how about drinking?

Tiedye - Reading back a ways...so sorry bout the oral thrush. I battled that all through chemo and my nurse kept telling me it would get better when my immune system got back to normal. It did get better and I'm sure yours will too. If you want any details about what worked for me send me a PM and I'd be happy to share, but really it didn't clear up until chemo ended, it was just a matter of daily battling it. Shoot, reading your dx at first I was so happy to see atypia, but then there was the carcinoma part too. I know that atypia is not cancer but could develop into cancer over time. I'm not much help with any of the other part. I had stage 2 IDC (invasive ductal carcinoma). Rat B*stard.

Goldie - loved your Valentine poem, thank you! BTW how are the allergies? It's way too early for mine to kick in yet as it is dumping snow still. Love your 1 yr hair pics too, but you is too pwetty to be a bozo! Thanks for all the wunnerful DOTDs too!

NM -. I was sorry to read about your bad experience with no consult before procedure and that you're thinking of skipping the scope & colonoscopy...I hope you will look for another better doctor cuz that one sounds screwed in the head. Also sorry to read about your mom, I thought she was doing well after surgery but now readmitted? Wahine's prescription is right on, relaxation for you. You have been under so much stress.

K de D - thank goodness your biopsy was negative for cancer and bacteria! Yay! And yippee that you get to dwink a widdle bit again!

ADorKable - So happy to hear about your raise at woyk! And darn I missed another lamp shade party...loved all the pics!!!

Bernie - love the jokes, so many good ones. LOL at the sleeping pup!

Scuby - great news you will be staying green in Philly.

Karen - LOL at the living will!

Mema - OMG about dat Orth and getting stuck so bad, ouch! Crazy doctor is right!

Mrs V - Love the Merf name for MRFF, cute!

Unde - wow, what a story about the trash bag and your slip on the pineapple and all...so glad you didn't get that aquarium on your head. Love the scissors story too and I'm a soul mate, once when my folks were having a dinner party I got scissors and cut me some real short, crooked bangs!

Husker - good idea not to ski after neck surgery. I go out for a little XC skiing, but I am so darn careful anymore and there is no one else around. Since I had rads on one side they said my ribs could be more prone to breaking so I have to be so careful with my bod. Loved the devil sock monkey pic!

Chrissy - great to see ya pop in da bar!

NM - Happy Birthday Sweet NM Princess Glitter Sizzle! I am so happy you got born a few years back there and I'm so lucky to have met you here at the HTL. Thank you so much for all your super fantastic, great, fun, heartfelt posts and rants and for your understanding so well about our posts and rants. Here's to many more years of soap box rants and good drinks! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Foyst here is a joke for you:

A man was disturbing a nurse by asking lame questions every now and then, he asked, "How can I lose twelve pounds of ugly fat?

Nurse: "Cut your head off."

Now some wed woses:

Some wed wine:

A pwetty wed boyfday cake wif lotta fukitols to take or hand out to friends:

And a big old HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH from DaBean:

 

Hope you are feeling better soon!

I'm sawwy if I missed anyone...I have to confess I been in a funk since Valentines. Some family issues that came up that day...blah, blah, blah, so anyway, it was awful. Just feel like crawling in a hole. But first I'm grabbing a big bottle of vodka.

Sending love and hugs to all HTL Hotties. Happy Fat Tuesday...hmmmm...must be back for dwinks at Pau Hana.

Cheers!

Stopped in to say Happy Mardi Gras!!!!  Off this afternoon....good thing as I'm having major case of the anxieties....if I keep eating like I did this morning, I'll look like the lady in the pic above.......just eating out of nervous energy....took 1/2 Ativan, but dont' think it will do anything......Taking DD out to lunch then to eye exam for new glasses and contacts...then I need to go to my favorite bookstore for work....and of course I'm way behind with work and my class so need to make myself do that tonight...with the help of wine....Hugs,

bernie safe travels, good wishes to your friend and a speedy recovery too, as one who loves your jokes and your fur babies pictures ,thank you for all the smiles you give me     beans,how about some pear vodka just for a change, and take it with (((hugs))) , nm where are you ? and are you still wearign the lampshade!

Anyone here for Pau Hana???? And NM, I hope your mom is okay...now I am worried since you haven't been here for 2 days (well its been longer than that, but you were prolly working this weekend). Hoping your mom is doing well, and you will pop in the HTL soon!

ChEARS Dears!

Katie is Latie on de Dwinkin

Hi Karen, I'll dwink wid ya, but will bwing my Moscato....sweet whites are what I like, but I will keep ya company and we can have some FUN!!!!

Hola Wahine!! I'm in with Chardonnay. Karen, u having red? Yum

Wahine, Mrs V, Karen - I'm here for a dwink...vino sounds good

Form is impotant wen powing de homemade hooch, wink wink ;-)

Cabernet.....the cork gave me a fit coming out.....but its was worth the effort!!!  Now if I could just have a good cry!!!!  Damn it...I need one....but how?  How do I get my body to let go!!!!  Not a good night....so will keep pouring the wine.....

