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Thank you, Jane. So far, this is all she knows: IDC, Stage 1, Grade 2. She doesn't know yet for sure if there's any lymph node involvement. I'm praying not. I HATE bootface!!!
Love and hugs,
Karen
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Happy New Year!!!
It's going to be a good one!
That's as close as I'll get to champagne and celebration...I just had a supper of bean soup made from the Christmas ham bone (yummy!!!) and finished laundry and cleaning. Devin is coming to spend the night. Somehow, I am totally satisfied with the way the New Year has arrived for me. I am content.
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I'm sorry about your friend, Karen. I like the stage I Grade 2...I'll be thinking of her along with you.
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so sorry to hear about your cousin! Does it ever stop?! My prayers are with her.
Cathi - Ella looks beautiful, so glad you had a good family time this season! and really glad you are finding the quiet routine time again!
My ds just left w/dh to drive back to Georgia (he was here for 6 wks); dd is home on school break for a few weeks but she spends so much time visiting friends and back at school for some of the break for the gymnastics meets - its like she isn't here much. I am looking forward to the quiet again.
Barbe - how are you, I haven't seen you around much - although I have not been around much either (
) hoping all is ok!!!Nancy, I missed something, but understand the house is being sold? Hope everything is ok and this is a good thing. Hugs
Happy happy new year!!! 2010 - who would have thought? The date seems so futuristic - wasn't The Jetson's set in 2010?
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Wow! You may be right, Elaine. If so, where are the flying cars? LOL!!
Thanks for the kind words regarding my cousin. She's at that horrible waiting and uncertainty stage. I talked to her for about an hour last night and again today for over an hour. She so scared about caring for her kids and keeping her job as a teacher if she has to do chemo. More than likely, at her age (she'll be 40 in a few weeks), she'll have to go the chemo route. I tried to reassure her, but you all know how worrisome the unknown can be.
Hope you're all having a great start to the new year!
Hugs,
Karen
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Happy New Year to Everyone!
My visiting relatives leave tomorrow. Things will be too quiet. It's been great having family meals, telling stories of our youth, listening to the cousins play Wii.
Elaine, the house is part of my father's estate, left to all seven kids. No one can afford to take the house alone and buy the others out. So it will be sold so everyone can get their share. I'll look for a nice condo. But if I won the lottery, I'd buy the house and make it a "family trust" (I'd still buy my own condo, lol) so that my out of town sibs could come and stay in our old home.
Karen, that is so sad about your cousin. I hope it's very locallized...no nodes.
Well, I barely saw the Times Square ball drop before I rolled over and went to sleep. Still, staying up that late took a toll on me. My circadian cycle still had me wake up at 5:30am...nothing I could do about it. I tried to stay in bed, but only made it until 7:30. It's past my bedtime again, so 'night all.
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Karen, sending prayers for you and all. Rotten Cancer, will there ever be a cure.
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Hi everyone! Happy New Year! Wow , I haven't been here in a while , by have kept up with some of you on facebook. Our baby Ella is bbbbbbbbeautiful! I am sooo happy. And Cathi , I hope the little problems she does have will heal soon.
Lisa , hey girlfriend! I hate not having talked to you here! I know you are busy , but not on facebook , I want to know what is happening with you. I'm so glad Christmas with your daughters was wonderful. Such a special blessing and lots of beautiful memories made. Now , whats this about a "guy"!? Come on now , you must tell us all , OK , well , almost all.lol Where did you meet? Age? Hair , eyes, height? Children? Just a few questions!lol Fill us in! Hows work? Hows dad? Hows Oliver? And does he like your new "McDreamy"? Did you two do something special for New Years? OK , enough questions. But its just been so long. Looking forward to hearing from you.xxxx
Nettie , Aww , I'm so sorry you are feeling bad. I didn't take tax. so I don't know what to say. After my last chemo , about 6 wks later , my hair started coming in. I did loose my lashes and eyebrows too. They came back quickly. Sorry to hear of the nails too. I know some of the ladies on this thread had tax. and I don't think anyone is hairless or nailless. Hang in there. Before long , you will be posting picks of your new hair and nails! And don't be surprised if your hair is curly when it does come back! Love ya Nettie!xxxx
OK everyone , I know I shared on facebook , but for those of you that don't post there , or may have missed it , My son is now engaged! The Saturday after Thanksgiving he proposed. She said yes , and they are planning a Nov. 11th , 2011 wedding. He will have graduated from college 4 months before that. They seem happy , I hope they are. But am glad they are having a longer than usual engagement period. I'll try and post a pick of them...
