Dis Breast Cancer Survivors Part III - GAGWTA!

[CherylDan]

Smiley, so glad to hear from you! Sorry that you had such an awful time with your first round. It does sound like you picked up the virus that was going around. Hang in there. It helped me to try to think of chemo as the good guy, racing around and killing the cancer cells! I know what you mean about the port.....I had one put back in last Friday, and I hear ya.....yuck, yuck, yuck!!!

LMP, good for you going bowling!! I haven't been bowling in years. Love it, but I'm very, very, very bad at it! LOL, one time I actually threw the ball backwards. Yeah....that bad.

Laurie, it's so nice that you can drive to WDW for a quick trip! Heck, I say go for it!!! I'm getting excited about our upcoming trip, we'll be there Mar 12-19 to visit DD21. DD26 is also going to join us, and my mom is coming too....she plans to stay at the house most of the time with our doggies. LOL, of course we are taking the pups. A regular family gathering we will be a havin! I'm hoping I still feel good, I will be three weeks into treatment by then, and most certainly bald, but I will be at my happy place.

Speaking of being bald, DH and I went last weekend and had our picture taken for our 30th anniversary. Never mind that our anniversary isn't until Oct, I wanted a picture with hair!

Lisa, I know what you mean about your DH just being along for the ride...mine is the same way, whatever you want, etc. etc. Except for when we get there....then all of a sudden he is full of all sorts of ideas as where to eat and such. I have to explain to him each time that when I asked him way back when, it's a speak now or forever hold your peace kinda deal.

I'm headed back to chemo #2 tomorrow.....and no more compazine for me. I was fine all weekend, no more leftover effects. I did end up back in the ER on Saturday because the tape they used over my port Friday was tearing up my skin something awful. Got that fixed up (mostly) and it's much better now. Mostly. Hmmm, can you tell I'm not really very fond of the port???

I also decided that I needed a project to work on, to keep my mind focused on something besides me. So, we've kicked our kitchen remodeling project up to full gear. Original plan was to s-l-o-w-l-y replace everything. Well, the heck with that!!! I've been on a planning frenzy. Going to pick out granite on Saturday. We've always had the cheap laminate counters, so yippee!!! We decided to keep the cabinets, as they are in good shape just 10 years old, already replaced the stove, microwave, and dishwasher with stainless, new light fixtures, new faucets, refrigerator, sinks, hardware, etc. I'm having fun.

GAGWTA!!!!

 

[snappy]

Yea! for kitchen remodels! I am glad you found a great outlet for your creativity. You are going to so love it. You are inspirig!

It sounds like you are renting another house for your upcoming trip. do you always go with the same house? How do you find them? I used VRBO 4 times, and did pretty well. I hope you have a wonderful trip with both DD's, your mom, and your sweet doggies. Great place for a family gathering!

Good luck with the chemo today. I hope it is uneventful. Glad things settled down after the last round.

 

[snappy]

Cheryl, we have driven an number of times. DH actually prefers driving, DD20 and DD15 and I prefer to fly. One issue with flying is that there are no direct flights out of Baton Rouge, only short hops on smaller planes to a hub then on to Orlando on a jet, so we always drive the apprx. 60 miles to catch Southwest out of New Orleans. It makes for a longer day and I swear, sometimes the traffic on the bridge over lake Pontchartrain is so backed up, you wonder if are going to miss your plane.

Also, Southwest has a limited number of flights on that route during much of the year so it does kind of drive me crazy.

A plus to driving is that the gulf coast beaches are just under half way to Orlando. You lose a lot of time driving along the beach, but it is a good place to stay and break up the trip.

I can't seem to talk DD15 into going with me. I guess I better be responsible and stay home and work.

I took her driving for her very first time in our neighborhood last night. She is aftraid she will have to do her behind the wheel training soon. I think I may let DH take her out from now on. I got very nervous last night, he is more calm, generally. He also drove with our older kids, mostly in parking lots when they were empty. Probably a better location that our street! Yikes!

 

[wdw4us2]

smiley - I am so sorry that you had such a bad time with your first chemo. I had a similar experience during my first time around in 2009. It will get better.

Cheryl - I love that you had your anniversary picture taken before you become folliclely challenged!

MaryAnn - Sounds like you had fun bowling. I haven't been since DD was on the bowling team in high school. I might have to try it again when I'm feeling better.