Oh Pants, tank you for powing de homemade hootch for yese. We lubbed your form...and gwate job Allie in tailing Pants how to bow. For a minute dere, me taught dat you told him to soyve de wine and look like he bowling and not bowing hehehe. I like him eidder way and tink we all jest love his cute speedo. I'm glad he did not eat too muchly todey, his little tight arse still look goood to mese.

Lawri, so funny about de Stella knocking over de bucket tingy. Me cant believe dat. Your DH tinking you been hanging out too muchly at de lounge, dat is my guess . 

Well hello to all yese goils, sarwy can't talk much on dis dey but wese tired. Me and de Stella. She gonna sing me a lullaby disnight! Yippee, I dwink to dat. I dwink to anyting, weally for weal! 

Cheers me goils! 

Aww, tank you Alli-gatey-lady, hehehe. oops, you not alligatey lady, you are fro-goil hehehe.

oh dat dere hootch with some jaaaaack and cooooooke is sooooooooooooo goooooodliest! 

Tank you Alligatelylady Ross! I do desoyce a fn bwake but instead, mese dwink. All night, mese dwink. No bed, screw bed. I dwink more!! Chheeesr!

Drunkenness is betta tunite, I agwee!! No sewgewies Fo u tonite, jus de homemade hooch, de JD n coke, n de painkillers Lowi makes up in de batch full in de pot dat fewl out a de shady wady, K? An mese done tink Stella did dat, mese Tinkin mis Junie wanna stiw bees hewe in de HTL, so she shook de pot awf de shewf to get sum attenshun, K? Lub u mrs Junie, tank u Fo bein hewe wit our Moby Doik wy she go tru dis tuff time.

Nite, not note!!!!

A couple was invited to a swanky masked Halloween Party. She got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed, and there was no need of his good time being spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went. The wife, after sleeping soundly for one hour, awakened without pain, and as it was still early, she decided to go to the party. In as much as her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him.

She joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice chick he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his partner high and dry and devoted his time to the new stuff that had just arrived.

She let him go as far as he wished; naturally, since he was her husband. Finally he whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and had a little bang. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior.

She was sitting up reading when he came in and asked what kind of a time he had had. He said, "Oh the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there." The she asked, "Did you dance much?"

He replied, "I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the den and played poker all evening. But I'll tell you... the guy I loaned my costume to, sure had a real good time!"

Mornin' Loungettes. Just a quick pop on to say I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. Been a crazy bit a of a few days for me. Mom was readmitted to the hospital on Friday. I found out Monday morning that on Saturday she got 4 units of blood transfused, and a central line put in, then taken to the OR Sunday morning to clean out a huge hematoma and put a drain back in. Apparently things went well because she went home yesterday afternoon. As for me, I took myself to walk in care on Sunday evening with what I thought was my asthma kicking up from the wet weather and worrying about Mom and found out that I was running a fever, too. So here I've been home with steroids and drinking enough fluids to float a battleship so that I pee every time I cough and so tired I care barely get out of my own way. Yeesh. On the up side, no more fever since yesterday so I don't have pneumonia, feeling better (as in coughing without peeing myself), Mom is on the mend, and I still have 2 whole days of doing nothing before going back to work. I think a long hot shower is in the plan for today at some point.

I'm not going to try to play ketchup, but I am going to skim the posts here and see if I can get a sense of what I've missed.

Karen--having appointments changed around is stressfull, hang in there. Praying for your SIL. And we all deserve some whining time occasionally!

Tidy--your path report says the tumor was what we call Triple Positive, positive for estrogen and progesterone receptors, and positive for over-expressing Her 2, which is an element associated with agressiveness. The A part is an area that has pre-cancerous findings. The B part was cancer that probably started in the loblule rather than the duct, and was found just outside the lobule. Somewher e in some other report are the measurements, and the info about finding any stray bc cells in any lymph nodes or not. Also there is not a mention of grade here, so you don't have a complete pathology report yet. This may be a preliminary report. Ask your onc for the full info: number of tumors, size of each tumor (or at least the biggest), how close the margins were (how close cancer cells were found to where the tumor was cut out), the grade, how many lymph nodes were removed and examined, did any have stray bc cells in them. Tell your onc you want to know the TNM status and the stage. Have him/her write it down or copy the reports and bring the info back here and we'll help you interpret it.

Oh. Wow, I missed a GREAT b-day partay!!!!! Thanks Goils!
Let me guess, Did Mr. Big jump out of the cake???? I was so hoping for Pants (minus his, of course!) Oh, my, opening more pwesents and thinking I wasn't having a fever after all--at least not the the kind you get from a virus! And look, I got flowers for my birthday! Edible ones, even! Da Birfday nurse is nursing herself but can't wait to get a sugar high!!! Aha, I knew there would be enough pills and shots and stuff to get me through the party! All my favs, too! LUV the guy jumping out of the cake, AND I like the Christmas tree in the background, too!

OK, I must be on the mend, seeing all the b-day cakes and Fat Twosday yummies had made me hungry for something besides gingerale!

Oh, DorKy, I'm so upset your implant has shifted. So NOT FAIR!!!

Ok, time to fix some breakfast, take a nap, pick up around the house a little, take a nap, then decide what to do with the rest of the day. Can't visit Mom with this cold, she'll freak. At least I can talk to her on the phone.

Latah, all! And thanks for the b-day partay! And for saving me some cake!