insurance only pays for it in certain situations). They would be better off having everyone doing nutritional counseling if you ask me!

What I find interesting no matter whether I talk to anyone in the medical field or people in general is no one really understands that you don't feel the same after bc treatment. So many hear talk of fatigue, and I know I just have days that come even during less busy days that still knock me flat. "Anatrozole days" as I call them. I would say I feel around 90-95% most days, but definitely, am not the same person I was before it all went down. Maybe I just need to accept that and stop trying to convince people I don't have the same energy anymore.

Blondie- I am slowing down and taking care of myself. Sleeping much better these days too! Car is doing better, one more repair to do on it, probably around the March time frame. Now I am working on taxes for my business and self (ugh).

Teka

kathec, positive results from biopsies this week.   *Hug*

dutchiris

I'm thinking of you, kathec, and hoping for the best possible results.

Jazzygirl

Kathyec- fingers crossed everything turns out okay from your tests this week. 

Teka- thinking of you today on the anniversary of your diagnosis. Never a good memory, but think how far you have come in four years time. I hope you can make this week an easy one.

Lily- thinking of you today as well. Wishing you peace.

Lily55

Teka - 4 years eh......?  Congratulations but it stinks as well doesn´t it.....

Kathec.....waiting to hear your results, we are here no matter what they are......

I know I sound ungrateful but I don´t feel that mutilating surgery saved my life, cancer took my life and replaced it with one I don´t like, and increasingly find intolerable, I am now forever stuck in Hobsons choice, both equally intolerable, especially around reconstruction, can´t stay as I am as too repelled by myself so much so after this long still cannot take a bath, and dont have the option of a normal life ever......plus these damn hormone pills are now biting again and some days I wake up with very painful joints as per letrozole.......but different...I already have degenerative disc disease etc and no one is even mentioning bone scans or anything to check all still ok so in a few years time, if i am still alive, I could not be able to help myself by exercising, walking my dogs etc, but be trapped in a wheelchair....or do i stop the b****y hormones but still exercise..which also helps my mood...see what I mean more no win choices.....

Teka

Yes, but Your still here with Us!

By the way, what are Your dogs like?

Anonymous

 Lily, I was also dx at stage III in July 2012. Since that time, I've had 3 bone scans, 2 MRIs, a CT, and a pet scan. Have you asked your MO why they haven't done any scans at all? I only had 3 bone scans because they were concerned about my shoulder in the first 2. Thank God everything looked normal in the third one.

Paula

Teka

How are the twins?

Anonymous

Teka, they did brain scans yesterday. The neonatal Dr. said everything looked good to him, but he's not trained to read them. They'll get those results today. Both girls are very active and have passed the first 72 hours without problems.

Yesterday the nurse told them, that Dechlan had wiggled out of her snuggy, and was trying to escape the incubator.

Thanks for asking Teka.

Paula

camillegal

Lily u sound like me--First I have 2 degenerative discs and lower vertebrae so I went to PT and said will this undegenerate them --no we'll build up the muscles around them-excuse me it's still painful but boy m I happy to have strong muscles there, they don't stop the pain tho, Oh ostioperosis too so I'm 2 inches shorter walking like I have a hump on my back-boy do I look good. Le so I swell just for the fun of it, a not so good valve in my heart just because, I exercise but very little movement or strength in my arms and pain in my shoulders all the time bone rubbing on bone, Of course my chronic Diarhhea and chronic Bladder infections which actually hurt no and my intestine growing up my one side moving my liver pushing it into my ribs and the top of my ribs closing in to wherever and extreme arthritis and some more things all from when all of this started and of course my mutilated unboobs, one was dug  so deep it's so concave it ridiculous. so believe it or not I do understand, I feel like this tiny little devil pill did a lot, plus all 2 yrs of chemo--so for sure chemo brain and I'm not anything like I used to be at all, haha my fingernails just fall out as do my teeth and I don't have a fortune to fix my teeth they want 8,000.00 $ after ins. Oh let me go in my pocket. My teeth bother me the most I can cover the rest. And I blame all of this on BC and that devil pill, but I have no choice at this time maybe in a couple of yrs--they'll be a pil that can undo all this chit. yea right--but it all sucks I do know that. I'm not saying this for sympathy, cuz I've gotten used to it--but life isn't fair, never has been, never will be. Please Lily u must find peace within u'r self--u are what u are inside, not outside anyway.

SallyS70

Good Morning,

I am sending good wishes for a peaceful day to all.  

Teka, I hope yesterday was an okay day.  Anniversaries of BC must be a mixed bag of thoughts.

Lily, you are faced with serious choices.  Hopefully, someone here will be able to provide some help through shared experiences.  Keep posting.  We care about you.  

Lily, were you the one who said she was going to a BC suport group when I said I was going to my first meeting?  If you were, how did it go? My meeting was very small but the ladies were welcoming.  I am going to go for the third time tomorrow night.  My BC.org groups are more comforting because two weeks between meetings is too long for me at this point.

Jazzy, I hope you are storing up lots of rest.  It sounds like your visit to the nutritionist was interesting.  I have been putting off seeing one, but I think I need the guidance.  Maybe more than anything I need help planning healthy meals that I enjoy.  My latest "healthy meal" is Greek yogurt with raspberries or blueberries with 1 tablespoon of honey drizzled over it.  It has 20 grams of protein and I actually view it as a treat.  I really hope it is healthy.

kathec, thinking of you as you get tests this week ... hoping for good results.

Hi dutchiris ... what are you up to this week?

Blondie, DQ ... yum ... ice cream with hot fudge is my fav there.  

Teka

Precious Sweetie Pies!!!

SallyS70

Paula and Cami, you both posted while I was typing.  

Paula, great news about the twins.  It sounds like Declan is a go-getter.  

Cami, wishing you a caller who makes you laugh ... so you can share the story so we can all laugh.

Hi, to all those who posted while I have written this post which was broken up by showering and soft boil egging ... must get to rads.

Tomboy

.....i just wanted to thank you all for remembering  me  today. and i am scared. but all i have to do is get myself there, and J.T. that is my man, is driving me there. i almost never ask him, i just dont like to saturate him with all of this. but he has been great this week, and has tried extra hard this week to distract me from the lonely thoughts, and seriously made me laugh out loud several times. 

so i am going to take an anti anxiety pill and a shower, and imagine you all trooping into the room with me. and  really, i could.not.do this without the support and companionship and understanding i have found here. so if you are reading this, that means you!