Here's what cheezed me off today

Angelice

Thedivine I met a old school friend yesterday she said to OMg you cut your hair so short ,I was ok then she said it 3 times I'm like you serious from such long hair I had as if Id go so short really think !!! I had seen her may be 2 years before with long hair

tedwilliams

My ungrateful stepchildren.....I am tired of being the stepbitch.  

Jana 

Anonymous

Why is it that none of the anatomy books have it right? 99% of people have nothing inside their craniums and an enormous foot in their mouths. $#&*!

agada

Yeah, I know what you mean.  Try to smile and be happy.  I have a brother who told me "just get over your cancer hang up".  That cheezed me off big time.  But, not supposed to argue with them, that is why I go to a psychologist who specializes in cancer patients.  Then I really let go!  Oh, and yes, the full time job, co-workers who no longer understand why you are not better, and the doctors appts are killing me and my budget.  Budget?  What budget.  I managed to save the 6 mos of money you are supposed to use in an emergency and it is gone baby.  The doctors are now taking the rest of my money ( yeah, I know, no free rides) and cannot seem to save another 6 months worth.  whine whine whine.  So there.

GointoCarolina

Thank God I found this before I exploded....I am way post chemo and herceptin..my hair has never returned to what it was pre cancer..it is dry and coarse and the sides are thin..so I went yesterday to a new hairdresser hoping she could maybe do.....something,anything.....it is Ok,she did great with what she had to work with..But  I am so tired of short unruly ugly hair...I complained to a friend that I  wish I had my old hair back,I miss it.....her reply..."be glad you have hair"....this from a woman who also had breast cancer,who a week after her diagnosis went out and bought 4 wigs..but she never had to wear them as she never had to have chemo..............How dare she tell me to be glad I have hair..............

Rockym

pandazanker, You friend is an insentive twit!  I would have exploded right then and there and possibly would have told her off big time, cancer or no cancer.

rohanna,  Way busy week for me.  Still don't know if I'll have to do chemo or not.  I'm healing well, but I feel like singing a Carpenter's song... "We've only just begun..."

By the way... husband brought home two gallons of 2% last week!  WTF, I can't catch a break!  We are almost finished with the last gallon so I'm off to the grocery store.  Perhaps I'll buy some non-fat to make up the difference!

Rockym

Elizabeth1889, Thanks for your support!  Still waiting for the Oncotype.  I'm thinking perhaps Monday or Tuesday and then I can get on with this rodeo!

soulswithin, Congrats on being finished!  I took a "cancer holiday" yesterday and just watched a movie and hung out.  Tried not to talk about it or think about it.  Thanks for your support.  I've seen my personality change a bit since my dx in June.  I guess I'm thinking... life is short and in my case perhaps shorter now so don't f--k with me.  This illness has shown me who cares in my life and which people need to be dismissed.  So far the caring outweigh the losers, so I'm batting 1000.

Anonymous

Pand, I agree with Rocky. Your "friend" should know better!

Agada, I know what you mean. I'm so poor from BC, I can't even pay attention!

Rocky, I'm praying for continued healing and NO chemo. Please keep me in the loop! Instead of a Carpenters' song, join me in a rousing round of Chumbawumba! "I get knocked down, but I get up again and you're never gonna keep me down. I get knocked down, but I get up again, and you're never gonna keep me down......" KMA BC! 

Rockym

rohanna, Thanks for the well wishes... You're right... Screw the Carpenters (they date me anyway and I was feeling low).  I had to Google your Chumbawumba!  Sounded like a character from Star Wars :-).  I'll take your song instead.  Made me smile.  Thanks!

Anonymous

They're a one hit wonder but you gotta love the song.

sas-schatzi

Rohanna---------how about all the old MO-town stuff. Dates me for sure. AND then who did CELLEBRATION?

Rockym

So get this... I walk into a store today for a little "retail therapy" and I hear that damn Carpenter's  song again.  I tell my friend how the song is haunting me and that rohanna says I need to go with Chumbawumba as a theme.  She agrees and we laugh our way through the store.  So what do you think happens when I get in my car and turn on the radio?

CARPENTERS!  Okay, so if that's not a sign, I don't know what is.  Some of the lyrics are as follows:

Before the rising sun we fly, so many roads to choose
We start out walking and learn to run, and yes we've just begun

Sharing horizons that are new to us, catching the signs along the way
Talking it over just the two of us, working together day to day, together

And when the evening comes we smile, so much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow
And yes we've just begun

Let's just hope it's a good sign :-).

Anonymous

Rocky! You're being haunted by the Carpenters! Quick! Burn some sage, turn around in a circle 7 times and repeat "Carpenters, Be Gone!" Hah. Just kidding! I keep hearing the Bruno Mars song "Today I Don't Feel Like Doing Anything." So appropriate! Especially the lines, "Sittin' on the couch, chillin' in my Snuggie, Turn on MTV so I can learn to do the Dougie." Can you tell I have a 20 yr. old daughter?