Laurie - I feel your pain with the driving lessons. DD was easy to teach, DS was much more challenging. He got his license last June and I'm glad not to have any more driving lessons in my future!

I had an interesting weekend. The lunch with my niece and ex-BIL was nice. He brought me a surprise - when he was cleaning out his shed he found something that belonged to my parents. It was a case of slides that my uncle had taken from the time my sister was born until I was about a year old.
I went through all of them and found many that were never made into prints. DD is going to take some of them to a local photo shop when she's home next week to have prints made. I especially enjoyed the ones of my parents when they were so young. I don't have many pics of my Dad since he was always taking the photos. I always enjoy seeing pics of my Mom. I lost her to cancer when I was 17 and I cherish the pictures I have of her since there aren't that many.

DH and DS are going to WDW the weekend of March 18th. DD will drive down from UCF and spend part of the weekend with them at OKW. DS is still trying to get picked for the American Idol Experience. Since DD is probably getting a part time job at WDW this summer, he won't be able to audition after that. When he auditioned in November the judge told him he was almost there. I'm hoping he makes it this time although I will miss his performance. DH has promised to record it for me, though. As much as I would like to be there I won't go to germ city when I'm this far into my chemo. Too much chance of picking up some unwanted illness.

Time to lift weights and then go outside and enjoy some of this beautiful Florida weather.

 

[marcij]

Hi ladies. sorry I have not been able to keep up. I hadmy first chemo last wednesday AC and about 3hours after I left the hospital started being violently ill. ran a fever, never had anything like it in my life. got so bad I told hubby if it's going to be like this I can not do it. today is the first day where I'm feeling even partly normal and able to eat. they put me on iv fluids and anti nausea at the hospital during the past few days. They promise it will not be like this next time they will have me on iv meds right from the beginning and monitor me more closely. It was one of those times where I was actually afraid I was going to die but wishing I just could and get it over with. never wnat to be back in that place again. I've lost 10lbs in the 5 days, am week as a baby. hubby was complaining about a bad stomache today, and dear grand daughters all had fevers and vomitting diahrea last week so I'm hoping that I just got unlucky enough to have gotten that at the same time and the next time won't be like this. I'm taking Ondansetron, metoclopromide and gravol for the vomiting but they make me so tired too.
Cheryl I'm so sorry for you news, I'm still thinking about you even as I have been so sick. I hate having my porta cath, it pinches all the time and the girls are pretty big, (well one of them is now anyway!) of course it's the one on that side so I can not go without a bra it just pulls too much.
Marci...I'm cheering for you on your race to the finish line! I can't believe you are nearing the end as I am just beginning.
Linda, I know exactly what you mean abut them growing up, especially now that our dear son is gone I cherish those memories mroe than anything in the world.
Dear husbnd is continuing his councilling along with the rest of the family. I jsut dont' know what our future is going to hold for us. Thank the Dear Lord that they had life insurance on their mortgage, and a small life insurance policy and now she will gte a very good pension for the rest of her life. It just seems so unfair, our dear son worked sooooo hard putting a roof over their heads and food on the table, now he can't be here to appreciate the hard work. We are going to make sure the girls grow up knowing how much he lvoed them and what he sacrraficed for them.
Gotta go, getting too tired.

GTAGWTA

Smiley -- I'm also so glad you posted. I'm going to go ahead and PM you my cell. Use it any time, day or night. I agree with the ladies on here that it sounds like a horrible coincidence. I'm glad your team is on board. Though not as drastically, my weight fluctuates 6 or more pounds every treatment. It goes down for about 9 or 10 days, then goes back up a few pounds right before treatment. The 2-4th a/c I would get what felt like a yeast infection. My doc told me to use external cream and it seemed to clear up. I've also had trouble sleeping -- not going to sleep but staying asleep. My doc told me I could take ambien. The jury is still out since I've been erratic since going off the pill, but it looks like the chemo has finally stopped my cycle. One thing I'd just as soon do without. Just telling you what I've delt with lately since you might too. Ask your doc before you do anything as I think some of the nausea meds you are taking are different than mine and might interact differently with these things. And keeping coming on and venting and asking questions. These ladies have much more experience than I do and have been so helpful to me.

And you are right. Instead of being mentally and physically down about three more months of chemo, I should look at it as at least having two months behind me. How come when I'm on vacation time flies by but this has seemed like such a longer journey? I guess because the journey really started back in October with diagnosis, every test under the sun, surgery, chemo and more surgeries in the future. It does seem never ending and I know people on here understand that journey!

