November 2009-Starting Chemo

It is slow going, but I am getting better....sloooowly. Just sitting and breathing wears me out. I am on house arrest, won't be able to work this weekend, frustrating and scary.

Glad that you're home, Melinda! Stay out of that nasty weather...are they calling for snow? We are tonight and tomorrow.

Sue, good luck with your appt. Has it quit raining over there?

Well, saw my breast surgeon today. He says I look great and am cleared for plastic surgery. I see that dr. on Jan 13. Boobs...here I come!

Sue, so glad that you are not in the flood zone.  Every time i see the news I thing of you and JOJO...

Linda, yah for boobs...

Melinda, Sue is right get that hunky boy toy to come and pamper you for a bit....foot rubs help everything, that and chocolate.  Take care.

The planning is all done. The stupid rad onc was marking the wrong scar for boosts so I had to point out the correct scar. Then he mentioned DCIS, so I told him politely it was IDC as well - good grief!!!! Lucky he's not my regular one - she's on holiday. I only needed one new tatoo as they have the others from last time. The worst part is I don't start until the 17th!!! I managed to get a free parking spot in the street like last time, so I saved on the parking fee but got rained on, on the way back to the car. I got there nearly half an hour early and they took me straight in - so that was good. I just wish I was starting sooner to get it over with.

We have no water problems as I lived here in Brisbane when we had big floods in 1974 - I was quite certain about where I wanted to live - on a hill!!!! There has been some flash flooding here in the city but the worst is out in the country and up north. Maybe if the idiots built a few dams they wouldn't have the problem.

Sue

Linda - doesn't that involve a long time in surgery - it really scared me when I was reading about it. You are so brave to have them off - I just couldn't do it because I'm a big chicken.

Melinda - Glad you're taking it easy. What are you working on now? I almost finished my big cross stitch of a Japanese lady but have started a new one because some of the top stitching is ridiculous and might just not do it. A friend gave me the new one but it's a bit on the beginner side so not 100% to my taste. Still, it keeps me busy while watching TV.

It's absolutely pouring rain right now. Lucky I drained some water out of the pool yesterday. Hope it passes soon as I wanted to go and get the weekly groceries done.

Sue

Linda : it was the time in surgery that put me off - too long. I rejected having my thyroid out as it was 3 or 4 hours. Scary stuff, but if you get nice new boobs - go for it.

Had to drain the pool again when I got home. I bet I'll have to get heaps of salt next time I get it tested. The rain seems to have gone for now, but boy what a down pour we had.

Sue

Sue, you may as well just empty that pool...save yourself some work...Do you normally see this much rain this time of year?

Alicia, I have days like that too...I find with me it has to do with the weather...After a day of yucky weather, i get grumpy...I guess i have that SAD disease.  The only thing that helps is potato chips and onion dip...yum. Just thinking about chips makes me happy, and hungry.

Talk about funk...Just got home from taking DD back to college.  For some reason, it gets harder instead of easier for both of us.  what's up with that?  I guess going through what I did last year showed us the fragility of life in general.

I took her back yesterday, we shopped for groceries, unpacked tons of stuff, I spent the night with her in her apt. (that was fun), and drove back today.  Will miss her, but she comes home for spring break the end of Feb.  

Started the trip back in snow and just missed a 52 car incident on I95.  It slowed us down about 30 mins. but at least we were behind it and not in it.  Scary.  All because some idiots around here don't know how to drive in snow.  :P 

Back to my regular tomorrow. 

Sue:  hope draining the pool is the worst that you've had to deal with.

Michele:  after reading about chips and onion dip, I'm on my way to the pantry to get some!!  Thanks for the idea!

Happy Sunday. Nette 

Just checking in, feeling a little better everyday but still so tired feeling. I guess the pneumonia got me in the radiated lung tissue so it is very sloooow going to get better. I went to the grocery store to get stocked up for the snow and it just took everything I had to get through with the shopping and unpacking.

We had about 5-6 inches of snow fall last night. Glad I don't have anywhere to be!

Wishing everyone well with monsoons, moody DH's, boobitude, mmmmm chips and dip.

Melinda - glad to hear you are on the mend. I did some reading on it and pneumonia can be a complicaton of radiation up to 14 weeks later. Snuggle up and enjoy being housebound!!!

Still raining - devastating flash flooding up on the range about 2 hours west of here yesterday. Now our city is under threat from flooding - lucky I live on a hill

Sue

Still raining - had to show DH how to drain the pool - he had never learned how to do it.

It's very sad 8 people were killed in the flash flood west of here yesterday - 59 people are missing. There was no warning at all. They are evacuating towns west of here and some suburbs in the city.

The dam is full and they have to release water, so they expect bad floods in lower lying areas of the city on Thursday.

Sue

Thanks Philippa - lucky we're safe but so sad for the loss of life.

Sue

It's just terrible - a couple of small towns were totally devastated - houses were washed away with people in them. The rain has stopped for now but Brisbane will still have some flooding when the water reaches us.