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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2012
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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2012

    I love these ads......NOT

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy.........I am so sorry, and lost for words..........I feel like you were one of the people who took me under your wing, when I was frantic nearly 1 year ago....................my prayers are with you, and your a hell of a fighter, so I know "cancer is due for another "kick in the ass"...........hugs, and prayers.

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  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 356
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy, so sorry to hear about NED's departure.  Also hope you're not having pain.

    Isabella, your little Mouse sounds great!  I love a little "tearaway" and had a Yorkshire terrier who would fit the description.  Even though only 6 pounds she dominated any dog she encountered.  Sausages are pretty dominant too, I guess.

    Praying for rain and maybe snow here--so far we've had too warm a winter with not enough rain.  Hope that doesn't mean it's going to rain all spring.

    Dragon 

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  • Dilly
    Dilly Member Posts: 655
    edited January 2012

    Dragon, I had thought you folks had gotten "our" rain but guess it all went to Alaska!

    NorCal is soooo dry, it's a tinderbox and this is during our normal "rain forest" season when we should be knee deep in mud.  We are similar to So. Oregon - rainy winter & spring, dry summer & fall, but this year we are setting "dry" records - we're starting to pray for 40 days and 40 nights .

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy:  So very sorry to hear this...but your inspiring attitude will see you through this latest challenge.  I think half the battle is keeping the faith and believing that all will work out in the end.  I'm praying that your new treatments do not present SE's that are difficult to handle and you will be back to NED soon.

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  • lulubee
    lulubee Member Posts: 1,493
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy, I'm sorry.  I know how crestfallen I was to get that news myself last month after a hard year of getting my bone mets to stable.   

    So here you and I are in the same boat again. I was following in your footsteps with Femara -- started right after you did and have hung on your every word about your experience with it. (It was you who helped me figure out to take it at night so I could sleep after my hyst/ooph had me wired up awake every night.  Bless you for helping me find rest!)  And now you're right behind me with progression and stopping Femara.  

    I may be right behind you again on the Aromasin soon, if my onc can get her hands on Afinitor for me to go with it.  Until then, it's Faslodex and Xgeva.  Do y'all have Faslodex in Oz?

    Keep your peace and your strength, friend.  We have to play the hand we're dealt, so we might as well play to win. Deal?

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
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    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited January 2012

    sigh - that is gorgeous Chabba. What can you tell us about it?

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  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited January 2012

    Oh, Chrissy, I hate to hear this!  I started worrying a little yesterday when I didn't see a post from you.  Leah's scenario sounds great to me and NED's just waiting for you to find him, being a bit coy, you know.  Hope the aromasin whips his little butt into shape, and soon.  As a want-to-be gambler (well, slots)  I like what Lulubee said, and I know you're playing to win!  Sorry to hear about DD but it does sound like it'll be all gone with the excision, very early, to be sure.

    Ginger, I take arimidex and last month marked a year on it.  I guess I'm lucky in that the only things I've had are general bone aches and stiffness, and I have to pluck a lot.  No brain fog to me, although others in my family might not share the same opinion of my mental acuity!

    Waiting with you Leah.

    Kathy

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited January 2012

    chrissy, what a week!!!i'm so sorry to hear about the progression, and know you're relieved NOT to have to face the chemo thing right now.. thats' what they tell me, IF it comes back, then, we'll see about the "big" guns.. like the 1st ones weren't big enough!!!

       i;m sorry about DD malanoma. it has a good prognosis, though.. i keep track, always, having that light irish skin.. glad she got checked out early ( but not early enough Dammit)

      i miss you, but am feeling "punk" for good, lately.. this new dr., i think is quackish.. seems to think he can cure everything... for a huge price.. but , there's some tests i want, so am gonna keep taking the levo, but having adrenals, etc checked.. mds think its voodoo, but i want to know, and i'm the one who worries, so why not!!!

