Fuzzy's Romp Room

GrannyDukes it's ok I can take it. I had someone today asked me if I was a senior. Told her how old I was and she said, that would qualify and gave me a discount. I'm bummed. I look THAT OLD! Got to be the meds.

Stopping in for some tx info and wanted to say hello.  Keep falling asleep while reading and typing, so a nap is next. Mon - Faslodex injections and onc's nurse.  Wed - bc MO.  She said tx is working for me, so we keep on. 

Read a few pages and like ya'all, cannot remember hardly a thing, but I laughed and cried just the same, while I was in the moment of reading.

LymphGirl, some good threads are 'OMG they found a cure for stupid' must read full thread for full benefit.  Also YKYACPW 'You know you're a cancer patient when'.....

I have one example that belongs on both those.

Had the Wed MO appt in Indy, 2 1/2 hrs away. Check each day for two week, what time, who when. Wrote it in a few places.  Made an appt for the vet to be same day but cancelled that idea.  Night before checked appt time 3x, that morning looked it up.  Left for Indy at 8:45 cst. Stopped for breakie on way. Cruised Kokomo and stopped at natural foods store then for frozen yogurt. Just moseying around.  Thinking it will be good to get home before dark, wish the appt was a little earlier.  Around 1:00, Hubby asked, is it 2 or 2:30?  I said, I cannot remember, I have to look it up.  I looked it up, and it was 12:30.  We were already so late at that point and 45 minutes away.  In my minimal defense, beside these horrendous memory and confusion issues, the vet appt had been 2:00.  MO still got me in.

Need to add.....

Crog, I am so sorry about your dad.  That is how my mom and dad seemed to have their exit arranged.  She barely made it to hospital, what with four x to rescusitate in ambulance, so she would have died.  Then my dad had the heart attack two days later.  Like they were leaving together - but I think their plans were foiled.  Your parents had it their way, together.  You made that possible for them.

eta, Gail, me too!!  I was always a wordy person, but w me I did not speak, I wrote.  Didn't start talking to people until I was 23, then I forgot myself and the older I get the more I talk.

Dunes - the farm where we purchase our eggs have white and brown, organic.  The ones who lay the white are gorgeous red hens.  They look like this.  These people love their chickens so much, free range, open nesting boxes.  Wish I could send you some of these eggs.  We told our granddaughter we were going to dye the brown eggs, but we just drew faces on them and told her not to crack these.

LOVESSA, such a comforting pretty picture of the little hen and her eggs.  She has a VERY nice nesting place.

DUNES, I am relieved you are all settled!!!

JOANIE, is that YOU???  Back when you and me and Fuzz fooled around with the chemo set about two years ago?  Yah, that medicine also makes my muscles and joints and bones hurt like crazy.  Am hoping my neuro will fix that new pain (I got SO many).

Well, guess I'll tell the greenhouse design in as quick a way as not humanly possible, but as Gailsey possible.  Either out front, but probably out back, we got likely places to put a French Door and steps down to fairly large areas to put other stuff.  I want to put an aviary for husband to have some birds again, a hot tub for us to take our pain away, lots and lots of plants.  If I can, I'd like to put a fireplace, perhaps right smack in the middle so it'll drift in the house in winter if the power goes out, one of those mid-Century modern A-shaped kinds.  Then the whole thing will be covered with atrium glass frames, leaning from the eaves out into the yard, then straight down to a cement pad or something like that.  I'd like to be able to open some screened of the acrylic or non-breakable see-thru stuff in frames for summer.

Ooooooops, gotta go take the dog to the vet for his shots and a bath.  Richard will pick Smoke up afterwards, later this afternoon.  Then I'm free, except for calling in to pay my bills, until Monday.  I need a really long, looonnng rest here.  Always, Gail 

Dune's Easter Basket.

Very cool Adey!

Thanks Lymphgirl. I'm actually really nervous today. It is much better to be nervous about something I can identify than to have that anxiety where I cannot identify my fear. So I'll be volunteering 9:30 am to 2 pm tomorrow. My alarm is set for 7:15. LOL. I want to make sure I get ready and get there in plenty of time.

Couldn't help it had to come back and share a couple of pictures.

"Sunrise moon"

"Our Pals"

Thanks Esther!

Thank you Gma!  Beautiful.

Wow! Those are beautiful pictures Gma. Thank you for sharing.

Good Morning World!  I'm Listening, just not talking.

Fuzzy - Where are you???

