January Mastectomy
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At the end of the race, the survivors went to the statehouse steps, while all of the speakers gave their talk. If you look closely, Debbie and I are in the front row - far left .
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This little dog was sprayed completely pink, and had its toenails painted pink with little gemstones on them
Debbie said the dog had been there in previous years.
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WoW! Those pictures are amazing! Thank you ladies for including all of us in your race...what a honor. I am extrememly humbled by your efforts.
Sally, what a beautiful family you have!
I'm glad you had a beautiful day for your race and I hope you have a relaxing day today. You two deserve it!
THANK YOU!
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Kat, you asked a question earlier regarding Cathy's surgery....She did fly to Toronto for her recon. I believe she was scheduled to get out of the hospital today, and she would fly home on Tuesday.
Thanks ! We had a great time at the race. There would have been no way to participate in the race and not think of all of my sisters here on Team January. Paula, I thought of you when I spotted one team's name.... "Team Boobalicous!"
Sally
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Sally! That is too funny!!! I want to be on Team Boobalicious!!!! I am so doing this next year. The race near me ended up being a few days after my exchange so I decided not to do it, if I had known how good I would've felt I would've done it, I wish I had. It sounds so amazing! Next year for sure!!!! I wish we could all do it together!!! Love you ladies!!!! Go Team January!!!!
Paula
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I know that their are 6 or so of us within range of Indianapolis. Maybe next year we can try to hit that race together...or you could come to Columbus with me and Debbie
Debbie and I were actually discussing the fact that their are quite a few of us close to Indy.....sounds like a road trip !
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Those pictures brought tears to my eyes. How thoughtful of you to put Team January in your walk!
Debbie -- you asked what those of us marching the chemo path want to hear? Just your support. It is a very different path than those of you sporting a new chest or embracing your new boobless state. And each of us going through chemo experiences it very differently. So know that we may be offline for a while cuz we just feel like crap. And then we're back. I just appreciate your support and know that I can come here and get inspired, get a laugh or just vent. Thank you Team January!
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LOVE the pictures of Sally and Debbie.....and LOVE the shirt, Debbie! How special for both of you to be thinking of all of us while you made your walk...thank you
Next year in Indy sounds doable....it's a two hour drive for me...that would be great if we could plan to meet.
June 11th is our local Relay for Life. Gina got signed up, too, and is walking the survivor's lap with me.
Think of you all often....
blessings...robin
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Hey Jan Sisters , I love the Pic Sally & Debbie , you look marvelous & glowing smiles! Thanks for including Team Jan, That means so much !
Thinking of you all so much, Congrats on the exchange, ( I am little depress this month, Because May was when I would have gotten my exchange) , But lost my TE to Infection, The PS says the infection was bad enough , that the tissue was damage & I have to wait 4 -6 months before , we can do any more reconstruction. So I just keep wearing my Foobie!
Thanks for all the Great Post & info.Love all the great pictures! Thanks for sharing your family & fun with Jan Team!
I also got tear in my eyes looking at all the Awesome Picture, happy tears for you all.
Hey Jan Team , Count me in, if we do Indy, Robin & I are appox 2 hrs away!
Robin's Birthday Is June 11th & that happen to be the local Relay for life( specail day all around forRobin), I am Honor to be do the Survivor lap with the Birthday Girl & fellow survivor, we will take pictures!
Good luck with appt & treatments this weeks! Prayers to all of my Jan Sisters!
Have a great week! {{hugs]] to all! Gina
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Robin & Gina, remember to bring your kleenex for the Relay Survivor Lap! My family and I have had a Relay team for the last 7 years and the survivor lap is always so emotional, I usually end up blubbering, this year will be especially emotional since I'll be walking it instead of standing on the sidelines applauding. Chokes me up just thinking about it! Ours isn't until mid-August, so a ways to wait.
I went golfing yesterday!!! First time since surgery! I had hit a few balls in our yard, but yesterday was the first time on the course. I sucked sooooo bad!!!! hahaha! LOL! But I had fun! It was a beautiful day, had my DH and dad and sister with me, and we had fun! I have never been a good golfer anyway, so it wasn't anything new, had nothing to do with the new girls, just me being me! Anyway, can't wait to go again! I have to say that I am so out of shape! After working on the bathroom floor all day Saturday and then golfing yesterday, I was pretty sore last night. Feel better today, but really need to start exercising more and get myself back in shape! 5 months of doing nothing is enough!!!
