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Mominator

Thank you, Lita for malocchio. 

I can use malocchio, and still be otherwise pleasant to the idiots. 

Lula73

Jaycee- getting a new one in 7-10 days after finishing the antibiotic may actually be from the antibiotic not completely killing the bacteria and it recurring vs it being a new one altogether. I’ve dealt with UTIs since I was a baby (one of my ureters didn’t form properly in utero). Has your dr ever had you try a broader spectrum antibiotic than the cipro? Maybe some sulfamethoxazole? I usually take Cipro or Septra but my dr gives me sulfamethoxazole if it comes back within 1-2 weeks. Basically in those cases the first antibiotic works enough to relieve the symptoms and significantly reduces the bacteria but not completely. Antibiotic is finished and the infection comes back strong with symptoms making life miserable as the bacterial load grows. Might be worth asking about. On the diarrhea incidence, certain sugars can cause it. Another reason to not take mega doses of it as a preventative.

GrooGruxQueen

I just need to rant about this, my husband is asleep right now and I can't wake him to let loose to him about this, up but I'm coming close to punching a hole in the wall if I don't yell about it to someone!

When I got on Facebook this morning I saw that my mom had put a wonderful post about me shaving my head yesterday with a nice, BIG PICTURE of the clippers and a clump of my hair sitting beside them saying how emotional the day was. This really ticked me off!!!!!

I'm not embarrassed, ashamed, afraid or anything else that I have cancer (I have epilepsy too and feel the same way) I just don't want the whole WORLD knowing! The people who I want to know about these things all know, the ones that I don't want to know don't. I don't want to start getting posts, texts, emails, phone calls or anything else from people I don't know, haven't heard from in years, one's I hate, one's that I know hate me and who ever else telling me how sorry they are for me and that they love me saying that they know I'm strong and I'll make it. I'll get things from people who will say that since their mom, grandma, aunt, second cousin, sister-in-law's aunt, people that they worked with 20 years ago and who knows who ever else, saying they that THEY know what its like since that other person had cancer, and THEY know what I'm going through right now. Sorry but if YOU aren't the one who actually has the cancer then you have no clue what it's like and I'm going through!

I don't know if anyone else feels the same way but I just needed to let loose about it. I don't want any holes in the wall!!!!!

jaycee49

Oh, Groo, how RUDE. She should have asked you first before posting that. Her post is obviously attention seeking for HERSELF. All her friends will be so sorry for HER that her daughter has cancer. You don't need the ripple effect from that post. That's the problem with Facebook. Her friends will see it and if they like or comment or whatever, then all of THEIR friends will see it. I keep my Facebook friends list down to about fifteen. That's all I can handle. Can you talk to your mom about what she did and maybe prevent a repeat?

Micmel

Groo~I am so sorry your mother did that to you. That's such an intrusion of your privacy I am so very sorry!! that beyond sucks and makes me mad. No less from a family member. Ugh!!! Sending hugs. ~M~

ChelseaSculler

Groo, can you ask her to take it down? At least minimize the damage? I'd be furious as well—completely overstepping.

Mominator

GrooGruxQueen: yes, that is rude and inappropriate. Can you ask her to take it down? Also, ask her to ask you before she posts anything about you and your health. 

My daughters are now 16 and 19, and I know better than to post on Facebook without asking them first. 

Unfortunately, it's really all about your mother and her feelings. My sister was the same as our parents' health declined. She posted every little thing that happened to our Mother, usually in the terms of how it affected her! 

Good luck.

Meow13

I will share a facebook story. My father, who was remarried, had a brain aneurysm and fell into a coma after surgery. My father's wife called to tell me. That night her grandchildren, not biologically related. Started posting stuff on facebook. I asked them to take it down, since I haven't told my 2 sons yet. Well the one grandkid wrote me at a nasty note. His mother and my father's wife called to profusely apologize, saying he didn't know it was me asking for them to take it off facebook. I said ok I just didn't want my kids finding out there grandfather wasn't expected to survive from a facebook post.

I also told relatives not to post pictures of me on facebook, they do it anyway not getting my permission. It truly is a nightmare.

