For Older People with Sense

Hello all - another Aussie joining this group - Hey Chrissy, how are you?  I've been a bit busy lately with coming back to work full time.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.  I live on a beautiful piece of land 45 minutes south of Australia's capital city, Canberra.  It's just so peaceful and has been a great place to recuperate from surgeries and chemo.

Finished all my chemo now - just doing Herceptin for 12 months and Arimidex for 5 years.  So far I've been very lucky and had very few side effects from either of them.  Just a bit of stiffness.  Keeping my fingers crossed that all se's will stay away.  I had a pretty bad time with chemo - so now enjoying getting my life back. :-)

Trish

hey chrissy! ya, not much sleep here..was knocked out a coup;la days with the tummy thing, so am on here, and reading my new series of books..no matter if its' not good or not, can't sleep at night, start about 4-5am here.. good to see ya lovey...    3jays

Morning gals. Had a heck of a day at work. Not sure if I really want to keep working but I have to have the insurance. COBRA would cost me around 1200.00/month. YIKES!! And I am too young for Medicare.  C'est la vie.

Looking forward to a better day today. Couldn't be worse than yesterday!

Hope everyone has a wonderful se-free day!!

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Welcome Trish Anne-another awesome Aussie!! Chrissy gorgeous shot!! And 3Jays-Why did I NOT get an email from you telling me you were ill with tummy-I cannot cook but i can do cyber chicken soup!! And yeah, Caerus, this little bird is outrageous-my Mom used to go outside and try to out yell it!! To no avail and for an Irish woman with a big mouth that is saying a lot! i miss my mom so much but she was so ill at the end and just could not live life the way she wanted too. My bucket list includes Australia and NZ-yeah i got sucked into the oprah thingy downunder-good God that woman knows no bounds-not sure how i feel about all of the bru-haha over her and Gayle doing what we normal women do every day-and with cancer yet!!! I am goinng down to MY own beach here on the Atlantic and plant a sail with all of our names on it!! i think that would be a wonderful project!! And I called the Trappist monestary where i did my thesis work and i wanted to let all know that the monks will be saying special Mass for us all-I am not Catholic by any means but these are true men of poverty and humility and i feel so blessed to have been and continue to be a part of their lives. i talked with Father David this morning which is just so cool cause they are on a monestary out in utah-it is the most gorgeous place ever!!!! Man, I am still coming off the roids from the hospital stay and cannot sit still and weather is really awful today-so i am sort of banging off the walls. Big hugs to all this morning, SV

Good morning everyone..

Hi Bernie Ellen..and Tekla and all.

 Cheryl, so are so close by..

Great to see SV  up and at em

Welcome to Trish..

Leah, thanks for the comment..yes, it was because I live in Southern California=SoCal

3Jays, my Chemo Associated Cirrhosis acts just like the other kind..once the liver

disease gets to a certain point,it can not regenerate..unfortunately..

Onward and upward..Barbara, how is the green flash?

love the roses Chrissy..

Oooh, Lisa, I would love to go there. How gorgeous.

Lisa, this is beautiful.  Wish I was there right now. Dragon

Hello and welcome to the new posters and to everyone else.   Thanks for the flowers - rain here and a bit cold.   I turn the heat up, then down again.   This apartment has forced air heat/air cond and I will eventually get used to it after all the years in a house with hot water baseboard heat.   IF I had some firewood, a fire in the fireplace would be perfect today.    

Sante Fe is a lovely place.  SV, you are one busy lady.   Please don't chastize me for forgetting some of your names - old age, CRS, PSD, chemo brain and whatever else you want to add....

Eye doctor has scheduled me for left eye cataract surgery on May 2.   A month or so later, the right eye.    He said that one place cancer can metastasize is the eye.   He has diagnosed 2 men with lung cancer who did not know they had it.    Interesting.   Adding (with a smile and sign of relief) --  he says he see NO evidence of cancer in my eyes.  

