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My grandson was playing with the Magnatiles at two. There’s no small parts, either. 😎

It’s so good to hear that you’re breathing easier!
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Colleen and Lea,

I have dry eyes also. My optometrist put plugs in both of my eyes. I still use drops but I have noticed a difference since getting plugs placed in my eyes.

Colleen, I hope you get relief soon.

Lea,

Where is your pooch? Is she in your lap or by your side? She sounds so lovable! I have no doubt that she knows that you are not yourself these days. Dogs are so intuitive.
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Acidophilus is a probiotic, is it different than other types? I use it but during that Stomach/intestinal thing I had back in Sept it tore my stomach up. YD has IBS and can't use probiotics for that reason.

Well, 40 and rainy here in SWJersey. I guess better than snow the North part of the State is suppose to get. My Daffodils are coming up and I tell them its too soon. They are hardy flowers, though. They just keep multiplying. DH planted them in rows, didn't work, they multiplied and now are clumps.

I have sent a prayer up to have your pain eased. I see things areca little better today. Again, have a Blessed Day.
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JoAnn....duh to me, I guess acidophilus IS a probiotic! 😂 Betcha can't guess where it came from? I sure didn't!

Lactobacillus acidophilus
Bacteria

Lactobacillus acidophilus is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive, homofermentative, anaerobic microbe first isolated from infant feces in the year 1900. 

Isolated from infant feces? 😑

My chronic dry eye condition was cured using the 2 eyedops in each eye every hour on the hour program for about 2 months.

Colleen, good to know about the Magnatiles being good for your 2 year old g/s. I'll head over to Amazon where I can shop (for now) from my recliner.
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Just a comment on the Magnatiles. They are great fun to play with BUT if your grandson puts things in his mouth, this is not a safe toy for him. There are many stories online of children swallowing the magnets and having major medical problems. Just something to consider.

Praying for you daily, checking in every evening.
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GG,
EEEEk, thanks for the heads-up!

NHWM, I also have the tiny plugs. They help somewhat, but I'm a crazy case!

LL1, praying for you this morning. May God make his love for you clearly abundant today.
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Scripture du jour:

"Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family."

- Proverbs 18:24 (The Message)

LL, thanks for sticking to this forum and sharing your difficult journey with incredible transparency and raw honesty!
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Just checking in. DH went out golfing, yep it was in the 30s when he left. I asked him why after years of not golfing in the Winter months, this year its a good idea. DH said the guys say its better than sitting home. I think its because the dues have gone up again and they have to be paid even in the Winter months. So, I am here enjoying the peace and quite.

Have a blessed day

JoAnn
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Last night quickly disintegrated into a giant nausea fest accompanied by an odd dizzy feeling I'd just gotten off of an amusement ride; shaky, wobbly, off balance. I could barely eat dinner but forced myself to. The high level nausea stayed with me all night long and had me taking Zofran for some relief. I was ultra thirsty all night too which kept me awake and going back and forth to the bathroom but still constipated. I can't get ahead of that issue no matter WTH I do. This morning I'm wiped out, thirsty, off balance again and just exhausted. The 3-5-8 breathing method kept the nausea somewhat controlled in between Zofrans, but Lord, too much to heap on my already full plate playing Whack-A-Mole with these side effects. Staying in bed today and praying for some relief with ALL of this.

JoAnn, leave it to a man to go play golf in ski jacket weather, come home likely miserable, but hey, WE'RE TOUGH GUYS. Enjoy your alone time.

I got an email from my dermatologist saying I needed to get in for him to do a visual body scan of my beauty marks and moles! 18 months AFTER the original one was removed, causing me all this chaos. I was LIVID when I read that and wrote back saying so. No protocols in place to follow up with patients who have had surgery to see if the melanoma went systemic bc "there's a 95% success rate with it", meaning if 500 patients come in yearly for a malignant melanoma to be removed, 25 patients WILL develop metastatic disease! So I get a phone call from this PAs nurse, of course.....throw her the dirty work and stay hiding out under your desk, coward. She informed me I SHOULD'VE had full body visual scans every 3 months for the first year, and every 6 months for year 2! I had ONE! IN TOTAL! She agreed how ludicrous it is to have no procedure in place like an ultrasound or similar, to check for metastasis at least for the first year or 2. All of us poor slob 5%ers just get to suck eggs, I guess. If these stupid insurance companies were to look at how much it's costing them to treat the 5%ers vs how much it would cost them to do PREVENTATIVE testing, they'd be gobsmacked at how much they're losing. As if human lives should be measured in dollars and cents anyway. But that's all they understand, profits. 😑 ALL of this could've been treated immediately with an ultrasound of my left armpit bc it's a fact that's where melanoma first travels to after surgery on the left arm. Instead of waiting till I became symptomatic bc by then, the cancer was in my bones, spine, lymph nodes and worst in my liver, the biggest organ in the human body. Sad. DD is so enraged she's calling a lawyer for their opinion about negligence in this case. If a lawsuit would stop ONE more person from going thru this, or force insurance companies to establish protocols for testing post surgery, it'd be a great thing. All I was told after the surgery was, " you're fine, we got ALL the cancer, you're done, bye bye & have a nice day." No talk about 5%, or what to watch for, nothing.

