MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Eph,  LOL.  Hubba, hubba, Santa Baby!  The Traffic Light Tree is a sculpture by Pierre Vivant, situated within a roundabout (of course, but nothing can control traffic in one of those) in London.

Mar,  Your house looks good, but where's that 6ft. neon pink candy cane I gave you last year?

LinsaKR,  Thanks for the Apple Cider Vinegartip for hot flashes.  I remember reading about that one and never did try it myself.  Am so interested in the "experiment" with juneaubugg, to see if she gets some relief.

Juneaubugg,  We all have been through various degres of discomfort from the flashes/sweats.  Yours sound severe, whereas I only felt like my head was trapped in a sauna!   Hope vinegar does the trick.

Over the weekend I was out and saw the flags around town lowered to half-mast due to the Sandy Hook shooting.  With no disrespect to the tragegy there, I said to my husband, "Well, in America, you could fly it like that every day."  Every day there is some tragic shooting (and I mean something other than in home invasion or defense scenarios,) although the magnitude of the CT shootings is "over the top" even by U.S. standards.  So, it should be apparent even to those who want to own guns that a good number of them are getting into the wrong hands, be it the mentally ill or the criminal (and all the overlap in between.) 

Happened to see a repeat of a Daily Show last night where John Stewart was announcing that NYC recently had a day where no one had been killed.  It was an anomaly.

Yes.  It's baaaack!  Just as old Bob Crachit carried young Tim on his back, I will be sliding thru' the streets this winter while hoisting my slight chemo-killing "partner in a pouch" effortlessly across my shoulder.  (You will see I have reconciled with my pouch for the moment, because it is no longer contributing to ripping my lips off my face.)   I'm at a lower (hopefully still very effective) dosage.  Other than a minor off-taste in my mouth, nothing out of line to report so far.  God Bless Us Pouch Wearers, Everyone!                  

Let him wonder, Police Force Barbe, many-faceted woman of mystery.   

Well, I'm not sure what is going on with the first pic (of a dog) because i saw it, then refreshed page and saw empty square outline, then refreshed again and didn't even see the outline of the pic.  Must be a hosting problem so I'm going to give it time to fix itself before I mess aorund further.

My mouth continues to heal, and I'd say I'm at 90% now, so I think I've passed the test with this chemo.  It really was not the chemo creating the problem.  That was the CT dye reaction, and the allergic reaction took A MONTH to work out of my system.  Why it was like this, I don't know, but I just reported the facts as they happened to me.  Pretty weird.  I am happy, happy I tell you, to be back on the chemo because I want the extra KILL POWER this chemo can provide.  I still hope to achieve a Complete Response, despite having to take a week off.  I told my body to try REAL HARD!