For Older People with Sense

I had a 'practice' and a 'real' marriage too, Barbara!!! I know just what you mean...

Lisa, the purple rose is just gorgeous!  It reminds me of my grandmother.  Re:  MRSA, the community-acquired is easier to get rid of then the hospital kind.  The Cipro is good for community-acquired but for the hospital kind they used to use IV Vancomycin.  Hope this MRSA responds to Cipro or something similar.  (I used to be and infection control nurse).  Either way it's not something anyone needs on top of BC. 

Getting ready for a road trip.  I bought a vibrating car seat for my back in the car.  Hope it works!  Wish we were going by train!

Lynda (Dragon)

Let me tell you, grandchildren can cure any sadness. Both my married daughters and their families were here for Sabbath, which meant 5 of my 6 grandchildren were here. Just cuddling with them and watching their antics was wonderful!

I saw the PS today and we're going to go ahead with the surgery. I'll be having a prophy mast on the non-bc side plus bilat DIEP (did I say this in another post? Probably.) When I was dx with mets a year ago I was in the planning stages for the surgery so it was put on hold. At the time the PS was reluctant to consider the surgery since he was afraid it would lower my immune system to a point that the mets would take over but the onc says that since I'm responding so well to the Femara and Aredia there is no medical reason not to do the surgery. In a way it sounds a little strange to say that going ahead and having surgery is making me so happy, but in a lot of ways it's not. I feel like I've been marking time since the mets dx, not being able  to get on with my life, and the surgery makes me feel like now I can go on with my life, that I will be able to feel normal. I'll see the PS again in a few weeks and see the BS on the same day. I don't know yet when the surgery will be; the scheduling is done by the hospital so I'll know when I hear from them. I think it will be sometime in the late fall.

Phyllis, I'm glad you to hear that it's arthritis in you bones and not BC. This disease is so weird. What else would make us tell a friend that we're glad they have arthrits - and the friend agrees!

Isabella, I love reading about your life. Pet the calves for me (does one pet calves?) as well as the puppies and the kitten.

Leah

Looks like everyone has been busy today.  

Chrissy - I did get a good nights rest which was nice for a change.

Lynda - hope the vibrating car seat helps on your trip.  

BarbA - You and Marty make such a cute couple.  You seem to be so happy together.  I am glad yo found each other.

Cherie and Ginger - hope you two can get the MRSA cleared up in your families.  That is certainly no fun for you and I am so sorry you are having to deal with it.  I know you have been battling it for quite a while Cherie.  I want you both to get well soon.

Isabella - I don't know how you do so much with the cows, puppies and kittens and lambs.  You have a lot going on and then to have to take so many showers a day because of either cows or hot flashes!  Make me tired just reading about it all.  Hope the cows are doing well, especially the two that have had difficult deliveries in the last few days.

Leah - grandchildren are the best.  We just found out today that we have #7 on the way and is due to arrive on Jan. 21 2012!  Our youngest is expecting her 4th child.  Our oldest is expecting her 3rd child sometime between July 27th and August 2nd, that will be out 6th grandchild.  Whoever said children grow up, get married and multiple was not kidding!  Our little family is growing bigger and bigger. Don't know where we will put them all when they all come for holidays, but I am sure we will manage to find room for everyone.

Hope everyone has a good week. 

I love you all,

Ginger

I am off for cataract surgery # 2 in a bit.    Happy Monday for all.   Hugs & Blessings, Nancy

3jays, I'm glad you talked to Marybe, I've been worried, doesn't she normally post here?

Isabella, I read my DH your story and he made a good point. If the calf was without oxygen for so long, wouldn't it be brain-damaged and not be able to feed or thrive? It did finally get on it's legs, but as he said, "Will it be a stupid cow?"

Amyjo nice to hear you DID get a good nights sleep!

3jays, I told you the endo might be able to help you!! If you could get to the cottage, you and I could lie around and tell each other stories. The trip down will probably set me into an FM flare that will put me out of commission!! But I wanna go SO bad...it's my carrot!

when I looked in the mirror this morning Lisa. (-;

Lisa - dfSometimes I feel like that when I haven't gotten enough rest.  Some gal pals took me to lunch today so now I think I'll take a nap.  Catch everyone later.

Amy Jo 

Hells bells. I am still in the land of the hot flashes...its driving me mad !! My head seems to be leaking, and running down thru' my hair , and down my neck. I have rolled up kitchen paper under my shirt collar, so as to catch the thick of it before it soaks my clothes. Never been so bad, for so long...aaarrrggghhh.

Had a very lazy day, I just do not feel like going outside at all in this state. Its quite humid out, so thats not helping ! I have had a few walks around to see how everything is getting on, but haven't stayed out longer than I needed.

