Dis Breast Cancer Survivors Part IV - GAGWTA

[smiley_face2]

I have taken probiotics before and I can't remember if they helped my eczema. I am going to start them up again soon.

Don't forget to ask about the vitamin D, if nothing else than for your cancer! every little thing helps!

 

[smiley_face2]

Janet, that is beautiful! Maybe you could swing a summer cottage there? I'd love to have two small homes, one for winter and one for summer!

You are right about the probiotics, I get mine through my local health food store, the are very strong and have to be refridgerated and expire quickly. and the fermented foods are important too! I make a deadly kimchee stir fried rice! lol!
Two small houses, one on the ocean and one in wine country.....That will only happen when the grand kids are all old enough, and don't need to come and stay, so we can sell this big house and get 2 small ones! There are some beautiful condo's here, with either ocean or mountain views! we walk by them and gaze jealously and imagine the care free lifestyle!! then go home and do renovations and upkeep and yard work! But thats the way it is for now. hubby always says when that time comes we will sell and buy one of those gigantic mega motor homes and just drive around till we can't anymore!
and Diana, what is your avatar? it looks like a piece of jewelery?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Thanks smiley.

We are in process of selling "the big house" and downsizing. Only issue is WE HAVE TO GET RID OF STUFF.

I recommend starting there because it takes forever to let go of "stuff".

 

[Dancind]

Janet, it's a ring. But it's also a Zuni Sun Face, or Sun God, so I think it's appropriate for being from NM. Guess I will have to change it if we ever swing a move to the PNW.

And yes to downsizing. I have been a full time internet seller since my early retirement in 2004. Specialized in vintage dolls and clothing, now jewelry. After mastectomy couldn't dress the mannequin anymore for photo sessions, so there is a storage unit that is full of vintage clothing I try not to think about. And then there's all the doll stuff and other random stuff in my house that I try not to think about. I have to divest, but there's SO MUCH STUFF. I get very anxious when I think about it so I'm trying to handle one box per week. Have to figure out a way to clear the storage too. The jewelry doesn't take up much room, and I can move with that!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I'm in the same boat. A lot of stuff. It drives me nuts, too.

 

[smiley_face2]

Well I have actually been doing that over the last few years. one or 2 rooms at a time. I was like that at one point, literally in a panic there were so many rooms of just stuff accumulated over 30 years of living in one spot and raising a family. all the kids had stuff left here too. just before christmas we did the last really big job, 2 small bedrooms, one is turned into a proper storage and sewing room with shelves and everything!! lol! and the other room is a new guest bedroom for when our grand daughters come to stay. before that it was our laundry room, a big bedroom, basement, and even 3 of the bathrooms. So many trips to the hospital auxillary thrift store, and the landfill. girls took a lot of their stuff home with them. We have 2 bedrooms left, that just need the closets done, and the dressers. My computer table area needs a good cleaning too. But hubby has to do his shop himself and he does not like to throw anything away!! honest to goodness there were a few times I was actually in tears thinking how hard it was, overwhelming, that I would never get finished! but we are almost there thank goodness! When I was doing the laundry room which had turned into a dumping ground for stuff, my daughter was here helping, and she kept saying really loudly "what about ....such and such" asking about things....hubby was in the living room and every time he said, don't get rid of that! I will put it in my shop....I finally said to her quietly, "quit saying that!! ask me really quietly if you don't know!" lol....

 

[Dancind]

Forgot about the warehouse, ha. DH had a family remodeling business that closed at the end of 2011. We sold the building it was in, and he moved all the tools and equipment to a shared warehouse. He still does some remodeling on his own. I hate going there because I start asking things like "just how many wheelbarrows/ladders/ shovels etc etc etc does one guy need?" It's a lot of rent too.

We need to be on one of those TV shows. But really, our living spaces are not full of stuff so I'm not sure we would qualify.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I am going clothes shopping today to prepare for surgery. I will be recovering at my sister's house.

I scanned the posts and came up with a list.

Front close bras, duster robes, 'joggers' at Walmart, blouses, and tank tops to wear under the blouses.

Monday I go in the for dye injection & some wire placement and Tuesday is surgery day.

 

[smiley_face2]

I am going clothes shopping today to prepare for surgery. I will be recovering at my sister's house.

I scanned the posts and came up with a list.

Front close bras, duster robes, 'joggers' at Walmart, blouses, and tank tops to wear under the blouses.

Monday I go in the for dye injection & some wire placement and Tuesday is surgery day.

Best of luck! Did your doctor give you something to help relax you for your procedure on monday? It is not that bad, the dye injection, but if you had something like ativan to take before it would help. I wish that I had made more use of them through out my entire journey! don't forget about not being able to lift your arms above your head, or behind you, when you are clothes shopping.