Adam and Ashley. He is sooo handsome , and she is very lovely , inside and out!
OK ladies and UB , I have to go , but I will be back to tell what is going on with me. Love you all!
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Oh Karen , so sorry about your cousin. I would be sooooo mad. I hope it wasn't a mis-dx , but a cyst + the bootface. Praying for b9nodes! And tell her , when she is ready , there is a whole "family" waiting to walk with her down the yellow brick road! Love you Karen.xxxx
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Judie , I LOVE what you did with your "towhee"!xxxx
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Mel - that is an absolutely wonderful photo of your gorgeous son and his very pretty fiancee! She does look sweet. I hope they will be really happy. I'm sure they will. oxoxox
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Mel, 11/11/11, how could they go wrong! hehehehehee
A beautiful, joyful looking couple, congrats!
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Congrats Mel, I did miss that on FB, your son - HA-CHA-CHA -
He is a cutie for sure - just like his mom. Barbe is right 11/11/11 great date. -
Great picture Sheila! Great news! I hope she's good enough for him...he's a special guy (like his mom)! Love the date.
As I write this my 20-year-old BABY boy is somewhere in the sky halfway to Iceland, then on to London. I won't see him again for 8 MONTHS! It's a wonderful thing. It's a scary thing. It's been planned for a long time. Oh, the drama of life!
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Happy new year to all, I brought in the New Year with my Sister. She got off work at Little Caesar's at 8:00, she brought cheezy bread with bacon home, I went to her house and we had a wine cooler (my little indulgence) and watched Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix. It finished just before midnight and we watched the ball drop at times square. My hubby called and wished me a happy new year (he got home at 8:00 pm on the 1st. I carefully drove home (less than 2 miles) and went to bed.
Yesterday at church we had some excitement, while coming out of the choir before the preaching, my mother stumbled on the step (heel caught the bottom step) she fell forward and she hit the front pew with her face. Her glasses cut the bridge of her nose and she had a slight nose bleed. She at first refused to go to the emergency room but asked my sister to take her home (my father was at home with pnumonia). As they got home, my mom couldn't put weight on her right foot, she then agreed to let my sister take her to the ER. She got a hairline fracture in a bone in her foot as well as broke her nose. She is to follow-up with the ear-nose-throat doctor for her broken nose an the foot specalist this week.
Judi I know about letting your child go away and not be able to see them for months at a time. I went for almost 18 months without seeing my son.
I do need to get back to work.
Sheila
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Sheila, how horrid for your mom! Give her a gentle hug from me to her.....
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Hugs to mom Shelia, what a crazy accident. Tell her to rest.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX. Back to the DR @ 2:30 W/Ella and Landen for that matter, Landen has a nasty cold now, Ella's nose is some better but now she is choking gagging on this nasty thick green mucus and of coarse she can't get it out herself, poor little shit, Landen sounds like a 50 year old man who has smoked to much, so raspy and he too is full of gook - tis the season for colds.
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Wow, Sheila! Your poor mom! Gentle cyber hugs going out to her from me as well.
I hope that those poor babies start feeling better very soon, Cathi. I hate when they are so congested and uncomfortable and there's very little you can do for them. Hopefully, their doc can help.
Love and hugs to all,
Karen
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One of the ladies at church has offered to take a chicken casserole to them tonight for supper. I called mom about 10:00 am this morning to see how she was doing, she said she was just sitting down, she was straightening the den (using the walker to get around) so Patsy wouldn't see it a mess. Her house isn't messy (mine is). I told her to sit down and keep her foot up. Patsy wouldn't say anything about the condition of her house, she probably would even ask Mom if she could sweep or do the dishes just to help mom out! I told mom to call me when she got her appointment with the foot doctor and I would take her, dad doesn't need to be out in the frigid temps we are having right now with his pnumonia. She said that they would be fine going by themselves. (I wonder where I got my stubborn streak from?)
Sheila
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Sheila - so sorry to hear about your mother's accident. I hope she's feeling much better soon.
Cathi - those poor little babies with their colds - I hope the doctor was able to do something. A cold is especially unpleasant for very young babies.
