MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Hooray for you Joni! 11-13-14 will be here before you know it!

Booklady - glad to hear you are enjoying your weekend and a walk in the beautiful fall air. I am cozied up inside with the woodstove pumpin out the heat.

Awesome Barsco! Dancing with Elephants? How did you come up with this name?

Excellent, Barsco!!   Great name!!

Booklady, I was told by my onc about thae 17th day.  That is about when I pulled out the first clump.  I pulled so many out that weekend I got my head shaved.  That was July and still only have a hint of stubble.  Should grow back after done with this taxol in early Dec.

See my GI this week.  Chemo has my intestines so raw.

Linda, I was hoping I wouldn't lose my hair, too. I don't think it's denial... just hopeful!

love, love, love the pumpkin butt!

I am finally starting to feel like myself again. Got the 3 crowns put in today. 

Then had a trip to the ER because I had a tick on the top of the back of my thigh (yes, by the crease under my cheek) and my squeamish DD wouldn't touch it and I couldn't see it well enough. So I got the Lyme lecture from the doc, a dose of antibiotic and am good to go. 

missingmercury - I'm sure there's already a book of chemo hair stories out there loved yours! Jeez - Crohns on top of everything else? I'm sure the chemo added to that - I am sorry. I mean, really. Enough, already!

Hi, all - just got caught up reading everyone's posts.  I haven't been on much lately...I can't seem to get caught up!  Had two night meetings this week and, although tomorrow is my day off, I have a dentist appt, bible study and a drs appt.  Guess that laundry will not get done!  Then we have my husband's 30 yr HS reunion on Saturday.  His twin sister and her husband are coming in town sometime Saturday so I have to figure out how to get the house "company clean" before then.   Hoping next week will have less going on!

Barsco - congrats on your very successful fundraising - that is awesome!  Wouldn't it be cool if you could market that and have Dancing with Elephants events pop up in other places like the races we see all around in October?

mac - glad to hear your crowns are on!  Sorry about the tic, but happy you got it taken care of asap!

missingmercury, booklady, poppyk and all those in the midst of chemo - sending good vibes your way!  Pamper yourselves as much as you can and hang in there!

glennie - hiya!!  Hope you are doing well and feeling recovered after your surgery!

joni - more congrats here!  

elimar - have fun with the fall yardwork...I keep walking past my tiny garden in the front as I go in the garage and I look at it and think, someone really needs to get working on that, but so far, "someone" hasn't shown up to do it!  

Have a good night everyone!

Glennie, I'm having only occasional hot flashes and am sleeping better thanks to the new meds. You might want to let your oncologist know about you SE, because the change in meds is really making a difference for me.

dianarose - so good to hear from you - and happy for you that you and DH have been able to work everything out and are once again able to get out and enjoy life! Sounds like you have been and will continue to be very busy. Wishing you continued marital bliss as well as good luck with upcoming tests. Hoping that lump is nothing serious.

poppyk - hope some of that energy finds its way back for you. Until then - rest when needed. The laundry will wait.

missingmerc - hope your appt with GI has given you some answers.

glennie - glad to hear you have recovered well - those hot flashes though..........YIKES they can be hell for sure.

mel - "company clean" - I like that. I think we often stress way too much for the sake of others opinions. Have a great time at the reunion.

Dancing with Elephants actually started as a "coffee day" at a local coffee shop in 2012 when they donated all coffee sales to the cause. We raised about 400.00 that year. It was in year two that the "main event" was born and this year the campaign was expanded to two additional restaurants taking part. So who knows what it will become. It certainly has lots of potential.

obviously the steroids are working on their own, here.  "ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in" thanks, Leonard!

PoppyK - I'm with you on the fatigue. Once the steroids have had there way with me I feel like I have hit a wall.  Glad you are continuing to take charge of your treatment and working on managing your SE's. You inspire us to do the same.

Mel147 - you are bust, girl! Thanks for the pampering advice and don't forget that applies to you, too.

Dianarose - you remind me of how glad I am to have found this group and look to the future and what life still holds for us. Having the expertise of women in the middle of these crazy years is priceless. Best luck with your tests. Heard this feeling called SCANXIETY - it fits.

QUESTION - with my newly bald head, how do I care for the poor thing? Regular shampoo, any lotions or potions y'all reccomend? Thanks, Linda

dianarose, so good to hear you are back to living it up and traveling. Love the idea of having a horse, but sounds like a lot of work to me. Hope the weather starts cooperating for the barn building.

barsco, what a great fundraiser. I love it when they start taking off and building  on their own almost. I hate when they get all corporate and business minded. I love the name.

booklady, I hated steriods, too. I had to find things that calmed me down. I ended up doing jigsaw puzzles and playing lots of solitaire. Mindless things I could do with my hands.  Didn't really matter what the outcome was, no harm from any mistakes. 

lol, I was like what picture of goldens, I don't see any goldens until today I was  at the top of the page. 

GI sent me home with tubes for stool samples.  He is going to test to see if my crohns is active.