anyone starting chemo in Nov 2005

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Odalys......Happy Birthday Beautiful You!!  Boy, I can sing much better online- LOL.  And thanks for the piece of cake- I love chocolate!

Hope you had a wonderful day!

Happiest Birthday to you Odalys!  And you too, ML.  I can't remember if I officially told you on your b-day, just remember cheering you on in the mojo department! 

Gotta go, but wanted to say hi.  I dropped Daniel off at school and ran home to get some executor stuff done for my Dad's estate.  Ick.  What a royal pain in my ever growing butt.  .  I can't stop eating, even while being on Jenny Craig.  

Anyway, love, hugs, and prayers to you all!  Deb

And I wish you a very happy birthday, dear Odalys. Yumm, I do love chocolate cake!

Yes, girls only....that way we can talk personal stuff with out having to worry. Plus laugh, cry, eat......whatever.

Feeling pretty good, but still have to take some pain meds at times and then sleep them off for hours and hours. I get physical therapy at home three times/week and can get around fairly well on my walker. The clinic where I had my surgery is very adamant about not letting you put more than 50% of your weight on the leg with the new joint for at least three weeks, so it's either crutches or walker for now. I worry about the crutches triggering lymphedema, so will stick with the walker for a little longer. Little dog loves all the napping and has learned to play her fetching games on the bed as opposed to having me run after her around the kitchen island. I told my PT the other day that I could almost get used to this totally self-centered lifestyle of getting up when I feel like it, napping when I feel like it and having hubby help out even more than usual (I married a man who loves to cook and who cleans up after himself because he was a single parent before I met him).



My daughter has passed the half-way mark now and is feeling less of the nausea. Baby is due early June. She just spent an entire week getting over the flu and strep throat and just informed me that her husband now has the flu, so she'll have to help him get through it. I told her to wear a mask; I don't know if you can keep catching things from each other but she has never been sick as often as this year, and this is the year she got her first flu shot. Makes you wonder....



What does LAT 56 report? I hope she's well.



Yes, happy belated birthday, Mary Lou, I had forgotten your birthday was in January! I think we had a list at one point, but I can't find it now. Does anyone remember and if so, could you PM us?



Happy happy weekend to all my sisters with love,



Anna

Great.  So we just need to hear from Lat56 and I think Margerie?  So far it sounds like a girls weekend in early November is a winner. 

I know we were thinking of Disney but since is just a girls weekend, how about a cozy bed and breakfast?  One of my collegues owns this cozy Victorian bed and breakfast and I've been wanting to go for the longest time. Here is the link http://www.bundlingboard.com/index.htm  I can contact her for special rates on our girls weekend.  Maybe she can tailor a special weekend for us survivors.   Or, a Chocolate Slumber Party.  Let me know. 

Deb - is this place close to where you live?  If so, maybe you can check it out for us and give your input.  Okay - I don't want to be too pushy so I'll wait to hear from you before I contact her.  

Love and hugs,

I love b&b's.  Count me in- I guess we should pin down  a place and time.  The weekend of Nov. 1-2?  I can do IL or FL.  Or wherever (but the closer to CA the better )

http://www.avellaninn.com

Ok, so there it is. 

I am like ML-I will go anywhere, anytime.  I have been waiting to give you all hugs since the day I "met" you!!!!  I don't care where! 

It can be a Red Roof Inn for all I care!  

YAY!  Love and prayers, Deb

Marg-I still want to order a t-shirt, but keep forgetting to get my credit card when I come to the spare room.  It's a whopping 6 steps away, but that is just soooo far........

(I'm lazy, and don't want to walk past Daniel's room when he is sleeping!). 

Hey sisters,

Do you think we can manually search out Kim's posts for Anthony?  I guess we weren't successful in getting him access to her posts otherwise (thru Melissa and Tammy ).  Melissa and Tammy, if you are reading, can you please please please help? 

Maybe I can start a thread for us to cut and paste discussions that we know Kim contributed to?  What do you think? 

Love and prayers, Deb

He can copy and paste her post. Just go to the top of the page (Search Community Knowledge Exchange) and type in Kim825. It will show her post.

I looked up mine, I started saving them, still not finished. Just in case they were lost.

Forgot to say, the signing is scheduled for March 20 and we have to try to be out of one house and into the next within two months. We'll be paying daily rent, an astronomical sum, for the old house, so hubs will want to be out sooner rather than later.

Oh, Odalys, can you please try?  I did try a search for Kim825 and did find a good handful of posts, but you know how things were so messed up with the switchover in the fall....she has 800 or so posts to her name, but the search only gives 180 or so posts. 

I just really want to help him-his idea on making a scrapbook about Kim is such a sweet and beautiful one.  I hope that if I die before Greg (I plan to live till I'm 100, of course), he will do something like that! 

Love and prayers, Deb

Hey ladies, I heard from Nancy, she is doing fine, and promises to check in as soon as she can.  She is fearful she can't figure out the boards now!  She would love to join us!  

Anna, I had such a hard time getting pics to post on these boards, too.  I have succeeded only through trial and error......

I think that I just ended up doing a copy and paste when I posted the family picture on here, because when you click that "insert image" icon on the top of the box here, it confuses the heck out of me. 

ML and Odalys are good references on doing pictures successfully!  Photobucket is relatively easy to do, but there are a few extra steps......

How's everyone's "get skinny" endeavor going?  I keep having good and bad weeks.  With Daniel sick this week and driving  me insane, I have ended up with a bad week (eating those emotions again!!!).  

Nancy, where are you? 

Love and prayers, Deb

Hi to you all! I changed my avatar again, I was tired of the same old one. This is an up to date picture and it is bigger than that other one.

I have a picture of Nancy somewhere and I can't for the life of me find it.

I wanted to add all of us onto my Myspace page. Anna, you need a Myspace now for that grand baby!!!!!! It is so easy to keep my mom up to date with pictures.

I bought 2 outfits yesterday  for our little lady I'm so glad to be getting a girl this time.

Went out with Sebastian and Jessie for lunch...had to get home to pick up Screamer from the vet.

We are cat poor...LOL But I love them all....

He was fighting to much and was getting on my nerves.

Anna I'm glad to hear you are doing well. Sounds like you have allot on your plate.....

Great that we heard from Nancy....I miss her. And Lat best be checking in soon!

We may have to have a class on photo posting when we get together....who has a lap top?

It really is very easy once you know how to do it. It's just not easy to teach on the message boards.

Hugs to you all....I will return.

ML