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mel - how wonderful (and nice that they will wait until after he graduates - so much going on to do all that at the same time!). What a sweet picture.
Sheila - so sorry to hear about Mom and Dad.
Cathi - hope the little ones get better soon, so scarey with the little ones.
Hugs and happy new years to all
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Where is everyone???? How's your mom doing, Sheila? How are the babies, Cathi?? Better keep them bundled up with that threat of snow you guys are experiencing. That is just wild!!
Hugs to all,
Karen
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I'm here, my mom has an appointment today (previously scheduled) with her GP. I offered to drive her but she said that dad would take her, the dr might want to check dad out again after 1 week on antibiotics for pnumonia. She has her first appointment with the foot specialist tomorrow afternoon and ear nose & throat on Friday or Monday. She said yesterday that she had two black eyes, she did say that she was trying to stay off her foot more.
the weather here is crazy, the average high for today is 50 and average low is 30. we started out again this morning at 18 and expect to get to 30 for the high. This has been going on for almost a week. They are also calling for snow tomorrow, where I am at it is hard to say if we will get any accumulation, I am on the boundry line between accumulation and flurries only. I have brought my fleece shrug to the office to keep my arms and neck warm without the binding of sweater sleeves.
Sheila
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Happy New Year to all!
Sheila, I hope your mother listens to the doctor and her very smart daughter! I know it takes longer for you to heal as you get older, but if she is generally in good health, she should be OK.
It's so cold here that I've resorted to a longer route to my office just so I can stay underground and out of the cold wind. My office building has an entrance to a subway line downstairs, but I have to take another subway from the bus station to access it rather than just hopping on a line that's more direct (but drops me off three block away). So if you remember your geometry, I have to make a right angle rather than follow the hypotenuse.
Mel, they look so happy! I'm not trying to rush my kids to the altar, but I'd love to plan or go to a wedding.
Karen, Are you close to moving into the house, yet? Have you posted any new pics of it on FB? I'd love to see how the inside is shaping up.
Judy, just as your son is starting out on a new adventure, mine is returning. I'm happy to say he's coming back East in about two weeks. Sad that he didn't find permanent work in California, but the experience he had will look good on his resumé, and it's always just a plane ride away if something turns up. But I'm feeling selfishly glad that he will be closer for a while. I'm having serious empty nest issues.
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Im here freezing to death as many know from FB- LOL. This is the worst cold snap (such a log time) I have known in my 11yrs in Fla. But I know it could be worse - Jaclyns car was covered with frost this AM when she went out to take Alexcis to school, Alexcis was amazed, jumping all around - YEAH IT SNOWED. We haven't had any frost right here on the beach, the water saves us from that, but our wind chill factors of the gulf are nasty, at least the sun is out today, makes it all seem better I guess, no real relief in sight until mid week (next week) guess we are looking at a nasty, perhaps even colder weekend. ENOUGH ALREADY.
Landen appears to be doing better, Ellas Nose is better, the DR (oh I really like him - GREAT with kids) says although she is having problems breathing - she is not in DISTRESS, he showed us what to look out for, what her nostrils and chest would look like, aside from steaming her keeping her upright etc, etc, nothing more they can do at this point, Just spoke W/Amanda, she thought she was doing better yesturday but now again this AM she is choking and gagging on the mucas and her nose is all dry again, of coarse having to have the heat on 24/7 does not help with that.
Shelia hoping mom and dad are better.
LOVE TO ALL.
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Mom went to the orthopedic doctor today for her foot. The fractured bone is splintering some and she is going in for surgery in the morning to fix the splinter. I am taking her Monday morning to the ENT doctor because dad has a conflicting appointment for his eye exam and can't take her. I will let you know how things turn out.
Sheila
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Sheila
I'll be thinking of you and your Mom... Please keep us posted.
Hugs
Harley
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Thanks for the update Sheila I was getting worried when we didn't hear back from the other day! Are they putting a pin/rod/metal in?
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Wednesday she was at her family doctor for a check-up, she had felt some congestion building in her chest and wanted it checked out. She didn't get to the ortho until today. when she called she just said that they were going to fix the splinter, I didn't think to ask how. She did say that the surgery would be about 1 hour. The fractured bone is the small one that runs up to the little toe and she said that it looked like a splinter on a piece of wood.
Sheila
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Yikes!
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