Sisterhood of the Secret Handshake

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    oh and I bought broccoli sprouts (for those who read that John Hopkins report...) and there was hunting for chick peas and couldn't find them, had to ask for help... did you know that chick peas= garbanzo beans?  Is that correct?

    oh hrf, we do that!!! We meet up in person fo' sho! 

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited November 2009

    I think we'll all have a whale of a time on this thread!

    Now, I have a question about this handshake (now that I know what it is). When secret societies have a special handshake, members identify each other by the handshake. With this one, let's just say that the dwarf I resemble is Bashful.

    But I'll do it in private. Sort of. On my one remaining.

    Leah

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  • lisa-e
    lisa-e Member Posts: 819
    edited November 2009

    Rachel, chick peas  do = garbanzo beans.  My dh loves them.  When we dating, his ideal meal was garbanzo beans, broccoli and brown rice.  Very boring and bland imo, but oh well...

    I have had the scenario of seeing someone I knew was a  cancer pt (she had a port) at the climbing gym.  It took me three or four times to get up the nerve to say something to her, even though I was dying of curiosity and wanted to know what kind of cancer she had.  It turns out she also has breast cancer.  We had a good conversation and I look forward to meeting her again - she doesn't live around here but was visiting a friend . 

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  • pkb143
    pkb143 Member Posts: 280
    edited November 2009

    hey, Rachel, even Okies know that garbanzo beans = chickpeas. Tongue out

    OK, don't know if I would say anything to someone even though I had a strong feeling......for example, we went to the casino early this morning to get the country breakfast for $1.99. Of course, we spend hundreds of dollars gambling while we wait for the (cheap) breakfast and afterwards. I found a great machine that was letting me play my favorite video poker game (Deuces Wild) and I was having a great time getting winning hand after another.....until this woman sits down at the machine on my right, lights up one of those frickin' 'lady cigars' (or whatever they are). Being the smoke detector that I am, the extremely offensive smoke immediately wafts to my nostrils. I sort of coughed a little, cleared my throat, but didn't say anything. Rachel, I was so wishing I had you there to make a big ol' stink about it. As much as I wanted to, I didn't say anything and finally just got up and went to another machine.

    HEY! I'm glad it was a zit, and only a zit!!  Sometimes ya' never know.....

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  • pkb143
    pkb143 Member Posts: 280
    edited November 2009

    ~~ and this post is here because I forgot to check "My Favorite Topics" on the right~~~

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  • lisa-e
    lisa-e Member Posts: 819
    edited November 2009

    Oh another story - I went to our local quilt show with a friend who also has bc.  While we are the show, I made a comment to her about one of the speakers who was wearing a bright, florescent pink wig.  I thought the wig was part of her outfit and was related to her talk and that it was a bit over the top.  My friend looked at me and said, no I think she is on chemo.  Well, it turned out the speaker was on chemo. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2009

    Okay, my twisted sisters, so far, onc seems to think it is an infected nipple or duct.  Tried to express discharge (can you say hurt like a mo-fo?????) but nothing came out, but she did say the area was hot to touch.  So, on antibiotics 3x a day for a week and I'll follow up with her next Friday to make sure it's better or do further testing if not.  Got the tamox metabolizer test results, I am a good metabolizer, so there's actually a drug I can take! 

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  • pkb143
    pkb143 Member Posts: 280
    edited November 2009

    Well, I think that's good news (infected duct/nipple)!  Let's hope you metabolize those antibiotics like you do the Tamox and get back to 'normal' in no time.

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    Chelev- I was just starting to hunt you like Elmer Fudd... OK so gobble up them antibiotics!  My mental cheerleaders are chanting "RAH RAH RAH Infection RAH RAH RAH!  RAH RAH RAH antibiotics RAH RAH RAH! "

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2009

    So Rach, are those cheerleaders who are mental or the little cheerleaders in your head?

    Already took 1st dose and will start back up with warm compresses after dinner.

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    Well y'all make me feel less stupid about my maybe chemo patient mash up at the supermarket.  Thank you :)

    PattyB Part Deux- hey, I cook with a TELEPHONE in NYC.  I can hum you the numbers of my favorite delivery joints.  Oh anyone watch last Top Chef?  Someone was making garbanzo beans, I think it was the cancer patient, and she didn't recognize them in their natural form.  NO one said "chick pea".  I remember being in a vegetable garden and not being able to recognize FOOD.  I think its crazy how brussel sprouts grow, like in the armpit of the leafy plant.  Still cant figure out how asparagus looks coming out of the earth.  Hey Carollyn, you here?  You laughing your ass off now? 