I'm going to try to sleep now after I drink another bottle of water.
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Lea,

I’m so sorry that you had such a horrible night. This morning doesn’t sound much better. I hope that you are able to get some rest and feel better afterwards.

Will say an extra prayer for you.
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Lealonnie, you are so brave to come on here as much as you do to share your very hard journey with us.
I just hate that you're having all these horrible side effects, but hoping it will all be worth it in the end.
And if you filing a lawsuit could save even one person from having to go through what you are it would be worth it for sure.
I know I don't post often, though I follow your post daily, but please know that I lift you and Chuck up every day in prayer and am still believing for a miracle.
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Lea,

Alva is having problems with the site bigtime. She talks about it on the "On my mind" discussion. The Administrator finally contacted her and has no idea what is going on. For now Alva is going to take a hiatus from the group.

I tried to PM you but when I get in it does not give me the option to post. She wants to keep in touch with you and I have info but don't want to post it here. And my Profile is down. Do you have any suggestions? The only one I have is to give u an old email of mine.
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Lea,

Seems I now have my profile back but yours doesn't seem to allow messaging.
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Lealonnie, I received a pm from Bandy saying that because of the issues Aging Care is having that she hasn't been able to post as of late and she didn't want you to think that she had abandoned you. She is sorry to hear that you're having such a tough time and like me is keeping you lifted up in prayer.
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JoAnn I will turn my disabled message feature back on for now and contact Alva too. It's too bad this site is continually dysfunctional and admins "have no idea what's going on." Betcha if they hired a competent IT team, they would have an idea of what's going on. 🙄

Funky and NHWM, I'm feeling better this afternoon thank God. I've lost my taste for COFFEE which is insane, after being a pot a day drinker my whole life. Also all foods taste extremely salty to me now, but not sweet tasting foods. So its become tough for me to eat. I found a Premiere Protein choc shake in the fridge that Chuck was drinking after his t/p, 32 gms of protein in each 8 oz container and 1 gm of sugar, just 160 calories though. I'll go order more of them bc they're easy on my stomach and don't taste salty. Tonight I'll have a fruit smoothie made w Muscle Milk protein powder which is high calorie, unlike Premiere. The thought of drinking meals appeals to me especially since I'm totally parched all the time. And no nausea from the shake, thankfully. I still have that woozy feeling of just having come off a ride, though. Which actually started right after the 2nd infusion last Thurs.
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I am fixed, Lea. I need a social media vaca now, but not from YOU. I will be here daily to check on you. I don't want you to have to reach out to me any other way but here. You are doing enough on media with all you are dealing with. I will come here every day, and if I am not here there will be a good reason. So relieved you are hanging in there s/p your second treatment.
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Alva, I just PMed you and my messages are back up, at least for now. Ty for sticking with me. 😍
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Lea,

I am glad that you are feeling a bit better.

Yes, order the shakes if that is the only thing that you can tolerate right now. It doesn’t sound like you will be able to eat anything just yet. I am sorry that your stomach and taste buds are out of whack for the time being.

I know that you need the nutrients but I certainly understand how you wouldn’t want to eat anything that will make you feel worse. Yuck!

Do those shakes serve as a complete meal?

I know what you mean about coffee. I love my coffee too. The only time I didn’t drink it was during my pregnancy. What about hot tea or are you not a tea drinker?
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Sams has good prices on PP, MY hubs is drinking while awaiting his mouth surgury to get done! Maybe someone can go get you some quicker!
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Thanks Pam. Costco carries them too and 2 of our kids have memberships.

