For those starting chemo in June

Hey NL thanks, popcorn sounds good. I had a sing thing to go to at my grandaughters school so now I am home and in my jammies. It has rained 2 days now and it is chilly again. Tomorrow it is going to get back in the 70's, thank the Lord. I almost put my electric blanket back on tonight. I think you and I could really make music because I can't stand to hear myself, yea it's that bad. We could rap together and make some money. I thought of hiring myself out as a rodent ridder. Yea, I go in and sing and the pest run for their lives, mice, rats, spiders, you name it. I don't know whats wrong with my back but they MRIed it a while back and said it's fine just arth. and 2 old herniated discs but I hurt every day with it. I pop a pill and go but by evening I am in pain a lot. I live with my heat pad. Well I am going to settle down with my t.v. I like to watch King of Queens reruns from 9 to 10.P.J. must be busy helping Mom and Janie is catching up those pesty files. Later girls, Mary

mary, back pain is the worst. do you have any rice towels? they get into crevices better. just fold over a wash cloth or hand towel or whatever you choose and stitch around it leaving a hole big enough to pour dry rice in. stitch until totally closed. leave it floppy enough to be flexible. put in microwave for a couple of minutes and put it where it hurts.

i go for a custom fitting tuesday, no not a bride, getting a day and night sleeve and glove....also getting a machine. will be set for life regarding LE.

nl pass the popcorn. i can actually smell it just thinking about it

Oh, I went yesterday to get my nails done and they were busy, prom tonight. I asked the girl if she could freelance a ribbon on my thumb nail like the one on my shirt. I had my sweatshirt on with the B.C. ribbon stitched on the shoulder. I pointed to it and she said yes. Now no one speaks much english there and no one really understands a word they say but you muddle through. She gets me all done and I get out to the car and put my reading glasses on and looked at my nail. It was a flower with yellow and white!!! It is pretty but not what I wanted at all. I wanted my B.C. ribbon in pink. I went back a few hours later and they were still busy so I am going back today and see if I can get what I want. Anyone know korean for pink ribbon? Mary

Happy Cinco de Mayo, my Junies!! It keeps raining and raining and raining--I may have to look for ark plans soon. My brother and uncle O. started out to see me this a.m. and had a flat tire on the trailer that they were pulling. They went back to Plentywood and will try again tomorrow, but I gotta call and tell them that it's still raining and getting pretty darn muddy around this place. I just took some really pretty fake flowers up and wired them to the fence that's around my Dad's "place on the hill" above the house. I waited until the rain let up a little, but it started pouring on me after I got up there. It's not very far from the house, but I was soaked when I got back. I had to put on dry clothes so I put on my flannel jammies. NICE!! Well, I tried to watch the Nascar race tonight but it's raining there too. SIGH!! Glad to see everyone back-- Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

Put on a pair of big clunky overshoes I found in the porch and trooped out to the rain gauge. It says a tick under 3 inches!! So of course I have the sump pumps going full blast in the cellar. My brother isn't coming til next weekend because if he did come here to load a tractor on a trailer, they'd get stuck in the front yard or on the road. Next Saturday I'm supposed to go to Billings for the Montana Womans' Run. It's this huge run/walk that takes place every year on the day before Mother's Day. I think I'll wear my shirt from the 1997 event just because it's the one that's in the best shape of the old ones and it's still in one piece after 20 years. God, I'm old!! So I told my brother that he'd have to see me on Sunday unless he wants to go to Billings and stand on the curb and wave to me!! Mary, my ankle where I broke it in 2003 hurts whenever a weather front is going through and that's no joke. Maybe your shoulder hurts due to the change in the weather?? Does anyone want a cat? Mine is driving me bonkers. He's into EVERYTHING this morning. Well, hope you all are having a wonderful Sunday Life is Good Smiles NancyLee Oh, I opened a Dove Promise Dark Chocolate just now and the inside of the wrapper said, "Life is Beautiful"--I couldn't agree more!!

Hubby will be happy too, Jeffy fans here. Hey speaking of...I could send him your way to fix those leaks. Now I wont make any promises but he would look and sound like a real fixer-upper man. I would go ahead with the ark though because I wouldn't count on ever living in the house after he fixes it. I bet you are sick of rain huh? Good luck, you can swim? Mary