Have a great day ladies!
Paula
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Hey girls!
What a deal! I'm a little bummed that I'm not tolerating this last surgery as well as I have in the past. I do get to see my PS tomorrow morning at 0815 so Praise the Lord for that. He is 'out of town' this week but not until Friday so when I called the office today to get some kind of follow up with somebody I'm thrilled I get THE man tomorrow. I have so many questions!
It definitely seems as though I have a resp infection that is collecting in my throat and causing chest cold symptoms. I have a low grade temp, non productive cough and lethargy. I'm still on the Keflex until tomorrow so I'll see if he wants me to continue that or not. I know they had trouble intubating me in the OR and maybe this is just a by-product of the anesth but I don't want a secondary infection. My cleavage pain is still searing, smarting and stinging (SSS) It's localized over the sternum covered with this waterproof tape that criss crosses. I am so anxious to see what is under there. Tomorrow! The dressings have stayed on well since surgery on Thursday. I can't drive yet and even the thought of the passenger seatbelt is freaking me out. The SSS is enough that I"m still taking Vicodin at night. Excedrin this morning though and it has helped somewhat. I would switch to Tylenol PM but benedryl doesn't mix with tamox so that's out. I'll ask him what to do...I really prefer to be off the junk all together but I need to have the pain managed too!
Oh, and I've had 2 foob farts! hahahah. Just on the right side though. Not real loud but certainly made stop and go 'heh' I'm just gently massaging them in a clockwise circular motion because it feels good. I'll ask tomorrow about specific capsule massage.
I've been doing 'home office' today and will again tomorrow. I doubt I get released back until Thursday which is fine with me...but will probably just be half days to finish out the week.
Well, better get back to 'work' Good luck with healing Team January for this week. Brenda, I'm sorry you're still feeling crummy from the chemo and I hope you're able to juggle your job in the midst of it all. I know how stressful it is to be stressed! Hang in there!
Paula I'm confused about where you live. I guess I thought you were in St. Louis MO but there must be a St. Louis Michigan. I'll have to google that.
Indy or Bust next year! (no pun intended on the bust thing
Have a great day ladies!
Kat -
Sally and Debbie, thank you for all the amazing and uplifting photographs...I even saw my name among all our Team January ladies on the t-shirt...very exciting and so thoughtful
It looks like the day was spectacular....thanks so much for including us all in your wonderful day! Beautiful families, beautiful friends, beautiful day. I hope all the energy and power of the day carries into the hearts and bodies of all those that need it. If you ever want to make a little money I would happily buy a t-shirt to support the cause.Kat I am so sorry to hear you are having such a hard time =( I wish I could come to your home and give you warm cups of manuka honey and ginger tea (lovely for sore throats). Looking forward to hearing what your ps has to say...hope he can help you feel better quickly
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Gina sorry your have to wait so long for your reconstruction...you have shown such an amazing spirit throughout your journey....there is an end in site, I know we will all send out a huge cheer on your day
All the best to each of you facing your next surgeries...and comfort and healing to everyone...
I have posted new updated photos on the forum....it's been three weeks to the day since my exchange. My stitches are out, things are coming along....still a work in progress
All comments welcomed....I decided to post my photo...most of you have seen my boobs way more than anyone except DH, so I am no longer a headless body of boobies
xox
Laura
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Laura, nice to finally have a face to go with the boobies!!!! You are beautiful!!! I'll check out your new photos on the forum too...
Kat, I am in St. Louis, Michigan! Right in the middle of the mitten, very small little town... my DH has lived here his whole life... as a matter of fact we live in the house that he grew up in. He has lived in this house all of his life except when he was away at college and for about 5 years that he lived a field away in the house that his dad grew up in. His parents built a new house a mile away and he moved back in here. Now Kevin, our oldest and his family live in the other house. We can literally stand on our deck and wave to them in their yard. This house was built by one of his relatives over 120 years ago and has been in the family ever since. It has been updated and remodeld, but it's still this old house! It is also the location of the family farm shop where all the tractors and semi's live and all the magic happens. It's pretty cool really, but yeah, most people assume when they hear St. Louis that it's MO... We are about 50 miles from Lansing, MI (the state capital) if that helps at all.
Anyway, kat, sorry that you're having issues with the pain and infection (or whatever it is)... Let us know what the PS says tomorrow.
