I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited September 2011

    Okay .. my mind is in the gutter with Blue!

    Just got back from running my mom up north to my sis'.  We had lunch at this great little Italian place .. I had baked ziti that was fabulous, and will have leftovers for dinner tonight.

    The weather today is beautiful.  Typical fall .. the sun is warm and the breeze is cool.  And the shadows on the trees are changing.  My favorite time of year.

    Barb .. I feel for you, I really do.  I try to keep my hopes alive too, but I've just been so discouraged about my work situation.  I hope the job still comes through for you.

    Sandy .. You really tickle me .. I'll have to take pics when I get that big sander home and start working on the floor!

    Sunflowers .. We had a ton of rain last week, everything is drenched.  I'm so glad the sun finally came out again.

    Hope everyone is having a good day!

    Bren

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

    Blue, Blue, Blue.  You silly drinking liberal hacker, you!  I hope your latest adjustment brings your mind back from the gutter.  ;-)

    Sunflowers - it's so wet around here that mushrooms are springing up like dandelions.  Some local people actually picked and ate some, then ended up in the hospital.  I thought everybody knew you weren't supposed to pick & eat wild mushrooms on your own??

    Philosophical question:  If you have health insurance, and you go out and do something stupid like eat wild mushrooms and get sick, should your health insurance have to pay?  Or should you take personal responsibility for your actions and pay for it out-of-pocket?  If you think insurance should pay, why should other insured have to pay for your stupidity?  

    Or how about this - retailers build theft into their prices, but why should I have to pay it?  Doesn't that make me responsible for someone else's actions?  How can that be right?

    I'm just wondering how far we need to take this personal responsibility thing.

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    I take personal responsibility for my mind being in the gutter.

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

    HAHAHA!  Good one!

  • kad2kar
    kad2kar Member Posts: 336
    edited September 2011

    HIIIII!!!!----anyone tired of rain and cold, in need of some kind of employment in the medical industry, transcribing or nursing, teaching,anyone over the the age of young,MOVE to ARIZONA! MD ANDERSON CANCER{crossedout}CENTER just opened up in Gilbert,AZ. ARTSEE and her friend can find really beautiful winter places,SUNFLOWERS can join them. Lots to do and see here in the winter when you can go outside and breathe for about 10 minutes. But, remember you cant have a fire in your fireplace Halloween,Thanksgiving and  Christmas because something is high{.Maybe the people that make these rules?}. I think you are allowed a fire in your fireplace on the record setting hottest day of the century.   Undecided  Well whatever I just said I might have meant it [all of it actually]. FORGOT to mention CARPET CLEANING. Im just rambling,maybe someday I will have a blog called BABBLE ON & ON & ON.  back to my corner on the floor at the BCO B&G.  kad2kar

  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited September 2011

    Speaking of minds in the gutter . . . I did a presentation today on some web-based data resources and tools, and at one point said something about "playing with it at home."  It took me a few beats to realize why the attendees - mostly middle-aged guys - were elbowing one another and snickering. 

    L

  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited September 2011

    L

    There are a lot of things you can't say to a bunch of guys. It doesn't matter what their age is.

    The cat is still at the vet. She is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in fur. The vets(two now) can't figure out what's wrong. She will have more blood work in the morning and go home if she will eat for them. She ate an ounce  or two of wet food off my fingers this afternoon but she has to eat more.She has has fluids and antibiotics and a steroid shot and some B-12. She is one sick kitty. I would really like to know why.

  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited September 2011

    Kad2kar....I wanna have what your smoking. LOL! Did you remember I'm going to Arizona for a month this winter? I can't even remember mentioning it. It's still chemo brain 3 1/2 years later...or is it Alzheimer? Yikes......

  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited September 2011

    Chemo brain can be an excuse forever. I figure chemo has to have some perks.

  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited September 2011

    artsee -- It's chemo brain for sure.  Studies are there to prove it!  Glad to know the liver enzymes are under control.  I just went through the same thing, though I only needed an ultrasound.  Still scary waiting for the results, but good news arrived this a.m.  Too much advil for a wonky knee is the suspected culprit.

    Rosemary -- It's horrible waiting to find out what's ailing our furballs.  A few years ago, the vet gave me some very strong-flavoured goo in a tube (full of nutrients) to entice my furball to eat.  Do you have some of that?  (I think it was called Vita-something or other).  Anyhow, fingers crossed that Bobba gets well very soon, with the right medication.

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited September 2011

    Ahhh Rosemary ... hope they get Bobba's ailment figured out and she gets to feeling better.  They did do the blood test for hyperthyroid right?  My daughter's cat has that and she sure seemed to go from OK to looking awful almost overnight.  (((hugs))) to you and the kitty.

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Hugs Rosemary.  Hope the kitty doesn't have serious health problems.

    Whew Linda.  Good News!

    Artsee, you too.  About chemo brain.  I never had chemo but when I can't remember things I usually say, "my brain has a mind of its own". It's the truth.