Hope you're feeling well and get good news soon! 

Rockym

It's so quite over here!  Apparently no one is getting cheezed off these days.  My Oncotype came back a 22 :-(.  I should be ticked off, but I just keep on trucking.  My pathology is off to Johns Hopkins for a 2nd opinion.  2nd opinion with another MO is Wednesday.

I asked my husband what does he think based on all the information I have.  He said, "You know where the airport is."  I was wondering if I really needed to go to Johns Hopkins myself for another opinion.  They say that micromets are not a concern, but if that was the case I wouldn't be in this chemo grey area.  What a pisser!  Just want to figure out treatment and move on, but not be stupid about it and of course not rush to a decision.

odie16

Oh I am a touch cheezed....

My stupid ex-husband told my son I got cancer since I am such a *%$^#!  Nice.......

Elizabeth1889

How awful for you, odie 16.  The last thing you need at a time like this is mean and negative remarks.  Sending hugs to you and hoping no more spiteful people will enter your life.

pejkug3

Holy crap, Odie.  Nice guy! 

Heck, just reading that cheezed me off.  I'd soap his windows...That'd show him #&^%(* 

odie16

Guess it kinda explains why he's the EX, huh?

Too bad he didn't think about how that would make him look in his son's eyes.... I actually am ok being a B$@#&  (which I admit I can be at times) but he will always be a stupid cheat.  Just hope I never become so bitter and hateful to anyone.

 Anywho, thanks for letting me vent. 

cs34

sorry to jump in and put a blip in the flow but i needed to vent to those who could understand...

i have a follow up visit with my breast surgeon on thursday and the "girl" confirming the appointment with me says, "Do you have your films?" I said with a slight attitude because i assumed where this was going, "What films?" She says, "Did you have a mammogram?" 

Uh...no, LOSER, i had a DOUBLE MASTECTOMY so i won't be needing a mammo anymore...

(i didn't call her a loser.) And i called up the imaging center last year and told them to STOP sending me the "reminders" in the mail that i needed to have my yearly mammo.

I am pretty good (on a daily basais) about accepting what happened to me. fine. but i cannot deal when these things come up that remind me all over again IN MY FACE that i have no boobs and no ovaries and i DON'T have to do like "most" women do because they're not there!!!!!

i'm a good woman, this i'm 100% certain of but when I see the tampon commercials and when i'm asked about a mammo that i don't NEED anymore-it makes me really sad and feel very vulnerable about my womanhood... i hate it. it sucks!

thank you for listening.  

Anonymous

Rocky, let me know what your decision is about the second opinion. Sending you hugs and prayers.

Odie, your ex is a do*&%#bag! Good riddance! Tell him to keep an eye on his prostate!

cs34, I know exactly what you mean! Seems like everywhere I turn, it's a tv show making light of cancer and a movie about a boy using his cancer to pick up girls. And everybody who dies in a novel dies of cancer! WTF!!!!!! 

Now for today's cheezer. I went in for my tri-monthly blood work and was assigned to  the Marquess De Sade. She slid the needle in (roughly) and proceeded to dig and dig and dig. Finally, I asked if she was through and she said she hadn't gotten any blood yet! I almost threw up and fainted and I had to make her quit. Now my arm is bruised and really sore and they wanted to know if I'd come back in next week and have blood drawn then. HELL TO THE NO! I told the onc that Vampira wasn't touching me again. Pray that there's a new girl there in Dec. or I'm going Madea on her ass! Everyone in the waiting room was complaining about her. Where do they get these people?!

Rockym

Odie, sounds like your ex is your ex for a damn good reason!  I'm sure your son is smart enough to know a nice guy from a jerk!

cs34, People can be soooooooo stupid.  Office workers can really top that list sometimes.  I should know, I worked in an office with ladies years ago and eventually ran screaming.  If that "girl" had any grey matter, she would have peeked at your file where I am sure that it was bold as day that NO MAMMO was needed.  Sorry you had to deal with that :-(.

Rohanna, Obviously she needed her own personal pick ax since whatever lessons she learned at phlebotomy school weren't sinking in.  So sorry you are bruised now.  I hate that!  I used to go for regular blood tests years back and yes, I recall the times where some little newbie bruised me.  I also remember filing a complaint.  Me, speak up... really??  Also, don't you hate when "everyone in the waiting room was complaining about her" and they DON'T get rid of a person?

sas-schatzi

ROHANNA and all------phelbotomy skills----------are just that a skill. If you have somebody poking and poking they don't know. My first and only chemo. Requested a port and denied. Three chemo certified nurses took  five sticks. DUH---------the last stick was good. But since it was below a couple of higher sticks some chemo leaked into the tissue. Took a year for those areas to return to normal.

