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luvmygoats · August 2015

Marvelous pictures Smaarty. Too bad about SIL. Hope her hip gets to feeling better. Maybe arrange a couple of quieter days, less walking.

Patty - Hootie Hoo back atcha.

Mags - are you off on adventures with your new car?

Weeelll the unexpected happened. It is raining buckets. Our dreaded HIGH has shifted just a bit west and allowed storms from OK to come down. Just my county and westward, not into Ft Worth proper. I'll take anything. AND it's 82 degrees outside. I feel like going outside and dancing. We had an electric warning yesterday and were expecting one again today but I think maybe the tide has turned some. It is still August. Oh gosh it is thundering.

Wren44 · August 2015

The corpse flower is pollinated by carrion flies.

Gas here is $3.27 for the cheapest.

Jazzygirl · August 2015

Smarty- love the pics. I wish I were there too! Dublin Castle looks fab!

sas-schatzi · August 2015

Hootie Hoo Patty

Marley going to spend the afternoon looking at the book. Thanks poo can't do.

Gas was something like .50 more in my little town than over at Spookie's Always hire here. Total ripoff. One time similar with a US HWY1 place . He said it was a different market. May look into picketing.

Great pics Smarrty. How are the restaurants? Pubs?

Afternoon all

sas-schatzi · August 2015

Marley, I have one Bryce Higbee piece. .25 cents @ salvation Army years ago. Arched Fleur De Lis--1907

Jazzygirl · August 2015

What is everybody doing for fun this weekend?

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Smaarty · August 2015

someone ask for interior pics and I decided this was appropriate. And funny. This is my bathroom. Notice the little white handle just above the towel. This is a water closet that is used over here. Have run across several of them so far. OMD! How do BC women over here flush??! This isn't easy to do with the implants. It's a little hard to pull down and the muscles twitch!

tangandchris · August 2015

Frey...did you paint that??

Ladies, I need to get this off my chest. I don't know where else to go, so excuse my whine or whatever this is.

A year ago this time I was finishing up rads and wondering if I'd ever feel normal again. Fast forward to today, and I'm back to work, my hair is growing in and things are pretty much back to "normal". I'm training for a new position, flying to Missouri twice a week in a corporate jet, I'm working on getting healthier and trying to be happier. Some days I feel like everything is golden, but then suddenly, I'll take a down turn and start to worry.

Is this pain between my shoulders that wont go away...is it....could it be...cancer? Am I being foolish for worrying or foolish for thinking that everything is okay?

IDK, I'm just in a weird mood this afternoon. I want to seize the day, but I also don't want to be lulled into a false sense of security.

((hugs)) everyone and thanks for reading/listening

Smaarty · August 2015

tang, you are not being weird! We lose our sense of calm or innocence with this BC crap. If it persists then call your doc. I just went thru this in April, had tests, nothing showed up. Still get little pain in my stomach, but try not to think about it much.

I think we will from now on always think cancer first with anything that bothers us. Just another benefit from BC!

sas-schatzi · August 2015

Tang, imho your normal on all questions. Stupid cancer takes away fear of old age stuff. We always blame cancer for everything. Cuz it's so hateful.

sas-schatzi · August 2015

A corporate jet?

tangandchris · August 2015

Yes...a corporate jet!!

crap I can't figure out how to rotate it. Anyway, when I got this job I knew I'd have to travel more than I ever had before and that was going to be tough since I HATE flying. I have to pinch myself that I am doing this because it is so out of the norm for me! I suppose this is one thing that cancer has given me, the nerve to step outside of my comfort zone.

Anyway, the jet is awesome without a doubt

Thanks for getting me, that is the beauty of this board.

Here's Izzy with Teddy and Hello Kitty

This was last weekend at our "almost sleepover" Frozen birthday party. She was Elsa A friend came and did face painting and they had a ball.

Eeyore07 · August 2015

Sassy, I know she meant a "corporate jet", not the corporate jet - Southwest Airlines. Tang, We all worry about if and when the C will come back. But when I was declared a 4, not much I can do, but to keep going. Scared, sometimes, worried, sometimes too, down occasionally. But enjoy each day.

Loveroflife · August 2015

Did you just said that Tang's ail is as result of old age???...."fear of old age stuff" ? Tang, you are not that old, are you? I thought you weremuch younger than me?

tangandchris · August 2015

I'm 41....dx at 39, so no I can't blame it all on old age right? ugggg

I'm also planning on dumping my MO, would this be bizarre after active tx ending to do this? I really don't care if it is or not to be honest. I'm tired of her and her crappy way of explaining stuff to me.