Smiley, so glad to hear from you! Sorry that you had such an awful time with your first round. It does sound like you picked up the virus that was going around. Hang in there. It helped me to try to think of chemo as the good guy, racing around and killing the cancer cells! I know what you mean about the port.....I had one put back in last Friday, and I hear ya.....yuck, yuck, yuck!!!

LMP, good for you going bowling!! I haven't been bowling in years. Love it, but I'm very, very, very bad at it! LOL, one time I actually threw the ball backwards. Yeah....that bad.

Laurie, it's so nice that you can drive to WDW for a quick trip! Heck, I say go for it!!! I'm getting excited about our upcoming trip, we'll be there Mar 12-19 to visit DD21. DD26 is also going to join us, and my mom is coming too....she plans to stay at the house most of the time with our doggies. LOL, of course we are taking the pups. A regular family gathering we will be a havin! I'm hoping I still feel good, I will be three weeks into treatment by then, and most certainly bald, but I will be at my happy place.

Speaking of being bald, DH and I went last weekend and had our picture taken for our 30th anniversary. Never mind that our anniversary isn't until Oct, I wanted a picture with hair!

Lisa, I know what you mean about your DH just being along for the ride...mine is the same way, whatever you want, etc. etc. Except for when we get there....then all of a sudden he is full of all sorts of ideas as where to eat and such. I have to explain to him each time that when I asked him way back when, it's a speak now or forever hold your peace kinda deal.

I'm headed back to chemo #2 tomorrow.....and no more compazine for me. I was fine all weekend, no more leftover effects. I did end up back in the ER on Saturday because the tape they used over my port Friday was tearing up my skin something awful. Got that fixed up (mostly) and it's much better now. Mostly. Hmmm, can you tell I'm not really very fond of the port???

I also decided that I needed a project to work on, to keep my mind focused on something besides me. So, we've kicked our kitchen remodeling project up to full gear. Original plan was to s-l-o-w-l-y replace everything. Well, the heck with that!!! I've been on a planning frenzy. Going to pick out granite on Saturday. We've always had the cheap laminate counters, so yippee!!! We decided to keep the cabinets, as they are in good shape just 10 years old, already replaced the stove, microwave, and dishwasher with stainless, new light fixtures, new faucets, refrigerator, sinks, hardware, etc. I'm having fun.

GAGWTA!!!!

Cheryl -- you've been on my heart as well. I get the bald thing now. I've been wearing wigs around the kids school so that they wouldn't feel uncomfortable. Baseball started last week and we've been having terrible wind gusts. I finally asked the boys if they would mind me just wearing a hat as I'm sure the gusts were showing the under part of the wig. They both quickly answered they didn't mind at all so I've just been wearing hats since then. How liberating for me! I know it's not for everyone and there will be times when I do wear my wig again. This weekend I felt well enough to do a few errands in a terribly busy and upscale mall here in Dallas. I for the most part got used to the looks and stares pretty quickly. I just smiled back and usually got one in return. Heck, the ladies at Vera Bradley all gave me a hug and a gift. Now I know I'll have so not so good encounters and it did help that I was feeling a little better and the sun was out, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared.

Good luck on the next chemo. (And I am a port hater as well. It's a necessary evil!)

The project sounds like such a great idea.

Cheryl, we have driven an number of times. DH actually prefers driving, DD20 and DD15 and I prefer to fly. One issue with flying is that there are no direct flights out of Baton Rouge, only short hops on smaller planes to a hub then on to Orlando on a jet, so we always drive the apprx. 60 miles to catch Southwest out of New Orleans. It makes for a longer day and I swear, sometimes the traffic on the bridge over lake Pontchartrain is so backed up, you wonder if are going to miss your plane.

Also, Southwest has a limited number of flights on that route during much of the year so it does kind of drive me crazy.

A plus to driving is that the gulf coast beaches are just under half way to Orlando. You lose a lot of time driving along the beach, but it is a good place to stay and break up the trip.

I can't seem to talk DD15 into going with me. I guess I better be responsible and stay home and work.

I took her driving for her very first time in our neighborhood last night. She is aftraid she will have to do her behind the wheel training soon. I think I may let DH take her out from now on. I got very nervous last night, he is more calm, generally. He also drove with our older kids, mostly in parking lots when they were empty. Probably a better location that our street! Yikes!

