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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited December 2014

    Just Hot Mocha for me

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2015

    But I would probably lose my balance with just one capful of booze!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited December 2014

    I would like to see that. Not really, I hope You are

    doing well and ready for the holiday.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited January 2015

    OK and slowly getting ready for Christmas Eve and Day!!

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited December 2014

    May You find Your present in the heart of the ones

    You love.

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  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited December 2014

    Good luck with surgery..........

    Great joke Jazzy........

    I think I am losing it big time...........am moving out of my home as cannot take the stress anymore, yet am super stressed about moving as its all very sudden and the place I am going to is colder, no garden and nowhere near as comfortable as my own home...........and thinking why am I doing this as it will bring new stresses............but I don´t feel safe here as the neighbour stuff triggers my PTSD and he loves to drill and make a lot of grating noises..

    I think I might be having an old fashioned breakdown...............I really feel like that..........waiting on results of further blood test for my liver too but I think they will not be good..............some days I think I am just waiting to die, and wishing it would be soon, isn´t tht awful. I am so disappointed with myself and how I have coped, or rather not coped....with all this.........

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    Hermits- waking up to snow this morning. Not much on the ground but expected to get a few inches here today. The forcasted rain but when I left work last night, it had the raw cold in the air that felt like snow. And here it is.....

    Teka- I really love hot drinks with booze in them. My favorite is coffee with some Bailey's Irish creme.

    Footprints- I love what you shared above, finding your present in the hearts of ones you love. I hope you are doing okay, and know this time of the year is not an easy one for you.

    Lili- I am sorry you are feeling so stressed, and having to move. Your comments do suggest a deep depression that is just so common with any serious illness. I talk to many women on these threads who have suffered deep depression, PTSD, etc. post treatment. The fact you are trying, caring,and wanting to feel better means you ARE trying to cope and find your way through this.

    If moving gives you some peace and quiet, it may be one step that you are doing to create a better environment for yourself. I think all of us are a lot less tolerant of the junk that goes on around us in the world. I almost said something I should not have to my client yesterday, but caught myself. Fortunately, I am not on site there today.

    Hugs sister and find yourself some counseling or other type of help to get through this. We are here for you too.

    Thinking of our Bippy today too, who is having her surgery.

    How is our Mags doing?

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    For the cat lovers, something to brighten your day.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/best-cat-pictu...


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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited December 2014

    Just relaxing now that I got the chores of the day out of my way!


     

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2014

    Mags is still waiting for word from RO. Tonight is DH's team's Christmas party, for the second year being held at an upscale bowling "lounge", really a restaurant with bowling lanes, everyone had a great time last year. I will wear my wig but not guaranteeing I will keep it on all night. Hot flashes have been awful lately. As cold as it is, I could probably just step outside though. It's 38° now but overcast and feels biting cold. I don't know what the weather is supposed to do today. Anyway, I'll dab a bit of makeup on – I have about half a dozen eyebrow and lash hairs left. Kinda peach fuzzy on top but still lots of bald spots. What's growing back though? That's right, whiskers. Shoot.

    I've been following, but have had nothing to say... Hey, I'm a hermit, after all.

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    Mags- good to hear from you and hope you hear from the RO soon.

    I am glad that you are going to try to go to the party tonight. My hot flashes have been worse lately. I dress in layers these days.


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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2014

    Lily.....don't normally comment, but at 75 I moved from a house I was renting (beautiful) from my son when he suddenly decided to sell it......I had only been there 5 years after moving from a house I owned, just was not crazy about the location....very nice, but a lonley area.....

    Moved from there to my son's gorgeous rental property in a lovely neighborhood, and right behind his huge home....so when he said "I'm selling, you have to relocate I was floored.................I was 75, and a widow for 19 years.....thought.....OMG.....I can't do this.........

    Well I vowed I would never rent again even though my son offered to "rehab a home for me again, just the way I wanted it"..........I said "no thanks, I iwll buy my own".......I did, and another son gutted the entire house, and I boght it..........Could not get a mortgage so had get a HELOC on my "shore propety".........

    The home I live in now.....is brand new from top to bottom, heat, plumbing, walls, floors, roof, entire walls taken down to make it a "straight through home"........1 floor living.......with a gourmet kitchen, and walk in shower.....alll marble......

    I have been here 4 years last week.......love it....have my own home back..........and I did get through it......many nights waiting I cried myself to sleep, but finally put my Big Girl Panties on and dealt with it............what other choice did I have.......my home is gorgous thanks to another son, who took the ball ran with it and scored a big TD.

    2 months after moving in I was hit with BC.......but I survived both........you can do this......not fun at 75, but you do what you have to do......hugs..........

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited December 2014

    Mags,

    that reminds me of last year during the summer when hubby and I went to my 20 year class reunion. It was freakin' hot that week and I initially wore my wig. Took the dang thing off halfway through the night as it was so hot. Not one of my classmates that were there cared I was bald, because they knew what I was going through.

    Hope that you have a good time tonight.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2014

    I have never had a hot flash......................I get all the other SE's from my AI........like bone and muscle aches and pains, neuropathy in he feet......thinning hair.....dizzy.....off balance.........trigger fingers........and in addition Lymphedema..........all the fun things............no one believes me when I say I don't get hot flashes.

    I laugh and say "wouldnt know one if it came up and introduced itself"....gues that's a good thing........my problem is always being cold......LO

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited December 2014

    Got a call from rads clinic, going tomorrow for "practice session". Finally.

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  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited December 2014

    good luck mags

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    Mags- wishing you a good visit tomorrow. Let us know how things go for you?

