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cookiegal
cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
edited June 2014 in Lymphedema

I lost my black B-C glove at...wait for it...Race for the Cure.....

Beating head against wall....

dear God I was the only person wearing one....how is that possible!

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited September 2011

    Oh no....it's in a porta-pot somewhere....!

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited September 2011

    Cookie...oh, good grief...that is just so depressing.Frown

    Okay, let's all agree to make a solemn pact that we will not beat ourselves up for losing our stupid gloves or gauntlets. Even at a Race for the Cure -- ESPECIALLY not at a Race for the Cure. They are not a diamond ring or anything else beautiful and meaningful; they are a medical necessity, period. Expensive, yes, but it's not like we chose this as our style or anything. So, porta-potty -- YES! It's a statement. Embrace it!

    We love you, Cookie!Kiss
    Binney

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited September 2011

    Maybe we need to sew names in them like  mom used to do in our clothes for summer camp. Or  just an email address with a "if found contact me at"

    (Don't use use a sharpie. Those fumes will kill ya. So much for ink it pink next month)

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited September 2011

    not porta-pottie...I took it off before I spoke to the celebrity spokesperson. I spent hours looking for it. And ironically it had my name in it.

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited September 2011

    Damn. Can you replace with a cheap gauntlet?  http://lymphedivas.com/divalicious-seconds/

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  • BeckySharp
    BeckySharp Member Posts: 935
    edited September 2011

    Cookie--Bummer!  I am almost afraid to take mine off in public!  Do they have insurance for garments?  Maybe they should.  Becky

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  • Suzybelle
    Suzybelle Member Posts: 920
    edited September 2011

    Cookie, that stinks.  I am so sorry!!!!!

     I actually love the smell of sharpies...yes, I have issues.

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  • Nordy
    Nordy Member Posts: 2,106
    edited September 2011

    Suzy - Me too! LOL... and when I am filling up the gas tank... LOL... Maybe we have some of the same issues?

    Cookie! I am sorry about your glove. If it helps at all, I put things down and can't remember where I have left it 2 minutes later. It is ridiculous. Maybe all the sharpie/petro sniffing... ??? LOLOLOL!Embarassed

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  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
    edited September 2011
    Cookie - I accidentally did flush a gauntlet one time.  Talk about feeling like an idiot!!!  Yell
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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited September 2011

    Becky, it used to be that AmEx had purchase insurance for 6 months or something. Sigh. The good news is I have two, and I am coming up on time to get new ones. But it just ruined the day.

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited September 2011

    Cookie, is there a lost and found? My daughter left her lunch on the subway, and got it back!

    Brave of you to be the only woman running for the cure in garments!

    Kira 

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  • Trishia
    Trishia Member Posts: 572
    edited September 2011

    Nordy I LOVE the smell of gas too!! 

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited September 2011

    Cookie, I'm joining you in the lost a glove club: I wear one of the custom ones when I drive home, and going to work, my daughter called as I pulled in, and I took it off in the car, and thought I put it in my work bag, and just kind of couldn't find it for the drive home, tore everything apart--and nada!!

     I did call the receptionist and ask her to search the parking lot, and I'll search my office when I go back.

    Darn!!! It was a relatively new custom one. I think I'm kind of due for a new one, but the good fitter is on maternity leave

    ARGHH

    Kira

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  • BeckySharp
    BeckySharp Member Posts: 935
    edited September 2011

    I am old enought to remember wearing mittens that had a yarn string hooked to both of them that went around your neck to keep you from losing them.  Maybe we should have a yarn string that pins our gloves to our lapels!  I never thought about losing them.  I am getting paranoid!  Becky

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited September 2011

    Oh Becky, I had the imittens on a string!

    My co-worker found the glove! It fell behind a chair in my office!!!! Made my day--is that sad or what???

    Kira

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  • BeckySharp
    BeckySharp Member Posts: 935
    edited September 2011

    Hey Kira for what they cost it should make your day!  Now if only Cookie's would show up.

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited September 2011

    yea kira...

    mine ain't coming back...it's somewhere in central park....

    you think in a group of hundreds of survivors somebody would have spottted it...

