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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited February 2010

    Glad the swelling went down OG -- that IS a little scary.  I'm with Wendy re: checking in with your doctor (just to be on the safe side).

    Sweaty -- woo hoo for the poo! :)

    Lilah

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  • sweatyspice
    sweatyspice Member Posts: 922
    edited February 2010

    I finally pooed again!!!  It was so difficult to accomplish, I gave myself a headache.

    YAY FOR POO!!!! 

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  • flash
    flash Member Posts: 1,685
    edited February 2010

    Glad you had a "passing" moment of fame. LOL.  I lost your number, call if you get the chance

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  • crusader1
    crusader1 Member Posts: 1,222
    edited February 2010

    Hi Ladies,

    I got my date for my exchange yesterday. It will be on March 17. Wish me the luck of the Irish. ( I am Jewish)

    I was very confident in what the PS said and am looking forward to getting a new breast. It has been quite a journey for me.

    Omaha..How are you doing?

    Flash- any news with your back?

    Sweaty- How are you feeling ? Still on pain pills.

    Hugs to all,

    Francine

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited February 2010

    Good luck to you Francine  I hope you your new boobie behaves itself this time Surprised

    I am hanging in there waiting for my pathology results of B9 (fingers and toes crossed)

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  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 682
    edited February 2010

    Yes....we need to plan the next GTG.

    Crusader if you have surgery the 17th...will you be up to getting together the Satuday before, March 13th? I was thinking of the Saturday after....but perhaps we should wish you well with green beer before hand? 

    Flash, how about you? I think you were looking at surgery in early March...any updates?   What would be better?

    Ladies....let's start planning....it will give sweaty and others something to look forward to....do you want afternoon or evening? Friday night, Saturday day, Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening?  I am leaning towards Neary's....if Cookie Gal was proposed to there....how sweet is that??

    Let me know!

    God Bless!

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited February 2010

    Just to be exact, he proposed to me about an hour afterwards, but they have great food and service, and old school Irish waitresses. I think y'all would really enjoy it. And every nice jewish girl should get engaged on Saint Patricks's day after a plate of corned beef!

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  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 682
    edited February 2010

    AMEN!

    Mazel tov!

    God Bless!

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  • Bigapple09
    Bigapple09 Member Posts: 440
    edited February 2010

    crusader1

    As an actual Irish Jew, I extend the luck o the Irish Jews to you on your exchange day!!

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  • crusader1
    crusader1 Member Posts: 1,222
    edited February 2010

    Wendy..Thanks for your good wishes.I do appreciate them.

    Angel..you are so kind to think of me after my exchange. I do believe that if you left it on that weekend I could ask my hubby to drive me. I would prefer afternoon or early evening. Let's see what the other gals think.

    Feel better ..Sweaty .

    Hugs

    Francine

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  • sweatyspice
    sweatyspice Member Posts: 922
    edited February 2010

    Francine - Congrats on getting a date for the exchange!  I'm sure you'll be happy to have crossed that hurdle.

    OG - When do you get your path results?

    Re: "Luck of the Irish" - I thought that was originally a sarcastic comment, b/c the Irish view their luck to be crap....? 

    Biggie - An actual Irish Jew?  Wow.  So unique.

    I'm off to the PS, hoping the drains come out.  They hurt like a mofo, especially in the evenings.  Don't know why, but by the end of the day my breasts are in open revolt v. the drains.  

    I don't have a preference re the time, place, etc. of the GTG.  Whatever works.

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  • MBCR
    MBCR Member Posts: 161
    edited February 2010

    You have to look out for parabens in the deodorants. I didn't use any thing on the SNB site for 4-6weeks. Then I found a Natural deodorant crystal at Whole Foods-it's just a deodorant, not an anti-perspirant, so sometimes I would "dust" a little cornstarch.

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  • Bigapple09
    Bigapple09 Member Posts: 440
    edited February 2010

    Sweaty, I think the luck is that the bars open at like 9am.

    MCBR: How are you doing??

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited February 2010

    Well ladies the results are in and all is B9! My Dr. is presenting my case at Sloan because what to do for monitoring purposes is a conundrum, to MRI or NOT.

    Angel, I vote for a Saturday afternoon, only because I am sleepy come 8 p.m. LOL

    As far as keeping track of who is coming and who is not I think we need another thread for either the GTG or for chatting...

