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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited September 2011

    i see a match made in heaven!! Meece what a liitle stinker--you must be so proud!!

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  • stjude10
    stjude10 Member Posts: 390
    edited September 2011

    Loving the baby pics, they are sooo cute! And yes, they'd make an adorable couple!!!

    Regarding tats, I went out soon after dx and got one. I figured I'd do it before being told not to! I have to ribbons that intertwine, 1 breast cancer, 1 leukemia (for my daughter). Each ribbon has our dx date, and room for our cure dates when we get them. Now, trying to figure out what to do next, seeing as my boys feel left out since they aren't sick. One of them actually told me to put a ribbon on w/his name and "healthy" on it. What a dork! I told him I'd think of something.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited September 2011

    stjude--I think the ribbon with "healthy" is a great idea! 

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  • stjude10
    stjude10 Member Posts: 390
    edited September 2011

    NativeMainer- you think so? I wonder if there's a color for that. I have these ribbons on the inside of my left wrist, I guess I could put 2 "healthy" ribbons on the inside of the other wrist. He's such a smartass, I just never actually considered it!

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited September 2011

    Zumba and Scuba what great ideas for your tatts. 

    Paula your kids are so sweet to have tatts for dear Mom

    Meece and Foxy watch those two kiddos you just never know. Meece I love the grin on Patricks face.

    cmblastic have you seen a PS for a consult.  My PS will do reconstruction 6 months after rads if he thinks you are healed well enough.  I had rads and ended up with permanant nerve damage so I will be having a BMX with immediate DIEP reconstruction.  However last visit I still was not ready will go tomorrow for another followup and see what he thinks.  But realistically I am probably going to wait until March and he did  say the longer I way the better the outcome. By then I will have been a little over a year out of rads.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited September 2011

    Meece, I am so glad you are looking out for your Grandson's future.  I would do the same.  It never hurts to get him into a pre-school placement (where he can be tri-lingual by age 5) and find him an internet contract bride (and don't be shy to ask Foxy whether they have started the dowry yet.) 

    Of course, little Ragan may prefer someone a bit older, in which case Barbe's GS might still be available, but he is a year old now, so no guarantees.

    This thread has given me so many good ideas.  While I am still working on my baby toupe business, I don't want to let anyone else get the jump on the internet arranged betrothal service ("HarmoniousBabyMatching.com) and now I also think baby tattoos could take off also.  The tatt gets done in miniature (less ink & time used, bigger profit margin) and the baby grows into it.  Like age eight mos. = cute little birdie on shoulder; age eighteen = cool swooping eagle.

    I trust none of you will steal my ideas and infringe on my intellectual property.  I sure hope not!  I need all the property my mind can get, as there is so much vacant land available in there.

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  • stjude10
    stjude10 Member Posts: 390
    edited September 2011

    elimar- cracking me up right now. love your great ideas!!!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited September 2011
    stjude10, I'll keep you in mind for the tattoo franchise and your son can be an artistic consultant.
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  • Foxlairfrm
    Foxlairfrm Member Posts: 214
    edited September 2011

    Meece, he is precious! Yes, I think they would make an adorable couple! The dowry- well you know she will be a high maintenance girl with her horses and Foxhunting! That requires everything from boots to ball gowns! Lol

    Yes, she did have an lV. Mom spiked a temp after delivery, probably a slight infection from being examined minutes before her water broke. As a precaution they gave little Ragan antibiotics for a couple of days. She is fine and that thing is finally gone!! Worried me to death. They say it happens often.

    Thankfully my zometa treatment is being kind to me so far today!

    Foxy

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  • justmejanis
    justmejanis Member Posts: 1,847
    edited September 2011

    stjude....I love the idea of the tattos you have already done.  What about the pink ribbon with each of your sons' names on one side of each ribbon and saying something like "living for you" of "I won for you" or something to that affect? 

    Meece your grandson is gorgeous!  What a beautiful little boy.  You must be so proud.  I have one grandson.  Wesley turned 10 the day that little Ragan was born.  It may take awhile for their paths to cross, but I kind of see a little karma going on.  LOL!

