Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

Mommarch, Hope she gets good news.

Sandy .....Happy Birthday

Val....Happy Birthday

Anne, Thank you for keeping track of our birthdays

Teacher...sorry to hear about your Penny

Jackie....So glad to hear that all went well with your mammogram

Miminiemi.....Have a great time in Texas

Hi to everyone!

Moms n val happy birthday

chevy congratulations on the card good luck. 

no mine was 15 years and it was metastatic it's on the chest wall on the same side as I had the lumpectomy.

I'm sure everybody is heard cuz I wrote it on other boards,I have shingles what the hell

so now i am quarantined, okay go in pain but I'm taking pain pills for my back and my doctor gave me medicine he is worried that I'll get it again, my ammune system compromised thanks for caring I'm lurking,  it's 115 am

Here's a photo from yesterday when I finally got to meet our lovely clown Mimi, aka Thelma. (She's the cute one on the right.) She and her friend Jan were in San Antonio on a bus trip from Iowa. Our weather didn't cooperate very well - foggy and humid, but the group seemed to be having a good time anyway. My iPhone photos are quite fuzzy but then, at this age, maybe that's a good thing.  We'll have to wait until Thelma gets back home and posts her photo. (Although Jan took both pictures so chances are all of them are fuzzy.)

 I saw my plastic surgeon yesterday for an 8 week check-up after my October surgery. He gave me a great birthday present - I now have a date for my final (#6) surgery and it's coming up fast! I'm "on" for December 19th. This surgery will be to finish reconstruction now that it's apparent that surgery #5 was a success. The infection I had after the first surgery last year caused a loss of parts of three muscles on my side, chest and the front of my left shoulder. Most of the soft tissue on my left side was lost including 1/3rd of the way up the side of the left implant, so it had to go as well. I've had surgery to repair the muscles but they are short and don't work like they used to. Let's just say they "don't play well with others." My altered anatomy has pushed and pulled in the wrong way, causing pain and causing the implants on both sides to migrate and cause additional pain. So now that the plastic surgeon's 4th try has worked, we can move on with getting rid of a left mud flap and do fat grafting on my "skin over bone" areas on my chest and under my left arm. Yeah! I never thought I'd get a December surgery date and figured this would drag on several more months. It's about time I got some good news.

Blondie,

Ouch and ouch some more.  Those shingles are terrible.  Dh has had them --- all the way around his upper chest.  This was yrs. ago and he still remembers the huge discomfort.  He has always been really apprehensive that they would return.    Prayers that you and your Dr. can keep the pain under control. 

Sandra and  MiMi.

It is you and even fuzzy it's a great picture.  I am so glad you two were able to "find" each other and have a good time.  I think ( just like our going on Carole's vacations with her ) we all feel so connected when we get to share in vacations and meetings with each other.  It just leaves a warm, toasty feeling. 

Sandra,

So very glad things have worked out well with your surgery.   You have sort of been through the wringer with all of the post surgery events from the first one.  It is delightful that you can go on and finish up what was started such a long time ago.  Really happy that it is soon.  Yay !!!!

We have rain today which will be with us all day, but it is NOT ice or snow -- so though for me un-pleasant at least in color, still not so bad.  I think I need to invest in some of those light bulbs that mimic sunshine.  I just so hate the grayness of a rainy day or even too cloudy of a day.  The minute the sun comes out -- I'm happy as a clam again and my spirits just zoom straight up. 

I'll be checking in later to see all of you.

Blessings

Jackie

Blondie, So sorry to hear about the shingles. They are really the pits.

Always fun to have a face to go with a name. Good luck on your surgeries, Sandra.

Happy Birthday to both Sandra and Val!!!

Great picture Sandra and MiMi. You look like you're having so much fun. I'm so glad that you had a chance to meet.

Blondie..So sorry that you are dealing with the shingles. Hugs! I hope you get relief from them soon.

Mommarch..My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Carole, I sure wish we had some of your sunshine today. It's been rainy and dreary all day long and I'm like Jackie in that I need that sunshine to perk me up. Enjoy your sunshine and those warmer temps.

This is a "WINTER PICNIC".... It looks so pretty!

One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life,
and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine,
the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand--
to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
 
John Burroughs

Chevy, I am not crazy enough to do a winter picnic when I can see a nice warm house in the background. Might do it if camping when I would be cold anyway. I would love to know which magazine had that photo. My candidates would be Martha's Living or Real Simple.

Lol good r4 u purple no less

Thanks for caring

Sandra  n mimi love the pix.

Bbl

Chevy - I have that problem w/songs. I'll google some old thing I want to think about (like maybe A White Sport Coat & A Pink Carnation or perhaps How Much is that Doggie in the Window) and the offerings along the R side will take me to 100 different old songs & bands that I love. I can spend all night going from site to site and singing along at the top of my voice. Not very productive but lots of fun

I'm busy with Family and only stopping by with a little Christmas cheer!

Di: yes, we'll be sailing from Seattle for Alaska. My best from college (we lived together for a year after graduation) and her husband are picking us up from the airport, we're taking them out for dinner and staying overnight with them and then they'll take us to the pier the next day. We got a cabin with a balcony so if it's chilly (in May can be in the 40's) we can sit inside our warm cabin and enjoy the scenery. If it's nice we can also set up tripod and spotting scope on balcony and scan shore for wildlife. I hope there are other birders on board, it helps to have more eyes searching for those sea birds. We've been to Alaska before, but that was to the Anchorage, Denali, Nome, and Homer area. This time it'll be Ketchikan, Skagway, Juneau and Victoria,BC.

Oh way, way too funny.  Love both your graphics Teka, but I'm really taken on that second one.  Well, I have said that our furry friends are guileless -- there can be no more sincere look of innocence than the one on their face. 

That also sort of points up to the fact of just how judgmental we can often get over things.  Soooo, under the list of things that I could do over would come not getting anxious and then critical over things that in the long run would never, ever make a difference.  I hope I was less judgmental than I feel like I might have been. 

Going to Alaska -- well, I'm envious.  Yrs. ago, in California we lived in a mobile home park and the people who bought the house across the street from us were from Alaska.  They did their best to adjust to  life in Calif. but never quite got there.  Sold their home, packed back up, and headed back to Alaska.  I'm not sure how I'd have ever felt, but knowing and liking ( admiration ) them just made it seem so exciting.  I wouldn't have gone then, but it is something I would not pass up not. 

The red dress is stunning.  Made me think of Princes Diana.  Sometimes I wonder -- what would she be like now?????  Likely just as stunning as she was before she died. 

Well, it is cool here, but no rain.  Much lighter ( the sun tried so hard to come out nice earlier ) than it has been for a couple of days.  We will be light, but I do think it will be mainly cloudy.   I'm just so thankful that it is not the darker gray that it has been for the previous two days. 

I will return to work this afternoon -- X-mas parties are beginning -- so I'm needed.  I don't know why, but the time just seems to be flying by.  I have a couple of X-mas cards to send out ( I'm always late with this ) so that will be on my shorter ( must get done list ) while I tackle lots of other chores.  I noticed this morning my pantry is once again a hodge-podge of I threw it there because there was no room.  So many things are out of place and it looks un-loved in there just for openers.  Well, you know at my age, when I have to do a major re-arranging job --- I find all sort of treasures and neat things and wonder how they got there and who got them there.  Always pretty sure I had nothing to do with it.

I'll see you all later.

Blessings

Jackie