MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Meece

Sheila, you can just go to your topic (One you started) and hit edit.  Click on the picture and upload a different one.

elimar86861

Good point on the Relay, Barbe.  Girl, you were really Winterized, if even the bare concrete is lookin' that good to you now. ;-)  Hope you'll soom be seeing these...

           

 Seyla, You are thinner.  You look like you have been eating like a bird!  You have some breadcrumbs on your chin.  (Inside joke.)  Change the picture?  Click on edit, then right click the picture, and then can put in the new photo properties.

sheila888

Thank You elimar for noticing my thin body.

if I edit i was afraid to have the old picture and the new one in the same post.

I don't use photobucket, don't even know how.

I just google images copy and paste.

Is it the same thing you are telling me to do. maybe I should do a little practice before I mess up the thing.

faithandfifty

Just popping in with a report on the shower-of-birthday-cards of support for our sister, Saint.

We were talking yesterday and she has received the first 'wave' of cards..... little does she know what will continue to unfold.

Thanks to all who jumped right on the invitation.

If there's anyone else still willing to join the fun, please PM me for her address.

She was so 'tickled' that she literally giggled. The timing is perfect -- as she had a really tough week. (She is a stage IV sis from WI, that I've had the pleasure of spending lovely chunks of time with thru the last couple of years.)

Hope that everyone has a super-Sunday!!

xx00xx00xx00xx

elimar86861

I know some of us have been cutting back on the Cheetos since the holidays, and trying to eat healthier.  Now, our gal Meece has started a weight loss thread.  There have been a few other threads out there, but here you can get in on the "ground floor" so to speak, and you will most likely be familiar with some others posting there. 

Meece, come post a handy link for our Middies.

elimar86861

Oh yeah, the name is E-LAB PROJECT, began by Seyla888 on her Stage I thread.  It stands for Eat Like A Bird.  (If you incorrectly assume, like I did, that we should eat three times our body weight each day, you are wrong.)  That's where my inside joke came from a few posts ago. 

chrisct

LOL - 3x body weight.  That reminds me of when I was pregnant and the ob/gyn told me I'd better watch my weight because I was on track for gaining 60 pounds ( I showed him - I gained only 58!).  He said I needed only an additional 300  calories a day.  I said - "Oh - I thought it was 3000!"  Kidding of course - but that's probably what I was actually doing!

Meece

Ladies, at the invitation of our gracious hostess, Elimar, I am posting this link to a weightloss support thread.  Stop by an check it out, but our weights are our secrets.     

 The E-LAB Project

carollynn79

So far so good, had my mammo today and was told by the Wellness clinic that it is looking good, I see the Radiation Oncologist to review Wednsday, bone scan was in the normal range, had blood work and EKG for surgery next week.  Cheetos and E-LAB, oh well I need the motivation from all so we can just talk about cheetos. 

Overcomer3

Hi Deb and everyone else,

This is my first post, I hope I get it right.

 It is overwhelming at first, way too much information and a lot  decisions to make.You go from sad to mad, to guilty etc... .  Then I had to settle down and take it one thing  at a time. Then I started to feel a little "normal".  The new normal.

Meece

Welcome, Overcomer.  There isn't much here that you can get wrong.  Your first post came through just fine!

NativeMainer

Welcome, overcomer!  Sounds to me like you are reacting just as expected--with every emotion under the son in waves and sequences.  We all know that feeling--some of us are still doing the emotional rollercoaster.  You can say anything here and not upset anyone, and get lots of support. 

Eph3_12

Hi overcomer-that's a great screen name!  Welcome to life @ BCO-sorry you have to be here but glad you found us.

NavyMom

Hugs to you Overcomer.  You found the right place for compassion, support, education and even humor.  Take one day at a time and come back often.  These women are true miracles

Navy

PauldingMom

Hi Overcomer. I too love the name! 

Does anyone else have this happen? Your watching the news and they say "big news on BC coming up." So you wait and wait, only to hears some old fart doc. tell you his ideas on B.C. treatment. I was so down after he said that all Triple negs. should have double MX when my PROFESSIONALS never even bought it up. This guy on the news was a general surgeon, not a breast doctor. I wanted to reach out and shake him. Thanks alot a-hole for the super scare. Like we need to hear half witted "pros." sending out such vague suggestions. 
Okay off to send MHO to Fox News. I'm sure to feel much better after venting to them. 

elimar86861

Overcomer3, I see you have gotten a warm welcome already, but I will add mine also.  Girl, howdy!  Always happy to meet someone new, and sad at the same time.  Let us know what your treatment plan is.  What surgery have you had?  Are you having any chemo right now? 

