CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.

FireKracker

thank u Molly

I will go there no

WenchLori

M0mmy, I agree with your friend! Two legged or four our children are our life :-)

PoppyK, I'm so sorry to hear of your horrible childhood! Some people can't help themselves but be mean and nasty towards their children. I'm just glad we have you here with us today. Many hugs dear friend!

M0mmyof3

Hugs to all who need one today

proudtospin

well getting my act in gear, meet with the rad doc at mem sloan on thursday. Decided that is closer but honestly, i tried to find it on sunday, got myself completely twisted around so plan on another test later today. Maybe it is time for me to get a gps thingie

Oh well, his credentials look great on their web site and the doc at hackensack said he was trained by him so figure that is good too

Just want it started and then over

duckyb1

Wow FK...good reason to be not yourself today.....I hope someone here can help.....the ladies are great and if nothing else they will send out prayers.....we are all in this together...........hugs to you today .

FireKracker

I got in touch with Deanna

She gave me some positive info

Please,please just pra

duckyb1

We have the best Prayer doers on the planet...consider it done........hugs

FireKracker

thank u

She is on her way to MD Anderson in Houston Tx...

#1Cancer hospital...

Just pra

PoppyK

Thanks, Lori. I know I'm not the only one here on the board with a yucky mom.

Firekracker, Praying for your friend.

ChiSandy

Firekracker, your pal is in my “Mi Sheberach” healing prayer list.

M0mmyof3

hugs to all who need one

queenmomcat

Mammogram (2nd post-diagnosis) coming up Friday morning, but I'm using up my crazy on an accelerated summer course in accounting. Well, most of the crazy, anyway......

My thoughts and prayers to you, FireKracker

And as Mommyof2 says, hugs to those who need them. And for my part, the occasional stiff drink as medically appropriate.

FireKracker

thank u Chi Sandy

It's not good

The tumor in her lung is inoperable

They will meet on Friday with another plan.

Thank u all for the prayers

Please keep prayin

ChiSandy

So sorry, Firekracker. But all is not lost. A dear friend was diagnosed with inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer five years ago. Neoadjuvant chemo (he didn’t even lose his hair) and radiation made the tumor undetectable. Still NED (no evidence of disease).

FireKracker

thank u for the hope

Waiting for a miracle

proudtospin

well back from meet with the new rad onco,good info. Seems i have very small tumor on spine, he said we could do a wait and see approach to see ifmy meds shrink it. I am not really good at wait and watch so proceeding with testing and prep for 10 days of rads. New hospital is very close and doc was good at explaining things

Nurse said actual rads will likely start after mem day

Onward

M0mmyof3

That is good Iris

Molly50

Fire Kracker, I am so sorry for the bad news but as you see on these boards all the time...miracles do happen. Iris, in your pocket when you start rads. Hugs, stiff drinks, ativan and knock knock jokes for everyone! We all need cheering up!

proudtospin

thanks Molly, got special call from one of my nephews, so nice to hear from him

Hey ducky, Ben is looking for a nice girl friend! He is tall, curly hair, got a good job and appt!

Must like all things fishy including eating and catching!

queenmomcat

FireKracker: I'll keep praying, but you keep us posted?

Iris: is anyone on the boards really good at the 'watch and wait' approach?

Mammogram tomorrow, but I've used up (most of) my greebles on the compressed accounting class I'm taking this summer.....

duckyb1

I have a 5ft. 9 inch beauty, but she is only 17....LOL.....and a banging Softball pitcher for her high school.......LOL.I have another 17, a 21, a 25....he can have his pick.....hahaha......

