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

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

    We shoud be happy to be here - that's for sure!!!

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    Here's my tree.

     

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

    Mary, lovely!

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

    Beautiful!

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

    Good Morning Friends!

    Mary ... what a beautiful tree.  You  did a wonderful job of decorating!

    Sandy ... hoping for unremarkable scans.  I can't believe you have to wait until the 20th to get the results.  I think I'd have a panic attack waiting that long.

    Blue .. how are you feeling?  Is the nausea all gone?

    It doesn't feel like Monday to me.  I guess because Tim was supposed to get home yesterday, but he won't make until noon today.  Kind of throws the week off.

    I hope everyone has a really good day!

    Bren

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    Thanks! Every ornament on our tree has some sort of story behind it. My husband and I started dating in high school-34 years ago-and we still have the senior year "Holiday Ball" ornament with our names on it. 

    Mary 

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

    Good morning, all!

    Lovely tree, Mary, and I love the ornaments w/stories!  I put a lot of my daughter's kindergarten-made ornaments on the tree.  Still love them.  My sister and I share a house now, so together we have a lot of the old glass ornaments we grew up with.  We also have some hand-made ornaments from our grandmother.  Very ornate, like little tiny Xmas space ships. 

    Blue, I'd started taking Requip for RLS, then stopped briefly when I forgot to refill the prescription.  Just restarted a few days ago and have had awful nausea.  I couldn't eat very much at all yesterday.  Odd, since I didn't have nausea the first time I started Requip.  Are you feeling any better??

    How are you doing today, Bren?  Reminder...my bday is the 22nd.  You know what that means.  ;-)

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

    Ah geez Enjoyous .. I thought it was the 23rd!  I hope you're talking malted milk balls.  hahahaha!

    It's only 34 degrees here today .. and I'm cold!  Even with the furnace on.  I have a little bit of work to do, so that's a good thing.

    hugs,

    Bren

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

    E, I had to stop the Requip.  The nausea would not abate.  My Movement Disorder Specialist put me on Mirapex (another agonist), aka the "devil drug".  So far, so good.  If I don't start gambling away my life savings, I will continue with it.

    What dosage are you on.  I'm gonna have to return mine to the pharmacy to dispose of.  PM me for more info.

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

    Well, Bren, malted milk balls might help...

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited December 2011

    hey all! am greatly enjoying the photos of everyone's holiday decorations. Like Mary, my diagnosis was right around this time. This year was going to be The Year The Holidays Returned to Normal----Oldest Monster would get his full due for his birthday, lots of watching Christmas ships, bake some cookies, make Christmas pudding, brine our own ham, decorate, sit around and enjoy tree.



    paugh. . . .



    Starting with my crazy mother's diagnosis right before thanksgiving that plan has gone all to hell. It did not help that for 2 weeks post diagnosis she refused to agree to come to Seattle so that we couldn't make any advance arrangements for her and had no where for her to stay other than our living room. At this point, as long as she is camped in our living room (with her 5 exploded suitcases dripping junk from one end to the other) Christmas decorating will just have to wait. I just hope we can get her moved before her thursday start of chemo and my ooph on Friday---I do not think my sofa is the place for her to be for chemo. . .



    For the third time, my holiday present is medically related (2004, hysterectomy; 2009, advance work on stupidbreastcancer and 2011, ooph.) And now that all is scheduled, I am scared that I am jumping to a decision about yanking the little b@st@rds out.. They can't really even biopsy her cancer (which means its likely ovarian but could be fallopian tubes or peritoneal) ---will yanking my ovaries really "save" me? Should I wait and go for genetic testing? will I be needing genetic testing anyway since the peritoneal won't be going anywhere?



    Poor DH---he is the designated driver/escort/great guy who will be taking her to/from chemo on Thursday and every time there after. He is becoming far better at dealing with cancer patients than any person should ever have to be. Then on Friday he gets me to the hospital at 5:30am for my laproscopy. Plan is to come home after that and not stay in hospital. The doctor has written the orders both ways but as long as my mother is not at my house, I think the best thing is that I come home to my own damn sofa!



    sigh. has anyone seen my old life? I'd like it back please. I've had enough of doctors and poking and pills and panicking.

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

    Is there an Island of Old Lives like the Island of Misfit Toys? We could all meet there and get ours back.

