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Addie already has her birthday cone-hat on and is holding yours.
Cone hat? Au Contraire, my pet....I wore a beanie with a whirligig thingie on top that rotates in the wind. Had to twirl it w/ my finger indoors...but the nurses and other patients got a kick out of it.
As they did the cake. We got a group picture around the cake. Cooper wasn't in the office at that moment (think he was at lunch) but they brought in the guy from the pharmacy to take the picture and about 10 nurses and I grouped around the cake which by then, was partly gone.
Prior to the photo session...in come the nurses as I'm still getting chemo, with a card, and one huge corner hunk of cake with one lit candle...singing "Happy Birthday" to me. These onc nurses...I'm telling you...are SO special. I just love them all. Truly...there isn't ONE of them that I don't just adore.
Then hubby took me to get two more hooded sweaters and we went to the golf club for an Unleaded Transfusion (ie: NO vodka in it
) or two. He had a leaded drink. No fair, huh? 
Met a friend there who brought another sweet card and a wee 14K gold heart that I'm going to put on my charm bracelet.So, thus far it's been a great day~!!
We had dinner last night at my oldest son's and his girl's place along with her parents. Very nice, food was great and NOW THAT I'M OFF DECADRON, I EVEN SLEPT WELL LAST NIGHT!! Yeeee Hawwwww!!Missy Pat, my younger twin...it sounds like you've got this birthday rigged to last for several days...and honey, THAT is the way to do it! Enjoy every moment of it...and milk it for all it's worth, I say!
Tonight will be low key for us...but tomorrow...dinner out w/ friends!
Thanks again to everyone here for the b-day wishes. They all seem a little bit sweeter these days...and the contributions, support and caring of everyone here is NO small part of that sweetness. Thank you so much.
Now...Pat and I have some frosting to stick our fingers in and lick. Anyone wanna join us?
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Damn...I wondered where you were hiding and why.
So sorry to hear about the breathing problems, but man...sounds like you came away from it with a new friend! What a nice thing to happen, huh? Is your new home in a small town? (Forgive my not remembering... )Whatever the case, this sounds like a great friend to have, Cindi. Encourage the friendship.
Hope you're breathing a lot easier now. I'll be back on prednisone myself tomorrow....have been OFF Decadron since Monday (the oral stuff) and just getting 8 mgs. infused w/ chemo. Am already sleeping TONS better. Only got up twice last night and slept in till 8: this morning. Huzzah!!!!!!!
Hope you'r perking along too, Miss Cin. You gonna open up that pub any time soon? Miss Pat and I have a date with a bottle of something today. That and a bowl of frosting...and I'll be good for a week....how about YOU, Pat?
(Really glad you're back among us, Cindi!)
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Thank you all for the good wishes. And since Jorja called us "girls"....I don't imagine ANY gift is gonna be better than that!
Actually...I had a mini shopping spree yesterday and picked up a hooded lightweight chenille sweater. A pullover in pale pink. Turns out it's IDEAL for a bald headed woman that has severe chemo hot flashes. Hot...take the hood off. Cold...put it up AND the bonus is it keeps the back of my neck warm too.
So...hubby is taking me back to the store today for one or two more of these sweaters in different colors. I may just have "discovered" an alternative to wigs, scarves and baseball caps!
Missy Pat...where are you? Hiding in the kitchen eating a big hunk of cake for breakfast?
I had me a Little Debby cupcake and a banana...and I posted somewhere else...but am taking a sheet cake in to chemo today that will say, "It's my party, I'll come bald if I want to!" on it. 
Might as well have fun....huh? The nurses would expect no less from me, I'm sure. I'll also wear my Sh*t Fairy pin today, giving just a passing nod to the reason we're all there in the oncologist's office!Those are my plans. Come on Pat...spill the beans. What are YOU doing today to celebrate being younger than me?
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I just ate two miniature Milky Way caramels and drank a grape soda in your honor!!
So happy to hear that Bill has perked up...which in turn has perked your spirits, I know, Beth.Take full advantage of all such good days. Makes no sense to do anything else, does it?
Hope this continues indefinitely...that he just keeps feeling good!
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Aunt Freda's fried chicken and cream cheese and shrimp stuffed celery. Mom's potato salad. One of Auntie Blanche's lemon meringue pies.
