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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited July 2010

    Get out your journal and kvetch it up. I am in the airport awaiting second flight of the day and iKm going to........ Drumroll; VEGAS. Seriously!!!! Someone's paying me to go. LOL



    This is my first cross country solo adventure since --- well knowing all of you!!!



    Hubby sent me off with some pretty great DOTDOTDOT....so I still have a smile on my face.



    Will see how I manage upon hours crossing the country!!!!



    I hope you get back to your new normal real quick like. Cuz we count on you lifting us up. Good to know you're a card carrying earthling--like the rest of us.



    Gentle hugs.

    xx00xx00xx00

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  • Suzybelle
    Suzybelle Member Posts: 920
    edited July 2010

    HA!  Faith, I am definitely a card carrying earthling (or Martian)...I am hanging in.  I sat in church this a.m. and thought about what kira said about a flare-up being biological...that makes so much sense to me.  When my arm is giving me trouble, I just want to crawl under my bed with a platter of brownies.  ARGH.

     Kane, thanks so much for the kind words...you are such a sweetie.  I think we may have been separated at birth!

    I'm taking it easy today and drinking lots of lemon water trying to get some of this fluid off of me.  If I'm not better tomorrow, I'm calling my LE therapist. 

    I really wish you ladies could have been in Whole Foods with me...it would have been SO much easier.  Kiss

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited July 2010

    Can't believe how in depth you got in the check out line!! You must have gotten a truck load of goodies?!?!?!



    I will channel you in vegas if I need backup amidst the cleavage and gorgous ones. LOL



    ((((((((Suz)))))))))

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited July 2010

    Can't believe how in depth you got in the check out line!! You must have gotten a truck load of goodies?!?!?!



    I will channel you in vegas if I need backup amidst the cleavage and gorgous ones. LOL



    ((((((((Suz)))))))))

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited July 2010

    Seriously. I just can't believe it!!



    Hate when my phone posts twice, LOL

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  • Suzybelle
    Suzybelle Member Posts: 920
    edited July 2010

    I know!!!!!  And I forgot mushrooms and lemons!!!!!!!!  I have never seen teenagers be so interested in another human being...it was totally bizarre.  I wanted to crawl in a hole.

    Have fun in Vegas!!!!  Slap on some lipstick, sparkles/spangles/fringe and put a big smile on your face and don't wory about the cleavage...and you are already a gorgeous one, honey.  Cool

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited July 2010

    Suzy, I'm out of town also, in DC visitiing my daughter and it's hot as anything here. Binney's computer is down.

    Personally, I would go with the Otter approach to the whole foods thing: "Honesty, dear, why would you ask such personal questions."

    Flares suck big time, on so many levels. The heat, hormons, activities, food could all bring it on, but we want to KNOW, so it won't happen again...

    Get those brownies out, call the LE therapist, and know that it will pass.

    Kira

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  • sisterinspirit
    sisterinspirit Member Posts: 204
    edited July 2010

    Maybe it's eating all those brownies under the bed that has caused me to put on 10 pounds this last year.  Aargh!

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited July 2010

    Oh, my gosh, you guys, I've missed you all! (My internet has been down for over a week.Tongue out) I love your spunk and spirit and even your funks, and it's been lonely without each of you. Suzanne, I'm wondering if "under the bed with brownies" might be the LE cure we've all been hoping for! Why don't the researchers ever try looking under the bed?!

    Be well!
    Binney

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited July 2010

    ill add a ditto to that, suzybell. youre usually so cheerful to be around, im sorry youre down. i know how it feels to be out, and just wanna go home, and get attatcked by a bunch of teenagers, asking all kinds of ridiculous.. i do the same thing as you. i remember just how i was at their age, and thank God i got outta there Alive ! i know when i DO get down these days, its either the bloat they havent figured out..that's most of it. the other, IS the LE. just the heat alone will cause all the flare ups we all have been having. so please, girls, try not to over do .ANYTHING till it cools down some    light and love,   3jaysmom

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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited August 2010

    Hi, all!  I'm bumping this thread because of something that happened at my 40th high school class reunion yesterday.  I think sometimes we assume our LE sleeves, gloves, etc., are more conspicuous than they really are.  The Whole Foods thing is obviously an exception, where people's powers of observation and intrusiveness are extraordinarily keen.

