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cmcgee
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response 106 of 257:
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Sep 2 22:05 UTC 2003 |
Haagen-Daz has the highest per oz calorie count of all the ice creams, and
is one of the best in terms of sticking to a few basic ingredients.
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dah
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response 107 of 257:
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Sep 2 22:19 UTC 2003 |
-60 calories?!
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tod
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response 108 of 257:
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Sep 2 22:58 UTC 2003 |
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dah
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response 109 of 257:
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Sep 3 00:21 UTC 2003 |
O< THAT"S H OW SHE GETS -60 calories! She's eating diohorrheeorrea inducers.
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klg
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response 110 of 257:
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Sep 3 01:14 UTC 2003 |
1. It seemed like the effects of chemo were cumulative. (Unlike grex,
it does not get easier.) And the women being treated for breast ca
generally appeared to be a lot healthier looking.
2. Did they not discuss inserting a "port" under the skin in your
chest?? It's a plastic gizmo that hooks up to your veins. The needle
for the chemo is inserted into the port and the medications flows right
into the veins. Reduces the danger of vein damage. Am surprised you
don't seem to know about it, esp. since you may have up to 8 cycles.
Mine was put in after the first tx, so I had it for the next 5. Was
glad it was there, even tho it felt kind of creepy and my dr. wouldn't
allow it to be removed for about 4 mos after the last one.
3. Did you ask about the risk of blood clots from inactivity???
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russ
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response 111 of 257:
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Sep 3 01:56 UTC 2003 |
Sindi, your new stereo sounds like an Aiwa (right down to the dead
CD player). There is a little button on the front of Aiwas called
"demo" that turns the attract mode off.
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anderyn
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response 112 of 257:
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Sep 3 02:38 UTC 2003 |
Glad to see you're home, Sindi.
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keesan
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response 113 of 257:
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Sep 3 03:02 UTC 2003 |
Yes it is an Aiwa. Jim just hit the 'demo' button and all the colored lights
went off, just in time to go to sleep in the dark. Thanks. Is/was this an
expensive model before the CD player died? It sounds good and can tune
Toledo. It wants Jim to set the time now.
I ate 1910 calories, probably enough to gain weight considering my activity
level. I am working hard at being able to sit up longer as I am sick of lying
on my back, but I run out of energy as well as muscle strength.
Just let my brother know I was in and out of hospital. I did not hear fro
him again after letting him know my diagnosis except he gave me his cell phone
number and vacation schedule. I have to get Jim signed up for medical power
of attorney real soon.
I am an idiot to stay up this late (``11 pm) but no garbage trucks tomorrow
and no blood draw at 7 or breakfast tray at 7:30.
Jim needs to open up the living room futon to a bed and then goodnight.
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dah
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response 114 of 257:
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Sep 3 03:08 UTC 2003 |
How neurotic.
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cross
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response 115 of 257:
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Sep 3 04:45 UTC 2003 |
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happyboy
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response 116 of 257:
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Sep 3 05:17 UTC 2003 |
re:115 tobacco companies laughed all the way to the bank about
cancer.
glad to hear you're home sindi
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gull
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response 117 of 257:
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Sep 3 12:43 UTC 2003 |
Re #116: I doubt it, actually. If they'd been able to find a way to
avoid it, they would have. Killing your customers is bad for business.
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anderyn
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response 118 of 257:
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Sep 3 12:56 UTC 2003 |
I have an Aiwa that I love -- it's at work. It wasn't hugely expensive...
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davel
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response 119 of 257:
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Sep 3 13:14 UTC 2003 |
Sindi, I'm really glad you're out of the hospital. (Not half so glad as you
are, I know.)
Which two stations did you mean? Where you are, you should probably be able
to get WKAR (90.5) & CBC (89.9) as well as WGTE, which you referred to. (Or
were those the two, and your other equipment won't get WGTE?)
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mynxcat
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response 120 of 257:
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Sep 3 19:01 UTC 2003 |
Sindi, I've been reading, though I haven't posted in this item before.
Good Luck! I hope you get all better, and I'm glad you're home. I
admire you more now, than I did before for your convictions.
resp 79:> Thought I spied edina in one of those pictures, but wasn't
sure till I saw the jp2 ones.
Sindi's set up at the hospital looked interesting. glad she had
something to do while she was there
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fitz
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response 121 of 257:
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Sep 3 19:30 UTC 2003 |
get well soon and get cured.
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arabella
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response 122 of 257:
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Sep 4 00:09 UTC 2003 |
Wow, what an ordeal, Sindi! Reminded me of Ken's stay in the Aspen
Hospital last year. But it's not a teaching hospital, so no crowds of
medical students there. I'm amazed at the stupidity of hospital food
sometimes. Everything is low-fat, even for people who need to gain
weight. Very silly.
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keesan
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response 123 of 257:
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Sep 4 00:31 UTC 2003 |
Even stupider to make all the vegetarian food full of hot pepper so people
won't add salt. I have never heard of a vegetarian (except a recent convert)
with high blood pressure.
Many thanks to all for your good wishes. Grex is something for me to look
forward to every day, and it is great for my back muscles now that I am making
myself sit at the computer (on a very padded surface).
I am getting all three classical stations but they sometimes fade out. Cheap
antenna. I seem to be part of the antenna. It even works in stereo. This
is great music week - Telemann, Vivaldi, Dvorak, Mozart, Beethoven. I have
been swishing my vile thrush treatment to music, for distraction.
Today I was not woken until the hospital called to let me know that no, I was
not supposed to wander into the hospital Friday and let them take blood with
a needle, I was supposed to go to the cancer center to use the PICC line, wait
for results, get the dressing changed, and see if my hemoglobin count had
fallen (which would require a transfusion). I feel okay.