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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited December 2011

    Can we pick how far we go back? There are parts well before BC that I just don't want to repeat.

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

    3MM's - "ouch" - just OUCH!  You deserve, as we all do, but you ESPECIALLY right now, a generous time of feeling GOOOD about everything.  Can't imagine how you can cope with it all, as still, as you write, seem to have a sense of humor about it too!

    Think you'll feel better, more peaceful after the ooph.  Hope we add your name to the BORING List!

    I want to have my "old" life too, and like Lassie - pick out the parts I don't want.  Kind of like not eating the avocado pits in a mixed salad.  The only part of an avocado I like is the pit - fun to grow them!

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited December 2011

    lassie11  here here on the picking what parts we go back to.  For example, I DO NOT want a do-over of high school.  The stuff up to BC wasn't too bad. .....well other than high school. . .oh wait, and middle school.  No do-overs of middle school either---bad enough listening to Oldest Monster recount what is going on in middle school.  And he is relatively cool and populer and already has girls pursuing him (grrrrrrrr)

    After a brief panic attack revolving around my mother deciding that the best time to move into her apartment was the day AFTER her first chemo, it now looks like my mother will be off the sofa by Wednesday night.  Insert BIG SIGH of relief HERE 

    six people and one bathroom when one person is ill is NOT doable. . . .

    house guest camped in living room on the sofa for more than 4 nights is NOT doable. . . .

    I am mean.  fine so be it. . . . .

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

    Aw 3monst, sorry you're dealing with that. I'm with Lassie. Let's do a do-over!

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

    Yes, I'd love that!

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    3monstmama-I'm sorry you're dealing with so much right now. I'm very glad your mom will be off your couch before you get home from your surgery on Friday!

    I had my 6 month visit with my onco today. I already knew that my mammo from last week was clear, but it was good to hear it "officially" from him, and to hear that all my bloodwork was good. I told him I was feeling kind of anxious lately, and he said that 2 years seems to be the time when it really sinks in that, yes, I had cancer, and nothing is guaranteed. He also told me that I have a very good prognosis for no recurrence, that I have one of the best Oncotype reports he has ever seen.  Next visit is in June, and I have to have an MRI at that time. No particular reason-it's just his standard of care.

    I can't really think of any part of my life I would like to have a do-over on, except the cancer part and maybe the part where my daughter called me from jail......that's a story for another day!

    Mary 

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  • sewingnut
    sewingnut Member Posts: 1,129
    edited December 2011

    Mary,

    Still giggling about your jail comment. We told our boys be prepared to stay in jail if they ever found themselves in that situation. We weren't bailing them out. This was after our son was in the back of a police cruiser for doing something stupid.

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    sewingnut-I haven't quite reached the point where I can laugh about the jail thing, but I'm sure that day will come eventually. Laughing She had to stay in jail over a long, holiday weekend because her father and I took the stance of not bailing her out. 

    Honestly, I sometimes wonder if the stress of that time(almost 4 years ago) was what triggered my breast cancer. Who knows?

    Mary 

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

    Whelp, it's official...no cancer. The onc wants to 'wait and see' if the pain stays. So if I still have pain in 6-8 weeks, then I get a CT scan. I may just grimace and bear it. The stress of the test was killing me.



    Mary, I wanna hear the daughter/jail story! I have one, too.



    I was 16 and a freshman in college. I was over at a friend's apartment studying (I lived at home then) and a knock came on the door before it was busted down by the police. They ran in the kit hen and grabbed the peppermint tea in a glass container and said 'mark this as evidence.' so down to the police station went we. They called my mother who arrived all wild-eyed and not believing me at all. So I was confined to my room, made me drop out of college, for six months. After which I was sent an apology letter for events that occurred that night. My parents still didn't believe me. I figured, 'what the hell.' and had my first joint about 7 months after the raid.

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    Wow, Barbara-that is a pretty exciting story. So the peppermint tea turned out to be just peppermint tea, and your parents still grounded you? 

    My daughter was actually 22 years old and out of the house living with her then-boyfriend, who I affectionately still refer to as "scum bag". He was an alcoholic, and I know he verbally abused her, and I suspect he physically abused her as well. She is no passive little thing herself, and they got into a big fight. She left their house because she was afraid of him, and called the police. He also called the police and told them she hit him. The police told her to meet them in a safe place, and when she got there, they put her in handcuffs and hauled her to jail for domestic violence. Scumbag had a friend at the house who swore up and down that my daughter hit Scumbag-my daughter had no one to vouch for her. It was a Friday night of a holiday weekend, and she could not be released until she went before the judge on Tuesday. Very traumatic time for all of us. Daughter actually went back to scumbag for awhile before she smartened up. I never want to go through that time again.

