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Isabella4
Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
What did you get for Christmas??
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  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited January 2008

    I got the weirdest ever present, and I mean really weird, from DH.

    I got....wait for it... a bottle of OBSTETRIC LUBRICANT !!!!!

    All nicely wrapped up in silver paper, I thought it was a funny shaped bottle of wine.....he said I'd never guess what he'd got me, and I didn't.  (I also got a set of 24 assorted screwdrivers, and a pair of working boots) Guess he thinks I should be getting my backside back out to work....well, he can dream on!

    Why did I get the obstetric lubricant???!!! Well, we will soon be starting to have lots of little lambs about, and sometimes they need a helping hand, a slippery one, to pull them out into this world!!! I did mention a few weeks ago I could do with another bottle before we get busy, but never thought it'd come wrapped up in Christmas paper.Embarassed

    I have had some very odd comments when I tell people what I was given for Christmas this year!!

    Isabella.

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  • KariLynn
    KariLynn Member Posts: 1,079
    edited January 2008

    LOL!!!

    All I got was clothes but that's all I asked for.

    Kari

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  • KariLynn
    KariLynn Member Posts: 1,079
    edited January 2008

    LOL!!!

    All I got was clothes but that's all I asked for.

    Kari

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  • KariLynn
    KariLynn Member Posts: 1,079
    edited January 2008

    LOL!!!

    All I got was clothes but that's all I asked for.

    Kari

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  • BethNY
    BethNY Member Posts: 2,710
    edited March 2008

    OMG-- what ever happened to that thread Felicia started about funny/stupid gifts???

    That was one of the funniest threads ever.

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited January 2008

    You win Isabella! That is the strangest gift I have ever heard of! I thought at first you were going towards the mojo thread area.... !

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    I've already posted this...but a surprise visit from my dd and sil who are travelling throughout Africa.  They'll be here for a little over two weeks more.  It's really been fabulous.

    Shirley

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  • juanita63
    juanita63 Member Posts: 171
    edited January 2008

    I got a portable dvd player.  It will come in handy when we go get my granddaughter.

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited January 2008

    clothes and money,

    samething every year. 

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  • TerryNY
    TerryNY Member Posts: 603
    edited January 2008

    For years I've wanted to take dancing lessons with my husband....guess it took cancer to open his mind and agreeing because we now have five lessons to use before 12/08!  Now if my neuropathy would ever cease, I'll be all set.  :-) 

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2008

    MP3 player, dig. camera and still don't know how to use them - lots of reading to do.

    My daughter gave me a framed butterfly and this in calligraphy:

    Over the years she has changed in my eyes from being the best Mom in the world to one of the most amazing women I had ever met.

    whew, now that's what I call heart wrenching and a bucket of tears from Mom.

    My son knows I am very interested in the Burning Man Fesitival/art and gave me a couple of books about it and this year's beautiful poster.  He'd help me attend, but I'm not really up to it at 64.  Camping in the desert is not what I call a good time, but I do love to read about it and dream of going.

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  • Bimmer
    Bimmer Member Posts: 248
    edited January 2008

    My wife died of breast cancer on December 18th.

    I got my first Xmas alone in 32 years.

    I also got a beautiful silver chain that I now wear around my neck. It had both Diane's and my wedding rings on it.

    It was not a good Christmas...

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  • sccruiser
    sccruiser Member Posts: 1,119
    edited January 2008

    I'm sorry Bimmer. I have never lost a husband so I can't say I totally understand what it's like to lose the love of your life. I just know that losing a loved one at Christmas time can be very difficult. My cousin lost her husband a year ago right before Thanksgiving. He was driving back to the mountains in his truck, and she was following in her car. She lost sight of him. An hour after she got home the Fire Dept was at her door to tell her he was on life support. He died right after she arrived at the hospital. The story is so sad because he was at PMC in SF for 2 and 1/2 years--yes, living there--and never being able to leave for even 1 hr as he waited for a heart. He was the love of her life. They had 4 years together with him healthy and able to do things and then this accident. It just doesn't make sense why some seem to go before their time.



    I hope you keep posting here. I have read some of your posts on other threads. You have a wonderful insight and way with words.



    We didn't exchange gifts this year for Christmas. We sent the money we would have spent on gifts for family members to our favorite charities. It's an agreement we made about 5 years ago. Christmas day with family means more now than it did before. I got so tired of drawing a name, and then calling him/her and asking what wanted or needed. Ridiculous!



    I must say, I did buy gifts for the baby--little 8 month old Alexis. Her favorite gift--the plastic bags they came in. Put them in a pillowcase and tied it up into a knot. Then just whoshed it around her and squeezed. She grabbed it and just banged it around. She loves the scrunchy sound it makes. So simple.



    hugs,



    grace

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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited January 2008

    Well I didn't get any lubricant but I got some good stuff. 

    My husband gave me earrings, he always does.  This time, as has happened before, he gave me ones identical to ones he had already given me.  Normally places don't like to take back earrings for hygenic reasons.  However I have found that when you walk in wearing the identical thing the clerks think it is so funny that they don't even consider not doing a return.

    I got the ultra ultra squirrel proof bird feeder from one son.  I bought one at the dollar store last summer and enjoyed it greatly - but the squirrels kept pulling it down, I guess I complained about that a lot.

    I got about a dozen stuffed birds from another son.  These are ones you squeeze and they give a call, supposedly accurate according to Cornell U.  I bought one at a rest stop on a trip and apparently I told him about it with some enthusiasm.

    I gave "mom" gifts - pajamas, socks, thermal underwear, etc.  And at least one wild card.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Dotti, I loved the gift your daughter got you.  How precious.  Oh, and I liked your other gifts too.  Wink

    Shirley

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2008

    Bimmer, what a beautiful sentiment to wear both rings.  I am so sorry for your great loss.

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