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21280. Ms. No - 3/5/2007 9:47:31 PM Yes, I've come off a time or two but never got much more than a sore bum from it. It was a freaky day for the horses apparently --- they were all acting up and you know how herd animals are, if one of them is freaking out all the others think they need to freak out too.
90% of the time her horse is a real peach, but he's just a baby and she's the first person to ever train him. When she got him about six months ago he'd only ever been ridden about 30 times and he's 4 years old. So, all in all, he's a dreamboat, but he does occasionally flip his lid.
21281. wabbit - 3/5/2007 11:22:42 PM That sounds like a horse I had when I was in high school. Green-broke at four and very full of himself, a real handful to ride. When you are 15 years old, you don't care. He used to escape from his pasture and meet me at the bus stop up the street after school. He was great, I loved him.
I haven't ridden in years and have been told I won't ride again (don't want to have to have the titanium knee repaired/replaced). I never fell off my own horses, amazingly enough, but have had a couple spills. Broken ribs, a couple concussions, some minor embarrassment, nothing too serious.
I miss horses. 21282. judithathome - 3/6/2007 12:13:37 AM This morning I was loading the dishwasher and Harley usually helps by getting up on the open door. I loaded it and put the soap in and closed it up, as usual. It was lucky for me I forgot to put the rice cooker lid in...when I reopened the door to put the lid into the dishwasher...HARLEY was inside!!! She was in the bottom of the washer, under the lower rack! Looking out at me....
I could have drowned her! 21283. Ms. No - 3/6/2007 1:02:47 AM Oh my goodness! That was a close call --- I wonder how eager Harley will be to help with the dishes in future. ;-> 21284. judithathome - 3/6/2007 4:05:37 PM She stayed across the room this morning. heh.
Hi, DJ!
(that's my sister...she lurks sometimes.) ;-) 21285. thoughtful - 3/6/2007 4:28:01 PM Mags, what a lovely couple. Congratulations!
Mom is coming along...they'll keep her an extra day though at this point as there's still more fluid around the lung than they'd like. But her pain is well controlled and she's been up and walking which is all to the good. Because she's ambulatory, she'll be able to go home, which is great, instead of heading to a nursing home for a week or so to recuperate. 21286. thoughtful - 3/6/2007 4:29:04 PM I went to doc yesterday and twisted his arm to get a chest x-ray. He says the odds of me having lung cancer at this point are extremely low, and I said, yeah, but I'm crazy, so make me happy. So I'll be getting one soon. 21287. thoughtful - 3/6/2007 4:30:17 PM Keeping harley out of the dishwasher is not only good for harley, but also good for keeping cat hair off your dishes. Blecch. 21288. wonkers2 - 3/6/2007 5:36:31 PM I didn't think chest X-Rays were very good at detecting early lung cancer. And too many of them aren't good for you either. 21289. Ms. No - 3/6/2007 8:25:53 PM Don't they have some kind of super-X-Ray/MRI/Voodoo Machine that scans your whole body now and tells you when you're going to get a wart on your left big toe? 21290. thoughtful - 3/6/2007 8:59:46 PM well the chest xray is a compromise...the fast cat scan is the best but it exposes you to a lot of xray...the chest xray will pick up a larger tumor, but it exposes you to a minimum of radiation.
21291. alistairConnor - 3/6/2007 9:07:47 PM Well I went to the ophthalmologist today, for the first time for about ten years, and the machine was pretty damn clever.
But she didn't really need the machine, she diagnosed me as I was coming in the door. Just a touch of myopia, which hasn't changed in ten years, plus a touch of presbyterianism (or whatever you call it in English), that starts at age 45 then gets worse until you're 60. 21292. judithathome - 3/6/2007 10:36:02 PM How could she diagnose you coming through the door, Ali...did you run into it? 21293. thoughtful - 3/7/2007 12:10:35 AM we call it presbyopia...a sign of age, for sure.
21294. thoughtful - 3/7/2007 12:12:31 AM Bad news
Mom has stage IIB lung cancer
5 yr survival rate of 23%
Apparently biopsy showed is spread to the pleura and there was some lymph node involvement.
This is a real, genuine, oh shit.
We'll get on the chemo merry go round and hope to keep her as hale and healthy as possible for as long as possible, but I'm afraid there's only one outcome, and it's not a good one.
Shit. 21295. robertjayb - 3/7/2007 12:33:09 AM Very sorry for your very bad news. 21296. wabbit - 3/7/2007 12:34:05 AM Oh, thoughtful, I am so sorry to hear this. I hope she does well with chemo and beats the odds. You have all my best wishes. 21297. arkymalarky - 3/7/2007 12:34:41 AM Oh my, Thoughtful. I'm so sorry. 21298. thoughtful - 3/7/2007 12:47:41 AM thanks guys. It'll be hard to live without my mother...no one in the world ever made me laugh like she did...
At least I have some warning so i can appreciate her all the more in the time we have left. 21299. arkymalarky - 3/7/2007 1:40:56 AM I hope you two get to spend a whole lot of time together.
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