MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

NativeMainer

AnnC2019--the age range of 40-60 is and "ish" range, not a hard and fast rule. I'm 62 and still consider myself a Middle!

MinusTwo

Well I'm definitely not even close to a "middle", but my heart is in the right place. I always enjoyed this thread.

NativeMainer

Perhaps we should be "Middle-Age and Onward"

kkuziel

Good to see familiar names - I too am well past the "middle" and that's a good thing. Means I'm still here. Age though does come with new scares. Have had every test in the book for what was thought to originally be a uterine bleed. Not so. Three ultrasounds later - nothing alarming in the female organ area - good. So sent to urology - three ultrasounds, a bladder scan, and a CT scan all good in kidneys, bladder, lower spine and lower lungs (the last two came along for the ride due to location of the kidneys and got covered in the scan) I go in next week to have a final look (narrow ureter - likely that way since birth and a small kidney stone they want to take out before it causes issues). He, after nearly six months of testing, believes I had a small kidney stone pass (had the accompanying back pain two weeks before and stabbing pain in the groin just the day before the bleed) and hopefully this is the last thing to do. Somewhat reminiscent of all the trials of a cancer diagnosis. Nothing seems to move swiftly in the medical field. Test after test seems to be the order of the day. But the amazing thing, to me, is that in all these tests not one involves cutting me open - It truly is remarkable to see just how much they can do with small cameras and imaging. Kind of miraculous. Hope all are well and enjoying getting out lives back to a somewhat normal situation after 2020.

NativeMainer

The testing and imaging that can be done is marvelous, isn't it? One would think they'd have come up with an answer after all that, though.

elimar86861

You probably can't believe that I have come back to this thread to post something. I know that I can't believe it. I just have a quick story to share...

So, my friend got BC in 2020. It was caught in an early stage and her treatment required Lx and Rads. She was done by 2021, but as the RO was reviewing her post-rads imaging, the breast looked all clear but there was the appearance of something suspicious on her lung.

Biopsy, yep, it was LC. Her first cancer treatment segued right into a second cancer treatment even more grueling. Long story short: She surgically lost one lobe of her lung but kept going and a few months later welcomed a new grandson. He's now a year old and she's now NED. Happy ending.

You know how LC is a silent killer, rarely making itself known with symptoms until it is very advanced, usually Stage IV? My friend was lucky to have gotten BC because it ended up saving her life.

Every now and then you come across an amazing true story like this.

elimar86861

P.S. to my Mid-Age Thread OGs: I'm doing just fine, thanks; just more "ish" now than when this thread was created.

MinusTwo

Eli - great to see you and hear that you are doing fine. You were always so gracious to let me occasionally join this thread - even though I was 'more' senior even back then. But what GREAT ladies we had... Almost 3200 pages of great ladies.

PS - I'm doing fine too. Discount the CIPN and the LE - and life's not at all bad.