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

    Loral- love the cat !!!

    El-I never thought of that. YUCK

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

    lol @ Loral's post. Scratchy-bleedy - hahaha

    Dianarose - good to know that your sister was good enough to remove the post. Will hang out with you on Friday if you're needind some distractions while your getting those blood tests on Friday. I hope that you are at least taking 5 every now and then so that you aren't wearing yourself out.

    Eli - good to know that your chemo break was helpful and that your counts are better.

    I have tomorrow off work - going to help my sister clean out our Dad's house. He has moved into a one bdrm apt after living in the house for over 50 yrs. Yikes - there's gonna be a lotta stuff to go through. Probably a good thing that he is away for a week or so.

    Hope everyone cleared Hump Day without too much trouble!

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

    lol @ Loral's post - Scratchy bleedy - hahaha

    Dianarose - good to hear that your sister was decent enough to remove that post. Will come hang out with you on Friday if you need some distraction while getting those blood tests done. I hope that you aren't wearing yourself out getting the bakery ready. Remember to take 5 every now and then.

    Eli - good to hear that the chemo break was helpful and that your counts are better this time round.

    I took tomorrow off work in order to help my sister get started at clearing out Dad's house. After 50+ yrs of living in the same house, he is moving into a one bdrm apt. There's gonna be a lotta stuff to go through. It's probably a good thing that Dad is away on holidays for a week or so.

    Hope everyone was able to get over Hump Day without too much trouble!

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

    Diana, do you have a bff around to keep you from going totally overboard? Sometimes I just worry that you push yourself too hard. I'd feel better knowing there's at least one person geographically close to keep an eye on you!



    Going to see Wicked for the third time on Sat. Treating my great-niece as a surprise. She's going to freak when she realized where we're going...I can't wait :)

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

    Love, Love, Love "Wicked". Saw it a couple years ago.  

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

    Marlegal- I am just frustrated right now with the hood guy dragging his dam feet. He's totally an ass. Always tooting his own horn, yet does nothing. BF has really been helping a lot getting the bakery together. He has pulled a few all nighters.

    I will go for the tumor marker blood work in the morning. Not sure if that is something they will have the results for tomorrow or not. I know when I had blood work prior to a chemo infusion we had the labs back in 20 minutes. I guess I am like my dad and just don't want to know too much. It freaked him out to know he had brain tumors that they couldn't remove. He always referred to them as the things in his head. I am relieved to have my breast gone along with the ovaries, but to have the little bastards some place that they can't remove them freaks me out as well.

    I will have to take some pictures of the progress we are making at the bakery. It has a warm and relaxing feel about it.

    I have never heard of Wicked. What is it about?

    Barsco- My sister called tonight and all she talked about were her (minor) health problems. Lack of calcium, blah, blah, blah. I don't mean to sound so mean, but I couldn't even get one word in.

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  • chrisct
    chrisct Member Posts: 2,662
    edited July 2013

    Lurker from CT here...

    Dianarose - I hope that guy can get the hint and respect your personal space - reminds me of a scene in Emperor's New Groove - loved that movie.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4uV3icrmw0

    ((((((Middies)))))))

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

    marlegal - what a great surprise for your great neice. It is so much fun being able to surprise someone with something that you know they are really going to like. You're such a great Great Auntie!

     Dianarose - if you incorporate the hand movements just like the ones in the video that chrisct posted, maybe sanitation guy will back off a bit. And tell hood guy that if he doesn't straighten up you have some sisters from various misters that are willing to jump in your pocket to help ensure that he does what he needs to in order for you to get the bakery opened! And low calcium? really?

    HAPPY FRIDAY!

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

    Dianarose, you have every Middie on here pulling for you to get some low marker numbers today!   Watch your stress levels...and what I mean is that opening the bakery is the "good" kind of stress , but still stress, nonetheless.  When you start with this disease and add other stuff into the mix, it can get to be stress overload, so try to consciously unwind when you can.  As for your sister...wouldn't it be nice to stick one of your pies into her pie-hole?  Visualize it.

    chrisct, you have posted here before (some time ago,) and are always welcome to pop in, as you wish.  Hope life is treating you well these days, as you move further out from Dx.

    My own cancerversary was on Tuesday of this week.  I go by my surgery date and it has been FOUR YEARS now.  Four long, and not fun-filled years, but still...  I KNOW all the ER+/PR+ B/C realities, but I really do feel that I have gotten rid of the B/C for good, bar getting something brand new, of course.  Gonna go get the mammo check-up next week.  Not worried, but not looking forward to the squishing which has given me broken capilaries on the breast the last three times.  Anyone not in a pocket next Weds. can come along and keep me company. 

