anyone starting chemo in Nov 2005

I am sorry about your foot Nancy!! 

I think I may have to volunteer to be one of Dr. Conick's patients.....

Mom is doing better.  Her doctor is great.  She may be able to do a clinical trial and may even be able to get the same vaccine I did up in Seattle.  SHe is up and moving around and feeling much better.

I almost forgot...I had a PET/CT scan today and my doc already called me and told me it was all normal.  The radiologist even wrote a little note and said it was the best scan they have seen all week.  I am happy, but it comes on the heels of my mom's news and we just can't seem to win this war....

Marg~ Doing the happy dance for you!

I know this is a hard time for your mom. But she will do fine , look at her daughter, you're a fighter from HELL , you had to get that from somewhere right.

I'm a lot like my mom, and we hit head on at times. But she is a tough lady, and I'm glad that I learned that toughness from her.

As far as warm and fuzzy she's not. That is where we differ and that is the part that is so hard to handle. I know she loves me, just wish she would say the words.

Never going to happen .....

Nancy, sorry about the foot too.

What part broke?

Can't wait for our workshop.  BTW, San Diego is a great place for a reunion and I would love to host all of you.  Just have to keep the dream of our getting together alive.

Margerie, how's Mom?

I choose to think of Anna traveling throughout Europe, eating great food, sipping beautiful wines, and taking long walks with her husband.   But, would love confirmation.

Nancy

Mary Lou, you are so funny.  Where did you get that foot?  The answer is left distal fifth metatarsal.

Your mom sounds like mine--tough.  As she got older, she was more available and vulnerable and at times I was angry as I saw her independent sprit and confidence give way to the frailty of old age and my ineptness at the role reversal.  She died the year before I was diagnosed and though I wanted my "mommy" at the real scary times, I was also glad that she did not have to go through this with me--it would have broken her heart.  She rarely said "I love you" but I knew.  I only hope she also knew.  I am much more vocal about saying "I love you" with my kids and grandkids.  And that extends to my sisters--I love you.

Hello dear friends.  Sorry I've been MIA for the last few days.  Too much stuff going on and extremely busy at work.  By the time I get home I am exhausted.  For some reason this last Zoladex has really wiped me out. 

I'm also grieving as my Dad was just placed on Aracept for early Alzheimer's.  He started to exhibit early signs of the disease so he had an MRI done and it showed some deterioration and much older than his current age.  His mental state has gone down hill since mom passed away.  He is very forgetful, angry and withdrawn at times.  Some nights he doesn't sleep.  We thought it was just depression but maybe early signs of the disease too.  Oh my, my heart can't take it as I lived through grandma (his mom) Alzheimer's disease and it is awful.  I don't wish that on him. 

Anyway, as you can see I am not very perky lately so is best if I just stay quiet for a while.  I hate being a downer.

Margerie - glad to hear your mom is doing better and your test results where good. 

MaryLou - love that crazy bikini picture.  You can take a dip in our pool any time. 

Geeze, I forgot what else I was going to say.  Sorry, I'll just send everyone a big hug,

My husband's grandfather had Alz.  It was very sad.  I think they have many more ways to slow down the progression of this disease.  Big Hugs to you and your pop.

Deb,

Cafepress has a great exchange/return policy. Just email them!

I say yes, I can drive that far, and if Deb and Anna want to meet me this far,  we can get there from here in my car. It is all on the east coast. I think it would be a great road trip....

I have really been in a funk after the lay off. Things are just getting on track again, but I'm still mad about not getting to get together this year.

Mary Lou - the road trip sounds like a great idea.  I just noticed Nov 5th is when this thread got started.  We will be celebrating our 3rd year anniversay this year.  There is a long weekend in November (Veterance day) .  How about It?

ooooohhh!!!  I don't want to get too excited until I know it is for real, but count me in!!!!! 

(((Margerie))) - so sorry it's stage IV.  This must be so hard on her, you and the entire family.  I wish you lived closer so I could help somehow.  Even if just sitting with the kids to give you some time with your mom.  My achy heart will tell you to spend as much time with her as possible.  If you need to make sure you make peace with her.  Mother and daughter relationships are always so hard.  Anyway, I'm here for you sister. 

Oh my dear sisters!

I am so sorry I have been MIA. We had so much to do before leaving Brittany, and then when we got back our internet service wasn't working at all. Now it's back in service and I feel like my lifeline is back, too. I have missed you sooooooo much! I couldn't even get to the library or anywhere with all my dr's appointments, taking my parents around (now that I'm back it only seems right my brother should be off the hook for a bit) and then a 6-day visit from, can you believe it, daughter, son-in-law, and that little prince of a grandson. I just got back from taking them to the airport for their return flight and found our internet reestablished, so it makes their departure a little more bearable to have my contact with my sisters returned to me.

So much news! Margerie, I am so sorry to hear about your mom. I do still have some wigs, please let me know if I can send them your way. I'm blonde, so they're blonde, would that work? One's very short, one longer, it could be cut and styled nicely, I think. Anyway, I'm thinking of you and of your mom, with love and hugs.

Ody, I am so sorry to hear about your dad. You have been through so much this year. And then your family in Cuba and all the fears for your own home as well. But what a pool, and may I dare say, who is that adorable pooch in the pool pictures? I did see the beautiful lady who thinks she's a hag, the one hanging out in your pool in that absurd bathingsuit, the one with all the beauty radiating from the inside. But that little white pooch, he (she?) doesn't look like the one you adopted recently (recently?), or am I wrong?

Deb, how awful that your house flooded like that. Flooding is my absolute nightmare. our basement flooded just before we moved in to this house (a mistake made by the plumbers) and since then I am always so anxious about water. I made my hubs replace the hot water tank way before its time and always cut the water main when we go away. You can't cut the storm water, though. So sorry for all you had to go through.

And Nancy, how terible to have broken your foot! Omygosh, how long will you be handicapped by that?

Mary Lou, I love your hugging cats. Thank goodness Michael has been called back to work, and I pray it is for a good job. Gosh, we have come back to a broken country. All this economy-falling-apart stuff is so frightening, and my hubs teaches that stuff and talks about it all the time, so that's not so good for the equanimity, you know what I mean?

LAT56, I hope all is well with you.

Jeeps, that Harry Connick sure is a beauty. I had never seen a picture of him before. What does he do? Music? Some sort of wind instrument?

Love to you all, each and every one. I have missed you!!!!!!!!!!! 

One minute I'm in tears, reading about the hurts & sorrows of my Nov. 2005 sisters & their loved ones, and UP pops the picture of Harry Connick, Jr.!!    OOOOOOO - how I laughed!!   

Thanks for being here!!

Hugs & prayers for all,

LAT56