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Yes, we have gotten a lot more discerning about what those "t.v. doctors" are telling us.  It bugs me when they make sweeping general statements.  Those are generally not very good at all, since we all know that cancer can be very individualized, and the blanket statements are sometimes way off the mark.

Meece

It's like the panel that recommends that no Mammos for younger women, had no breast surgeons or oncologists on it.  Right?

NativeMainer

I wonder if that panel had any WOMEN on it? 

Ainm

Have you noticed how every tv programme including sit coms etc now all seem to have a token cancer patient in them????

My husband calls it the red car syndrome - you decide to buy a new car and you chose red because it's not a very common colour (insert most uncommon car colour in your area in place of red)  then once you you get your car every second car that passes seems to be red!!!

I guess I just never noticed how common it was to have a token cancer patient in programmes before I had it myself!!

elimar86861

Do I detect a little cynicism around here?  I have just one thing to say about that...

                                    

That goes double for your comment, NM!   ROFLOLPIP!  (...last part is "peeing in pants!")

Meece

I think I saw an interview with a "woman" who was on the panel, sort of reminded me of Janet Reno, not very feminine at all.  In fact cuold have been a man impersonating a woman who who relate to the female that they were going to deny treatment/testing for.

cookiegal

Ainm....it's interesting they rarely mention Barb's cancer on Big Love anymore, even though that lead to "the principal". But I kind of love that they have the villan cancer lady with the bad wig, you don't see many cancer villans.

cookiegal

Oh on the topic, Celia can be sort of a villan in Weeds I guess.

Kleenex

Ooooooh. Cancer villan. Love that concept.

Also love the "Janet Reno type" comment. Remember when Will Farrell did her on Saturday Night Live? In the blue suit? SO feminine.

cargiver

Hi ladies

 I had  one of my beast taken off  on Jan. 7 and  now I am just starting to feel like I am getting back to my  normal self. Tomorrow I have to start taking Novo-tamoxifen as anyone taken this drug before I am kind of worried for there are all kind  of side affix from taking it.

elimar86861

cargiver, your chances of having a serious side-effect are VERY low.  Just read the literature to know the signs of something serious.  Mainly, almost all women get HOT-FLASHES, at least in the beginning.  I began to take it in mid-Nov., had the flashes, but by February, I was having almost none at all.   Some pre-menopausal women do get Tamox-i-pause, but not all.  Most of us here were willing to give the Tamox a try, and I think most have tolerated it well and were able to stay on it.  Good Luck.  Don't be afraid to give it a try.

elimar86861

Oh-oh-oh, all the Middies seem to be elsewhere.  They are busy getting a weigh-in on the E-LAB thread and confessing all their snacking indisgressions.  To do my part I will have to put a bag-clip on the Cheetos and hide them for a while. 

I hope diet and exercise will still get mentioned on this thread.  I try to walk a few times a week, and I have to say I have always found it a pretty boring thing to do, but plain old walking has been linked to greater survival in breast cancer patients.  Just 1-3 hours a week of walking at a decent pace.  It is supposed to be especially true for women with hormone receptor positive cancers.  

carollynn79

Walking is my favorite form of exercise and now that the weather is getting better I hope to walk more.  Will have to take a week or so out after surgery next week but after that I hope all the support here and on E-LAB will keep me motivated!!

Got a good report yesterday from my first follow up Mammo YEA!!!  He noticed it is still red and has some like textured skin , he told me to do a gentle massage 1-2 times  a day using Aloe or my favorite mild cream and it will help break down the hard spots from the treatment and surgery.

Question, has anyone noticed that their finger nails have lines running up and down in the them?  Mine used to be smooth and don't knwo if it means anything, could be thyroid connected maybe too.  Well I have 15 minutes leeft of my lunch so wil step outside into the nice weather and take a littel walk!!  Have a great day all.

sheila888

carollynn...I have that condition because of chemo or the Herceptin. It got little better in time at least they dont break from the middle anymore.

Sheila

elimar86861

I would like to know about the ridges on figernails too.  I thought the ridges were an age thing, but I know it can be nutritional as well.  What is the story about those ridges?

carollynn79, some of those hard spots you feel could still be internal stitches.  When they get encapsulated by scar tissue, they don't disolve away, or at least they are very slow to do so.  Massage (gently) right on the hard spots that you can feel.  I had a couple physical therapy massages, and that's what the PT did.  Also, she put downward pressure on my scar area, then stretched it first to one side, then to the other.