For those starting chemo in June
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Ugh, Mary, I'm hoping your weather warms up as I'll be in St. Louis for a day and a half in March (fly in the 10th) and then Chicago for a couple days. If it's THAT cold still, I'll be up a creek.
Things are good here, except my hair is getting thinner because of the whole menopause thing, I guess. I wonder what I can do about that.
Janie, how's the arm? Do you go get any lymphedema therapy when it gets worse?
Hey to Nancy Lee. Hope your heaters are working....
Later girls,
Paula -
Hi Girls, it is raining so far. P.J. usually March is not bad but it has snowed in March. Let me know if you have a little time and I will drive down to St. Lou. Janie, I wish I was there. I hope Nancy is warm. They are wrong a lot about the snow but one never knows. It isn't too cold yet but I guess thats going to change about 10 p.m. It is going to be single digets until about Sat. then get above freezing finally. Hugs, Mary
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Well, it snowed and snowed here today. We got 4 inches of new snow and it's still snowing. There were cars stuck all over town this afternoon. I am so thankful for my old jeep. I just plowed my way through the drifts. My heaters are holding out. It's nice in here. This has been a very melancholy day for me. It was three years ago that I lost my baby brother to the abdominal aneurysm. It was almost the identical weather and I was at the daycare when I got the phone call. It just doesn't seem like 3 years, but I had my cancer diagnosis a month and a half after he left us so I spent the first few months of 2004 in kind of a daze. I'm pretty sure that's what made my mom lose it so fast--It was all too much for her to handle. Well, I'd better get off this train of thought or I'll become depresso NancyLee and I don't think I want to see her anytime soon. My niece and nephew from Texas were up here this weekend to see their father who had his birthday yesterday. They came to see me this morning before they left for the airport in Billings. They were going to be happy to get back to Texas and away from all this snow. I almost wanted to go with them, but my system wouldn't know how to handle it I don't think. I had no water pressure this morning because the stupid cows knocked the float off the trough and the water ran all night and took all my pressure from the house. I couldn't shower this morning so I just showered before I sat down at the computer. It felt SO good. Gonna go to bed--Long day again--Baby lady still gone!!!!! Life is Good Smiles NancyLee
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Well we are getting a blizzard, thats what they are calling it. We have 6 inches and it ain't going to stop until about midnight. The winds are 20 to 30 so the snow, she is a blowing. I called my daughter at work and told her to stay at her man's house in Spring. becasuse the roads and visibility is real bad. Schools are all closed all over central Il. and Mo. Hubby got out of La. just before the tornado but said he got high wind and rain lastnight and he is going right into this blizzaed today. He is getting experience. I am hunkered down but will no doubt have to pick up one of the grandsons today because he will want to come over. The streets in town won't be bad. I haven't heard a plow yet but they are no doubt trying to get the main roads clear. Better get and stay warm Nancy. You musta got this storm we are getting. Mary
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Hey everybody. started raining and supposed to turn colder, but nothing like you all have going. Nancy, bet you wish you had made the trip. Mary brace yourself and stay warm. PJ, no I do plan to tell the onc when I see him for my check-up. I have pretty much learned to treat it myself. The clinics have to have a referral and then take so much time because one usually has to go several days. Anyway, I got it back down by wrapping it and wearing a glove, so I guess all is well for a while. All you snow bunnies stay dry and warm. Make some snow cream. Later
