INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Tang I wish there were some words that would make it better. Wish I was there to give you a big hug, make you some iced tea and your favorite food, wrap you in a blanket and let you find some peace. Just one step at a time. Get well from the infection. You have an infectious disease doc, I think, right. Heal and start with him. What needs to happen for this not to happen again. BUT not right now. Direct all your energy - physical, mental, psychic, spiritual into getting well. Try some mental imagery of kicking those bugs out. Maybe get some pics of them and literally XX them out. Sleep well tonight. I will be praying for your healing and peace for your decisions.

welcome Mary....sorry you are in a bad place right now. I hope you can get a very peaceful night sleep. At the top of this thread, a gal named sas started it...she told me to look at the animals all hugging each other.  And that is what we do for everyone here on this thread. Feel us hugging you, and maybe that will give you a little peace for right now.....

My husband first introduced me to the word tchotchkes.  

It sounds like several people are working on landscaping/gardens.  The landscapers just finished ours today.  It took a month.  I'm sitting outside enjoying it right now.  It's 91 degrees at 9:25 pm and we just had the fire pit on testing it out.  Surely, we are insane. 

Mary, I remember traveling for business and often feeling out-of-sorts, especially if I was traveling alone.  I had a lot of weird moments in hotels - feeling lonely and displaced.  I hope everything feels better in the morning and/or when you get back home.  

tang, I'm skipping around posts and just saw yours.  I'm sorry you ended up in the hospital!  In the long run it's probably for the best, meaning: getting the pocket cleaned out - but it's another annoying roadblock to being finished with chemo.  Wishing you speedy healing!

AARGHHH! Just finished the second half of my post and lost it!!! 

2TA – I loved today’s message. It calmed me down when I was
in the MRI machine. How was your day today?

Nettie – Pool, kitties, and fish-feeding – sounds like my
kinda day! Hope you get some good sleep tonight.

Spookiesmom – looks like corn to me!!!

Welcome, mary625. Oh, yes, we do understand here. It may
seem crazy at times, but what you see is what you get, and we just love
everyone for it. May you have sweet dreams tonight.

LeeA – of course you are insane, as are all of us who live
in hot climates and put heart, soul, and gazillions of dollars into
landscaping. I have been known to go out and hose everything off at 11 pm when
it is still 90 degrees… just so we can sit outside and listen to our waterfall
for a few minutes. What kind of landscaping did you do?

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Well, today was the MRI, and the first question they asked
me when I came out of the tube was “Are you dizzy?” 

Well, I wasn’t, but I was a
little unsteady. And I was kind of wobbly as DH insisted on driving to Vons to
return the moldy strawberries we bought yesterday. I wanted to wait in the car,
but it was hot. 

Now I just read an article that MRIs CAN make you dizzy, as the magnetic field disrupts the
fluid in the inner ear, causing motion sickness. Oh, great. I have four
different vestibular disorders. Had I read that prior to my appointment, I
might have chickened out completely. Now I think I’ll take a Valium and head off to bed!

Nighty night, Owlettes!!!

Blessings, yes - lots of money spent on landscaping in both California and Arizona.  This was new construction (house) so all the landscaping had to go in - soup to nuts - irrigation to plant material. 

Re: MRIs - I've only had one (a few days after diagnosis) but I thought it was one of the most stressful parts of the diagnosis period.  It was so loud.  The sound alone made my head spin.  OTOH, I was given a prescription for one Lorazepam prior to the procedure (I guess the breast surgeon was afraid I'd get addicted).  

And don't you just hate it when fruit turns moldy so soon?  We had that happen several times last summer. 

Holeinone, we lived in an apartment when we had this raccoon.  Young and stupid we were.  We let it sleep with us.  Good grief.  It's a wonder we didn't end up with rabies.  No wonder my mother thought I was too young to get married.  Maybe she should have substituted "too young" for "too stupid."  :-)  Nowadays, I'd much rather watch them through glass, be it windows or the "glass" on a television screen. 

Hi 44444444's nice to see you again. Hope you'll be jumping in again soon.....and hugs back to you. Annie Mae and Snuggs are asleep. OMGosh Snuggs snores so loud I had to turn on the fan just to have white noise to drown out her snoring. Annie Mae still bumps into everything. It's like demolition derby in this house. I was reading thru some of the posts here regarding gardens and landscapes. Its so hot here where I live and the soil has a lot of rock in it so it's really hard to dig in the dirt and plant things. Plus, we  have to conserve water do to drought conditions. I was looking at some pics from Susan and Chevy's yards and thinking of using planting pots that I can easily move around, that way I can put good soil in them and maybe grow some vegetables and herbs. Just need to get more iron infusions in me so I'll have some energy. I think I'm in zone 9 when I look at those gardening maps. Hugs to everyone, and I hope you are all sleeping well tonight. Miss you SAS, hope to hear from you soon. 

Such a nice pic Alyson.....and what cute little grand babies. You all look so happy )

ok Chevy...remember my daughter said one more chothkee ( forgot spelling) and she was putting her dad in the home??   Well, we will get the room ready for you...lol

So much chit chatting since I read last night. I will catch up during chemo today . 

I will never have my port removed.....which is ok.......but we need to name it.   Remember my cancer is Waldo....so help me think of a name for my port. ,!!

I am keeping my eye on you guys......have a good one

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Morning ladies - I'm having my morning iced tea...  

Today is a day for me (after I do a little house cleaning this morning). I've started a load of laundry, and will soon clean up the kitchen, vacuum and steam my floors. Then it's off to acupuncture, a pedicure and a haircut. If I can manage to squeeze in a massage I'm going to do that as well, but if not, I'll have one later this week.

I bought a few more plants for my yard yesterday and hope to get them in the ground today as well, but the probability is that they won't go in until tomorrow.  Once I get them planted I'll probably spend some time weeding, as the front beds surely need it!  Also I'm working on removal of a yucca.  Why our predecessors planted one RIGHT next to the house is beyond me - they must have had no concept of the size they can reach - not to mention the density of their roots.  This particular one has broken one of the underground sprinkler lines, and we must remove the rest of the roots before we can fix the sprinkling system in this area.

OK - time to get busy.  Have a great day ladies!!

Where is everyone? I think it's time for another tea party! 

Ok, I've been having trouble with this site. Sometimes it takes forever to load a page. Sometimes you lose a post, and now I lost a whole group of you! After I posted my picture of the tea party, I then see a whole bunch of posts that weren't there earlier!

Glad to see everyone is still around! 

Hope Tang is feeling better. 

4sewhat, hope your new fin is swimming! 

Chevy around here tchatches are knick knacks and things you collect. Usually little things you might get at a yard sale.  You my dear, have Yard Art!

I love your birdbath! It is a very interesting yard! Didn't see your outdoor stripper pole though.

Busy wash day then dinner with family!

Love it Teka!  Where can I get a kitten that does my wash?  LOL!