    Hope your drains are out as I type Sweaty, I hated the damn things....

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  • sweatyspice
    sweatyspice Member Posts: 922
    edited February 2010

    My drains are out!!!!!!   The rest of it still hurts like hell, though.  But NO MORE DRAINS!!!!!!!

    Congrats OG!!!!!!!!

    (I still think an add'l thread is one thread too many.) 

    Off to try and POO!

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  • flash
    flash Member Posts: 1,685
    edited February 2010

    OG- great on b9!!!!!

    don't know what  my schedule will be.  See onc on monday to discuss if any scans before hardware goes in.  Will see from there.

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  • tweetybird
    tweetybird Member Posts: 815
    edited February 2010

    Sweaty, looks like you're on your way to recovery! Congradulations on the "bm", and getting your drains out.

    Good news Omaha! I'm right behind you with getting a biopsy done. I went for my mamo and ultrasound today, and they found a 5mm "mass" if that's what you want to call it on the ultrasound, but only when they did it at a certain angle. The mamo showed nothing. The Doctor was going back and forth on what to do, and she erring on the side of caution, due to my cancer history. She said it looks like fibricystic tissue, but it's right by one of the ducts, so she's not quite sure. I'm getting it done on the 17, due to having to finish up with physical therapy on my elbow, and being on vitamin E. I'm thinking if it was that urgent, or a problem they would have rushed me in, which they did on my last biopsy's. Hope I have the Irish luck with this, or at least the Catholic luck, or the God factor worked into it. I'm having it done on Ash Wednesday, and at a Catholic hospital. The person who set the appointment up for me is even going to look into to see if they're going to have a priest giving out ashes. She was going to let me know when she calles to finalize everything.

    No on to better news, I'm not able to make it on the 13th, I have another St. Patrick's party to go to, so either the 14, which is Sunday, or the next weekend will work for me.

    Not sure how true this is, but I heard about 15 years ago from a Jewish co-worker, that during the 1990's the mayor of Dublin was Jewish! So there is such a thing as an Irish Jew! Whoda thunk it! Not from this American mutt! 

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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited February 2010

    I actually am told I'm related to that Jewish former mayor of Dublin!  (I kid you not)!  Distantly.  My family came to America from Russia... but at the same time (early 20th century) some of them went to Ireland. 

    I can't come the weekend of the 20th... but if you do that Sunday, March 14, I CAN come!  No pressure :)

    Yay on getting your drains out Sweaty!  I hate those things.

    Woo hooo on being B9 OG! 

    Good luck with the biopsy Tweety -- prayers that it is nothing.

    Lilah

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  • sweatyspice
    sweatyspice Member Posts: 922
    edited February 2010

    Janet - so sorry to hear you have to deal with another biopsy!  Does this crap ever end???????  Wishing you benign results!!!

    When I did a summer abroad - half Belfast / half Dublin, I learned that a mayor of Belfast (perhaps the first mayor of Belfast) had been Jewish.  I think there was one synagogue operating in Belfast, which was prob the only one in all of Northern Ireland.  I tried to go there one Saturday but it was a) Orthodox and b) it seemed like "the synagogue" was the Rabbi's home, it was just too weird so I bailed and had the cabbie turn around.  I wussed out.   I think there are still a handful of synagogues in the Republic of Ireland.

    Someday I'd like to find out why they threw most of the Jews out - or made it too uncomfortable to stay.  They seemed to be embarrassed by that.

    NEWS - while typing, Guth called.  She got my path report, all DCIS, all stage 0, all margins clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited February 2010

    Yea for clean margins and path reports!!!!

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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited February 2010

    Wow Sweaty WTG!!!!

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  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 682
    edited February 2010

    So far, good news all around!  Congrats ladies!! Sounds like the luck of New Yorkers if you ask me!  Wink

    OK...so is everyone game for Sunday afternoon March 14th? Say 1PM?

    God Bless!

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  • Bigapple09
    Bigapple09 Member Posts: 440
    edited February 2010

    Great news Sweaty and OG.

    As a fan of Irish Jewish trivia: During WWII Northern Ireland had the kinder train, where they helped Jewish families transport their children out of harms way to Ireland.

    Also  Chaim Herzog a former president of Israel was born in Ireland.

