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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2013

    Dianarose,  When I tried to go to that page, I got the warning that it was a "Reported Attack Page."  It is the L.A. Times, but if it is hacked, there could be a problem so I did not read the article. 

    I was never elegible for a trial.  I'd have to think long and hard about it.  What if you end up in the placebo group (if there is one.)  But I think usually it is a blind study between the established meds. and a new one (and what if the new one fails to perform up to the established one?)  I would be a little scared to take the guinea pig gamble.  However, I have awesome respect for those who have the disposition and courage to participate in the trials.  We all do benefit from what is learned, even if it is not the discovery of a new great treatment.  Has anyone here already been in a trial?  I would like to hear first-hand about it.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2013

    annamarieh,  The VS panties would be traded in for a gown, so they would wind up being for your eyes only.  However, if you showed up with a bizarre and unusual tattoo, that would get everyone talking.  Think about it. 

    Where's paula66?  I think she would do it.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2013

    Don't get me going on the Super Bowl.  (Remember I wrote a very funny game preview last year?  Worth searching for.)  I had to be for the underdog Ravens, but they got me mad when they didn't go for that easy 3 point field goal and instead went for goal.  That was some brother v. brother stupid coaching hubris right there.  Then in the end, I hated that play where SF had the incomplete pass (that sure looked like holding on three different replays) so then they didn't have the oppty. to kick for a three points that could have led to a tie game; and I hate when an official's call directly determines the outcome of the game like that.  So, the Ravens won (yay) but not in a 100% honorable way.  I'm a big fan of the honorable win.

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited February 2013

    Eli, LOL, to me what you just wrote reads approximately like "splrg splt blprm xckus fgtrw ..." All I get from watching football is that a lot of very large men run around and crash into each other. I also wish that all these team sports would have a large flag above each goal/basket with the color of the team supposed to score there. That way I might be able to figure out what is going on, but I can never remember who belongs where.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2013

    I had to go into my sewing room to watch the game because I knew I would be asking too many questions and irritating DH.  It was best for our marriage.  And I got a sewing project started AND completed.

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited February 2013

    I had the game on in the other room and finally was lured in there when the power went out. I thought that might be interesting for a while.  Then, when SF starting coming back, I gave in to my inner football fan and watched the rest of the game.  Yes Elimar, that was such a painfully ignored holding call.  Like my friends and I said 2 weeks ago, the refs beat Atlanta. We were wondering if the replacement refs were back!  Well, the Harbaugh brothers will have something to argue about for many get-togethers to come.

    So, I missed most of the commercials but was unfortunate enough to see the Go Daddy "kissing" commercial.  I got online and looked up the Oreo Cookies or Cream commercial - that was funny!

    I had no party planned, no fun food, not a Cheeto to be found. 

    Elimar, I'm going to have to look up your pre-game review for last year!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2013

    Let me help you out HnS76:   http://community.breastcancer.org/topic_post?forum_id=109&id=739321&page=615

    Seems that my "cuter Q-back" prognostication technique once again hit the mark this year.  Flacco beats Kap, no contest.

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited February 2013

    That was great! Poor Tom Brady - Mr. Potato Head with a closed-head injury, that's baaaad. Really no point in doing one this year - Flacco is a stud.

    About the trial stuff - I asked if I qualified for the BRCA test and I didn't (only my mother had breast cancer and that's not enough) so they asked me if I wanted to participate in some DNA test in the City of Hope - I like that name.... They sent me the information and I lost it, but the lady just called again and will send it again Innocent.  Anyway, it's a huge study that most oncologists don't talk/know about - I don't know which.  But it's for any kind of cancer, they just take a blood sample and you fill out a health questionnaire and they are looking for genetic mutations that might show a pattern for cancer.  

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited February 2013

    Odie hope you enjoyed the Sangria!!  Take favorite sweet red wine, pour into a pitcher squeeze juice of an orange and a lemon in it, slice and orange and a lemon and put into pitcher, add 7 up or ginger ale and enjoy!!

    Ok the food was great, we played cards and laughed a lot did nto see much of the game, like I said I'm into the game for the food!!!Have to be good this week. oh well

    I am in a trial for oncotype scores, mine was in the gray zone so they are trying to figure out best therapy.  Won't help me but maybe fine tune for others.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2013

    http://www.hollandamericablog.com/2013/02/04/hal-launches-on-deck-for-a-cause-shipboard-giving-program/

    The guy on the far right was one of the 2 dancers that my sister & I made fools of ourselves about whilst on board the ship!

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  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 2,264
    edited February 2013

    Cinical trials - I did two. One was for a diff way of doing sentinel node biopsy for quicker results so that surgery could be modified if necess. To be honest, I forgot about it until a year later when they called me from duke research center to ask me some follow-up questions. The other was my chemo. Both legs were proven chemos, but one (mine) was a dose dense version still under clinical. My onc was the head of the research dept at a teaching hosp and I trusted her and trusted what I read, so went with it. So far, results seem fine :)

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2013

    Eli, thanks for the walk down memory lane!!  I agree that this year Flacco was the better looking, but I kinda liked the exoticness of Kaepernick.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2013

    but since I'm old enuf to be both their grandmas I guess I should just not even look!

