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Yeah!!! Good news got a letter saying everything is ok...I was worried for no reason, the tests came out normal. Reacting to something before all the votes are in, is so not like me. I have just never gone past the part where they do the mammogram and send me home...the ultra sound is what worried me...we have an HMO and they don't do anything they don't feel like they have to...thank you all for your thoughts and support.
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Red, that's good news! Since the time I had my mammo, I never had a "normal" result. I have consistently had an abnormality which the doctor believes is benign. Our company has changed insurance company. We must use the insurance company's mammo place. My doc says that it's not the digital mammo but the regular one. I fainted from the pain on my very first mammo, on the very first xray, using the regular machine. So, I'm dreading my upcoming exam in Feb. I will need to warn the tech that I fainted before. Ugh! It was very very painful using the digital one. I will try to think positive: "I think I can, I think I can..." And not faint. It sucks to faint from the pain, and then to gain conscious and find myself still dangling by one ...uhm...clamped up breast...holding the rest of me off the floor....

Assandy, my father is just like that. When I'm on the phone, he keeps talking to me. I try to shush him and he just continues. He just doesn't want my attention to anywhere except him. So, he doesn't like the TV, my books, and my computer.

Lav, I'm not Catholic, but I love that song "Ave Maria." My mom's name was Maria. But my sister/sil did not use that song for mom's funeral in the church. I would have been just as satisfied if they used a CD and played it. But, they went all out and hired a real church choir. My father loves it. They only play it on Sunday early mornings in the radio. They now have male singers singing it. Not as beautiful as the females singing it! Women's version just touches my heart.
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I read this on an article on a taxi survey of some obscure objects that travelers leave behind:

A wig and a bird in a cage left behind in a US cab
A prosthetic leg and an ex-boyfriend in Australia
A trombone in Finland
A Rubik's cube in Italy
Dentures in Germany
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Book,
My question is was the prosthetic leg on the boyfriend in Australia? LOL!
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Glad, what I don't get is.... how can a person forget their prosthetic leg! Ex-boyfriend ... maybe he got caught "fooling around" while they were out clubbing? And she got so pissed off, that they were arguing in the cab, he's drunk, and she left him in the cab while she got off. Dentures..poor person would find it missing when it's time to eat. ...
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I hate dementia!
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I thought I posted this yesterday but don't see it to will try again...I got a letter yesterday telling me that everything with the mammogram was ok...I was worrying for no reason, which is, so not like me at all. Try to never borrow trouble till it hits me in the face, at which point I can't deny it any more...thank all of you for the comments, concern and support...
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Sorry...my first post just popped up...do they take a day to show????Didn't mean to repeat myself....
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Reddog happy for the good news! Hugs to you!
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How am I doing? Shit ass! I've read through the question forum but if I write any suggestions I'll probably offend the
new members or get a "report this post"!

"This too shall pass"
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Red - YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Veronica - I appreciate your post. However, no brother is not caring. If he cared he would have been there for mom. My mom was so hurt by him it just ticks me off BIG time. If I had my way which I don't I would have cut him off from everything. And I mean and I would have no regrets. I will tell you what he will NOT control me ever again. Who in the hell does he think he is. Coming here like he owns the place and not giving me time to breathe. If he calls and tells me he is coming over tomorrow I will tell him NO. If he comes over I know I will tell him off. But hey maybe I should I might just feel better. The SOB. Gee, you think I am mad right not. You're durn right I am. You know I thought I would feel funny about coming on here after mom passed but thank God I did. Thinking about him and the situation kept me up a good part of the night. I will not let that happen again. As always thanks for letting me rant and vent. Do you think an exorcist would get the devil out of him. Well, it was just a thought. You all take care of YOU and I will do the same.
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My favourite denture story is the one about the trainee caregiver at a nursing home who, in a sudden rush of enthusiasm, collected an entire floor's dentures and put them all in a big washing-up bowl to sterilise.

The story did not say how they sorted that one out.
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Feel for you Lavender. It shouldn't even be necessary to tell your brother just for one second to see things from your point of view, but not only is it necessary - it's so incredibly difficult!

I don't think it's a man thing, I think it's a self-centred personality thing - I know plenty of men who are just as capable of empathy as my women friends. So infuriating. Good you can let off steam here instead of out-and-out thumping him!
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What happened Assa??
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Book I had a digital one last year and they still press your you know whats in the machine. No change in pain but you know you can tell the tech to stop if it gets too painful. You can take a look at your boobs right there on the monitor if you want although the tech is not allowed to comment.
Red that's excellent news at least you did not have to wait too long for the results.
Assandache what kind of replies were you planning that might offend new members? I know they don't like things like "Get a life" "Youv'e got it easier than most" "Don't complain if he sleeps all the time be thankful" Why are you worrying if she is not eating, at least she will die sooner" 'Well put her to work, no reason she has to sit around all day with that broken hip" " He wet the darn bed tell him to do the laundry" "Tell your sister in law we are dropping Gma off at 10 on Saturday so she had better be ready" "Drop your MIL off at the NH they will have to do something with her" "Tell them if I am not back in a week to call 911" "Get her a pair of handcuffs that will stop her getting into stuff" I am having fun with but had better stop or I"ll get moderated, suspended, blacklisted or whatever they do to undesirable members. Hugs
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assandache, I have had days like that where I just want to type in "You are a selfish idiot without a clue" but I am trying to restrain my fingers. I admire Captain for being the Devil's Advocate here. There is no way to report an inappropriate question, or contact the admins, so I just report Spam on Caregiver Stories. That seems to get rid of them right quick.
bookluvr: I lost my faith in Mammograms when my sister found out she had Invasive Lobular Carcinoma. They told her OH that doesn't show up on a mammogram, you need an MRI to see it. WTF!!!! So yeah, if the tissue is dense and the Slam-O-Gram is painful, ask for a nice painless MRI, cause you need one.
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All this mammogram discussion is making me very twitchy. Can't wait to have this fight with my doctor - ultrasound or nothing, mate, I'm not sticking my bits in a mangle no matter how many music hall jokes depend on it...
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Mammo pain from a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, it's usually a 6. And if they don't press that darn button, I begin to whimper. And if they're still taking their darn time, I start trying to squirm and lose the "position." The time I fainted, the pain level was a 6. Then as the tech was walking away to hide behind the protective shield, the pain level started from left upper chest and flared up to my head and down to my arms/legs. It was such a sudden pain from 6 to past 10, I fainted from it. That's how I fainted from the Sudden onset of pain on top of the current pain 6. I haven't taken the mammo since Nov.2011. So, it's time to get one plus while I still have a job and insurance coverage.

