MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Eph3_12

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Diana, good luck finding a combo that works.

stellamaris

Barbe! You naughty girl, you! Lol

elimar86861

Ahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa....................... (Who knew Barbe was such a big Cheetos fan? *wink*)

Now that's what I call some great online shopping, Eph!

I'm too busy to actually attempt this, but maybe some future Christmas season...a tree decorated entirely with pics of beefcake, hottie, hunks. It would just take a bit of foam core to turn the pics into ornaments. Oh, who am I kidding? I could never put that up here in testosterone world, although I just might slip one or two of them onto the tree just to see if anyone is paying attention.

NativeMainer

Elimar--I'll help decorate that tree!

Dianarose

I'll hang the mistletoe.

Had blood work today. Platelets are back to normal 254 !!! White up from 2.3 to 5.6 and red still a bit low but climbing. Things are starting to get back to normal. They still think it was from the blood thinner shot they gave me when they did the biopsy. That's going on my never again list

Loral

Diana...sounds like a Merry Christmas for you and yours!!!!

Loral

Ladies:

Eph3_12

the flexing is a nice touch, but it needs to slow down just a tad

Eph3_12

I survived Black Friday and Cyber Monday!!!! Thank goodness for no credit cards!

barbe1958

Dianarose you have rebounded so WELL! Way to go sweetie!!!!

elimar86861

Dianarose, Fan-freakin'-tastic! You will be baking holiday treats in no time.

Loral, Ooooh, I think your name is definitely on the naughty list for that one. Hilarious (especially the crotch-flexing one!)

Eph, I applaud you (but mainly for knowing what day of the week it is.)

chrissyb

Hi girls!! Just throwing my hat in the door for a quick hello to everyone and hope thing are going well in your lives.

I'm doing well, busy which is good and having a whole lot of fun. Life is treating me just fine right now. My eldest grandie turned 21 a couple of weeks ago and my youngest will be 18 in just a couple of weeks.......they sure do make me feel old!

Hope you all have a happy and safe holiday season!

Love n hugs. Chrissy

NativeMainer

Diana--YEAH!!!What on earth did they give you for a blood thinner?

Dianarose

Native Maine- that is on my list to ask tomorrow.

barbe1958

Hoping to hear how it went Dianarose...

Dianarose

Went for chemo yesterday. Blood work keeps improving 👍. She took me off A/C as it was not on the likely to work list on the chemo sensitivity list so just Taxol for now, hurray! What did come back weird is the new testing of my Her 2. They do three different test. One with DNA and two other ways. Well one came back uncertain, one negative and one positive. She called the company and they are doing more testing on it. Maybe I have multiple personalities lol. I ache all over today from the monthly shot for my bones. Other then that feeling okay.

Hope everyone has a great day

barbe1958

Good to hear your blood work is behaving. Now we need an update from our fearless leader. E, were they doing a biopsy on what they took out?

Eph3_12

The no news is good news adage, out the window. Melanoma. Appointment(s) being set. Bummed.

barbe1958

Where was the mole? Who caught it??? Gentle hugs sweetie.

Dianarose

eph- so sorry. Cancer needs to leave us alone. We did our dam time already

NativeMainer

Diana--Hooray for improving blood work numbers!And going to just one drug, can't help but think that's going to minimize the side effect issues.Very weird about the Her2 testing, how can 3 tests give such different answers?Glad they are doing more testing.Very glad you are feeling ok.

{{{{{Eph}}}}}

Eph3_12

I caught it out the corner of my eye back in May. Upper right shoulder on my back. Mentioned it to the FNP in July or August along with several skin tags I wanted removed. We were busy working on another issue, so by the time I remembered again, it was October and I called and asked for a longer appointment so she could remove the skin tags. She went ahead and took the biopsy on the mole too. And the rest is history!

barbe1958

Holy cow. I had to see a dermatologist due to my gene testing coming up with something. It takes a year to get an appointment. I moved so had a new guy. He wasn't even going to look at my body like the first one did! I showed him a couple of weird spots and he said don't worry about it. I was stunned with how blase he was. Didn't fell treated at all and wonder if I have anything I can't see that is bad! There is only ONE guy for the area of a couple hundred thousand people. He was WAY late at the appointment too.

Glad you've been taken seriously sweetie. Keep us posted on your treatment.

Loral

Eph...sorry abut your diagnosis, I've had a few friends and family memebers that have had Melanoma and they are fine...I wish you the best in care and recovery!

elimar86861

Eph, You've got to be kidding me! Does this stuff just never end? Melanoma can be sneaky in its own way so do what's best to get it GONE, and adhere to future precautions and follow ups. I don't trust it one bit!

