Appreciative of Angels

Lily Flower · July 2017

How true is that! Words can

How true is that! Words can comfort us when we're down. When I was going through my CT scan, laying there worried what would they find, the technician that was performing the scan looked into my eyes and said don't worry, everything will be fine. He even covered me with an extra gown because I was feeling cold.

JanJan63 · July 2017

Dang, you guys and your

Dang, you guys and your lovely songs make me cry. I wish I could say that I have some beautiful song to give me strength but the truth is that I always think of Chumbawumba's Tubthumping. "I get knocked down, but I get up again, they're never going to keep me down".

Maybe I'm just bad for inappropriate songs. Years ago someone suggested to me that I sing a song in my head while showing my horse to reduce show nerves. She suggested You Are my Sunshine. But every time the song that would pop into my head was "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day...". Isn't that Monty Python?

Okay, I'm weird.

Jan

Annabelle41415 · July 2017

plsletitrain said:
That's a lovely song Kim
Very inspiring. And thanks for the prayers. Prayers is the strongest weapon we have.

Prayers

Very much so

JanJan63 · July 2017

Angels for me today! First, I

Angels for me today! First, I got a parking spot at the hospital for my chemo appt. My husband always goes with me because- in their infinite wisdom- they decided to redo the very busy parking lot at the hospital where the cancer clinic is located for over three years while they build a bigger one and have not bothered to provide any alternate parking. So we all park wherever we can in the small lots that were already there. My husband will drop me off and go do things but h'es been sick and couldn't today. So a parking spot is a small miracle.

Then, because the lots do not all work the same way for paying, I had the money but it needed coins. It was 14.50! You have to pay ahead and guess at the time you need and it jumps from an hour and a half to all day, no shorter periods of time can be bought between those times. I had a paper ten and some toonies. That's the two dollar coins we have in Canada. But the machine won't take paper money. A man came up just as I was realizing I had a problem and I told him to go ahead and explained why. It does take credit cards- which I don't have- but doesn't take debit. He offered to put it on his credit card. I was vert thankful and agreed to have him do so and he did. As he handed my my ticket I went to hand him my cash and he said he couldn't take it, that was fine, he wanted to pay for it. I insisted that he'd been so kind and helpful there was no way I was going to have him do that as well so he reluctantly took the money. Isn't that sweet of him? Wow, you see all the crap that goes on in the world and then someone renews your faith in humanity. I should add that once inside the building there's a change machine. No sign on the ticket machine saying it's there. Ugh.

Then my chemo nurses were so sweet and one remembered my name from when I had the blood clot. She said they were all told about it because it was such a rare thing but they needed to be remonded it can happen and to check people for signs. The second nurse realized during the course of the conversation that I was also the one that there had been an article about regarding my horse coming to visit me at the hospital. They both seemed very thrilled to meet me. And were, of course, very nice. The chemo nurses always are.

I decided to stop at a craft shop on the way home and an older couple were there looking at things. He stopped to chat to me and started telling me what his wife's craft is. Its something new that I've never heard of called dragon eyes. Its sounds really interesting and I've been trying to come up with something I can do for a craft so that if my face end skin ends up like last time I'll have someting to do while I sit at home. As long as I don't bleed like I did last time, anyway. They were just a delight to chat to and it was very nice and, hopefully, I'll have a new craft to try.

I then went up to the counter to pay for the two things I'd bought. I thought they were buy one, get one for half price and when the total didn't reflect that I asked the clerk about it. She went over and spoke to the manager and when she came back told me the ones I'd chosen weren't under that sale price. I said no problem, it was my mistake. Then she said "but I'll give them to you for 50% off". Huh? I told her no, that was okay, it was my mistake but she insisted.

Then I got home and found out that my husband, who has had severe constipation for over a week, just has constipation. I've been so worried about him. He couldn't come with me to the chemo today because he was so sick so I knew he was pretty bad. Anyone reading this will know what I was worried about specifically. But he's just full of ****! Yay!