Just like when I was a kid. Ahhhhhhhhhhh~!!
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MORE CAKE!!! And my, what a worthy occasion, Charlie....47 years~!! Congratulations to you AND Mrs. CharlieD.
Have a lovely day together...as I'm sure you will. I'm steaming towards 35 next May...and expect to make it.
Lots to celebrate this week. We're all gonna be on a sugar high by the time it's all over!
Again, Congrats to both of you for making what clearly was a very wise choice of....each other!
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A friend of mine in MN had it done. She called it laser knife. When I asked about it, she said it's like gamma knife but does NOT use the metal frame.
I didn't ask her at the time, but I assume they use a mask in lieu of the frame, as they do for WBR.
Try doing a search for laser knife radiation....see what you find. I've not done so....because when I asked about any of that...I was told I wasn't a candidate because I had too many tumors. Only WBR would work for me.
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Come tomorrow Bri and I will coat any remaining tumors with frosting and "kill 'em with sweetness"...how's that for an idea?
Might mean you have to eat some dry cake, Pat...but you won't mind, will you?
And yet ANOTHER 9/21 b-day w/ your oldest son, Pat. My youngest was born on 9/17/78....so he was nearly my birthday twin.
We'll have cake running out our ears by the time we're done with this month!
So glad Bri's mood has picked up too and that he's got things to look forward too. Makes a lot of difference to be looking ahead to ANYTHING as opposed to feeling stuck in a sad rut, doesn't it?
Go give that boy another kiss on the top of his noggin for me, will you?
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9-21-47
I guess it is close enough to the first day of fall for Apple Crisp.
Are we birthday twins?
9-21-46. Twins...but born a year apart!
And truly...apple crisp (w/ lots of brown sugar, oatmeal and cinnamon in the topping making it about an inch thick!!) is one of my most favorite desserts! Bring it on. Don't bother to wrap any, we'll eat it RIGHT NOW!Do you know....if you ask 58 random people...they say you will find a birthday twin. In all my (almost) 59 years I have only known of ONE other Sept. 21st birthday...the daughter of a gal I "met" thru cyberspace on my old "doggy boards".
Now today...I find you, Ry's son and even a woman in chemo today knew a 9/21 birthday person.
Feast or famine...but I'd say this is gonna be one fine party....and I bet Cindi will have drinks half price.
I'm taking a sheet cake in on Wed. when I go for chemo...and on the top of it will be printed, NOT Happy Birthday but.....
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, I'LL COME BALD IF I WANT TO!
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On to Plan B, it sounds like. Glad the doc is working on it and will have a new direction for Mike to go in within a week.
Who knows...the next tx might be THE ticket...and if he hadn't reacted poorly to the Tarceva....well, you wouldn't have started on "the ticket" so soon...huh?
Hold positive thoughts, Sue and do keep us posted. We're all pulling for Plan B to work like gangbusters...whatever it is!
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You know I'm sending good thoughts your way. Hope you start getting some good answers even before the week is over.
Do let us know...ok? Hang tough, Jen.
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Grab the good news and run with it, honey! I'm so happy to hear "significant reduction"....SO happy!
Ride on this wave of good news and happiness as long as you can. It's good for the soul...you and Bri will draw strength off of it. Rent a funny movie and laugh and enjoy yourself right on thru to tomorrow...and then maybe the next day...and the next...and the next....
Love you guys. Hang in!! And yes....I want to know about that birthday too...isn't the 22nd the first day of fall this year....huh, huh, huh? Is that your birthday, huh, huh, huh?
Woo hoo....grab your forks people we got back to back birthdays and lots of cake!! mine is the 21st
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You know me, Jen...my advice is always pretty much the same. Try to leapfrog the fear for now....postpone it to - say - a day or two after the last test....and then worry, if you must.
In the meanwhile, try hard to enjoy and not spend all this week plus in angst.
I know it's not always easy, hon....but it IS still the best advice I can offer.
Got a brain MRI coming up prob. the week of Oct 10th. I'm not even THINKING about it till the day of the test....and by the next morning, if not sooner, I'll have the preliminary report. Not till then will I either worry or celebrate what I'm telling myself NOW is going to be the good news!
