MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Eph3_12

we only need 509 more posts to hit 30, 000. Surely we can do that by the thread's birthday. Come on middies!!!!

I sold my house! If all goes well, I need to be out a month from today. You all may or may not remember I lost my job in January. Been looking since and it's a pit!!!! but I have been hired by the state forestry as a wildfire dispatcher once fire season starts. It will last as long as fire season (which may be longer than normal as we have NO snowpack). In the meantime, continuing to look for a permanent position. In the running for a job here as well as a couple further north. Here's hoping!!!!

I need a job that provides some type of bennies so I can go see doctors when I need to etc. I never used to go, even when I should, but now that I can't it's all I want to do when something's going on, like this cough that's pushing 3 weeks-aarrgghh!

elimar86861

Eph, I was just thinking the same thing (wondering if we could hit 30,000 posts by Aug. 22.) Wouldn't that be something? What, exactly, I don't know..but something!

I'm am LMBO that now, without bennies, all you want to do is get doctored up. I get that. Don't know what you've got til it's gone, huh? Keep me posted on the job prospects. If you get the forestry job, you will be able to quip, "Hey, do we have a wildfire happening or is that just my hot flash?"

Jeeper4

I will join in on helping to reach the 30,000 posts. I'm 51, 2 in college and 2 at home. Was diagnosed in Dec. so just trying to get thru this chit and keep it together.

glennie19

Eph:  congrats on selling the house!  Hoping your job search bears more fruit soon, than a temporary job,,, having bennies is nice. When does the fire season start?  My friend's mom used to climb the tall towers and watch for wildfires.  There is no way I'd ever been able to climb that high. 

Adding to the number of posts!

Eph3_12

The dispatch job will start when fire season starts. Usually late June, but I'm thinking it will be sooner this year due to all you East Coasters stealing our snoW!

MinusTwo

As some of you may know, I'm a little bit past even the "ish" portion of 60, but I sure do want to add posts to this thread to make the B-day goal. I'm a devoted reader. What a great bunch of ladies.

Cheesequake

I'm 41, so I'll throw my hat into the thread. Hi all

Tomboy

Welcome, Cheesequake! I saw you somewhere else, and I wondered how you made your name? Cracked me up!

Cheesequake

Apparently there is a town called Cheesequake in New Jersey. I'm on the opposite side of the country, but I love cheese (its right up there with sweet things as my favorite things on earth to eat!) and I thought it was such a fantastic word I had to adopt it as my own. In my head I imagine it very loud, in all caps, with an exclamation point! thank for the welcome!

NativeMainer

Eph--Congrats on the fire dispatch job!And selling the house!And for being in the running for a couple permanent jobs!

NativeMainer

Welcome, Cheesequake! Love the name, and the story behind it!

PoppyK

Eph, I am so glad you found a new job. My DH and I have been praying for you. Fire agencies are like one big family. I loved working for one (before kids).

Cheesequake... sounds like what is going on with my bum and thighs! LOL I love the name!

Do these hot flashes last forever? If I lived alone... or just DH and I.... I think I would just wear a simple dress and remove it several times a day when the flashes hit.

NativeMainer

PoppyK--I had hot flashed the entire time I was on arimidex. Now I'm having them due to natural menopause. The first go round lasted 5 years, not sure how long this round will last!

Dogsneverlie

I was thrown into surgical menopause at 38, HOT FLASHES WERE AWFUL.  At the time, I could take estrogen supplements but after a few years, did not want to take them anymore.  I drank quite a bit of Soy Milk and believe it or not, it really did help!!!

Dogsneverlie

Eph:  just read your post about this forum's upcoming birthday!  Since I turn 51 in June, I will make sure to visit this forum more often for sure!  I do read quite a bit and don't post as often as I should but since I am out here, I SHOULD POST!

elimar86861

Mornin', lady-sister-girls! Welcome to all newer ones. Guess I better get out the cheese platter of hospitality...

Now, going to search the internet for something my husband mentioned yesterday...about effectiveness of Tamoxifen being boosted by two cups of daily coffee. He told me he "heard something." Anyone else hear or see that? I'm off the Tamox. now, and more of a tea drinker, but still interested to know.

