CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.

This is Kerian, he will be christened next weekend.our newest little guy

Ducky ..so great to see you ..just not the same without you ..Wow you're new diet is really working...that's a lot of weight loss and great to hear that it's helping with the aches and pains ! Kerian is a real little bundle of joy 😃

ducky, that is one great diet for you

Me, got the sniffles today, have not decided if cold or flu so not going too far today,

You ladies rock.........hope your all feeling good on this Monday morning.....I am happy with the weight loss, just too bad I didn't do it much sooner...but I guess lookng back doesn't help my efforts.....its isn't easy as far as giving up so many (what we consider the good things.lol), but it does help to finally say “enough is enough"....

Looking forward to the holidays although I am truly a “Bah Humbug" person......sometimes it all so much “ado about nothing"....an example...my poor grandkids (married ones) caught in the middle of “where should we eat this year".......each set of parents insisiting it “has to be with us"....ony putting stress on them....then you have the ones who have “divorce" inthe family and they have to share themselves with 3 families......"the biological Mother and FAther, who have remarried and do their own thing.......then you have the mom and dad who stayed together but yet have to split their time with the 2 families who didn't.......I told my grandaughter the other day.......Hey girlie....you nip this shit in the bud......its not your fault that you husband's Mom and Dad are divorced.....and what is expected is they have to go to “her Mom and Dad's"....then to his Mother's house...and then to his Father's house......when she has 3 kids under 6, and one is in a wheel chair.....know what I told her......"stay home, and do your own christmas".....probably not much fun, but at least you get rid of the stress.....they want to see your. kids.......Let them all come to you......and don't worry about entertaining them.....they caused the new arrangement......LOL

So on we go....with what is suppose to be a glorious time of the year, and it is turned into a competetion.by families....been there done that....and what did I do.....exactly what I told her to do....and you wonde why I say “Bah Humbug".....LOL.....with me my husband wanted to go to his Mother's all the time....and my mother would say ...Hey don't get in a fight over it, just go there...fixed it........I said “you want to see the kids, come here, cause I am not taking (at the time) my son who at the time was 8 months old.....running all over town to see anyone......he is staying here..comfy and cozy in his xmas PJ's......and that is what I did and still do 60 years later......Xmas eve at my house.....and my 6 kids come with their husbands....my 18 grandchildren come with their wives/husbands....and my 8 great-grand children will be here too........I don't insist.......everyone is welcome....if you can make it fine....if you can't no problem.........and so it goes.....hugs.

I'm back in Crazy Town. Having my first post-treatment CT scan on Wednesday- it will be of pelvis & abdomen. I've left a message for my onco to see if she could include head b/c I've been having some headaches (which may be stress related due to upcoming scan).

I just want it done and over with so I know if the R or M words are coming. Not looking forward to the IV experience or the waiting by the phone as soon as I get home.

Gah.

Were it not for the synchronous malignancy (chromophobe renal cell carcinoma they found in a PET scan after breast cancer dx), I wouldn't be up for one right now.

I feel like climbing up the walls.

Pepper: CrazyTown indeed. Aren't tests always like that? But thinking we need to add climbing walls to the CrazyInn, in addition to the sunny porch, treehouse et al.

Ducky: glad to see you back. Let us (me) know how Andrea Bocelli was live? (and weight loss and Thanksgiving and yet another amazingly gorgeous adorable grandbaby)

Jumping into the "pocket party" for both Pepper & Iris. Pepper, before you get a head CT or MRI you might want to see an ENT--those headaches could be sinus-related and a simple exam (no radiation, just light in a darkened room) could rule congestion in or out.