Loveroflife · August 2015

Wow!!! Nice jet. Are you one of the SSA?

I have this pain in my left armpit that comes and goes.There are times I worry that it's back. BC does take our sense of peace away. Yup, you are younger than me. I'm 46

Chevyboy · August 2015

EVERYbody is younger than me! Sorry Tang....sorry you get the blues.... but don't get it get you down.... Just WAIT until you are MY age, and you can't do 1/2 of what you could before.... I'm not worried about cancer coming back.... I just try and live every day, with what I have! Can't move around like I did.... But I shoveled 2 more holes out in the rocks in my parking today.... didn't fall once! I'm putting in 2 little bushes in the morning.

Had to soak it up good, before I plant them............. You TRAVEL IN A CORPORATE JET??? Do you know how many of us wish we had a job like that? In our lifetime EVER? All I can say is congratulations! You ROCK girl! Ever since your diagnosis! Look at how far you have come!

If you get cancer again, or fall and break something, then we just get up, and have to deal with all that crap again............. Just don't worry.... We have LOTS of time to worry, when something happens......... xoxoxo

luvmygoats · August 2015

Tang - Hugs girl. I think we all get that feeling no matter how far out we are (well maybe l0 years+ I might not). I feel exactly the same way about dumping my MO. We can have a dump the MO day. I would for sure if the one I wanted was not just in the same office/same waiting room. Geesh and mine is rated a top doc by Ft Worth Magazine. Maybe he's good at PR with other docs.

Cute Frozen almost sleepover. DD (age 28) I think still has a thing for Hello Kitty.

I am wondering IF it will even occur to his nurse when need a refill on my Fosamax next month that it says I'm on Prolia (not, by my choice). Betcha not. Betcha it just gets refilled as always.

And my mammo center called wanting to schedule my mammo. Ahh don't they need an order for that. I'm on yearly not 6 months. Didn't go last summer but didn't get this gotta schedule call. Slow day, revenues low? Not sure. MO/BS agree on yearly so not sure where this BS nonsense comes from.

Corporate jet? Where do you fly out of? I always think of Addison but know there's got to be a ton of others and much closer than Addison to you. I think Meacham Field here is a biggie or Alliance. But at Alliance you have to compete with all the freight planes.

Stupid me put something right in the way where I walk and slipped/tripped over it. I saw the tile floor coming but thankfully between my wrist, elbow and L ribs managed not to hit the floor. L ribs up under where lumpy was done. Darn it I wanted to enjoy a cocktail afternoon instead I indulged in 3 Advil.

Tea report - the Taylors tea room tea was OK. Again I'd not spend any extra for it. The thing I've enjoyed the most in the last few days is the loose Assam I found. That and more of the apple chai cold. Almost done with that WooHoo. It and the Lady Grey have moved into the same box. High only hit 87 today after the pourdown. I've even had the curtains open, unheard of for a summer afternoon.

susan3 · August 2015

tang, if you hate flying, and don't want to travel that much....stress tension , and all that stuff also causes a lot of pain cause we are not relaxed, and we clench are muscles when stressed. I get a ton of pain from muscle clenching stress....just a though

Loveroflife · August 2015

Goats, ouch!!!! Good thing you are on Prolia.

Izzy is cute!! I have a niece with the same nick name, short for Isabel.

Very good point Susan about the tensed back muscles when we are stressed. I find that when I have to work for a long time in front of a computer, I tend to get pain in my neck and in between the shoulder blades

Jazzygirl · August 2015

Tang- well congrats on being a year out, feeling more normal, and all the wonderful things in your life.

Regarding weird pains, I get them all the time and always think there is something going on. I like to watch my pain or any other symptom and if it persists and or gets worse, I will go get it checked out first by my PCP. I had some breathing problems that did not go away this spring and that I thought were asthma but they lasted long enough for me to go be sure nothing more was going on. I was a-ok, just needed some advair for my breathing. Our docs encourage us to pay attention to things that linger. I hope the pain goes away!

I think many here are quite envious of the corporate jet. No waiting in line for you with your boarding pass!

Chevy- you are our resident matriarch of the thread I think?

Tresjoli2 · August 2015

Tang Sas has diagnosed me with an iPad inducing flashing light syndrome. 😊 I had something strange happen and impact my vision and ability to walk. Hasn't happened since, but my MO had a reaction that freaked me out. So now I sit here trying not to run away with it. Hugs. I think we all go there from time to time, and as sas has so importantly reminded me we should always tease out a diagnosis, no matter what that is.

Zillsnot4me · August 2015

Hi ladies! Hootie hoo Patty.

Sassy will have to send you a pix of my glassware. Hoping to find a matching cake plate. Think it's carnival glass. Iridescent.

