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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2008

    Is the fire still going?

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  • drw
    drw Member Posts: 2,447
    edited March 2008

    i'm kinda new to this sight and totally new to this thread. this looks like a good place to be.



    dianne

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  • LoriFL
    LoriFL Member Posts: 1,557
    edited March 2008

    frozen frappucinos were my favorite during rads.

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  • dianej1962
    dianej1962 Member Posts: 7
    edited March 2008

    I am brand new to this site. 

    I have to ask where do I find anything about breast cancer and divorce.  My husband could not make love to me after my bi-lateral mastectomy.  I waited for a year and then couldn't stand it anymore so I kicked him out.  There were other things also that weren't perfect about our marriage.  He would not even take a pill and pretend.  Is that normal behavior?

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  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 43,890
    edited May 2008

    I am sending you a an army of angels to help you in the fight. Wheres the cocoa, the warm blankets and hugs, I be right there to help you smile. Cause everyone is loved! Take care, Debbie 

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  • evilelf
    evilelf Member Posts: 1,066
    edited August 2008

    Hi ladies, just checking in to see how everyone is doing.

    Am trying to catch up with all the comments, it's gonna take a while

    Check with you later

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  • musicgirl
    musicgirl Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2008

    I am new.  I like the positive tone!  I would love info on the afagan.  I have tons and tons of yarn!

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  • susanmary
    susanmary Member Posts: 137
    edited October 2008

    Hi all. I am not a newbie on the breast caner site, but I am new to the Wagon Circle. Not too sure on how to become a member of what seems to be really super and inspiring postings.

    I was diagnosed in October, 2002 and had a mastectomy. Did the chemo (red devil and Xeloda) and rads. I was on Tamoxifen (cancer recured same with Arimidex). I have now been on Aromasin for almost 3 years. I have met in the ribs. Cancer is estrogen positive.

    Love

    S Laughing

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2008

    susanmary:  Hello to you.  Glad you found us.  We usually hang out at Time to circle the wagons thread."

    Nicki

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  • pee
    pee Member Posts: 456
    edited February 2009

    Hi.  This is Lady Pee and I just received my afghan today.  I was absolutely taken back.  I have only been to the recurrence board as I was recently dxed with mets.  I cannot tell you how surprised and touched I was by all of you ladies involved in the community afghan.  I am typing this as I sit in my bed all comfy under my wonderful afghan.  There are just no words of thanks that are sufficient so all I can say is Thank You.

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  • Irina
    Irina Member Posts: 987
    edited March 2009

    I just received this gift. Thank you very much. It was exactly in right time.Today is very nasty day with rain. My TMs are very high, my Dr change my treatment from Tamoxifen to Femara. I have every day this burning pain in my ribs, shoulder blade, hips and femurs.

    But now i have Hugaghan, I feel like I'm not alone any more. It's real help, specially when you have no friends, no family around.

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  • lizws
    lizws Member Posts: 1,892
    edited March 2009

    Irina, 

    I'm glad your box of hugs arrived.  Wrap yourself in our hugs.  We'll always be here for you.

    Hugs,  Liz

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  • Bonnielv
    Bonnielv Member Posts: 353
    edited March 2009

    Hi all.  Not new to the boards but am new to this thread.  Like Irina my tm's have been growing and after 8 mos Femara failed followed by Aromasin and am now on Faslodex.  Every month before the tm tests I hold my breath and hope to hear, the tms are decreasing.  Don't want to go back on chemo which would be my next step.  Original dx was 3/03 (today is my 6 year anniversary of the beginning of my breast cancer journey) Stage I IDC er/pr++++ and Her2-.  I was nearing the 5 yr mark of being cancer free and,as the docs put it, CURED when I was redx with Stage IV with mets to bones and lungs.  I like the positive things I have read and will be checking in to this thread.

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  • Madison
    Madison Member Posts: 1,819
    edited March 2009

    irina,

     I'm so happy your hugs arrived.     The afghan is indeed filled with our love, prayers and support.

    Hugs, Madison

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  • 2Hands4me
    2Hands4me Member Posts: 484
    edited March 2009

    Can I join the circle, too? The prayers and support are so special and necessary! Hope everyone is enjoying their day! It's warm and sunny here! Makes me want to be outside! There's yard work to do, but still have to pace the time I spend working at that kind of thing!