Veronica, those were some good phrases. I chuckled on some and wished that I could do some of those to MY siblings.
Psteg, I thought of the captain, too, when I read Veronica's words. I think AC admin gets on his case when enough people "report this post" on him. I think, too, they already know how he is and just automatically "delete" out some of his posts.
Lav, I can see my oldest-bro-of-next-door doing exactly what your brother is doing - when father dies. Except bro will try to get the land for himself, or move in here and rent out His bottom half of his 2-story duplex apartment. Moving in - in the name of helping us out with the house repairs, etc...
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CM I avoided the mangle analogy because no one this side of the pond has any idea what a mangle is!!!!!
Lavender maybe you should make a doll replica of your brother and stick pins in him. Every time you stick one in put a label on. That's for forgetting Mom's birthday. This one is for telling me to ............................. and so on till you feel better and he staggers into your house bleeding like he's been stuck by a porcupine.
That denture story must have happened a lot because a friend of mine actually did that on a geriatric ward when she was a student nurse. can
t tell you how much I hate cleaning dentures. Yuk
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A MANGLE is a rotating canvas covered drum with a large heated plate, a huge iron that presses all the wrinkles out of tablecloths and other things too large to iron by hand. My mom's had wheels, I would ride it and pretend it was a horse. It had a knee pedal to start and stop it rolling. I had to mangle the sheets and dad's undershirts, there was no such thing as permanent press back then in the 50's and 60's.
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Gosh even American mangles were more advanced than English ones.
The last one I used consisted of 2 big rubber covered rollers on a stand with a turnbuckle on top to adjust the pressure. There was a handle on the side that was hand cranked to get the clothes through. Later there were smaller ones attached to washing machines but still hand powered. Dishwashers and Dryers were still a luxury till at least the early 70s. Now I understand how American kids got their arms crushed in a mangle. Any corrections CM?
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Mammograms .. sore subject (sorry .. literally NO pun intended) .. never had one, never will. If I find I need some diagnostic tool, I'll head over for a thermography reading (yeah, I know all the foofarra .. I ignore most western medical's ... argh, don't get me started ...). And then if something shows up, I'll go for the MRI. NEVER, ever will get my girls into a smashodoodle. You just know some masochistic GUY invented that thing. And I say, 'go ahead, put your ___ in there and then tell me it's no big deal.' Arggh.
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LadeeC, I was laughing at your comment. What a coincidence! When I was trying to tell myself All the Reasons why I should get a mammo again, those thoughts came up: This must have been invented by man. Only a man would think nothing of squashing as hard as one can and Not think that it would be painful..... How would they like to have their "manhood" squashed to see if there's any cancer or other problem in there?... THOSE were the thoughts floating in my head.....
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Book .. 'xactly!!! *roams off grumbling inarticulately*
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Today was great! Had a day off! Got my hair done! Ready for my boss to rip on me! Pink and teal highlights! Very subtle but made me feel spunky and fun!!! Love me time!
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Book and Laddee C- Of course a man invented it and I bet you he was also the one that invented high heels.
PC- Sounds like you did a good job of taking care of YOU!!! Good for you. I bet your hair looks beautiful.
Veronica - Why didn't I think of that. I live in New Orleans for goodness sake. I'll just drive to the voodoo shop in the French Quarter and get a voodoo doll. LOL
You all take care of YOU!!!!!
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Yikes! The mangle I had in mind was the old-fashioned sort - two wooden cylinders that you rolled your laundry between, but not - thank the Lord - heated! They were from the days before even spin driers were common: the last one I saw in action was in Germany, in 1971. The joke about "haven't laughed so much since Auntie got her…" much more recent, alas.
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You all are making my boobs hurt,
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Actually the Mammogram machine CAN be used to detect testicular cancer at very early stages. For some unknown reason, men are not signing up for the test, nor are their doctors asking them to. True story. LOL.
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Feeling pretty stressed out. What with brother constantly paving roads I must travel with mom and a pregnant wife... It's a lot to handle. Especially when my brother only comes over for an hour or two when he feels like it. He's retired and I work when I can here and there. Trying to coordinate building beds and such for income here in the house. Mom is going through reduplicative paramnesia right now so every so often we have to take a ride at night due to sundowners and drive her around so she can "find her house". Oh what fun ;)
Hey what can you do? It's all part of it.
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