Keep warm, keep happy and keep in touch.   Hugs, Nancy   

This morning I saw this next door

and this was our hillside..

Evening all, and welcome all newbies. I haven't posted here in 2 days and there seem to be new girls popping up all over...so nice for more of you to join our group.

I am still stuck in a sort of half world of most of my pc having shut itself down, and the remaining bit of it that's working I am accessing via MSN (I think its called)  I can get no emails at all, and can't send messages on Facebook to DD. I really wanted to send her a message tonight to wish her pig well !!! She's having him castrated in the morning, and is like a mother hen with the big lump. The pig is about 16 months old now. He was bought as a 'micro' pig....tho' no-one would listen to me that he would grow to be normal sized....and grow he has. He must weigh 10/11 stones now....micro pig my eye !! Anyway he is becoming a VERY big nuisance, and slightly aggressive, so I suggested she took him for the chop. He should have been 'done' at 3 days old! No doubt I will hear her tale of woe tomorrow. 

Alyson I was just thinking of my 2 children when they were newborns, I had them out, either with me for a walk, or outside in the 'fresh air' if we weren't going off walking. 'fresh air' was the thing in those days ! I had the most beautiful baby carriage, a Silver Cross....I believe Madonna had one for her last one! I broke the bank to get that pram, but it was just totally no good living on a farm, and always having to be scrubbing the mud off the wheels. My DD just got an old second hand carrying cot, and set of collapsible wheels. By the time she was born, she spent a good deal of her life in her pram sitting at the edge of a field all day, while I went off round and round tractoring....just giving her a quick wave each time I passed by. I got all the old girls muttering at me for not giving up my work and looking after my children 'properly' !!!

I had a trip out to Ikea today. Never intended to go, but I went out for the newspapers, and it was such a nice afternoon , and I was reasonably tidy, so I just kept on driving, and ended up at Ikea. Only bought a couple of wicker baskets for the downstairs toilet, but got half a dozen really unusual plants at very little cost. Ikea plants here are always different, and quite cheap, I got 2 very large vrieseas, and some succulents...I have a small glass porch on my front door, and its like a little greenhouse. I can grow allsorts of hot house plants in there, and they really flourish because its North facing, so tho' its hot it doesn't get full hot sun to scorch everything. 

SV are you OK ...I hope you are looking after yourself. Don't rush anything, eat well and do as you please 'til you're on your feet again, you really don't want to be back in hospital again.

Lisa, pleased your liver is going along OK, it must be a worry having to keep an eye on it all this time after dx.

Nearly forgot. I was reading our local paper last week and it was rattling on about breast cancer, as they all do from time to time, and it was advising women to KEEP OFF THE INTERNET, the local hospital actually has it printed out on their 'care' leaflets now. It was telling the bc patients to ONLY listen to the Macmillan nurses ( our cancer care nurses) and not the RUBBISH printed on the internet. If it hadn't been for this site I wouldn't have known a thing about bc. I was told my bmx was all I needed to 'cure' me. That it won't come back in my case, and there was no need to 'be so over the top' about having blood draws and blood pressure taken in my 'bad' arm. I have tried twice to tell them they are wrong, but just wasn't listened to. This is how behind everyone else we are over here. I was also told that Arimidex WAS NOT causing all the se's I was complaining about, and that I was the only one who was complaining. This is all so wrong, but no-one will take any notice of what I say....after all I am NOT a medical person !!!!

Right shower and bed for me, its going up midnight here and I am tired tonight...going to bed a bit earlier as its clean sheets...one of my little luxuries !!! If I was rich I would have clean sheets every night...there's nothing nicer than climbing into a nice newly made up, wrinkle free bed with beautiful smelling clean sheets. 

Isabella. 

LIsa

Your hillside is scrumptious!!!  that fuscia color  - just divine.

Thank you Barbara for your borgenvilia ( sp???) - MY favorites - leaves that are flowers- and the colors.

Lisa, expect you know how much you've been praised as a photographer on "Creativity" thread