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Llama.

I didn’t even know that a person could get shingles that young. Most people are over 50 years of age when they get it. You must have been surprised.
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Need: Thank goodness that I got shingles as a young woman. If I ever got them at my age of 76, it would be VERY difficult.
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Llama.

20! Wow 😮, that’s awfully young to get shingles.
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Need: Thank you for sharing your DH's story. Wow! Getting shingles WAS a silver lining for him! I am glad he will be okay after his cancer dx.

So I did have shingles when I was 20. It was painful, but I recovered quickly.
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Llama,

My arm was a bit sore after my shingles vaccine. Hey, that’s better than getting shingles. My husband had shingles before and it’s painful.

His shingles had a silver lining though. He had neglected getting regular check ups. When he went to the doctor she decided to do lab tests.

They found that his numbers were off and sent for further testing and they discovered that he had prostate cancer. Thank God, after he went through treatments he went into remission.

You know how some men can be. They wait until something is wrong before they go to the doctor!

Anyway, I am glad that he got shingles because it got him inside of the doctor’s office and he was very fortunate to catch his cancer early.
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Had my second and final Shringrix vaccine on Sunday. My arm is just now recovering/feeling better. It was red at injection site and very sore.
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Bob Barker died at age 99! Just before hitting a dollar!

He wanted to retire when he was still young, at age 83! Gotta love him! 😊

Betty White died at 99 too.
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Met our daughter’s new boyfriend. He’s very tall! Seems like a sweet guy. I’m happy for my daughter. She seems to be content.

They just got back from Florida, so we are finished watching our sweet granddog. I love that dog!

Now I have to vacuum. Huskies have so much fur!
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Yes Send, I have noticed that. Good observations!
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Has anyone noticed?
If you are trapped in a dysfunctional, toxic relationship.
The part that is you contributing to the ongoing insanity
is that you have agreed to wait to make a good lifesaving decision for yourself that is separate from what "they" are doing (or not doing).

You are going to "wait", once again, for the dysfunctional persons to "talk" about it. Then you will decide, based upon what "they" do or say.

I don't have the answers yet, but I know it is wrong to wait this way.
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Barb: Poodle is posting to the whine thread so she may not see your question.
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Barb: Good job!
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Barb,

Great job on finding DH’s records. Hope the surgery goes well next week.
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Hey Poodle, you okay?

Saw the urologist today. Surgery is scheduled for next Friday. Pleased with myself as I was able to locate the CD of the CAT scan done before his last surgery in 2019 and the discharge reports. So yay, us.

Thank you so much for your support!
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Thinking of the people in Florida. Hurricane Idalia wrecked havoc on Florida. So sad.
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Hope you’re OK Barb!
🐻🐻🐻
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Good luck Barb and DH!
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Barb, wishing lots of health!
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Barb, wishing your Ex hubby very good luck here.
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Barb, sending wishes of health! DH's PSA level ok?
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Barb: Prayers for your DH. I am a past kidney stone sufferer.
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newbie,

My dad had bladder cancer and was completely cured also. Glad that you went into remission.
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Thanks much for all of your support!

My DH has a hx of uretal problems; when he was in his late teens, docs discovered that he had a stricture in his ureter; his mom was told by one doc that one kidney would simply die, but she found someone would cut out the blockage and re-attach the ends. Worked for a long time. He had surgery to remove some "gravel" a few years back and a filtering stent put in. That urologist is only doing oncology now, but I was able to find an Endourologist (those are the folks with the itsy bitsy cameras) who can see what's going on.

Fortunately, my DH is pretty cooperative about medical stuff- he gets that I know more about this stuff than he does.
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Barb - sometimes it seems as though your DH and my BIL are weirdly connected, the issues he's been having are pee and kidney related as well. Of course the difference is that my BIL is argumentative and won't do what the doctors tell him (all you have to do is drink more you dumb a$$).
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Barb--Not to alarm you and your hubby, but peeing blood can be a symptom of bladder cancer. I understand your husband is having a CT scan of kidneys and pelvis, which I would assume includes the bladder. Definitive diagnosis if anything suspicious is spotted in the bladder would be by cystoscopy. Bladder cancer is very treatable and has a very high survival rate depending on the type and whether it is still localized in the bladder. Treatment is almost aIways done cystoscopocally so is non-invasive. I know because I've been through it and am basically cured with no recurrence in over 10 years.
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Oh. Barb

Hope everything will be okay with your husband. My husband gets kidney stones. My oldest daughter gets them too. They are painful. Sometimes they do require going to the hospital.
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So, DH started peeing blood the other day. Doc put him on Cipro; blood work came back with no elevated white count. Urine specimen is still in progress but so far no infection seen.

He's having a CAT scan of his kidneys and pelvis tomorrow to see if there's a stone (he's had uretal stones and 'gravel' in the past, so his PCP thinks that's what this is.)

This site is so great for venting!
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I was just watching a video on vascular dementia, it covered the the different types, common causes, and the fact that we aren't treating people early enough. I think maybe I'm going to start taking fish oil capsules again.
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A sweet video of crying dads (happy tears). Guaranteed to make you cry (in a good way).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39XePR7R6F4
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Great you’re OK Send!!
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