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[Jane]

DR Jennifer my sinuses are also hurting, must be something in the air.  Feel better soon & I hope yours doesn't turn into a chronic problem.

[Jennifer]

DR Jennifer my sinuses are also hurting, must be something in the air.  Feel better soon & I hope yours doesn't turn into a chronic problem.

Hopefully not. i'm not sure if i should take something. Sometimes i take advil cold and sinus. It usually helps and doesn't make me dead to the world like most other meds do.

I felt something earlier when it hurt to read lying down.

But now my eyes are all watery and my nose keeps dripping (very annoying). Oh well i guess i'll just lie down sort of half sitting up!

[Jennifer]

My niece is staying with her cousins and apparently has started calling their grandparents nanna and grandpa!

[Jane]

DR Jeanne, I couldn’t understand why you are still packing when the buyers had backed out.  I just discovered the post I missed

Last Monday my buyers withdrew their offer. Last Tuesday night they decided they want to buy my house after all. Let's just say this is a buyers' market and they are being bas---; uh, buyers. You would not believe how stupid and ridiculous this has become. Suffice to say that I am EXHAUSTED. I shall spare you my angst. Let's just say I am NOT in a good mood.

One week ago today I was a bit distracted with a wedding

CONGRATULATIONS!!! 

VIBES ALL GOES WELL BETWEEN NOW & YOUR CLOSING!!!!

BTW, when is your closing date?

[bk]

Actually, there are many good things about the 50s film version of 1984.  No, it's not the book or perfect, but I really like O'Brien and Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave is really excellent.  The score is very good, and I just have a fond place for it.  They used to show it regularly here on channel 9's Million Dollar Movie.

[MBarnum]

TOD:

Favorite reality (game shows) from this year:

THE AMAZING RACE

BIG BROTHER

SURVIVOR

Other favorite shows from this year:

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

LIFE ON MARS

THE OFFICE

[MBarnum]

The mail system must be a bit slow because of the weather as I got still more Christmas cards today....two from DRs....TCB and Rodzinski.

TCB your card is just fantastic and it is was wonderful to see the kitties...and the shot of you on the back of the card...what a cool idea!

Rodzinski's card came by way of Alabama!

[vixmom]

DR Vixmom, how many more chemo treatments do you have? Are you doing chemo and radiation at the same time?

Yes, we are doing them concurrently. Apparenlty the usual method is to runa  course of chem o and tehna course of radiation or vie versa, but they are treating this very aggressively as I am younger and healthier than the usual person who gets this disease.  Apparently the average patient is a male smoker between the ages of  65 - 80.

I am expected to do a total of three chemos, Monday will #2.  I have had a radiation treatment every weekday morning since December 9 (Christmas excepted) - I have the weekends to recuperate.

BTW I feel great again today except for a severe sore throat - I actually have been given a numbing agent for that but I am holding off for the nonce - I donlt want to throw any more drugs into me than I absolutely need and the throat is not so bad that I feel the need to numb it yet.


 

[Jane]

DR Vixmom it is so very nice to read you feel great except for the sore throat.  A severe sore throat isn't fun.  I'm impressed you are holding off on the numbing agent.  I would have thought it is a spray.  What form does it come in?

[vixmom]

Well I suppose I should go do some more Productive Things - chemo comes on Monday and I am expecting to be useless most of next week

Does this just knock you out to the extent that you spend most of your time sleeping, or can you concentrate enough to read?

Unfortumately last time I spent most of my time retching - they are planning on trying a new course of anti-nauseous meds on me this time so hopefully things will be a bit less tedious - last time I went from  Wednesday until Sunday without being able to keep anything in my stomach which caused the need for three emergencvy visists to the chemo oncologist for intravenous feeding and hydration.  Poor Vixdad and Vixter were besides themselves wqith worry - I was too weak and out of it to worry  or care.


This time I am hoping to be able to sleep and wactch some of my Christams presents.  I am particularly looking forward to the Monty Python boxed set to help keep all of our spirits high

[vixmom]

DR vixmom - So... What totally indulgent treat are you going to eat today? 

Carnation Instant Breakfast  in milk chocolate flavor and chocolate pudding - and probably one or two of Larry's Godiva chocolates

I consider it a blessing that the only flavor I can still tate is choclate - could you imagine if it was liver?!

[Jane]

DR Vixmom, it sounds like you are receiving good care. 

BIG TIME VIBES THE NEW ANIT-NAUSEOUS MEDS WORK!!!

[vixmom]

Next, I watched the new Ccentennial Edition of FUNNY FACE. Gorgeous from start to finish, and though I haven't done an A/B comparison yet (I was eager to get to the bonus stuff), I will do it tonight, but I suspect it is the same encode. Not a speck of dust or dirt anywhere and just one instance where the encode had trouble with the image (some flickering bloom in the whites of Audrey's wedding dress during the last moments of "He Loves and She Loves.")