Artista964

Maybe thats her way to help her cope but should have asked first. Ask her to take it down. If she feels she needs to cope with your cancer by sharing with her friends in fb, not much you can do. Hopefully its a didnt think about it rather than the former. Gl

runor

GrooGrux, a song came into my head, sung to the tune of "There's a Hole in The Bucket"

There's a hole in the wall dear mother, dear mother

A hole in the wall and I blame it on you!

You blabbed it on facebook on facebook dear mother

You blabbed and I slugged it, this hole is for you!

Moms. Some days..... Sorry.

jaycee49

By the end of your post, runor, I was reading to the tune of the song. Couldn't read it without the tune in my head. Very funny.

mustlovepoodles

Groo, that's terrible. My mother would have done something like that, too. It was always all about her. I had a strict NO FACEBOOK policy during my year of treatment. When it was over, i posted some information, but no pics of my chemo hair. It didn't stop my mother from introducing me to her friends as "This is C, the one who has breast cancer." She was a huge gossip and my story hit her gossip mill like a wildfire. Grrrr. She never could understand how much that hurt me.

marijen

I hate gossip. This conversation has reminded me of this story:

The Gossiper

A woman repeated a story (gossip) about a neighbor. Within a few days everyone in the community knew the story. The person she talked about heard what had been said about her and she was very sad. Later, the woman who had spread the story learned that it was not true. She was very sorry and went to a wise rabbi and asked what she could do to repair the damage.

After giving this some thought, the rabbi said to her, "Go home, get one of your feather pillows, and bring it back to me." Surprised by the rabbi's response, the woman followed his advice and went home to get a feather pillow and brought it to the rabbi.

"Now," said the rabbi, "open the pillow and pull out all the feathers." Confused, the woman did what she was told to do.

After a few minutes, the rabbi said, "Now, I want you to find every one of the feathers and put them back into the pillow."

"That's impossible," said the woman, almost in tears. "The window is open and the wind has scattered them all over the room and blown many feathers outside. I can't possibly find them all."

"Yes," said the rabbi. "And that is what happens when you gossip or tell a story about someone else. Once you talk about someone, the words fly from one person's mouth to another, just like these feathers flew in the wind. Once you say them, you can never take them back."

pajim

Groo, that's so totally inappropriate I don't even know where to begin. So I'll just say I'm sorry.

If my temper was up on something like this I swear I wouldn't be speaking to my mother for a long long time. [Not that my mother would -- she's as private about these things as I am] Not to mention the violence. I'm outraged on your behalf.

Can't really fix this so I offer you a hug. And promise if your mother is a friend of a Facebook friend of mine I won't look at the picture.

KatyK

So my first thought is- is there enough room here for all my vents right now! ?Widely inappropriate that your mother or anyone else would post information about you and your cancer on Facebook. I use caringbridge.org to post and keep folks updated about my treatment for stage IV breast cancer. I find it hard enough to deal with the diagnosis and so hard and draining to deal with other peoples’ BS. What I need right now is empathy, compassion and love not drama and negativity! Fortunately I do have a lot of good support but there are a few family members that I am about to tell to leave me alone! They don’t help and they make my illness about themselves! I’m going through the roughest time of my life and they just can’t figure out how to be empathetic. I find it so hurtful and aggravating that I deal with this- have to go see my counselor again. Honestly I wish they would go see counselor and figure out how to be compassionate. I have one relative who has canceled dinners on me three times now! Obviously I’m not a priority in her life. And my nieces who ran to the doctor over my diagnosis because they are worried about themselves but don’t reach out to me! My own daughter isn’t worried about herself but these two freak out cause it may happen to them. Hey guess what I’m living it how about some compassion? It’s all from one family, no surprise I guess. If they were not family I would have walked away already. I just don’t get how people can be so darn clueless! Thanks for listening

Artista964

makes me thank God noone in my fam knows. Much rather deal with it on my own..

bella2013

KatyK, I am sorry that you have family members causing you pain. You are right, it’s hard enough to walk this cancer path without added grief. I have become very bold about setting boundaries even with family members since my cancer diagnosis. I am not trying to be mean but I have to protect myself from undue stress and drama. I can’t be around toxic people. I make myself unavailable to them...don’t take calls or answer texts. One of those is my daughter...no compassion, no empathy and everything is about her...even my cancer diagnosis. She only wants to talk to me so she can dump her drama in my lap. I am not having it. Thanks for letting me vent!