    Mary 

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    Where is everyone today?????

    Mary 

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

    Virg had me up at 4 this morning.  He had the runs, so I've been out of it.  I'm here though.

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

    I'm here but Santa's Workshop is in full gear and I am not spending as much time online. I have made 5 monster pillows for the 3-6 year old grandchildren and I have almost finished an appliqued and embroidered blanket for the littlest one. I found some bodies and heads for fake Cabbage Patch Kids at a resale shop and am making 3 of them for the one year olds. The blanket and 1 or 2 dolls will be finished on my day off tomorrow. They have to be. Next week is very busy, including a colonoscopy on Thursday because nothing says Merry Christmas like a colonoscopy.

    And if you are counting, yes I have 9 grandchildren and the oldest one is 6. Christmas is at our house this year. Bring on the Xanax. (Kidding, they give me so much joy.)

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2011

    Blue-just to clarify-Virgil is your dog, not your husband, right? Laughing

    Wow, rosemary-you have been busy! I still have some Christmas shopping to do, but I'm procrastinating. You're right, nothing DOES say Christmas like a colonoscopy. Here's wishing for an easy prep and good results.

    Mary 

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

    Yup, daVirg is my pup and he wants his mommy when he's not feeling well.  I'm off to bed.   See you all tomorrow.

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

    Wow Rosemary, nine? Yikes! No rest for you.

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

    Waving hello to everybody!

    I've been finishing up the last of my shopping, wrapping and mailing and just popping in and out of here at random times to peek at what you all have been up to.

    Rosemary ... I do not know how you do it all!  Did you schedule that colonoscopy just so somebody would knock you out for a hour or so of rest?!

    My Dad always told us he would come bail us out if we got in trouble.  But ... not in the middle of the night so don't call until morning ... and then - after he had his breakfast - he would probably come and get us Tongue out

    Mary ... I had a former BIL who was abusive to his wife.  Those situations are hellish.  Glad that your daughter got away from scumbag. 

    (((hugs))) to all that need one.  Hope today is good to everybody!

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited December 2011

    shopping? whats that? decorating? whats that? Told DH we needed to go get our tree--he said something about next week which led me to yell did he even know when Christmas is? I have high hopes to head out at lunch and do some serious stocking prep shopping. I have not one single gift for any monster---not a one.......



    So far, this Christmas, the one that was supposed to mark the return to normal is a BUST as the universe continues to pile on. Got txt from cousin in middle of office Christmas party--his mom, my aunt, is diagnosed with emphysema and is now in hospital. Feel dreadful for cousin as he was just able to get his crazy mother out of her hoard house and into a nice assisted living facility. Have yet to pass news to my mother who is state of permanent competition with her "little" sister --I bet you doughnuts to dollars that when she finds out her first response will be to figure out a way to remind us all that her health is worse than her sister's.



    Which may/may not be true (don't know how bad aunt is yet ) but good lord woman, you are NOT the only human in the world and its your little sister, fercryingoutloud..... sigh. . . . I don't know, i guess I am burned out with her all about me attitude. Not just in this instance but always--this is just who she is and its the sort of thing that makes me crazy. Since she retired--20+ years ago--she has done nothing but sit on her hinny and focus on herself. I get that being a single mom was hard & maybe she needed a bit of a break but still, but she had one kid and a good job and a nice retirement income. By contrast, my MIL worked just as many years as my mom but had 2 kids, a crappy job that left her not eatting some meals because there wasn't enough food, and spends her retirement volunteering at the senior center, doing her Lion's Club stuff, volunteering at the monster's schools, etc etc etc. sigh. Mom, BTW, moves to her new assisted living place (and off my sofa and out of my living room) TODAY!!!! She has no drs appts today so DH and she will be off to the store to get "stuff" for her place.



    My ooph remains set for Friday. I am concentrating on the idea that by Sunday, I will be making cookies and playing catch-up on Christmas. . . .maybe not realistic but its keeping me going. . . .



    hugs to all. . . .

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