Back to working on this old house (the bathroom floor that is unlevel, the loors aren't straight and now there are issues in the wall that my DH is working on, always a problem with this old house!).
Paula
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Sally and Debbie- You guys brought me to tears and a crying spell. I am so proud of you girls!!!!! I haven't had a cying spelll like that in months...... The shirt, the pictures, my SISTERS!!!!
Thank you you made my day!!!!
Kat- I sure hope you are feeling better. I think of you everyday.
Marianne- Glad things went smooth. enjoy them!
All my other sisters who are recovering from exchanges... In my thoughts and prayers.
Brenda- I'm sorry that your treatment is not going as smooth as it should. I"m praying for you..
To all my other sisters if I didn't mention you , YOU ARE STILL IN MY PRAYERS...
I wish everyone well.
Back to work is very hard for me....Its only four hours 3 to 4 times a week but the chemo really knocked the heck out of me...
Enjoy your day... Feel good everyone.
{{{HUGS}}}
Donna
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sally & debbie--i am so touched by your including all of us. i try to keep up with all the posts here, but have nothing to relate to anymore. it is wonderful to see each of you claiming your life again bit by bit finishing your reconstruction, but my road is so different. my daughter did the walk too, and it was such an emotional experience for her, i couldn't walk right now if there was a gun to my head. sat i was hurting so much i was praying for a burgler to just do me in. but alas, no such luck.
maybe this time next year i will have squishys too..yippie!!!!!!!!
thanks again for thinking of all of us, even though you don't hear much from us anymore. bless you!!!!!!!
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Wonderful pictures, and I spotted my name on the t-shirt-THANK YOU!
I am miserable, girls. Chemo #5 has been a doozy-now I've got mouth sores that are driving me crazy. It's like when you burn the roof of your mouth, except these are are the sides and underneath of my tongue. Painful. I've got a call in to the doctor to see if anything can be done.
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Sally and Debbie- Wow! Loved the pictures and thanks so much for including each one of us. That was really nice and so cool to see my name and know that you guys were thinking of us all.
Kat- My normal work schedule is 12 hour days (8am to 8pm). We alternate days so one week I work M,T,F,S,S and the next week I work W,T. This averages to 42 hours a week. Great on the short week and a little tiring on the long week. I just started back to my 12 hour shifts last week and worked F,S,S and by last night around 6 I was pooped. But I really worked extra hard this weekend not only doing my regular pharmacist duties but also trying to get my store ready for inventory next month since I am also the pharmacy manager. I like working the 12 hour days because you get it over with and have more days off instead of working shorter shifts and more days on. Hope your pain gets better. I had some really bad stinging type pain for about a week but then it got better quickly and is totally gone now!
Grdnisive- So sorry to hear you are not feeling well. Feel free to chime in with us even if it is just to vent a little! I will be praying for you.
Becky
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Burley -- I'm with you ... had mouth sores last go-round, but nothing yet, thankfully. #5 coming up next week. So I'm enjoying my normal.
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Hi Burley and Frosty- I don't know whether this would be helpful or not, and I don't want to be presumptuous, but I remember my father getting relief from the mouth sores from rinsing his mouth out with aloe vera juice. He hated drinking it, but swishing it and spitting was very soothing for him. You're both in my thought and prayers.
Maura
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{{Kim}},{{Lola}},{{Brenda}} - I am so sorry that you are having pain and SEs from your treatments. You are all in my thoughts and prayers daily.
Strength and Courage !
Never Surrender !
Sally
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More amazing photos of the walk, somehow I miss the photo on the steps and the dog! Thanks so much Sally....I love the pink doggie! /' . '\ What a day...again thanks so much for carrying our names
Kim, Lola and Brenda.....So sorry to hear you are having so much pain from your chemo treatments...wishing you comfort and a speedy path back to "nomal". If I have missed anyone suffering I send healing wishes to all of you.
Kat, hope your feeling better and your ps visit goes well....it will be so nice to see him after your big event
There is something you can do to help clear your lungs....if you purse your lips and then blow through the small opening it can cause the lungs to back-fill with air and then move mucus forward....blow until the lungs are empty and then follow with a cough. The other thing you can do is called huffing (not the kind you hear about on the news!) If you take a full breath and then push up on your lower lungs with your diaphragm muscle forcing air up and out from the bottom of the lungs this will also help move any congestion forward...especially if you have fluid in the lower lungs. Maybe this will help Hopefully your already improving and wont need any of this information I woke up this morning sleeping half way onto my boob! Scared myself...but all seems well
Wishing healing and comfort to all,
Laura
ps: thanks for the kind words about my new photo....makes this 60 year old, with no uterus, no ovaries, no real boobs and solidly in menopause .... smile
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I've been gone a few days (last was on Wednesday I think) since we went to attend our son's graduation and then I spent 2 days in bed resting up from the trip because I was so exhausted. I'm just now catching up.
