sj, thanks, sweetie. Truthfully (and AmyLiz will back me up, here) even the family illness was duck stuff. It happens when you have three kids.

I still say the ducks need to leave you alone. Yay, for your aunt! That's very good news.

So glad that Ginger and Cindy's phones rang with some good news!

Gronk. I think I need more coffee. I just walked across the street for an early lunch, thinking, "I should see if food will up my blood sugar enough to avoid coffee!"

Yeah. NSM. Gronkified.

{{{bitches}}}

The Ick finally hit me. It started last night and I woke up this morning feeling terrible. I called in sick to work but I have so much school stuff to do that I can't get too much rest in today. Argh.

{{{GC}}} Feel better.

I've had what feels like the beginning of the ick for a couple of days, a sore throat and can't get enough sleep, but so far it hasn't blossomed into the full blown ick.

Great news, Ginger! What a relief.

If she were 50-ish, the Oncologist would recommend chemo, because there is a 10-15% chance it could come back in (I think my mother said) 10-15 years.

The Oncologist said she's not discriminating against my aunt based on age, but that age and physical condition factor in when they make these decisions, because of how chemo beats up the body -- which makes total sense.

I am so glad to hear this, Cindy. My mother was 78 when she was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. They had no choice but to do chemo and radiation to shrink the tumor to an operable size and it was the treatments that killed her, not the cancer itself. Which is why I say, get your colonscopies early, people! Especially if colon cancer runs in your family.

t /end PSA.

eta: She's been gone five years, today.

Oh Sail, your poor mom. The anniveraries are hard sometimes. I hope this one is warm and gentle for you.

And a world of word to your PSA. My aunt never had one before. If she'd been getting them regularly, who knows how much more good-enough this all would have turned out. I do know the doctor told her the colonscopy saved her life.

Yay, Ginger!

((((GC))))

((((SA)))) And seconding that. Both of Hubs's parents died of cancer, so he pays a lot of attention to that sort of thing.

bad ducks, no biscuit

some how i have to convince myself to take the car to the tire place to get the tire fixed.

Car things and phone calls to strangers - the two things I would never do if I ruled the 'verse.

some how i have to convince myself to take the car to the tire place to get the tire fixed.

I read car as cat.

There was head shaking.