    Okay, the class reunion....  A classmate of mine was dx'd with stage II BC late last year.  She went through chemo during winter and early spring, and finished rads in June.  (I learned all that on FB, BTW.)  I hadn't "talked" to her for a month or so; so I was happy to meet up with her at the reunion.  We spoke a couple of times during the afternoon, and finally toward the end of the event I had a chance to sit down with her and share stories.

    I'll bet we talked for 10 or 15 minutes before I noticed the sleeve and gauntlet.  It was an outdoor, picnic-like event on a hot and steamy day, so everyone (including my classmate with BC) was dressed in shorts or capris pants and short-sleeved or sleeveless shirts.  I had to look twice to be sure I was seeing compression garments and not skin.  They fit her very well.

    So I asked -- "I see you're wearing a sleeve...".  (After all, we'd been talking about chemo and hair loss, so I figured LE was fair game.)  "Yes," she said, "I had my first lymphedema therapy session yesterday."  So the garments were brand-new.  She looked discouraged, even as she tried to act cheerful.  "I thought I was all done with treatment.  I thought I was at low-risk for lymphedema -- I never expected this.  I guess I was in denial." <sigh>

    She had been mingling with classmates all afternoon.  I think pretty much everyone knew she'd undergone BC treatment.  I don't know how many people asked her about the LE garments, but I doubt it was very many.  My classmates -- heck, everyone I've been around since my BC dx 2-1/2 years ago -- have all been so darn cautious and considerate.

    I don't know where all the jerks got the idea they could ask us personal questions.  (And I keep my favorite "Southern" reply at the ready, in case I need it.)  I'm just very glad I live in a part of the country where people seem to keep their nosiness to themselves.

    Hugs...

    otter

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  • Suzybelle
    Suzybelle Member Posts: 920
    edited August 2010

    I find that the majority of offenders are teenagers/young adults and middle-aged men.  Don't ask me why. 

    I was at a family reunion Friday night and a young woman in her mid-twenties asked me my fave question, "What's wrong with your arm?"  I replied that it was a complication from surgery I had in Feb. this year, and she asked, "What kind of surgery did you have?"  I replied (very patiently) that I had a double mastectomy, and this was a side effect of the surgery.  She asked (and I am not lying), "Why did you have a mastectomy?"

    I started to tell her that I'd had it to get some extra weight off, but I just told her it was breast cancer, and did not add  "DUMBA$$" to the end of my statement.  Bless her heart!!!

     Seriously.  Just when you think the bar for stupid cannot be raised any further, someone will come along and jack it up just a little bit higher.  Tongue out

     You gotta love it!!!!!

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  • Janeluvsdogs
    Janeluvsdogs Member Posts: 242
    edited August 2010

    "Bar fight."

    That usually brings questions to a screaming halt.

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  • Janeluvsdogs
    Janeluvsdogs Member Posts: 242
    edited August 2010

    Suzybelle, I did have a ten year-old boy ask me what a breast was when I told him I had breast cancer. Apparently in his house they only use the word, "boob" so he was really embarrassed.

    Then I felt bad.

    And then he felt bad because it was clear his family was a little crude.

    Ya can't win.

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  • kane744
    kane744 Member Posts: 461
    edited August 2010

    Yesterday I volunteered at the Horse Park (a free day, so it was packed) and my job was to stick photos of kids on a pony onto a fridge magnet.  All the parents were crowded around waiting for theirs and so my sleeve/gauntlet were very visible.  Not one single person mentioned it.  I was amazed.  PLUS, our volunteer shirts are blue and I wore my blue garments, so it was really visible.  Are Kentucky people just more polite???  Also, I did this for six hours and didn't swell.  Am so happy about that.

