I’m so glad your news was good! And I’m sorry about your lack of support. I’m another survivor boardie and if you ever need some virtual support, you’re welcome to PM me anytime. I’m not on here during the workday, but I will absolutely respond to a PM. I am a five-year survivor and that feels great. When I was waiting for my results, I was wig-shopping. I’m not even kidding! I’m pretty vain about my hair TBH and I didn’t half care what happened to my B00Ks, I just wanted to still have pretty hair. In the end, I kept my B00ks and my hair; left girl just has a pucker scar where they scooped it out. I had radiation but not chemo. Tumor evaluation has come a long way in the past decade and my docs were able to pinpoint my need for chemo much more precisely than was the case just five years earlier when my mom had it. Also, I’m not saying this would be the case for you, but for me, my diagnosis slapped some sense into my dh. I think he realized I may not actually be there forever. Some things in my marriage got better after going through that. So that is another possible outcome.

As a former Whirlpool Calypso owner (similar design), I could not agree more.

I still love my Speed Queen. I hope I never have to buy any other kind of washer for the rest of my life. I first had a horrible Whirlpool Calypso (worst design ever) and replaced it in five years with a Maytag that lasted only a few years more. Then I got my SQ in Dec 2015. It still rocks my socks! I never have had a single issue with it ever. And mine is in an upstairs laundry room on a tile floor. Never had a single problem.

Please, do continue to “talk to yourself”. I love seeing women who continue to make goals and accomplish them. It’s inspiring! I have been continuing to section-hike the Appalachian Trail with my hiking buddies. At the end of our most-recent section, we asked a bystander to take our picture. We got into a conversation with her; she is also section-hiking the AT. I would guesstimate she is early-to-mid 60s, said she started hiking when she retired after never having hiked before, which coincided with Covid shut-downs, and that her hiking posse has completed more than 500 miles. It was so cool! One of my big kids is moving back home end of this month, so I need to clean some things out. He plans to move into the room that was our hs room, which ends up being a good motivator for me to truly and for real finish giving my old materials and books new life with someone else. Dh and I are going with friends on a trip abroad next month, so lots of details to finalize for that. I need to get cracking today because next weekend is a two-day hike and those eat up my whole weekend; I don’t come home from them ready to tackle anything! Actually, I should note that this trip is monumental because dh has never left the country other than the countries directly adjacent to ours. So I’m doing my best to make this is very good experience for him and hope it will inspire him to do more of that in future. 🙂 I will share details once we have returned back home.

Thank you, Mercy and Kassia! It’s so great to hear from her!

It’s actually for dh, but I need one too. He already has his referral but I am still waiting eternally for my doctor appointment. Dh was meant to get one when Covid happened. Finally got around to going back to his doctor. 🙄

Well, I know a friend of mine who was going through chemotherapy rejected the guidance of drinking Gatorade because she did not want sugar at all. I know her cancer team was pretty eye-rolley about that, but I gotta believe her diet helped her get through chemo in way better condition that almost every cancer fighter I have personally known. I know coconut water has electrolytes and no sugar or anything weird like dyes. Or pickle juice. I wonder if those would be acceptable.

I was thinking have less food/waste in the system already so you’re not having to get as much to exit, to put it as PG as possible.

I have not been through the prep before, but I wondered if that would be a good time for, say, a 2-day fast. Or does the prep liquid make that ill advised?

I’m SO glad you brought up this topic, Dawn, because I also did not fully understand them and couldn’t understand why people would say they were so great for luggage. I will be taking an international trip this year and want to give AirTags a whirl. We’re planning to bring a guitar and that is for sure one thing I want to Tag.

I just buy them flavored that way. There is a brand called “Sanio” or something like that. Delicious!

I like 1/2 pomegranate juice and 1/2 seltzer water; coconut lime seltzer is my favorite to mix with this. I drink it out of my grandmother’s 1940’s wine glasses. Makes me feel very fancy and my brain thinks I’m having a glass of wine.

I was literally just looking at future eclipses right before I came in here. 🙂 I don’t know what it would be like to be in a country where I don’t understand the language (I.e., Spain). I haven’t ruled it out though.

I saw this come across my news feed this morning. I’m sorry this happened. My thoughts are with you all.

No, not really. It’s tongue-in-cheek. But I don’t believe there is such a thing as anyone condemned to eternal torment. However, for some people, I’m willing to sort of wish they would get some paybacks for their wickedness. But when it comes right down to it, I don’t actually believe that happens to anybody. I believe when you die, it’s all over. Curtain call; the end. I admit that I hope for a heaven, because there are people I hope are there. But if it came down to some sort of wager, I would bet that death is the end, whether you were wicked or righteous on earth. I believe that the wages of sin is whatever happens in life as a result of your bad choices. And yes, some people unfairly get to defer those results while others suffer though they did nothing wrong. But that’s life.