The segment in Flostre's sitting room when Fred and Kay break in on Audrey and Emile was so astonishingly rich and sharp that it absolutely looked high definition. This is one film that will look stunning if Paramount would release it on Blu-ray.

 I meant to mention to you that one of my gifts from Vixdad was  photo history of AUdrey Hepburn - beautiful pictures

[vixmom]

DH Richard and I are going to start watching Cranford now.

 Another present I received from Vixdad (yes I was a bit spoiled this year thanks to the DDD sale)

[vixmom]

Here is my Dumb Question of the Day:

My brother gave me a flash drive card that works in my camera.  When I turn it on, it still shows that I only have space for 14 photos.

Do I have to do something so that my camera KNOWS it has more space?

 You might have to change the memory selection in your camera so it know to save to the card instead of to the camera

[Laura]

My sister will be getting one-half of the chemo for one cancer, then a month of weekday radiation for the other cancer; then the second half of the chemo for the first cancer. They said it would be too toxic to do it all at once. Different drugs, I guess.

[Laura]

I hope this second round of chemo is less taxing on you, Vixmom.

[Jane]

And different approaches for different situations.  Will your sister begin the treatments soon?

[vixmom]

Today, I had Lean Cuisine Chicken Parmesan with Spaghetti for lunch.

I will not make that mistake again.

It was pseudo-food.  It did not taste like chicken, or parmesan, or spaghetti.

*bleh*

It was cheap, I will admit.  But I am at a total loss to understand why anyone would make a regular habit of this kind of eating, other than that it is cheap and some people totally lack taste buds.

And yet, every time one of the various and freezedried brands of this sort comes on sale, there are people who insist on stocking up.

The entire situation is, shall we say, distasteful.

 

HEY!!! Don'0t make fun of the tastebud deprived, buddy!


 




Seriously thpough,  I suspect that most of the people who are eating that are using them for diets and for an easy and cheap lunch they can heat in the office microwave

[Laura]

New Year's Eve, Jane.

[vixmom]

DR Vixmom it is so very nice to read you feel great except for the sore throat.  A severe sore throat isn't fun.  I'm impressed you are holding off on the numbing agent.  I would have thought it is a spray.  What form does it come in?

It's a "cocktail" of three ingredients - I am saving it until I really need it

[JMK]

I actually very much like the Lean Cuisine Roasted Vegetable Pizza as well as the Spinach and Mushroom Pizza.

[vixmom]

The mail system must be a bit slow because of the weather as I got still more Christmas cards today....two from DRs....TCB and Rodzinski.

TCB your card is just fantastic and it is was wonderful to see the kitties...and the shot of you on the back of the card...what a cool idea!

Rodzinski's card came by way of Alabama!

TCB - I just received your card today as well - I loved it.  Thank you !!

That picture of you on the back is one of my favorite pictures of you and how I think of you



 

[Jane]

DR Vixmom it is so very nice to read you feel great except for the sore throat.  A severe sore throat isn't fun.  I'm impressed you are holding off on the numbing agent.  I would have thought it is a spray.  What form does it come in?

It's a "cocktail" of three ingredients - I am saving it until I really need it

Good idea.  Is there a less toxic spray you can use in the meantime?

[vixmom]

My sister will be getting one-half of the chemo for one cancer, then a month of weekday radiation for the other cancer; then the second half of the chemo for the first cancer. They said it would be too toxic to do it all at once. Different drugs, I guess.

probably - it might also be because it is a different type of cancer. Since the cancer is in my mouth and neck the radiation is pinpointed there and my internal organs are not exposed to it so I am sure that makes a great deal of difference.

[Jane]

Laura I suppose there will be plenty of people off of work on the 1st if she needs help.

[vixmom]

I hope this second round of chemo is less taxing on you, Vixmom.

Thank you - I must admit so am I ... at least this time we have a better idea of what to expect, so hopefully it will be a little less scary

[Jane]

My sister will be getting one-half of the chemo for one cancer, then a month of weekday radiation for the other cancer; then the second half of the chemo for the first cancer. They said it would be too toxic to do it all at once. Different drugs, I guess.

probably - it might also be because it is a different type of cancer. Since the cancer is in my mouth and neck the radiation is pinpointed there and my internal organs are not exposed to it so I am sure that makes a great deal of difference.

My friend who recently had brain surgery received a series of very intense radiation.  They could make it intense for the same reason.

[Kerry]

Keep up the good vibes , dear ones.

TOD yesterday:

  I watched "Pollyanna" with my aunt.  I had not seen since 1960 or so, and it was mighty powerful. very sweet, and not sappy.  Best of all, it didn't have that 60's/70's look that "period" films often did. 

My power has been out throughout most of the day, so I am just catching up (although I never really catch up).

[Jane]

Vixmom, maybe less scary but if you are that so it won't be more tolerable.  I'm praying you don't get that sick again.