ChiSandy

No grandkids yet…that I know of…

I shouldn’t joke about Gordy tonight. Earlier this week, he was dealt a devastating blow: his improv company is losing its theater, a venue it’s operated since 2012. As cast rep (liaison between the cast, artistic director and business management, as well as part of the team trying to negotiate with the building owner), he had to break the news to the troupe, and many tears were shed and much drinking ensued. (Fortunately, no wrists were slit). Skyrocketing rents in the trendy Andersonville neighborhood are to blame (as well as the company’s biggest meal-ticket, the annual Zombie Pub Crawl, was washed out by a massive storm during which people picked one pub into which to crawl and stayed there to get out of the rain). Building owners are realizing the condo market is heating up again and millennials want to live in that nightlife-and-boutique-filled neighborhood. They thought they had 3 months’ rent in their capital account…but the landlord is tripling the rent at the end of the lease. The neighborhood has lost several restaurants as well as the Swedish Bakery which had been there for 80 years—the owners, who needed to retire, couldn’t resist a lucrative owner from a builder. The improv troupe will continue as an “itinerant” comedy collective, performing at other venues as it did before leasing the theater space. But it’ll be leaner, as many members will choose to move on to other pursuits.

My heart aches for him—this is what he’d wanted to do since he was five years old. At 32, it’s going to be tough to compete with younger actors (with longer resumes) for commercials and bit parts in locally-shot TV shows & movies. He’s considering going back to school, perhaps for a masters in creative writing or dramaturgy.

M0mmyof3

Hugs for all who need one

proudtospin

ducky,Ben is 31 or so so your older kids best! His job has him traveling lots andhas been down to Md and to Princeton so i am hoping for a visit. Confess he has always been my fav but his parents marriage and eventual divorce where tough on both my nephews.

Gonna hit the gym a bit then down to docs office. Need to talk to my primary doc about bp as it hits 200 when i am at any place that calls itself a cancer center

duckyb1

Iris..if I hit the gym I would have 1/2 the problems I have..........Divorce is tough on kids.....and take care of that BP...hugs

FireKracker

my girl Lauren is going for her biopsy today

Please keep her in ur prayer

duckyb1

Will do.....h

Molly50

Any of you that are Her2 positive, here is some good news. Neratnib Decreases Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation and increases Cell Death

Molly50

FK, praying!!

ChiSandy

Iris, I echo the advice to see about reducing that systolic (top #) BP, emotionally-induced or not. (Sodium restriction is not as vital as once believed). If you can't do meds because they'd conflict with the ones you're already on, maybe meditation or biofeedback. I managed to conquer my "white-coat hypertension" (sometimes spiked up to 150/90 despite being on an ARB/diuretic) by imagining my blood vessels dilating and my palms getting warm—and I now average 120/75.

As for Gordy, my voice teacher is gonna get him in touch with his son's agent. (Nate, now 9, did 3 years as Tiny Tim in the Goodman's A Christmas Carol till he got too tall, was the lead detective's son Matteo in Fox's APB--canceled, alas; did a small role as a patient on Chicago Med and acts in commercials and indie films). As to the “too-old-at-32" thing, my teacher has a student who had an okay voice but an outgoing personality and considerable bulk. So my teacher asked him if he ever acted, and he replied, “in high school." My teacher got him in touch with a few casting directors, and at 61—a year after starting out—he won a Jeff Award (Chicago's version of a Tony) for Lead Actor in a Non-Equity Musical. (BTW, Gordy has a sweet baritone voice with a nice vibrato—I've heard him do his warmups--so he really ought to take lessons). And he has done a few indie films (mostly for Columbia College film students). It's about time he used his 10 years at Piven and that BFA in Drama for something beyond improv, though that'll still be his first love and he'll still be pH's cast rep, booking shows for them at various venues. He had considered applying for a writing job at SNL (his instructor at Second City's Actors' Conservatory and Writers' Workshop called him a “writer's writer"), but he has too many friends who burned out doing the show, and they're hiring fewer writers—you pretty much have to write yourself into a sketch to get it on-air, and the cast is already too big. (Aidy Bryant used to be part of his improv troupe when they were both at Columbia, and Vanessa Bayer and Adam McKay were his teachers at i.o.—formerly “Improv Olympic"—and ex-writer/“featured" cast members Tim Robinson & Paul Brittain were briefly his i.o. teammates). If you want to see examples of his wit, his Twitter handle is GordyBeTweeting.