 

[smiley_face2]

Now you all must not shake your heads or laugh at me...... the bedroom we just redecorated for 2 of our grand daughters to stay in.... we are converting it again! lol!! we have been longing for a sun room for years now! figuring out where the best place would be to put it and such. But the cost!! wow! Well this bedroom is in the perfect location, it gets full southern exposure, we had already talked about taking out the big window and putting in a set of french doors, because the extension to the deck is going right there! so we are going to go ahead with the doors, put in a slate floor, and get a daybed with trundle for the girls. Then hubby and I can sit in there on sunny days in the winter, in summer we can have the doors open and go right out onto the deck. The room is just off the main living room so it is a perfect location for a sun room. I can't believe I didn't think of it when we were doing the room! It will be a place to escape the sun in the summer when the sun is high in the sky, and in winter the sun is low in the sky and beams right into the room.
this is the style of day bed we will go for, we have a lot of bead board in the house now, chose that sorty of shabby chic, old fashioned style with all the reno's we have done. I think this bed would be perfect. and then how I want it to look from the outside. I like these kind of doors, but I think they are very expensive. We will probably just go with french doors. But the deck will be like this, I want the back yard to look like we are right at the beach, with the weathered wood, we plan on hauling up some driftwood logs from the beach, and I have beach grasses already growing.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

We did that very thing several years back, Smiley, when we renovated our kitchen - added a sunroom. We built it new, though. But it has a slate flagstone floor, French doors, eight Windows a slider leading to the deck, gets sun all afternoon, etc. and we spend a lot of time out there. We put a TV on the wall as well as an electric fireplace, so it's super cozy! We also have the beachy feel here! (We lined the walls with tongue and groove fir and used a semi-solid taupe color stain; we have white wainscoting in the rest of the downstairs rooms with a Mickey Mouse yellow on the walls.) I love the idea of using a room you already have, and I love the daybed, the grands will love it! Isn't it fun when a great idea hits you like that? We have so many ideas for our home still, but with two going to college next year, we may have to put most of them off for a while.

TMM, glad you got a surgical date fairly quickly! Sending good thoughts and healing to you. Don't forget to ask for Reiki when you get to pre-op, if they offer it. Stay in touch!

 

[Dancind]

MM, I know you said you were starting probiotics soon. Maybe really soon? They hit you with a big dose of antibiotics in your IV during surgery. Even if you don't have a prescription for them after, your stomach is going to need some help to recover. Learned this the hard way.

 

[smiley_face2]

We did that very thing several years back, Smiley, when we renovated our kitchen - added a sunroom. We built it new, though. But it has a slate flagstone floor, French doors, eight Windows a slider leading to the deck, gets sun all afternoon, etc. and we spend a lot of time out there. We put a TV on the wall as well as an electric fireplace, so it's super cozy! We also have the beachy feel here! (We lined the walls with tongue and groove fir and used a semi-solid taupe color stain; we have white wainscoting in the rest of the downstairs rooms with a Mickey Mouse yellow on the walls.) I love the idea of using a room you already have, and I love the daybed, the grands will love it! Isn't it fun when a great idea hits you like that? We have so many ideas for our home still, but with two going to college next year, we may have to put most of them off for a while.

TMM, glad you got a surgical date fairly quickly! Sending good thoughts and healing to you. Don't forget to ask for Reiki when you get to pre-op, if they offer it. Stay in touch!

that sounds so beautiful!! much bigger than what we are doing or can afford though I went with a pale blue with a tinge of green called Harbor Fog for my wainscoting and crisp linen on the wall above. I know that usually the wainscoting is the white and color above, but I really loved the way the beadboard wainscoting looked painted this color.
Got out of the house for a walk to the beach, it was so beautiful! these are the condos I was talking about, I like the more historic looking ones better, the others have beautiful big patios and lots of glass but I don't like the concrete modern look.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Ooh, that looks like a beautiful place!! I also like the wainscoting painted different colors. Make sure you share pics when you're done!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I am at my sister's recovering and typing with just my right hand, lol. Surgery went fine. Surgeon said he went back in and took some more of the margins.

No pain except for my lower back. Not sure if it is from sleeping on my back or a little dehydration with kidney soreness.

So far minimal swelling. I have an ice pack from the hospital on 24/7 at the moment. It is cold but not wet or freezing cold which is great.

I will get results on Friday.

 

[Dancind]

MM, glad to hear it went well and they were extra careful with margins. Let us know what your results are. It usually doesn't change much from the biopsy. Did you have a sentinel node biopsy?

 

[robinb]

TMM, I'm glad that things went well and that you don't have a lot of swelling. I'm also glad that you can recover with your sister. Keep us posted with the results.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

MM, glad to hear it went well and they were extra careful with margins. Let us know what your results are. It usually doesn't change much from the biopsy. Did you have a sentinel node biopsy?

Yes, i had a sentinel node biopsy.

Feeling a little peckish at the moment. My temp. is not 101. but it is in the 99/100 range.

Hopefully it is just a bit of dehydration that will better tomorrow.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Glad it went well! Lots of rest and fluids!

 

[luvmarypoppins]

MM - glad your surgery went well. Get lots of rest and let your sister pamper you!!

I am worried about Minky. Has anyone heard from her??

Janet - so love your pictures. I will only start thinking of remodeling the inside once all the ds are out of here.

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