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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited January 2016

    BBL but popping on for just a quick minute or 2.

    Smaarty - Evie is lovely and I have the greatest respect for NICU nurses. Did you see the story last week about the tiniest premie? And for sure Evie has her birthweight going for her. Would rather see a transfer than muddle along guessing. Hard on family though. Will love seeing your 5 generation family picture. Sorry the other GM did not get to see her yet.

    Deb - in your pocket for ultrasound this morning. I brought only nutritious fruit for snacks. No dripping on Deb's pocket ladies.

    H1O - I know there is a hole in your heart with your friend's death. Cancer is just evil. Sounds very much like my DM. They didn't even find (or really look for) the source of hers other than didn't think it was lung or breast cancer. She passed a week after diagnosis.

    Must get my act together. Took down the Christmas tree yesterday and my back is screaming from bending. Church funeral today. Lady from my Bible study DH passed away somewhat unexpectedly New Years Eve. Had been seriously ill all summer but was doing better. Goats need grain, birdies need food. We need those bread, milk things.

    Ladies in the south - I'm reading hints of snow over the weekend and next week. Local weather even mentioned it last night. My weather board is saying very strong cold intrusion coming. And I hear FL has set some new heat records.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited January 2016

    Goats, it was 84 here Christmas Day. Most of us were in shorts, except for DAH, who wore Camo flannel.

    It's a good food Glennie, and she's doing well except for the Cushing? That's not food anyway. Ask vet if it's too much protein for her kidneys.

    Thanks for the update Susan.

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2016

    nothing new to report on Evie. DD is working today, DGD will be discharged. I have to take DGS to PT tomorrow so maybe we'll swing out to see Evie if he's feeling up to it. New pics from DD-

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    Even through all this my DD remembers to bring the chalk board. DGD didn't have the deep tear like they thought she had but a lot of blood. Got her all stitch up in the OR so she good to go.

    I know Evie is big for a premie. She probably would have been a 9 pounder for sure. Sorry if I'm repeating stuff here.

    Susan, thanks for letting us know. I'm glad that someone on here is in contact. You can tell she's lurking because you can see when someone was "last seen"

    Blessings, thanks for the info. Glad everyone in your family is doing better. Miss seeing you here.

    Say hi to 2nd. Glad she got her job and seems to be doing better with her DD.

    Ps. The floor goes in today. Waiting for them to arrive.

    PsPs. I'm writing a book now like Sassy and Chevy!

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited January 2016

    smarty. Gkaf you posted The new pics. She is beautiful. Parents look very happy. Yea!!!!

    Holeinone- thinking of you. ((( hugs))).

    Waving hello to all.

    Ds2 getting root canal today and dh I'd taking him. Iam very thankful dh does so much but really really want it to be me. Unfortunately, back pain is horrible and also the big D again. Ugh.

    Hootie hoo

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  • mdnghtdeb3
    mdnghtdeb3 Member Posts: 130
    edited January 2016

    Smarty - oh my! She is gorgeous!

    Well, here we go...off to surgeon's office in a few min for ultrasound! Yikes!

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited January 2016

    mdnghtdeb. - in your pocket. Thinking of you.
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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited January 2016

    Her bloodwork is ok,,, vet knows she is on it and is ok with it. Thanks for mentioning!


    Edit: page flipped and saw new pics!! She is so beautiful.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited January 2016

    Thinking of you Midnight( I think I like this name Ms. Chevy gave you).

    Thank you, Susan. She is a part of us just as we are a part of her.

    Patty, NO NO. Hoping it is growing pain-bone rebuilding pain. Keep well hydrated and cold Tucks wipes handy. It helps with the soreness.

    Aww, Blessing is right. She is chunky for a premie.

    We are are wet up north Cal here too. Yay

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2016

    patty, here's a link about the poop pill. Sounds gross but they have found a way to take healthy people's poop, clean it up, put it in pill form, then give to people who don't have healthy bowel bacteria.

    http://www.openbiome.org/press-releases/2015/10/28...

    Have you or doc ever checked about it? With all the antibiotics you have taken, you have wiped out the good bugs with the bad.

    Deb, here's hoping for the best.

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited January 2016
    Bringing m&ms to Deb's pocket party. No mess.

