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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011

    annettek, welcome to the thread.  Are you in rads now, or just finished up?  Yes, please let us know first hand if you get into a clinical trial with the blood screening for cells.  It would be interesting to follow that way.

    Barbe, quilters and non-quilters alike would love to see a pic of your fabric art.

    Kleenex, We missed you over the holidays.  I see from your new avatar that you are no longer a caricature.  For some reason, I expected your daughters to be pencil sketches.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011
    It's normal (on this thread) to have people forget things, so I cannot remember who has their 6 mo. checks right around now?  I'm going for mammo and U/S this morning and I seem to remember one or two would always have checks the same week I did.  Who was that?  Don't know if I still synched up with anyone else or not.
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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    elimar - Love the pic at the top.  So much talent here.

    Going tomorrow morning to see the med onc for Tamox.  I will officially have my ticket to board the tammy train.  Since I had so many problems with the AI's - I am kinda nervous about the Tamox but am willing to give it a try. 

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited January 2011

    Woops, Eli. Thought that was Meece's quilt up top. Beautiful.

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited January 2011

    Thank you, Middies, for the support on my recently completed project. I truly appreciate your thoughtful compliments.

    The 16 quilts, remember they're small, took over 5 years to complete. They are my "Ode to BC." I had the first one finished and the next couple well underway, when I was struck by dx #1.

    Well the rest is history. I finally got back to them and was making real progress when I hit the skids again with dx #2. I had a real meltdown when following my various complications (infection/cellulitis, frozen shoulder & Lymphedema upstart) I realized that I could no longer use the extremely HEAVY iron that I purchased specifically because of it's weight -- to help with the fusing. Our LE board got me thru that emotional disaster.

    Late last spring I was up to 12 completions & it was my dear husband who gave me the motivational speech of a lifetime. Then back to it....... and voila it's done: the book, that is.

    BTW: I say this as a service, not as a commercial, but if anyone were ever to want to order any of my projects, the promo code "Survivor" will give you a 50% discount from the retail price. I just don't want any of my fellow quilters to get so jazzed up & not be aware. Now that I type that, I just remembered that it/promo code has not yet been extended to my new book...... must remedy that........ babbling to myself, now.

    Drains. The solutions we come up with for drains. Rest assured dear drain friends, it is a temporary time and you will return to the land without drains. There will be a time that is again post-drain. Hugs for those of you in that quagmire.

    Kleenex. I feel better knowing you're a 'real' face & that you will return to us.

    Cookie. If I were ever to be in the kitchen I would want your secret, but alas it's safe in your hands, as you know my domesticity only goes as far as cooking my secret oatmeal.

    Jo. It's great to get back to what has the power "to take us away." I love the creative process and it's powers to heal.

    Eli. The person with the check-up story is our Meecie. She's had a rough go yesterday & we are all sending up prayers for her in the midst of her unfolding story. She's too gracious a person to call attention to her emotional roller coaster on more than one thread.

    (((((((((((((Meecie)))))))))))))))))))

    (((((((((((((Paulding-Mom/Lisa)))))))))))))))))))

    I certainly shouldn't have started a list. My brain can no longer keep so many sorted. Hugs to all in the midst of treatment and in the midst of the immediate after-shocks with no explanations.

    Ever onward.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

    Yes. Barbe. I have very vivid memories of exact quilt shop shelves where I stumbled upon a fabric that I was searching for -- or better still a fabric I didn't know I was searching for. I was one of your squeelers, jumping up & down, hugging the person behind the counter.

    I fell in love with the orange/gradation-to-red fabric, in the stripes, that is the featured element in my Sedona piece I posted last night. I truly went bonkers with that find -- as I had just been in Sedona.

    The blue stripes had eluded me for ages, I'd found the red & white candy cane version and knew I wanted to create a pinwheel effect.......... it was ages before I found the proper blue & white version -- where the stripe width was similar and the blue full strength. I found that at an international quilt show. Vendors covering an entire exhibit hall floor. I probably looked in a thousand bins of fabric.......... and then there it was.

    Had I known how to do a cartwheel I would have.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011
    jo and BarbA, a few posts back I did have a disclaimer that said I did not make that quilt.  Just putting some quilting flavor up there since you all are on a roll with all that quilting beauty, so I found a "Welcome" one.
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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011
    elimar - I do remember reading that.
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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2011

    I think I know what might be as fun as going to Fiath and Barbe's craft rooms, would be to go fabric shopping with them.  Dh just doesn't appreciate my looking at and touching each fabric, commenting on what they might be used for.  Mother doesn't get around like she used to so that's out.  I need a shopping partner.  Guess I need to train up one myself.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited January 2011

    Must be old age. Maybe CRS disease.