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Boy isn't this fun, watching the snow fall. I need a Wally World fix. I go to walk to get exercise. I think we have 7 or 8 inches and it is still snowing. The 45 mile an hour winds are a bit much. I go to Onkie Thurs to see if my tumor markers are better, o.k. or what the hattie ever. They aren't even trying to clear the roads except the main ones in town and like I-55 because the white out conditions and drifting. I can't believe I live in this weather. Where is my mind? Anyone seen it? I think it went to chemo land. Later girls and hope you don't get cold Janie. You know it is sooo much easier to get cool than warm. When you have to run like a panther to get from your car to inside because its sooo cold you need your head examined. This is just miserable and I say that like this has never happened here before,maybe it didn't bother me so much when I was younger, hmmmm, nope it did and I stayed, I must be nuts. Mary
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Shoot I forgot why I was here a while ago, I have a friend going through treatment and she has the onky I had at first and did not like. She didn't like him either but thought she had to take him. Yea, anyhow this onky told her she had IDC (harmone neg)and her tumor was small just under 2 cm. and she could do or not chemo and she elected to do it, good choice. This onky said her B.C. is the run of the mill garden variety and curable.If you have to get B.C. this is the one to have. He told her when she makes it to 10 years she is cured????I am so glad I did not go to him....He is nuts. I wonder where he got his degree, Disneyland? I just listened because whatever. Mary
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Aaaaah, another lovely day at the North Pole!!!! It never broke zero today and is now way below. I don't even care to look. It also snowed and snowed. My lease guy snowplowed out here today and even shoveled my sidewalk. What a guy!! My horses are in the front yard tonight. I just saw my big white horse "Wilson" walk by the kitchen window!! Yikes!! It's a good thing I've got the dog in the house to get him out of the cold weather. Otherwise I'd get no sleep tonight because if he saw the horses in the yard he'd be barking his fool head off. Well, off to finish making my valentines for the daycare kids. I've gotten them all cut out--now I'm gonna put a little candy with each one, but they can't eat it until they take them home. That way their parents can deal with the sugar highs. Oh, NancyLee, what a thing to do!!!!!!! Nite all--Life is Good Smiles NancyLee
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What's up ladies????? I had to scroll all the way to the bottom of page 1 to find us. It was {{{{{BBBBRRRRRR}}}}} here today, but let's not talk about that!! I'm here in my nice warm living room sipping hot cocoa and chatting with you. Tomorrow I'm opening the daycare at 6:30 a.m. because I need to leave at 4 to drive to Glendive for the Relay for Life kick-off meeting and dinner. I'm taking a couple of ladies with me. Hopefully the weatherman is wrong about the 50 to 60 MPH wind that we're supposed to get with "dangerous life-threatening wind chill temps". That would put a major crimp in my travel plans!! Well, gotta type in the daily sign-in sheets. Tomorrow's FRIDAY!! Life is Good Smiles NancyLee
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I hear ya on the weather Nancy. We have 0 with -10 wind chill. I see kids walking to school and waiting on the bus all wrapped up, thats bad. I was to go to my dermatologist today in Springfield but we are going to have 30 mile an hour winds so that will blow the snow over the road so I may not go. We are going to get another 1 to 3 inches tonight. CRAP!!!! I went to my onky yesterday and my tumor marker was down. SHEW!!!! He wants to check it again in 4 months. My blood counts are still low and I always get a copy of my blood work and gosh, it is amazing what goes up then down gee. Nothing is always normal. Well I better get busy, Hey Janie whats up? Hi P.J. Hope everyone stays warm. Mary
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Mary, good news on those markers! You girls stay warm. Don't be traveling more than you need to. I see those pics of people stranded for hours and hours on roads and worry. Nothing up here, really. Hey, Janie. Aren't you glad we don't live up there?