       I'm going to have a bone density done soon. saw endo today.. the last one i had wasn't radioactive, so im now wondering..hmmm

      Isabella: your mouse spunds wonderful, petite and sassy ( like I USED to be ) hahaha i thought ALL were "sausage" dogs... hope you get the frs sorted out and get surgery done. i had the same contoversy with the bmx.. they settled on 5 days off the heart meds, and i did fine..

      Leah.. saddle tat horse up for Chrissy.. glad your tests were ok..

      on another thread, i saw youe suggestion about going for wigs in the "jewish" part of time....gakkk!the cheapest one i found was 1300.00!!!gurss its "throwaway after a year wigs for me, from Paula young!!!

      im hoping to find the magic thyroid # that allows my hair to grow on top; but gonna try a "filler" till that happens...lol.thinking of you all, just down and out in sunny fla.........3jays

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited January 2012

    Dear Chrissy, I am sorry to hear the NED has taken a short trip away.  I know you will deal with this like you do everything else and hopefully NED is just around the corner for you again.  It is what it is and you are still my hero.  Sending lots of hugs to you and prayers for you.  Hope to see you soon although DD#1 and her DH still do not have their order to move yet.  Wish the Army would hurry up and decide for sure where they are sending them and get to orders done.  As soon as they get their orders I will make my plans.  

    Leah, waiting with you for your results and praying for good news.  I really like the itenerary you have for you and Chrissy.  Praying you both find NED and keep a tight rope on him so he does not have a chance to sneak away again. 

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited January 2012

    I should have the answers on the bone scan at the beginning of next week. I'll call the onc on Sunday.

    3jays, the bone scan and the bone DENSITY scan aren't the same test. The bone scan is done by having the radioactive substance injected then after 2 hours images are taken by a gamma camera. It looks for damage to bones. The bone density (DEXA) scan uses X-rays to measure the density of the bones.

    Leah

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  • Valjean
    Valjean Member Posts: 1,898
    edited January 2012
    Marybe ~ Just sending some hugs your way, along with a ton of ♥  ♥  ♥.
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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012

    lassie, that's a snowy owl.  That rarely come this far south but this year we have quite a lot of them and we are getting birders from all over the northwest to see them.  Seems that lemmings are their natural prey and periodically they don't reproduce in their normal quantities,  When that happens the owls have to go looking for other prey and will follow it down this way.  They are one of the largest owl species and are really quite magnificent.

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited January 2012

    Chabba what beautiful scenes.

    Chrissy what I really wanted to say was the word on the Toyota advert? Don't think we can say it here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvAT8eS67RM  copy and paste should work.

    Starting to feel a little apprehensive about mammo and check up - 24th Jan but feel sure all will be well. Then I will celebrate. Problem is when you have other aches and pains you always wonder what it is.

    Chrissy you asked about my shoulder etc - its still playing up and have decide if it hasn't improved in another couple of weeks will see about getting it scanned.

    Had DGD on Tuesday night which was great. She was very good sleeping all night etc. Today I had DGS and all went well. Was going to see if I could get him to have an afternoon nap but then DD rang and suggested I took him to the concert that both DDs were singing in, it was at the museum and so lots of children. It was a great concert with DD1 doing two solos. GS loved it and laughed when he first saw his aunt. DD2 said she was quite distracted with his responses. Had to keep him in the buggy as he would have tried to crawl to his mother.

    Had to do some temporary repairs to the internet connection tonight. Have the lan cord running across the hall and into the kitchen as the connection in the office has gone funny. Luckily neighbours had an extra long cable I could borrow. Took me awhile to work out what was wrong, now have to get connection jack fixed.

    Tomorrow we are  off to friend's 40th wedding celebration  - this means we will miss the funeral for BFs' GD. We have seen the parents several times and had our friends here for meals as well as spending hours on the phone talkind. Both DDs will be there tomorrow.

