Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!!
No one has started the r=thread so here I go.
Nothing new with me....just finishing up my last 32 ounces of Gatorade ****tail. The clear liquid diet went well yesterday. I will be glad when this is all over with!!
I will try to stop back sometime later to check in again. My procedure isn't until 1:00 with check in at noon.
Wishing you all a wonderful day!! Hope and pray all is well with everyone!! Lots of prayers for many here on OFF.
Love
and Hugs 
for all......connie d 
Morning all!
I'm still fighting a sinus headache! Yesterdays bike ride was fun, I'm so out of shape!! Making applesauce today and trying to figure out what to fix for dinner.
Good luck today Connie!
Thought and prayers for all,
Debbie
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'M POSSIBLE!!!"
"No one said it was going to be easy, but it will definitely be worth it"
Hope your colonoscopy went well. I had a doctor's appointment with the ortho doc this morning. Doc says the knee looks good, but the morning was painful; I couldn't take any pain meds because I had to drive. I was in tears when I got to the office and finally took a vicodin figuring I'd be there for awhile. I was right; it was a 45-minute wait. That helped to keep the pain level down a bit.
I got a new prescription for meds plus one for lidoderm patches ... this may help bring down the pain in the muscles. I'll let you know if it works. Some friends who have used these post-op said they helped a lot.
I went to CVS after the appointment to get the prescriptions and pick up a couple of things, then stopped at Starbucks for a freebie drink and some SF cinnamon dolce syrup (I was out). When I got home, all I could do was take my painkiller and sit for awhile to relax. I didn't sleep last night very well so I'm really wrung out today. I'm glad PT didn't come today.
I start outpatient PT on Thursday. Hope this moves my recovery along. My short-term disability pay runs out Oct. 23. I'm not ready to go back to work yet. I'm still in too much pain.
Well, have a good day.
Good afternoon, family!
A cool overcast day here in Niagara....grapes are being harvested for wine all around this area, including across the road. At least we won’t be getting so many purple polka dots on our two silver cars once that is done.
After two weeks of med-free vacation, my Oncologist is putting me back on the Arimidex- apparently the 30% reduction in insomnia and signifigant deep bone pain is not enough to warrant changing my meds at all. I start again this evening because she suggested that the timing of ingestion might make a difference.
Today I have serious bone pain in my hands and feet and left shoulder, clavicle and shoulder blades. My Oncology Nurse gave me a lecture about not trying to be a hero and to take the pain meds because this pain interferes with my quality of life. I guess I have to accept that. Heaven know’s I’ve toughed it out for almost nine months already without extra medication and it’s NOT fun. So maybe less pain might lead to better sleep. I’ve forgotten how is feels to be pain-free.
Today, I’m making turkey soup after roasting a half turkey yesterday. I always brown my turkey carcass bones in the oven after deboning to add extra flavour to the broth. I have a regular routine: debone the turkey with one container for white meat and one for dark meat. Then a container for the bones and another container for scraps of skin, gristle and unidentifiable bits and pieces....that one goes outside to my feral cats and they love it! And now, the whole housed smells fo delicious turkey soup as it simmers for hours, cooking the barley & veggies I added.
I’ve made an interesting discovery since I was diagnosed. It was my strong wish to be a part of the new spiritual evolution of mankind, to do the right thing and help others through my training. This cancer and all it’s procedures and complications has laid me rather flat and life seemed to have left me behind. And yet, I seem to have so much love and support from family, friends, peers and unmet facebook freinds too,. At the same time, I have disassociated myself from a group of people that I worked with for many years as their philosophy and journey has changed dramatically and much more radical while I was in treatment. I will not teach what I do not believe so I walked away. Add to that, my Mom’s estate is completely settled now after 24 months of stress, my two sisters are very angry and bitter that I got the greater portion (even though I asked Mom to skip our generation). It seems that they are telling everyone that I held baclk the money for six months because I knew one desperately needed the $$, that I bounced the cheque-completely untru, she just tried to withdraw before the $15,000.00 cheque cleared, that I manipulated Mom into giving me more (I don’t need it) and that I only took care pf Mom daily for over 16 years “because of the money”…I took care of Mom because she was my Mother and had no one else but me- the other two were busy with criminal behavior and, the other, holding on to bitterness and hatred(her own words) towards our parents for hating and resenting Mom for forcing her to drink milk..strange. As Derek said, on hearing this “and we ALL know just how “easy” it was to manipulate Gramma into doing something when her mind was made up!”
