For Older People with Sense

cyborg/cynthia so sorry you have so many things hitting you at once.. you're doing the right thing, though...taking them one thing at a time.. my thoughts are with you...3jays

Tomorrow, thursday, is my big "Port-be-Gone" day!  

I am a little bit anxious to have any sort of surgery and I am also anxious to have this thing gone!  

I'll check in tomorrow night. I don't have surgery until 1:30 or later. Long time to fast. 

Hugs to everybody. 

Love Ginger

{{{GINGER}}}} We will be holding your cyberhand! YAY, deported!!

Ginger and Cynthia good luck with procedures.  Alyson, please keep up posted on your scan.  Getting ready for Easter in spite of the worst weather imaginable--we even had hail yesterday.  Today it's penguin weather again, with a cold wind howliing.  DH's CT scan was negative!!!!  So happy.  Hoping we can steer clear of Drs. for a while anyway.  Still doing some PT but that's different and much less anxiety provoking than a trip to the old Dr.  Gonna go warm up with my dog, hot water bottle and a nice cup of tea.  Love and healing to all.  Dragon

Barbe, the reason I am keeping my door locked is because the little Hitlers that drop in on me, who hold the 'yea' or 'nay' to my having a breeding and boarding licence will no doubt manage to call and catch me before I have time to manoever my 3 decrepit dogs out of sight...EVEN THO' any dogs over 9 years old do not count towards the licence in any way. I got 'caught' 20 years ago, again looking after a very old dog in its last weeks.  I had a swoop from a vet, the head honcho from Animal Welfare, who went through every animal I had on my premises. This was followed by a visit from our Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to  Animals.They could find nothing wrong at all, apart from this one little old dog. They took no action, but suggested I had the dog in question put down. I wouldn't do this.

I could keep these very old dogs in a small room off the kitchen, where I am not around much....BUT.... I like them with me, so I can talk to them, and they can still feel part of the family, keep giving them titbits, and just be there with them to help them get out into the garden when they need to go. I don't want then shut away alone for the last few weeks/months of their lives. I worry now that the people who grant these licences, and I've had both my licences 44 years, that the next thing they'll come up with is that I am 'too old ' to have all the responsibilities I have with the dogs...maybe I am wrong, but I don't want to give them any ammunition !

I nipped out to the supermarket today, mainly for some vinegar, and what did I come back without??? !!!  My memory is getting worse. I make notes, then lose them !

I actually made it to the dentists surgery today, 2nd time I've tried. I never thought I would manage it, as I am scared to death of dentists....He looked at my teeth and shook his head, then laughed. I need lots of work, my teeth are crumbling thanks to Arimidex. Dentist said its 'bad stuff' for teeth. Don't know if I can go thru' with it, but I signed up for, and paid in advance for, the full course of treatment...but with the proviso IF I don't turn up for sceduled appointments I will pay the cost of the broken appointment, OR appointments as the case WILL be. !! The receptionist made me mad, she was bustling about trying to make my 1st appointment for me, all  'don't worry, there's nothing to be scared of ' Could have squashed her ! Dentist has booked me an appointment with a hypnotherapist, who will come to my home and 'talk ' to me.He specialises in nervous dental patients, and people who want to stop smoking. THEN he went and spoiled it for me at the back of his leaflet saying he did 'previous life regression'....hope he's not a mumbo jumbo man !! Anyway will see him before I get to the stage of dental treatment. If I mention previous life regression to DD she will be here as fast as she can to see him, she likes anything like that.

It is the time of year for our Spring Flower Show, the 2nd biggest in UK, and only 35 miles from me, but, for the first time in 30-35 years I am not going to be able to walk around. I might make 30 minutes, but that'll be all, so it'll be a waste of the entrance fee for me to try and make it. The only way I might do it would be to take G/daughter, then I can lean on her stroller !! Nowadays she's not wanting to be sat in a stroller all day, and I can't chase her, so looks like its stay at home for me this year.Could always borrow the stroller, and put a doll in it, then I'll be getting myself locked up. hehe.

Chrissy...how is your daughter...sounds like she's having what I am waiting for, hope all went well.

Isabella. 

Alyson - let us know what the results were when you get back.

Chrissy - How is DD2 doing after her surgery?  Hope everything went well.

Hope everyone has a restful evening.  Amy Jo 

Marybe, you're right!  I should be happy things are so green.  It's supposed to warm up next week!

My goodness, we certainly are a chatty bunch! I'm not on for a few days and then it takes me over an hour to catch up!

At least it's fun - expecially Kathy's grandson's picture.

