The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Hopefully she has a ride home from work, or will you make it back in time?

 

[sharron]

You guys are just mean all this talk about cookies, seafood and chocolate covered cherries. I'm still on this grass and twigs diet. Basically an anti inflammation diet paired with a gout diet.

The good news is that my joint pain is diminished and I've lost 28 pounds. The bad news is that I'm still losing weight.

Chocolate covered cherries is all I can say.

Cap if you are wanting to build a 6 foot wall you must be feeling better.

 

[sourland]

I also told you what other creations I used to make "go with the flow" unmentionables, and things for male warmth. (couldn't get the sizing right though)

Just make them adjustable with stretchy materials.

 

[drumstick diva]

Pot holders loops don't have a whole lot of stretch to them plus you have to figure on current weather conditions and winter shrinkage.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sharron could it be hyper thyroid? Does your doctor know? Sorry it was microchick that lost weight. Duh, my brain is numb.

 

[microchick]

Bunny that afghan is a work of art. My compliments to the artist.

 

[Bunnylady]

Bunny, another mastectomy? If she has had a previous mastectomy, her oncologist does not have to put her through the pain of another needle biopsy. They are to be monitoring her anyway, so they can order an MRI, CT/PET scan, and know all they need to know. It will show any changes, the size of any changes, if it's migrated, where it's migrated to, the works. I'd change oncologists if mine ever ordered another needle biopsy.

It's . . . complicated, and I'm trying to remember what all I have been told ( and I don't have Mom's chemo brain as an excuse . . . ). Her original diagnosis was about 25 years ago, when a lumpectomy, radiation, and Tamoxifen resulted in her being cancer-free for the next 20+ years. About 2 years ago, the cancer returned, and treatment involved a mastectomy and radiation again. They put her on a different drug regimen (don't remember what), but about a year ago, a follow-up scan revealed 3 areas of concern. They biopsied two of them, and found nothing irregular. After knee-replacement surgery a few months ago, she simply wasn't recovering as she should (most significantly expressed as a lack of appetite), and it was finally admitted that she still had cancer. Different drugs . . . a biopsy to see if the spot on her back was the same cancer, or possibly a different one (she is a redhead, and has had skin cancers pop up several times in her 86 years) . . . different drugs. The oncologist that had been treating her retired, and assured her that the guy he was handing off to would take good care of her. Well, she recently found a lump in the remaining breast, and when she brought it up at a recent follow-up visit, she had to insist that it be looked at. The only person who was available was a P.A; he ordered an MRI and a scan, and on the basis of what they showed, called for this biopsy.

I'll tell BB2K about all the compliments on her afghan. She really likes the flowers, too, but she thought a bunch of them might be a bit busy for Mom's tastes, so she came up with the other squares to quiet things down a bit. She actually likes them so much, she is making an afghan for herself out of the same type of yarn. Hers has a sort of psychedelic retro vibe:

(Time for me to come clean, I guess. She has drafted me to help with these projects. She enjoys crocheting with the yarn, but despises sewing the bits together. So, I've done the assembly part on both of them. I did some of the squares on the pink one, too [in the interest of getting it done faster, before we hit the lack-of-available-materials roadblock]. Nice thing about this super-fluffy stuff; you can't tell the left-handed work (mine) from the right-handed (hers), because you really can't see the stitches! And yes, left-handed stitches do look different.)

 

[drumstick diva]

Duh just realized a big flaw in my men's warming thingie. It needs two loops to hold it on to more stationary parts. Oh darn they are affected by cold also. Back to the drawing board.

 

[drumstick diva]

Women have parts that stay where they belong.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Women have parts that stay where they belong.

Except for the gravity factor!