Breathe. I was in your almost exact position in February. My husband is very supportive, but he was in Africa. I had to wait 6 weeks between the initial follow up mammogram/ABUS after the suspicious regular mammo and my biopsy. Same thing, multiple spots and dense breasts. It turned out to be nothing. But yes, so hard to not to try and make plans for the worst possible outcome. I did do that believe me. But if you can, try to find some things to pass the time that you enjoy doing to keep your mind off of it. You will not have to ask all of your questions on the day of the results, nor will they have all the answers anyway. Try to breathe. It is so hard. I know. But to encourage you, my sister went through the exact same thing about the same time as me. I have sense found the same from a couple of other women. So, I am not sure if something is affecting the results: Covid stuff or just better technology so able to see stuff and with us being high risk our doctors are so much more vigilant for every little thing. Prayers. It is hard. Try to breathe.

Janeway, so glad for your good news. Now, just to share our experience. All brain injuries take a LONG time to recover. A LONG time. Please don't quote: edited for privacy. . But you can help your son to be gentle with himself as he recovers. My husband was not prepared and really beat himself up in the first year when he couldn't do what he used to be able to do. He felt like a wimp. Help your son to give himself some grace as he recovers. And again, congratulations for the great news!

On my dad's side, No. They were Swedish immigrants in the late 1800's. Now my mom's side, directly, no. They were very poor in Louisiana. However, in some of the more distant relations, yes, I think one person owned four slaves. I don't know very much information other than it is in some of my genealogy info my grandmother did on that. But she has it all the way back to the revolutionary war and only one of those in the very distant related offshoots did so.

Praying!

We are eating there tomorrow!!

Honestly, if we were not here for my daughter's performances, I doubt I would have gone out at all at home. I will because we are here, but somehow I doubt I will find it "transcendent," but who knows. But yeah, it is just a part of nature. I totally understand.

LOL, yeah you are obviously a more sedate sleeper than I am. I have trouble sometimes keeping certain elastics on the bed. I would have no sheets on my bed if I tried to do that. I don't see how they would stay put in any way, shape or form. That said, I have always discarded whole sheet sets and have never had a bottom wear out before the top

We made it to Mounds State Park in Indiana on yesterday. The timing worked out well as my daughter's senior showcase is tonight and her senior recital is Sunday. It was so funny when I made the reservations 6 months ago or whenever it opened, I was going to leave on Monday like we normally do. However, it wouldn't let me. We had to stay through Tuesday because of the eclipse, which I hadn't even realized was the same weekend. Makes sense. It just wasn't on my radar when I made the reservation. So we are staying through Tuesday. I think we are getting nearly 4 minutes of the total eclipse here. So it really worked out well.

I guess I don't understand. The fitted sheet has elastic on it that keeps it on the bed, a top sheet does not. So I mean, I guess you could use the top sheet as a fitted sheet, but it has no elastic to keep it on. Plus, they wouldn't be the same color/match. Typically fitted sheets and top sheet sets are the same color.

Yeah, no it isn't. I don't think any of our banks in town do it...

Because they are in one of our two safes...the one we never open or go into. The last time I thought about them was when my dad died and I had to divide his with my sister and we had to sign them and mail them back to get them issued in our name. Then we checked into what they were worth and when they would mature as well as the ones we bought from1990- I'm honestly not sure, at least 1995 and maybe until 1997 or so. At some point we stopped. And I never thought about them again. To my mind, they are just emergency money. But yes, now that we have thought about it, we will dive into the safe at some point and uncover the little safe and get them out. I only thought about them because of this thread.

Well with my K cup machine, I have a reusable filter. I do occasionally buy some already done, mainly for company. But I have a couple of bags and brands and flavors of coffee that I just put in the reusable K cup. They also have different sizes of brewing, so to top off your coffee, you could do 6 ounces or something. Just saying that a K machine doesn't have to be "wasteful."