Anyway, I feel good and have been having a good day. And I got to experience some angels today! Loving life!! I hope you'll all have lots of days like mine!

Jan

Canadian Sandy · July 2017

Im so happy for all your

Im so happy for all your angels today! Ive had days like that to. Good luck on your treatment, hope it goes well.

Lily Flower · July 2017

Glad to hear you had an

Glad to hear you had an awesome day yesterday. Hope you'll have more days like this.

JanJan63 · July 2017

I went to a painting lesson

I went to a painting lesson last night with my friend and had a great time there and then got home and checked my phone and found out that my sister got my daughter, my birth mother and I tickets to Garth Brooks! 17th row on the floor!!! SO excited! They'd sold out in five minutes here and I couldn't afford to go anyway but she lives in California so she can get tickets that they keep aside for people out of the country or something like that.

This morning we took soil that we didn't need over to someone in our town that had responded to a facebook post I'd put up offering it for free. Really nice people and their daughters had two pythons! Little guys. Such beautuful creatures! I love how they have fine little dragon faces. I got to hold one and he likes his tummy rubbed so he lies on his back kind of draped over your hand and wants you to rub his belly. How cute!

Not feeling as well today but still okay. Ran into a couple I know and found out he had surgery for his stage two colon cancer 6 weeks ago. I'm thrilled they found it early for him but sad that he has it at all. He was an angel for me years ago when I bought my home here in town and was a divorced mom with no extra money. There was a water ain break in my front yard and the town sent me a letter saying I was going to be financially responsible for the cost. My house was only a year old and I sent them a letter back saying that under no circumstances was I going to pay for it in a brand new home and I didn't have the money and all that. Not nasty, just firm. It turned out that the supervisor made sure I didn't have to pay for it and got the town to pay. I didn't know until a few years later when he was a patent at the dental clinic my friend worked in and my name came up and he told her about it. So he did that for me and never let me know. A real angel! I've been friends with him and his wife ever since I ended up also working at the clinic and got to know them. Wonderful, wonderful people.

So another good day!

Jan

Canadian Sandy · July 2017

Lucky you going to see Garth

Lucky you going to see Garth Brooks! Don't know about those snakes though.....lol

Glad the last couple of days were good for you. Please let me know how you did that.....mine have been lousy. haha

Tomorrow is my 76th birthday and happy to be here after my last one when I was to nauseated to even eat.

Prayers and God bless.

Sandy

beaumontdave · July 2017

Canadian Sandy said:
Lucky you going to see Garth
Lucky you going to see Garth Brooks! Don't know about those snakes though.....lol

Glad the last couple of days were good for you. Please let me know how you did that.....mine have been lousy. haha

Tomorrow is my 76th birthday and happy to be here after my last one when I was to nauseated to even eat.

Prayers and God bless.

Sandy

Happy Birthday, Sandy! And

Happy Birthday, Sandy! And many more to come........................Dave

Trubrit · July 2017

beaumontdave said:
I just took my granddaughter
I just took my granddaughter to the Garth/Trisha concert here in LA. He's incredible, I've never seen anyone keep the crowd up and singing along with him, like that. His energy at 55yo is as inspiring as, of course, is his music. He has so many hit songs, only Willie Nelson compares in terms of music catalog. I'm an old rocker from way back, and I've been to and worked a lot of concerts like the Cal Jams 1+2 and both US festivals, but if someone asked me who was the best today, I'd say Garth Brooks easily. I hope you enjoy it as much..........................................Dave

Donny & Marie

My husband and I just went to see the Donny & Marie show. Talk about energizer bunny. Donny, almost 60, is non-stop energy. You walk away from their concert knowing you got your monies worth.

So glad you felt the same away about the Garth/Trisha concert. Its a great feeling to be entertained so thouroughly.

