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  • kerry_lamb
    kerry_lamb Member Posts: 778
    edited January 2009

    Double WAAAH! from me. Rock, hug Noelle for me. Noelle, hug Rock for me. Then do that group-hug thing with lots of imaginary friends, some of them one-breasted, and all looking like clones with boy-hair. Man, how sweet will that be! I am shabby and crabby today, and still in my jamas at 11am on a magnificent sunny day. It was hub's birthday yesterday and we went out for Chinese, which was great. But I slept so badly due to crippled feet and melt-down flushes that I'm having flash-backs to chemo-world and THAT kind of tiredness. Grump. AND what kind of wife am I?? My man was magnificence personified for the last YEAR while I was literally dying and do I even get him a card for his birthday??? OMG I said it out loud. OK. I'm getting dressed now and going into town. I have been galvanised by coming here! Rock! The trip really is going to happen and I could pee my pants in anticipation on your behalf. Actually, I shouldn't talk like that. I think we've ALL got THAT thing coming to us. Who would be born a girl-child???....sigh....

    ps I just had a very amusing flash back. My hub actually forgot my birthday (my 50th!!!) last year. As we settled into bed that night and turned off the light, I said in a very small voice, "You really HAVE forgotten my birthday, haven't you?". The light came on again and I will never forget the look of horror on his face and how much we have laughed about it since. 

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  • ellenoire
    ellenoire Member Posts: 674
    edited January 2009

    I am stuck in the damned Buffalo airport waiting for my flight! There was threat of snow, it is not bad, but I got bumped to a later flight.

    Herceptin was fine, funny story about that. I was stuck driving around and around the parking lot.. I was already late and had to drive around forEVER.. then I called the chemo room and they pretended I was in the waiting room and put me in the queue so my IV would get prepped.. It was like having valet chemo! I walked in like a rock star... got my number( you know, like at the butcher.. I have never asked... do/did you guys go through being just a number in the waiting rooms?)asked if I had time to get a coffee... then went and got coffee and a sandwich and only had time to eat the yummy and greasy grilled cheese and got called in. A super easy poke and I was out of there... 

    I have spoken to Rock and Karin about seeing each other while I am in NYC... could be a trio reunion!

     Love to all!

     I'll keep you posted!

    Karin, yes join us all on Facebook!  I thnk we have everyone except Cris and Otter now! Cris.. we need your address lady! I am finally doing my cards!

     xoN

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  • MsKarin
    MsKarin Member Posts: 647
    edited January 2009

    Noelle/Rock,

    I checked out Amtrak from Philly and I am thinking it would be quicker for me then driving. It drops me off at Penn station. I have no idea where that is in relationship to a meeting spot. If we can work something out I would need directions from either Penn Station or the Port Authority. With all the excitement I don't think I could handle driving in the city. I so hope we can do this. If not then just soak in all the excitement for all of us.

    P.S. - Rock I told Noelle Thursday would be great if its alright by you. Willing to juggle what ever I have to and anxious to make plans. At the same time I don't want to bog you down with squeezing me in if your schedule is tight. I can wait till your return. It would give me something to look forward to.

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  • Sable
    Sable Member Posts: 738
    edited January 2009

    wow I hope you ladies have a very safe trip and have tons of fun! Wish I was closer than 10 hours, I'd come along too.

    Ya know... there is nothing like reformatting a 500gig hardrive to make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.

    More hugs and slobbers!

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  • MsKarin
    MsKarin Member Posts: 647
    edited January 2009

    Jen,

    How far are you from Twinsburg? My daughters have always talked about going out there for the twin thing they do. If you're not too far maybe this year we will finally go.

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  • Roxi65229
    Roxi65229 Member Posts: 462
    edited January 2009

    You girls are gonna have so mucH fun. Group hug for all of us. I'll have to take a picture. I've been avoiding the camera but I think someone snapped some over the holidays. 

    Kristy, good luck on Thursday.

    My Dad is having part of his colon out on Friday. Just in case the surgeon says.

    My muga yesterday was great. They think it all looks well but the onc will tell me tomorrow.  

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  • Gracie713
    Gracie713 Member Posts: 302
    edited January 2009

    I am so happy that you will all get to be together-I'm all for the big group hug!  Have a safe trip and a great time!  We will all be with you in spirit!

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  • Sable
    Sable Member Posts: 738
    edited January 2009

    i'm probably a good 4 hours from twinsburg. i'm on the west side of ohio in dayton.

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  • angelsaboveus
    angelsaboveus Member Posts: 298
    edited January 2009

    Have a great time girls, I hope you have made it out of Buffallo Noelle. Karin I hope you can connect with them! Have a drink for all of us and a hug !