I don't see any way the IRS or the taxpayer could keep up with it. See my addition I added... Like really, there is no way to keep track of all of this. If they accountant says what you say is true, then we will probably just start redeeming them each year they are due and paying the taxes. We will not go back to the ones from 2020-2022. Our estate can handle it after we die. It shouldn't trigger anything if you don't cash them. But really, if this is true, that is an absolutely confusing way to do and most people are like us. We were just going to keep them in the safe until we died unless it was a true emergency.

Ok then you shouldn't have to report it until you redeem them then. Otherwise, how would they be able to track it... So confusing. If what you say is true, I bet most people do it incorrectly and most never go back and refile. They just put it on the current one they file because that is when they got the money. But my husband is going to ask our accountant, and if we do...ughh. it would be a royal pain. We have a lot. We had money automatically taken out of our account every month for them and so did my dad.

Ok I found this: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/tax-information-ee-i-bonds/ It is still somewhat confusing because if you have paper, then it looks like whoever has them, should send the 1099 to you.... But it also kind of looks like if you waited until you get paid. Well, technically, I don't get paid for them until I cash them and we haven't cashed them. Very confusing and we are pretty savvy, and I had no clue.

Interesting, because it also you should get a 1099 INT for it if it is cashed out or matures. Huh... I didn't know this and ours are about to or already have matured... If we stared buying 30 year bonds when we got married and for the first 5 years or so of our marriage, that means some of them started maturing in 2020... But we have never gotten a 1099 for any of them. I also inherited a ton from my dad when he died and yes, we transferred the name on them. So, let me know what you find out. May shoot an email to our accountant.

Yeah contact the school as it sometimes appears that way, but isn't that way. I am not sure how our accountant handled it to be honest. But we counted it for the semester it paid for.

Many times things may not be available locally. For example, we hand out toothpaste at the hospital as part of a hygiene pack and I didn't get enough donations. We could find maybe 50 locally ( I hand out 300 or more a trip.)

This. So much this. I quit asking for donations because, yeah it was get rid of junk. You need shampoo, let me give you a half used bottle from the hotel. I now share the items on Amazon. So, so, so much easier. Not you. Just people.

Yes, just a couple of months ago. Mine was very, very small and very deep. They said before they started that they didn't know if they would be able to see it on the U/S. They couldn't. They probably would have just waited 6 months, but with my family history they did a biopsy. it was nothing. But I am on a schedule that I do both a mammogram and A/s and then six months later I do a breast MRI, then six months later mammogram and A/S. I guess for the rest of my life or until they finally find cancer. edited to add, that is my schedule. Accidentally put not.

We normally stop a lot on the RV trips. However, will be extra careful on the long plane trips to Kenya. Kind of feels like damned if you do and damned if you don't. Thank you for the heads up.

Well, I mean I have only been on the letrozole for 3 weeks and I have been waking up early for much longer than that. I had one a couple of years ago and have Osteopenia in one hip, I think. I don't remember. So I take calcium. Yeah, I hate meds period and we discussed this for over a year before I decided to take it. I have like a 24 percent or something like that chance of getting breast cancer and this knocks it down to 7 or 8 percent. All of my docs think I should take it. The last straw was the man who is our best man who is a gynecology oncologist and he really thought I should take it as well. So I gave in...

Uggh. Add this to the list of things I wouldn't have heard of it were not for this board.... So sad...

LOL.. stay up later...haha. I am normally in bed by 9pm and asleep by 9:30 for sure. I just wake up several times, normally getting up about 4. No alarm for a decade now. According to my apple watch I get around 6 hours to 6 1/2 hours most nights. That said, I believe it completely overestimates how much sleep I get. It will often try to count my watching a movie with my husband as sleeping when I know I am awake. I have no allergies at all. They really affect my husband, my son, and my daughter, but the pollen doesn't affect me at all. Edited to add, looked at the auto sleep app and it says I've gotten 4 hours to 5 1/2 hours a night this week. Nothing near 6. So that is probably why. Don't know how to fix that, though.

I would kill for your triglyceride numbers. Mine have never, ever been that low. This time it is 383. But my HDL is 44 and my LDL is 100. LOL.