    Eli.....LOL on the baby tats!  You just might be onto something! :)

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  • walker2222
    walker2222 Member Posts: 558
    edited September 2011

    Hauntie - thank goodness you finally got relef.  Know what you mean on the number of needles (I got a blood blister) and the under garments.  At the time I was draining, I wore a sports bra then binder then my camie with the foobs (which I think is more comfortable than a bra).  Now I just wear the camie with foobs and boy when I get home they all come off and I put a t shirt on.  Still too hot.

    Zumba - great idea.

    Foxy what a cutie, I am glad you got some good news.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited September 2011

    Meece he is gonna be a heart breaker someday!

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  • reesie
    reesie Member Posts: 2,078
    edited September 2011

    Hey ladies I think I'm out of hiding for now :). My surgery is healing well but I think I need to relearn how to walk now. Went back to work yesterday but only til tomorrow. Then I'm going on a much needed - albeit short- vacation. I'm looking forward to a little sun and a lot of drunk firefighters raising my mood.



    Anyone who's local and free is welcome to visit me in Wildwood which is where I'll be from Thurs thru Sunm. Just pm me if you want.



    I'm jeAlous of all the adorable grandbabies. Everytime my DD looks like she might be giving in, she gets a visit from unruly kids and gets firmer on "no kids from her"



    Oh well. I'm sure she'll give in when she finds the right guy.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited September 2011

    Elimar-once again you had me snorting liquid drink from my nose!  I have to stop drinking while reading something with your avatar also.

    And Foxy------that last line was a doozy!!

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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited September 2011
    reesie, you are the bravest person i know.  i'm serious.  you went to work???  i'm always surprised at the things you do and how well you do.  i'm very happy you're going on a vacation, no matter how short.  it should be wonderful for you and hopefully, lots of fun.  take care of yourself.
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited September 2011

    True Confession Tuesday.

    There's a reason I don't post on the more "natural" threads very often--not that I think there is inherently anything wrong with that lifestyle--but I would shamed by my own consumption of artificial sweetners to do so. The newer ones here probably don't know of my tea-drinking habit, (warm in Winter, iced in Summer) and I never before mentioned that I use saccharine to sweeten all that tea.  I know, I know...if I had a rat bladder for every time someone gave me the eyeroll on that one, I'd be one sick rodent with lots of bladders.

    I do not like the sticky sweetness of sugar drinks.  I had to give up Equal a long time ago.

    I used to have a Diet Coke habit.  Had it for years.  In the late Nineties, I noticed my head felt funny when I drank it.  Through the miracle of Google, I found out the effect of Nutrasweet is much the same as the Chinese food/MSG headache some people get.  Interestingly, I also found out that aspartame was fast-tracked to market by Donald Rumsfeld--in between his more notable war-mongering pursuits--and that the effect on the brain was well known beforehand.  (No offense to my former Sec. of Defense supporting/Equal-swilling sistahs.)   I took the 30-day challenge to not drink anything with Equal in it...sure enough, I felt better. I gave up diet soda, but I had to find something for my tea.

    Now, Splenda is o.k., but has some kind of backlash flavor, and Stevia only tastes good in cold drinks to me.  I do use honey sometimes, but if I use too much it gets that gakky honey-water flavor.  So, I''ve been strung out on those pink packets of perilous pseudo-sugar for years and this is my confession.

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited September 2011

    Eli--I confess for I have sinned too!! i grew up on Tab, so Diet coke was a natural progression. I have NEVER ordered a regular coke in my life. Since this whole BC started, I have stayed away from sodas because my sis was told while she was in chemo to stay away from soda dispensers and ice machineds--very moldy and full of chemicals because they don't get cleaned often enough. I have been so proud of myself that I cut out soda until today when driving back from my parents I needed caffeine to drive home. Stopped at 7-11 and got a Diet coke(in a bottle tho). I feel so dirty. And guilty. But darn it tasted good.

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  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited September 2011

    Reesie--OMG!! you have been to work! You are my hero!!! 

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited September 2011

    You girls are funny with the diet coke.  I use to be a Diet coke addict myself.  Gave them up before cancer and went with diet sprite.  At that time change to decaf coffee and decaf tea.  Since cancer and all the reading I do read some stuff on the decaffing process that totally grossed me out so now I am only organic decaf products and gave up the soda's altogether.  Drink alot more water and feel alot better.