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  • ktym
    ktym Member Posts: 2,637
    edited November 2009

    Ha Ha,  have to point out where else could you go and have people contemplating about whether they are an extensive antibiotic metabolizer. 

    Plus, I  HATE cigarette smoke, Rachel you have some good pointers on how to get someone to put the butt out? 

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited November 2009

    Asparagus looks exactly like it does when you buy it at the market.  It grows in stocks and they cut the stock and buch them up.  I have them growing in my garden.  It is weird!

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    chelev- since they are in my head, they are both mental cheerleaders and in my head mentally because I too am mental.  Let's say they are the demented cheerleaders.  They are also cheering on the tamoxiguys and gals in the white lab coats who are still running around putting condoms on all your hormone receptors.  Now here's the tough part: no booze while you are on antibiotics.  Got some good drugs like xanax?  Take 'em.

     I have a whole week to come up with jokes about your hot boob. 

    A serious nanosecond here, you must be going nuts.  I know I was trying to be cool but I was out of my mind, and mine was just a painless pimple, OK it itched and yes my boob is hot too (I think its still cooking from RADs) and its swollen, and my nipple didn't want to sit up straight...and I looked up those things so I know why its worrisome. You got my number, call if you feel like ranting or anything.

    RAH RAH RAH INFECTION RAH RAH RAH ANTIBIOTICS RAH RAH RAH

    and the demented cheerleaders rave on... 

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    Linda, I need a frikin visual.

    I didn't realize that my status as a militant non-smoker was so obvious here.  Thank heavens for the smoking bans in NYC and California.  I forgot they don't have it in other places and I'm always stunned when I see someone light up in a restaurant- like how can you EAT when you get a mouthful of someone else's smoke? The gods of karma got me good on the cigarette thing... I used to smoke and I was the RUDEST smoker.  Payback is a BITCH, I am here to testify.

    Still, there's no help at a casino.  They ain't gonna stop smokers there.  Wonder what attendance would be like if there was a smoke -free casino?  Like when they first made non-smoking cars on trains they were surprised that the non-smoking car always sold out while th eother cars were nearly empty.  After fighting no-smoking for years they finally woke up and realized not only did everyone want no smoking but also there was much less cost to clean up a nonsmoking car.  Funny, now everyone just assumes and expects no smoking on trains and planes.  There is no smoking section.  I think in the future people will look at our era and will find it hard to believe that anyone smoked.  I kinda want to apologize to anyone here who is a smoker- I do have BCorg friends who smoke- and I am sorry to be a zealot but... really, its just so stupid.  Smoke pot, that makes sense it gets you high and its edible and there's no known proven health issue, but tobacco is just stupid and has no redeeming qualities.  It makes you ugly, stains your fingers and teeth, its just a marketing ploy, injected with chemicals and sugar making money for large corporations.  Not cool.  Most of you know I spent about 15 years with the Rolling Stones, most especially Keith Richards.  Mick does not allow smoking in the studio, Mick quit smoking and works out and protects his health. (You know Marianne Faithfull had DCIS). But Keith, he's not working out and he's smoking.  People would ask me how I could spend time with Keith who is constantly smoking.  I don't know but I theorize that Keith is like a human filter.  He sucks in the smoke and all the bad stuff stays in him.  We used to say if a mosquito bit Keith, the mosquito would die. 

    But the truth is that I can't stop smokers.  Today walking to doctors appts sometimes some idjit smoker would cut in front of me.  I have 2 choices: run far enough ahead that they dont bother to catch up, and get a little aerobics in or cross the street. 

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  • pkb143
    pkb143 Member Posts: 280
    edited November 2009

    LOL, well, since you cook with your telephone in NYC then perhaps I should move to NYC, as my DH just advised me that I had seriously fallen behind in the 'cooking dinner' category.

    Geez, the nerve of that guy... I just cooked a couple of days ago....

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited November 2009

    Patty:  tell DH that you will be glad to take orders --- for take out food or delivery. 

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  • pkb143
    pkb143 Member Posts: 280
    edited November 2009

    Rachel, I didn't know you were a 'militant non-smoker' but that's good info to have. : )

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  • pkb143
    pkb143 Member Posts: 280
    edited November 2009
    lefty, when DH advised me that HE cooked this morning (paid for breakfast at the casino) and that HE made the ribs the other night (bought at the grocery store), then I told him to hand me the phone and I would be glad to cook tonight. Cool
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  • jrgolomb
    jrgolomb Member Posts: 1,236
    edited November 2009

    THanks all for the laugh.  And that's my comment for the day!  :)

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited November 2009

    Well, I cooked supper tonight - double what we needed, they're gonna have to eat it again tomorrow night.