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  • SaraB
    SaraB Member Posts: 2
    edited March 2009

    I'm new to the boards - and am happy I found this group.  As a 4 year! survivor and sort-of thriver, I needed other people to talk to who know where I am in my head and my heart - thrilled to be OK but wondering if I should add "for now".  My rad oncologist asked me if I minded seeing him every 6 months (also see my onco every 6) and I just had to laugh and say "no - I feel safer that way".  I hope this Spring will be kind and uplifting to all of you - my new sisters.

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  • SheriH
    SheriH Member Posts: 785
    edited March 2009

    Hi Sara.  I am a 4 year survivor, too.  Congratulations!  It's great to go to a 6 month visit, I've been on 3 month visits up to now.  I would love to talk to you if you want someone.  Welcome.

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  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited April 2009

    I have been round a while but never been here. I know what Sara means, even though all is fine I still need people to talk too and its on these boards that everyone really understands.

    Alyson

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  • Shedua
    Shedua Member Posts: 25
    edited August 2009

    Hi I am new here on this site and would like to join your group.

    Shedua 

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited August 2009

    come on down and have a seat.

    welcome

    and visit down below at Time of Circle the Wagons

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  • Shedua
    Shedua Member Posts: 25
    edited September 2009

    Just saw this on Komen site. Mike Partain has worked on getting the word out for a long time-

    Next Thursday and Friday (September 24th and 25th), CNN will air a story on the male breast cancer cluster we have discovered over the past two years. It will show at 8PM EST on the Campbell Brown Show. This is our opportunity to expose an environmental cause for breast cancer in both men and women. 

    The chemicals we were exposed to at the base are linked to breast cancer. PCE and TCE are common organic solvents found in the ground water across the country. Community and private drinking water wells still surfacing with this type of contamination. The latest community was in Crestwood Illinois.... 

    One of the most effective ways of preventing breast cancer is identifying and eliminating the causes of breast cancer. PCE and TCE in drinking water is one of those mechanisms. 

    .....Please spread the word..... 
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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited October 2009

    I have a dream

    A real live wagon circle GTG....someplace in the heartland this summer.

     Sometime in the summer, at a campground. People who do historical camping like civil war or rondevous know how to make a tent really comfy with cots. 

    Can you imagine? Am I nuts?

    PM me 

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  • charmainejensenvoisine
    charmainejensenvoisine Member Posts: 369
    edited March 2010

    I recently went out and purchased : Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer, by Dr. Marisa Weiss

    I have taken a peek thru different parts of this book and it looks like a excellent read.. have others picked up this book?   I am also the type of person that likes to highlight parts of a page in a book that really trigger my interest and I tried to highlight a couple of lines in this book and oddly in this book the highlight went right thru to the back page/next page (this has never happened with any book I have ever owned) hmmmm   Go figure?  I have even tried to underline with a pen and same thing happens, so find myself having to use a pencil instead.     Is there such thing as a highlighter pen that will not go thru a page of a book (obviously the pages of this book are very thin) - if the author of this book is on this sight please reply to my message).

    Thank you, Charmaine

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  • MinnesotaBarb
    MinnesotaBarb Member Posts: 46
    edited February 2011

    Hi. As an author myself, I have learned the paper quality can vary greatly from different book printers. If you have time, the author might appreciate it if you let her know the problem.

    I just found this forum. I am back from a vacation (which also means back to doctor followups and so forth..) and I was looking for ways to continue to move forward. I'm going to check out the book you mention Charmaine. Thank you!

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  • charmainejensenvoisine
    charmainejensenvoisine Member Posts: 369
    edited February 2011

    Barb,

    Can you tell me how I would get in touch with the author?  I was under the impression that she might be able to be in touch vie this site? hmmm

    Also thank you so much for replying to my email.

    Wish you much luck trying to move forward.  I finished my cancer treatments (chemo February 2010 sort of a couple months of it and 30 days of radiation therapy March 30 2010).  Now I feel that I am experiencing complications of radiation therapy.  I have had very limited reach/motion of my right should and arm so have been trying to find as much information on this as possible.

    I have found it very, very difficult to move forward from all I went through last year....

    Charmaine

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited April 2011

    Hi Ladies - I'm new on this forum. I finally feel like I can move on after a tumultuous 17 months involving 2 diagnoses of bc a year apart. After 2 surgeries, chemo, a year of herceptin and 2 lots of radiation, I am totally over the whole bc thing.

    Ever since this whole nightmare started, my DH has tried to get me to go for a bike ride with him. I kept saying "my tyres are flat" which was really a metaphor for how I felt - "I'm flat". I just didn't want to do anything. Well, finally a couple of days ago, I asked him to pump up my tyres and we went for a ride. To me, this means I think I'm ready to move on and get back my life.

    Sue

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