    I laughed at myself last night. We had folks round for a meal, they are relations of DH but I meet them only a couple of times. Had everything ready and was getting the table set when I decided that the silver forks needed to be cleaned and then 10 minutes before they arrived I was cleaning the silver that sits on the sideboard. I am sure no one notice nor would have cared. Anyway it was a great meal even if i say so myself.

    Suppose I should get dishes in the dishwasher.

    Big hugs to all.

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  • lwd
    lwd Member Posts: 1,084
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy,

    I just read your news.  Ah, damn it!   Bad news seems to come in bunches.  I'm glad your DD's prognosis is good, and that chemo doesn't seem to be on the tables for you now.  Waiting to hear what your doc says. Thinking of you and wishing I could give you a big hug.    

    Love,

    Lane  

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2012

    I know NED and the stable guys, but who's Reggie????

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  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy I am thinking of you...chin up you can do this. Sorry about your DD...what a bummer, you'll spend more time worrying about DD than taking care of yourself !! 

    I've been on Arimidex nearly eight and a half years, it kills me.. but it does the job ( I think !)

    Yes..I need to know as well...WHO is Reggie ??

    In a mad rush tonight....in a funk...had intruder last night...got a good image on cctv...but not good ENOUGH for police !! Some youngish man poking about in the farmyard. Dogs going scatty. I switched extra floodlights on, plus 'screamer'...a thingy that's fixed to the CCTV. I had turned it off because it makes such a racket. It just makes a continual howling/ screaming noise...but must have scared him off, as there was no sigh of anybody when I got downstairs. I daren't go outside, was going to run across the garden and grab a rotweiller, but I was rooted, shaking like a leaf, and daren't unlock door 'til cops came...nearly 1 hour later !   Got GS sleeping here tonight...when he gets in, I asked him to try and be here for 11 pm, and it's nearly 12 now...just when you need them !!!!!   Oooo this will be fuel for DD and her 'WHY do you continue to live there all alone...I KNEW this would happen' !!!!! Funnily enough she hasn't been near today..she rang, but I had hoped she would have called, but she is coming tomorrow.

    Isabella.  GS just pulling into farmyard now.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2012

    Oh dear Isabella!! You must be petrified!! Do you have any dogs that can run free at night? That is just so scary and my heart goes out to you. What the heck next, eh????

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  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited January 2012

    My goodness, Isabella, how frightened you must have been.  I'm glad you didn't go outside!  You never know what some people are capable of doing and if this guy was skulking around he was up to no good anyway.  So glad GS is staying there tonight.  Hopefully he'll stay longer, at least at night. Take care.

    Kathy

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited January 2012

    Hi Girls!  Well I'm finally home....thank goodness!  I was so tired driving home after the fuss of the last few days, I even had to stop and pull over to catch a cat nap as I was starting to drift.........now that's not good!

    After a long discussion with my doc, we have decided to do nothing and just stay on my current meds, Femara.  The thinking is that the new lesions are small so changing this early could just do me out of some extra time because we jumped too early so here we stay.  I will be monitored closely and if I should get major pain particularly from the one in my spine then he will do some rads.......so I think that is good and agree with him.  I'd rather spend a bit more time with the drug I know I can tolerate even though it's not 100% effective than jump into one that is an unknown quantity and may still not work as well as the one I'm one.  I'm good with that.  Thanks heaps for all you love and support I really appreciated it.

    Allyson, I LMAO at the add.........yeah!  I think I said much the same thing when I read the report.....lol

    Isabella, where were your guard dogs?  I'm sure the screamer scared the intruder away but you do need someone younger there with you at night and am so glad that DGS is willing to do that.

    Oh the Reggie thing, ages ago on one of the threads, there was always talk of 'the stable boy'but never a name given like Ned so it was decided to name the stable boy Reggie.  So now when some one says flirtling with Reggie, we know that they are stable........yay!   Reggie is just as much fun as Ned.