Dianarose, You are one amazing gal. We said that way back when you opened your shop and it is even more true these days.

Barbe, Sorry, did not mean to create suspense. My surgical path. on the parathyroid tumor was just some benign finding. No biggie. Parathyroid cancer is rare; but even when a benign growth is on a parathyroid, it can cause the gland to pump up the volume on the hormone and, thus, create the problems. So, now I'm *good* with my three remaining parathyroids (and they were all visualized too.) Now, my surveillance has to turn to that 1 cm thyroid nodule (biopsied as likely papillary cancer) and there will be periodic ultrasounds of it to make sure it is indolent. My mind gets a little taste of what it is like "living with cancer" and that is loathesome to think of it in there, but thyroid is so different and I do not feel in physical danger so I think I can put it out of my mind for the most part.

BTW, my scar is coming along slowly. Here's what I don't like (and you just knew there would be something)...the surgical area is still a lump of hard scar tissue and probably some internal medical stitch witchery, so I can feel that with each swallow, moving up then down. No one tells you about that!

Dianarose

Have been saying I have an infection for two weeks now. Thursday night I took two samples of pee. One from left kidney and one from the naphostomy tube on the right. Left had no odor and the right would knock your socks off. Called cancer center to get a lab order. They said they did not think it was an infection but gave me the order basically to shut me up. Well doc called this morning and there is a bad infection. Looking forward to the smell going away! I am allergic to most antibiotics so on a new one and so far so good.

El- good to hear from you and that you are okay. That scratching would drive me crazy

macatacmv

hey everyone , remember me? I'm sorry I disappeared . I don't even remember what was going on.

I'm glad that I have caught up with you all. I do admit to skipping some pages . whew it's been a while.

I ended up in the ER with heart palpitations the day I was getting a chest x-ray. They did a bunch of blood work . It turned out I tested positive for Lyme disease. But still no one wanted to treat me because of all the controversy. They thought the palpitations were from the Cymbalta I was taking for the Fibromyalgia. But my caring but inept PCP had changed out my blood pressure meds too. I ended up stopping almost all my meds. When I stopped the Fosamax the horrible pain in my side stopped. The one that felt like a hot poker sticking in me. But when I told the PCP , he said oh that wouldn't effect that. sheesh!

So I found a Lyme literate Doctor in Rhode Island that is finally helping me. She diagnosed me not only with Lyme , but 5 co-infections. She looked up from the test results and said no wonder you are feeling so crummy ! I burst into tears, someone actually believed me! Now I am on lots of antibiotics and anti malaria drugs and feeling crummier. But even tho I'll feel worse before I feel better, Just knowing what I'm dealing with is such a release. She thinks I have had Lyme for years , before my BC dx. The TX just made it all so much worse.

It's so great to catch up with you all, even though some news isn't great!

Dianarose

Macatacmy- so sorry about the Lyme disease. My daughter was so sick for years and no be would listen to her either. At one point they even told her she had MS. She's a nurse and even knew what test she needed. Finally found a doc who listened after many years of hell. She is seeing a Lyme specialist now. She has Lyme, Rocky Mountain fever and mono. She's been on heavy duty antibiotics for a few months and says it's awful. They also tested my 4 year old granddaughter and she is positive too. She's been sick since birth. I am glad they finally found it and you can get treatment now. Hang in there sweetie.

NativeMainer

El--good for benign parathyroid thingy. The thyroid nodule would probably drive me nuts to try to live with, you are a stronger person than me to live with it. But I'm glad you don't feel in danger from it. You have had to deal with so much, it is so not fair!

Diana--I do hope you will be asking whoever thought there was no infection what they think now that a bad infection has been proven. When will medical folks learn to LISTEN to people? We live in these bodies, we know when something is different/wrong.

Macatcmv--I do remember you! Welcome back! Lyme disease is such a sneaky disease. Glad you found someone Lyme literate (I'm going to have to steal that label!) and are getting properly treated. Praying the crummier feeling is short and better feeling comes ASAP.I know a doctor, no retired, who specialized in taking care of older folk before gerontology was a specialty, he would routinely put his elder patients taking more than 5 meds into the hospital, stop ALL the meds, and run tests and monitor them closely to see what meds they actually NEEDED. Most of those people left the hospital doing much better pain wise and cognitively, and usually on only 1 or maybe 2 meds. Too bad we can't do the same thing now. Most people, and most doctors, do not realize how many of our symptoms are from medications, not from diseases or conditions.

Diana--prayers for your daughter and granddaughter.

macatacmv

first off for all a little humor!