    Ducky- the SEs that we all deal with are so different around the AIs. Glad you are spared the hot flashes. I can deal with them easier than other things I have gone through on this ride.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2014

    Jazzy.....as I said....never had one, but I do beieve I could handle that so much easier then the others I was unfortunate enough to get...I know their no fun, but I really believe pain is worse.......I feel bad for anyone who gets any SE's....it is the reason I went off after 3 1/2 years......

    May go back on a different brand, but right now I am enjoying what pain has gone, since going off......I think whatever aches I have now are "age related", plus arthritis which I had before cancer........I have been off for 2 months.........

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  • SallyS70
    SallyS70 Member Posts: 947
    edited December 2014


    Mags, I will be thinking of you tomorrow. Although I do not always remember names and/or specifics, the women here are in my thoughts. I think someone is in surgery today ... Am hoping all went well.

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  • SallyS70
    SallyS70 Member Posts: 947
    edited December 2014


    Lily, I am hoping your move goes smoothly. Packing is a monumental chore for me. I hope it is not an arduous task for you. I know some people find it easy and/or fun. I like unpacking better than packing

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2014

    Sally......LOL......I did not like either, and did most myself.......my kids did what they coul

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  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 5,712
    edited December 2014

    Lily i am always thinking of u

    Mags have fun

    Hey sally

    Ducky u r amazing.

    Hey jazzy


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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    Ducky- I have been on the AIs two years this coming March. I just had a bone density test and results have increasing bone loss, which I am very concerned about, despite doing CA and Vitamin D, and regular exercise including weights. I am loosing 5% per year and very concerned I will hit the line with osteoporosis before I am done with the 5 year protocol. Got several bc related apts in January, and going to be discussing in every direction I go. Taking these meds for a very early/low re-occurrence risk bc at the expense of my bones seems like it may not be a good idea. I have a decision ahead of me.

    Blondie- hey girlfriend, you feeling better from the shingles yet?

    It is our Bippy that has surgery yesterday. I look forward to hearing from her when she is back home and recovered.

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    For Blondie and Mommy with the new kittens.

    image

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2014

    Jazzy......I have the bone lost too.....will get another Dexa in April.....there are so many reasons to go off this medicine, but the one good one was "LIFE", but what good is life without quality.

    I get more bone loss, fall, and break a hip at 79, we all know how that can end up.....so you have a decision to make.......and really........do we have any "true proof" that these AI's stop recurrence or lessen it that much........

    Do I want Mets.....hell no, but I also could not handle all the SE's.....I would have welcomed a "hot flash"........instead of all the other problems.......glad I didn't get that one too........

    This disease turned me from a woman who never stopped, was always ready to run, party, dance, drive 5 hours from Philly to Pittsburgh and 5 hours back for 4 years to watch my grandson play college football........

    Hope for the best is all I can do......if I try the Arimidex next....which is in the cabinett....all 30 of them......and the SE's come back......I am done for good.......no more AI's.............one SE or even 2, but all of them................NO, not gonna go down that path again.....................

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  • daisylover
    daisylover Member Posts: 310
    edited December 2014

    Hi to all... having headaches, so not posting much. Wish there was a LIKE button (like on FB) cause I would hit it for the Kitten pic/graphic, Jazzy.

    Prayers for Bippy, Mags, Lily and Blondie and all Hermits for healing strength peace and JOY. Thanks for keeping me smiling.


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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited December 2014

    Ducky- I have been taking anastrozole (arimidex) for almost two years, and did have a rough six months to start, but when I went to see my MO last fall, we agreed to take a vacation from it and go back on and see if it was better. I have done better since, but still have issues with stiff feet, hot flashes and sometimes find myself getting emotional for no reason (been a bit short tempered at work this week, but that could also just be my frustration with the client site). I have noticed more fuzzy brain with time too.

    I think there is 10 years of clinical data around the arimidex products, but others are newer as I understand it. I don't think there is enough history to know if they really work. Like you, I don't want mets or the rest that could follow with that, but more than anything, quality of life is what matters to me.

    I hope you will do better on the new meds. but will understand if you don't continue to take them. Many women don't finish them due to the heavy SEs. I told my doc I would give it a try, but if it worked more against me than for me, I would reconsider.

    We all face these hard decisions as we go along. Thankful for BCO to have a place to talk about these things.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2014

    jazzy....thanks you understand.....hugs

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  • Bippy625
    Bippy625 Member Posts: 890
    edited December 2014

    good morning girls I'm back home

    Surgery went very well, and all my caregivers were excellent. I got home yesterday about noon and began experiencing excruciating pain after we changed bandages. Figured out we needed a lot of gauze and more stabilization around the drain site incision. My poor husband, I had to subject him to seeing me and all my stapled glory. He's incredible though, and asked me how long do I think I could've hid it? We cried. Then things improved immensely once he got me fixed up.

    I'm having a lot of pain there because the doctor said there was much scar tissue from dead cancer which is good but he really had to do a lot. No surprises visually, but waiting for final pathology. I'm taking all my pain pills on schedule.

    My insurance pays for about five days of home health, so I'm anxious for her to get here this morning and help us with drains. The drains are simple but I can't handle them alone because I can't really use my right arm or hand right now. Again my wonderful husband got me through. He's a champion drain emptier!

    My next big project will be to take a shower today. Other than that I'm just taking it easy and not doing too much as I do not want to setback myself.


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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited December 2014

    Loved the kitty story. This morning Princess climbed up on my lap and then to my shoulder where she laid her head down and took a brief nap before getting up and going to the arm of my chair. Hard to believe that she will be 3 mo. tommorrow. Still miss Charcoal but its getting easier to look at pictures of him or talk about him without crying.

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