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Thanks to everyone for the love and prayers. Please keep them coming. I am still expecting a miraculous outcome.
I am to have two biopsies in another two weeks. And I'll have tiny titanium markers inserted. That cracked me up.
Here's hoping, and praying, that DDH can suck it up and not throw any tantrums until this is all sorted out. I must say he pitched a fit because I asked him to move a sprinkler head--the kind on a stake--the other day and it was so over the top I couldn't help laughing. Maybe it helped that we were out in the yard. If he does again, may I have the presence of mind to ask, "Shall we please take this outside?" I think it might amuse the neighbors, but I won't tell him that.
Hugs to everybody,
Temple
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It's easy to be graceful until someone steals your cornbread. --Gray Charles
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((TEMPLE))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Been thinking of you, girlfriend.......and of COURSE you got all kinds of positive energy coming........Doggies send their hugs and well wishes.....
"The wolf that thrives, is the one you feed." - Cherokee legend
"Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields... Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness." Mary Oliver
Prayers continue Temple - love the choice you are making to handle this with grace, faith and staying present. I went through similar a few years back, and have the titanium chip markers as well. To show you how crazy my brain is/can be, when they described all this to me, my first question was, "Will I now beep going through secure areas?"
Keep the faith girl - you got this!! (((Hugs)))
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
David--Man of few words? Thanks for the virtual hug.
Rosie--back at you--hug a puppy for me.
Betty--you are so, so faithful. Anytime I see your picture I feel a peace.
PNP==Bless you! I feel so blessed by everyone's prayers and good thoughts.
IAM--if you are weird, so am I, because I thought the same thing. I also asked hubs--what do they call those little metal discs they put down on the
green to mark where their putts were? And he said "Ball markers." I thought it was cuter than that.
Jerry--Thank you for praying for Hubs--just after I wrote that snarky post, he got word from his doctor that his occult blood test came back positive
and he'scheduled for a colonoscopy in November. So I'm concerned about him. He may be in a dicier place than I. He bounces back faster
than I do, and isn't sensitive to everything on the planet that's man made, more or less. And I've been getting better--can go out and be
around people w/o getting a headache or crazy. My car has finally gassed out. My BFF since second grade told me that when another sweet
friend and classmate went back for her biopsy, an ultrasound was done and she was told "There's nothing there!" I am all for that. Did you
get your hearing back?
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(((Temple))) - I'm also sending prayers for your hubs.....I've got a few loved ones going through a variety of health issues right now, and one thing I am finding out - when they schedule 'fast' - same week/next day, they are more concerned. When they let follow-ups go out into another month/longer, they are more 'double-checking'. This has given me some added peace of mind, simply because the interval of the 'wait' is the worse part for my brain.
Mine also came back negative, yet they want to watch it, thus the markers. I am glad to have gone through the more detailed testing, simply as a 'final answer' scenario. Keep the faith girlfriend - keep the faith! PS - the markers do show up in x-rays and other tests. I went through about 10 years where I would get pneumonia often and I had to explain 'them' each time to the technician.
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
Did you tell then "I putt from here next time?" That was really lame, wasn't it? I'm so glad you had good results. I want some of that. Doesn't
pneumonia suck? I'd get it often as a child and I was keeping that as an escape clause if things ever got too painful or hopeless. So I didn't ever get a pneumonia vaccine. But then I had it last December. Not fun. And the breathing treatments made me nauseated. I hope you are all over that. You are very young and active to have been developing pneumonia. But stress can really drag a body down. I think you've found your way around that, as well.
Around here--in the boonies--that was just the next available open time for an appointment with that particular group, affiliated with the hospital here. I don't know if they'd have tried to refer him to someone else or hinted that he might want to try on his own. And he's too sanguine about the whole thing to wonder.
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(((Temple))) - I did chuckle at the ball marker comment! I am such a private person, nobody at golf even knows! I had chronic bronchitis as a small child so many things settle in my lungs and yes - it does suck. It's one of two things that I am susceptible too that will put me horizontal, simply because my body is telling me to do so. I am grateful that with much improved self-care, I've avoided both for a few years...
Keep the faith and trust your program! You got this! (((Hugs)))
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
My friend didn't even have to have the biopsy or the chips. Nothing there. Just "poof!" And she'd had one round of the disease when she was quite young.
I love to hear about good outcomes.
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Oh, Iamhere!!! Bless your heart!!! I had chronic bronchitis, they called it chronic asthmatic bronchitis..Didn't know there was such a hell, but in 1985, I had a job that was on 2nd floor and I had to grab the rail on bad days and help me upstairs to work...I felt like I was strangling/drowning in my own mucus
I got this and you're gonna think i am absolutely stark raving crackers, but I found this book on cleansing fasts...I was desperate...my AH#2 was terrified I would die in my sleep I was so bad with this so I told him to get BAGS of oranges and only spring water... he looked at me like I was nuts, but he did as instructed....I ate only those oranges (citrus eats up mucus) and drank gobs of water...like my body weight in water and dunno how many daily oranges....the fist couple of nights I coughed up the most dreadful "junk" but by day 4, I could actually sleep w/out having to sit up....my "wheezing" reduced and I felt more and more cleansed by the day....I was so bad, my doctor who was giving me shots to try to help me said "omg., Rosie if you get a bad enough cold, I could lose you" thats what prompted me to this very desperate act
so anyway, day after day, oranges and water and I could SEE the healing, after day 10, I was riding my bike and NOT gasping for air...I did this for THIRTY days....then went to doctor, hopped up on his table and asked him to listen to my lungs....he was amazed...he took me to bay Harbor hospital in lomita , CA for the other docs to "look at me" and see the old charts, med records and "see her now" it was fun, being a "study specimin" they fed me like a queen, LOL
what he said I did was by doing all that citrus, I "burned" off the bad tissue in my lungs....I have been great since...tennis, bike riding, swimming, horses, ALL my beloved sports that I thought I would never do again...
I had it as a kid, but it really hit me bad when in my early 30's...go figure....but anyway, now, I am still sensitive to certain paints, CANNOT get near bug spray or I'll wheeze, too much dust will trigger the wheezing and coughing, but it is short term, like I bounce back real fast...I used to carry my nebulizer (sp) and my inhaler but don't even know where they are since that fast....ONCE in a while, I have to "cleanse out" for a bit, but only for a weekend and that is when I eat too many mucous making foods, like dairy , but I have to really abuse the stuff before I notice a bit of grunge in my lungs
My battle with this horrid sickness turned me into a "clean foods" freak and i minimize processed stuff, eat only whole, clean, nature stuff, I love my meats but I also eat a lot of veggies and fruits, I adore...lots of water, exercise that makes me breath hard to keep the ole lungs going, and so far, so good.....
I am glad you play golf and get out, enjoying the outdoors.....Hope what I said can help you and anyone with breathing issues....nothing more scary then not being able to breathe.........
I have had pneumonia a couple of times. I got diagnosed with asthma as an adult but I probably had it for a very long time before diagnosis
I have specific triggers distr cigarette smoke among them
I have to avoid dairy too. That is kind of hard but these days the after effects are so immediate
I get the flu shot every year.
The odd thing is when I was with the ex A his weed smoking made my asthma kude threatening.
So much for relationships being unhealthy. Mine almost killed me. One day I simply could not breathe
The now ex A inherited an indifference to illness from his mother. That is another one of my issues being with people who offer no.comfort.
I hope you are taking care of yourself chicken soup is also good for clearing the lungs. But rest is crucial
Maresie