Goats. Lady grey come in a yellow bag? Good cold? Must try if I can remember next time I'm in the big city.

Yes gas was almost $6 a gallon in Dublin and it cost $78 to fill up a vw golf and petrol stations not on every corner. None on my way to local shop or beach. Hope your still havin fun. Did you go to the natl stud?

Last summer ground beef (mince in Ireland) went up over $1 a lb. this year it's eggs. Local Aldi usually has eggs and milk for $1.69. Eggs were $2.50. Ridiculous. I "picked" my own eggs at the shop and put them in the carton in Ireland. Only brown eggs. Never saw any white ones. One week all six had double yolks.

I think my arm pain is trapped fluid. I have very mild LE but can tell when it's not moving. Usually resolves itself. Mopping or sweeping set it off. Yea spookie for the pump!

Sleep well.

Wren44 · August 2015

Tresjoli, I had a light show in one eye that interfered with my balance. It lasted about 20 minutes. Mine was a form of migraine. Never had the headache tho.

Tang, I think pain that comes and goes is ok. If it stays without remitting, I would get to the doc. My wretched back pain was finally (after 3 years) traced to a nerve in my neck. It did come and go, however.

luvmygoats · August 2015

Zills - Mostly I see bright blue box with yellow print on the net. I think Twinings is the only maker. Review I read said less bergamot and slightly more citrus (though the bergamot is citrus). I do love bergamot - on 2nd box of Stash Tea's double bergamot Earl Grey.

http://teareview.info/twinings-lady-grey-tea-revie...

Product Details

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-mi...

Several of us on here have ocular migraines. The 1st one I had thought surely I had a detached retina. On a lake trip and as I did the bit of chores I was doing it got better. Then couple of years later had about 3 of them in a day or 2. Time for eye exam anyway and my usual optometrist dx this. This is long after I started with glaucoma and my gl. doc agreed with the opto. I don't have the headaches with it though my DM, aunt, and GM sure had them badly. Still scare me silly when they happen. They are not fun to have shopping. I have had one out driving and not fun either. I do get more when stressed. Had not had one in a year or 2 then earlier in summer had about 3 and then none since then. The picture on this link pretty well describes mine. They always appear the same, like pyramids of broken glass, starting in a small circle or oval that gradually widens out and fades away. I never really notice that it's gone just suddenly notice that I'm seeing well again.

Loveroflife · August 2015

Saw this and thought about you Rose.

magdalene51 · August 2015

Hey Owlettes! LMG, we took the new car on a short trip to one of the Oklahoma resorts (did I already tell you this? I don't remember) called Roman Nose (named after a Native American chief, don't know what tribe). It was too hot to do much but rest and eat, so that's what we did. I've taken it easy the rest of the week, then went out to lunch with a friend at that new Mexican restaurant we found – did I tell you they have the best flan in the world? I had it again today. The owner, Maria, makes it herself, told me her mother's is even better. I said, that's not possible. Everything was so good. She remembered me and DH by name.

We had heavy rains this morning, big dog had to have his Thundershirt on. Wimp.

Hootie hoo Patty.

Off to bed.

Rosevalley · August 2015

Marlana- love the story of your episode fixing the toilet! I also cracked up over what you said your 2 dogs would have done had they been in the wedding! I could just picture it... whizzing on every chair and chasing with glee after the sea gulls - the ring bearer in flight! HahaYou are one amazing strong person to work so many hours after chemo.

Love the pictures from Ireland. Keep them coming. Spookie hope the machine works better after you use it for a while. Hi Patty! I went to the ER to get fluid off and while it took 9 hours... successs! I feel better, bruised and a little sore -but better. Happiness is having ascites drained. I have more options being off hospice and using palliative care, my medical insurance pays for more. I would have never understood that, had hospice not come out and explained it to me. Being a cancer patient means also being a savy medical insurance consumer.

Love hearing about everyone and what they are doing. I am not doing a whole lot these days, sticking around the house mostly, napping.. went out to lunch with kids today and that was fun. Howdy to all! Positively cold today, windy and maybe 68-70? I had a sweater on!

Wren44 · August 2015

Luv, That's not what mine looked like. It was a bright slash diagonally across my vision with the jagged things shimmering in lots of bright colors. Kind of like a laser light show. It was interesting to look at, although scary because I didn't know what happened. Just walking by someone wearing perfume can give me an ice pick headache. In fact the ice pick hits before I consciously smell the perfume. Jasmine and gardenia flowers can also trigger headaches. Mom used to have vicious migraines that put her in bed in a dark room for 2-3 days at a time.

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