And so, back to my discovery. I had been teaching three classes a week, each class was 3 hours long. I had been running a small business focusing on ethical business practices. With my arms up to the elbow in wallpaper paste while creating whimsical paper mache cats, that I do not need to “DO” anything but to just “BE ME”! It seems, from a remarkable avalanche of emails, that my attitude is inspiring to others who also have challenges…that my demeanor is helping others to change THEIR attitude and to see their own issues in a positive manner.
Wow…..that was mind-blowing, that insignifigant me, just another person on this beautiful earth, can actually make a GOOD influence, perhaps even a legacy, just by being me! Attitude is half the battle. I’ve always believed in the energy and the power of positive thinking and now I am finally seeing how that works. It also brings to mind, the BUTTERFLY EFFECT - how small things (such as the fluttering of butterfly wings) can create the biggest changes! And that only took me almost 65 years to finally “get it”!
Sending loving, healing energy and prayers to all those who need it (don’t we all?) and comfort to those struggling.
Nancy B
You have talked about coloring and the great feeling of stress relief it gives us. You are so right. I get into coloring and I calm down, relax, and enjoy what I am doing. Thank you so much for the idea!!
I try very hard to fight the pain I am in. I will NOT let it control me!! The more my body says no.... the more I do!! You do what YOU need to do!
Continued prayers and good wishes!!
You take good care of you...love and hugs....connie d
OMG!!!!!!!!!! Today is/has been a day from hell!!!!!!!!!! First the new man we hired yesterday shows up early...good!! Works great all morning...come lunch he leaves...never comes back! Calls me and leaves a message on my answering machine that is all garbled!! I called him back asking him what is going on...he says he had applications out all over and he got a better offer for more money and benefits. SIGHS.....so I call Rick and tell him this. He asks if we should call AJ back and give him another chance. I said I would discuss it with Robbie see what she says. Put call in to her...she says ok but this is the LAST chance we give him!!! I agreed. I call AJ get his answering machine. Leave a message to call me back if he is still interested in working here. About a 1/2 hour later he calls me back. Yes he wants and needs this job. I explain to him we NEED to know IF he is NOT going to be here and we can work around it. He said ok and he would be here at 8 am tomorrow. See if he is. God I hope so!!!! My head is hurting so bad from this stress right now!!
Went and got Rick's bday cake and it is so cute!!!! I am excited for tomorrow to get here...lol got his gifts all wrapped and hid in my office under the chair...lol.
So that has been my day here today...not to mention another washer breaking down!!! GRRRRRRRR
Heard from my sister last night she had 2 stents put in...access was completly blocked dr had hard time getting it to go through but finally made it!! She goes back in nov on the 19th for a dye test see if its still open. Keep the prayers going for her please and thankyou!!!
Time to take Bandit out for potty walk and figure out whats for supper....thoughts and prayers for ALL that need them!!
HUGS
Connie, hope all goes well with you!
Hubby came home from Kentucky, surprised me I didn't expect him til later in the evening and in he walks when I watching good ole' Dr. Phil!!!
Got my hair done...colored browns and hair cut. My girlfriend did it at her house along with my nails b/4 I went to work. She got some color stuff on my shirt so I ran to the Discovery shop and got another top...oh and found a purse too. I was still carrying my summer purse. Ya know...I just hate to change purses. I don't know how some women do it. I have a friend who is constantly changing purses but she is coordinated I tell ya!
I'm one of these gals that is happy in T-shirts and jeans.
Tomorrow I'm picking up Remi from school in Grand Rapids, he only has a half day. I think I will leave early to go get him and check out books at the resale place down the street. Great books for a buck and 50 cents.
Hugs and prayers for all in need. It's suppose to be 70 tomorrow here in Michigan. I'll take that! Hopefully the sun will shine. Debbie
