For Older People with Sense

Ducky, pleased you're done with rads...its been a long slog for you.

Raining cats and dogs here, really tropical downpours on and off all day...no complaints from me, the garden needs it badly.

I'm having a hot flash episode....have been in the shower 3 times , and once in the bath for a long soak, all in the last 24 hours. Am told its Arimidex !!! I need to catch up with Arimidex and kick its backside. Its given me Osteopenia,calf and thigh cramps, killed my teeth, and I blame it for just abour every other thing I have passing thru' my body! If it weren't so cold I would be standing outside in my next to nothings now, enjoying this heavy rain. Anything to take the sweats away ! I've only been out of the shower a couple of hours, and I can feel sweat oozing up into my hair, and trickling down into my eyes, and down my back. I'm supposed to be watching out for an eclipse of the moon. It is going to turn red for an hour about now, but won't be able to see a thing with sweat running into my eyes, and with this weather.....too cloudy.

Tomorrow is my next appointment with my psychotherapist...I am going to make it my last if I can pluck up the courage to tell her. We are both wasting one anothers time, I can't ever see her helping me. She has sent me some short video's to watch, and to watch repeatedly she tells me, of people having injections. This is only making me worse, but she tells me if I watch it long enough, I will feel easier about it, thus allowing myself to be given jabs without a care in the world !...... Sorry, won't work like this for me, lady !!

AmyJo, I hope you can continue to keep your pain at bay with the sort out you've had with your dr. There's nothing so wearing as bad pain.

I'm just starting with another flare with my fibromyalgia...its been building up 2 days now. Can always tell when its going to flare...but...I can't get any stronger pain meds...so I am told. My GP is retiring this next week, so am hoping to be able to see if another dr will be able to help me out....what I will do now is just get my head down and go back to bed 'til it passes. .....I have to keep getting up to let dogs in and out, and feed various small furry things, but if I can get laid in bed listening to the radio, and relax a while, it will pass me by quicker than if I get up and try to do something. 

Right, I really have to go jump in the shower again....my washer will be doing overtime tomorrow, it's not just my clothes, but my bed linen too that has to be washed when I get like this.

Isabella.

Isabella, I don't get it. You can shove your arm up a cow's vagina, but you can't take a needle. Think sister!!! You have a wire crossed somewhere. UNCROSS it!!!!! hehehehehehhhehe

Chrissy, glad it's all healing. That all happened kind of quick didn't it? It seems to have gone so fast (for me anyway!)

Ding dong, ducky!!! The rads is dead!

Be careful ducky...the rad treatments are still going on in your body even though you are finished. Treat yourself well for a while longer until you know where you are at.

ducky - Barbe is right about the rads still going on in your body. Take the number of days you were doing the rads, double it and that is approximately how long it will take to recover from the rads.  And that is just a rule of thumb, some take longer and some it is over sooner.  Take care of yourself and take the time to rest and take naps when you need them.

Isabella - hope the hot flashes start to get better soon.  Are they giving you anything for them like Effexor (sp.) ?  Also hope the new GP you get will be able to give you something to help with the pain.  I know I am feeling a lot betther now that my pain is under control. {{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}} 

Well done Ducky, as others have said you must still take things easy.

I must get to the gym - it is  a realeffort as my whole body is in agony. Joints are bad as is my back but I must exercise otherwise I will seize up completely. Sorry to be a moaner this morning but it is really getting at me and I have so little energy to do the things I want to do. I am off the a pain specialist in a couple of weeks but feel a bit sceptical about this. I really want to know why I am in pain not just how to control it. Once I know what the pain is I usually can deal with it. 

Hope everyone is having a great day. At least it is Friday here so DH will be around to help over the weekend.

Big hugs

((((Leah))))

Leah - I have found it is easier to deal with a loss like your friend and Elizabeth if I try to remember all the good or funny thngs they did that had an impact on my life.  It is more uplifting to celebrate a life lived and to realize they are in a place of no more pain from thier cancer.   Remember we are all here for you and each other as we recall all that she gave to us on our own journey.  {{{{{HIGS}}}}} 

duckyb - It is okay to be angry sending you lots of (((((((((((gentle hugs)))))))))) and hope you find the Vodka.  Try to get lots of rest and do drink lots of ........water. Those two things will help you heal.  

