Fuzzy's Romp Room

Okay GMA....  we understand.  Sorry that we just can't feel safe here, with nosey people looking in.  Stay safe.

Can someone tell me what has happened to GMAF please?  Feeling a bit worried now if we are not safe here.......and very sad she does not feel its ok or safe enough to stay......

THank you for the lovely photo - i am so so sorry you are having to leave......take care....xx

Gotcha, FOLEY, I understand completely.  We will miss you so much.  I felt we had a bit of a connection there, both of us in the news biz and various other little thises and thatses (I know that's wrong, I take poetic license all the time). 

LADIES, I was watching TV with husband very, very late last night (very early this morning, I  guess maybe 4 a.m. or so), a very old Dick Cavett talk show (1973) with Katherine Hepburn, and she told this amazing story that in a movie, I assumed somewhere around the 1940s, she had to fall backwards into a canal, and she knew there was sewage in it, so she talked to a few people in homes in the area, until she found a lady that said she could take a tub bath at her house.  So, Hepburn does her acting scene, she went straight to that house, washed and washed, scrubbed out her mouth, nose, everywhere, plus her hair.  But she forgot all about her eyes.  To THAT DAY (she looked maybe 40-50, hard to tell), she said she will always have this bad infection in her eyes.  I couldn't catch all of it, I'm missing a couple tones in my hearing (my Dad has just about lost his hearing altogether, and both of us have had chemo, somewhat close to the same time...).  But anyhow, she said there was no cure, it would always aggravate her.  Now, she DOES cry a lot in the movies, but not becuz of her eyes. Now, I make a point not to swim in sewage, but I cannot BELIEVE how bad my vision has become.  I really need to get some new glasses and have the eye doc make sure my eyes are still good, just a tad wonky, or treatment if something is amiss. 

Today is the first day since before Xmas when I was in hospital with pneumonia, and I bought a calendar finally a few days ago, and I finally called my docs and set apointments for this month, and also ordered up a couple pills I had run out of, and i wrote on my new calender what the hell I'm supposed to be doing with myself.  My memory and sense of organization is not very good at all most of the time, partly becuz of his endless pain I have and also meds.  Anyhow, when I pulled all these papers and stuff out of my pocketbook, in preparation for doing the calendar, it appeared I had missed a couple appointments whilst in the hospital in March!  Turns out I really only missed one, and guess what, my stooopid mine was running out of steam after I got thru the second phonecall, and thus my cancer doc still needs phoning up.  I'll do it tomorrow when I do my bills (I really can just barely do one or sometimes two things per day).  A new medicine I take for just about anythhing that can happen to a person, and for me it's good for improved focus, and as I said in another post about sesame seeds, my depression is gone.  OH, and anyone who's interested, it's my new meds that have set aside that really sad bad mood, becuz I almost ran out of it, so missed a dose one morning, and within about an hour or so, coming back from the grocery store, i got to thinking about a parrot Richard used to have, and I began to cry.  Oh, our pets, we love them so, just as bad as we hurt when they go.  But I still am putting hulled sesame seeds in my food.  

I may add an online photo on the bottom here in just a minute, so until then, lovely, loving, lover ladies o'mine, and also special applause for our fuzzy Fuzzy, I care so much for you all, and I must say, I feel just exactly like you are a group of really good friends that I get to visit with anytime I want to.  Always, Gail 

This seems to be a pretty exciting group with all your craziness! It looks like there is an eclectic group here, maybe you can give me some feedback.

The doctor just put me on Cymbalta for nerve pain of the feet.. Have any of you tried this and what side effects did you have.

Lymphgirl, cymbalta has been shown to be very effective for diabetic neuropathy. SEs are different for each person. My mom has been on it for years for the diabetic neuropathy without any SEs, I tried it briefly for chemo-induced neuropathic pain, didn't help and I had horrible SEs, mostly fogginess, mood problems, dry mouth, sleepiness, tremors, nausea. I would suggest you give it a try because it can be extremely helpful if it works for you!