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  • janinnj
    janinnj Member Posts: 89
    edited September 2011

    Foxy and Meece the babies are adorable. Enjoy every minute, before you know it they'll be teenagers.

    Reecie- Enjoy Fireman's weekend in Wildwood.  I dated a fireman years ago and went down with him one year.  Everyone was having a great time.

    Hauntie glad you've gotten relief.  Don't over do it at work.  Anyone else having a hard time keeping their mind on track at work?  It seems I used to be able to work on one project or report and keep all the fires put out at the same time but now the slightest distraction completely takes my mind off of what I was working on and it takes me longer to get going again.

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  • stjude10
    stjude10 Member Posts: 390
    edited September 2011

    Hi. My name's Lori. And I'm an addict. It's been about 2 min. since my last drink. I know that the Diet Coke is not good for me, but it's the only vice I have left, and I think the rebel in me just can't let it go. I'm just gonna have to take it one day at a time.

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited September 2011

    Hi Lori!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited September 2011

    I see some have gotten into the confesional spirit...Aha-ha-ha!   Innocent 

    All you Diet Coke addicts, you won't be able to kick it with any 12-step program either (if it's only 11 steps to the fridge to get a nice cold one.)

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited September 2011

    Hi!  My name is Jo and I am a sweet tea addict - the sweetner is Equal.  I am not going to give it up - the Equal goes in my coffee (and I did not say decaf for anything)  I have given up enough already.  So no 12 step program for me.  LOL

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  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited September 2011

    i'm connie and i'm a caffeine-free diet coke addict.  during chemo i can't stand the taste of water unless it's in a plastic bottle and i know that's not good for me.  i figure that as long as i'm on chemo i just need to drink SOMETHING.  now i'm feeling really guilty that i'm not doing enough for myself.  i've been drink diet coke forEVER.  during chemo they offer plain diet coke, not decaf.  ugh.  i'm so confused.

    p.s.  i really am a recovering alcoholic.  12-step program and 19 years sober!  also quit smoking four months ago (almost), so i'm with jo on giving up the things i enjoyed. 

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  • janinnj
    janinnj Member Posts: 89
    edited September 2011

    Hi, My name is Janice and Coffee is my vice.  I used to have the diet Pepsi habit but thanks to chemo I couldn't stand the taste of anything sweet and broke that habit and hopefully I can keep it that way.

    YaYa Congrats on the 19 years.  I know that addition is a disease that really doesn't have a cure and is very hard to fight.

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  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited September 2011

    Ok all I have to come clean also!  I am a tatoo junkie! im getting ready for my 6th one.  It wont be my final one but I still have lots of room, lol. 

    YaYa way to go!  I celebrated my 8th year while I was doing chemo too

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  • justmejanis
    justmejanis Member Posts: 1,847
    edited September 2011

    LOL on the confessions.  I gave up Diet Coke some time back, rarely I will have one but not too often.  i did buy a 12 pack about 3 months ago.  I think I have had two.  Oreo's....now we are talking!  I definitely need a 12 step program to get off of those.  Or coffee creamer.  That bad kind, you know, the flavored but I buy the sugar free.  I just need to get off that stuff altogether.  I only drink coffee in the mornings, 2-3 cups.  MY husband drinks it black, and all day long till bedtime.  Regular here only, no decaf.  I really need to try to ditch the flavored creamers all together.  I love iced tea but rarely drink it.  Unsweetened with anything.  No hot tea for me. 

    YaYa congrats on the 19 years sober!  That is something to be so proud of.  Good job!

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  • stjude10
    stjude10 Member Posts: 390
    edited September 2011

    I'm with you Jo, not giving up the caffeine. I also LUV my coffee. Good for you YaYa on being sober for 19 yrs. And I also have given up the smoking. Wish I loved diet and exercise as much as I do the things that are bad for me!

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  • justmejanis
    justmejanis Member Posts: 1,847
    edited September 2011

    Paula just saw your post, congrats on your sobriety as well!   That takes a lot of courage.

    I quit smoking a couple years ago.  My addiction would have to be food.  I do walk every day but not as much as I should.  I have never been an exercise guru and I am so not disclplined with that.  I am working on the healthier eating.  A work in progress! 

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