Help!!!!! Need my girls!!! Don't know what to do!!!

pupfoster1

Bahahahaha!

OMG, now I can look forward to a locked vagina! Oh the fun never ends.

Sharon

4sewwhat

Momine,

I am envisioning the stretching and the repetitions! How many sets a day? Lol

Momine

4sew, LOL, yeah, sumtin like that.

4sewwhat

Momine, I saw on another thread that you are in another country! My Father in Law was from there and he left the kids some property. Pics are beautiful. Would love to visit there someday. My onc is from there too!

Momine

4sew, definitely come visit. My onc is a Greek from Chicago. Greece produces a lot of doctors.

4sewwhat

My doc is a Greek in Atlanta!! He went to med school in Greece, then went to Northwestern, MD Anderson in TX, then Emory in Atlanta and now he is at Piedmont Hospital here.

I'll let you know when the budget recovers and we are on our way. FIL's hometown was some thing like Kutsapodes? I know I slaughtered that spelling!!! When My DH went there as a kid they had to ride burrows to get there. He still remembers pushing the family bed outside to put it under a tree in the shade and nap in the afterenoons. They didn't have much for utilities then either and it was already the 1970s!!!

Momine

LOL, my onc also went to Northwestern. Do you know which area of Greece this place is in? Many rural areas were quite underdeveloped even in the 70s. Now everyone has cell phones and internet pretty much.

Momine

4sew, never mind, found it! It is called Koutsopodi and is a village near Nafplion, which is about a 2-hr drive from Athens. It is lovely around there and Nafplion itself is really pleasant. I bet there is a good chance your FIL's last name starts with a 'B'.

Oh, and the name of the village means "limping leg," which even in Greece is a funny name for a village.

4sewwhat

Yes the name does start with a B. funny story though. When He came here in the 50's he only knew how to write English in Cursive. So he wrote TJis as the last 4 letters of his 6 letter name. They misread and it has been TZ ever since!

I believe family owned an olive orchard. I know the land that he left is a couple blocks from the sea and pictures are very pretty. It is near orange orchards and olives. FIL was something of a war hero in his town being the only member of his group to survive some horrible thing. I don't remember the details. He wasn't expected to live and when he did he wasn't expected to walk. He ended up carrying the Olympic torch shortly after that, even if it only was a short distance!

He was a crazy old coot!!! We miss him. Kids never got to know him and his kids didn't care when they were young and he was telling stories. Now they wish they had paid attention!

Limping Leg is a weird name!!!

Momine

4sew, it sounds like it would definitely be worth it to reclaim the property.

I guessed the letter, because the area is full of "Arvanites," people who originated from what is now Albania and who spoke an Albanian dialect. They were settled there hundreds of years ago. You also get them in Italy, especially in Calabria, and there they are called "Arbaresh."

Many of their last names start with 'B', a sound that does not exist in Greek, so in Greek an initial 'B' is written as 'MP'.

He probably fought in the war against the Italians, which was fought in Albania, in fact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Italian_War

4sewwhat

Thanks for the info! I will pass it on to DH and we can look into it

karen1956

4sew....I had my ooph 7 years ago following bilat, chemo and rads....I was peri-menopausal at the time but chemo stopped my periods.....but being thrown into instant menopause is hard!!!! I would probably make the same decision but its hard....libido....what's that!!!! at 57, some side effects are ago, some are post ooph and chemo and everything else....I'd be happy to chat on the phone if you want....pm me your phone number.....Karen

4sewwhat

Thanks Karen, I will PM you! I was no where near menopause when I started all this and chemo did stop my periods. The only thing I really have is flashes. They are not horrible and are getting better. It would probably be my luck to start back up too! Libido, hmmmm My husband and I have a very good, ummm, relationship. I hate that that may take a hit as a result of this stupid BC too. Chemo wasn't even hard on that. (pardon the pun!)

I can always ask Momine for her PT exercise schedule as long as my vagina doesn't "lock up"!!

Momine

4sew, I have a feeling you will figure it out

pip57

Still laughing. Hoohaw PT.

bettysgirl

Late coming here but I pop in from time to time. My onco has sited the studies that recommended 10 yrs on tamox and that it what he has suggested. As far as the hoohah thing (LOL) My onco and gyno both agree that if there is a need for estrogen creme the hormone is locally administered and as long as you are on tamox the tamox will block the little bit of estrogen from the creme. In the end we have to study and do what's right for ourselves. I have to okay if i ever decide to do estrogen creme but for right now, it isn't something i want to risk.

Some of the girls in my fall group are on AI's. Some of them say the joint pain is an issue. Old "arthur" loves my knees, especially in this cold so I am a little skittish to go on an AI

4sewwhat

I had a broken, well shattered really, ankle in January. It was doing great, until chemo fried it! The nerves were recovering from surgery and were like a limping zebra when that chemo lion came around. Nice, weak target. So now I am back to PT, limping, constant swelling and it hurts worse at times than when it was broken. Bone doc says it will be 2 years before I know if the damage is permanent. Can't imagine what will happen with AIs if I switch after Oooh like onc says he wants me too. So I understand the concern for not wanting it to get worse. I wish just ONE thing BC had a clear cut answer or info!