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[Big Calhoun]

Hi ya'll. I'm still here in DFW area. Considering a trip to Amsterdam in the fall in case anyone else is interested in going, or meeting up there.

Dboy

Now that would be a great way to meet. Too bad I have too much going on right now or I'd be down in a hot second. Have to keep that in mind for the future though.

[KEGS]

Ya were not even into aug. yet I'am glad I'am not working outside like I did last year brutal.I think the only Two places hotter then Houston Is Navada and Hell!!

[KEGS]

Hi ya'll. I'm still here in DFW area. Considering a trip to Amsterdam in the fall in case anyone else is interested in going, or meeting up there.

Dboy

Sound's good all way's whanted to go an I Know I will some day I wish I went befour they had the Euro it would have been cheeper I think I would go in nov. for Cannabis Cup but it's nice in the summer,Fall From what I've read wish I could go.but if wishes where horses bager's would Ride.
have a good trip.Peace:stoned:

[Patricia]

Hey Birdgirl, I'm in Frisco too.
We went to Destin last year for a week. It was o.k. What did you think?
How is your sister? My close friend has inflammatory breast cancer (the worst/most deadliest kind of breast cancer). Does smoking help? My friend won't try it.

[gr0ingCrack]

i dont think smoking weed is a cure for anything but bordom and stress

[birdgirl73]

Hey, Patricia! Nice to hear from you and welcome to the boards!

I enjoyed Destin and liked the people we were there with, but we stayed for just under two weeks, and that was too much. After about a week of sun and sand, I was ready to do something else. And I got sick of the humidity. Other than go to the beach, there's not a lot to do there, is there?

When she was still feeling the effects of her last chemo and even afterwards for a bit, some light smoking really did seem to help my sister's appetite and anxiety and lessen her nausea, but she said she didn't think it helped enough to get any more after we ran out, and so she's doing without now. She's not eating a thing and will hardly drink fluids these days, and I worry about her, but she says she doesn't feel like smoking any more. I know the coughing was rough on her and didn't feel good on her insides, where the tumors are growing.

Too bad your friend with breast cancer won't at least try it, especially if she's having a lot of side-effects from chemo. We've found that the pain was easily controllable with meds but that the nausea was harder to deal with. I wish to goodness weed were more easily obtainable for folks in Texas who have real medical need. I really hate the whole shady, risky business of trying to find and buy the stuff.

[Patricia]

wow and here I thought it was a cure for cancer goingcrack.

Birdgirl - thanks for the welcome. I had a bad experience in the past with the board which in retrospect was my fault. Anyway it's nice to meet other people from the Dallas area. I'm with you on the shady/risky side of obtaining smoke these days. I could tell you some funny/crazy stories from trying to hook up here in Dallas. Our house is on the market right now and I hope the next place is a little easier.
I'm sorry to hear about your sister. I'm glad her pain has been controllable with meds except for the nausea. My friend hasn't found anything to help with the pain that keeps her awake anyway. She just had another scan that showed all the chemo hasn't even helped and the tumor is spreading. She's in her mid 30s and has young kids. It's so sad.
Do you like living in Frisco? Sometimes I think it's all your state of mind but I've never met so many pretentious people in my life as in the DFW area but maybe I've just been hanging around the wrong people.

[birdgirl73]

Hey again. After I said "Welcome," I looked at your join date and it said a year ago, so you're not really new to the boards. But welcome anyway since you're new to me!

That is sad about your friend and the fact that her cancer is spreading. Same with my sister's disease. She's a little older--50--and is divorced and didn't ever have kids when she was married. Her cancer docs believe she probably wasn't helped by the fact that she took several rounds of fertility drugs 14 or so years ago when she was married and was trying to get pregnant. Apparently those drugs that put women's ovaries into production overdrive so they can conceive more easily have been associated with a higher risk of cancer later on. I worry because my little sister is currently trying to get pregnant and is taking her first round of those drugs now. She'll need to be followed real closely from now on.

I like Frisco pretty well, but I know what you mean about this area being pretentious. I think Dallas in particular is a very materialistic city and that there's a lot of keeping up with the Joneses that goes on here in regards to possessions. I mean, look at all the tract mansions and expensive cars and such. I suppose I shouldn't talk. I live in a big house myself in a gated community. But I think experiencing a loved one's illness puts things into perspective real fast. It's not stuff that matters. It's family and friends and quality time together. Oh! And pets. . . .

Do you have kids? You said your house is on the market. Are you looking to leave this area? What sort of work do you do? Don't answer anything you don't want to, of course.

We've got one son, who's 20. He's home for the summer from college. I work as a speechwriter for a big company, but this is my last week at that. In mid-August, I'm going to be starting medical school, which is something I've always wanted to do. My husband practices cardiology, and I've been a frustrated doctor for all these years, too. So I'm finally going to make that happen. It's scary, and this isn't exactly the best time for me to be heading off to school full time with my sister getting sicker by the day, but she insists that I must do this now, and so I'm going to. There's no guarantee that I'd get accepted again next year if I tried to defer my admittance, and so I'm going to go while the door's open!

[Patricia]

You go girl! That's so awesome about medical school!! I live in a gated community in Frisco too ... this is getting a little too close and personal ha ha! We are probably neighbors! And yes Dallas is every bit what you said about materialistic and keeping up with the Joneses I really hate that. I've got a young daughter and my husband runs his own business. We should chat off line but I don't want to post my email for everyone to see. Any ideas?

[birdgirl73]

Let me think about this for a moment. I don't belong to the cafe. If you do a search on some of my earliest posts, you can probably find my email address in some of those. I hate to post it here again because I get emails I don't want when that happens! If you can't easily find it, we'll think of something else. . . .