I am super busy now - Passover starts Monday night. We don't have ANY leavened products AT ALL, and clean all of it out of the house. That means EVERY CRUMB. So the house is turned inside out and upside down and the kitchen is scrubbed and cleaned like you wouldn't believe. It's worth it once the holiday starts but not easy! This year the timing is good for me. I've been having dizziness (vertigo) so the onc sent me for a CT scan of my head. I had it March 31, and he told me he was leaving for the U.S. that day for 10 days. Since I don't want to call for the results (I'd rather hear it, good or bad, from him) I figured the beginning of this week I'd know. So I called to find out he's been delayed and won't be back until Sunday. The word "stress" doesn't begin to describe it. However, since I've been so busy with the cleaning/preparations I don't spend a lot of time worrying.

Whatever the results, I'll call Sunday. At least I'll know whatever it is before the holiday.

Leah

Good to see you again, Leah.  Thanks for the nice comment re my GS.  He's a hoot and the light of our lives.  It sounds like this is a good time for you to be busy, waiting for results.  Praying for good ones for you, and Alyson, and waiting to hear about Chrissy's daughter too.

Dragon, that's great news about your DH's scan!  

3jays, hope your knees improve soon and life can return to your normal!  The new walker sounds like it'll be better and easier to transport, too, if you can get it.

Today was our 31st anniversary and it was a good day.  Went to a produce place in SC and got more strawberries and had planned to go out for steaks tonight, but after having a wonderful lunch at a country buffet where we majored in fried chicken and homemade biscuits, decided we'd just eat those strawberries.  Worked out especially well because DD stopped by with cheesecake and we had something to go under those strawberries!

Checking back later to see if Alyson found out anything.

Kathy

Isabelle, I had a Pomeranian who lived 13 yrs but she had a stroke 3 yrs b4 she died. She still knew everyone but she couldnt move anything but her head. I felt so sorry for her but she seemed content. I did not have her put down. I did have to put down my Irish setter/ beagle mix and that haunts me to this day even tho it simply had to be done. I'm sure those old dogs are happy to be with you. 

My tomatoe plants are about 14 inches tall and all look great. Now to sweet talk hubby into tilling up enuff area so I can plant some cukes and radishes.

Oh for those who didnt see my post about my PET results............................................................. .I am a NERD. No Evidence of Recurrent Disease. I was told that NED and NERD are friends. For the first time in my life..I am glad to be called a NERD LOLOL.Hugs , Mazy

Hi all. Doing a little happy dance. Swelling in chest fibrous adhesions, no wonder my shoulder and collar bone get so sore and are hard to move. So Mazy I am a NERD as well.

Going to make Shoo Fly Pie this weekend. Have several recipes so will have to see which one I can do. Had it in PA last year when we visited my Aunt. 

Don't know what we will be having for dinner tonight. I have been too uptight all day to think about it.

Trisha my dahlias are still flowering but must start cleaning up the garden over the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for all the hand holding its great to know that there are people thinking about you from so far away.

So happy to read everyone's news. It's so nice to share....

Sounds like you had a wonderful Anniversary, Kathy, My DH & I will celebrate our 38th in May. I can't remember living at home, it seems like eons ago. I had so much fun with my Mom, she would have turned 78 this last Tuesday. She's been gone 33 yrs now, and I still miss her terribly.

Enough of the past, I need to look ahead!

Cleaning my house extremely well, from the baseboards to swiffering the floors, to ceiling dust bunnies. My DD#2, her DH & my 2 beautiful G-children are coming this Saturday for 8 days! I had to laugh, Isabella, at a previous post of yours where you talked about having to go to bed earlier to get up earlier because your G-DD gets up early. Me, too! They are up between 6-7 so I have to be up early to get my shower done before they want breakfast & to play. Won't be able to be on the computer as late as usual, darn!

dragon ~ Very good news re: your DH's scan. That is wonderful!

Chrissy ~ Hope your DD is doing well.

Well, I didn't expect to be so chatty. Hope I didn't bore anyone!

Marybe ~ Hugs ♥

Hi to Barbara, Maryjo, 3jays, Alyson, Barbe, & everyone!

Cyborg ~ I know your head is spinning, we'll all be here when it settles down. And, believe me, it will settle down. Ring-around-the-rosie doesn't last forever, it just seems that way.

Marybe, ♥

Hugs to everyone!

Mazy,  So glad you posted that about NERD.  There are often women who post and say they are NED, women who are Stage lV with bone mets and I always wonder how they can be NED when I was told a long time ago once you have bone mets it always shows up in the scans because it takes years and years for a bone to heal and even a healed fracture still shows in an xray or scan....so I am thinking if it shows, even if it is not active, that is evidence which is he E part of NED, right?  But NERD which means no evidence of recurrent makes sense.  See, you are never too old and I learned something this morning.  Well, I am off to work and this afternoon I go to the cataract specialist to have my eye measured since my left eye is scheduled to be done next Friday.  Hope all you gals have a wonderful day....the sun is shining here so far, but rain is on the horizon.  It certainly is going to be a green Spring!!