Paula -
I had lunch with my grandaughter yesterday before Onky apt. and they had pictures second graders had made of pres. Washington and what he was famous for. The first thing was of course Pres. the 2nd. was wooden teeth. Now I bet he never would have dreamed that he would be most famous for his wooden teeth. The kids also had a paper they had listed 3 things they could buy with $100.00. Most kids said things for their parents or sibs. One wanted 2 tatoos(one could only imagine) and one would give it to a nursing home, one would devide it up between 3 homeless people, and one would help his mom pay her bills so she wouldn't get head aches. Out of the mouths of babes. Mary
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Hi every frozen body! Yes PJ, I am glad we do not live up there. It is quite cold enough here, thank you very much. Had my CT scan yesterday. Have not heard back yet. Probably won't until my onc visit. Who all is off Monday for the presidents? I am! hurray for long weekends! worked over a bunch of hours this week. They locked all doors but the front one last night and I finally found my way in and told the AP "I need to get to a freakin' time clock!" 23 years of formal schooling just to have to start clocking in. All the subs have decided they are not going to do it, so now the teachers cannot get a sub. I don't ever get one when I'm out anyway. Don't have substitute shrinks. Nancy, I do not know how you do it up there in the north pole. Mary, did you ever make it to wally? I know what you mean about something having to always be abnormal. Let's face it, the four of us "ain't normal" anyway...never were. Good Friday everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CT scan for what, Janie? I wish I got presidents' day off. Just another day at the office.
So, do you guys know who Ted Nugent is? Well, he moved down here some years ago. And now my paper is gonna start running a COLUMN by him. It's sort of embarrassing. OK, for me, REALLY embarrassing. Oh well. I guess he has his fans of his pro-killing, anti-Dem take on life.
Hubby was supposed to go on a 3-day hunting trip out in W. Texas but is sick. I was kind of looking forward to it. Is that awful? Anyway, nothing planned but a trip to Target and some dog walking.
Hope you Yanks get a good warmup.
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Ted Nugent???? HUMMMMM, O.K. yes I am old enough to know him. I actually went to a concert of his way back when. Gosh, I see these old people and think "my they are old" and excuse me I am too. What am I thinking. My brain has to catch up with my body because I can't lift heavy objects anymore and I am assuming that from the bad pain I have been in for 3 wks. It is finally better and I have to be careful I don't turn wrong and kick it in again. I do have a heavy dinning room table but I have lifted one end before. Wow, I ain't doing that again,(if I remember not to). Oh the word divide I spelled like the child spelled it in my last post. Well I better get, I am not going anywhere I don't think. We have about 2 new inches and it is still lightly snowing but the 40 mile an hour winds are making it bad. I am staying in. P.J. sometimes we just need our own time. Having a husband is like having another child. Mary
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It was a check on the lung nodules. Mayo had wanted the local onc to check on it. Don't really know why. They were still there the last time I had one and since the chemo did not zap them, they figured it was not cancer, so I imagine they are still there. I have had them for 3 plus years whatever they are. If it were fatal, I would be long gone by now.
I remember Ted Nugent. Don't remember much, but I remember him.
I have been without a husband for 22 years. Do ya'll think that is enough time without one, or should I go a little longer? Don't want to rush things.
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Gool luck with the nods. I am with you, they would of done something by now if they were bad. Janie, 22 years isn't that long but I do think you could look around a little if you feel the 22 year distance is getting you in the time frame you feel is adequate. We wouldn't want to rush anything. Go for it girlfriend.....Gosh it has to be hard now to date. It took me 37 years to train toolman and he is after all just a man so there are limitations to what he can learn. He goes out on a limb sometimes and thinks he knows more than me and gosh, that hits him in the face when he finds out he is wrong. Well you better get the grove on Janie. Sleep tight girls, Mary
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I just posted on my "remote" thread on the treatment forum. I've had a very nonproductive and spacey day, but enjoyable for the most part!! I had no water again because of those dumb cows so just before dark I put on my snowboots and jacket and trudged through the snowbanks over to the well--it's just a few hundred yards from the house and I SHUT the water off to the well!! By the time I walked back to the house, I had water again so I washed clothes and am now going to take a shower and go to bed. The stupid cows can just eat snow till tomorrow!! He's going to move them to a different pasture tomorrow morning anyway and so I just took care of shutting off the well a little early. Have I mentioned that I HATE cows? Oh, yes, I did!! Well, Nite all. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee
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Janie, maybe a steady but don't rush the husband thing. Mine is a big baby..... Mary's right (and Janie, I"m sure you know it) it's like having 2 kids sometimes.
