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[Kitte]

The Red Tent

Ladies,

I have begun reading The Red Tent... all I can say is I am enthralled and am actually shocked I pulled away from it long enough to come online.

If you have not read it, please do!

¤Kitte¤

 

[Starfish]

I am well into the second part of the book and loving it. Now that I am on Spring Break it will be done in a flash.

That is why I picked up another book called "Memoirs of a Geisha" that I've been wanting to read.

Has anyone else read it? Any input without giving it away?

 

[tswyk]

Starfish -

Memoirs of a Geisha is a WONDERFUL book - I've read it more than once. Heartbreaking, but truely beautiful.

Let me know what you think when you've finished it.

t

 

[Starfish]

Thank you for saying what you think of it. I am actually "glad" to hear that it is heartbreaking. Not in a discompassionate way, but in a way that says "I would expect nothing less from what I know of the history of Geishas in Japan".

 

[Allexus_TN]

As yet they haven't confirmed Endo for me yet - it is just one of the "most likely candidates" that fits my pattern of symptoms - they have arranged a Gynie appointment for me ASAP.

To be honest I think I am more scared that I don't know what the hell is causing my body to do this to me, and that it may need surgery to A) find the problem and B) try and cure it...

I am not a hospital type of person anyway - I get panic attacks just thinking of surgery (had a few minor things done as a kid) so at the moment I think it is more that side of it then the possible lack of motherhood for me, that is just like the cherry on the top of the cake so to speak. [/B]

Vivacia,

For me and most women I know who've had the surgery, its a relatively simple procedure with little outside scarring. In both of my laproascopies they made a very small incision just below my navel, (actually, in it, and you can't even see the scar now!) and then another one just above my pubic line. About a half an inch long. They went in and filled my abdomen up with air, and used a small laser to "zap" the scar tissue. For me the worst part was the bruises on my belly from when they pressed as much of the air out as they could. I was bloated for a few days, but there wasn't much pain. Just uncomfortable. I couldn't fasten any of my pants!
Recently my ob/gyn thought I had it again, but after that surgery on Sept. 11, and several exams later, he can't find anything at all, and I'm being referred to a gastrointerologist.
My thoughts are with you Vivacia, I hope everything works out well for you!

 

[Vivacia]

Re: The Red Tent

Ladies,

I have begun reading The Red Tent... all I can say is I am enthralled and am actually shocked I pulled away from it long enough to come online.

If you have not read it, please do!

¤Kitte¤

Any chance you could send it on to me when you have finished with it Kitte? can you PM me if I have beaten the rest of the eager crowds to you and I will give you my Addy. Thanx

Vivacia,

For me and most women I know who've had the surgery, its a relatively simple procedure with little outside scarring. In both of my laproascopies they made a very small incision just below my navel, (actually, in it, and you can't even see the scar now!) and then another one just above my pubic line. About a half an inch long. They went in and filled my abdomen up with air, and used a small laser to "zap" the scar tissue. For me the worst part was the bruises on my belly from when they pressed as much of the air out as they could. I was bloated for a few days, but there wasn't much pain. Just uncomfortable. I couldn't fasten any of my pants!
Recently my ob/gyn thought I had it again, but after that surgery on Sept. 11, and several exams later, he can't find anything at all, and I'm being referred to a gastrointerologist.
My thoughts are with you Vivacia, I hope everything works out well for you!

Thanks for that Allexus - It has been more help then you can realise. I know that it is really (By GP's standards anyhow) a basic procedure that they do with a certain amount of regularity but it is still enough to make me more than a little nervous, however your kind words have helped to reassure me and though I am still nervous it is not as much as I would have been had I faced this "blind" to what happens next.

 

[seXieleXie]

i have stayed out of here because on some level i don't feel like i belong. i have never had regular periods, just one every couple of months. i saw a doctor about it once, but after 3 blood tests they still couldn't figure it out and my time money and patience were running thin.

i still have them occasionally (like now) and when i do they are incredibly painful. i don't like to take advil and the like because i already take it too often for my headaches. so i just suffer for about five days

oh well. at least i feel a little better after venting.

 

[Guest]

At the end of my self nuturing week and the new moon approaches.
Sexy Lexie, you belong. You're a strong woman that knows of pain. I'm thinking of you.

 

[Rubyfruit]

That is why I picked up another book called "Memoirs of a Geisha" that I've been wanting to read.

One of my favorite books for recent times, Fishie. You'll love it.

 

[Mellon Collie]

Thank you for taking a step in strengthening our sisterhood.