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

    Dianarose: Wicked is the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.  It's political satire at it's most boring, but the other story in the story is just the story of how the Wicked Witch came to be.  It's completely different from the story recently shared in the new OZ movie that came out in Mar or April, but both stories are quite fun.  I am a HUGE Wizard of Oz fan; used to have collectible crap everywhere.  It's all boxed up now waiting for the daughter to inherit! But I still LOVE the original movie and spin-offs.  Interesting though, I've never watch "The Wiz" or any of it's spawn-I think that was Diana Ross in the beginning.  Anyway, that's a brief lesson on Wicked.  It was on Broadway, has lots of great songs!

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

    PS, Hi chrisct!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2013

    I LOVED "Wicked"....saw it several years ago and would love to see it again! Lucky gniece Marlegal!



    I'll be in your pocket next Wed Eli! Is it appropriate to wish you "Happy" cancerversarry?



    I'm going to my 41st High school reunion next Friday. Haven't been to on since #20 and mainly want to go since they've now combined years and I can go with my brother who graduated 3 years before me. I guess the combine years after 40 because our numbers are dwindling. I'm not sure who I'll still know......but there's a certain satisfaction out of being a "survivor".

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

    Whew!  I had a lot of reading to catch up on after a week with my grandbabies. I am adding thoughts about what I have read on the last four pages.

    DIL was a music instructor and can sing show tunes beautifully.  She was singing songs from Wicked and when I asked about it she gave me the cd.  I'd love to go see it, but she live in another state and DH is not the musical type.

    Marlegal, I slow cook my ribs in Chardonay before adding the dry rub and grilling them.  Your recipes sounds like one I'd love to try.  

    Didn't see Lone Ranger but took the babies to see Despicable Me2.  We all loved it.  I held my DGS on my lap the entire movie and I don't think he moved at all unless I did.

    As for removing lumps, my GP scheduled me with a surgeon as soon as I showed her my lump. It was a fast grower and was visible.  She said even if it is nothing, she was sure I wouldn't want it there.  She was right, especially since it WAS something.

    I remember using tanning oil I think it was Hawaiian Tropic with an SPF 4.  I smelled like a pina colada!  Boy was I dark!  Now I do everything to avoid sun damage.

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

    Dianarose, congratulations on your shop, and for recognizing how NOT to treat employees.

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

    Chris- Love the video. My son is going to be there with his cell phone on video on the day Mr Touchy-feely comes to do the inspection.

    Eli- I had to stop typing for a minute as I was imagining the pie hole thing. That would make me feel so much better. See, it is the little things in life. Trying to open is a lot of stress, but I sleep so much better now that I don't work at that other place. That tech better not squish you too hard this time. Wouldn't she be surprized to see all of us jump out of your pocket with our war paint on.

    Eph- I will have to see Wicked. It sounds good.

    My MO emailed me that the only 2 blood tests that haven't come back are the tumor marker ones. He said all the other ones were pristine. There is that dam word again. The same one the surgeon used in regards to my ovaries and we know how that one turned out. My liver enzymes were normal again so I can go back on the Metformin. I am glad of that as I feel I am doing nothing to fight this while I have test after test.

    Meese- glad you got time with your grandbabies.

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

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

    Eli- if that tech hurts you she is going to have to deal with all your sisters. (I hope you can see the picture)

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited July 2013

    Dianarose--good idea having our son and a cell phone with video there the day Mr. Touchy-Feely  inspects.  Something is pretty wrong there, and he needs to be stopped.  And why is it that the most important tests take the longest to process?  Just not right. 

    Eli,--better warn your squicher tech about the support group in your pocket, we're ALL armed and ready to defend your boobies! 

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

    chachamom, I am happy with every cancerversary, every passing year and, really, every passing day that I can feel cancer is a thing of the past.  Thanks!

    Dianarose, Do you think you will actually report the inspector?  A harassment suit would be time consuming, but to report it to his department (with pictures) might not be a bad idea.  What if you are not the only one he is out there groping?  Perv!

    About the squishing...All I know is that each time, I say go easy on my treatment side because the tissues are damaged and the blood vessels rupture easily on that side now; and each time they nod but crank it down as hard as ever.  I do understand that it has to flatten as much as it can for a good image, but just think of how many women have to get lots of check up mammos after B/C and this is the standard.  We are just more delicate after rads, and it is a shame that the technology is so hurtful and damaging in itself.  My center was supposed to have ultrasound screening this year, but something must have gone awry because I asked about it and they are not offering it yet.  Ultrasound screening is supposed to be better for dense breasts anyway.

