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    Stem Cell Consultation!

    in SCLC GROUP

    Posted

    Mom met with the stem cell transplant team today for a preliminary interview. They want to test her heart and lung function, as well as liver and kidneys. Gave her lots of info on the procedure, as well as ideas as to what else they might try if she's not strong enough for stem cell or if she has a recurrence down the road. She was very pleased with their attitude of doing everything possible to give her a better chance for survival.

    It sure wouldn't be a walk in the park - 4 to 5 weeks in the hospital. I may be called upon for some kind of cell or marrow donation if she can't have stem cell (we have the same blood type). My response was "Where and when do they want to test me?" Not yet, but maybe in the future.

    Roger Williams apparantly does a great deal of stem cell transplants. Her insurance would cover it without a problem, and the hospital is near enough so Dad and I and her sister can visit. She definitely wants to do it if they'll take her.

    She is starting to feel the effects of the radiation - very very tired, some pain, a little difficulty swallowing. Mom has 11 more treatments to go, I think. Also, her primary dr. saw her today and thinks she looks a bit jaundiced. She had a stent put in her bile duct back in November when they first thought she had pancreatic cancer. The stent was meant to be temporary, replaced with a metal one in a few months, so maybe the stent is collapsing. Tomorrow's blood tests will tell more.

    It's a tough journey, and promises to get more interesting real soon. But Mom is proving to be tougher than many gave her credit for.

    Meow Mix

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    A woman was enjoying a good game of golf with her girlfriends.

    "Oh, no!"she suddenly exclaimed. "Look at the time! I have to rush home and fix dinner for my husband! He's going to be really ticked if it's not ready on time."

    When she got home, she discovered all she had in the cupboard was a wilted lettuce leaf, an egg, and a can of cat food, and she didn't have time to go to the supermarket. In a panic, she opened the can of cat food, stirred in the egg, and garnished it with the lettuce leaf -- just as her husband walked through the door. She greeted him warmly, then watched in horror as he sat down to his dinner. To her surprise he seemed to be really enjoying it.

    "Darling, this is the best dinner you've made me in forty years of marriage! You can make this for me any old day."

    Needless to say, every golf day from then on, the woman made her husband the same dish. She told her golf partners about it, and they were all horrified. "You're going to kill him!" they exclaimed!!!

    Two months later, her husband died. The women were sitting around the clubhouse one day when one of them said,"You killed him! We told you that feeding him that cat food every week would do him in! How can you just sit there so calmly knowing you murdered your husband?"

    The wife stoically replied, "I didn't kill him. He fell off the windowsill while he was licking his butt."

    True Story

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    Kids aren't the only source...

    In my high-school French class, we were using a vocabulary book which was divided up by common places, i.e., a school, a kitchen, a bathroom. The bathroom had a bidet. The translation for "bidet" is "bidet". This meant nothing to small-town bunch of high-schoolers. "What's a bidet?" someone asked. Our somewhat prudish teacher turned about 6 different shades of purple as he attempted to explain it, and was met by stunned silence.

    I still remember being horrified by the idea of a toilet flushing upwards :shock: .

    combined modality advice

    in SCLC GROUP

    Posted

    My mom is doing both chemo and radiation now - but has had to skip a round of chemo due to low platelets. They're coming back up, so she should do chemo again next week.

    It's very hard on the body to do both - I think the dr. may believe waiting for the radiation is a safer compromise.

    Experiences and Revelations.

    in GENERAL

    Posted

    Dean - you enrich so many of our lives with your writings. Never feel you aren't "contributing" or "doing" anything with your life.

    I, for one, (and I bet others including your daughter) would LOVE to see a collection of stuff you've written. Some of your posts make beautiful essays.

    About the scooter thing - I've noticed the ads on TV for "The Scooter Store" feature very healthy, happy looking people. Slim, strong, rosy-cheeked. No other medical supplies in sight. Somehow I think stuff like that puts the idea in some minds that the scooter is more of a luxury item than a necessity.

    New words for 2004

    in JUST FOR FUN

    Posted

    NEW WORDS FOR 2004 - Essential additions for the workplace

    >>

    >>Vocabulary:

    >>

    >>BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was

    >>missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

    >>

    >>SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps

    on

    >>everything, and then leaves.

    >>

    >>ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and

    >>advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

    >>

    >>SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream

    >only

    >>to get screwed and die in the end.

    >>

    >>CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.

    >>

    >>PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube

    >>farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

    >>

    >>MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch

    potato.

    >>

    >>SITCOMS: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies

    >turn

    >>into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home

    >with

    >>the kids.

    >>

    >>STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and

    >>whiney.

    >>

    >>SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because

    the

    >>magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

    >>

    >>XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's

    >>workplace.

    >>

    >>IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but

    you

    >>find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials and Michael

    >>Jackson's affairs are examples.

    >>

    >>PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an

    >>electronic device to get it to work again.

    >>

    >>ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above

    the

    >>rank and file Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often

    >>profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were

    designed

    >to

    >>solve.

    >>

    >>404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404

    >Not

    >>Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

    >>

    >>GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same

    no

    >>matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, etc.

    >>

    >>OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize you've

    >just

    >>made a BIG mistake.

    >>

    >>WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.

    >>

    >>CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing thru a cube

    farm,

    >>then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust.

    >>

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