For Older People with Sense

DH, DD, & I had a lovely Thanksgiving & we all have a lot to be thankful for. DD did the majority of the cooking - I hate to admit it, but all I did was the gravy & I had to have help with that.

But, I think my shining moment of this year was a couple weeks ago when we topped our insurance & we no longer have to pay co-pays!  It was nice getting a couple dr. bills with 0 on them & when I went to order my non-generic meds Wednesday they were 0 instead of the usual $65 & the 2 generic rx's I picked up today were also 0 !!!!  One of my greatest stressers this year - after BC - has been $$$$$$.  I still am making payments on a couple of the big bills, but at least my appts next month will be ZERO.  Let's not talk about next year....  hee hee

Our DS will be here for Christmas & we're all looking forward to seeing him again!  Hopefully I'll be able to be of more help for Christmas dinner.

chabba: i haven't been well, for days, well, weeks now... but you're news was just what the dr. ordered!!!i'm so glad, ni complications yay!!!

  Maya; of course, im trying DESPERATELY to take yiur advise about the hokidays, and will do try, try again, till i get it right!!!

  Hope yiu ALL had a greath thanksgiving... God has a sense of humor, My 2nd Jay, came home for thanksgiving, and i've been so ill, and in bed, we really haven't visited much.... im still so grateful he's here, and so isn't HE!!!

  Mur, bless his heart, did all the cooking.. instill can't might ever get a meal together, butn everything, can't "stay on task" anymore.. but, i went to bed, after putting leftovers away,, got uo for the yummy turkey sandwhiches, and got all the dishes done.. and a good time was had by all!!!!

  i just we can have a quiet christmas, the 3 of us this year, also.. im gonna try and learn easy does it, as Maya suggests.  Our house was the open house for the disenfranchised for years... sigh...now WE are the disenfranchised.. we're beg. to think that 2 of us will do, thanks you very much.. and 3 was lovely.... back to bed with another anti b..

   if this doesn't pass, soon, we're going to look into iv therapy at home.. can't seem to kick this bacterial infection... gr.he'll culture it again in 8 days, and we'll see. off my feet for now

I hope your MIL comes over to us, Ginger.. sorry she has to..3jays

Chababa, that is WONDERFUL news!! I bet you can breathe all the way down now.... What a great way to start the season!!

3jays,  you are in my prayers. I pray not just for your health but for the healing of your family and streangth for Mur.

Great news Chabba.

3Jays hope things get better real soon.

We are having a lazy morning and not going to church because we were up very late watching the election results. It was our parliamentary  election yesterday and as DH has always been very interested we watched until all the results were in. The government hasn't changed so we still have the same PM leading a National government but ir was an interesting results with the Greeen party getting over 10% of the party vote - we have an MMP voting system.

Will have to see the doc next week because I have a 'frozen' shoulder - its so painful as well. And like a lot of folk in this part of the world in a couple of weekes I am having several skin cancers removed. Not looking forward to the ones on mt toes being cut out so I am trying to get things sorted for Christmas before then.

DD is about to arrive with coffe and she will berate Dh about the elections. She has very strong opinions.

Hope you didn't spend too much on Black Friday.

Wonderful news, chabba!

Great news, Chabba.

3Jays, I so hope te stupid doctors can get to the bottom of this. I hate that you are so sick still. Praying for you.

LC: i hope you enjopy your  anniversary, however you chose to celebrate. congratulations..!!!3jays

Chabba, good news for you!  So glad! 

And 3jays, I hope the antib's will knock this thing out.  So sorry you feel so bad--praying for you.  I got out for a while on Black Friday afternoon when it wasn't so crowded but I've never been one to get out before the crack of dawn!  No riots here, but some guy got tasered at our mall, and I heard that a gal thought pepper spray at Walmart would get her to the front of the line.  Honestly, the stupidity of some people!

Alyson, I sympathize with you re your shoulder and hope it improves soon.  Fortunately I've not had such problems but my father did and I saw the pain he was in.  

Where's Amyjo?  Anybody hear?

Please be thinking good thoughts for me, as I have a mammo tomorrow.  Pins and needles, big time.

And L_C, happy, happy anniversary to you and your DH!!!!

Kathy

Kathy

yes, where is AmyJo? Hello AmyJo!

Lost Creek, and anyone who might know, would you please share how you make swags and such with greenery. I was too sick to consider getting any on the house last year, which was my first year ever living surroiunded by all this greenery. I  don't know the species of trees but there are many and some are amazingly tall. We do have some large leaf maple but most are conifers of some sort.

Whoever built this house did a great job landscaping it and we get the benefit of their planning. In the spring we have rhododendrums and azalea all around the house andaround various plantings of the trees or where they were preserved in place. Late summer we have more blackberries than I can count. My puppy learned his heavy fur would protect him and he took to picking his own blackberries. I grew up in Chicago where my backyard was blacktopped by the time I was 16 and I have memories of the lilacs and peopnies that were there before.  We did nt have a window that looked out on the yard. I feel like some sort of princess when I can sit in bed here and look out at the trees that look just like they have been hung with garland just because of the way their branches grow.  I am getting all mushy but it is so beautiful here. 

Christmas is coming.

GInger

Thanks Chrissy for the update.

Hugs Ginger

Hi, ladies. I just found this thread when it popped up as having the most recent activity. Chrissy, a much-belated thank-you for starting this one, another one for us no-longer-30's-or-40's gals.

I'm sitting here in shorts and a T-shirt, listening to the rhythmic waves of the Atlantic, watching the dancing fronds of the palm trees and sensing the warmth of the sun as it rises to my east. It's a gorgeous morning in the Bahamas.

 It's also my last day here before heading back to the reality of BC, with a CT scan and bone scan on Friday and a meeting with my MO on Monday, to get the results of those tests and the Oncotype test.

 With whatever comes next, I'll try to remember this beautiful moment. 

WaveWisperer:  Thanks for sharing that thought with us!  It's all about the moments!  Good luck with your tests!

Welcome, WaveWhisperer.  This is a good place to be if you have to, that is, and you'll get a lot of support from us all.

I find myself in need of some support tonight, gals.  I had the mammo today and they found some "minute" calcifications in the cancer breast.  Radiologist said they were about the size of a very small nail.  I'm to go to Charlotte a week from today for a stereotactic  biopsy.   I know what that is, but so far haven't been able to do any research of calcifications at all.  (Keeping GS all night tonight as DS is working in Asheville and DIL has a sudden onset ovarian cyst and is taking vicodin. Everything always happens at once, you know, and I feel like I need to be 2 places at once, here and with DIL.)

Does anyone have experience with this?  Thanks, everybody.

Kathy

Thanks, Chrissy.  You're right, the mind automatically goes to it, that's for sure.

Kathy, who is still trying to get GS to bed!  DH is holding him in his lap now.