INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Hangovers. Yup I can get a hangover on anything, a little or allot. I never had a hangover on MJ.

Rosie glad you like Caprice Cambridge. It is just a very happy pattern.

Smarrty, if you happen to want to collect a few pieces. It's still available on Ebay. If you watch the auctions it can be had for cheap. Not thrift cheap, but cheap if it's a real auction versus a buy it now. I'll go through my pieces and see what I can part with. If there's something I can part with I'll send it to you. Do you use sugar in tea or coffee? I have the miniature creamer and sugar. I have way tooo many S&C' sets. The minatures are so fun when you have coffee or tea with just someone else or yourself. In a different time the way they were used were on bed trays taken by servants. I don't use sugar or cream. Nor do I drink tea. In fact --yes, please let me send you the S&C. They are so cute, but it's not fair to them not to be used. Send me your address by PM. Then you use a very small or baby spoon in the sugar. Cute- It'd make my day if you said yes DS son will never miss them and it will make me happy. BTW your post on exercising got me back in the pool swimming. Did you hear from Doc on your stomach/abdomen results?

Teka and 2nd always love the pics.

Rosie please, post table when done The desk you did in blue and red. Is fun. Was it just revitalized or was it a find that was redone?

Jazzy so true post BC things we aren't supposed to be doing. But I do them. Drinking and smoking and overweight. Oh well.............

Loverly, yes, you did get everyone right Chit is for shit, Forklift is for F**K., Recockulous is a real word synonym for ridiculous---really.

Dutchy, maybe you were a Tinker in a pervious life

Jazzy, First I want to say his isn't a rant b/c by the time I got done writing this it looks like a rant-----the chit is just so long. 

A good part of the weight came on when the thyroid went kaflooey. The thyroid likely went kaflooey after I took Micalcin(late 2012) for bones. Can't prove it.  But in a relook at Miacalcin a little more than a year after the weight gain, in the  s.e.'s list was "goiter". I was an 'oh chit' moment. I just stared at the screen. WTF. I never saw it when I restudied the drug before I started it. One of those thoughts that why do I have to have these friggen learning experiences. This s.e. is pretty rare. BUT b/c I had the goiter-- testing was done. B/c I had testing done the thyroid cancer was found. The pathologist missed the cancer in the first bx (June/july 2013). The f/u ultrasounds showed the goiter was growing, but slowly. In January 2014, I said to Endocrin doc "We've jumped on the cancer bandwagon, but no basic causes of goiter have been done, can't we do some more basic testing and autoantibodies." The auto antibody test done was Thyroglobulin(Tg) and antibodies. If both those are positive than a dx of Hashimoto's is made. If the thyroglobulin is elevated and no antibodies it's suggestive of cancer. TG elevated/ autoantibodies negative. That was mid January. Within minutes of the ENT surgeon seeing those results he changed his attitude and suggest removal.

Pathologist missed the cancer dx again, but sent specimen out for a second opinion b/c "of patients concern re: cancer". QUEST labs found cancer diffusely throughout both lobes. LOVE Quest.

Facts: Miacalcin has no reported connection in causing thyroid cancer.  Thyroid ca grows REALLY slow for papiallary and follicular. The other two types are different. Ongoing studies now as told to me by Moffitt doc--1. Japanese study --15 year duration, 900 plus in study, only three known papillary patients have needed treatment i.e RAI-131. 2. Thyroid ca has been found on routine autopsy that weren't contributory to death--incidental finding.(forget number).

Far out thinking: Was they're a link between Miacalcin and goiter--unknown, but it is identified in monograph(drug info). But since I have two neuroendocrine tumors 1. ER+ BC and, 2. meningioma brain tumor benign. I think I'm lucky that if Miacalcin caused the goiter we may have not of found the thyroid cancer.   Goiter with thyroid cancer is not routine. Bottom line the cancer was found without mets and was node negative.The weight kept screaming at me that something was wrong. B/C of that I kept at the docs.

I'm not happy with the weight----but it may have saved my life. Again.

You may not know the BC hx that I was in the pipeline for a prophy BMX b/c of family hx. Twin and six other women on paternal side. Half way through the process BC was found. It was very aggressive. Oh yeah, the brain tumor was found at the same time. Incidental to an evaluation from headaches etc. from a fall.......

Geneitics--------multiple possibilities PTEN, CHEK 2, P53 maybe more. Can't won't do b/c insurance won't cover.  Two more cousins dx'd with BC since me, one has died.  OF those with BC that were tested BRAC was negative---some predate Brac testing.  Of 54 blood relatives ---they're are all kinds of cancers. Several with multiple cancers.

Range of fitness to smoking and drinking or any life thingy had----no coorelation. EXCEPT the paternal side where 7 of 10 had a cancer hx. They were a farm family that grew up on farms during the introduction of pesticides. In the early days of pesticides the concentration wasn't controlled as it later came to be. Also, keeping the kids away from pesticide exposure wasn't a big deal. Plus, the real break I believe came from the Paternal Grandmother side as her realitives and subsequent progeny on that side is even more cancer laden.

Anyhoos------------I'm very lucky.  Incidental BC, incidental meningioma, incidental thyroid ca. Hope it keeps being incidental findings. I feel like I'm ahead of the stampede. Just hoping to stay there.

Chevy, First of all sorry about Eddie, and glad Theresa's okay. Her tough time is coming , but I know you will be there for her. It will take time.

In regards to the mattress. I just feel a responsibility to take care of things well. I think it started when I saw my mom & dad lost their house when I was 11 or 12.  It was in the aftermath of Polio. Hated Polio. I can still see the truckloads of stuff being carried off to St Vincent De Paul. Stuff I knew from a wee one. Maybe that's why I got into junking/antiquing/thrifting.......saving the old stuff and being keeper of the family stuff. That's very logical, but doesn't make the pain go away from that time. I can see the trucks as if it were today.

BTW your link on Mark Gungor on W& F's was very good. I watched about 2 1/2 hours of his video's. I called son and recommended he watch them. It'll be hard, but I want to try and get DBF to watch them too.