So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[Lunachick]

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Then your Dad did his job very well.

 

[Lunachick]

Sara - Good luck with the headlight* repair!!! Let us know before you go in for surgery so we can send all the good thoughts and stuff your way!













*deerman

 

[Lunachick]

I will be drumming at the local Ren Faire this Saturday. Along with the knights in shining armour and belly dancers galore

Should be fun. Trying to find something Renaissancey to wear

Don't want to go buy anything....... I guess leggings of some sort and a blousy top? Got some medieval style jewelry, that should help.

 

[RoeDylanda]

Thanks, all. I'm doing better today. His pain is under control, which is what I care about the most. Thanks for all the kind words, they were truly helpful.

Sara, go for the red! It's so fun!

 

[chilling in muscadine]

You guys are so funny About my ta tas and my headlight. After being as sick as I was I now am getting out of the house. Last night I took Snake's 12 year old neice to a football game. We both had a good time. That would not of happened a couple of years ago. I would be 80lbs then and people would of been staring at me like I was a junkie or something. I now know how a severely handicaped person feels in public. My mother always told my sister and myself to look away but that seemed mean since we didn't do that to other people we ran into. So I decided at an extremly young age I would go over and meet these people, some are children and I felt much better after talking with these people instead of looking away.

Nothing to do with topic accept. I pulled into a gas station on the way home from my doctors appointment. I saw a man come from behind the store when I went in and when I was leaving he asked for some change. He said I'm really hungry, meaning not money for drugs or alcholol. I didn't smell an alcohol so I gave the .52 cents I had in my pocket and a pack of crackers. He tore into the crackers. He didn't appear that he had been homeless very long. I can see it happening all over with the shape of our country. I asked his name and it was Dave. I asked Dave if he had a good winter coat and he said that he didn't. Well I told him on the way home from my next doctors appointment I would bring him one. Snakeman probably has 30 coats. {IDK}

So I have decided that everytime I go for an appointment I will be bringing Dave something. So lets all give Dave some prayers and be thankful for what we do have. See you soon Dave.

S@R@

 

[3goodeggs]

Sara, your surgery is Monday? I will be think good thoughts for you.

I feel for the Dave's of the world.
Circumstances can knock us off of our feet. Many people have gotten blindsided by the slump in our economy.
As my Grandfather said about the depression,"There was plenty of work available, but no money to pay anyone with."
I think bartering will be our only way back. Only, people have become so afraid of one another, we do not trust anyone enough to get that started.

You are a good soul Sara.

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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Just like majic. I'm going to the Muscadine Junction with my girlfriends. I don't drink but there will be a band. I already started my barter system. I'm trading the owner a round plack thats suppose to be like a clock except it says its five aclock somewhere and all the numbers are 5's for the price of my ticket. YIPPEE.
S@R@ tottles

 

[deerman]

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You dang skippy. I'm going to be a hot 50 year old women. And I think I may become a red head.
Really, did that sound conceded??????

Carefull Sara I have a thing for REDHEADS

 

[babyrnlc]

I have a question for any of you guys with neuropathy.

Have you tried the rebuilder? It is similar to a TENS unit.

I am very thankful to be done with chemo and for the clean scan, I do not want to sound like I am complaining, because I know how blessed I am. I had stage 3c colon cancer and the Oxalaplatin really did a number on my feet and slightly on my hands. I have bad numbness and tingling and pain. I am weaker and cannot be on my feet for more than an hour without having bad pain and swollen feet. I get little twinges of sharp pain occationally. I have only been off the chemo since June, so I am still hopeful that this will go away, but the longer it doesnt, the more concerned I am that it will be permanent.

I can live with this, but it is very annoying and if this machine really works I would like to try it. We have met our out of pocket this year (chemo will do that pretty quickly), so insurance might cover it. I just dont want to waste the time with paperwork if you guys have tried it and it did not make a difference.

 

[babyrnlc]

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I am sorry to read about your dad.