Words cannot express all the love, encouragement and support all my BCO sisters have given me since the start of my journey.  I love you all and so appreciate your just always being there for me and each other.

 Reposted this to other threads so all my sisters would know what I am feeling.

So pleased Phyllis, I know how relieved I felt when told it was only arthritis.

Chrissy, don't I know about skin cancers - I grew up in an area where there is extra ultr-violet and I was red-headed with fair feckly skin. We could burn Aussies. I really do need to go and get some other spots checked. Have had several removed mostly bcc thankfully: one was something else nasty but not melanoma.

Dh has a needle aversion but has managed to get through all his ops on his heart etc, not sure how as he can't watch any medical programme. At one time he had to give himself injections everyday and wasn't sure how he would cope. They sent in two young pretty nurses to show him how and he said he wasn't going to be a sissy in front of them.But he still hates it and can't watch.

I suppose I had better get something made for dinner, nothing flash tonight just lamb steaks and vegetables. DD and I are trying to cut wheat out of our diets IBS problems. Hers is severe - she has had it since a baby - the main problem is lactose. She is being very strict and will begin to reintroduce different foods in about a week to see what really upsets her system. I am just trying to limit things I know cause problem. Yesterday I had a chocolate brownie and cream and oh boy that was not good but I knew what had caused it.

Big hugs.

Finally caught up on reading. Whew!

Chrissy, the MOH I think is what my DD had last week. We were at the surgeons office for 4 1/2 hours with me taking care of the baby while DD was inside. She had to have it done three times. Her stitches came out yesterday and the incision area looks okay, the area next to it looks bad as she had a big reaction to the tape. Add in her black eye from it all and she is quite a sight. Now she has to go to the dermatologist every six months for the rest of her life. They told her that because she is young she is more likely to get more of this BCC. She is very fair and never layed out in the sun,,  I suppose I need to go get looked at myself now.

Hohanna, welcome. This is a good place. 

ThreeJays I will keep you in prayer for a good outcome. 

I decided to be intentional abpout which threads I am reading. I have felt very sad with KK's passing, very sad. The only way for me to go on with my life is to not spend too much time in sadness. I cut my favorite threads down to 9 from about 18 and I think that will help.  My two "older lady" threads and my" starting chemo in August 2010" threads are my go to's every day.

Love and hugs 

Ginger

Getting near bedtime here. We have been playing cards, at least the living room is nice and warm. I do enjoy an open fire.

Ginger, like you I have a limited number of favourites but I do wander off to the main list every day or so to see what is happening in general, however your are right that dwelling in the sadness is sometimes not helpful. 

Must go and find my evening tablets - its quite a handful these days.

Sleep well Chrissy, you have sometime before its your bedtime while those on the East coast of North America are starting their Friday, ours is almost over.

Big hugs

hi ladies..still in bed.. LOTS; im following a few threads you ladies mentioned. ALLYSON: even though im not feeling well; i do get up and do a little excesize everyday; or i do very much cripple up:and the le worsens. I've been visiting the thread for KK too much; so i had to stop yesterday. its' all too much for me to handle...

   Chrissy, good to see you Gal! im so sorry the news has hit you so hard.

   we've all had our choc and ice cream; and now, all we can do is stand "in her place" to help all the newbies.. for me, i need to "lighten up" my mood more, before i'll be able to TRY to carry on whay she did here...hahaha

  getting a NEW set of drugs today; hope they willo help.im getting sick and tired of being so sick and tired!!!   love to all...3jays

The second I heard of Elizabeth's passing I dropped all her threads. I didn't want to read all the pain as I had my own to deal with. I did go onto the Ottawa Citizen and posted in her obituary file, but then read John's 'good-bye' to her and lost it at work......

About kids and cancer, I know this may sound harsh, but that's the only life they've known, so to them it's normal. To those of us who've been normal for 40,50+ years, being hit with it is life-altering. Think of kids in Africa with no shoes....they'd probably hate having their feet bound up all day, and yet to us, we feel bad about their shoe-less-ness....do you know what I mean? Our normal is not someone else's normal. Did I just make my explanation worse?