    Having sympathy D with Patty. Don't know how you do this for days on end, honey, it has wiped me out. Still in jammies at 1:30 in the afternoon. DC is doing my laundry, bless her heart. She has been so busy with holidays and ended up with nothing on her plate today. She has to be doing or she's not happy. And I am lazy when in pain.

    Smaarty, that is one hefty premie! What a gorgeous little lady! I know you are busting at the seams with pride.

    Thanks for update on Rose, I miss her gobs. Blowing kisses in case she's lurking.

    Where's Chevy? Have we seen her this morning and I missed it?

    LMG, DC tells me we still have snow and ice in the shade. Looks like we'll get more Saturday.

    I'd get dressed but all my clothes are in the laundry.
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  • mdnghtdeb3
    mdnghtdeb3 Member Posts: 130
    edited January 2016

    Thank you all for the well wishes and for being in my pocket today!

    Loveroflife - the name sure fits...I work the midnight shift and have for years.

    So, unfortunately I have to go for another diagnostic ultrasound on thursday (the one I had today was in Drs office). She wants a better one done by radiologist. Guess there might be wires involved during surgery. Yep, gotta have surgery to remove entire axillary mass. Couple reasons...she said it is too close to other structures and there isn't enough tissue surrounding it. She also wants a greater sample, which she can't get with needle. Not sure how I feel about this. Still nervous, worried, stressed....you all know...the typical feelings that go along with this.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited January 2016

    Midnight.... I don't know if this is the same, but before my surgery, I went into this preop room, and they used an ultra-sound to guide this 25 foot long wire right smack dab into my boob.... (just estimating here...) Then I had this "nuclear" fluid... which I think was purple, injected right into the nipple. I was supposed to massage my boob, up, into my underarm....to spread this stuff.....

    That was supposed to go into my lymph-nodes, so they would show up during surgery! And they could take out some... 3 in fact. Then they would freeze tissue from my small tumor, run back in to the surgeon, and tell her if the margins were clear.... And they were.........

    The wire that curled around everywhere, was used to mark the exact spot of the tumor, seen with the ultra-sound during surgery.... Then it comes out.... or else we would have a built in clothes-line.

    Also.... ask about the Mammo-Site device for radiation.... This shortens the duration of radiation treatments.... SOME women cannot have this, because the tumor is too close to bones, or whatever else is in there.... but I had it, and it worked perfect.... That is if you even have to have radiation......

    Smarty, she IS gorgeous....!!! My first one weighed 6# 9 oz.... Full term! She really looks healthy too! Little Evelyn will be perfect! We all just love babies! I remember when we had to stay in the hospital for 5 days! Come hell or highwater! I remember walking down to the nursery and seeing Sheri in there crying, and I would cry, because I just wanted to hold her! Now, they get you up and outathere!

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited January 2016

    Hugs Deb,,,,,,

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  • mdnghtdeb3
    mdnghtdeb3 Member Posts: 130
    edited January 2016

    Chevy - A built in clothes-line...hmmm. LOL! That really got me to smile. Thank you!

    Sass - Thank you for the hugs!

    This just blows! I hate needles. Don't want another surgery. Don't want to wait for results! Ugh! Sorry, I know none of us want any of this! I'm just being a big baby! I had high hopes that 2 years ago I could do exactly as I was told, take my tamoxifen and wouldn't ever have to go through any of this again. Sorry...just had to vent. I know we are all hoping the same for ourselves and our loved ones.

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  • Zillsnot4me
    Zillsnot4me Member Posts: 2,687
    edited January 2016

    PP. sorry about the big D. Cold tucks sound good as does desitin. I was a preschool teacher. Desitin rocks. Purple lid, not generic.

    My cancer center offers Jin shin jytstu. I truly believed it gave me quality of life during chemo. My hair and nails even started growing. There's a specific hold for D. It won't hurt to try. Hope youredoing probiotics.

    https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3R1sIQwcvVdQ...


    Evelyn is adorable

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited January 2016

    Okay Midnight.... Don't count on any of the "after" drugs to stop cancer.... they might help some people, but no one can say for sure that that is the reason they didn't get cancer again. I only took Tamoxifen for a year and a half... I quit the damn stuff.... Lost my hearing, but THAT SE is not "common".... Only in older gals like me... with a "certain gene" which caused a "small infarct".... (must be related to a fart) near my brain stem.