    When my daughter and I were in Ireland celebrating her Bat Mitzvah, we visited the Irish Jewish Museum, needless to say, it was small.

    I don't know that the Jews were expelled from Ireland, but rather that some had settled there, and the community  remained small as the Republic had been a Catholic country going back to the expulsion of the Druids, in the wake of St. Patrick.

    And that ends today's presentation of a wee bit o Irish/Jewish history.

    Got some icky news today, that they may not be able to schedule my surgery till August, which would be horrible, that will mean I enter my 45th year, single and with one breast. Hopefully Disa can move things around, he is trying, but I am severely bummed out. Cheering myself up by literally cleaning out my closets and figuring out what to wear on my date tomorrow and then if things work out how I keep him at arms length for six months.

    I'm sure it will all work out, but man does it stink for right now.

    Wendy the Gloomy Apple.

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited February 2010

    Wendy that would suck so much to have to wait till August. Could you use Dr. Allen when he is here in NY, I personally would probably have to do Sloan because of money, but I am in love with Dr. Allen and his bedside manner is so the southern gentleman, and I could care less that when he is here he shares an office with a Psychiatrist because when I was trying to decide about the DIEP I could have used one Cry

    No second base for 6 months hmmmm, maybe you could tell him to not run the bases but just go for a homerun LOL

    Janet, you are my medical twin aren't you, first I break my arm and then you do, then I have another biopsy and you do, so of course it wil be B9 too then. 

    Sweaty glad your drains are out and that the naughty cancer cells stayed in the ducts! I still vote YES  for another thread because I am the Queen of B9.

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  • tweetybird
    tweetybird Member Posts: 815
    edited February 2010

    Pass some of that New York luck to Long Island! Good news Sweaty!

    That totaly sucks Apple/Wendy. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that you can get your surgery before August.

    March 14th sounds good to me! Did we decide on a place yet?

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  • Bigapple09
    Bigapple09 Member Posts: 440
    edited February 2010

    OG:

    I really had a hard time finding a ps that had experience with breast recon who is on my insurance and to go out of network the cost would be insanely prohibitave, plus I need to do my ovaries at the same time and I lile the OV surgeon a lot, he was so nice (and he said I was thin) and very compassionate in regard to how hard all of this is and how awful it is that this has been in my life since 02, so if I have to wait, that is what I will do, and I'll be greatful that I am otherwise healthy. In the meantime I'll pray that they can find a way to get me in.

    I think the whole I had cancer, removed my boobies but I'm just like a real girl conversation goes much better if I don't have a removeable breast.

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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited February 2010

    Aw Wendy that sucks.  I have hope for you though... they seem to do a lot of rearranging there.  My exchange isn't until May 18, but that is mainly due to the jibing of my schedule and my PS's... but when I spoke with jer scheduler he said more dates may open for her... so maybe the same is possible for Disa?

    Lilah

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited February 2010

    Wendy, have fun on your date anyway, and yes I would agree that discussion would be best without the foob. You are thin! silly girl..he was just stating the truth.

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  • crusader1
    crusader1 Member Posts: 1,222
    edited February 2010

    Hi ladies,

    Where do I begin..Congrats..Linda..on being B9. Congrats Sweaty on having your drains out.

    Wendy..Oh  I can imagine how dissapointed you are . This BC recon can become quite a journey.I guess one has no choice but to put up with this stuff. This is all frills after having cancer but I can imagine how you feel being single. You are upbeat and attractive so I am sure your date will go well.

    I too would be available on that Saturday before the 13th I believe. I also like the idea of an afternoon.

    I also feel that a separate site is not needed for chatting. This is fine. We all now where we are.

    Wendy I enjoyed your lesson on Irish Jewry. A friend of mine told me that the mayor had been Jewish.

    Hugs to all,

    Francine

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  • Bigapple09
    Bigapple09 Member Posts: 440
    edited February 2010

    Thank you guys. I am so hoping that they find room for me the first week of March and that I have to miss the GTG because I am quickly and comfortably recovering with my new baby boobie.

    My matra has become it is what it is. I just want ot to be NOW!!

    I feel a lot better, maybe its you all or the re-arranged closets or throwing out ugly suits I never wear, but I feel a lot less like the life has been sucked out of me.

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