I have learned so much about myself since cancer assaulted me. It definitely reshuffled my priorities. I have focused on family and friends that have been here for me. Some have been on the sidelines but most have jumped in to be helpful and some have abandoned me. That’s okay...

Remember, just because they are family doesn’t mean they are going to come through for us.

Seek peace for your soul...turn down all the extraneous noise (toxic people) and let your body fight the good fight and heal.

Return here and vent anytime!

KatyK

thanks, Bella, very helpful reply. You are absolutely right to focus on the friends and family that provide emotional support and love. I try to do that and I do have good support from many people. But this one branch of the family seems to have very little empathy and it is so hard on me and odd. It’s like looking at something black and they are trying to tell me it’s white. I am pretty close to telling these family members that they cause me too much pain and to go get counseling help before we can interact again. I am angry they have put this on my plate - now I have to take energy and figure out how to navigate this too not just cancer. Thank you for your great reply - my husband told me to print it out and keep reading it

smwusaf

your husband is on to something KatyK. I would put it on the fridge or somewhere you can see it a lot.

I feel like I've been lucky that my family doesn't post anything without my permission. I don't mind sharing the high level process and have posted myself because I want all the women I know to be more diligent but I think by my doing that it has helped curb other peoples appetite for sharing. It's not a secret anymore so the temptation to be the first to share or gossip is taken out of thier power.

Funny story though, my mom has no computer, no TV, a prepaid flip phone for emergencies away from her land line. When I was diagnosed I had to call all my siblings and in laws around the country and then tell them not to say anything until I reached my mom. Mom was on a trip around lake superior in her grandson's van looking at the fall colors and was unreachable to a week! In this day and age it is so wierd to consider being unreachable.

I too have reevaluated some priorities this past year, narrowed down the number of people in my circle to ones that really matter. The others are just considered outside fluff, I'm not mean or angry, I just don't initiate or engage with them and let them have any power over my emotions anymore. I've got other stuff to worry about.

bella2013

bella2013

marijen

Saved, thanks Bella.

Micmel

well said

GrooGruxQueen

I tried talking with my mom about it, no yelling, that she shouldn't have put it on Facebook. She kept asking me why I didn't want people to know I had cancer. She said that she only put my first name on it, not my last too, and only her 'friends' on Facebook would see it. I tried explaining the ripple effect of Facebook - Even though the post only went to her friends her friends could share the post and then all of the people they were friends would see it and if one of those people saw it and shared it then all of their fiends would see it and so on..... But it just wouldn't sink in.

She ran into the bedroom and started crying so I went in to try and explaining things again. She still kept asking me why I didn't want people to know I had cancer. I told her that I didn't care if she physically told family or friends, people she see's all the time, but I just didn't want the whole world knowing like people she's just 'friends' with on Facebook, the one's she's went to high school with and ones she hasn't seen for 20 years or more. That just didn't sink in either. I talked to her a little more about it and I don't know if she understood or not but she did calm down. She told me that she wouldn't post anything else about me having cancer but did seem upset about it.

She's just driving me crazy in general too. She's treating me like I'm 5 again, a little kid. She's the one who's been taking me to all my dr visits and asks questions, the type that you'd ask about your young child. After I had chemo the first time my blood levels were low, she was positive that it was because I'd gone to a concert the weekend before. The nurses explained to her that my levels were low because chemo kills the good blood plus the bad ones, which I'd told her already and she didn't believe me, and she was surprised I was right. I make the mistake of telling her that I was going to be going to a small concert in about a month and she asked if I would be ok doing that. They told her that if my levels were low that I should try staying away from sick people but going to the concert would be fine.

I had chemo for the second time on Monday she needed to go to the bank but she was almost scared to death to leave me there alone. I told her that I'd me fine and she asked the nurses if it would be ok for me to be there alone and they told her it was completely fine. She couldn't believe that there were so many people there alone while they were having chemo so I know I'm going to be lucky and have her sit there with me during every visit.

She'd read in one of the pamphlets I was given that I shouldn't be having caffeine so any time I've been going to her house she wouldn't let me drink any thing with caffeine in it. When the nurses asked me if I wanted anything to drink they told me that they had Pepsi, Sprite and what ever else. My mom quickly said that I'd only be able to have something without caffeine in it. The nurses told me that I'm fine having caffeine as long as it wasn't anything like Red Bull or the other types of drinks that are more or less just to make you stay awake. When my mom asked if it was ok to have iced tea they just gave her an odd look and said that was completely fine. My mom couldn't believe it!

