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  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 2,439
    edited January 2014

    Every morning I wake up and say "Crap. I'm still here." And then I take a deep breath and say "Well, let's just make the best of it." So this morning, between the "Oh, crap...." thought and the "Well, let's..." thought, DH started gently rubbing my painful back and ribs, and I had this fleeting thought: Oh, crap .... well, DH is the toilet paper cleaning up for me, because I sure started feeling better, less "crappy"! So I now call DH just TP. I started laughing and he wasn't sure why. I'm actually wondering if he is better than TP, maybe some of that Cottonelle stuff that is supposed to finish the job ....

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  • MaryLW
    MaryLW Member Posts: 2,172
    edited January 2014

    Your DH sounds like a keeper--so is mine. 

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited January 2014

    TP does he know hahaha===and u 2 are very lucky with smart choices to have 2 good husbands. Oh I had 2 husbands, but good wasn't in the equation.

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  • Tina2
    Tina2 Member Posts: 2,943
    edited January 2014

    Hush, all of you. I am embracing my grumpiness. 

    Ah, yes!

    Enjoying the moment,

    Tina

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited January 2014

    TinaHappy

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  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 2,439
    edited January 2014

    Ah, Tina, good for you! Embrace whatever IS for you right now, and hoping your grumpiness changes (and we know all things always change) for a happier mood today. It took going to the opera last night to actually get my spirits lifted - only the 3rd opera I have ever been to, and it was "The Barber of Seville," full of puns and slap-stick humor, exaggerated body postures and facial expressions, and the music was just wonderful. I went with my neighbor and it gave us a nice evening out without thinking of all the other stuff going on. Wish I could remember some of the funny lines, but I think you kind of had to "be there" to really get it. So just know that I enjoyed it and was thinking of all of you, hoping you got as many laughs yesterday as I did.

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  • KiwiCatMom
    KiwiCatMom Member Posts: 2,553
    edited February 2014

    So happy to have found this page!  I've been told I don't treat my BC seriously enough.  But I live my life by something I saw on a fridge magnet (seriously!) that said "if you can laugh at it, you can live with it."  And it's my way of coping.  And I've always had a rather sarcastic sense of humour.  My friend Stacey had rectal cancer.  She's a health physicist, specialising in radiation.  When she asked the tech about the dose and he told her, she said, "That's a butt full of radiation!"  We were considering writing a book about our cancer journey.  She wanted to call it "Every journey is your own", I wanted to subtitle it "tits and ass".  :)  (hope that's not too offensive to anyone).  

    My oncologist has a great sense of humour too.  The original oncologist (David) told me to plan for hospice and that I'd have maybe 2 or 3 years.  The new one says he thinks 10 to 15 is a reasonable expectation.  When I saw him before Christmas and my scans were good, he said, "Do me a favour.  Send David a Christmas card every year and tell him 'I'm still here!'"  

    I was talking to 3 friends and they were wondering how I was, etc., and we were discussing cancer.  And one said, "It's everywhere...do you know that one in four of us is likely going to die of cancer?"  And I said, "well, I guess that would be me - so glad I can take one for the team!"  The person who said it was a bit embarassed, but we all cracked up laughing.

    Keep smiling everyone!

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  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited February 2014

    So..... my Grandma was a rather well-endowed lady, to say the least - probably size E or F. Since my sisters and I took after the other side of the family (size AA) we always used to say that none of us got Grandma's boobs. Grandma was also hard of hearing, and my sister is definitely having that problem now. So I said to her, "Well, you didn't get Grandma's boobs but you sure got her hearing. Of course, now I don't have anyone's boobs..... including my own".

    Leah

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

    I'm sorry of course--but I don't think anything is offensive and I always think laughter is best anyway, Good stories and I know my GF wanted me to write  book--why does everyone want a book--but mine would be laughing my way thru cancer and I would not capitalize cancer ever. It's not worthy of a big letter. Keep it up ladies.

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  • Nel138281
    Nel138281 Member Posts: 2,124
    edited February 2014

    Continue to love this thread!


    My new motto - I have Stage 4 cancer-that gives me permission to do anything I want!    Some friends are laughing and some are not.

    Ah well

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited February 2014

    Nel - I LOVE your new motto !!!!

