Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

flannelette...I could never kill an animal either...but I am all for eating meat that lived a good life.  I want my husband to hunt the turkeys we have around here...but he isn't big on killing either...sigh.  We buy free range grass fed local beef.  But I'd rather get the meat wild...

Let's hear it for morphine!  I know it got me through my time at the hospital after my mastectomy.

SoCalLisa...yuuuummmmm....  nothing like eyeballs...

I wouldn't mind eating the rabbit - in fact I like rabbit stew - but I'd definitely draw the line at eyeballs!!!! 

I can relate to that Lassie.  Being a bit autistic, I've never been able to feel any links to festive occasions, and was careful never to tell my boys about santa except to say he was a mythological character.  Once they were going to school and figured out what mythological meant, I had to ask them not to break the secret to other children as other mothers were horrified that I didn't lie to my kids. I had some strong warnings from other mothers and had to placate them.  I notice other aspies (with aspergers') are also very literal and don't lie about santa.  My youngest told me he missed out on the fairy tale aspect and wished I'd told the story, not the truth.  My eldest was pleased I hadn't lied, he's a very active atheist and skeptic now. 

I remember reading how the psychiatrist R D Laing was devastated as a child when he realised his parents had lied about santa and then questioned religion and whether there was a god.  How can we trust someone who has lied to us?  In the end I think it just makes us more careful about what we believe and more immune to cults and peer pressure.

Any word yet, Arlene? You've been on my mind today.

--CindyMN

I never, never  believe that they would call....too many times in my life they did not and should have...so I always call to check

Thanks so much, Notself. Lisa - they set me up for an onc. visit when they started getting suspicious, so that's this thurs - but yes, sometimes they do not call back.

In 2008 when I was DX there was a huge paperwork f-up - the lady who ran the Breast Assessment clinic went on holidays and somebody in the radiology dept actually phoned me and told me I did not need a biopsy despite my calling 3-4 times over a few months. Then one day my own gp happened to be looking through my file and wondered why there was no biospy report. she called me right away. within 15 minutes I was booked for the biopsy. I had an 8cm tumor of IDC. I could have died, if not for that gp, who is now retired, and whenever I bump into her socially I thank her for sving my liffe - well, thanked enough now - now we just give each other a hug.Best dr I ever had.

My bad mammo was in April 2008 showing extensive calcifications. My biopsy was not till something like into July. At my initial surgeon's visit outlining course of treatment, after we all left the room, the Nurse Navigator ran to catch up to me and said "SOMEBODY has to tell you this isn't a death sentence". They could not believe the size of my tumor coinciding with the big f-up. My surgeon never mentioned the word metastases until he was standing at the foot of my bed just pre-op. I think he was looking at me like I was a goner. I just looked at him and said - "you're concerned about metastases" and all he said was "yes". whew! my stage 2b was a gift from the universe, and that's when I became a really happy person and an optimist. I guess like many of us here, I stopped taking life for granted.

have a great weekend all

ps SUNFLOWERS! when ever I look here I think of you. Are you there??? reading??? then HUGS!!!

finally, results - all clear - yay! I called my surgeon's secretary this morning and no need to wait any longer - it was the rash from hell that did it. every friggin bone in my body scanned including both sides of my skull and right to fingetips, US, CT scans of pelvis and abdomen, breast MRI, 6 nodes dissected - whew! talk about nowhere to hide. oh well - now I know that I'm 4 yrs out and no sneaky metastases lurking, as in Canada they only do this stuff if there's a symptom - probably elsewhere too, as I'd think it's very $$$. yay! had a cup of tea, fish & chips fr lunch, some baklava for dessert, and went swimming. thanks, all, for your good thoughts of the rashy kind

Yay!!!  I'm so happy to hear the good news.

So pleased for you, Flannelette!

Some religious people came to my front door today with a pamphlet about how the violence in the world is going to end. It was fun, if not a bit cruel to argue with them a bit. What sort of brain washing does it take to think it is OK to come on someone's front porch uninvited and try to make them believe the mythology they believe? I took some of their time, but not their pamphlet.

Still pretty new to all this and while i wouldnt say i' m precisely an atheist,, i think its possible there ia some sort of higher power but no real concrete ideas on who or what it may be. I have had a few wonderful people say they will pray for me and i just say thank you. Dont know that it will help, but dont know for sure that it wont . Just my thoughts.....

So very happy for you flannelette!  What a relief!

L