    Rock you probablly explained this to all of us way back when but i was probably in a chemo fog.and even if i read it i don't retain info very well......what takes you to South Africa , what work will you be doing. And how long will you be there?  Last ? when do you leave?      ( inquiring minds want to know !) Sorry if you have to repeat yourself.   Whatever you are doing there it's sound like a wonderful adventure !

    Cheers! 

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  • rock
    rock Member Posts: 1,486
    edited January 2009

    a drive-by post (w/ no time to review old posts at the mome) to say . . . noelle is on her way here from the airport! i'm so excited! 

    angels: i'm going to s africa on a fulbright, with the idea of studying incarcerated women.  i leave at dawn's crack on monday (am staying at an airport hotel on sunday). will stop in england for a few days to visit friends. will arrive in cape town on jan 17th.

    karin -- noelle and i are gonna talk schedule. i'd love to lay my eyes on you, obut at the same time i'd hate to have you schlep all the way up here (even by train) only for a quicky coffee/drink!   (penn station is really easy for me, though!) the thought of seeing you guys has pushed me to new heights in terms of packing, laundry-doing, etc.  i just can't quite see where i'm at yet.  (tomorrow holds a dentist's appointment because, thank you chemo, i broke a tooth.)

    funny, my laundry isn't folding itself as i type this.  so i must trot.  i wish you guys were physically here. but you ARE here otherwise. You really are. You always are.

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  • MsKarin
    MsKarin Member Posts: 647
    edited January 2009

    Good Morning Everyone

    Rock/Noelle 

    Just did some more goggling and think maybe I would just drive all the way. Most of the city driving would be on the Henry Hudson Pkwy so that wouldn't be too bad. Is there somewhere I would find easy parking?

    Just in case it's a go I will give the principal the heads up this morning and see if maybe I could leave at 11:00 which would bring me there sometime around 2:00 if that is doable for the two of you.

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  • ellenoire
    ellenoire Member Posts: 674
    edited January 2009

    met rock, it was awesome!

    we talked til 3am... more later.. I promise!

     Karin I will call in a little while! 

     N

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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited January 2009

    Noelle, I am so jealous!  You live in Canada, and you got to see rock!  Darn, I might as well be in Tasmania (with sympathies to Kerry for her distance from us).

    Hugs all around...

    otter 

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  • rock
    rock Member Posts: 1,486
    edited January 2009

    just back from dentist.

    karin + noelle, re: tomorrow.  as it turns out, i have to go back for a crown tomorrow (dentist -- who is also pam's dentist -- is afraid that if i bite wrong my cracked tooth is going to split down to the root). i have to have the work done in the afternoon because i have a radio interview and a meeting that are best undertaken without a half-numb face.  (Mind you, i once was interviewed an hour after a root canal and think i came off better than i usually do!)

    i am terribly sorry about this but i so appreciate your willingness to make the effort to get over here.for what it's worth, the weather is positively SLIMY over here, which tends to wreak havoc on the bridges and the tunnels. NOT FUN.  (Tho, for future reference, Penn Station is a breeze for me to get to!!)

    it was  very good to see nicole and i'll post more (with pics later). for now, suffice it to say that she really IS that energetic, upbeat, funny and looks like she is all of about 17 years old.  JUST WONDERFUL.

    I promise to post more when i can.  xoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxo 

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  • kerry_lamb
    kerry_lamb Member Posts: 778
    edited January 2009
    Girls!!! I found the Christmas decorations!!!Laughing
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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited January 2009

    Kerry, LOL!

    otter 

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  • sueper13
    sueper13 Member Posts: 1,224
    edited January 2009

    Kerry,

    We still have our (real) tree up!!!!! 

    (We didn't get it untiil the 18th)

    Could we be twins separated at birth?

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  • kerry_lamb
    kerry_lamb Member Posts: 778
    edited January 2009
    Finding the decorations is significant...now I can decorate my tree and send out my cards! Sue, Maybe! And what's more, I BET I don't get my act together for Christmas THIS year either lol! I seem to remember one year, when my alcoholic Mum finally lost the plot, that we had our decorations up until about June. My friends thought it was great...we were little, thoughLaughingLast night I took the Fibster for a walk just before dusk and in the bush, each time I came to a spot with a remnant of sunshine, a small cloud of brown butterflies flew up. It was so beautiful! I have never seen it happen before. Life is cool. 
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  • drcrisc
    drcrisc Member Posts: 836
    edited January 2009

    A Big WAAAAAHHHH from here - damn!  If I wasn't 3 planes and a 7 hour trip away...well, it was very exciting to read the posts about the potential meeting back to back, like a TV show - "What will happen next?  Will Karin skip work and go to NY?  Will Noelle make it out of Buffalo?  Will Rock's laundry ever get folded?  Stay tuned...until the next episode of May 2008!"

