debbieandroo
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Well I guess I am raising my son right. We had a parent teacher conference tonight, so we decided to hit the Scholastic book before we met with the teacher.
He went right by all three books on Obama, including one that had a title something like "YES WE CAN! President Obama Speaks to The Children. A collection of excerpts from his speeches."
So what did he buy instead?
A book called "Who Was Walt Disney".
Like I said, I think I am rasing him right!!!!!
And I should care about this why...? I don't recall seeing when Pres. Bush took his first flight on AF1.
Got Dis--Noticed but they don't seem to. I didn't hear what Cheney said yesterday.
I did think about it, though, when I was watching Fox and hussein and pelosi were doing their fear-mongering thing about jobs and depression and crap.
They screamed about Buuuuuush and his evil "fear-mongering"; except his talking about the terrorists...from that there really is a threat.
There are an estimated 303,824,640 people in the US. Pelosi said 5 million are losing jobs everyday. 25% are under the age of 16, and that leaves 227,868,480. I think about 13% are over the age of 65 and that leaves 198,245,578.
I didn't bother to factor in the unemployed, so just leaving it at that guesstimate, according to Pelosi with her 5,000,000 losing jobs everyday the whole country will be out of work in 39 days.
That's not fear-mongering?
That's some seriously good math goin' on there...and, for that,
any chance of you becoming Speaker of the House, or something??!?!?!?
You know, the older I get, the more I am grateful for the fact that I'm a pessimist! Always expect and prepare for the worst, and then be delightfully and pleasantly surprised if things go right, or at least a little bit better. After every single nurse and doctor saying my mom did not need chemo, the chemo doctor says today "Well, I'm on the fence. The tumor was small, slow growing, non-aggressive, and hadn't spread. But test results show it was hormonally-caused, and something hormone-connected in your bloodwork we took today made me wonder more about this. So, I could either give you pills or pills and chemo. I'm not sure. So, I'm ordering a $3,000 test be done on the tumor that won't be back for 3 weeks." Nurse talks to her later and says it should've been set up last week. It wasn't, naturally, and they couldn't send it for further testing until she gave them all kinds of financial information because insurance probably won't cover it because it's not absolutely necessary. I don't understand this! Her surgeon had the same results, and he said she needed pills. He's the top cancer doctor in the state. Everyone else agreed with him. But Mr. Chemo, who had said he didn't think she'd need anything from him, now says: "Well, I'm on the fence." None of this is to treat her now; it's all preventative for down the road.
Radiation was supposed to start in a couple weeks, and now she probably won't even be told whether she needs chemo until the beginning of March. He said if he decides she does, it'll last 3 or 4 months and then be followed by the radiation. So now, unless the results come back in 2 weeks, and she doesn't need chemo (which I'm sure he'll say she needs, why not, everything else goes wrong it seems), and she starts radiation right then, our WDW trip is DOA. I was so excited about that, because I thought all this would be over and we would celebrate. Now either we won't go at all this year or we can't go until May, and one of us will have to spend our birthday down there. I did that last year, don't care to do it again. Although at this point the WDW trip is the least of my worries. I'm so worried she'll have to get chemo, and I'm worried more because she'll have to tell my grandmother. I don't know if she can handle this news. She has dangerously high blood pressure and a lot of other health problems, and I know she'd be in danger of having a stroke once she found all this out.
I keep bursting into tears, I'm so frustrated I want to throw something, and I just don't know what I'm supposed to do about the Disney trip that has to be paid off before she gets the test results. I don't know if they'd allow it to be modified due to the circumstances or what. I need to start applying for jobs again because they toss my applications after a year, and I don't even know how I'm supposed to do that, dealing with all this. Or if I could even accept a full-time job in the positions I'd apply for, because she might need someone to take care of her. I'm at my rope's end. The anniversary of my grandfather's death is this weekend too, and I'm just really, really sad right now. I really need prayers.
It does seem like everything happens at the same time, doesn't it!Now, who is this Dr Chemo guy? Is he your second opinion person? Is there a way to discuss this with someone else, like the original cancer specialist? Or even another doctor? If someone is test-crazy, perhaps someone else should verify the need for additional tests, right?
What does your dad say? How is he doing by the way?
About the trip and applications, what is your time table for both? Do you have to notify WDW five days beforehand for cancellation before you lose any money?
And the applications - when are they due? If not anytime soon, then you can shelve that til later - when you're a little more calm. If now, then perhaps you can do them in sections so they're not so overwhelming.
SD, I know this is rough - I think for an only child ['cause I'm one, too], you feel so responsible for your loved ones. But I hate that you have this weight of worry on your shoulders...I hope you can share the burden with your dad or some good friends [like us!].
How is your grandmother? Maybe, to get both of your minds off of this sad news and sad anniversary, the two of you [or your parents as well] could plan something together. You're so good at that sort of thing.
Keep venting -- and we'll keep praying...your mom sounds like one tough cookie - she's not gonna let Dr Chemo get her down.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a mess!!!! Lucky for me Mousekeeping rushed in to clean it up. It took about ten minutes for Mousekeeping to gather their sanitizing gear and arrive so I had to smell vomit for that long. Ohhhhh....... ughhhhh.....
