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

Blondie, If you check your luggage, be sure to have a carry-on with a change of clothes and some underwear. That way you'll have clothes to wear while they find and deliver the luggage if it gets lost. If you swim, make sure your swim suit stays with you. Looks to me like all they wear in Florida is sandals, shorts and T shirts.

Up early this a.m. and drinking coffee.  Thunder and lightning woke me up but likely because I needed the bathroom.  Dozed a very little but pretty much still sort of aware of the weather outside.  I could even hear the rain on the roof at times.  Just finally gave in and got up.  Not a lot planned for the day ( mainly the usual things ) and just putting the morning chores up and going with the flow ( if one turns up ) for anything else.  Was due for a hair-cut but not sure I'll make it today. 

I'm pretty sure Mary ( my cousin ) will want to use the gym and will call for that.  I have to take one of my dogs to the Vet -- so, I'm already in anticipation of extras and will have to see how timing pans out.    Dh got the lawn ( most of it anyway ) mowed and last evening I took a huge load of weeds ( there are a few more ) out of my hosta garden which is right along side the house and sidewalk that leads off the deck.  Maybe it was good to wait --- it was far easier then I thought it would be -- but a lot more extensive since it is the first time I got to it.  Noticed that my periwinkle is spreading out by the front sidewalk -- sure glad.  I thought I was going to have to buy some more plants for over there.  I started it with an extra piece that broke off elsewhere in  my yard and discovered how much I like it there.  It usually spreads easily but didn't seem to be taking hold ---  guess I just wasn't being patient enough.

Hope you all have a fantastic day.  It sounds right now ( we will have a sunny day or two ) like it will be either a wet day, or hot and sticky for us -- but the coming week-end sounds just all rainy.  Well, good for the crops I guess, but not how it usually goes for June --- we seem to be stuck in the April rain patterns that didn't start until May this yr. 

Blessings,

Jackie

Blondie - hope you have a fantastic trip. Wardrobe staples - ditto in Houston - sandals, shorts & T-shirts or muu-muus. Wish I could find some old fashioned "pedal pushers" that stop just below the knee and aren't hanging way down my calf & wide, baggy legs. But be sure to take some long pants and a light sweater since most stores & restaurants have such cold air conditioning.

MinusTwo. are you looking for wide legged capris? I get jeans and capris at Woman Within, you can even get womens sizes in Petite. Very difficult to find.

Muggy here after a lovely weekend. Even have tornado warnings out, unusual for our area!

Had 2 dr appts this afternoon. Hoping my gastro can find an answer to my long term IBS Diarrhea. Makes going anyplace difficult. Told him I was tired of dealing with it, esp. as we like to travel. At least my abstinence from caffeine seems to have solved my tachycardia problem. Now if I can get off blood thinners I am o for the Pulmonary blood clot I had in Dec. I will feel like I'm making some progress.

YEs, Carole, the weeds grow beautifully here too. A lot of poison ivy in the mix. Had some on my arm earlier. Got a lot of Bramble Roses too, and a bounty of dandelions.

Some docs should be held down and fed their own nasty prescriptions.

Minus Two also has skinnier legged capris, and has womens petite sizes. With your wording I wasn't sure what you were looking for!

Hi Ladies,

Lyn....welcome, this is a great group of ladies.

Blondie,,,,,Have a great trip to Florida

I spent all day yesterday straightening up all the rooms so someone can come in on Wednesday and take pictures so we can put our house on the market. Having mixed emotions about this since we have lived here for 38 and 1/2 years. DH is tired of keeping the yard ( about an acre) and with 5 bedrooms the house is just to big for the 2 of us. When the grandkids were coming on the weekends to stay with us it was fine but now they are in sports and every weekend seems to be taken up with that or friends birthday parties, or overnights with friends. Not sure where we will go. DH is still working and so I am. We talk about moving to Florida down the road but I have mixed feelings about that since 3 of our 4 sons live with in an hours drive from us and the 4th is in Philadelphia.

We were suppose to have big storms but so far it has passed us.

Hope everyone has a great week,

Emma

Mommarch, I'm glad the lower dose gives you fewer se's. Sorry you are missing Big Bend camping trip. We loved our trip there. The first night we were there, the upper campground was full so we stayed at the lower one. We slept in our VW bus crossways with the door open and didn't bother to put up the tent. Woke up the next morning to a line of buzzards perched on the picnic table waiting to see if we moved. That's an experience I won't forget! The next night we were in the upper campground with our tent set up.

I just LOVE this video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z727wXHEJMg

Welcome Lyn! Please do post pictures of your baby projects. I am no seamstress and have little creative talents when it comes to things like that. If I see an idea that I like, I can sometimes copy it, though!

Blondie... so glad that you are doing so well and how fun a trip to Florida will be!!!! Good for you! You go, gal!

Mommarch....sorry that you are going to have to miss your "outing with the family" but I'm so glad to hear that you are tolerating the treatments better. I think fatigue is just part of it and I guess it's best to listen to your body and give in when you're tired. Gosh, it's hard to do that though when you are used to being active.

I had my blood drawn today at the cancer center and have my appointment with the onc next week. I always get a little nervous when these "routine visits" roll around. I know it doesn't do a bit of good to worry but I think I was born with that mode installed in me! :-)

We have had some terrible storms and LOTS of rain. We live on the banks of a creek in a wooded area and I woke up in the middle of the night to a horrible sound. The creek had overflowed its banks and was hitting our deck on the back of the house. We had no back yard. It was just a lake and I was worried about it coming over the deck and into my dining room. Fortunately the rain stopped before that happened. I have never seen it this high in all the years that we have lived here. The creek is back down today and most of the water in the yard is gone but I have some debris that I need to get out and get picked up. Always something, I guess.

termite...I understand your feelings about leaving the home that you've been in for so long. That's a tough decison to make!