I have a DS 15 and I feel your pain! I need to find time to get him in to drivers ed. No way am I going to try to do the instruction myself and he has a learning difference so I need him to be in a more professional setting where he can quickly get the three classes behind him and take the test before he forgets all the info!!!

OK -- sorry for the journal ladies. It's been a rough few days and I guess I needed to therapeutically write it down. I feel better already.

 

[CherylDan]

Laurie, I seem to have pretty good luck using VRBO. It's always worked out fine, but I do tend to reserve really, really early when there is still lots of choices. It's harder to find places that are pet friendly, but we've managed to do it twice now. It works for us.....we like the space, driving is not a problem, and we can manage to get to any of the parks in 5-20 minutes. Sounds like flying is a bit of a pain for you....us too, as we are about 90 minutes from the airports in Chicago. Driving takes about 20 hours, we are driving again this month, especially because we are taking the pups.

Marci, glad to hear that going out without your wig wasn't as bad as you thought it might be. I never tried a wig, just didn't think I'd like it. There was a poster here at one time who didn't even bother with a hat....just let it all hang out! I was never that brave, but we shall see if it happens this time around.

Follicly challenged....Lisa, you crack me up! What a nice find those slides were! And how nice of DD to get prints made....have you ever thought of doing a memory book? I've made several online at WalMart, and loved them. Not sure how you would do that with slides....have them put on a disc first, I guess?

Chemo today was uneventful, thankfully. My counts were already starting to drop, down to 10 from 11 last week, so not too bad, but still quite a bit after only one treatment. They were able to use my port, but ouch....it was still really tender. We shall see what the rest of the week brings.

Thanks for all the encouragement and good stuff about my kitchen project! New ceiling fan for over my desk arrived today, as well as a new single bowl stainless stink, farmhouse style. Did I mention that I'm doing almost all of the shopping online? I love online shopping, such selections!

GAGWTA!!!!!

 

[wdw4us2]

Chemo today was uneventful, thankfully. My counts were already starting to drop, down to 10 from 11 last week, so not too bad, but still quite a bit after only one treatment. They were able to use my port, but ouch....it was still really tender. We shall see what the rest of the week brings.

You might want to ask your oncologist for a prescription for EMLA cream. You apply it about an hour before your port is going to be accessed and cover it with a Tegaderm bandage. It works like a local and numbs the area so you won't feel it when they jab you. I never had a problem with pain in my port during the first course of chemo, but since I've lost so much weight it has become a problem this time around. The EMLA definitely helps!

 

[CherylDan]

Thanks for that tip, never heard of EMLA. I will ask about it. They use some kind of freeze spray right before the big stabbing (lol, I'm being a bit too dramatic!) but it isn't all that great.

 

[wdw4us2]

Cheryl - They used the freeze spray on me, too. It worked for a while, but not anymore so that's why I went with the EMLA cream. You have to cover it with the Tegaderm bandage after applying the cream or it won't work as well.

 

[marcij]

Cheryl - They used the freeze spray on me, too. It worked for a while, but not anymore so that's why I went with the EMLA cream. You have to cover it with the Tegaderm bandage after applying the cream or it won't work as well.

Lisa -- my doc's office also gave me EMLA. I had a little giggle at your post -- they suggest their patient's use saran wrap over it so that's what I do. It sticks right to the cream and skin and is easier to get off. So, if anyone here runs out of the bandages that the plastic wrap works like a charm! I bought some in colors to make it more cheery.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Good afternoon ladies

smiley - so sorry you had such a rough go of things. I am sure catching what the others had was awful too. Praying things will go better for you the next round. I know I had two of the meds you listed, its zofran here and regulan. Zofran was better for me.

Cheryl - I hope your chemo goes as good as possible today. Will you try anything else instead of the compazine like zofran or regulan. The rad onc. gave me compazine and it did nothing for me, useless. I think you have such a keen sense of decorating. I am decorating impaired for sure.

marci - were you shopping at North Park o the Galleria? I have never been to either of those. I use to like going to Mesquite to shop. I hope your side effects are bearable.

Lisa - that was nice that you got those pics. Do they give you the tegaderm for free? I remember asking for lots of it during my stomach surgeiries. That stuff is so expensive and sometimes I needed big ones etc.