Cuts down on the amount of wrinkles on my face, you know?
Hang in...and wear your pin to remind you...."DON'T WORRY"!!
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Thanks for caring about us!
You gotta be kidding? How could we NOT care, sweetie?
Am so glad Bri is perking up a little and that his breathing is coming easier. Sometimes the little improvements add up to something bigger, don't they?
Last night hubby had to go drop something at the post office after dinner. When he came home, tired ol' me was on the computer upstairs, but about ready to pile into bed. In he walks with a caramel sundae from the ice cream shop that he passed on his way home from the P.O.
Sent me off to bed feeling much less tired, somehow...but still content to watch some t.v. and enjoy that treat all over again in my head!
Like I said...the little things. They add up.
Go give Bri a kiss on the top of his head...and when he says, "What was that for?"...you tell him it was sent from me...and I said he's very lucky my DOGS didn't want to get in on the deal or he'd think he'd been slimed!
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Met my Paul 2 days before Christmas in 1969. I had returned from a loooooong summer off exploring western Europe to the bank where I'd worked before...only this time, I was applying for a job in the personnel dept. rather than at a branch office, where I'd been before.
Paul worked for the bank too, in the personnel dept. We met and he was so serious I was just sure he was in his late 30's. I was a young 23 y/old.
Found out a couple of months after I was hired as the receptionist in the department...that he was only 27....so I....uh.....took another look!
That department did a lot of things as a group...like parties at each other's homes, Friday nights after work playing pool and having a couple of beers, etc. Thru this we got to know each other as friends and Paul thought the guy I was dating was a jerk.
He later told me he was determined to "get me away from that jerk".Well he did. We started dating finally, the end of 1970. Dated five weeks and he put a ring on my finger. Seemed a bit impulsive to some (and of course the personnel dept. had a pool going...is she preggo or not? Will she actually marry him or not?
Those loonies waited three plus years for me to produce a baby. Maybe they thought I was an elephant? Ya think?)Anyway...he had a 7 yr. old son and we had two more boys together. I quit making babies then, knowing I was well on my way to a starting line up for basketball.
No regrets. Some hair pulling, some angst, a pity party or two and ONE tossed glass of wine most of which ended up deflected onto a wall
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The little ditty was:
Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have this wish come true tonight.
This was made on the first star you see when you looked up into the night sky.
One night the first "star" I saw was moving pretty fast.
Not a shooting star...it turned out to be an airplane.Now...I make sure the star is really stationary before I make my wish.
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SO very glad things have been moved up...and will happen sooner. I hope the shot boosts his red cells a bit and increases his energy. More than that, I hope the other symptoms ARE just a matter of the chemo working rather than the alternative.
You know we are all here to help hold you up, right, Pat? Cuz we are. Pass me the pork chop...we'll pass it around here, and you just focus on you and Bri enjoying as much as you can over the coming days until you have some answers.
You know we're all pulling for some good news...that things are working and also for Bri to feel better and for you to have some down time on the worrying stuff.
Love to you both....
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Ginny, you ROCK~!! I think you got most of the major ones already....but for people who go thru the express line in the grocery NOT with 12 items, but with 27 because they, too, are "special"
There's a name for those people, you know, and I think this one is an actual Sniglet...
...they are called Expressholes!
Ginny, that would make #1 on your list illegal Expressholes, would it not?
#1 on my list....whiners!!!!!!!!!! I don't even like it when my DOGS do it...but I know a couple of people in my real life who are chronic and persistent whiners and they drive me over the same edge that oral Decadron does.
Oh yeah, #2 on my list is oral Decadron.
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Thank you, Gay. You know, you have a way with the written word as much as Dean did.
I am in a chair where I can often be found...my computer chair...so I just raised my bottle of water in Dean's honor...thereby fulfilling Dean's wish!
I hope that little by little, you'll get more past the pain of such a loss and instead, keep reminiscing the good times with Dean. He was a remarkable man...with a remarkable spirit.
Your plans for the motorcycle ride seem very appropriate. And the therapist sounds very kool, indeed.
We all hope you'll continue to visit with us here Gay, and let us know how you are doing.
Thoughts are with you.....
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Was just coming to tell Frank that Kasey's was the "cabana boy" pass...and I see that Kasey already let him know.