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    Linda - don't you hate wonky knees? I really have to start to think about having a half knee replacement.

    Work is boring - nothing to do. Going to see physio in the city after work. Otherwise nothing much exciting going on.

    Still really tired - slept a bit longer last night but not much.

    Have a drink on me :)

    Sue

  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited September 2011

    Lindasa - you are a dark horse - sorry that you just went through such anxiety, and didn't say anything. (((Lindasa)))

  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited September 2011

    Artsee, chemo brain is forever. I'm over 11 years out and still have chemo brain relapses. That's my sotry and I'm sticking to it.

    Rosemary, fingers crossed for Bobba.

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited September 2011

    New lab info ...

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

    Some days I feel like a meth lab....

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited September 2011

    Some days I look like the meth lab ...

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    Had to leave work early - chest pains - bloody Zometa. Why did I not have any SE's last time, but did this time. The pain is in my sternum. Rushed home and took a dex - that worked the first time I had it. Felt like I'd been hit by a truck all day. Had to cancel the physio - I'll go Monday instead.

    Sad news - my busker wasn't there today and I had been so looking forward to a pleasant lunch time. It was quite hot out there too - summer is on the way.

    Sue

  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited September 2011

    Oh no, Susie!  Hope you're feeling much better now.

    L

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    The dex did the trick. This only happened the first time I had Zometa - nothing last time. And it's a day later than before - ????? very strange. I feel ok now - had lovely steak with a red wine and garlic sauce, fries and veg, followed by my favourite individual blackberry pies with double thick cream - double yummy!!!!

    Sue

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2011

    Hope you get good news today Athena!!!!

    Hugs

    Sue

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Very good Susie!

    Athena, sending positive hugs!

    Most days I am a meth lab......heheheehehe!

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    Moving slowly today but no pain!  Slowly raising the stimulator to 2.7.....am at 2.3 today.  Maybe they finally got it.  I'm slow but straight....no tilt in my posture, no freezing yet.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2011

    WR - meth lab!!!  Hysterical, laugh out LOUD hysterical.

    Artsee - Arizona - DRY ARIZONA.  Ah, some day.  What a wonderful place to paint. DRY.  Can't being to describe what it is like here.  Driving home from Art class yesterday, I know we're not supposed to , but I was driving thru standing water WELL above the wheels of my CRV!  Small rivers running along side of roads were already over flowing at 11 am - and it rained ALL DAY after that. Haven't seen rain this heavy sinc e I was in monsoon in India years ago.

    LINDA - acupunture!!!  PLEASE try it, if you haven't yet.  I swear my knees no longer "crunch" - I can walk up and DOWN stairs ( that used to be the most difficult) - lying on the table, I look down and giggle thinking I have two Porcupine's sitting one on each knee. No longer need meds unless I've been kneeling (gardening?) too long.

    Blue - Yeah, no freezing - I'm slow with Arimidex - and I swear it has effected my sense of balance.  Feel wobbly walking downstairs unless I'm holding on to a banister.  NO, IT IS NOT AGE, and no amount of exercise seems to change the feeling of not being as "steady" on my feet as I was b4 joining the A Team.

    Not a complaint, I give THANKS, THANKS, THANKS to have something which seems to be keeping the Beast at bay - but I don't have to like the SE's.  Accept them, but don't like'emFrown

  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited September 2011

    Susies, so sorry you are ailing from the zometa. Hugs!

    {{{Linda}}}

    Rosemary, I am praying for your furball. I hate when they get sick.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2011

    Athena - forgot to say, still hoping for something small, simple, like a teeny weeny fibroid, polyp, kind of thing.

    Bren - meant to add - still laughing at the thought of you with a sander! I manage to scratch my fingers with just plain ole sand paper on a craft project.  

    Barbara - also thinking of you, waiting, and all I remember learning from all the times of "waiting" is that NO news is just NO news.  Please don't let your mind try to make it into anything else!!!

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2011

    OOPs back down to 2.2.  Thanks sunflowers.  I'm sure the Arimidex is contributing to my woes.  2.3 was a bit too much for me today.  Will try again tomorrow.  When they said increase slowly, they weren't kidding.

  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited September 2011

    E,

    I had to provide "pastoral care" for a friend who is a diehard Red Sox fan last night. I didn't tell her that I'm also friend with O fans as I let her cry into her martinis!!!! Guess I'm an equal opportunity friend.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2011

    Blue - I wonder if others notice a difference in their sense of balance taking Arimidex.  I haven't heard many women talk about it.  BUT, BIG BUT, I am in my FIFTH year of being on the A Team, and I am absolutely positive many of the SE's are CUMULATIVE.  Some do away, others appear, and get WORSE.  Balance is in the latter category for me.

    SLOWLY, slowly, it must be so exhausting, mentally and physically trying to get it right.  Definitely qualifies for an OH, BOTHER!

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