Big night tonight. Nathan is having a friend stay over. A friend who really has never stayed over anywhere before. Should be interesting. I'm already up later than usual. Of course, the 2 margaritas I had earlier make it easier to take....
Nancy, your house sounds like it would be great in summer.
Later girls,
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Janie, if your going to take on the responsibility of a man you should start to get into the grove of doing things a little different. First make mental notes of where everything is because they can't find anything and when they look they can't put things back where they found them so memorize every thing and then his junk too. Start doing some toe touches because they leave their clothes where ever they take them off so theres a lot of bending over involved. Next practice saying "it will get better it is just a stubbed toe, it is not broken but yea you will have to lay on the couch and watch sports all day today", and if it is Sat. you will have to include Sun. to recup too. They like to eat so better brush up on the cooking. You can talk them into fast food sometimes but be prepared to listen to a lot of "Oh man I was really hungry for meat loaf and mashed potatoes with biscuits and dressing etc." You have to let it go and do whatever you want because they will pull you in and make you feel quilty by telling you how hard they work. You may want to get an uncomfortable couch to detour them from sleeping on it all day, they will then go into your fresh made bed and sleep but that keeps the noise down of them telling you your waking them up and you can go shopping without them asking where your going or what your doing every 5 mins. because they can't sleep. Stock the frig. Oh, don't brush up on what pants goes good with what shirt because who cares, they are dorks anyway they just as well look like one. Good luck, Mary
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good morning ladies,
I see there is snow in lots of places today. They have snow a few miles from here, but we have wind. There is a wind advisory out especially for driving vehicles like mine.
So I guess I will stay in for a while.
Cooking and everything? Maybe I had better think this husband thing over girls. Of course, my gentlemen friends are retired or retiring and I am the one who works, and I am also a sports fan..fixed my own plumbing yesterday...you know what? Maybe I need a male wife instead of a husband. You think? -
Janie--I think they're called "house husbands" not male wives, but then this is way out of my field of expertise so I won't even get into the discussion except to say that I always thought I had trouble enough taking care of myself so I didn't want to have to take care of somebody else too. Hence, I'm still and will always be single and loving it. So it's +40 here today and when I drove to town this morning to get the papers, there were people running around in shorts and tee shirts. I just threw on a sweatshirt. We're all crazy because 40 is just 8 degrees above freezing but we think it's summer or something!! When I got home from town, I finally took the Christmas lights off the front fence and used the jumper cables and finally got my pickup started. Then I took the junk to the junkhole and burned it. Even though the wind is blowing, I don't think I can start a prairie fire because there's too much snow. I finally moved the pickup over by the barn and away from the front fence. It was collecting too much snow where it was parked. Yuck, Kevin Harvick just beat out Mark Martin at the very end of the Daytona 500. Wish Mark had been able to hold on and win. I just walked out about 15 minutes ago and turned off the cow water again so I can wash dishes. He decided not to move them til tomorrow so I've had no water again for all day today. Well, gonna read my Sunday paper and relax a little. Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee
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Nah Janie, go all the way and get a hubby. My oldest daughter found one that loves to cook. Good thing because she don't....Yea, men have their good points, it may take a few minutes, well days for me to come up with some but I am sure they have them. I must admitt mine was really there for me when I went through treatment and he is really putting up with a lot of pain to work so we have ins. He has always brought home a paycheck. There are times I really want to choke him but times I really want to hug him and I just have to put up with the in-between times. When ya find a good one hang on to him, it's never too late for love. Do you have someone in mind? Tomorrow 40's then in a couple days 50's. I could go out and dance a jig. Mary
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Hey ladies,
I sort of latched onto to your conversation about husbands and what they are good for and what they are not. In answer to your question, actually I have jumped back into the dating game after a long hiatus, and I admit I am having a good time....as far as making a relationship permanent....we shall have to wait and see..... I would not settle ... and do not merely need a companion..I could get a dog .... so we shall see what does or does not develop...meanwhile I am enjoying myself.