Laurie - wow, I guess they let kids drive earlier down there. I think here in the NY metro eae is much later and now they just changed the rules again to more stricter. At least 16 1/2 maybe 17?

Well it was ds last day at the pt office yest. They all signed a card for him, so sweet. He also got a nice recommendation lettter from a professor so I hope that helps in his college quest for the state univ. I got the call to call back the endo. Seems like they have finally gotten the reclast, so now I need to set up the infusion.

I think our big summer project here will be the roof, appliances and furniture, just have to see how much $ we have etc. Our house needs some TLC for sure.

GTAGWTA.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I had a lot to say in reaponse to posts yesterday but have been too sick and weak to write. Wound up at doctor's last night and tested positive for Influenza A/H1N1. I haven't been this sick in a long time. I did have a flu shot this year, too (thankfully). I can't help but wonder if I picked it up on the plane ride home - there was somec hacking going on two rows in front of me.

 

[wdw4us2]

MaryAnn - They give me the Tegaderm at the oncologist's office, but I mainly think it's because I'm good friends with one of the nurses.

I went for my labs today. My red blood cell count is much lower than it was three weeks ago. I guess that explains why I've been so tired lately. I can still have my chemo on Friday, which is what I was worried about. I don't want to get behind on my scheduled treatment.

 

[snappy]

Glad you will be able to have the chemo on schedule, Lisa.

Linda, sorry you ended up with the flu. I was in the same boat about 6 weeks ago. My internist who I went to see said there were a number of patients with the flu that had taken the flu shot, like me and you. I think maybe having the flu shot does maybe lessen things a bit, but I was so achy I could not sleep, I lived in the bath tub for several days.

Did you take Tamiflu?

I will be getting the flu vaccine every year again from now on.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I remember that, Laurie. Yes, I'm on Tamiflu. I think it's helping, but hard to say with all the other stuff I'm taking.

I was feeling a little better today but I just got the chills again.

GAGWTA

 

[snappy]

Glad you are feeling a little better at least, Linda. Also glad you did not get sick WHILE at WDW. That is always my fear.

I can say I am usually a bit wiped out when we return from ANY trip. We went with our two older kids in 1994 before DD15 was a gleam in our eyes. DH became very, very ill just a couple of days after we returned. He ended up in the doctor's office coughing up blood, and he sent us straight to the hospital. He had a very bad case of pneumonia, I think it was a staph strain?
The doctor told me afterwards that DH could have died the first night.

I keep that time in the back of my head when we travel. We did fly that time.

Get better soon.

 

[CherylDan]

MarryAnn, you are finally getting that reclast!!! That had to be the longest run around ever! I don't remember if you said if you've had it before or not? It did make me pretty achy the next day, just something to maybe plan ahead for.

Linda, hope you are starting to feel better!

Lisa....hope your treatment went ok today. How many more do you have?

Laurie, scary story about your DH. Makes me glad I'm not flying next week! Now if I can just avoid picking up anything while we are there, that will be an accomplishment! Last time I went while on chemo my onc. recommened I wear a mask, of course I didn't, and came back with a cold. Not sure about this time....it's already in the 80's there, a mask sounds really hot and uncomforable.

I'm doing fine after this last round of chemo. I took zofran instead of the compazine, it didn't really work very well, so I think next week I'll see if there is something else. The one thing I am so very glad about is that it isn't hitting me like a ton of bricks this time around. Of course, since I'm now on an indefinite length of treatments, I guess that makes sense. I'm feeling tired, but don't have all the bone pain. Not yet anyway.

We are off tomorrow to go pick out slabs of granite. I'm excited! Unfortunately the places are about two hours away from us up near O'Hare, so it will be a long day. I guess that is probably the main disadvantage of living so far from Chicago, we are "close" enough that a lot of business is directed there, but it sure isn't very "close". But since we will be up that way, there is a killer appliance store (I know, that sounds strange!) so I'm going to check out refrigerators too!

Hope you all have a good day! GAGWTA!!!

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Good afternoon ladies

Linda - so sorry that you are dealing with the flu. I hope the tamilfu helps lessen your symptoms. Hope everyone there is giving You some TLC!

lLisa - hope your treatment goes well today. That is great about your ds and American Idol. I hope he does well. My ds tried and they said he had alot of enthusiasm, good personality etc. They didnt pick him to go on stage though.

