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[perchie.girl]

UP...? Upper Penninsula .... Michigan?

 

[perchie.girl]

My house is in a prime area for using a telescope. We can see the Milkey Way.

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Good luck with the sterile talc, hope that ends that part of the saga for you.

Glad someone pointed out that N Maine can see N lights - I had no idea what it was when I first saw it. It was lime green and pulsing. I seriously considered the possibility of aliens.

 

[scottcaddy]

UP...? Upper Peninsula .... Michigan?

Yes, the part of Michigan that is tucked up under Lake Superior.
People from that area shorten Upper Peninsula to 'The UP' or just 'UP'.
Scott

 

[scottcaddy]

I went to my lung specialist this morning. Not the air sac portion, but the pleural space in the wall of the lung is once again, aggressively filling with fluid. Both times before, they put a needle through my back to thread a catheter into the space, and drain fluid. No, I'm not asleep when they do this. Yes, it's about as fun as it sounds. This procedure gives me about 9 days, until it has to be done again. Both times they've run every test known to man, on the lung fluid, as well as every other fluid my body produces, with negative results. Actually, that's a good thing, since the real bad stuff seems to have been eliminated, such as there are no cancer cells of any type in any of the fluids, which doesn't mean I don't have cancer anywhere, just that it has not spread via any of my bodily fluids.

My lung specialist called a thoracic surgeon, and the surgeon saw me this evening, since time is a big factor. As soon as he gets the approval from the insurance company, the surgeon is going to cut a small incision in my rib cage, run a scope into the space, and examine it, possibly taking a tissue sample or two for the lab to biopsy, then he is going to put a bit of talc in the space. The talc will cause just enough damage that the inner, and outer wall of the space will try to heal, and fuse themselves together, so no more fluid can go in the space. I will be in the hospital anywhere from 2 days to a week, depending on how fast the space seals up.

When I heal from all of that, then I get to see my breast cancer surgeon to remove the lump, and have it biopsied.

Coming home from the surgeon's office, we were in rush hour traffic. Dh hates driving in traffic, and let me know about it. According to him, all the bad stuff happens to him. LOL!

Hoping for the Best For you!
Scott

 

[Kusanar]

Oh.

I never really thought about how far south people could see the Northern lights. I'm near the US border. Sometimes the lights are farther north of us but they're still very visible. Most of the time we have spectacular displays over us, just beautiful to watch and I've seen everything I read on your link, Deb. I used to watch them when I was out in the middle of the night checking for lambs. I catch them now mostly when I go home from here. I just assumed that the lights would've been visible quite a ways further south. That's a sad thought that some of you haven't seen them. It doesn't matter how many times I see them, I still stop to watch the display. The curtains are mesmerizing but the dancing lights are my favorite.

@getaclue

You're in our thoughts and prayers. It sounds like you got this.

DH's...can be funny that way!

I'm in virginia and we got a chance to see them once that I know of. I went out, there was a very vague colored haze in the sky, almost like the last bit of a sunset where the sky is still slightly lighted up, but that's it, I don't know if that was what the northern lights look like from way down here, or if it was something else lighting up the sky slightly.

 

[Beer can]

I'm in virginia and we got a chance to see them once that I know of. I went out, there was a very vague colored haze in the sky, almost like the last bit of a sunset where the sky is still slightly lighted up, but that's it, I don't know if that was what the northern lights look like from way down here, or if it was something else lighting up the sky slightly.

That's about all I've noticed on rare occasion, definitely northern lights. Probably there more often than I've noticed just never think to look unless it's mentioned on local news.

 

[Beer can]

Coolest thing I think we've watched was when the news mentioned the space station would be visible at a certain time. Took the kids out and watched it enter the horizon, made a perfect straight path straight above us then disappeared

 

[Bunnylady]

Good luck with the sterile talc, hope that ends that part of the saga for you.

Glad someone pointed out that N Maine can see N lights - I had no idea what it was when I first saw it. It was lime green and pulsing. I seriously considered the possibility of aliens.

lol. I imagine it's kinda like foxfire, if you don't know what it is, it can really freak you out.

I remember considering the possibility of aliens once, when I was a teenager. Looking out of my bedroom window one night, I saw several red lights blinking in sequence, moving just above the trees on the horizon. Whatever it was traveled relatively slowly, and appeared and disappeared from view vertically. Some years later I learned that there was an airship (blimp) company based in that area, and they moved there just about the time of my "sighting," so it was probably a test flight of one of their ships that I had observed. It was nice to finally have an explanation, but you can bet it freaked me out at the time!

 

[chickadoodles]

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