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

Some numbers to share:

Colorado: 65.7% Chance of an Obama win  (Up from 62.6%)

Florida: 55.9% Romney  (Down from 58.8%) If this crosses over to even a slim Obama lead by election day, Mitt better hope the GOP puts their electron fraud into high gear.

Iowa: 79.6% Obama  (Up from 78.4%)

Nevada: 87.2% Obama (Up from 85.2%)

New Hampshire: 78.7% Obama (Up from 75.2%)

North Carolina: 81.1% Romney (Up from 80.8%) Look! Good news for Romney! 

Ohio: 80.7% Obama (Up from 79.9%) Look! Bad news for Romney!

Virginia: 64.8% Obama (Significantly up from 61.3%) Virginia going to Obama is game over. Romney is going to have to rely on a lot of “irregularities” to carry the election.

Wisconsin: 93.0% Obama (Down from 88.0%) I think Wisconsin just went from “swing state” to “Obama win.”

Yea Team

Jackie

Mitt saying he is for "real change."

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

I DO have ninja cancer! It's invisible to mammogram, ultrasound, and now PET/CTs. It gives up on lymph nodes and establishes its own country. In my NECK. And now it might be her2+. WTF.



Sandy, I haven't consulted with the radiation onc yet but I need at least two more weeks to heal from surgery.

Athena - I'm taking Exemestane (generic Aromasin).  I'll leave my med history in below....I did the "normal" heavy duty chemo ACT....plus an added dose of Carboplatin (5 of 6 weeks...the easiest of them all), as it works especially well on brca cancers....5 months of chemo ending 8/1.  Never had hot flashes during chemo.

E- how did you find that tumor?  Could you just feel it?

Neuropathy is a common SE of some chemos and AIs can cause the feeling that your body's temperature isn't well regulated. They may also cause aches. 

Ninja E - Yah (sword swish)!

Kam -



I felt the lump and my GP sent me for a PET. It didn't show anything but I asked for a biopsy.

E - I have the same "ninja" cancer - mine didn't show up this last time on either mamo or U/S - having a CT scan next week to see if anything shows up anywhere else - what a sneaky rotten disease this is...

Kam - there are numerous threads about AIs and their se's and some of the information is quite enlightening and no you're not imagining things but there are lots of oncs out there who will act very surprised that there are se's and try to tell you, "you're getting older", "it's just arthritis", "it's from your chemo", "it's all in your mind" - whatever - there are se's and for some of us they are severe.

Sandy - E- you two ninjas have to show us your swordmanship and fight. We can learn much from you.

E - it took immense courage for you to insist on a biopsy. I bow before you. I would have chosen denial (and fared badly as a result). You deserve the ninja title.

Sandy - do you have a game plan for treatment - or does that come next week?

Athena -



I gird my loins for battle by hiding under my bed and producing dust bunny puppet shows. I am wise in the ways of the farce.

I've thought about pain pills, but (laughing) I'm deathly afraid of medication!!  Yes, believe it or not.  Especially anything psychotropic.  What kind of pain pills did you take?

Kam - Vicodin, like Dr. House but I don't take a handful at a time!



Athena - I can't fit a large audience under my bed so don't sell too many tickets!

Kam, I've taken Tramadol for the achy joints of Aromasin, before I was switched to Arimidex. I liked it because it didn't make me either sleepy or high, but worked much better than Motrin or Aleve. It might be worth asking your doc for a script and try it. It's pretty cheap as a generic.

E- you can always film the dust bunny shows.  Yeah for clear margins. 

Kam - I've never liked pain pills either, but I've given my father with Alzheimer's TRamadol for back pain.  It seems to help somewhat.

Oh the joy of watching Rachel and Lawrence. 

Really really sad to see pictures of what's happened in the rest of the state and in New York, esp. Staten Island.  I've just been listening on the radio - doesn't compare to the visuals.  Meanwhile, impressive gas lines around here. Bringing back my youth.

Yes, the great joy of watching Rachel and Lawrence..... so I went in the other room and watched it for a second time, and there are a couple of others I don't mind.  Sure seems like the Repugs loser's corner is trying to fill up.  Of course, there will be a hue and cry, and fraud, and all sorts of chicanery ----  it is easy to dish out but hard to take it on the chin.  If you keep doing what you have always done, you will keep getting what you've always got.  The Regressive Repugs just don't learn very well.  They tend to pick losers and wonder why no one could see how wonderful they were. 

Jackie,

not so articulate but happy with the latest GOOD news.

Suzie, I hear you. My husband is a life-long Republican and he is referring to this year's candidates as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Even Jon Stewart quipped that we seem to have only one model of president this year (after Romney agreed with Obama on virtually everything in the last debate), but at least we get a choice of color, sort of like an iPhone.

Chris Christie is a straight talker. I don't know that much about him, but he has made a few moves here and there that I can only applaud. He seems to have a brain at least, underneath the rolls of fat. Romney just seems so stooooooopid. Logically he can't be completely brain-dead, but he got bitch-slapped by Cameron! If that doesn't make you a weenie, I don't know what does.