If my hair hadn't fallen out already I know I'd be pulling it out!!!!!

Thanks everyone!

DancingElizabeth

Groo - that - too - would make me crazy mad!! Sometimes people are so focused on just their feelings - that they can't see how it's hurting others.

I would put my foot thru a wall - if someone posted my cancer info on Facebook.

My MIL - tried to guilt me into the whole I need to tell everybody sort of thing. And, so did my DH.

I said - No way. And, "when/if you get cancer - then we'll talk, because, you clearly have no f$cking clue how this feels"...

jaycee49

Groo, I was thinking about your situation with your mom when I was awake in the middle of the night. (I think best then.) Are you a mom? I am. If my son was diagnosed with cancer, I might do some crazy things. I would rather I have cancer than my son have it. I remember my mom when my sister was in the fight. My mom was very level headed but she had some crazy reactions during that time. Now, the Facebook posting has to stop but I might cut her some slack on the overly-protective reaction. No one is suffering more than you in this thing but if someone else is suffering too, it's your mom. Please don't take this as lack of support. I hope that being in a better place with your mom will help you, too. At least decrease some stress.

smwusaf

I was having visions of Shirley McLaine in Terms of Endearment - yelling at the staff to give her adult daughter some pain meds. That always makes me smile because as a mom I would do the same thing for my kids. maybe it's good she goes with you Groo just so she can hear what the nurses/ doctors say too. That way she isn't basing her knowledge on pamphlets and the internet.

runor

Groo, I second what Jaycee said. Moms, they are maddening, but at least it sounds like yours is showing up. I am a mother and I would be frantic, which is why I have cut my own mom some slack over the questionable way she has reacted to me having cancer. But the Facebook thing ... I totally get that and would not want my private life broadcast in such a public way. Your mom is terrified. Terrified people don't think straight sometimes.

Rant time.

I am on a Facebook group. Someone posts that their partner has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer that has spread everywhere and the doctors have said to line up hospice care. Someone else posts, "If the doctors can't cure this, contact me because I know how you can get rid of this cancer." When I read shit like that I know in that moment that I am capable of murder.

You have got to be one stunned, drooling, dirt eating, backwater, ignorant moron to think that YOU KNOW SOMETHING the rest of the world doesn't. The massive medical establishment knows nothing and you, in your garden, planting kale and pot have discovered The Cure For Terminal Cancer. And to trot out this grand and eloquent cure in the face of someone's truly devastating news ..... are you stoned ?!?! If not, you ought to be, in the biblical sense, with rocks hurled from angered hands!

I ask myself, why did this make me so mad? I think when someone casually belches out that they have a cure, it says you are stupid. You have cancer because you are stupid. If you knew how to live right, eat right, stay out of the sun right, and rub the right mixture of herbs and spices on your belly, this would never have happened to you. It puts forth a smug and evil position that someone might just have Christ like powers and they might just lay their hand upon you and heal you, unlike those useless doctors who don't know dick. Come on over to my house with the sagging porch and screen door off its hinges and I'll hocus pocus that cancer right the hell out of you.

It is the cruelest thing to do to someone. It is false hope at the worst time.

I am NOT saying that there might not be a magic bullet out there. I am NOT saying that alternative practices don't have value. But I AM saying that I DO NOT BELIEVE there is a secret cure for cancer known only to Facebook lunatics. There is also a difference between an offer humbly made and the prideful boast that you have cured many cases of terminal cancer. Last guy who claimed that was crucified. Be careful what you say!

jaycee49

runor, I hope people are all over that person on Facebook. Not good at all. I went to a Facebook cancer group once. This may offend some but since that is my specialty, I will proceed. There were posts in the cancer group about pets with cancer mixed in with the posts about people with cancer. For some reason, that rubbed me the wrong way. I have a dog that I love dearly. I would be devastated if he had cancer but maybe there should be a separate group for pets with cancer. I just never went back to any Facebook cancer groups.

That person you encountered with the cure is the worst of the worst. Grrr.