Those photos brought tears to my eyes! To see everyone listed listed like that. So many women....so much everyone has gone through....all because of this stupid illness.
Thank you for sharing!
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Hi ladies...
Sally and Laura, so nice to see your beautiful faces!:)
Becky, did I read correctly on the EC board that you're having nips next week? Whoohoo! I'm so happy you're forging ahead. I'm afraid of yet another anesthesia so I may put it off until after summer. I just feel so damn crummy with this low grade infection I seem to have summoned with my last go around. My body is in protest mode! Will you have to be put under again? Wonder why they can't do it local? If you don't have feeling, what's the big deal?
We'll see. It's time to go explore the silicone nipple url's and see what I can come up with in the meantime. Has anyone else ordered them?
Hope everyone is having a good day...and Kim, Lola, Donna and Brenda, I'm so sorry you're suffering from the horrible effects of chemo. Everyone is in my prayers daily!
Kat
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Kat! How did it go at the PS this morning? How was the big reveal? What did he say about the fever and pain? Tell us tell us!!!!
Paula
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Never mind Kat! I saw your post on EC! So happy for you!!! Beautiful Yippe Squishy!!!!
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Yes!! Yes!! to the beautiful faces!!
Yes and more yessssssssss to those of Team January in chemo, or just finished.
YESSSSS to anyone & everyone on the team who's had one sort of set-back or another.
Here's how I started my day.
Got to see Canadian Geese giving swimming lessons.
I live in suburbia & am easily impressed when nature holds tightly to a little patch in the midst of all of us.
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Kat- It will be done at the hospital but only with a local. Makes me a little nervous but then again so does being put to sleep. I just hate knowing that I will be aware of what is going on. Oh well after all we have been thru I know I can make it thru one more thing! Glad you are happy with your results! That makes everything we have been thru worth it.
Debbie-Love the little ducklings! So cute.
Becky
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binga: I'm with you! I don't like the SE of anesthesia but I would much rather be put under and not know anything than be awake! I'm a big weenie!
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Hey Team January!
I hope this post finds you all well and healing!
I go back to work tomorrow for a couple of half days and then full on starting Monday again. This last 'rodeo' has shown more short tempers at work along with a lack of tolerance for my time off. I just want to stand up and yell "I'm tired of breast cancer too dammit!" I just pray to God every day that the Tamoxifen will do its job and the cancer will stay out of my body. I want to move forward now and enjoy and appreciate my life as I now am living it. I am loving the new girls and will be posting pictures of them hopefully this afternoon. (the cleaning lady kicked me out today and I'm with my DH at his office)
The sun is shining here today so I'm hoping I may get my chaise lounge out later and get a little color. I hate how pale I am. If I were out golfing (soon I hope!) I would be as brown as Marianne and Paula must be!
Cathy, I hope you are feeling well after your DIEP reconstruction. Sally, have you heard any progress notes?
Debbie thanks for the geese pictures! Now I really miss the golf course! We are usually inundated with families of geese and although they wreak havoc on the greens, they are beautiful to watch with their families.
I hope everyone is doing well today with recovery and healing!
Sunny skies ahead!
Kat -
Oh Kat, I am sooooo NOT brown!!! One day on the golf course doens't make me brown (it wasn't even that sunny that day either) I am very pale and hoping to get a little sun this week myself! I do live in Michigan you know (we usually only have one day a week that's nice out!). Getting on the golf course is nice though. Sorry that you are having issues with work people... that seems to be the general consensus with people though, by the time we reach our exchange they are done with it. I haven't gotten any cards or well wishes or phone calls or anything since this surgery. People just don't understand it, that's why we are so lucky that we have this forum, although it still doens't help your work atmosphere. It's like you have to remind people "I was put under and in surgery for 3 hours, it is a big deal!!!!" Oh well, this too shall pass! Can't wait to see your pictures Kat!!!
Paula
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