MinusTwo

Elimar - let us know if your coffee research turns up the rumor that it keeps minds bright & clear and keeps ALS at bay.

elimar86861

Hmmm, the news (yesterday) about the coffee seems to be a redux of what was in the news last year at this time, and not so much "new" news. It's still the Swedish study, and here it is from last year...

Coffee + Tamox.

glennie19

Speaking of coffee:

Yesterday's quote on my calendar:

"What would life be without coffee?  But then, What is it even with coffee?"    -----King Louis XV, 18th century French monarch.

Eph3_12

Good threading everyone!!! Keep it up.

Welcome to the cheesequake. And dogsneverlie!! both great avatar names!

MinusTwo

Oh look - maybe I can bump this along to the next page - 985

NativeMainer

Another try to get to page 985. . .

Jeeper4

digging into that cheese platter of hospitality! TY!

Loral

News to know....New Study!!!

Coffee 'could halve breast cancer recurrence' in tamoxifen-treated patients

Last updated: Thursday 23 April 2015 at 8am PST

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/292879.ph...

justmaximom15

Since today's my 47th birthday... I thought I better join this group to see what's up. Reading the original post I was like Yeah, that's me! No little ones, not retired yet, still trudging to the office every day (yes it could be worse) but with my youngest just turning 16 earlier this year, we were certainly beginning to enjoy the freedom that brings and yep BAM ! Cancer and not even a thank you ma'am!!

elimar86861

Hi, justmaximom15! Have you had surgery by now? Lumpectomy, or what? If yes, when will the radiation begin? Looking at your Dx line (simiilar to my own,) I can tell you that while the first year is all about procedures and active treatment, your normal life does not stop. You get even more shoved onto your plate! You will just have to be more selective about what you put your energies toward. I got my Dx when my youngest was a h.s. senior. I went to every home soccer game, even if I had to take a nap to do so. Why? Because that is what I would have been doing without having BC and I was just too stubborn to let the BC derail me completely. We are at all stages and phases of BC here, so just fling out any question/concerns you might have and we've got your back.

Loral, Thanks for posting the article...so it's all an update to last year's findings. Too bad I get a little jittery with coffee because I don't know if I can drink two cups a day anymore. The part I don't quite understand is this statement?

What is more, the team found that tamoxifen-treated women who consumed at least two cups of coffee a day had smaller tumors and a lower proportion of hormone-dependent tumors than women who consumed less coffee.

Are they saying that women who drank the coffee were less likely to have ER+ tumors? Did the coffee drinkers have more HER2+ then? How is that a good thing? But if is saying that they were Tamoxifen-treated, then wouldn't ALL the women have ER+ tumors in the first place? Are they talking about the women in relation to having recurrences? Because if it's that, then the Tamox. + coffee didn't work so well, did it?

Is this me having a mental block? Can someone please give me a sensible interpretation of what that is saying? I actually have seen that statement in several of the articles I had Googled, and it is either poor journalism or my brain is more chemo-addled than even I realize. Perhaps there is a wonder beverage must drink to understand the meaning of this? Help me to understand, someone, please!

MinusTwo

Elimar - Unfortunately I didn't see any reference to HER2+. Nor any reference to PR +/-. Since I'm not ER+ but am HER2+, I guess it's a crap shoot whether it would do any good. I think I did pick up that it has to be regular coffee for the caffeine. Wonder if cokes would do as well? I think I'll go pour a glass of wine and then read it again.

glennie19

minustwo:  sounds like a great idea!

 

Eph3_12

If the tamoxifen treated women had smaller tumors with 2 cups of coffee & lower proportion hormone dependent tumors, were those new tumors acquired after the tamoxifen? Sign me confused.

NativeMainer

My read on that statement is that women on tamoxifen who also drank at least 2 cups of coffee per day who did get bc recurrence had recurrent tumors that were smaller than women who didn't drink coffee and were less likely to be hormone positive than women who didn't drink coffee.I see this as describing a subset of women on tamoxifen who drink coffee and still had a recurrence.