So we DO have a "cabana girl" pass? Oh that's right...I saw her once before. Frank, I have to tell you...."girl" is quite a stretch. Our female cabana pass lady is........uh.........toothless and ancient.
You order a beer, and by the time she shuffles it over to you...you'll have forgotten you ordered it. I'd go for the Beach Hooters pass if I were you.
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Sometimes, when we most need them to, our friends really do rise up to the occasion, don't they? So glad you asked for and got the help you needed AND that you had a good time.
Happier still that you're now enjoying the comforts of home and being back with us....cuz we missed you!
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Aw, Pat honey...how did I miss this thread yesterday? I'm so sorry for both of you that things are as they are.
but I know he is scared and feeling like he may have gone through all this agony for ???????? what??????.Well...he went thru it all because it's gotten him to this point...and hopefully, will get him well beyond. I guess there is always a price to pay for surviving cancer
...but as my own neuropathy increases and is driving me near out of my mind...I can only imagine how awful it is for Bri with numbness up to his calf.I wish I had answers for you honey...but I think there is a lot of good support/advice here...and I agree, I'd at least put in a call to his onc to express just how this has been affecting Bri mentally/emotionally. How he's sleeping more and detaching from activities he used to be interested in.
I assume he's on Neurontin or something for the neuropathy? Could his dosage be adjusted?
I wish there was more I could offer that might be helpful...but you know you have every good wish and thought I can muster...you both do.
Hang in, dear Pat...and let us know what the onc says after to speak to him. Meanwhile honey...give me that pork chop of yours. We'll all hold that for you while you try to ferret out some answers.
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Geri, honey...it may take a load of Decadron for me to wage war...but you don't need meds! Just your good ol' Brit tenacity, brilliance and chutzpah!
Dr. ER Resident sounds like a real clod. I wouldn't even wanting him diagnosing a hangnail.
Glad you set him straight and ALSO your cardiologist there. If they don't have a bedside manner...then maybe they missed their calling.....auto mechanics! Sheesh.Glad you're on the mend, honey. Check your email.
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Well, I'm slow.
Perhaps it is the decrease in my dose of Decadron....but today it finally hit me too, Fay has named her tumor Bill! I have a friend out in Colorado who had thyroid cancer. She didn't even like to say the word "cancer" so she named it Charley! Whenever she talked about cancer, it was "Charley this" or "Charley that".
I hadn't really thought about doing that...but it's not a bad idea...is it, to name the little buggers? That way, I can curse and hex them individually!
I have four tumors in my liver...so I could name them Leroy Liver, Lennie Liver, Lars Liver (he's the one with an accent
) and let's see...what'll I name the last one? How about Lester Liver?As far as my brain tumors (which should now ALL be gone) I coulda named them the Mormon Tabernacle Choir!
Thanks Fay...and I'm glad to see so many of you were not only on the same track as I...but actually beat me to the punch! I must be slipping, eh...deprived as I am of Decadron.
) or two. He had a leaded drink. No fair, huh? 
Met a friend there who brought another sweet card and a wee 14K gold heart that I'm going to put on my charm bracelet.
We had dinner last night at my oldest son's and his girl's place along with her parents. Very nice, food was great and NOW THAT I'M OFF DECADRON, I EVEN SLEPT WELL LAST NIGHT!! Yeeee Hawwwww!!
So sorry to hear about the breathing problems, but man...sounds like you came away from it with a new friend! What a nice thing to happen, huh? Is your new home in a small town? (Forgive my not remembering... 
Might as well have fun....huh? The nurses would expect no less from me, I'm sure. I'll also wear my Sh*t Fairy pin today, giving just a passing nod to the reason we're all there in the oncologist's office!
Not a shooting star...it turned out to be an airplane.
Birthday Wishes to Patkid and Addie
in GENERAL
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You know something, Pat? This almost had to be, that we'd end up birthday twins, because all during my growing up years my dad affectionately called me The Brat.
I was the baby of three girls...6 1/2 years behind the middle daughter who was only 21 months younger than the eldest.
So....maaaaaaaybe I was a bit indulged, although I'd never use the word "spoiled".
But I was a brat sometimes...so...anyway, it's fitting that you and I share a birthday since you and Bri are the brat couple!