    As for the smoking thing - it happened a few times that someone was smoking at a wedding hall when I was in the middle of chemo. I would go up to the person and say, "I'M GOING THROUGH CHEMO FOR CANCER NOW AND DON'T NEED TO BE BREATHING THIS SMOKE'". Most of the time people put the cigs out REALLY fast after that but one time the person smoking lit up about 20 minutes later! I told him his memory was deteriorating b/c he smoked and I was NOT nice to him. (Of course, it was a teenager so ddin't expect smart). The good thing about being in Israel is that the kid looked at me and was reminded of his mother. Guaranteed -after the second time I spoke to him, he WILL NEVER do it again. Jewish mothers know how to do guilt.

    And yes, it's forbidden to smoke in wedding halls here, too. 

    Leah

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  • Harley44
    Harley44 Member Posts: 5,446
    edited November 2009

    Rachel,

    Thanks for inviting me to this great thread!!   And, count on me to be late starting it...  now I am behind on all the news!!

    I was asked to give a speech on Saturday, and it went rather well... of course, I told the ladies group to whom I was speaking (that sounds so weird), about my nipple story...  they all laughed.  

    Now I am just looking for someone to help.  I feel so helpless with so many women getting dx'd every day, and I just want to do something to help. 

    I never smoked in my life, but have been exposed to second hand smoke for MOST of my life.  It never used to bother me at all... but after my biopsy, I can't stand it.  My dh gets SO MAD at me, because I can always tell when someone near me lights up.  So now, we don't go out to night clubs very much, and even out of doors, the smoke bothers me...  at the beach, we are always next to someone who is chain smoking!   Yell

    It is nice to be back...  Thanks again. 

    HUGS
    Harley 

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    OK Harley- what's the nipple story?  You know we all wanna know :)  

    Love this emoticon for smokers:YellYellYellYell

    Leah- I am totally in awe that you got anyone to stop smoking in Israel.  And I woulda paid good money to watch you guilt that kid into putting the cigarette out.

    Oh yeah, the Guilt Olympics, only Catholics and Jews can compete :)

    Here's example: Jewish Mother buys you two scarves for your birthday.  You wear one to her house for dinner.  She says, "What's the matter, you don't like the other one?" 

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited November 2009

    Rachel, believe me, the ONLY way to get anyone to stop smoking in Israel is to guilt them, BIG TIME. Well, I have 6 kids so I've had a lot of practice laying on the guilt.

    Leah

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  • Mary22
    Mary22 Member Posts: 779
    edited November 2009

    WOW!!!!!!! WHAT A BUSY THREAD!! Only a little over a day old and four pages! I read them all, but suffer from CRS, so forgive me I ask a question that has already been asked!

    Rachel, Thanks for the invite, I feel special!!!!!!! Now we can have some real fun!!!!

    My dd has been sick, she goes back to school and then is sick the next day. She has strep throat and has been on antibiotics since thursday. I think they finally broke everything up, because this morning she was coughing up alot of phlegm. She felt like she was throwing up, so my MIL watched her for me.

    I am hoping the Yankees win, but a repeat would be nice for the Phillies. It is fun here in the Poconos since we have alot of New Yorkers!

    Dh is watching Dodgeball.

    Have a happy hump day tomorrow!!!!!

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    Mary- about freaking time you showed up! :D

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  • Mary22
    Mary22 Member Posts: 779
    edited November 2009

    I have not been on puter for over a day!! My family all hates me since I said "it would be a happy halloween if it rains" Now they are wondering if I will make Thanksgiving dinner. I told them the truth no!!!!!! Of course I left out that I was going to my MIL for dinner!!! LOL

    I just changed my avatar to my madmen picture!

    I can not even remember why I did not post lastnight or this morning, but as I said I am suffering from CRS!!!!!!

    I have to go lay my sweaters out to dry! and put my 4 yr old dd clothes in the dryer. No I do not do separate loads, but I do a gentle cycle load for my nicer work clothes. Once I get home I put on shorts and a t shirt and go braless!!!!!!!

    ERIN GO BRALESS!!!! LOL, my Irish coming out!

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  • Makratz
    Makratz Member Posts: 12,678
    edited November 2009
    asparagus
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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    Mary-aw geez, now I feel bad for giving you poop about not showing up until now... so here's my madmen avatar and our composite:

     

    Ah thanksgiving... 

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  • Rachel_BC
    Rachel_BC Member Posts: 1,386
    edited November 2009

    omg Linda it really does grow like that out of the  ground?  That's so FUNNY and so phallic!

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