CINDYcrog, I had no idea you walked with two canes.  Lord, girl, what happened to you, if I can ask?  I have neuropathy in both feet and a little in my hands from the chemo, makes it hard to walk smoothly, and my feet hurt SO bad.  Guess I'll have to buy a bigger bundle of "diabetic socks," which are SO soft.  I DO take pain meds for my bad back, so that helps it.  Also, I have a tiny bit of lymphedema in my arm where my breast was removed, and as long as i keep on top of the massaging, it looks almost normal.  But I can see a time when they may HAVE to do surgery on my back, so in the meantime, I try to get away with using a back brace whenever I have to go to the grocery store or pill place.

VEGGY, wasn't it you that once said about Fuzzy, "Okay, where is the Fuzzinator???"  I laughed so hard that day!  It still brings a tear to my eye.  That's when you were a little lighter from the despair of going thru all this cancer crap all over again.  I was very impressed by your happy spirit from the very start.  I hope you simultaneously get LOTS of rest, but also keep up with at least some sort of physical stuff, be it walking or skydiving!!!!  I thought you knew, maybe you do, but Fuzzarina is grieving the loss of her Mom, taking a break, as it were.  I'm supposed to call her back, but I keep forgetting.  My sleep has been all over the place.

Let's see, LADIES, my sleep.  The story of my sleep.  When I sleep, I have no idea what's going on.  When I'm awake, I have no idea what day it is or time.  I always have to check with husband.  Only once was I truly shocked, missed a day somewhere, but that was ages ago.  You see, this new medicine they gave me in the hospital psych ward lockup, at end Feb/early March, it has turned out to be a blessing, but getting used to it was completely crazy.  It's like March is gone.  But come April when I paid bills again, my mind was crystal clear.  So, I was upset when I opened my checkbook, it's also like March is gone.  So, I just looked at current bills and if it showed a payment, I made sure it was in my register.  I'm going to go on automatic on my important bills and larger bills, eventually all of them. 

Do any of you others have a music playlist that you listen to when you're online?  I was thinking about it, trying to pick out my top five, and that's hard.  Years and years ago, I did a list of my top ten movies, then stuck with the top five.  The thing about my computer songs, they don't have ALL my favs on there, just whatever husband downloads for us. For example, always liked John Lennon's "Stand By Me."  Anyhow, I gotta say Eric Clapton's "River of Tears," I think it is, from his "Pilgrim" album, is one of my favs, and some other "old" music I like is by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.  Coldplay, I have some of theirs... I saw a little piece in a documentary or news about pop culture, and the lead singer was casually showing where they had their stuff all around for their concert, and I swear, he walked up to his piano, and said, "Here's something I started working on this morning," and out comes practically a complete and rather nice song!  Me, I write lyrics and poetry and some notes to tunes that come into my head, which i jot down.  Well, I had Coldplay's experience the other day.  Would you all like to hear one?  It's not the ultimate, but since I've been so unhappy for so long since we had to sell our house to downsize, so we could make it on disability money, that it made me feel good to write something halfway okay.

GLOW by G Gregory c 2013

Floating on the earth,
Feeling I might drift off
Into a sky of angels and stars...

I want someone to braid my hair
By candlelight, to bring me back
To the world of our lovelight glow.

I'm sure it could be improved and added on, but I done fixed it and it's completed as good as it's going to get.  I have some rather good ones from years ago, but I no longer relate to them.  I have some art I'm trying to get better at again, too.  My hands still have just a touch of neuropathy in them, so it's hard for me to keep them still.  If you all know of a good place to put pics, to where you can download them into a post... one time a well-known one was publicized for having viruses and such, so I quit using it, I think it was "Photobucket," but I'm not sure.  I used to keep a URL with all my junk on it, but finally quit it on account of it cost too much at the time.

WHY IS IT every time I get on here, I cannot shut up?  As my father will say, "She will NOT shut up!!!"  My husband is a little more polite about it, but I showed him how to make me quiet down.  Just a finger to the lips, and my faucet shuts off.  Well, unless I find a picture online (I have yet to put but one or two of ours, husband is photog too), I'll go ahead and "shut up!!!"  Love to my sisters always, Gail

Dogeyed yes right now I am learning to walk with two canes. I had a leg amputation back last September then a revision in November. Went to rehab the end of January and have been working with PT ever since.. I had problems since April of 2011 when I had blood clots in my leg.. Never walked the way I should have ever since then. So it has been almost 2 years since I was able to walk the way I should... Sounds like you have your own set of problems but don't we all after going through what we have been through!!!!! I have some neuropathy in my one foot that I have.



Cindy