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    My mom, 83, needs a hysterectomy...help!

    Again, you asked people's opinion and input-I am totally for foregoing surgery at 83 and putting her to palliative care (I also to palliative and hospice car) - at that age and state of health...DNR is totally appropriate no matter what she chooses....but you asked for opinions and I'm just...
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    My mom, 83, needs a hysterectomy...help!

    Oh Goodness, I certainly didn't want to give a tone of fear - just reality of what I've seen in 30 years in hospitals....if you feel that what you've seen shows that treatment is worse, that the cancer is slowgrowing, then by all means go with what you have found out......however, in my...
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    Multiple Dog Owners...Look Here!

    I've never met a cat who couldn't handle a dog...they will learn to co-exist....I have 4 adopted dawgs and Max, cat of mystery and intrigue....who WASHES the dogs!
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    My mom, 83, needs a hysterectomy...help!

    Not knowing your mom,nor having assessed her, I'd say she can go for it...surgeons are not hip at doing surgeries they don't think will make it....and its not like a bad heart attack where she could kind of ease out of life,untreated cancer is horrible and with possible mets to the bowel, it...
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    SNOW DAY tomorrow?!! Please-oh-please!

    I only want the storm IF I get put on call at the hospital and IF the kids get a snow day.
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    Make your own yogurt?

    The best 18 bucks I ever spent was the Salton yogurt maker from Amazon...you can use fage or dannon or whatever as your base, skim, whole, or goat milk...just bring it up to a bubble SLOWLY, and let it cool a good 1/2 hr to 45 minutes.....I add vanilla and ginger and put it on my fruit or whatever!
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHRYN!!!

    Happy Birthday Kathryn! People say that all the blogging and net surfing has made us less social....but I was always so wrapped up in work,kids,house, I never got to have the friendships I longed for over the past 18 years, UNTIL the growth of the internet, blogs and forums.....we've never...
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    age of onset for perimenopause?

    The smartest ob/gyn (and one time hippy!) I ever met said to call a woman perimenopausal was to say a 2 year old is pre-menarchal...its not a clinically definable,measurable change ....BUT, as a rule, in GENERAL (meaning lots fall out of the spectrum) - "things change," after 35...and its that...
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    I think I need some drugs...

    Being a nature girl,after my 2nd baby,at 36, with periods that went from 4 a year to every month, 2 weeks of every month were horrible..I had everything I wanted out of life and would be overwhelmed,panic stricken,sad....and I KNEW it wasn't situational,it was chemical...yes, yoga worked,but it...
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    So, what kind of car do you drive and why?

    2008 Toyota Rav 4- white...mom-truck... Hubby - Corolla Sport Gramma-Corolla/gramma style... Goal, hybrid.....
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    YES!!!!

    But here's how warped I can be...as Im quietly thanking God for sparing this brilliant,giving woman, my eyes caught the line about the undereye wrinkles and puffies going away...WHAT?! Never mind cancer, now I MUST know the REGIME and products that cured the aging eyes!!!!! Carola,I feel like...
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    Lost

    I don't find Sawyer sexy at all - funny as hell though....Jack is so tortured but has sex appeal potential, and has more chemistry with Kate....Sawyer has good sparks with Julia though... I like Bernard an his wife - the way they fuss at each other.....wonder if they'll have a surprise role...
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    Earthquake in NJ

    Hey Deb! I lived in Randolph (and Mendham and Morristown over the years) - and worked at Morristown Memorial! Small world!
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    Earthquake in NJ

    There was a 3.0 back in the early 80's that woke me up, I was living with my mom in Pt.Pleasant Beach, thought it was a huge truck or something....then there was one in the 70's in Albany NY that woke everyone and shattered a puzzle an old man had been working on for 11 years (I remember that...
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    Update

    HI Beautiful Lady, Surgery in of itself my likely be curative......adjunctive naturopathy, I found (in moonlighting in homecare, and seeing folks in my yoga classes) - can make the recovery so much easier...At NIH, and the cancer center my friends' work out of, no one in treatment is allowed...
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    Michelle Obama

    She's fit enough, but she needs to stand up straight.
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    Michelle Obama

    Jill Biden's dress was too short for her "age."BUT,given she's a professor, I get it, they tend to dress more youthful and all....Not since Nancy Reagan(and I was in college)have I WANTED a coat so bad! I loved that coat!!!! I even would take one of the little girls' coats!!!!
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    IT'S INAUGURATION DAY!!!!

    The terrorists would've attacked under Clinton or Bush, they planned the attack for almost 7 years!!! Another one could be being hatched easily to come under Obama or the next president - these people are very smart, very patient,and they are not cowards (deranged, delusional,and evil to the max...
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    IT'S INAUGURATION DAY!!!!

    Even my kids' school, which is pretty Republican, is full of the history and awe of how far we've come as a country - Obama's very fiscally conservative and pragmatic advisors (such as Reagan's Paul Volcker) have softened the old guard Red folks... I kept the kids home....and having some pals...
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