    Also, to all my friends here.  I am gonna be really busy from here on cause the World Equestrian Games are next month and we're more and more taken up with those activities.  Just didn't want you to think something was wrong with me!  I am going to start a new topic, however.  Hit and run.

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  • GmaFoley
    GmaFoley Member Posts: 7,091
    edited July 2012

    I decided to bump this one up to the top.. Today will be my first day at work with my sleeve on. I work in a fabric store and know I will get lots of comments.  If anyone is still here - please help me with some witty comments.

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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited July 2012

    "Competitive arm wrasslin'...keeps me limber. With my temper it is good to have physical outlet. Sometimes I just get so MAD!..."

    I said this to a very intrusive old biddy a couple of years ago....and her eyes got really big and she backed off.

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  • mags20487
    mags20487 Member Posts: 1,591
    edited July 2012

    love it Moogie...I am one of those people who seems to always give out TOO much information.  I have tried to be short and sweet but really need to come up with something to stifle the questions it would be great.  I own a retail store and work with the public all day.  I have to be careful not to be rude to my customers also so "smartass"-which comes really easy to me- just will not work.

    Maggie

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  • cooka
    cooka Member Posts: 278
    edited July 2012
    "If I tell you, I have to kill you."   That seems to work pretty well! Laughing
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  • Outfield
    Outfield Member Posts: 1,109
    edited July 2012

    I haven't used this for lymphedema, but used it when I had two black eyes, a broken nose with a split on top of it and 3 missing front teeth (sports injury coincidental with losing a bridge).

    Just say it kind of low and a little surly,

    "A fight."   

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  • GmaFoley
    GmaFoley Member Posts: 7,091
    edited July 2012

    Thank you ladies - I love it - I actually had a new uniform shirt that had short sleeve that were a little long for me so my sleeve didn't show much.. I didn't get one comment until the last lady I helped and she was truly concerned... Didn't say anything to get me mad... When she heard that it took a year for the surgeon to decide to send me to a LE therapist after my urging him she said, "That's why I refuse to use the doctors in town"... I said - You use who you have to use when you don't have insurance.. she shut up...

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited September 2013

    Bumping for the 'grrr thread'

    Sheila

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited August 2015

    Bumping!!  Thanks, Binney for this link in the other thread.  

    * I was attacked by an alligator**   since I live in FL,,,, seems appropriate.

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited August 2015

    Actually, Glennie, I used "Alligator attack" once too, and I live in the Southwestern desert. Left the guy staring. We both ended up laughing.

    Be well!
    Binney

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  • amygil81
    amygil81 Member Posts: 165
    edited August 2015

    "Sex accident!" That's what I tell them.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2015

    Glennie! I like this thread!!! Shark attack works good too!!

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited August 2015

    🐊Alligator bites - May not be funny to anyone else but it is to me.🐊

    One of Younger Son's teacher asked him how he had gotten some scars (he had a fantastic plastic surgeon after a severe dog bite) when he was in kindergarten or 1st grade how he got the scars and he told her that a 'gator jumped out of the tree. It was a while before I talked to her and she told me it was so lucky to have lived after a 'gator attacked him from the tree! I guess it was just because she had never lived in SW FL (only NW WA) could have believed such a crazy story but she definately did.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited August 2015

    Well, where Glennie lives, a Gator could fall out of a tree and nobody would blink. I'm a bit farther south of her, so I'll be sure to watch our trees. LOL. 🌴.

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  • SusanSnowFlake
    SusanSnowFlake Member Posts: 165
    edited August 2015

    I go with, I'm part Cyborg. But I may use amygil81's answer, I like it best!

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited August 2015


    Part Cyborg,,, I like that Susan!

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