I am just able to sit uo with the help of a nursr,,, but this is a great improvement.I am able ti get online occassionally and have my Kindle,  Does anyone know a must read book?

I xpect to go into rehab within yhe next week.  Looks like a nice enough place.   After that I need to get my house sold and move into temp rehab type of place until my sister and I MOVE TOGETHER,  I will probably be in wheelchairtkme willing.  Will turn again to taking that first chemo i did.

also, (my decision), according to health and outcome, i may or may not take the chemo.

hope to hear more from you here.

watch for me in dancing with the stars.  =}



Siri*luv ya all*

I'm in the hospital again.  Complications in recovery from the gall bladder surgery.  I've been here 11 days, using tubes to assist my digestion.  Working to 'retire' the tubes as soon as possible so I can leave the hospital.  I don't know whether I'll be going home or to a rehab facility.  Haven't been able to eat or drink anything since coming into the hospital except sips of water and ice chips.  Can't wait for my first real fivebucks latte!  Love everyone of you.  Know that you are all extremely important to me and I appreciate and enjoy all our time online even though I don't get here as often as I'd like.  Thanks to my friend Karen for typing this for me.

I am up getting ready for Easter Mass.  So happy to feel well enough to do that. 

Am taking a new supplement that has been used along with chemo in europe for several years and is just now making it across the pond to the US.  It is being used along with chemo at Sloan Kettering and Cancer Centers of America .  Called Avemar...It is supposed to help breast cancer and colon cancer especially. I am intyerested to see if it will help me.

Still waiting for warm weather...  We are in our rainy season, and are having the wettest April on record. 

Not too much news.... Hope yall are doing well.

omg.... I can't believe how long its been since i've been on here.  It used to be my home.

Stil;;l trying to get well enough to work at the computer....Getting better all the time.   The doc is giving me an extra week off chemo to get better....woooooo hoooooo. 

We found a bit of cancer under the breast bone.  It is growing, but slowly.  Another CT scan in January.... when we will make a decision on treatment.  Until then, chemo as usual... with that break.  I am still a wonder.  It is rare that someone gets through the cancer I have.

I am going to fly to Florida for Christmas.  Really looking forward to that.  I have a new niece.

I was able to work a bit on my stories a few weeks ago.  I am hoping, with the time off chemo, I'll be able to work alot more.  I really miss writing.


And I really miss all y'all.  I always knew I had it good when the sites were active and i could keep in touch with y'all. 

Miss ya
Siri

am not feeling too well lately.  am in the middle of chemo again. 

We had over 5 inches of rain overnight about a week ago. water has subsided. the house is safe. a good reason not to have a basement here. don't have to worry about pumping out water.

got the results of my CT scan. The shadows in my lungs (from my PET scan) were accurate. I have two cancerous nodes in my lungs. They are very small and will be treated with the current chemo. As of now, no change to any meds. Will get a new CT scan in a few months to see if it is growing or not.

but all is ok. i can easily deal with this. and i am looking for breakthroughs in my cancer. look at what they have done for breast and prostate cancer in the last few years.

*hugs*

got this from bandofsisters. 

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Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either.

BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average.
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (also read  Bored with the Rings) 
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
6 The Bible
- in protestant and catholic versions... also the essene gospels, etc..and other religious books.. ie st francis, the gita and portions of the koran..
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (haveread much of it, but he was prolific.  
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (hate it)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (hate it)
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams – the whole series
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll  (have memorized much of it)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (read entire series many times.  read to my students)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (again?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding dunnot like this book)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - read alot of his books
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (have it)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - (in french and english) 
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in french first, then english
- luv it
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo




i read 42  of the 100.  this doesn't include the fact that many nof these are more than one book.  for example.... i read all 7 potter, but counted as one....read all 6 narnia, yet counted as one. thought the list should include hesse or kafka or vonnegut.  hesse was my fave when in high school and i luv vonnegut.

i am late with this, but wanted to post. just google it if you want more info. I am a member of ONE... have been for a long time. they have a multitude of projects. one is getting clean water to all. i know that this year, haiti is added to those places in great need.

i am doing well today. was able to keep a muffin down, without much upset. the doc is giving me an extra week off so that i might be well enough to go out on easter. have a beautiful black and white daisy print dress with a yellow linen jacket.... so retro.

I am smiling, just thinking of y'all. hope you are doing well. one of these days, i'll win the lottery and be able to travel a bit and visit you.

one of my good friends is moving from indy to north carolina. i will really miss her, but am very happy. she will be living with her daughter and grand kids.

and i promise to get some writing in. chemo was rough this time and i am just now able to sit for more than 2 or 3 minutes. but everything is great. know how important you are to me.

*hugs*

I am feeling upbeat today. Everything feels new and beautiful. Spring is around the corner.

Am using my new notebook, as my old computer is fried.... literally. lol Love being able to sit on the settee and type. Will be able to get online more often this way. Can also type my stories while I am at the cancer center getting chemo. There is no internet there, but they are concidering.

My good friend Karen took me to the flower and patio show today. This is a huge showing of gardens, etc. This year, some of the gardens were themed.

The themed gardens were:
- Dr. Seuss
- Harry Potter
- Alice in Wonderland
- Huckleberry Finn
- Lord of the rings
- others that i don't remember

I wanted to take the Alice in wonderland one home.

Karen rolled me around in a wheelchair. It was really a new experience for me. I kept wanting to take control of the steering.

Had a wonderful time with Howler(magic muggle) a while back. Tried to hide her suitcase, but she found it and now is back in the cold north. Also met Painthorse. He is a great guy, but don't tell him I said so.

BandOSis...I left a comment on your page.

Jamie, I promise to try to write on Monday, when at chemo. Can you give me the AWDT prompt? Thanks.

Hugs to all. Know I am thinking of you all.

Siri

i did not have chemo today. my counts were way off and the doc wants to get them better and give my body a bit of a rest, my temp was 96.3 and hemogloben, red cells and platelets askew.

So I had infusion of iron and major 'push' of benedril. Hated the latter. Closed my eyes (when listening to Elton on the ipod) and there were floating... pulsing psycho paisley shapes. I am trying to get things together, and they give me a trip. I am tanking right now..so who knows what will happen. A friend (Karen) came from 30 miles north to stay the night.


Next chemo will be 11 jan. I need the time to detox after my treatments.

Luv to all. Couldn't do it without you.

Wishing peace and great joy to each of you.