Greetings to all. Sorry to lose GmaFoley - I am also not knowing what it was that made her feel unsafe here.



I am sitting in waiting room today, so this is a quick post. Not feeling very talkative in general, but just wanted to let you all know I am thinking of each and every one of you, sending you much lovingkindess across the miles as you deal with the multiple challenges that ARE "the full catastrophe" of life....

Lymphgirl, some of the SEs will subside with time - it might be the dose is too high to start with. There seems to be a tendency for some docs to start with the recommended dose rather than working up to it slowly. One drug that I tried that we DID work up slowly on was Effexor, which was also a disaster for me, and then it took FOREVER to get off of it because you have to reduce dose slowly .... arggghhh!!!! I try to not discourage anyone from trying these drugs that are so helpful to so many, but my own personal experience has been one failed drug after another, so I ditched all of them a couple months ago and felt like a new woman. Now I have had to slowly add some of them back, one at a time, at the lowest possible dose for some symptom relief, and that seems to be working fairly well for me. Hang in there, work with your docs, but don't be hesitant to let them know exactly how you are doing with them.

Lymphgirl!  Hope the Cymbalta will help!  I know my friend had such a hard time walking, AND driving, because she couldn't feel her feet.  She finally had to give up the driving..... don't know if she had pain.....

I'll ask my neighbor guy who is 92 if he takes that for the diabetes/foot problems.... 

And Welcome!  Just grab a chair, and talk to us!

Oh veggy...I hope you are still sleeping...you no my motto...sleep and rest are healing.

(((((Veggy))))) hugs! Rest well.

Have a question for you. This site is so overwhelming, where could I find some help for Lymphedema? I have a few issues that I need help with.  And any other suggestions of some fun groups to join here?  

Lymphgirl!  Since you are new around here, try going to a special site FOR Lymphedema...  You HAVE Lymphedema?  Damn! 

And the groups that I read are Older women with BC...  Are you "old"? 

Lymphgirl - Welcome to Fuzzy's Romp Room. Sorry you had to join us.

VEGGY, oh I am so glad you made it thru it.  You already know the drill.  When I'd get mine, it was at the cancer center, and I'd have one or two days before the drugs slammed into me like a truck.  I took ACT, which the first two, AC, were quite rude, four times of those with two or three weeks in between, and I near 'bout quit the program after the first one, but doc gave me some meds to take away the miseries.  The T was Taxol, once a week for a couple months, much easier, until towards the end, when I looked like death warmed over!  Sleep ALL you want to, dah'lin. 

YA'LL, I am convinced it is the other drug I got from my psych that indeed took away my depression entirely, not the sesame seeds, SO FORGETTABOUT sesame, as DREAMERS reported it is "estrogenic," and the cancer studies say they tend to contribute to the growth of cancers.  But the new meds are causing some joint pain that is wretched.  So, when I see my neuro, I'll tell him about it, see what he can do pain-wise. 

The reason I really do think now sesame had nothing to do with it, and rather it's the new meds doing it, is I've kept the sesame and ran out of the new med day before yesterday, and I have been SO miserable ever since.  All day today I have been in ruins.  Perhaps it's becuz I had talked to my psych about calling into my pharmacy enough of those new pills to get me to her appointment, plus one extra, to make three.  But she didn't call it in yesterday, which is not like her, so I have to call and see if it's in, perhaps shortly after lunch.  Whenever I have to go somewhere, it just freaks me out.  I have become a stalwart homebody, altho I do go out with some regularity, but usually no more than once a week, except when I wrangle a month off by asking husband to do the groceries a couple times.

I was going to write about a greenhouse I want to have someone build perhaps next year, but I'll save that for another time.  I gotta go call and see if my meds are in.  Always, GG

Chevy....ya no i love ya but damn you asked the new girl if shes old.....i liked her answer....