Cheryl - sounds like you will be on a remodeling adventure this week end for sure! I am glad that you dont have such bad side effects now. Have you tried regulan for the nausea?. Compazine did nothing for me. Zofran was great. Yes, I need to call about the reclast actual infusion. Just have to work out a time with ds or dh to take me.

Well dh took me for the b12 shot today. I swear I cant stand my dr. or the nurse, aka Nurse Ratchett. She didnt even bother to ask how I was (cancer wise). I ask her about blood tests my endo wanted. She says she will go get him to sign an order. She comes out and says...he FORGOT to sign it? WTH She said she would mail it to me and get the test almost at the end of the month, before I get the next b12 shot, hmm, I am sure those test results will sit on his desk for 5 weeks again. I might just lie and say I am going to the endo and she wants to see it etc. Only way to get it faster. Well its stretching the truth. I am going to see the endo, or maybe I will have gone already and had the reclast infusion. I hope I get some energy now. I am always just so tired.

While I was waiting, I heard a song and thought of all of YOU!! Some of the words were..you are beautiful, just the way you are.

So that is what I want to share with you all today, YOU are all beautiful just the way YOU are

GTAGWTA. Have a great week end ladies.

 

[smiley_face2]

Hi again ladies yesterday I actually felt nearly normal and today I feel quite well, such a relief! next wed. is round 2 so I'm kinda nervous, but will not leave it and will go back to the hospital at the first sign that it's going to be bad again. Another grand child had the high fever vomiting flu thing, so I'm fairly confident I was just unlucky. I had 3 of the grand kids along with my 2 daughters and daughter in law here today, it was so good to see them again!! the one grand daughter though is really having a hard time, she just had her 3rd birthday the sunday before her daddy was killed and she is showing the signs the worst. She's been pulling at her hair and it is showing it. She takes bites of food and chews and chews but wont' swallow, just spits it out. she won't go to preschool anymore. I lavished lot's of gramma love on her today, gave her her own special Belle cup to use here, played lot's, by the time she left she was actually laughing and running around. Broke my heart like you can not beleive. daughter in law is going to take her to the councillor that the oldest one is seeing, I hope it will help. She's going to let her sleep with her at night too....oldest one is already. good thing they have a king size bed. She's going to come to see gramma and papa next tuesday for the afternoon too, so we can spoil her rotten. want to get in visit time before I can't see them again for a few days. I had a melt down day before yesterday, the flu thing intensified again and I was feeling so bad, I had also not been doing any crying about our son, trying hard to just pretend it never happened. Well of course that only lasts so long. after a fit, and a long hot bath and a sleeping pill, the next day I woke up feeling near to normal. today I've done a lot of crying. Our son and daughter in law lived with us for the first few years they were together, had the first of their 2 children here with us. All of our kids were born here in fact, been here for 31 years now. Even my mom had come to live with us after my dad passed for 2 years before she passed on.The house is so full of memories it sometimes hard to be here by myself. Anyway....sorry for talking your ears off!!!

Cheryl.... I am so praying for you, well for all of us, but for you big time right now! I"m so glad you have an awesome project like that to keep you busy and happy!! (I'm a bit jealous too...my kitchen shows it age badly!! lol...) we have work to do on our house too, this summer the roof is getting done, and my laundry room. and one of the bathrooms we had started a reno on and didn't get to finish before all hell broke lose here, will get done. So glad you are feeling not as bad this time round!!

Linda, I'm sorry you got sick too, but sooooo glad for you that it was NOT on your holiday!!!

Lisa hope all goes well for you today!

Maryann....you just do what you have to do to get the job done! your health is priority, not whether the truth is stretced in order to pacify some kind of crazy person at the office!! she should be working in a jail instead....

Marci.... you are my role model right now....cause I'm on your heals!! If Marci can do this I can too.....

Laurie, I had my flu vaccine too.... I hear the same thing all the way up here in the southwest coast of canada. guess the guessers didn't guess right about which one would be showing up this year! One time I had a procedure done at the hospital and brought the Norwalk virus home with me...the only other time in my life I was as sick as I was this last week. but even then it didn't last as long!

Im in a very mood today....
GTAGWTA

 

[smiley_face2]

P.S.....
dear grand daughter just going on 7 said to hubby the other day, she really wants to go back to Disneyland, cause it says that's where wishes come true and she's going to wish for her daddy to come back. poor hubby, tried to explain how that can't happen. Here's 2 of them last trip they went, she's the one on the right...