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

Sandy, yes it was strictly an allergen reducing diet. However I di lose 30 lbs in about 5 months and felt ssoooo good.  In the process I learned I'm allergic to wheat, but I'm pretty sure I've got more allergies lurking that need to be uncovered..  I got really creative with food, but it was very expensive and time consuming to come up with interesting menus.

It's seldom that I read a whole article, especially longer ones, but this piece on the possible shift to the left of American politics is really worth the time.   Now, let's hope the young'ns vote.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/12/the-rise-of-the-new-new-left.html

Blue - LOVE the pictures. "I have a hare on my head" - toooooo cute.

RL - I had great success in reducing my cholesterol by taking Slo-Niacin ( Costco has it, so does wal-mart) and it raised my fasting blood sugar SO high ( as do some of the statins for some people) I had to stop taking it.

VERY VERY VERY good for reducing blood sugar is BITTER MELON. I get the pills, health food store. Don't know of any SE's. yet. I tried using the bitter melon vegetable, and ever par boiling it first, it was still, in a stir fry, tooooooo bitter a taste for me.

gotta read notself's link...could use a little HOPE tonight.

Mandela. R.I.P.

Great article on the new left. i hope it's works out that way.

Had a bad scare this week, but everything is ok. Went to my 3 month appt. with MO on Wednesday. While examining me, she felt something on my non-bc side. There was also something that felt like a fat necrosis to her on the lumpectomy scar. But she was most concerned with the other side. Coincidentally I had been scheduled for a mammo the next day. Needless to say, while waiting for the mammo my brain "went there" big time. Only the implications were even scarier than what I felt more than 2 years ago. If indeed there had been a new cancer or even recurrence, it would mean that the Aromasin had failed me! Yikes, that could mean a recurrence was possible anywhere in my body!

Anyhoo, mammo on non-bc side came back great. They said absolutely no problem, WOOHOO! They did an ultrasound on the necrosis, but it also was fine.

I was so cavalier about waiting for my mammo results after Jackie posted that she was going to have her mammo this week, and was concerned. It has been humbling to learn the fear is still not far away when facing the beast. Part of this is undoubtedly PTSD flash back. Anyway, I am so relieved. Right now nothing is sweeter than those three letters NED!

Yea and double yea, Yorkie.  So glad it all turned out well.  My report didn't get here yesterday so still waiting but I think it will be ok.   I know I have heard over these last years  ( since 2007 anyway ) that there are many things that can 'show' up and not be much cause for concern but we never get to be blissful again after the sucker-punch of hearing a C diagnosis.  To this day I recall feeling that it was something that happened to other people and it never crossed my mind that one day I would become "the other people".   Also....and still to this day, none of the other things that have happened have left that huge sensation of being un-protected and a sitting duck.  You just get that innocence removed and there is an open space left that holds fear to be used whenever something comes up.

We are snowed in.....though with 4 - wheel drive I can get out.....but it won't be pleasant.  Got 7 inches with more coming.  Sigh...

Jackie 

OMG - these horror stories on Obamacare are just disgusting, but why would a whole "news" network be allowed to get away with this nonsense????

Seems like a "news agency" that didn't check out a one Cornelius Kelly BS lie, before reporting it (twice - by hasselback and hannity), should be lambasted by the right - has their been any, a la the kind we saw for Dan Rather on 60 minutes for the Bush story?

So it was Obamacare's fault that he didn't list his 4th child during the application process, then when HIS clerical error was fixed, all was good. He then got on these Faux News programs and proclaimed his horror story - or lies lies lies? Where is the news vetting over there?? Where is the honesty??

Yorkie & Jackie- so sorry you had to go through that scare - the relief is indescribable. Jackie - only good news please xxo. Saw the MO yesterday (regular appointment). I have a few very small pain issues, but she assuaged my fears that it was probably nothing, though offered me scans - which I refused. I think the risk/reward ...well, no need to explain that. She kind of gave me a lecture on my "fear" level. Sorry, I cannot within my being be feel laissez-faire about cancer returning. Then she told me with my oncoscore I would be on Aromasin for the "rest of my life." Was she kidding me?

Anyway, I think, as you describe Jackie, our innocence is forever gone when it comes to cancer.

Bren....that is what it was like here two days ago.  Not 70, but around 60 which is warm for this time of yr. here.  I was just shocked to go from 60 ..... and it was close to there starting out yesterday morning.  Then the temps must plummeted, the rain came which fairly rapidly turned into sleet so we have an icy covering down below the 7 inches of snow that fell over-night....and it is snowing as we speak with another 4 inches possible. 

I don't mind snow.....what I do mind is going from summer to deep winter all in the space of a few ( mostly overnight ) hours.  At least would like a little time to gentle into all of it.  Knock on wood.....my Blazer has kept me going when a lot of others could not move.  A couple ( or maybe its been three by now ) of years ago I spent about a week going to town and getting groceries for people who couldn't get out.  Then a couple of them were of an age they didn't really need to be out anyhow.  Anyway.....just keeping my fingers crossed that we keep out power since we don't have a generator.  As the ice didn't get the lines down I'm pretty hopeful they will be ok.

Jackie

Listening to the radio this morning, I was reminded again of how our Canadian government argued with the U.S. and the UK over South Africa sanctions, and how we Canucks supported Mandela and the end of apartheid and the growth of the ANC.

Mandela was awarded the Companion of Canada (highest honour) and honorary Canadian citizenship.

Here is a reminder of how Republicans viewed Mandela:

http://www.digbysblog.blogspot.ca/2013/12/a-reminder-of-what-republicans-thought.html

Seems only fair:

I do love Pope Francis. He does throw light on the fact that so many of the far right who claim to be such devoted Christians are not in fact following the teachings of Yeshua ben Joseph, otherwise known as Jesus. ( As I've said, I do believe in the teachings of Jesus, but not his 'divinity' - except as we all may have some of the divine within us.)

I too respect the Pope and his ability to spell out what many seem to be in the heavy-duty stance of ignoring.  Alexandria I think you nailed it.....we all do have divine within us -- which makes those who don't recognize it appear all the more cruel.  JMHO but to me Jesus led an "example" life -- so we would all know and understand 'how' to be Christian.  Sadly, there are some who just don't get it, and don't care --- apparently don't have any wish to  -- plenty of time later to be sorry.  May or may not be fixable then, who knows. 

Jackie