Aww, I want to take a step into strengthening the sisterhood.

I'll be back in about a week and a half, all grumpy, bloated and ready to go.

 

[tswyk]

Q. How many women with PMS

does it take to change a
light bulb?

A. One! And do you know WHY it only takes one?

Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a
light bulb. They don't even know the bulb is burned out.
They would sit in this house in the dark for three days
before they figured it out. And once they figured it out
they wouldn't be able to find the lightbulbs despite the
fact that they've been in the same cupboard for the past
seventeen years. But if they did, by some miracle, find
the lightbulbs, two days later, the chair that they
dragged from two rooms over to stand on to change the
stupid lightbulb would still be in the same spot! And,
underneath it would be the crumpled wrapper the stupid
light bulbs came in. Why? Because no one in this house
ever carries out the garbage! It's a wonder we haven't
all suffocated from the piles of garbage that are 12
feet deep throughout the entire house. The house! The
House! It would take an army to clean this...


That's how many.

 

[Guest]

Pissy and miserable

 

[Allexus_TN]

I love that!! That was perfect! Sounds like my house. And if a bulb burns out this week...it will stay out! I'm sitting in my own red tent. I might even shoot all the bulbs out and sit in the dark!! Who knows what I might do this week.....

 

[cymbidia]

I'm on my 3rd day of flow and this time it's been marked by an incredible, intense depression. I'm usually able to maintain a little better than this.

It's been hard, this time.
Really hard.

I hate the emotional swings.
Hate the lost hopeless place my mind sometimes takes me.
Hate the forlorn "no one will ever love me again" crap that passes for thinking sometimes, during these times.

Premenstrually, i'm inclined toward bitchiness but i can still think, can still own the whole range of my emotions and thoughts.

Sometimes during my flow, though -not every month, but sometimes- i just get so incredibly depressed over... old stuff, new stuff, gone stuff, you name it... that i can barely function. It doesn't happen often (thank the gods) but enough to give me lots and lots and lots of empathy with those who wrestle with depression on a more frequent basis.

Anyway, i'm on my 3rd day of flow and it'll be gone tomorrow.
So will the depression; i can feel the fog clearing a bit already.

FUCK but we're at the mercy of our hormones, aren't we?

 

[Kitte]

I want my red tent! I would gladly stop complaining about cramps and mood swings and all of it. If it would just show up.

 

[Guest]

Cym,
We are submitting to the power of hormones. Ugh. Here's a tummy rub and a cup of chamomile tea for you.

Kitte,
I hope the tent unfolds soon.

 

[cymbidia]

Hey! What's going on with the two copies of The Red Tent?

Where are they?

Who has them?

Who gets them next?

Update, please!

 

[Rubyfruit]

How appropriate this thread is at the top.

Can somebody pass the midal and hot water bottle this way?

 

[LukkyKnight]

Hey! What's going on with the two copies of The Red Tent?

Where are they?

Who has them?

Who gets them next?

Update, please!

my, my, feeling a bit edgy are we, cym?

 

[Starfish]

It's convienient that I am lurk reading here right now. LOL.
(can't let myself get fully off this wagon.)

I still have Ruby's copy. I am a busy bee, and pleasure reading has had to take a backseat to important stuff, like sex.
Actually I am almost done.

It will be out to LittleDevilwithAHalo here, very soon. Prolly by the first day of next week.

 

[Allexus_TN]

How appropriate this thread is at the top.

Can somebody pass the midal and hot water bottle this way?

You can have mine...the worst for me is over!

 

[april-wine]

Hey! What's going on with the two copies of The Red Tent?

Where are they?

Who has them?

Who gets them next?

Update, please!

I am done reading cym's and have posted it to expressolover

but with all things Canada postal, it is slower than the second coming of christ...............

 

[cymbidia]

my, my, feeling a bit edgy are we, cym?

ACK! Grump. Mutter. Poke. Whine.

I mean: no, dear Lukky, no.
Why?
Do i seem offish?
(NOT oafish! Not oafish! I didn't say oafish! Or offalish, either!)

Lukky? You're a brave brave man to be poking at any of us in here, darling. Brave and a teensy bit foolhardy.




Midol and hot water bottles to you, Ruby.
I'm pretty much done with them. At last. This month. I think.


Fishie?
I love this thread more and more every single time i open it.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

My copy is one reader away then... good stuff.

 

[espressolover]

I was wondering what happened to my copy you sent.
I haven't received it yet and was getting worried.