I was supposed to have had a home visiting nurse yesterday to teach me (Jim
actually, I can't do it with one hand) to flush the picks (little green things
where the needles go in) on the PICC catheter. Today they called to set it
up. Then n a company called to report they were delivering flushing supplies
at 4 (they came at 3:15). A huge box with lots of paper stuff, months worth
of blunt needles and heparin solution to put in every day to keep the lines
open. A big pink thing to put the used needles in. Tape to go over the Saran
wrap on the PICC line when I shower. Jim saw the rest.
I get 20 home visits from my insurance each calendar year. Next week she will
teach Jim to change the dressing and I don't need her again but can ask her
to come. This is a very experienced hospital nurse who switched to visting
nurse two months ago as her husband has a bad heart and she can arrange her
schedule around him. He needs a transplant. I am lucky. He is only 40.
They have kids 9 and 10.
One of the translation companies where someone currently has breast cancer
and is doing radiation is sending me a surprise package which is not a
chocolate cake.
The autistic four year old from next door (his parents are both nurses and
will keep an eye on me while I am Jim's house) wants me to go upstairs to see
the red light he just put in. Next week.
Jim's friend and previous neighbor from 25 years ago, who started his own
company and sold it for a lot of money, asked me to list "all" the foods I
like and he will bring a basket. I have probably disappointed him by asking
for bread, cheese, cider and dried pears instead of chocolates and creamed
herring and everything else from the deli.
Jim brought in his first fallen grapes and pears (what the animals left).
Got to rest my back. I am eating real salad (a whole tomato and cucumber
instead of two slices of tomato).
Bye for today. Thanks to all. Baroque music!
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tod
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response 124 of 257:
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Sep 4 00:43 UTC 2003 |
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russ
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response 125 of 257:
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Sep 4 01:38 UTC 2003 |
In my experience, Aiwas are highly-promoted cheap junk.
(Ask the guy who's had the CD player fail on his, and then
heard tales of woe about the power controls failing on the
subwoofers.)
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keesan
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response 126 of 257:
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Sep 4 01:50 UTC 2003 |
Aiwas seems to be variable in quality. We have one really good quality
portable radio/tape deck Aiwa, some good small headphones, and this stereo
system, plus a cheap boombox that someone gave us as having a problem which
we cannot reproduce. Sony is also really variable in quality. Fisher used
to be good but has become junk (in the 80s anyway - we are a bit behind the
times in used stuff). This Aiwa just played Bach Magnificat and three
related pieces all evening. I like that. We don't have CDs. The radio works
fine. The tape deck is double and one side reverses then it switches to the
other side. It seemed like Dvorak was repeating a lot. Jim had put in two
Dvorak tapes. Toledo classical comes back at 6:30 pm. Maybe I can get the
insurance company to donate to them.
Jim is still fixing things for people. About phone calls today from a former
Ann Arborite, Chinese, now in Chicago. She is trying to figure out why her
car battery is not working - the battery or the circuit. It rained in.
Before that Jim tried to fix the plumbing long distance. They are selling
the house and her husband is going to be in charge of pagers in Beijing, with
a very large housing allowance for living 'overseas'. He was my housemate
in 1985, and cooked a lot of bland cabbage. He shared a room with someone who
cooked Szechuan. We would open the kitchen door to outside and try not to
breathe when walking through. When my first roommate's wife arived he forgot
how to cook. She is a superb cook. Offered to come cook for me for two days
if the house sold quickly. Everyone is trying to feed me.
Another call from a grexer whose new DVD player cannot be plugged into his
TV. It will go into a much older TV that Jim found at the curb, with
different connectors.
Yet another grexer and Jim are trying to make her computer work (via telephone
advice). He wanted to bike there (an overnight trip to Milan) but is sticking
around here instead for my sake. Her 1987 XT works for grex.
More Baroque music.
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jep
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response 127 of 257:
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Sep 4 02:41 UTC 2003 |
re resp:120 (re resp:79): Yes, Brooke and Jamie are in some of the
pictures on my picture site, http://jep.tonster.com. Look under the
picture of the scrambled egg.
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mynxcat
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response 128 of 257:
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Sep 4 16:34 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for the info. The scrambled egg looked really yummy
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keesan
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response 129 of 257:
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Sep 4 19:36 UTC 2003 |
I notified the Basic Linux group - started by someone in Australia who put
together a linux that would work well on a 486 DX2 66 with 16M RAM, and now
a large collaborative effort - why I had dropped out for a couple of months
and not switched to a speedy 166MHz pentium with a hard drive more than 125M.
I immediately heard from an English speaking group member living I think in
Spain (we have members in Singapore, a rather odd one in Hong Kong trying to
make things work in 4M RAM, Germans, a Pole took over the Slackware 3.5 branch
when the others updated to Slackware 7, a Czech, a French guy with his own
Linux also Slackware 7 based). He says he also went through the no sleep at
the hospital and the chemo and to remember thatthe end is in sight. Lots more
communications from the translator who just started radiation and needs to
treat it like sunburn (daily treatments for 2 months).
Jim made me a 500 calorie rice/beans/veg/dried mushroom lunch and is eating
four times what he gave me.
I have started notifying friends and relatives and should answer all those
unanswered letters. A Slovene friend is taking care of her sister who had
stomach cancer remove and is doing therapy - she will be surprised to find
outwhy I did not write for so long.
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tod
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response 130 of 257:
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Sep 4 19:52 UTC 2003 |
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