STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER

KIDI919, I am so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to your brother and you and all of your SIL's family.

If someone doesn't want to get vaccinated, stay home and stay away from people. And if you must go somewhere, always use an N95 mask and always social distance. It's not that difficult. Lives are at stake, and not just the life of the unvaccinated person. The fact that this isn't understood as we are approaching 2 years of this pandemic is astonishing.

Thank you Beesie, I don't understand it either.

Thank you cm2020, KIKI919, Sunshine99, and nopink2019! I forget that keeping the news to myself for now will also help me enjoy the holidays more

Over the weekend, I baked cookies with my kids and attended DH's show (he's a musician). Fun stuff that was a nice distraction. Biopsy on Thursday.

sunshinegal...I'm glad you were able to have fun this weekend and distract yourself a bit (which is far easier said than done). I will be thinking about you Thursday.

Shunshine thinking of you as you are going through your testing which is so stressful.

II know the wait is hard. Will keep good thoughts sunshinegal.

One day I would love to work Mon-Thurs. Friday's are slow!!

Got the results of my dexa and lung scans. Dexa: Spine score is worse, but my hip score is better at -2.4 just above the osteoporosis score of -2.5. It was -2.7 two years ago. 10 yr fracture risk is at 18% and hip fracture at 3.1%.

LungRads is a 2, yay! and every year it seems they write more incidental findings. This is first time I've seen radiation and post surgery changes noted. Should I be concerned at all? I have no clue what this means. Always my left side too. I have a 2mm stable nodule on the left lung as well.

Incidental Pulmonary Findings:

Subpleural radiation changes in the anterior left upper lobe.

Findings of chronic bronchitis. Mild scattered subsegmental atelectasis.

Other Positive Incidental Findings:

Coronary artery calcifications are present. Postsurgical changes in the left breast.

Hope you all have the best weekend you can!

ctm I did a search on ubsegmental atelectasis. and sounds like it means you have reduced lung capacity for whatever reason. Sounds like you have bronchitis which could account for some of it perhaps. Hopefully all your docs get the results and they can get you the best care possible. Have a good restful Sunday.

Thanks, Mods. It's just the guilt of getting sort of good health news for myself while my friends are going through crap.

I went to a small luncheon today given by my old boss and his wife. (There were 6 of us) This woman who I use to work with started asking me about my SIL death. Mind you when I 1st got there everyone expressed their sympathy. (They all knew her because she came to our dental office). She started by saying covid can be controlled by not watching the news because covid is fake. THEN she said my SIL should not have been put on a ventilator. WTF!!! I excused myself and went to bathroom to cry. When I came back my boss's wife was saying to her that covid is real. She said in a small voice "I know". She is one of these people that thinks she has a medical degree and if it's on the internet it must be true. Hope I never see that bitch again. I obviously did not want to create a scene by punching her. But I sure as hell felt like it. I probably should have not even gone.

I read this novel called " Leave the world behind" the other night. This passage stayed with me. " You never know when a time is the last time, because if you did you could never go on with life".

kidi1919 so sorry you had to encounter an idiot when you should be clebrating time together, unfortunately the bigger the group of people the more likely you are to meet these nincompoops. Be proud of yourself for behaving in such a dignified and thoughtful manner,( I would have wanted to punch her too!)

KIDI - What a horrible person. You showed great restraint.

Kidi, I'm so sorry. What an unbelievable thing to have said to you. I think I would have been so stunned, I wouldn't have known what to say. I would have definitely cried in the bathroom, too.

That quote really got to me, too. I think there's a song something like, "I wish I had known that the last time would be the last time". We never know, do we?

I wish a peaceful day for everyone.

Carol

AliceB: a "Hi, I am okay" would have been nice. I am sure you had visions of her car and body being dug out of snow weeks later.

KID1919: I am constantly stunned by peoples' stupidity and thoughtlessness. And what she said was cruel. Punching her would have felt good.

I cannot imagine someone in this day and age having the nerve to say something like that out in public. I know there are morons in the country who still think it is not "real" or an issue and ard we all know we are all tired of it. Meanwhile anyone at risk is a prisoner in the house staring out the windows. They think they are the only people that matter.

Wouldn't it be nice if there a place for those who want to get good medical care and follow rules and get treated well could live and are good compliant patients? We all know how much it matters to be nice everyone. Too bad the everyone else cant' get on board.