    It just happens... They SAY "possible" stroke... or "possible" cataracts.... All those drugs have warnings....

    You are not a big baby.... Just scared, and we don't blame you.... We all were/are.... But we'll help you through this.... okay? Now go to bed and sleep tight....


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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited January 2016

    Janie gave me this CD when I was diagnosed.... For you Midnight...

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

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2016

    Heard from Evie dad. The tube in her month is to remove excess air from her stomach caused by the air from the cannula. She may stay 24-48 hrs more depending on how she does tonight and tomorrow.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited January 2016

    That video made me cry.

    Deb, bummer. Meds decrease the chance of the cancer coming back. Wish we have meds that guarantee 100% cure.

    Aww...she has a needle in her tiny hand. Wide awake there

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited January 2016

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited January 2016

    It was 38 here this AM. I had to wear socks.

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited January 2016

    midnghtdeb. - darn. So sill te waiting game. Yuck

    Smarty. Aww she is so adorable.

    Hootie hoo all

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited January 2016

    Talking like a Floridian haha

    Well, just when I thought Mitzy had made improvement with the separation anxiety, she proved me wrong. Went to lunch with hubby this afternoon for about an hour and look what happened....

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    The pillow EXPLODED......AGAIN (4th one)Hahahahah Notice how she is avoiding eye contact after I confronted her.

    It was my fault for forgetting to take it out. She knew I was disappointed, I guess from my long audible sigh and maybe the look on my face. Didn't yell or raise my voice. She came to me after a few minutes licking my hands profusely-her way of saying sorry, I think. Didn't pet her right away so she gave me space and every so often came around the corner to peek and watched me clean up the mess.

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    Couldn't get upset with that sad look. Very tempted to fill the Prozac rx.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited January 2016

    Was 48 this am. Had heat on.

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  • mdnghtdeb3
    mdnghtdeb3 Member Posts: 130
    edited January 2016

    Chevy - omg! That video made me cry as well! It is absolutely beautiful and I can't thank you enough for sharing it with me/us! If you ladies haven't watched it yet, please do! ...you lost your hearing due to tamoxifen? Oh Chevy, that's awful. I'm sorry. I hate that drug and the side effects, but was convinced by drs it was an important step. Wow! Thank you for your support and for not thinking I'm a big baby.

    Loveroflife - A 100% sure would be a gift, huh? ..and yep, can't get too upset with that adorable face!

    Patty - Yep, still waiting. It's killing me.

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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited January 2016

    Lover: Seriously. The pillow just exploded. It wasn't her fault. My cats say much the same thing about the folls of toilet paper that they're forced to dismember.

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited January 2016

    Smarty- that baby is really beautiful. She looks super healthy, but know the little lungs, liver, all need their full time to develop out. What a beautiful head of hair. Wide awake and checking out the person taking her photo.

    I think it is so hard on the moms when the babies cannot be with them. I had a friend here who had twins and one was slightly low birth weight. I went to see her in the hospital when the twins were born and held the bigger one, and then she took me to the NICU to see the other little girl. I was a bit freaked out by all the tubes in the babies, etc. My friend wanted me to hold her other daughter, but I was too afraid. But I touched her and held her little hand, as I knew that little girl needed some human touch. Those NICU's are incredible places, they have to be so on top of everything. Oh and those little twin girls are 8 yrs old now and both healthy and strong!

    Little Evie is getting super good care. It will be nice when everyone can be home together. I hope she gets stronger every day. Babies are so special.


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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited January 2016

    Smaarty, GS#4 was like Evelyn, a little early and big for a preemie. He was in the NICCU for a while and is now in 3rd grade. They are intimidating places, but really have a handle on things. She is gorgeous and very very alert.

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  • mdnghtdeb3
    mdnghtdeb3 Member Posts: 130
    edited January 2016

    I work in the NICU. Tubes, etc. can be super scary for everyone. It's hard to see the tiny ones hooked up to so many different things, but they are stronger then we realize.

    Jazzy - You aren't alone. Lots of people are afraid, and that is perfectly normal and more then okay. You held her hand, and like you said, human contact in any form is so important. I'm sure you made a difference! xo

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited January 2016

    I'm hoping to go see her tomorrow if she has to stay. I might even get more pics.

    Night all.

    Oh wait, where's Sassy? She was up late last night. Yoo-hoo??

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