Well, I'm off to see what is on TV tonight.

Wishing you all a good Wednesday!

Hi Termite!

I think you click on the little icon that looks like a mountain in a frame. It's there on the reply box. Then you can choose a file and add the photo.

Hope this works! I'm not an expert.

I'm working on some bibs at the moment and burp cloths-easy and fun!

Lynn

Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence.
 It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize;
 that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family,
 our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life
 contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending
 far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts.

 John Welwo

Morning all,

Blondie- hope your trip to Fl is everything you want it to be and more!

RitaJean- that rain must have been terrifying! I know my mind would go straight to a Hurricane Katrina or Sandy outcome, even if it was "just" rain and not a hurricane.

Emma- good luck on the sale of the house. One of my daughters wants us to clean out the master closet here, because I have stuff from everyone in there, and I just can't find the energy to even consider it. There is almost 40 years of stuff in it. I can't imagine having to do the whole house. The other bedrooms wouldn't be too bad- they have changed residents so much that they are pretty clear, but the kitchen and God help us, the garage and shed!! Makes me queasy to even think about it- which is why I don't.

Nothing much happening here. Rob got in Sun and camp started Mon. I used to do all the office stuff for them before BC, but what was supposed to be 15-20 hrs a week became more like 50+ hrs, so I just haven't gone back. I stay connected though, like I went the first day and helped give out the camp t-shirts and serve the lunches. It was fun being busy, but I got to leave when I wanted, without feeling I had left anything undone. There were 247 campers the first day. They run an excellent teen camp which is hard to find, so there were 125+ kids in that part.

I think for Rob, the best part of the summer is coming home to a decent hot dinner every night. Even when his vegan wife makes "dinner" for him, it is always pasta and sauce,with a salad. Rob's not a salad person and no matter what the shape, pasta is pasta is pasta.

He is in charge of the whole camp, and the most stressful part of that is dealing with the owner of the camp and her daughter who is co-director. They are both scatterbrained and OCD. Just as an example, the first day, the owner told the head counselor of the middle camp to go with another counselor to get the TV, and that she would watch his group while he was gone. At the end of the day meeting, she yelled at the counselor saying he left his group without coverage. He yelled right back at her that he was doing what she told him to. Rob gets just as frustrated, but manages (for the most part) to speak calmly. Another example is that she told Rob that she and I would take the lunches over to the youngest group who were in a portable classroom at the closest middle school. He called the counselor and told her lunch was on the way, so she got all the kids sitting at their desks, ready for lunch. Problem was, Sue lost her sunglasses, then got into a long discussion with a parent, then couldn't find the paper we needed (which was in her hand), so we were more than a half-hour late in getting there with the lunches. She was not happy that the kids were just sitting there watching TV. Made no connection to the fact that we were supposed to be there 30+ minutes earlier and they had been active until they were sat down for lunch.

Rob has been doing this for 20 years now, Sue has owned the camp since 1983, her daughter just started five years ago. Even though Sue and Lori know Rob can run the camp part calmly and completely, they cannot let go and let him do it. They question him constantly. Rob says so far this year every time Lori tells him he has to tell a counselor something, he tells her to tell the counselor herself, and every single time she has come back and said they said Rob already told them. When she asks why he didn't just tell her that, he says because you obviously don't believe me when I do. When Lori gives directions to them, for a field trip, or specific activity, they all come to Rob saying"what?!?" She ends up giving each of them two or three contradictory jobs in the same conversation.

Rob stays with the job because he loves the kids, and it pays him as much in ten weeks as his teachers salary, but Sue and Lori drive him crazy. Since I left, he is giving Lori more and more of the paperwork that she can do off-site. Lori's oldest daughter is in the youngest group of campers this year and when sue and I were giving them their t-shirts, Sue was surprised Lori hadn't ordered any extras for her daughter- I said why would she- she can take as many as she wants. These are extras that the parents paid extra for. Lori is part owner- why would she pay for a shirt? I gave her daughter an extra one anyway, just so she would have a bag like everyone else.

Anne

Rita - the only time I didn't worry when I got a mammogram was the time I got diagnosed with cancer...    Maybe the worry gene will help ward off any more bad stuff. 

Well gardengumby....I knew I worried for a reason! Sure hope that worry does ward off the bad stuff! I like the way you think!

Carole, I sure hate to hear that you are still having pain in your foot. There are LOTS of nerves down there so maybe it will just take some more time.

I broke down and put on the air when I got home from golf this afternoon. The house was really steamy and it is feeliing pretty good now! We are in a wooded area and usually get a good breeze but not today. I also wanted to make a cake for our strawberry shortcake for dinner and that would heat up the house even more. Of course I have chosen the hottest day of the summer so far to do this! :-)

This has been a week of good news. We have a friend who needed a liver. We figured that if there was a younger person who needed the same liver the younger person would probably get it. However, they got a call from Mayo Clnic telling them to get in the car immediately and head north because they had a liver. Hopefully his body will accept this gift! Then one of the gals that I bowl and golf with had a brain anyuerism (I think I spelled that wrong!) and had to have a coil put in during a challenging brain surgery. She got through the surgery OK and is expected to make a good comeback. How scary! She is younger than me and so very active!

Well, I need to get that cake made and the strawberries cleaned. I hope everyone is having a great day!