Rockym

Well, it's only about 8:00a here and my 9 year old daughter cheezed me off this morning.  So, I'm off to my first chemo in an hour and she decides to be a twit this morning.  She typically wakes up happy, but was bitching about everything.  We had a show down on breakfast... I WON!  I'm a stickler for a healthy breakfast (although I don't eat one).  Do as I say, not as I do. :-)

I got her off to the bus and then I'm getting all my paperwork together to prepare for a meeting with her 504 coordinator this afternoon.  Life doesn't stop with cancer does it?  The coordinator tried to set up a meeting with me while I was shopping at Walmart one morning last week.  He said, "How about Monday the 19th?"  My reply was, "Well I'm doing 3 hours of chemo in the morning, but I should be fine by 3:00p." :-).  As I said... life goes on.

hotandcold

pejkug3: Loved the suggestion about soaping the windows! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Funny and sad to read this string of posts. Spending a few moments with all of you makes my day better.  About 3 months ago, a neighbor way down the street,invited me to her house, then proceeded to tell me what kind of improvements she wanted at my house & in our neighborhood and what she was going to propose to the owner's association.  Blindsided ! I was so mad. I disagreed with her and then she proceeded to yell and scream at me and told me I was  "an unchristian woman."  Don't care what religion you are or aren't, don't tell me that. She has way more time and MONEY than I do. She doesn't know about all the s#!++ that's going on in my life. Maybe I'll soap her windows.  Can she call they cops on me if I soap her windows and she sees me?  I'd go at night.  Besides, maybe I am "unchristian"  after I came home and cried my eyes out, then I wished she'd get breast cancer and see how she feels. 

Rockym

hotandcold, Oh that would cheeze me off beyond all belief.  I always try to be respectful, but that neighbor would have set me off big time!  I would have told her that not only was I unchristian, but after her unsolicited comments I was feeling very unladylike too and then I'd tell her to eff off :-).

sas-schatzi

A minute ago sas-schatzi wrote:

Friends I'm reposting this here----------it has implications for you and your childern. Many of you don't post where you might see this.

2 minutes ago, edited a few seconds ago by sas-schatzi wrote:  I'm re-postig this from another thread. tested hyperlink. There are implications , not just for us, but all women and childern males as well as females. Children being exposed to high levels of estrogen. Could explain why early onset puberty has been such a problem. AND newborns being born that have signs of going through puberty.

I'm even more bummed that article was published in DEC 2006. It should have been a Public Health Warning issued from some agency. You noticed that at the end of the article they said they were going to lay low. It was fascinating that the Mongolians to empirically figure this out and have been doing it for 2 thousand years. That's HUGE.

TO ALL---read the below hyperlink.-----How it affects us is----Now we may have to make choices about milk.

Another thought the government has NOT dealt with the public impact of what this article identifies. Guess it's not politically correct.

I'm going to add the hyperlink here and re-post it on a couple of threads.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html

hotandcold

Rockym: Yes life goes on even during chemo. My youngest daughter was in her 1st year of H.S. and it was not a good year.Things have evened out now. I hope your first chemo went great and your next will go fabulously easy. May all your side effects be nothing more than the whisper of the wind. Thanks for responding to me. Corrine

Anonymous

Rocky, I hope your first chemo went well. Cyber hugs to you! And tell yor daughter, you made her so you can give her away and make another one just like her!

Hotandcold, I have a true story for you. I moved to a very small town right after I married and loved the quirkyness of my little town. Then a massive exodus started from a city 25 miles away and our town exploded. One of the new residents came to my house one day and wanted me to sign a petition to make everyone have the same mailbox,regulate what you could and couldn't park in your driveway, what you could display in your yards, and a bunch of other bull%*&#. I told her to move back to her old neigborhood if she didn't like it and to get her crazy ass off my property. She said, " I should have known I was dealing with a Hillbilly. Do you even have indoor plumbing?" and then stomped off. I waited a few days and contacted a friend who flips houses. He provided me with a toilet he had taken out of a house and I put it in the middle of my front yard. I filled it with potting soil and planted ivy in it. Just get a mental picture of what it looked like when the ivy grew and spilled down the side! Then some other people in town started putting up pink flamingos and some other interesting "yard art". Needless to say, the petition failed. After almost 4 months, my husband "gave my public statement a new home at the landfill". He has no sense of humor! So if this obnoxious woman shows up at your door again, a small investment in a little yard art saves you soap and flips the bird at the same time!

mostlymom

rohanna - are you my twin sister????

Anonymous

It's possible, Mostlymom! Everytime I'm around my annoying sister, I turn to my mom and say, "it's ok. I'm old enough now for you to tell me I'm adopted." Mom denies it, but I'm becoming more and more suspicious!