MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

elimar86861

reesie, Your dragon boat paddling, viking horde teammates sound lilke real sweeties.  Nice touch and a nice win too.  Happy to hear the WBR is doing a good job.  The hair loss will be a small price to pay.  Or should I say TOUPE?  Heehee.

barbe1958

Ah elimar, how many posts have you waited to be able to say THAT?? hehehehheheheee

elimar86861

A long time.  Patience is one of my many virtues. Ehe-he-he-he!  Snort, snort!  Ladylike laughter, however, is not. 

Eph3_12

TOUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Anonymous

Hooray, Joni! How cool is that!!!

cmbear

Happy Monday ladies!!! Any tests, check-ups or procedures this week??  

barsco1963

Enjoying a holiday Monday here in Canada. Good possibility of a beach day with some family and friends. Hope everyone has a wonderful week! 

Momine

Nope, delightfully doctor-free for the next month, inshallah.

barbe1958

Next week I'll need pocket parties; Monday is bone scan (13th) and Friday is the Onc to get results of brain CT and bone scan, and if my PCP hasn't gotten me results of my spine MRI yet, I'll get that from her too!

elimar86861

cmb, I fully support the Faces On Bread artform. 

                                                                              

Newbie Announcement:  If you are a Newbie and look on this thread, you probably think,"Oh, it is just another zany social thread; but I have questions about MY CANCER."  Well, what you don't know, being new and all, is that some of us who are not in active treatment just BIDE OUR TIME with this, that, and the other thing between all the pressing B/C matters.  However, we can switch into Helpful Answer Mode or Got Your Back Support Mode in a heartbeat.  So if you look in at a time when we are joking around, or you see a lot of shirtless men...don't let that deter you from posting.  Jump right in.  You won't be interupting anything.

barsco1963

Got some much needed rain here yesterday - poured down. Unfortunate timing though - We got soaked when at an event watching the "square dancing tractors". I kid you not. Some local men with too much time on their hands perhaps, have come up with this routine. Posting a link so you can all have a little something zany to start your week off! Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6m_YisHNoM

elimar86861

OMG, barsco!  Don't know how I am going to recover from that.  Not the weather talk.  I mean the tractors.  Did Canada just move south of the Mason-Dixon line?

elimar86861

On an extremely serious note: 

Chemotherapy can backfire and boost cancer growth: study

elimar86861

Just emailed that to my girlfriend who just began chemo for Ovarian.  Hope she doesn't freak...

But now I'm back to yet again look at the sublimely ridiculous photo pairing that went along with that article.  Did you catch that? 

(Ooops, CAN'T CAPTURE PHOTO, so look in the article.)  It reads. " A cancer patient works on a puzzle as she gets her chemotherapy treatment in 2010..."

First thought:  If having a two year old file pic of a patient doing Sodoku (those are fun, right?) is the best they can do to illustrate cancer treatment, why not show a patient scarfing down some Cheetos already?  Or maybe a face on toast, even.

Second thought:  How much do Yahoo's online editors make and where can I apply?

lostinmo

elimar-I read that article and then 60 min. had on there how sugar feeds cancer. I think cheetos are safe though. 

I go meet the radiologist on thursday. He better be nice! 

cmbear

She's a cancer patient because she has a Livestrong bracelet on? You're right--you could do that job--and much better than those Yahoo's!!!!

marlegal

Eli, I simply cannot believe that any medical professional would say something like that - a-hole doesn't begin to cover it. My sister-in-law died from ALS in 1991. She had no idea her father had the disease (he was misdiagnosed) so no thought about family planning. Now one of their daughters, who chose not to have children after marrying, has ALS. She's 39 years old. I watched what it did do my SIL, and now it kills me to see what it's doing to my niece. I doubt if that a-hole truly ever watched someone suffer from ALS, or there's no way in hell he could be so downright callous to say such a thing. You're right that there is not a blood test or a true one test does it all to diagnose. My niece recognized her symptoms because she nursed her Mom for years. I'm sorry, didn't mean to go on, but this is a subject very near and dear to my heart and my family's lives so it just steams me that a supposed medical professional would so carelessly throw that out there. I agree with other posters - you definitely should investigate how you can post to a site or write a letter or something like that so he doesn't scare the crap out of anyone else. A-hole indeed. I'm so sorry you had to be treated that way.

Thanks for all the bday wishes - and I'd take that donut-cake over a regular cake any day of the week!!! Yummo

Have a good week buds. I'm in any pockets where there's room and a need.

cmbear

Barbe--a whole week without Doc visits--whatever are you going to do with your time?? Momine--a whole month?? I want to be on your doc track. . . I'm happy that I have only one visit scheduled this month and no tests!!

