Baby it's cold outside

Thank you so much for the well wishes and prayers for the boringly normal mammo.  I'll be glad to get it over with - stomach is in knots (as I'm sure all of you can relate to).

Our weather guessers have sun all week (thankfully no storms/tornados although tis the season) and 50 today, 60 tomorrow, 70 wed and 77 thurs.  LOL.  Typical Michigan - it will be great if it actually happens.

Meece, who puts rain gauges away in the spring/summer this is when we get the most rain!  The roofing company did come by this morning by 9:00 am and started on the roof. Fortunately I work less than 1 mile from my house and when they needed access to an electerical outlet (about 10), I was able to run home, plug my power cord in the back porch outlet, run it out under the storm door and be back at work in less than 15 minutes . When I got home I wondered how they got that big truck in the front yard , the way it looked like they went is narrow between the house and the brick wall next to the drive and would have been a tight fit to get it backed through. It didn't look like they tried driving around the house due to uneven ground on the backside of the house. My mom called me right before lunch and said she needed a ride from the garage back to her house during lunch so I didn't make it home to see how the work was progressing . It has been cloudy all day and the rainy weather had held off or gone around us.

Sheila

We have had more than 8 inches of rain this month! Our annual rain fall is somewhere about 45inches a year. and our driest months are August/september

Sheila, so glad they could begin your roof.  What a relief - I hope they finish the roof soon.

NM, Hope you can get the Chicken done.  I remember last year at Thanksgiving when most of us had just purchased our Thanksgiving food the electricity went out for 24 hours.  No apparant reason!  Thankfully most of us had generators for our fridges and could save the food.  It's amazing how much we depend on electricity.

Meece, I hope when it isn't raining it is usually sunny and not terribly cloudy.  Sun is so beautiful and wonderful!  I hope your dad had a wonderful birthday.  Happy birthday to him.

We ended up with a high of 46, the sun finally came out around 4:30 so it warmed from 39 to 46.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Well, I get the pleasure of a stereotactic biopsy of the left breast tomorrow (the remaining one).  Doc isn't too worried thank goodness - thinks they're benign calcifications but they thought my BC on the right was benign too.  Hard to believe cancer could live through all the dose dense poison I had last summer but ya never know.  Makes me question not having a bilat. mx.

Have a great evening everyone.

Oh good, I misunderstood, so glad the roof is done.  Not so glad about the yard though, sounds like a mess and a fair amount of work to get it fixed.

I think if this biopsy shows anything precancerous or cancerous I'll have the left one removed.  I'm so upset about this and just can't get the logical part of my mind to calm my emotional part down!!  Think I'd best take a xanax and go to bed.  I wish I wasn't so high strung about this and didn't have to take meds to calm down in order to sleep..

Beautiful Full Moon rising in the East this evening.  My DD tried to get a picture with her super duper camera but her lense angle is to wide (or something like that).  It sure was beautiful though. 

Sounds like my kind of yard!

My dad's concept of a good yard is if it is green and it grows leave it alone! His yard is full of wild violets which some people consider a weed but I think it is beautiful. Actually since my husband started driving truck and my dx of breast cancer we pay a friend who has a mowing service to mow the yard. I have a 6 ft tall bank (about 60-80 degree slope) across the front of the property- too steep to mow, when I moved in it was overrun by wild roses, the city came by 5 yrs ago and scraped off the overgrown roses while trying to clear the ditch line. Since then I have been trying to get some other kind of ground cover to grow without much success. My front yard is in full shade from 3 large trees (2 pin oak and one maple) and the grass barely grows under the trees. But the back yard is totally different, it gets alot more sun and the grass is a beautiful green and grows twice as fast as the front yard. My yard definately won't get the 'Yard of the week' sign but I will not be a slave to my yard.

Sheila 

Sheila, I like your Dad's philosophy.  Thanks for the suggestion NM.  We also have a steep slope in the front of the property so maybe I'll try planting those.  The other option is orange tiger day lilies.  We have about 5 acres of weeds or hay - whatever - and we mow the other 5.  With the warm weather coming starting tomorrow, DH may have to mow this weekend.  Was 58 today and supposed to be 70 tomorrow.  I'm thrilled.

Thanks so much Mary.  It was painful (of course) but the dr. kept giving me as much lidocaine as I needed for comfort - took his time - he got a very good sample that included several of the calcifications.  I should know results on Thursday or Friday.  DH went with me and held my hand throughout.  The dr. began his career as an engineer (before med school) and DH is an engineer so they bonded and the doc showed DH the equipment, x-rays, areas of calcification, etc.  Made me and DH feel much more comfortable during the procedure.  This biopsy today was almost a year to the day of my last biopsy (march 31, 2009).  I'm kind of sick of the de ja vue.

Anyway, sorry to go on so but thanks for listening.  Hope your pool gets warm enough this weekend to swim.  I love to swim and will live vicariously through you!!

Thanks so much Mary.  You've brought tears to my eyes with your comforting words.  I think I'm going to put a new ice pack on, take a pain med and go to sleep with your calming words in my mind.

Good Night.

Thanks so much Sheila for sharing.  The first one I had done was in 2004 (benign) and was an awful experience.  I had an ultrasound guided needle biopsy for my diagnosis last year which wasn't as awful as the first one (actually the biopsy was exactly a year ago today - I think I already mentioned that).  This Stereotactic biopsy yesterday was a much better experience than 6 years ago - also a different dr. (also helped that I took 3 xanax). Thanks for the good thoughts, I should have results by tomorrow or Friday. 

In mid-mich we're at 52 degrees headed for a high of 70!  The sun is shining.  I think I'll be doing a little yard work this weekend.

Thanks so much Pat and Meece.  So glad your results came back benign Pat. I'm feeling very strange regarding results, can't even think of a word to describe it.  If it's negative I'll be so happy and if it's positive I already have the plan in my head and am totally calm about it.  Very strange.

I can't believe Mid Michigan is warmer than Florida!  We're at 72 degrees, reached a high of 75 and tomorrow is supposed to be 80.  It's so lovely here today.

I must not have been on this site for a few days.  Lots happening here.  In a way its kinda nice to learn someone was having a test, it was b-9 and everything is right with the world.  Then I can let my breath out.

Its in the 70s this week but still chilly in the morning.  I love that kind of weather.  My sister talked about plantings, includinga hydranga bush.  Last year my other sister gave me a potted one which I watered faithfully until we could get someone in the plant it for us.  She remarked that this time we were not going to let it die.  It died because she didn't water it - I was hospitalized!

hmm - I think that is quite a plan.  I always say hope for the best and prepare for the worse.

Have a good evening everyone.

Suzette, I was also calm about my decision for bilat. I had thought about it since my 2nd abnormal biopsy and about 2 weeks before my mammogram, my mom called me at work at 4:10 and said I was coming to her house for supper that night and to watch the late showing of Oprah. I didn't pick up that channel with my antenna. She didn't tell me what was on Oprah that day but she wanted me to see it. Renee Syler from CBS morning show was on Oprah talking about her decision for bilat because of family history (father) and multiple biopsies for ADH. Seeing that show helped me see the option for preventative surgery. Unfortunately my next mammo was abnormal (again) and I told my surgeon to take these 'Ticking Time Boobs off'. I was calm about the decision until the night before surgery and I broke down on the phone with my hubby while he was trying to get home for my surgery the next day.

I will get off my soapbox now and report the weather, beautiful today, morning temp 34 afternoon temp 70's and sunny all day. Tomorrow cool in the morning temps back in the 70's and more sun.

Sheila