It is somewhat warmer here. Just came back from a workshop. Do not realize that people think I am much worse off than I am until I encounter strangers who offer to help me with my plates at lunch etc.... it kind of takes me back at lst...because the lymphedema really does not inhibit me, nor does the tremor....but I politely tell them I can manage fine.
Have a good evening ladies.
janie -
Well good for you my little trooper. Have your children given you a "talk" yet about how late to stay out and what to watch out for in men? Well I think thats just great and I know you will find someone special. Later girls, It is warming up and maybe a storm tomorrow....Mary
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Howdy girls. Well, another week drawing to a close. Yippee! Sleeping in tomorrow!
Have a friend who's got some weird looking spots on his arm (he's out in the sun all the time). I told him he'd better high-tail it to a doc and have them checked out. As I've proven, it doesn't just happen to something else. Hope he gets them checked soon.
Well, mom got an offer on her house in Wisconsin, altho not a great one. Regardless, it looks like she'll be moving down here in April. That will be, for the most part, really nice.
Hope you all are well, warm and happy,
Paula -
Hey P.J. glad to hear your mom is moving close. Nathan will be happy and grandma too. Hubby beat the bad weather and got home early this a.m. and is sleeping as usual. We are going to UIS ( University Of Il.in Springfield) and see Momix Opis this eve. We are going to eat first, sorta a date I guess. This is a group that uses lights and body suits and makes their body's look like cactus and scorpions and lizards etc. It is a celebration of the Senoran desert. It has sleeted and now it is raining hard and windy. If the temp. drops too low we may have to stay in Spring. tonight. Between hubby and I we clog around here like we are 80 with our achy bones. It seems my right hand is getting a little shakier as time goes on. There is no way I could go back to hospital work because my memory, shaky hand, they would stand in line for a shot from me huh? My sons companion wanted me to give her, her birth control shots so she wouldn't have to go in but I can't because when my hand takes a notion to shake and I don't know when that might be I could stick her in the head, ouch. Well Janie I see you are going to get some bad weather too. Hope everyone has a great wk. end. Nancy, are you warming up yet? Later girls, Mary
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I am? Bad Weather? I had not even heard about that! lol. Right now it is nice. Has been in the 60's and 70's the last couple of days. I wrote a note to ya'll last night but accidentally erased it as only I can do. Mary, maybe you have something similar to my shaking. It was brought on the anti-nausea drugs and chemo. Neuro guy said it would have happened eventually anyway. It is going wild right now because the pill made me sick this morning and I cannot take anti-nausea meds for it, so I did not take the second or third one. PJ - good news about your Mom. Always good to have your mother closeby.
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Hey Girls, did u get any storms Janie? We were to get warm weather but that hasn't happened yet. It is going to be below normal and March can bring anything from snow to tornadoes to ice storms. Hubby leaves tomorrow morning. Dr. said he needs to quit driving a truck and get on a medicine mixture that can control his pain. I told him to quit and we can manage and he can maybe find a job easier for him. He is going out tomorrow so I guess he will quit when he is ready. He feels we need the money and insurance but we can cut back and manage. He has worked since he was 15 so for him to not work is something I don't think he knows how to do. Oh well, we shall see. Gosh, every day in the local paper at least one or two people we know have died lately and they are our age, 50 to 55. Well, better get so P.J. hey, hope it is warm there. Nancy, hope you are staying warm and Janie hope you are dry. Hugs, Mary
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Nope no bad storms, just some rain Saturday. Otherwise it has been very pleasant, around 65. There is an interesting Her2+ ER/PR - conversation going on down at the HER2 forum (I guess I am using the correct terminology - forum? thread? post? whatever). It is the thread (?) that says good news. I hope your dh gets to feeling better and finds a way to deal with the pain. I am getting tired of working day after day after day. If I hit the lottery, I may give it up. I guess I should buy a ticket if I plan to win. I will stop rambling for now. Later Ladies, Janie
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