Cindyl

I had my bad mamagram on 2/7/12.  Six months ago today.  I've had 3 weeks in those 6 months where I didn't have an appointment with some sort of health care professional.  Here's hoping the next 6 are less intense.

barbe1958

Waaaaaaa! I tried to change my avatar picture and was able to on Facebook, but can't for some reason here on BCO!!! Now I have no picture!!! Will you guys still know it's me????

Katharine2411

I've been sitting here for a few hours reading your thread, and you courageous wonderful women have made me feel better.



I'm 51 and just had a double masectomy. Tumor was large. Cancer was fast growing and aggressive .... But they got it all and it didn't spread! Had my first chemo last thursday. 4 rounds of some double cocktail of crap then toxal, Herceptin, radiation ... Yadda yadda yadda. I was sitting here looking at the healthy people on TV and wondering what I'll look like bald when I found you guys. So negativity and fear has been tossed. I'll get through this. Plus I'll have a nice new pair of perky boobs when I'm done! LOL.



So thank you for making me feel better.

Eph3_12

Katharine24, Happy you found us.  We pride ourselves on being well-adjusted, happy go lucky, foot-loose, raging lunatics who have love affairs with cheetos, fru-fru drinks, chocolate, parties & male hunks! 

barbe1958

Katherine, some women look absolutely beautiful bald!!! The shape of their head, the way it makes their eyes pop, that kind of thing. Don't think of it as a negative until you've checked out your new look. A lot of women also keep their hair short afterwards as it looks good, too!

I see Joni didn't recognize me....sigh. Help me!!! I need an avatar!! 

Eph3_12

I did to recognize you.  I don't know how to go from FB to BCO with pictures but it's supposed to be easy.  Anyone????? 

barsco1963

Welcome Katherine - glad you found us here. Lots of great friends to laugh with, cry with and of course eat cyber treats with!

Cindyl - wishing you 6 mos of boredom regarding dr. appts etc

Has anyone seen barbe1958? lol

Eph3_12

hahahaha barsco!

KittyGirl2011

Why is there always the good news, bad news scenario just when you think you're in the clear?? I had my MO appointment an got the all clear and don't have to go back for one year.  Happy as could be with that, then my GP's nurse called with the bad news. I tested positive for a rheumatoid factor! So now it's off to the rheumatology doctors. Does it just never end! I don't know much more yet but it sure is frustrating!  Anybody know if BC and it's treatments has any relation to bringing on a rheumatoid disease?  I'm soooooooo frustrated now. Kitty

Sherryc

Katherine welcome to the group but sorry you are joining us here.

I was behind like 4 or 5 pages now can't remember what I read.  I have been very busy at work, last weekend took my annual girls weekend with my childhood girlfriends.  Had a blast as usual.  Monday went to the PS for my pre-op exchange surgery on the 21st (looking forward to getting my squishies) and today went to the gastro dr to get scheduled for the dreaded colonoscopy now that I am 50. Will also be getting that scope thingy down my throat as I have lot's of neasea from gastritis off and on. So will have that the day before my surgery on the 20th.  If any other Dr wants something they better speak up and get it done this year cause after that I'm going on strike.

marlegal

Okay Barbe, I just changed my avi back to my original and wrote down the steps! At the top of the screen, click on My Profile. The click Settings over toward the right of the next screen. Then scroll down the left side several items down till you get to Avatar. Then I just browsed to my Pictures on the computer, double-clicked the one I wanted, then Save. Hope it works for you so everyone else can see the new you!!!

elimar86861

Welcome, Katharine2411!  I think the negativity and fear are a normal phase to go thru', but because the stage is not fun at all, I think most of us in Stages 1-3 eventually force ourselves out of it the best we can.  (I can't speak for Stage IV women.  They have a different process going on, and their own ways of sorting thru' it.)  Hope the bald looks good on you.  Now, lookie, looiek at marlegal...she looks adorable with her short do'.  We might never see what kind of hair Barbe is sporting these days, but she also looked cute in her short hair.

Cindyl, I'm not sure if you have posted on this thread before or not. but welcome if you're new here.  It does get better, as you finish up with some treatments/docs and get onto your minimum maintenance schedule

KitttyGirl, I hate tio say it but, boy, do you sound middle-aged.  It's the time of life when two more problems pop up, before you can even fix the one you are working on.  It so very hard to "get ahead."  Why do I get the feeling that the senior years might be five things going wrong at once?  Spare-a-me-a!