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

Just saying hi this evening....it is hard to keep up here.  You all sound strong, competent an confident  -- or now and then gullible.  Nothing so wrong with that.  Maybe it is another way to hope......because in that regard I'd have to say I'm gullible as well. 

Hopefully I'll get up to speed ( in a month or two ) and learn to identify you all better.  I'm not near as sharp as most of you....but that is part of the joy in sharing the company. 

Hope you all have a great night. 

Jackie

Even my DH, Mr. Perfect, is puzzled why I spend time on BCO. I remind him that my bc came back, and I remain for the community. I don't venture much outside here (certainly almost never to the alt threads!) and only occasionally chime in outside here to help -- mainly because I had a recurrance and that terrifies newbies.



I stay here because I know a lot of women, have been around a long time (date on avatar not withstanding, I joined in July 2007), and have friendships here I cherish. And I can help women here on this thread, too.



Libertroll

I am so keenly aware of the fact that I need BCO that I don't even bother to justify it to myself. You enter the cancer world and you don't get to say when you exit it.

Mostly though, as my dear friend the libertroll has just said, the friendships here are invaluable to me. They have helped and enriched my life more than I can say.

PERMISSION TO RANT AS A RESIDENT OF THE CITY WHOSE MOTTO IS "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION":

So the Republican Party platform this year has written in --amongst many other things-- that the party does NOT support DC statehood or expansion of voting power in congress ('you have all these democrat workers who work for the federal government, so the federal government is democrat, so they have enough representation in congress' - that's how someone from the party reasoned it on NPR this morning - I am paraphrasing). And the platform will also call on the DC city council to expand gun ownership riules (I forget the details).

Big GOPvernment!

I live in a dictatorship, and I am in the capital of the "leader of the free world." The irony never ceases to amaze. Some of our rulers would like to shove imaging devices up our vaginas and guns down our throasts, we have no vote outside a house committee on Congress, and the people who do this are so stupid that they couldn't find their rear-end in the dark if they had a torch and a map.

And our city representatives never seem to have met an anti-corruption law they didn't like to break. 

Thank you for listening. :-)

I like to come here because I learn new stuff - like Athena's post above.  Primarily though, it provides a grounding place for discussions about breast cancer with the effect that it doesn't become a constant in my conversations elsewhere.  It's perhaps a focus point and life outside here carries on mostly as before.

I'm with HL. Only hang here, and HAPPY TO HELP if one of the gangstas need support, information, entertainment, this is my place - venture out to read for information that might still help ME ( going into year 6 on Arimidex) but have learned my lesson(s) from various sources at BCO to just stay quiet. Feel I still have valuable experience to share, but no longer willing to take the flack for it.

Interesting reading for today ( for those not reading the New York Times) chuckled with the reference to Colonial Times, heck, we learned that analogy FIRST here at Yes/No.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/collins-the-sexual-spirit-of-76.html?_r=2&hp

Blue - understand completely re: hot & cold, remember to drink LLOTSA water after strenuous massage...gotta pee out that lactic acid, or whatever the toxins are that are now floating about inside..

Hi ladies - been busy lately, so haven't been here as much as I'd like.  On teh BCO theme, my hubby also wishes I wouldn't spend as much time on it.  The reason is a little different.  (Actually, two reasons...)  one, he sees me get depressed - sometimes severely - when someone I "know" disappears with no word, and I get scared that she has died.  two, I spend basically every minute at work on a PC.  He doesn't want me spending time on one once I'm home.  He has had a number of bouts with some fairly serious skin cancer, so is very aware of the fact that once you have cancer it's claws never leave your mind, even if it appears to be gone from your bod.

I love the fact that I've found some like-minded souls with whom I can share my thoughts.  At work I need to be fairly circumspect (though everyone knows I'm a liberal, I still cannot just speak my mind unreservedly).  I'm a bit of a hermit, so don't spend much (any) time socializing - which is actually one of the reason I'm a bit nervous about retiring....  work is about the only interraction I have with other people.

Yorkie, I think you and I had our nipple reconstruction the same week.  When are you planning on getting your tattooing?  I'm waiting until after our Hawaii vacation, so won't be doing it until January/February time range.

Whoops, gotta run!

Hi.  Off the the Bronx today with my 90 year old aunt for a cousin's grandson's bris.  Bris is the  term for the ceremony of circumcism, done publically in a synagogue.  Looking forward to seeing the family, but mixed about the ceremony.  Oh well, babies have survived for thousands of years.

Happy weekend everyone.  See you Monday or so.

false alarm....

Yorkie, my doctor said I could have them in 2 months, but I've chatted with people who have had regular design tattoos, and they have said that you can't get in the water for 6 weeks after a tattoo - which meant that I'd be just barely ready to get in the water when we leave - and the way things have gone for me, pretty much anything that could go wrong has.  That was why I decided to wait.  (Also, my first husband had a tattoo that got infected - it was really ugly).

Chickadee, hope you get to feeling better, real soon. 

I've had heartburn and horrible headaches every night lately.  The heartburn is, I think, due to the fact that I've been eating a few milk products of late, and they don't agree with me, too much.  The headaches go away when i get up.  My hubby is convinced I'm not getting enough oxygen (hmmmm - maybe he knows something he's not telling...  ), but this morning it crossed my mind that maybe I'm getting dehydrated at night.  For sure, when i get up I breathe different, and I drink something, as drinking a glass of water is the first thing I do in the morning.  Within about 5-10 minutes of rising, my headache is gone.  If I get one tonight, I think I'll just get up and drink some water, and see what happens.

Whatever that was last night, thankfully it was a one time thing. Onward and upward. I did pile a bowl of ice cream on top of everything yesterday and as much as I like ice cream, I've noticed lately it doesn't like me as much.



Should of had a margarita instead! Ha!



We are getting a reprieve this August. It's almost fall like outside and anyone in Texas knows August is a month for getting out of town or hiding from the heat.

It is weird. I have no problem with dairy, but when I eat tomatoes, it is like I ate hot peppers, lots of hot peppers. Isn't amazing how unique we are?

This comes under the category of You Can Not Make this Stuff UP.   I do miss Dave Barry.  It's on CNN, going viral  http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/us/texas-judge-warning/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Chickadee - we got lotsa room for you in MA....

Unf'nbelievable! So embarrassing to admit I come from that idiot state. Escaped 20 years ago, thank Gawd!

What Bren said - lol!

Chick, I'm from that area of Texas too. It really is the only civilized part of Texas.

I am thinking that they are right after all when they say that everything is bigger in Texas. You just never think about how this means that the idjuts are super-sized as well.