NHWM, in my book, anything w 32 gms of protein And 1 gm of sugar constitutes a "complete meal". Who's in charge of making such statements these days anyway, what nincompoop has been appointed to tell us what we s/b eating? The liars who load foods down w sugar and call it healthy? Bill Gates maybe, who's buying up all the farmland in the country to put cattle farmers out of biz bc he's decided meat is now "unhealthy" but insects and Impossible Burgers are? Fake meat is ground up junk food. Humans have been eating meat since caveman days, but read up on how healthy cookies and sugared cereal is these days, given higher points in nutritional value than a chicken breast! Everyone has an agenda and a narrative about what constitutes "healthy eating" which is all lies. I determine what I eat based on how it makes me feel. J/S
I do miss my coffee even though I can't stomach it. Never was a tea drinker but ginger lemon is good for nausea. Got to see if I can find it in the pantry!
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Lea,

Yes, one week something is reportedly bad, the next week it’s good again! I still can’t figure out what “they” consider proper nutrition. It’s confusing.

I’m going to eat eggs! LOL 😆 Some people say yes, others say no. I like eggs and I am going to eat them.

I never know what to believe. It’s sort of like our weather. We tell people that if they don’t like it, they can stick around because in twenty minutes it will change again!

The thing that gets to me about eating meat lately is some people try to push their preferences on their pets!

I went to buy my grand pooch dog treats last week in the pet store by me for when he stays at our house. We watch him when my daughter goes out of town.

The woman who owns the store proudly told me that she sells ‘vegan and vegetarian’ dog food! I almost laughed out loud but refrained from being rude.

Really??? Are there vegetarian dogs in this world?
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LL1,

Back in the early days of my health issues, my nausea was so bad, I ended up in the ER whole bunch of times.

FINALLY, a doc had mercy on me and gave me some Ativan. It was the ONLY thing that worked. (He said that it is sometimes given to cancer patients, who get so nauseous from chemo.) Sometimes, a half, or even a quarter of one helped. Zofran NEVER did.

Soo, hypothetically, if you have some kicking around…

Praying for some relief for you, tonight.
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Good to know Colleen. No, I have no Ativan on hand. Oddly enough though, I had 1/2 a Xanax left and I took it this morning.......it did help me relax and sleep, and I woke up with much less nausea. Thanks for the heads up. It's too bad you went thru such grief w nausea during your health crisis. It's a really horrible thing to experience. My oncologist said it's likely coming from the liver cancer. So in my mind, I'm seeing all those tumors and lesions in my liver shrinking up from the immunotherapy and causing me this nausea. Thankfully the Zofran does help for a little while at least, but I'll ask Dr C about Ativan in 2 weeks.

NHWM my vet said people are treating their dogs like humans lately (shocking...not) and making them sick! I was feeding Honey some of that Pet Fresh when she was sick and the vet nixed it. Told me to go back to the lamb Science Diet which now has been villainized due to being "hard brown pellets" which has been notoriously good for dogs until the niche market snuck in to make US feel like bad pet parents. The one thing I like to buy Honey is NoHide chews. No rawhide in them so easy to digest. She loves them, but they're expensive.
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Lea,

My daughter just bought some of those bones because the rawhide ones are supposed to be bad. They are very expensive!

Yes, dogs are being humanized! It is hard not to spoil them but some people do go a bit overboard.

Have you noticed how several restaurants are calling themselves ‘dog’ friendly because they are allowed to be guests on the patios. They place bowls of water out for them and hand out treats to them.
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Lea: I am so sorry that you had such a horrible night. Prayers and hugs, dear lady.
For nausea, you may want to get some "tummy drops" from Amazon. Made with peppermint, I always keep some on hand. They do work! My DH and I have had to use them from time to time.
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Lea, so very sorry you are having the nausea thing. It was what I had the most problem with when I took chemo and the goofy thing was I never upchucked, just felt nauseated and had bad taste in my mouth. Experienced that again when I got diverticulitis and had to take a 10 day course of cipro (which I always tolerated great, but which has moved onto the "fear list" with drugs, AND flagyl. That latter one kept me so nauseated I almost could not swallow it at one point. A great way to lose a lot of weight fast, but that combo surely did wipe out the diverticulitis. So I hope the same thing is happening for you.
The vet is sure right in that we humanize our dogs, but I guess in a lot of instances they are more loving than our humans, hee hee. I don't know about those diets that are fresh meats. When you think of it it is a dog's natural diet in the wild, and there ARE wild dogs. They basically are carnivores, not omnivores. Just look at those teeth. I do think we have genertically changed them now to the point they don't tolerate it, the meat that is. I think they often can't tolerate our wheat as it is grown now to be more seed than plant, and lots of allergies come from it. When I had dogs with wheat allergies they thrived on Natural Balance Limited ingredients. Yike, expensive today as our Jeffrey, our co-foster, is on it.
Hang in there and I will check in evening to hope the nausea is a bit abated. Don't wait to get what you need from your MD. He/she is aware that with what you are dealing with, you aren't a hypochondriacal whiner. You should have what you need for nausea and pain and should call when it isn't working for a few days.
Thinking about you so much. By the way, I consider eggs nature's perfect food. No matter what this or that or the most current studies say.
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Lea,

I was just thinking about you and I googled ‘dime’ on a whim.