    Has anyone here had ultrasound screening yet?  (I don't mean the regular kind they do once a lump is found.  I think it a new machine.)

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

    Eli- the inspectors office is in the same Mall as the bakery. I only like to be touched if I invite it. He creeps me out. I didn't know that there was a new machine for ultrasound screening. I know the old one didn't work for me.

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

    I Goodled a little, here's an article some of you "densies" might like to read:

    Ultrasound SCREENING.

    Interesting note...although the "miss rate" is low for both mammo & US screening, notice that of those misses, 75% were small invasive cancers in the case of mammo, while only 25% of the small invasive cancers got missed with the US (which did do worse for DCIS.) 

    This new imaging may not impact a LOT of women, but there is a good chance it would have found mine, the 7mm one mammo missed a month before I was able to fell the lump.  I was LUCKY that mine was very near to the surface, and able to be felt.  It will not help HUGE numbers of women, but the screening is not that costly either, so I think "densies" will be wanting to get this.  I want it.

    Here's the machine.

                                                           

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

    Eli- did it mention how well it picks up lobular?

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

    Loral - LOLing about the scratchy-bleedy cat. Elimar, now you've got me wondering if there is a cat meme about squishy mammograms!

    Diana - I hate those touchy-feely men.  If you didn't need him for something you could just smack his hand away, but you do and of course he knows that.  Will you need this guy for annual inspections, too?

    Elimar - I haven't asked about an ultrasound screening.  I always thought it was the same thing as the ultrasound you get after a lump has been found - no one has bothered to explain the difference to me even when I asked about alternatives to the horrible mammograms. In August I'm scheduled for my first breast MRI, so at least no squishing this year.

    I complained about the mammogram last year and the tech said, well maybe next time you should take a tylenol before you come in.  I said I took a hydrocodone and it still hurts.  She said she would be on the floor if she took a hydrocodone.  I wanted to say, "Well, aren't you a delicate little flower?" and then of course add "bitch".  Haha, not really!

    Fortunately my doctor wants me to switch to every other year anyway.  I could probably postpone this MRI until next year but I feel lucky my insurance company approved it so I guess I better get in the loop for this option.

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  • Loral
    Loral Member Posts: 932
    edited July 2013

    Heartnsoul you are funny...I have my first mammo after surgery in a few weeks, my scar is a keloid and it really hurts, I'm taking hydrocodone...

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

    HNS-Love the delicate flower, BITCH, thought!

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

    Did you know?????  There is a shortage of expertise in the radiology/sonography fields, in case any of you have college age children not yet declaring a major.

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

    Just got my tumor marker results, 58. MO says they should be under 38. Well this just sucks !!!! I want these little bastards out of my body. I never did like hide and go seek.

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

    A new day, a new reason for me to hate cancer.  My best friend from grade school "turned." 

    I call it "turned" when someone from an earlier Stage goes Stage IV, but it's not really turning is it?  The cancer was in there all along, circulating around looking for a new home on one of the innocent, unsuspecting organs.

    My friend had neoadjuvant chemo , Lx + 17 nodes out, and rads three summers ago.  I don't know if she got more chemo after the surgery, but she was on AIs afterward.  Recently she went to the doc with some pain in her back/hip, which we all know gets you a bone scan lickety-split.  Something looked abnormal, so PET/CT last Sunday.  They found three small bone lesions on her, the hip, lumbar spine and somewhere in the shoulder area.  So it begins anew for her, all the sucky treatment. 

    I know bone mets can stabilize well with treatment, but still...

    Our old Middie pal Barbe has gone off to posting elsewhere, but I think of how she always said, we are all just a scan away from Stage IV.  Just a flippin' scan away.

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

    Change shot to "scan"! & war to "cancer"

    Sorry E that your friend has turned....

    "Gimme Shelter"

    Oh, a storm is threat'ning My very life today If I don't get some shelter Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very street today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost your way War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder! It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder! It's just a shot away It's just a shot away Rape, murder! It's just a shot away It's just a shot away The floods is threat'ning My very life today Gimme, gimme shelter Or I'm gonna fade away War, children, it's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away It's just a shot away I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away It's just a kiss away Kiss away, kiss away

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

    Dianarose - sorry that your tumor markers were higher than hoped. What does that mean for you going forward?

    Eli - so sorry to hear that your friend has had mets discovered.

    This effin disease just never gives up!

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