Ducky, I'm getting flashbacks to the "dueling parental households" aspect of the holiday season. Bob & I are both from NYC and moved to Seattle for our graduate educations the day after the wedding. Christmas vacation was always a tug-of-war between sets of parents--his lived in eastern Queens, without a car and a long walk plus bus ride to the subway; mine were in Brooklyn with both a car and a two-block walk to the subway. His parents lived extremely simply (never dined out except when we were in town and my parents came along and split the tab, rarely watched TV, and had weird dietary habits--FIL was a Zen Buddhist at the time, and a strict no-sugar-no-fat-no-white-flour vegan, and we had to sneak MIL out to Burger King & Baskin-Robbins so she could have the beef & ice cream she craved). Mine eagerly dined out with us and my mom was an expert cook--Dad had only to watch the fat & sodium, and "watching" was about all he did in that regard. They would sit and argue about who got more time with us; especially when Bob's folks paid for our airfare (we were poor as church mice back then and air travel, even economy, was much costlier then than it is now). They would argue that time spent in the city & with friends didn't count as time with them--to them, only time spent exclusively with them counted. We solved that problem once we both got full-time jobs and could buy our own plane tickets, though both sets of parents refused to let us stay in hotels until my in-laws were unable to keep house well enough to allow anyone but themselves inside--that was ten years after Gordy was born. By then, my dad had passed away and my mom retired and had moved to FL to be near her friends (her entire lodge sisterhood had moved lock, stock, and barrel from lower Manhattan to Boca).

We're about to get a taste of our own medicine now. Gordy (who still lives with us) has been spending nearly every weekend since Labor Day with his girlfriend. She wanted to take things slow and finally agreed to let us meet her & take her to dinner in a couple of weekends before she heads down to Houston to spend Christmas with her family. Today Gordy broke it to us that he will be joining her in Houston for an extended New Year's with her and her folks. In the past, he's been able to have dinner with us before doing a late evening show. But this is the first New Year's Eve since he was born that we will be without him. I think the two of them are starting to get serious. I'm glad they make each other happy, but it'll be sort of bittersweet. Our baby has truly grown up. (Yeah, he's 33 but he's our only child and will always be our baby).

well new england is a favorite of mine octo! You will need to make a trip! Gee my magic gingèr tea spiked with bourban has me feeling better this morning! So today is a no,doc appt day need to figure something good to,do

yeap, and a hit of honey too

Cheaper than cold meds and tastes better

i totally agree, tastes fine as well

Well they just called to to confirm tommorrow, wooppee, ii can flavor my morning h2o with fresh lemn, how fun

yay 7of9 for good news! Celebrate tonight!

Octogirl

oh yes, Lucy, adorable is the word for your Granddaughter!

Speaking of adorable granddaughters, I made a quick trip to LA (before the fires started, thank goodness!) because my own adorable granddaughter had her debut performance with the nationally ranked children's chorus she just joined this fall. I am SO proud of her (and am not sure where she got the singing gene, certainly not from me :-)). Here is a pic of her receiving well deserved flowers after the amazing performance they all did at UCLA this weekend.

Rain, the fires are hundreds of miles from me, thank goodness. They are impacting my DD and family: they are quite far from the biggest fire in Ventura, but DD does work up that way one day a week (She teaches at several local colleges, including one near Ventura). Classes today were cancelled at her college; a relief. One of the smaller fires is close enough to her to be causing bad air quality, but so far at least they are safe, as winds are blowing away from them. We are watching closely with them and hoping for the best for all involved. As someone was quoted in the LA times, there aren't too many disadvantages to living in California, but these fires are one of them. Praying all in the path of the fires stay safe.

Jan, like me, is well out of the range of these fires. I believe that Tomboy is as well; the fires are pretty far north of the area where she is...though would be great to hear from her.

Love and hugs to all...

Glad you are well away from the fires Molly! Stay safe! Keep us posted on how things go with the new MO!

The older I get the younger all docs seem...I thought my ortho surgeon for knee replacement was pretty young, but he did an excellent job so what the heck!

Hugs

Octogirl

((((((((((((M0mmy))))))))))) Those are giant hugs from me! I am so sorry. It sure sounds like someone overreacted! 7of9, I am so thankful your scan was clean! Hugs everyone!

Thanks Molly.

Sandy, they have me on Eliquis twice a day