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited January 2011

    I am having trouble keeping up.

    Faith Love theAZ quilt. Do you sell them on rainbows within reach?

    Jo I really struggled with pain for a long time. I took about 6 weeks of lyrica, which helped but I gained weight at an astounding rate.

    Then I took celebrex which made me puffy. Both helped.

    I would talk to BS and discuss PT. Things like scar massage can help. I still get twinges and "sore boobie days" now and then.

    Have a great day!

    I start my new volunteer gig which has been months in the setting up tomorrow.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011
    Meece - My DH is the same way - can't see why I have to pick through each fabric and touch them. I will go shopping with you any day.  Then we may have to pick Barbe's brain for quilt tips.  I would rather do that than work, but I have to work to pay for the fabric. Oh darn!
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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited January 2011

    E-your comment about Kleenex's daughters being pencil sketches CRACKED me up!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011

    Well, Eph, you will be happy to know that my New Year's Resolution did not contain any changes to my own particular humor.  However, I have to put my seasonal Santa laugh back on the shelf til next year.  Har-har-har!

                                 

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    Elimar - Don't change your humor - it makes me laugh too much

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited January 2011
    me too, Eli:w ouldn't change a thing with the humor of our "fearless lrader"..3jays                             {{{{{{meece and Lisa}}}}}{{{{{marybe}}}}}}}}
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011

                              Happy Dance

    Happy to say that I am good to go for another six months..so sez my Breast Center technicians and docs.   I had mammo on the evil cancer growing right side, and U/S on the formerly presumed innocent bystander on the left, because last time a cyst was found in that one and a "mystery lump" that was almost certain to be a fibroadenoma.  Both tiny.  Remember I chose the option to just leave that alone and have another look in six mos.  Well, good call for me!  They did not even look at the obvious tiny cyst this time, and the other tiny lump is still tiny and unchanged.  If it looks the very same six months from now, lefty goes back onto yearly scans.  I forgot to ask when righty could go back to a yearly basis.  I am 1 & 1/2 years out now, so maybe even that one will go to yearly after next time.

    In a related story, only one out of three staff members at the Breast Center had heard of yesterday's breaking story about the blood screening.  So as not to appear behind-the-times, the two who had not heard that news did tell me that my Center will have a U/S SCREENING device next time I come in.  It is more sensitive than the diagnostic that is available right now.  Before I could jump up and down over that, they both threw in that insurance may not agree to cover it.  So, although I am interested to get one of those, I will have to see the price tag first.  So, stay tuned for the next installment which might include some new technology.  'Bout time!

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    Elimar - Congrats on the clean bill of health - hope it stays that way.  

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited January 2011

    Congrats Elimar now you can relax for another 6 months.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited January 2011
    Congrats Elimar now you can relax for another 6 months.Undecided
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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited January 2011
    doin the happy dance here, Eli.congrats   3jays
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011

    If I did make a quilt, no doubt it would come out looking something like this one:

                                

                            Only mine would have more than just one snack size bag of Cheetos on it!  

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited January 2011

    Yikes, Elimar! I think I missed that seasonal Santa laugh - sounds a little scary! How does it work with the little ones? I think I'll try that out on 'em - make them earn their goodies!

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited January 2011

    ewww...is that a quilt? I mean - it's lovely!

    I think I would try to make one that looked like an unmade bed - it would be a big hit, I'm sure! 

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  • phew
    phew Member Posts: 225
    edited January 2011
    jelimar  ust snak size?   i think mine would be the party pack!  and lotsa sugar pop a nd alpha bet goses too!  Innocent
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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited January 2011

    lalalalalalalalalalala     (((Elimar)))

    Wink

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    elimar - Can you pick samples from the quilt?  It sure is lovely. LOL

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2011

    Now there's some "fabric" shopping I think I could even get DH to go with me for.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited January 2011

    ELIMAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2011

    My GP just called with my results.  U/S and F/U mammo inconclusive and recommendation for MRI due to vague areas and dilation of ducts.  So, no definitive answer, just more testing to be done.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited January 2011

    {{{{MEECE}}} (((HUGS))))) I am holding your hand. I am there with you! And prayers are going up.

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