Calling all TNs

TifJ

Navy- I can't imagine what it's like to see your son off. One of my biggest fears is that one of my children will join the military, not that i am against the military in any way, I am just a typical Mom that wants to keep her children safe! Sending you a big hug and strength and your son prayers for a safe deployment.

Welcome Loveofcritters. No one WANTS to be here, but it is a great place to be for support and humor!

borntosurvive

Journey:  Happy Anniversary to you too xo

BernieEllen

Church Bulletin Typos

These sentences actually appeared in a church bulletin or were announced in a church service.  Read them and weep!

• Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at Calvary Memorial Church in Racine.  Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

• Announcement in the church bulletin for a National Prayer and Fasting conference: “The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals.”

• Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 pm in the recreation hall.  Come on out and watch us kill Christ the King.

• Miss Charlene Mason sang “I will not pass this way again” giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

• Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale.  It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house.  Don’t forget your husbands.

• The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

• The sermon this morning: “Jesus Walks on the Water”  The sermon tonight: “Searching for Jesus”

• Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir.  They need all the help they can get.

• Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.

• Don’t let worry kill you off – let the Church help.

• Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church.  So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

• A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.  Music will follow.

• The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.

• Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be re-cycled.  Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

• For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

• Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person (s) you want to be remembered.

• Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.

• The church will host an evening of fine dining, superb entertainment, and gracious hostility.

• Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 pm – prayer and medication to follow.

• The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

• Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 pm.  Please use the back door.

• The eight graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the church basement Friday at 7 PM.  The congregation is invited to attend the tragedy.

• Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.  Please use the large double door at the side entrance.

• The associate Minister unveiled the church’s new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: “I Upped My Pledge – Up Yours”

• Our next song is “Angels We Have Heard Get High.”

Kymn

Good morning fellow TNs So many new faces here since I was on last, so sorry to see that but so glad you found this site. It really seems like yesterday I was signing up here thinking omg I dont know anything that is about to happen to me and I am closing in on that being two years ago.January of 2011, so so much has happened in that time, I had to step away from the boards for awhile and heal and deal with some hard things in my life but am happy to be back and trying to see how everyone has been doing. I am happy to report I have had my one year check up and all is good, such huge relief. Have a wonderful day

Hugs Kymn

BernieEllen

Hi Kymm we also now have a FB site for the ladies. Let me know if you are interested

xxxx

BernieEllen

Remembrance Day, often referred to as Poppy Day commemorates the sacrifice made by servicemen in times of war.

In the United Kingdom the day was first commemorated in 1919, when it was known as Armistice Day, with two minutes silence at 11am on 11th November. The day marked the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that brought World War One to an end in 1918. Its name was changed to Remembrance Day after World War Two. The day is also observed by other commonwealth countries.

In the United Kingdom two minutes silence is observed each year on the 11th November. On the second Sunday in November, Remembrance Sunday, special services are held and poppy wreaths laid at the Cenotaph in London and at war memorials in towns all over the country.

The poppy is used to symbolise to symbolise remembrance and in the United Kingdom the Royal British Legion sell poppies in the weeks prior to 11th November to raise money for servicemen and their families.

During World War One some of the most intense fighting took place in Flanders (west Belgium). Buildings, roads, fields, bushes and trees were destroyed. However, despite the devastation, poppies flowered each spring. Poppy seeds that had been buried for years were brought to the surface by the churned up mud and germinated.

John McCrae a Canadian fighting in the trenches in Flanders wrote a poem called 'In Flanders Fields'. The poem was published and the poppy was adopted as a symbol for those who had lost their lives in battle.

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

mags20487

Released from hospital and on my way home!! What a long two weeks



Maggie

TifJ

Welcome back Kymm!

Cocker_Spaniel

Titan

Good to see you Kym! 

Bernie..thanks for the post about the veterans...very interesting....

Navy mom...whew!  glad things are ok with your scan..and good luck to your son!  I have a friend whose son is in the service and has been in a submarine for the past two months...she freaks out alot too so you will not be alone.

JAN69

Bernie - More than 40 years ago, a friend asked me to type up the bulletin for his new church.  He was young, and he didn't have a secretary yet.  It was his first sermon out of divinity school.  I did my best, and still made an error of the caliber you wrote about.  He was forgiving by the time he got home, but I'm told the congregation had quite a laugh.  Too bad I don't remember what I typed, but I think you could have included it in your list.  (PS, I left the country a few weeks later and never heard from him again.)

Bernie - I've always loved that poem, and would occasionally recite it in class.  I taught English to foreign-born students who probably had now idea what I was talking about even with my careful explainations.  I remember people selling paper poppies in front of stores when I was a child.  I wonder if they still do that now. 

To the new ladies - I'm adding my greetings as the others have done.  Welcome/Sorry at the same time.

Navy Mom - Hanging on with you.  Somehow you will make it thru this too.

Dawn, Michelle, Karen - I think of you often and send you big encouragement.

I had my drainage tube taken out yesterday.  Major ouch! 

Have a peaceful Sunday and find some joy.  Jan

Fickelchook

Hello ladies - I am new to the boards and just found your page. Here is my rundown:



Diagnosed August 7, 2012 at 37 years old. We have two kids, 5 and 2 as of last week. The tumor was 2.1 cm at diagnosis, grade 3 with metaplastic cells. Two weeks later it was 2.6 cm but no sign of spreading to the lymph nodes. When we found out it was TN, I signed up for a trial that had amazing results for aggressive TN tumors. 12 weeks of Taxol, followed by 4 rounds of AC every other week and then surgery. I started Taxol at the end of August, three weeks after being diagnosed. I had two seperate biopsies of the site because of the study, 4 samples each time. The second biopsy also included two other spots that lit up on the MRI but turned out beneign. I had a lot of fibrous tissue from the biopsies and we haven't been able to feel the tumor until the past month (it is all the way against the chest wall). A week and a half ago my oncologist said that the Taxol wasn't working. I could tell that there were a lot of changes which weren't good and had an ultrasound last week which reveiled the tumor had grown to 3.25 cm and there are now two additional masses. I'm scheduled for a BMX with TE placement on the 29th of this month. I'm waiting on another PET scan hopefully this week to see if it has spread. Pretty much scared out of my mind at this point.

