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[chickisoup]

Like I told another forum member who was fighting cancer, it's only hair. Wear your lack of it like a badge of honor, for courage above and beyond the call of duty.

About a year ago I noticed that my hair was thinning out in spots. I wear it super short anyway but my hair had always been super thick so I started doing some research. Sure enough. My cardiac medicine can cause hair loss. I've taken it for almost 40 years tho and the way I look at it, it's a good trade off. Hair for living a normal life.

As long as they keep making funky base ball hats, I'll be fine.

How are you feeling, getaclue?

Ditto on the hair thing. I just got a bunch of funny hats till things stopped falling out (even had a couple made up custom by a guy on Ebay that said, "I have chemo brain what's your excuse?") I would often wind up giving my hats to other "friends" and having to buy more. Happened so often I took to keeping a spare with me

Hope the oral surgery goes well.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Ooh...ooh...yes! Definitely get some funny hats or wicked, cool headgear...I like biker headgear myself. Or some really cool and whacky sun hats...gotta be protected from that sun, right?
It's summer...the sky's the limit! Have fun...go crazy!

And no, no one will notice that a couple of your back molars are missing, unless you are at your dentist. I have a couple that have broken off at the back. No one can see them and they're on the bottom. I hope everything with your surgery goes well too!

 

[Peep_Show]

Hi there, Gray Mare! Welcome to the roost.

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Thought I had killed the Gambel Quail eggs, but they've hatched! I inadvertently incubated them like they were Coturnix and stopped turning and raised the humidity about 4 days too soon. I had decided to wait an extra couple of days before tossing them and so glad to have done so. They're really cute! So 12 little chick-fuzzed popcorn bits (they zoom and jump like crazy) will be headed off to the wildlife rescue this morning.

Also discovered another Gambel Quail nest, but this one is on the front porch in a potted pine and so safe from the dogs. Literally flushed the mama out when I turned the hose into the pot... Deluge! Flood! She's sitting on 12 or so and, yes, did return to the nest after such a rude introduction.

 

[chickisoup]

Hi there, Gray Mare! Welcome to the roost.

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Thought I had killed the Gambel Quail eggs, but they've hatched! I inadvertently incubated them like they were Coturnix and stopped turning and raised the humidity about 4 days too soon. I had decided to wait an extra couple of days before tossing them and so glad to have done so. They're really cute! So 12 little chick-fuzzed popcorn bits (they zoom and jump like crazy) will be headed off to the wildlife rescue this morning.

Also discovered another Gambel Quail nest, but this one is on the front porch in a potted pine and so safe from the dogs. Literally flushed the mama out when I turned the hose into the pot... Deluge! Flood! She's sitting on 12 or so and, yes, did return to the nest after such a rude introduction.

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[perchie.girl]

Good morning everybody!!!

 

[Bunnylady]

Oh, I almost forgot! Shotgun! Around here that is an unwritten rule......keep it close at hand. (Too many rattlesnakes)

Rattlesnakes are a rarity here; for us, it's copperheads. I met one a few feet from my back door just two days ago.

Gads, it seems like everything is a trigger for this thought train lately; maybe if I write it out, I can think about something else . . . .

One of Wilmington's more colorful native sons was shot and killed, apparently by his wife, a little more than a week ago. The thing that stops this from being just a sad situation of a "domestic" that turned into a tragedy is that less than an hour before the fatal shot was fired, the wife called 911. She claimed that her husband was attacking her, or perhaps, that her husband and his friend were planning to attack her; she wasn't really clear. While she was on the phone, the husband called 911 on another line, and said that the wife is a paranoid schizophrenic that is not taking her meds, and so is having a psychotic episode - nobody is attacking anybody. The police officers that were sent in response to the wife's call talked to her, talked to him, saw no real evidence that a crime was actually being committed, and left.

Less than an hour later, a friend found him dead, and she was on a street corner a couple of blocks away in an agitated and not quite coherent state. With her was their 3-year-old son, also very upset, because someone had hurt his daddy.

This isn't just a sensational news story to me, because I know these people. I can't really say I know them well (I'd always thought she was rather quiet and reserved, but knew nothing about a serious mental illness, for example), but I've known him for, oh, probably 15 years. Multi talented and charismatic, he had an obsessive fascination with dangerous things, and had managed the trick of turning that fascination into a livelihood. This man's death leaves a big hole in a lot of lives; when I think about the 3-year-old, I just want to cry. My heart is heavy for a lot of people, not least of all her; so many questions . . .

 

[perchie.girl]

I'm noticing a lot of that going around here too... so sad

 

[Bunnylady]

@perchie.girl That was funny! I had to full screen that clip, because I kept thinking, "I know that voice; is it who I think it is?" Gads, I am gettin' old . . . .

 

[perchie.girl]

LOL... One of my favorite scenes in the Great Race... Jack lemon, Peter Falk, Natale Wood, and of course Tony Curtis.

The other one my dad was fond of was Those Magnificent Men and their Flying machines...... came out the very same year 1965

 

[Alaskan]

Next Tuesday morning, the oral surgeon is going to remove 2 teeth. I'll have no hair, and 2 missing teeth. What a sight I'll be. They're back teeth, so I hope they won't be too noticeable until I can get implants, and eventually I will have hair again, but in the meantime......

Gold teeth..... maybe add some gold teeth.....

Then no one will notice the hair loss.