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  • BeckySharp
    BeckySharp Member Posts: 935
    edited September 2011

    Okay a funny for Cookie--I have been having weird dreams on the tamox.  Last night I suddenly started dreaming that I was in Central Park looking under and around for Cookie's glove.  There were other people looking but all had their backs to me and I could not see their faces.  Someone said it was all of the LE people helping her look.  I kept thinking of all who were there--Binney, Kira, Cookie, etc. but no one ever turned around!  I woke up before the glove was found.  I do remember that I  had my jovipak on in my dream, not my daytime sleeve.  Becky

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited September 2011

    Well, Becky, of course you were in your jovipak - it was night and you were sleeping! (sorry, I just couldn't resist)

    I figure this thread was a case of "forewarned is forearmed" for me. I had my Aredia tx at the onco day ward today and every time I washed my hands I made sure to put my gauntlet in my pocket.

    Leah

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited September 2011

    BeckySharpKiss

    That was so touching!!!! 

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited September 2011

    Becky, that IS touching! I just wish we'd all turned around for a big group hug -- with Cookie's glove, of course!

    Big hug anyhow!
    Binney

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited September 2011

    Becky, I'm so glad I was in the dream, searching.

    I just met with the state director of Livestrong, and we're both breast cancer and LE veterans, and we discussed how important it is to have contact with other survivor/veterans, who get it.

    She and I have a checkered history (last time I met her, she told some of my personal information to people who come to my office, before I'd even met her...), but she just created a new video for patients to use at home, and all the exercises have one person doing therabands, and another, with compression garments, doing a modified version! 

    This board is so important to me. You get it, and I get to be in your dream in Central Park, searching for Cookie's illusive glove.

    I get weird dreams too--never attributed them to the tamoxifen. Who knew?

    Kira

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  • OneBadBoob
    OneBadBoob Member Posts: 1,386
    edited September 2011

    Cookiegal--just where were you in Central Park?

    My little Ms. Em and I are there quite often and am teaching her "find."  Give us a clue of the vicinity and color of the glove and we will look.  She just might find it!

    p.s.  Too bad my Ms. Betsy is at the Bridge--she was taught to find gloves in her tracking career!!

    Years after we stopped tracking, when we were on a hike and she found a glove, she went nuts knowing she found the "Object."  Grabbed it, shook it and brought it to me!!

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited September 2011

    Oh, my gosh, Jane, a lymphedema-glove rescue dog!SurprisedCool Judging by the rate of glove loss on this thread you two may soon have a full-time business. Go, Ms. Emily!

    Love it!
    Binney

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited September 2011

    http://www.komennyc.org/2010_race/2010RaceMap.pdf

    One Bad Boob that is sooo nice of you. If you look at the map it was either in the "survivor village" area or the "expo" area...it is a black sheer Barton-Carey glove. It's more mesh than solid fabric. 

    Thank you for looking!! 

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited September 2011

    got my new gloves today...yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • BeckySharp
    BeckySharp Member Posts: 935
    edited September 2011

    Cookie--Hooray!!!!  Hang onto it.  I don't want anymore dreams in Central Park in my jovipak. I would never go out in public in it!  Becky

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  • invisible
    invisible Member Posts: 28
    edited October 2011

    ok this is sort of indelicate, but as a new glove wearer something I've been trying to decide the best method for restroom hygiene- to remove the glove or carry disposable surgical gloves to cover with.  Reading this makes me lean towards gloves, but hate the hassle.  Are there any more innovative solutions?

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited October 2011

    Invisible, when I'm not home I put my gauntlet in my purse, a pocket, or my waistband otherwise chemobrain would ensure that it doesn't come home.

    Leah

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  • BeckySharp
    BeckySharp Member Posts: 935
    edited October 2011

    Invisible--At home I remove the glove or gauntlet.  For public I ordered the food service gloves from a company called Uline.  They are not tight like the disposable gloves.  For other things to protect the glove, I cut the fingertips out of them.  They also make ones that go up to the elbow.  Becky

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