Lumpectomy Lounge....let's talk!

tsoebbin

Congrats Elizabeth!

Miko

Congratulations Elizabeth 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

tbalding

YAY Elizabeth! So happy you're done

PontiacPeggy

Elizabath, YES!!! What will you do with all that time??? Sleep?

HUGS!

DaraB

Awesome news Elizabeth!

Thanks Sandy for the makeup tips. I really like the Benefit product line. I used to used Physicians formula and have forgotten all about it. I do really like the Mac gel eyeliner, and really like a mascara my sister told me about (Now don't laugh...) that is called "Better Than Sex." Jill's video is great and I've watched it a couple of times.

Poodles, sure hope things get straightened out and that your mom is comfortable.

Katzpjays

Congratulations on competing radiation Elizabeth!

Katzpjays

Poodles...so sorry that the billing issue continue to dog you. Definitely unwelcome!! Hang in there with your mom. We're here for you when you need someone to tell you you're not crazy!

Katzpjays

Celand - If I am counting correctly, you must be pretty close to done with your rads. Congratulations! You asked for some feedback from some of us on AIs. I started Anastrazole in July. Other than minor pain in one hand (which may just be arthritis) I have not had any side effects. Vaginal dryness was a problem pre-BC due to menopause and I had to find non-estrogen remedies post-diagnosis. I was previously on Estring. Miss Estring, but so it goes. Be aware there are some MOs who have no issue with Estring.

Molly50

Congratulations Elizabeth!

ChiSandy

Yay on ringing the rads bell, Elizabeth!

Dara, I’ve found some great makeup buys at Costco, of all places. One year they had a Smashbox “Photo-Ready” kit: 4 shadows, eye and lip liner pencils, lip gloss & cream lipstick, cream eyeliner, blush and finishing powder. Another time they had a “naturals” eye shadow palette from Borghese.

molliefish

Congratulations Elizabeth! I'm so happy you are finished. Onward and upward now!

Vargadoll

Congratulations! ElizabethAM!

ILSunrise

ElizabethAM - well done - congratulations on being done with rads and getting to ring the bell!

mustlovepoodles

Congratulatins , Elizabeth! My, my, you do look happy

ElizabethAM

Thank you everyone. Now only Herceptin every three weeks until the fall. But the worst is over and now I can get out and do things... I am looking forward to going to the movies.

queenmomcat

Congratulations, Elizabeth! Radiation's over!

Caligirl55

Elizabeth...congrats!! Can't wait for my last radiation next week!!

mustlovepoodles

A quick update on my mother-- her kidney failure is steadily advancing. She's retaining a lot of water and is having some trouble breathing. Although she's on oxygen she seems weaker and tired. We meet tomorrow with the team to discuss future planning and I fully expect her to go on hospice very soon. I'm hoping we can bring her home and that my sister and I can care for her in her final days.

If you are the praying sort please pray for reconciliation. Mother is still paranoid and at times disoriented. Please pray for the return of peace for my mother and unity for my siblings as we go through this final stage.

If you aren't comfortable praying please send us all positive, radiant energy for the difficult days ahead.

PontiacPeggy

Poodles, definitely praying and sending positive energy and thoughts to all of you. I do hope that reconciliation does occur and that the family finds peace, including your mother, as she transitions. We're here to love and support you and a safe place to "let it all hang out" as you well know. Many hugs for the difficult times ahead.

HUGS!!

tbalding

Poodles, lifting up prayers for peace, reconciliation & unity. Also big hugs as you go through this difficult time!

Molly50

lifting your family up in prayer, Poodles

Italychick

Poodles, many hugs. Towards his end, my grandfather got crazy mad if anybody asked him a question, so we learned not to ask him questions. I guess he didn't know how to respond, so he got mad because he had a lot of disorientation. Wonder if you can figure out if anything triggers her, like questions or some kind of behavior? My mom was the same way. She would get mad and tell me to stop asking her questions. I feel for you, and sending much love your way.

mustlovepoodles

I don't know, Italychick. I think mother is really just scared and doesn't understand what's happening to her. She blames us because we're "safe". Today she went off on her best friend of 30yrs. Friend recommended that she have someone stay with her when she gets home and mother went off like a bomb, apparently. Friend was absolutely stunned. I'm going to call my mother's sister tomorrow after the meeting. Maybe she can talk some sense into her (she's an old home health nurse.)

ChiSandy

(((Poodles))). Praying for peaceful and comfortable final weeks for your mom, that she mellows along the way, and can reconcile with you and your sisters.

Italychick

poodles, it is so hard. My mom became a rabid animal before she went, and I try to just hang on to all the good times and conversations we had. I know it is tough, though. I never really understood the disorientation and everything that went with kidney failure until I went through it with my mom. I think they truly are no longer in their right mind.

Hoping you can have a nice talk with her before things get worse. It isn't you or anything you have done or didn't do, it's just the crappy part of kidney failure.

Taco1946

Bracei was my doctor's recommendation. I didn't have any of the skin burns etc. that I am reading others experienced. Incision is healing nicely. I had thought I was more or less through with treatment until my HER2 came back positive. So now Taxol and Herceptin. (I can't figure out how to put that on my profile if someone is monitoring this).

Sloan15

Hi. Just checking in. Doc appt today (1 year post chemo and rads) shows all my blood work finally finally finally in the normal range on everything except CEA. My Cea had been going up and down for a year, went up to 5, now it's down to 3. My doc said cancer doesn't do that, so he's confident it's benign breast disease. Phew. Tingling and zingers in arm or breast are only occasionally, hot flashes from meds have decreased, sleep has improved.

I just want to give all you ladies out there hope and that it really does take time for all the test results and your body to come back to normal!

Hang in there!

molliefish

Hello Sloan! Glad to see you here and happy to hear of your good check up. Take good care and have some fun too!

ChiSandy

Good to see you back here, Sloan (I’d been worrying till you popped up this week on my FB timeline). I saw my MO today for my third semiannual checkup, and she said everything was fine (but to use my anti-fungal/steroid cream under my breasts if I don’t go back to sleeping in a bra, which I stopped doing months ago). But the only bloodwork she ever did was a metabolic panel before my Zometa infusion—I’ve never had my markers tested. (Surprised yours were, because wasn’t your chemo stopped when your OncotypeDX came back low-risk)?

Sloan15

Sandy - I changed MO's because he wasn't following protocols, and since the markers were high when the new MO took me on, he felt he needed to follow them for a year. It's no wonder docs aren't supposed to use them because they freak us out unnecessarily!

Oh, I'm taking a baby aspirin a day. My newMO said it used to be for heart disease and older patients (plus good for decreasing stroke risk from anastrozole/arimidex), but he says it's the anti- cancer wonder drug, too. Just take it with 2 cups of water.