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HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!

I hope that everyone is having a Happy Mother's Day!

Athena, it sounds like you are in good hands with your medical team. Sending hopes and wishes that they're able to effectively manage any side effects.

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Athena, I am so glad to see you back and posting in English! Though I could read the gibberish, too. 

After almost 2 weeks of sun and higher than normal temperatures here in Seattle, Mother's Day is proving to be be overcast and drizzly. If only the rain had waited one more day.

Mary

Athena, so good to log in and see you posting.  I'm so impressed with your resolve . . . and am hoping, first, that your medical team can make the tamoxifen gentle on you; and second, that it kicks the hell out of your mets.

SuzieQ, so terribly sorry about your friend's son.  Cancer seems especially unfair when it hits someone so young. 

My on-again-off-again cold is mostly off-again, but I was coughing so hard for so long that my chest is really messed up.  I think I have, at best, a pulled muscle . . . at worst, a cracked rib.  I'm going to sleep on it tonight, see how it feels in the morning, then think seriously about having it checked out.  I've been resisting going to the doctor because it feels like I just finished up a whole boatload of appointment . . . mammogram, checkup with my oncologist, screening colonoscopy . . . and I was looking forward to a respite. 

L

Thanks girls - it is really sad - hope they get the best onc they can.

Lewing - I know just how you feel about not wanting to go to the doc for a "cough" - it took me about 2 months - and I wish I had gone sooner - I was concerned about taking antibiotics, I'm alergic to so many - and found out I had inflammation in my lungs, probably effected by so much coughing too - and a steroid inhaler has really helped.

But I was just adamant I'd "wait it out" after the flu had passed, and I just did NOT want another doctor visit - I'm sorry I let myself get so sick.  PLEASE GO TO THE DOCTOR.  You'll be relieved once you've gone, and gotten what ever it takes to get your LUNGS in good working order.  Breathing without coughing is really worth it

((((((((((((Athena))))))))))) - glad you are feeling a bit better.

P.S.  I bought and assembled a grill yesterday morning in time for Mother's Day festivities.  During assembly, I managed to stab myself in the thumb with a knife.  Don't ask.

E - hope all goes well. 

I think bringing you a cactus for Mother's Day kicks the not-quite-boyfriend thing up a notch. 

Athena - thinking of you.

Athena - really optimistically expecting you to have years of mystery ahead, including a boyfriend Sounds like a good plan.

E - you CAN kill a cactus, don't water too much....SO lovely to think of you with a boyfriend, tortoise/hare, boss, no matter, if he likes YOU, he's gotta be a good person.  We all admire his choice.  Hope all this gives you great things to think about during all these to be BORING tests.

Spring, where did it go? 35 this am. Even after years here, it's still hard to adjust to June 1 being the last frost date. But it's still bettere than cicadas....surprised to learn they are expected in southern CT- didn't think they got that far north. Seriously, if the brood ever comes here, I'm moving.  They don't bite - but they DO lay their eggs in slits they make in the very fine branches of fruit trees -

MA has yet another Senate election next month, the robo calls have started. Ugh.

Athena - so VERY happy to see you back, and at the same time so sorry to hear the mets are real.  Take wonderful care of yourself, and hopefully find that boyfriend.

CrazE -  hopefully many kisses for the new cactus-giving-not-quite-boyfriend-boyfriend.  Have you been on Sampson yet?  Good luck with the trial - I hope it beats the @#$%^ out of the cancer cells and harms not a hair on your head (or anything else, for that matter).

Suzie - so sorry to hear of your friend's son.  Cancer sucks.

Lewing - bite the bullet and get thee to a doctor.  Not being able to breathe is NOT a good thing.  Coughing so hard you may have broken a rib is a REALLY not good thing.  Channel good health!!!

I've been busy lately.  We are still house shopping - our agent was out of town over the weekend, and as a result we missed out on two possibilities.  Unfortunately houses are going REALLY FAST in this area right now.  Hopefully we'll find one over the next few weeks, as I think hubby is about to lose it.  His energy for looking is simply gone.  We'll see what happens....  We saw one yesterday, that if they would take about $35,000 less than they are asking could be possible - but it's TINY and needs some significant changes made.  We'll see.  Have I mentioned that I simply CANNOT understand how some people live?  We looked at a house yesterday - and literally had to manuever through aisles of stacked up junk in VERY DARK spaces to see any portion of the house.  Hubby is still coughing from the dog dander, dust and mold.... 

Hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day.  We got to see our son last week, as he had to come to the NW on business - so we sneaked in a couple of visits as well - so I had mother's day early .  Unfortunately, his family couldn't come with him - but maybe next time.  We are planning on visiting them in November - though right now, hubby is talking about going in July as well, so whatever works out.  I'm pretty fluid. 

The gorgeous weather we had last week is over.  In our end of town we didn't get any drizzles until 8PM yesterday, but I understand that some areas saw rain sooner.  We're forecast for showers over the next couple days and then back to some good weather - but at least we're into high's in the sixties - not fifties - so spring is solidly rooted here in the Pacific Northwest now - hopefully it will usher in a beautiful summer.  I visited Costco yesterday and bought a new fan, as our townhouse turns into a hotbox when the weather is warm, and I figured we'd need one - probably should have bought two..... one for each floor.  But who knows - maybe we'll find a house before summer begins... HA

Thank you everyone - what an honor it is to receive so much affection from so many wonderful sisters.

Blue: great postcard!~ Couldn't agree more.

Lewing - visiting a doctor over a lung problem is about the most unpleasant thing I can think of - one always dreads the worst. I just hope you feel better soon.