BernieEllen

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.

BernieEllen

An American poet and war volunteer called Moina Michael read the poem, “In Flanders Fields”. It gave her the idea of using poppies to remember the dead but also to help the living at the same time.

Moina bought real poppies and gave them out to friends. She also sold some poppies and gave the money to surviving, needy ex-soldiers. The first official Poppy Day, organised by a charity called The Royal British Legion, was held in 1921 and continues to this day.

The Royal British Legion use money raised on Poppy Day and at other events through the year to help thousands of ex-soldiers and their families. They also organise festivals, parades and church services of Remembrance.

BernieEllen

Hope60

Hi everyone, just dropping in to say hi. Haven't been up to posting much. Chemo has been tough...then came the hurricane! We didn't have power or heat for 13 days & were living from friend to friend, like a band of gypsys.  Power & heat are back on now .  Chemo tomorrow:(

Love to all!

Hope

DorMac

Really glad to hear from you, Hope60. No power or heat for 13 days must have been terrible - as if you weren't going through enough. Glad everything is back on. Good luck with your chemo tomorrow - thinking of you and everyone undergoing treatments or dealing with SEs this week.

Doreen

Titan

Fickel...glad you found us....and yeah we are all scared at some point....glad you are having that surgery soon...you will feel so much better once that crap is out of there...

Bernie..thanks again for the info....my mom's b-day is today...she is 78! and doing very well I may add

borntosurvive

I have arrived home from our super fun, energy packed weekend at the waterpark.  If only I have half of my boys' energy......I had SO much fun as did my DH and the boys.  We just had a blast and I woke up this morning, on my 1 year cancerversary of diagnosis, snuggling my youngest son.  Today has been perfect, a great reminder of why I kept fighting through my SE's and all my tears over this last year.  My reasons for living.  Thank you ladies for helping me through this first year.  You're all very special and dear to my heart xo

Titan

Hope..ugh...13 days...wow...I think I would have been hysterical....

Born..I hear ya with the "moments" with the family...very sweet...enjoy them...they grow up way too fast!

Cocker_Spaniel

Luah

Hope: On top of chemo, how awful to deal with 13 days of no power, and not being settled. Glad to hear things are looking up. 

Kymn: So good to hear from you again. I remember your earlier posts here and on the Calling all Canadians thread. Hope the personal sh#t you've gone through is getting sorted out, and you're feeling better about things.  Congrats on the all-clear.

A warm welcome to all the newbies.  

Luah

Also, Born, what a great weekend. I have 3 boys too -- though my sons are more grown up than yours (23 and 20). Nothing I like better than an evening, day or weekend with my men.   

mags20487

hope--errrrr 13 days is aweful...I understand it too well..2004 Frances and jeanne hit us 3 weeks apart.  We had power for 2 days after 2 1/2 wks without it only for jeanne to come and knock it out for 2 more weeks.  But--I was not in the middle of fighting the beast then so i only hope that this can settle down for you and you get some relief soon!!  May your chemo go well and kick this crap out to the curb!

I am resting great at home.  have to go to hyperbaric wound care for the left side where the flap failed.  'the doc had to pull it so tight that she is worried that it will open up so need to get it healed quickly.  Off my pain meds for 3 days now and feeling pretty good.  My rightie looks and feels amazing...a very pretty boobie if I say so myself.  My stomach is going to be so flat now too!..Just gotta get strong and heal  before March when she can try again with another "donor" site!

I really do not know what I would do without all your love and support throughout this whole ordeal.  To have such strong women behind me has made it so much better to cope with.  I love you all

Maggie

DorMac

I have a question only you ladies can answer - how do they do a mammogram (on the "no boob" side) when one has had a mastectomy ?

Doreen

Babs37

DorMac- They don't do mammograms on the mx side. For me, they do an US on that side and I do an mri once a year.

OBXK

Hope60 - good to see you post! So sorry you have had such a rough go. So glad you can get back to your own bed.



Maggie - glad you like your "good" boob. Where will they get the tissue for the do-over! Speedy recovery wishes.



Bornto - your holiday sounds like fun. Wishing you many happy returns of the day.

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I am trying to recover from my neulasta shot. Bone pain from hell.

Taking 2 vicodin every 4 hours. It feels like back labor and every tooth in my head is throbbing. The clariton does nothing for me. I'll have to remember to start pain meds earlier, next go round.



Love you ladies...

txjunebug

OBXK -  Hugs and comforting thoughts!!!

mags20487

obxk...neulasta sucks!!  I would take emsom salts baths to help a little bit...would take any relief I could get!  Hang in there my dear.  They will use my big ol butt for the next flap.  SGap is the name of the procedure.  she will take it from the top of both sides of my buttocks.  i am gonna be one hot mamma when she gets done with me.  i chose diep to maybe get some relief from my LE and so far that has definitely helped.

Maggie

borntosurvive

I just had a mammo last week and had a BMX. I didn't feel a thing and it was super easy. I do have a bit to skin there and they just had me lean forward and I did whatever she said and it was fine.