Hey Girls, Janie, take the summer and travel the world. That sounded good huh? I couldn't get outta town the way things are going here. Our new ins. that started in Dec. doesn't pay for my Onky and I don't think I should have to change to one of their group people and the closest one is St. Louis. They are not paying for any lab nor any of hubby's Drs. They don't even have a spine guy around here and they only paid $600.00 for his 3 M.R.I.'s so we still owe over $3000.00, I wonder if they want that in big bills? They keep trying to say I have a pre existing desease and I have to call and they just are moving really slow so thank the Lord I don't have a home phone or they would be bugging me. Hubby gave his 2 wk. notice today and has decided he has to have pain meds. They put him on a tarp van and the tarp kept comming loose so he would have to get out and fix it and pull it tight and he said he couldn't move for about 3 hours. I am really glad because I have heard about people getting shot in their trucks and robbed and beat up so I am glad. I may have to hurt him having him home a lot but we will deal with that. Well I am finally getting an M.R.I. of my shoulder that has hurt so bad I can hardly use it since Feb. and my Dr. said the anxiety attacks are my thyroid working aginst itself. It is too slow but kicks in all of a sudden and throws too much out(I told her I thought that was happening way back when). She said it's inflammed and this could last for a while. It has been about 9 months, hello! This was my old Dr. and I had to go to see her because she called. She is getting me some PT on my back too. I go to check out the new prospective Doc. tomorrow. I just feel I need a Dr. thats in at least a couple wks. a month and I don't get told to go to the E.R. when I need a Doc. I like my Doc. but she is sick (really) a lot. Well girls I better get going, Ya know, I don't do much in the house work neighborhood anymore, I guess I need to try a little now and again. That would be good P.T. for hubby; think he'd go for that? If I told him his Doc. said? He does help but gets side tracked cause he is hyper. Oh boy, him and his not finishing a job. This will be interesting. Later, Mary

That is great news Nancy Lee! Gotta get kids to school. Later, Mary

Nancy Hooray! Yes, in fact everyone was estactic a few months ago when my bone scan showed arthritis in six places. The school staff were running around shouting Janie has arthritis! I am sure there were people there who thought they had lost their minds.

Mary, I am so sorry about your insurance woes. I can only imagine how bad it is for you. I have two insurances and still pay enough out of pocket to add up to enough to count on income taxes, so yours has to be overwhelming.

Hi Paula

My garments have been ordered. I have a new arm sleeve and glove and extra have been ordered along with the night sleeve. I was between sizes and wear my glove under the sleeve instead of over....both were firsts for them and they thought I was weird, but quickly added that meant I am special. lol

good evening. must hit the sack now

Hey Nancy Lee, thats pretty cool I came on your computer. I shouldn't gripe about my ins. but gosh, we pay a big chunk of money every wk. for it and it doesn't pay much at all. I could pay the bills with the ins. payments, at least we can say we have Ins. You are really raising a good amount of money Nancy Lee. I hear ya on the ibuprofen because I can take it 3 times and my stomach starts killing me and I have to stop. It is all the aspirin in it I guess. I try to eat with it but it still upsets my tummy. Oops gotta take a grandson to school. Later, Mary

Sigh. Sob. Scream. Laugh. Repeat.-----That's on the inside of a couple of my hats of hope and that's the way I feel today. Last night my throat felt a little scratchy so I drank some airborne and went to bed. This morning I woke up sneezing and with a full blown sore throat and so I called and asked if I could take a shot of my good old friend, Nyquil and was told NO, not with the meds that I'm taking because it would kill my stomach or make them not work right or some such nonsense--SO now tonight I can just feel it working its way down into my lungs and I already have laryngitis because my friend just called me and she couldn't even hear me on the phone. Now, here's my problem--I'm supposed to drive up to Miles City tomorrow afternoon and meet that friend to ride the rest of the way with her to Billings. Then we are supposed to walk in the Montana Womans Run on Saturday morning and shop til we drop on Saturday afternoon in real malls with real book stores and real Hallmark stores. Oh, you guys, going to Billings is something I really look forward to unless it's to see a doctor and this is supposed to be a fun weekend for me. I fear that I'm going to get bronchitis and then pneumonia like I always do when I get these stupid things and then I WILL be going there to see a doctor. I wonder who I got this sweet little bug from??? I think it might be from that lady I sat next to in the waiting room on Tuesday. She was all sniffy and sneezy and when I gave her "THE LOOK", she said that she just had such bad allergies. Allergies, my left tonsil, I bet she had a crappy cold and she passed it on to me. Well, maybe I'll just take the Nyquil tonight and take my chances because I want to go to Billings. Oh, and I don't know if the new meds are working because it's supposed to take a couple of weeks before you feel it for sure. The way I'm headed I'll probably screw them up taking cold medicine and it'll take longer!! Sigh. Sob. Scream. Laugh. Repeat. Life is still Good Smiles NancyLee

Hey, I just remembered that yesterday was 3 years since diagnosis. You know what that means. 2 years til we meet in chicago! see ya there!

Happy Mom's Day Girls. Hugs, Mary

Hey Girls, Congrats on the 3 yrs. P.J. I hope everyone had a great day. We cooked out and had birthday cake for my 5 yr. old grandson. Hubby and I hit the hay early lastnight after our adventure to WI. I drove up Fri. to pick him up and it was a 7 hour drive. I only stopped twice. WI. isn't much different than Il. but it is pretty in spots. There are a lot of lakes and every other vehicle is a truck pulling a boat with a motor as big as the boat. Hubby being a fisherman liked that. I left at 9 a.m. and got home the next morning at 4. Hubby drove home. He is so happy to be home and not in so much pain. He looked really stressed. He already put a new toilet seat on(padded). He is going through his tools and sorting things out. When I moved he was on the road so he has a lot of catching up to do with his tools and workshed. Well I better go. I am a little worn out. Hope everyone had a great day. Later, Mary

Great Job N.L. I would still be trodding along to the finish line unless I hung onto the wheelchair and drug along with her. I get a little out of breath anymore. Have a good day girls. Hugs, Mary