My calves are coming along very slowly, daren't let them outside yet, I haven't the slightest chance of catching up with them when they get into the field....so in a straw yard they stay. I called out the vet. again mid-day. The one who had a bad birth is worrying me. He hasn't really stood up very long, just a few seconds of staggering is all he can do, then he flops out as if he's run a marathon. Not standing up means he hasn't found the teat yet, so 3 of us are taking turns to TRY and milk his mother, and get milk into him that way. As I can't bend for more than a couple of minutes at all, I am taking the lazy way, and using a feeding tube, straight into his stomach, the others will play around trying to get him to suck a bottle. I take a couple of minutes, the others are messing about half an hour !!! Vet. says persevere he SHOULD come OK. I hate it when I get told 'should' .He gave the calf more steroids, and gave me some packages of colostrum to use if I can't bother to try and get milk, in the night  ( Who said I would be getting up in the night ??? ) I look as if I shall have to now, tho' how I will pull myself out I do not know !!

Barb...we often take a good time to get a calf or a lamb going, but not as long as yesterday. As you are working on them they will now and then gasp or cough, but you very rarely feel a heartbeat until they are going...sometimes there is always a very very faint irregular beat as you are banging away at them. It doesn't follow that a stupid animal will result, not like with a human where you only have about 4 mins. don't know why...they are animals same as we are. With lambs we have to get more physical, I suppose because they are much more easy to pick up than a calf. I will take a 'dead' lamb by its back legs, and swing it right round in a circle, around my head...a few times... and it will take a big gasp, and hey presto ..it breaths. I bet many a doctor in a delivery room could make use of this manouver, tho' slinging a newborn baby around wouldn't go down too well, even tho' the results are quick and spectacular !!!

I got my puppies off to their new homes...3 very delighted new owners. I feel like a parrot reeling off all they need to know. I give them diet sheets, as I am pretty sure they aren't taking it in as they get their hands on a new puppy. One puppy was the 3rd one this particular family had bought from me over the years, always nice to get returning customers...never worry about these sales, its always the 1st timers that have me jumping up and down everytime the 'phone goes for a few days ! Its hard to think some of my customers go back 45-50 years !!I keep thinking as I see them every few years 'oh, you're getting on a bit'...then I think  they must think that of me !!! I had a sad 'phone call at T/time. an old customer..she must be 75ish rang to say she could no longer cope with her dog, its nearly a year now, and would I take it back. ( this was her 4th dog from me ) I did try and dissuade her last year, as she looked frail, but she didn't want to be on her own...well, it didn't work out, so tomorrow I shall be going to fetch the little bitch back. We shall have tears, and I shall feel awful, but not as awful as she will be feeling. I shall TRY and keep my trap firmly shut, and not say 'don't worry, I'll bring her to see you now and then'  as I usually do in these situations. I just don't want anymore work. I shall have to keep the young dog, she doesn't want to be passed around. I have a young couple pestering the life out of me for 'an older dog'...but they have very young children, and this little dog has never lived with youngsters....just not the right situation for a little dog that will be upset enough at losing its owner, without a lively home being thrust on it !

Had a few tears when I parted with Babe, part of me wanted to not let her go, but I would be signing her death warrant if I kept her. 

Sort of mixed animal day here !!!

Isabella.

Martha, you're right on target with Isabella!  I love her stories about her "life on the farm".  Really she already has a book in the pages of BCO, if she just deleted the personal references!  I'd buy it too!  She has such a gift for description and is so funny, too.

Love the picture.  Some days that's just how I feel, too.

Kathy

Isabella, you have three times more energy than I., I hope your calf you worked on will survive and thrive.

Isabella - I hope the calf comes around and gains some strength so it can nurse and grow strong.  How does the mama cow react to her calf?  You have such a full life there on the farm.  I don't know how you manage to do all that you do.  I know i could not physically do 1/2 of the things you do on a regular basis.

Lisa - how cool it is to have a signed copy of the book. One day I know the grandchildren will love the book and appreciate that it is a signed copy.  It is so great that you are helping to instill the love of reading in them.

Martha - we have all been wanting Isabella to write a book about her life there on the farm with gypsie weddings and all the other interesting things that she does.

Well it is late and I need to get to bed.  I did get a long, 4 hour, nap today and I enjoyed lunch with my friends.  We had a good visit together and I ate way too much.  Night all. 

Lisa, how in the world did you find my picture? I was having a bad hair day. All over!

I found out that the spots that keep popping to the surface near my incision are just pigmentation. Whew! Onc said these spots would have shown up eventually, rads just speed them up. Also, I was complaining about the gloppy Aquaphor and asked if I could just use the Aloe gel. The nurse said that would be perfectly fine. So now, I'm just gonna keep that gel in the fridge and use it frequently. And you know what? My boob feels better, is cooler and the sunburn is lighter. 

GramE, prayers being sent for good results on your eye surgery. ((HUGS)) Keep us posted.