Did you know that there is a perfume called Dime? It has a lot of positive reviews.

I have never heard of this brand before, maybe you have. Every time I see a dime now, I say an extra prayer for you.

Sending many hugs your way today and hoping that you won’t be in too much discomfort from the side effects of your recent treatment.
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Lea,

Finding Dimes: A Journey of Faith, Hope and Prayer.

Maureen McCormick McHugh is the author who lives in Long Island, NY.


Dimes from Heaven

Monica Morrissey is the author and finds dimes from her father.


The Impact of a Dime

Gerarldine Morgan


The Meaning of Finding Coins: Messages and Spiritual Insights

Kimberly Ahri
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After another night of being woken up by nausea, I called the oncology nurse. Zofran CAUSES constipation as it turns out, and I've been taking too much of it. She is asking Dr C to okay Ativan which she agrees with you Colleen is an excellent way to combat nausea AND relax at the same time, especially helpful for pediatric oncology patients, she said. I'm to take Miralax morning and night now 😑 along with the milk of mag I've been taking, and add senna if necessary. Perhaps my new lifestyle will be sitting on the toilet instead of the bed/recliner. The dizziness needs to get better soon or they'll have to "look into it" whatever that means. I think I have a giant Catch 22 going on, personally......constipation causing nausea and full feeling where I can't eat, etc. God give me strength. Today the mild rash is back on my legs. Welcome to the crazy house 😐 is all I have to say. The nurse sees no side effects for chronic cotton mouth or unquenchable thirst, so I told her to call me before they write a new handout so I can add all sorts of new side effects to the list 🙄

NHWM, fascinating that books have been written on the subject of finding dimes! I had no idea, ty for that info.

Alva, idk about Cipro being on a 'fear' list, but I do know it's super strong and poorly tolerated by many, including my late mother. Cipro is like killing a fly w an elephant gun in many instances and should be reserved, imo, for strong infections only and as a last resort. I haven't thrown up either but boy howdy, I wish I would have a few times. As far as eggs go, i detest them. Mom forced me to eat a soft boiled egg w white bread torn up in it (and shells too) every day of my life till i was 13. When i was 13, i said NOT ONE MORE EGG WILL EVER CROSS MY LIPS AGAIN. Just the thought of that is making me feel like hurling. Which is too bad bc an egg is the perfect food, aside from the cost.

Llama, Amazon said I have to take a break from ordering or they'll have to assign a truck just for me! 😂🤣 J/k.....its my debit card issuing me the warning. I'm hoping the Ativan (and a good POOP) cures this nausea w/o the need to look for further cures. But if not, I'll order those tummy drops.

I'm venturing into the shower now and sitting on the tile bench in there so if the dizziness acts up, I won't fall. Chuck dragged a walker out of the garage last night to put next to my bed which was a bigger TRIP HAZARD than 4 unrubberized throw rugs on a freshly waxed hardwood floor! Men. He's pretty deaf as it is, wears a Bluetooth earpiece that cuts off hearing in one ear entirely, so if I'm screaming for help, he'd never know it. I have to CALL him on the phone to get a response. Meaning, if I fall off the toilet, I'll lay there all night! Yay.
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Lea,

My word, Zofran helps with one thing and hurts another. What a frustrating situation!

I’m with you and Colleen, you may as well go with the Ativan. Hope that you get relief soon. You’ve been miserable for too long.

My husband loves soft boiled eggs with toast torn up in them, but no shells tossed in! LOL, sounds gross 🤮 to me. He eats eggs prepared other ways too.

I do like eggs. I am glad that my mom didn’t make us eat things that we didn’t like growing up. She encouraged us to taste it but if we didn’t like something she never forced us to eat it.

The nuns were not so nice at my school. They made us eat everything on our plate or we were punished. There were a few times that I chose to skip recess for punishment over eating nasty food.

I took lunch to school most of the time to avoid having to eat yucky food or giving up my recess.
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