    Love n hugs all. Chrissy

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  • lulubee
    lulubee Member Posts: 1,493
    edited January 2012

    And all this time I thought Reggie meant the cancer was regressing... huh.  

    Well, whatever, either way he ditched me last month so ppbffffthhh on him.  Personally I thought Ned was more fun to sleep with anyway so I'm chasing him again with my skirts flying.

    Embarassed 

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited January 2012

    OH isabella : its' time for the gypsys to come visit for a stay.. there's too much going on by you, now.. first the eighbor, now this.. though the intruder maight have been at the wrong fatm, really wanted your neighbors.. put those rotties out when you go to bed!!!i still think knowing the gysies were there would help a lot... i worry about you being in the "boonies" so glad your GS is there!!!

       glad you're comfortable with the drug, chrissy... praying "reggie" the stable boy is back soon!...3jays

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited January 2012

    Isabella, that would scare the poop out of anyone. Maybe your Grandson can stick around.  Why did it take the policew an hour to get to you?  Knowing what had occurred on  your lane rather recently I would have thought they would have responded speedily.

    Be safe please Isabella, do what you need to do. Could you bring in a live-in couple to manage the land and buildings? If you have the resources it could be a solution, no reason to move if you have other options.  In retrospect I realize it would have been possible for my mom to stay in her home with live-in help, and it would have cost much less than the nursing home she found herself in. If we had planned ahead, my Mom's outcome would have been infinitely more pleasing to her. Waiting until the need was iminent had us all involved in the medical system and going down a road we knew nothing about! Planning ahead is the only way I can see to keep oneself in your own preferred  living setting. Please take whatever thoughts are meaingful to you, and leave the rest.

    Hugs GInger

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited January 2012

    Isabella:  That had to be a scary couple of hours!  DGS had better stick around, if only for comfort and support.  What else could he do...you wouldn't want to put him in danger either.  Better to turn one of those rotties loose at night...they usually take a bite out of anyone's a$$ that they don't know!  I sure wouldn't stick around to get chewed up!  The howler probably did its job too...good idea that you have it.  The police are useless...even here...which is why so many people have weapons to protect themselves.  Shoot first and ask questions later...not my philosophy, as I don't even own a gun, just saying what the majority thinking is in this country.

    Hope you have a better week.

    chrissy:  Good decision on the meds.  Sounds like your physician is on the right page. 

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  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 356
    edited January 2012

    Isabella, do you have a gun?  I used to think it was silly to have one but I now know if I lived way out of town I would definitely learn to shoot.  Hope you keep those rotweilers on duty also.  A big dog with strong looking jaws--I wouldn't try that yard!

    Chrissy, praying for you and glad you're not starting out on a unknown right now.  Hope you're pain free.

    Love to all,

    Dragon 

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  • Dilly
    Dilly Member Posts: 655
    edited January 2012

    Chrissy, I like the rapport you have with your docs - always a plus. Best thoughts to you, all-ways.

    Isabella, YIKES! I know UK doesn't allow guns under most circumstances, and many people are opposed to them on principle - but does the UK allow bear spray or pepper spray?  Some commercial bear spray has a twenty foot range, and is pretty debilitating to humans.  It might run counter with your dogs though - I'm not sure as I try to envision a circumstance where you might use a spray for personal protection if the dogs would be in the way protecting you and they might get sprayed ....  Here, some of these sprays are legal, and often used by single women as a form of personal protection. My SIL travels alone a lot, and naps in rest stops - she carries a small atomizer of bear spray close. (I've also heard to keep a can of oven cleaner handy because it's debilitating when sprayed on the face of an attacker.) 

    I love your alarm system though and am very glad you have it.

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited January 2012

    Isabella, I'm asking with the others about letting the dogs run loose at night. After all, what intruder would want to run into a bunch of rotts at night?

    BTW, Reggie is regression - always a good thing to have (I'd like some for my tush in addition to my mets....)

    Leah

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