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited February 2013

    And don't get me started on the big game either......

    I'm a 49ers fan & have been since I was 15 years old. (and if you remember how old I just turned a while back, you know that is a long time!).

    Needless to say, I watched the entire game & the outcome was not what I preferred....

    But, it is a game & there is always next year! We've won five Super Bowls & there are more to come!

    Fav commercial: Clydesdales/Budweiser

    Worst commercial: that nasy, revolting GoDaddy kiss

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited February 2013

    Marlegal, thanks for doing that. That is how they did my surgery, took the sentinels, biopsied them and then continued on with the surgery based on that.

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  • barsco1963
    barsco1963 Member Posts: 2,119
    edited February 2013

    Oh Eph ...... No harm in looking is there?

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited February 2013

    Eph, I think it is very important to QOL to embrace one's inner dirty old lady ;)

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  • staynsane
    staynsane Member Posts: 213
    edited February 2013

    Eli,

    Thanks for sharing your 2012 Superbowl prognostication!  We all need to lighten up, and like Momine said, "embrace our inner dirty old lady."  Guys have been doing that in reverse since the beginning of time.  I would love to see your commentary on a good cave man battle (so much to make fun of; prominent foreheads, hairyness, nakedness...).  Most of us, like Eph said, are old enough to at least be the QB's mothers, if not their grandmothers, but in our minds we could pull off an encounter... 

    And I completely agree about that disgusting Go Daddy commercial.  When it came on, my stomach turned and I said "oh gross!" as my husband said, "I'll bet that guy loved doing this commercial!"

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2013

    Q:  What male ad exec. thought up that Go Daddy commercial?

    A:  All of them.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2013

    Trust me! I fully embrace my inner old lady.  I put out that "no looky" comment for those who run to the prude side (altho when I truly think about it I guess none of us fit that!!!!) so just pretend I didn't say it.

    Yes, the Go Daddy commercial was majorally disgusting, but look how many people are still talking about it? I much preferred the farmer clip as well as the commercial where they were all in the library.

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  • annemarieh
    annemarieh Member Posts: 140
    edited February 2013

    Eli~ I SO would love to have a washable tatoo for the OR!! Lord knows they have all the others I have! PS has a great sense of humor too!!! NowYou have got my mind ticking away....hmmmm. And yea...hehmmmm..kinda fell aslepp  during the darn game and missed BOTH hotties! I will look up the Go Daddy comercial

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  • Dianarose
    Dianarose Member Posts: 2,407
    edited February 2013

    I am a total train wreck today. I don't even know what to do with myself. My best friend was admitted to the hospital on Sunday for chest pains. They couldn't find anything wrong, but kept her for observation. They were supposed to do some tests yesterday for her heart, but the tech called out sick. Last night she had a major heart attack. They worked on her for over 30 minutes, but couldn't save her. She was the best. She went to all my chemo's, fills, therapy, etc.... She was the nicest person I knew. I am just so lost now. I loved her so much and never got to say goodbye. I just can't stop crying.

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  • annemarieh
    annemarieh Member Posts: 140
    edited February 2013

    Dinarose!!!! OMG!!!!! I am SO SORRY for your loss!! I will say a prayer for her soul, and for you! So so very sorry hun...xo

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited February 2013

    Oh, Dianarose, omg, I am so, so sorry.....

    I don't know what to say to comfort you....

    Please know we care & that we are here for you.

    Gentle hugs....

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited February 2013

    Diana, that is terrible, I am so sorry.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited February 2013

    Dianarose,  That is unreal!  So very sorry for your loss of such a great friend.  I know the medical centers are on the smaller side in Maine, but that is just tragic that the tests could not have been run yesterday.  Maybe this was your friend's time, but I can't help thinking that with the tests they might have found that an emergency surgery was called for and she would have had a chance.  I just don't know how you get over a shocker like this, but let your tears flow freely.  Incredibly sad story.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2013

    ((((Dianarose)))) We are all in shock for you & of course putting ourselves in your shoes.  I am so very very sorry for your loss. 

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  • Dianarose
    Dianarose Member Posts: 2,407
    edited February 2013

    Thanks for all you kind words and prayers. My friend, Jane, did have an EKG awhile back that was not right. Her doctor said she didn't think it was too bad, really???? Jane did not have health insurance and my daughter believes that is why her doc didn't go any further. She had also said for quite sometime that her legs hurt. Earlier last night in the hospital she said for the first time her legs didn't hurt. Forty five minutes later she was gone. For the past 2 days not one doctor in that hospital checked her legs for clots. I am sad and angry at the same time. I always figured with all my issues I would be the 1st to go. Her husband was always after her for sneaking sweets. Now she can have all the dam bon bons and little Debbies she wants.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited February 2013

    Dianarose - I'm so sorry for your loss. Wish I was there to give you a great big ((HUG)) and a shoulder to cry on.  Loving thoughts from here.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited February 2013

    Dianarose....Oy my, I'm so sorry for you. A loss so sudden is very hard to deal with. My prayers are with you.

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