Tru

beaumontdave · July 2017

JanJan63 said:
I went to a painting lesson
I went to a painting lesson last night with my friend and had a great time there and then got home and checked my phone and found out that my sister got my daughter, my birth mother and I tickets to Garth Brooks! 17th row on the floor!!! SO excited! They'd sold out in five minutes here and I couldn't afford to go anyway but she lives in California so she can get tickets that they keep aside for people out of the country or something like that.

This morning we took soil that we didn't need over to someone in our town that had responded to a facebook post I'd put up offering it for free. Really nice people and their daughters had two pythons! Little guys. Such beautuful creatures! I love how they have fine little dragon faces. I got to hold one and he likes his tummy rubbed so he lies on his back kind of draped over your hand and wants you to rub his belly. How cute!

Not feeling as well today but still okay. Ran into a couple I know and found out he had surgery for his stage two colon cancer 6 weeks ago. I'm thrilled they found it early for him but sad that he has it at all. He was an angel for me years ago when I bought my home here in town and was a divorced mom with no extra money. There was a water ain break in my front yard and the town sent me a letter saying I was going to be financially responsible for the cost. My house was only a year old and I sent them a letter back saying that under no circumstances was I going to pay for it in a brand new home and I didn't have the money and all that. Not nasty, just firm. It turned out that the supervisor made sure I didn't have to pay for it and got the town to pay. I didn't know until a few years later when he was a patent at the dental clinic my friend worked in and my name came up and he told her about it. So he did that for me and never let me know. A real angel! I've been friends with him and his wife ever since I ended up also working at the clinic and got to know them. Wonderful, wonderful people.

So another good day!

Jan

I just took my granddaughter

I just took my granddaughter to the Garth/Trisha concert here in LA. He's incredible, I've never seen anyone keep the crowd up and singing along with him, like that. His energy at 55yo is as inspiring as, of course, is his music. He has so many hit songs, only Willie Nelson compares in terms of music catalog. I'm an old rocker from way back, and I've been to and worked a lot of concerts like the Cal Jams 1+2 and both US festivals, but if someone asked me who was the best today, I'd say Garth Brooks easily. I hope you enjoy it as much..........................................Dave

Canadian Sandy · July 2017

Thanks Dave. I plan on having

Thanks Dave. I plan on having many many more.

JanJan63 · July 2017

Canadian Sandy said:
Lucky you going to see Garth
Lucky you going to see Garth Brooks! Don't know about those snakes though.....lol

Glad the last couple of days were good for you. Please let me know how you did that.....mine have been lousy. haha

Tomorrow is my 76th birthday and happy to be here after my last one when I was to nauseated to even eat.

Prayers and God bless.

Sandy

Happy Birthday!!

Happy birthday!!

JanJan63 · July 2017

I'm definitely more of a

I'm definitely more of a rocker even now that I'm 54. I still LOVE AC/DC. One of my favourite bands! The last concert we went to was KISS, who I love, too. Yeah, I'm kind of an old teenager, I guess. But I always like Garth Brooks and wanted to go to one of his concerts. We were going to see him in Vegas about 7 or 8 years ago and I was successfully in the process of getting tickets when I realized it was the acoustic one where he just sits in a chair and he gabs with the audience. For $300? No thanks.

I'm hoping this will be one of his former types of concerts. Under the corcumstances, if he plays The Dance I'm going to cry like a baby.

My sister even thinks she might be able to get us backstage passes because she has connections in LA, where she lives. If my chemo makes my face break out like last time I won't want to but otherwise I think it would be fun!

Jan

Canadian Sandy · July 2017

JanJan63 said:
Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday!!

Thank you Jan.

