For those starting chemo in June

Good to hear from everyone, P.J. you kick butt with that teacher. My daughhter had a teacher that pulled her newly pierced earing out by ripping it through her ear. She has never been able to get her ears done again since as there is scar tissue and they would have to be uneven. The girl next to my daughter was talking and the teacher couldn't reach her so she pulled my daughters ear then when she saw what she had done she gave daughter a kleenex for the blood and told her if she told anyone she would get a whipping. I saw it when I washed her hair as she was in first grade. The teacher turned very mean the next year and had a brain tumor and surgery, she is still alive, this was 20 some years ago. Nancy, I don't know how you do it. I just get nervous around kids that are hyper. I have a neice like that and I don't see her much. Ops gotta take a grandson to school. I think we are going to have an early fall. Later, Mary

Hey Girls, I am doing good and sono was clean. Guess this could be cardiac but I am done with test for now. P.J. good luck with the mammo. Janie and P.J. I sure wish you girls would get some relief with the arms. I don't have a problem with my arm so much but my feet are another story. My sister and her 2 kids came to help me finish painting. We went to the park and played ball and cooked out and didn't paint but we thought about it and it didn't seem like much fun. I will work on it tomorrow. I don't think hubby can take being away much more. He gets really home sick. My youngest in Phoenix and her man are going to Spain tomorrow. What kinda lunk head books a flight on 9/11????? I am worried a bit. I wish she would consider my nerves before doing this kinda thing!!!! She has always been the prover(prove mom wrong). She was the informer too. That little girl gave me the scoop and I didn't even have to bribe her. Her life hung on the edge with her sibblings most the time but when the elders got cars it all changed and I couldn't get any info from her after that. I had to rely on hear-say from distant phone conservations I could hardly understand and over heard conservations with friends through closed doors. Thinking back, the worse trouble I got into was when my mom read my diary so I thought I would give her something to think about so I wrote about a different guy every night for 2 wks. I wrote that I was having a "good time" with them and making money too,laughing about my mom getting her just reward for reading it. I was too brain dead to fully understand the limits my mom might go to-to punish me for my behavior. I did underestand after the situation was abruptly brought forth by my irrate mother that a wheeping willow tree branch makes a dandy switch and running isn't an option because you "have" to come back to eat and sleep and the anticipation of "going" back into your own yard really sucks while watching this mild, meek, kind woman you have come to love twitch and jerk while pacing and seering with a large tree limb rasping back and forth. Yep, all I remember was the sting and the sound of her voice telling me I had to go to confession Sat. night and I would not leave the house until I was too old to walk, they would wheel me out on a stretcher because I wouldn't leave until I was dead or she killed me and killing me seemed a good option at this point. I pretty much thought that was what was happening but I lived and she eventually came to understand the truth which was another punishment for "lieing". Gee, the "Good Old Days" when we were too scared to do wrong and too scared to wine about it. Makes me wonder how I am a productive adult. Have a good night girls. Hi to everyone. Hugs, Mary

Nancy Lee, I have tried to P.M. you twice and it says it will not go through. I will be in your neck of the woods and I thought of calling you if I get near you. We can't stop long but maybe a half hour at a rest area or truck stop. P.M. me with your number if you want. We are leaving Sunday eve. Mary

Well Janie my little pajamy-ed friend, I have had foot in the mouth desease many times and one would think one would get tired of choking and not do it again but I am a bit of a slow learner. It will happen again I am affraid. Have a great Sunday morn. girls. Hubby lays around a lot and says he gets really tired from driving. This isn't his usual, he is a nerveous hyper on the goer. I could just slap him right outta bed sometimes. I must realize he is getting older as I. Sometimes I say something and he will be just lost, like he just dropped into the world, I come close to knocking sense into him real hard. I don't know but lately he is making me feel more intelligent than usual. He just can't follow a conversation, I will be talking and ask him a question and he don't know whats going on.I am wasting my breath. I mean he never paid attention before but now that he lays around, what has he got to do besides listen to me go on and on? How freeking tiring can that be? I bet I could thump his head with oh, say a tire iron a time or two and he would get the drift. Well looks like a great trip on the way. Later, Mary