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

    Love it Nel and that's why I created Stage V--don't have it, never will so I'll be OK.

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  • MRSROCKYTOP55
    MRSROCKYTOP55 Member Posts: 403
    edited February 2014

    Nel, I am with you on that one!

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

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  • Romansma
    Romansma Member Posts: 1,515
    edited February 2014

    I started radiation this week and unexpectedly, it put me in some gnarly pain.  I was laying in bed, trying to find a position I could handle, crying at times and my husband kept asking what he could do to help.  I answered with,"I want to move to Oregon".  Of course he had no idea what I was talking about.  Probably thought the pain pills we're make me delirious.  When The pain finally subsided a bit, I explained that Oregon was a Right to Die state and I was making a joke, sorta.  He's usually on board with our sick humor about this cancer crap, but he was a little squeamish on this one.  

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  • MRSROCKYTOP55
    MRSROCKYTOP55 Member Posts: 403
    edited February 2014

    Love it!!

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  • Nel138281
    Nel138281 Member Posts: 2,124
    edited February 2014

    It can be tough for those that love us, but we gotta say what we gotta say!


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  • Vadre
    Vadre Member Posts: 225
    edited February 2014

    I am new to this thread, to this whole web site, as of today. I've been stage I've for three years. I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to do this or whether I would find anyone here that I could relate to... Then I saw your post of your "New Motto" and I wanted to shout for joy,  someone gets it!  Someone gets me!

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

    Vadre we all get u, believe me.

    Romansma--I was laughing just reading I want to live in Oregon--I'm sorry that this is difficult for u tho.

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  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 2,439
    edited February 2014

    Romansma, I have also considered moving to OR! Talked with DH about it, then found that our favorite place in the world, VT also has a similar law. I have made some comments about our planned summer trip that once I get there, I just may not come back! Most people think it is just because I am in love with VT, but that law has really made it all the more attractive to me.

    OK, I am having more fun planning my funeral than I did my wedding. How sick is THAT???? 

    Vadre, welcome! Sorry you have been dealing with stage IV for this long, glad you finally found a "home" where everyone accepts you and supports you.

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited February 2014

    image

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  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 2,439
    edited March 2014

    I was reviewing the exclusion criteria for one (and I am NOT making this up!!!) said exclusion criteria included

    "Have a personal history of any of the following conditions: presyncope or syncope of either unexplained or cardiovascular etiology, ventricular arrhythmia (including but not limited to ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation), sudden cardiac death, or sudden cardiac arrest."

    I guess those already expired patients put a kink in the results - makes it hard to determine which category to put them in - success or failure of the treatment!

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  • pajim
    pajim Member Posts: 2,785
    edited March 2014

    I wonder if the IRB let it through that way?  Sudden cardiac death would indeed be a contraindication for most trials.

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  • Mompsych
    Mompsych Member Posts: 516
    edited March 2014

    too funny Linda and pajim.  Maybe they are recruiting zombies...

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited March 2014

    Linda, so funny--This is something that always cracks me up when they have a commercial for a drug and it sounds great then they start the SE's and they list like 25 getting worse each time, then they end with or death... Yea I'm going to run right to the Doc for these new meds.

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  • Brendatrue
    Brendatrue Member Posts: 1,830
    edited March 2014

    Okay, now I'm on board, too. No one likes to hear it when I say that I am definitely going to donate my body to science because someone should have a real field day with it.

    And here's a link to a real hoot: http://www.theonion.com/articles/how-are-we-raising-breast-cancer-awareness,34323/

    And if you still aren't offended (and I guess if you are you might want to rethink viewing this topic): http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-onion-on-breast-cancer,10448/

    And finally, at least for today: http://www.theonion.com/articles/cancer-researchers-dont-get-cancer,34599/ 

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  • Kjones13
    Kjones13 Member Posts: 1,520
    edited March 2014

    Brenda--freakin hilarious!

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited March 2014

    Brenda why would we be offended lol?  BTW I really like Mike Hard Lemonade and I bet this new one is good too,--See I notice the "likker"

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  • Romansma
    Romansma Member Posts: 1,515
    edited March 2014

    love it!

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  • Nel138281
    Nel138281 Member Posts: 2,124
    edited March 2014

    Love these!  And Mike's hard lemonade

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