Thank you Jan.

plsletitrain · July 2017

Hi Jan, I'm so glad to hear

Hi Jan, I'm so glad to hear you're doing well with your chemo and you've had encounters with angels too! God bless them and God bless us all.

beaumontdave · July 2017

JanJan63 said:
I'm definitely more of a
I'm definitely more of a rocker even now that I'm 54. I still LOVE AC/DC. One of my favourite bands! The last concert we went to was KISS, who I love, too. Yeah, I'm kind of an old teenager, I guess. But I always like Garth Brooks and wanted to go to one of his concerts. We were going to see him in Vegas about 7 or 8 years ago and I was successfully in the process of getting tickets when I realized it was the acoustic one where he just sits in a chair and he gabs with the audience. For $300? No thanks.

I'm hoping this will be one of his former types of concerts. Under the corcumstances, if he plays The Dance I'm going to cry like a baby.

My sister even thinks she might be able to get us backstage passes because she has connections in LA, where she lives. If my chemo makes my face break out like last time I won't want to but otherwise I think it would be fun!

Jan

He saves "The Dance" for the

He saves "The Dance" for the end, it's his favorite song, mine as welll......................................Dave

JanJan63 · July 2017

beaumontdave said:
He saves "The Dance" for the
He saves "The Dance" for the end, it's his favorite song, mine as welll......................................Dave

Thank you for letting me know

Thank you for letting me know Dave! I might want it for my funeral, I haven't decided yet. I want to have that all planned out so my family has as little crap tp deal with as possible. The down side is that I find if I associate a song with something like that then the song is ruined for me forever. The Rose was played at my mom's because that's what she wanted. For my dad it was taps because he was in thr Navy. Even Clocks by Coldplay is one that haunts me because it was playing as I was driving one of our beloved dogs to be put to sleep.

So I'll leave the concert bawling. Like I did as a kid after going to see Where the Red Fern Grows. I've often said that if God planned for me to cry so often he should have made me not be an ugly cryer. Ha ha!

Jan

JanJan63 · July 2017

plsletitrain said:
Hi Jan, I'm so glad to hear
Hi Jan, I'm so glad to hear you're doing well with your chemo and you've had encounters with angels too! God bless them and God bless us all.

I just started the new chemo

I just started the new chemo on Friday so my face should turn into a mess in a few days. My clostest friend's daughter is getting married this weekend and I'm going and don;t want to look like freak but so far the bumps havem't shown up yet. I can see some beneath the surface of my skin waiting to pop up like a hideous jack in the box but bot quite yet. If they're out but have just started on Saturday I'll be good. It's when they start bleeding that it's a real treat. I'm angry that we had to turn down the reception. I just don't have the energy and my diet is still so sketchy. Plus I never know from day to day if I'll feel okay. I was good all day yesterday and then cramped up badly in the early evening. Bad enough to make me double over.

I will say this, though. I was saying my evening prayer during one of the cramps and I asked Him to make ot stop and a few seconds later it did and it didn't come back. I slept well after that.

Jan

plsletitrain · August 2017

JanJan63 said:
I just started the new chemo
I just started the new chemo on Friday so my face should turn into a mess in a few days. My clostest friend's daughter is getting married this weekend and I'm going and don;t want to look like freak but so far the bumps havem't shown up yet. I can see some beneath the surface of my skin waiting to pop up like a hideous jack in the box but bot quite yet. If they're out but have just started on Saturday I'll be good. It's when they start bleeding that it's a real treat. I'm angry that we had to turn down the reception. I just don't have the energy and my diet is still so sketchy. Plus I never know from day to day if I'll feel okay. I was good all day yesterday and then cramped up badly in the early evening. Bad enough to make me double over.

I will say this, though. I was saying my evening prayer during one of the cramps and I asked Him to make ot stop and a few seconds later it did and it didn't come back. I slept well after that.

Jan

Enjoy the Wedding! Have fun

Enjoy the Wedding! Have fun (although I hope the chemo effects won't be as bad). I know you're a tough woman and I know you will do anything you can to beat the effects.

And yes, prayers really do wonders. Its the most powerful weapon we have, way more powerful than chemo.

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