    Jen - My mom grew up in Dayton and still has siblings that live there!

    Kerry - Your husband forgot your 50th birthday?!  Oh, that would so not be forgotten in a "I will tease you every time" kind of way!!

    Kristy - I have forgotten (ironic, isn't it - damn chemo!) - is your surgery tomorrow?  If not, why is Roxi wishing you good luck?

    Oh, I can see this is not the time for me to be writing much.  Today is a DAT (dog.ass.tired) day.  Here's the shorthand:  (_zzz_) 
    I have a whole bunch more of the "arse" icons someone sent me - I'll share more later!

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  • KristyAnn
    KristyAnn Member Posts: 793
    edited January 2009

    Good Morning!

    I am off to the Castle (hospital) see everyone back in a few days!

    Kristy

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  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited January 2009

    Kristy, sending "quick recovery" vibes your way.  Can you feel them there in the pre-op holding room?

    (I've been absent from this board after being thoroughly overwhelmed, first with fun family stuff, more recently with not-so-fun work stuff.  Am just starting to get caught up with the last week+ of posts.  The reconstruction discussion is interesting; I'm still not ready to go there but am also thinking about it differently than I was just a couple of months ago.  This week marks the first anniversary of my mammo call-back and needle biopsy, and there's something about that that's making me, not exactly depressed or anxious, but sobered . . . I guess I'm kind of coming to grips with the reality, and permanence, of stuff.  Hugs to everyone.)

    Linda

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  • Roxi65229
    Roxi65229 Member Posts: 462
    edited January 2009

    Hi girls....I too was so excited to hear about the upcoming meeting of all of you, but must admit, was really jealous. Now that the weather and Rock's darn tooth has put a damper on it, maybe we can still all plan that trip to Sue's! It's been snowing every other day and I usually love the snow, but I so hate it right now. And to think, we have at least 8 more weeks of this crap. Talk about overwhelmed. I just signed up my youngest for drivers ed. Look out!

    I woke up thinking of you Kristy...keep us posted. Here's to a speedy recovery.

    Keri...I still have my tree up too. Just not ready to give up the holidays. 

    Rock, good luck at the dentist. All this drama would make a great book, no? 

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  • Gracie713
    Gracie713 Member Posts: 302
    edited January 2009

    Kristy-thinking of you and hoping for a speedy recovery. 

    ,Kerry-I didn't put up a tree thisyear, but my Christmas cards are stll up!  Like Karin, I am not ready to take them down.

    Rock-good luck at the dentist-I have to be medicated just to walk into the reception area!

    Today, youngest DD & I are getting a massage at the cancer treatment center.  (DH decided to go duck hunting, so he can get his later)  She has been my biggest supporter and has helped me a lot-and of course, I get to play with the baby while she is getting hers! 

    Everyone have a great Thursday!

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  • MsKarin
    MsKarin Member Posts: 647
    edited January 2009

    Add me to the chorus of those singing WAAAH! I was so looking forward to it and yes I am disappointed but all things happen for a reason so I'll just be happy that Noelle and Rock got the chance to meet. I was going to try once more and see if any time Saturday was opened if Noelle would still be in NYC. The weather forecast for Saturday took that out of the equation.

    Rock - I hope everything went well at the dentist today. Just like Jackie I too can not boldly walk into a dentist office. I would rather have a colonoscopy then go to the dentist. How did your radio interview go today? I am so excited for you and the adventure you are about to undertake. It sure as hell will beat the adventure you took last year. Just be careful and don't physically absorb too much of what you learn from the women. Listen, observe and be empathic but don't get too wrapped up in their stories where it causes you to feel for them and it brings you down. I just worry for you because you are a compassionate person and I want this to be a good experience for you not something to bring you down.

    Noelle - I may not have made it up there but hearing your voice on the phone made you pop out of the computer and made you all the more real to me.

    Kristy - I know you won't get to read this today but I'm thinking of you and pray all went well today.

    Mary - Pray your Dad's surgery goes well tomorrow.

    Christine - Glad you got excited reading the posts, LOL

    Linda - Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary.

    Jackie - Hope you enjoyed your massage.

    Sue - I'm singing loudly and emotionally with you, WAAAHHH!

    Heather, Otter, Kerry, and anyone else I might have missed thinking of you too.

    Still praying for ranD

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  • MsKarin
    MsKarin Member Posts: 647
    edited January 2009

    Eddie, Jean, and Adrienne - I just realized I forgot to mention you. Yes I'm thinking of you too. I had to be to remember that I forgot. I'll just pass it off as chemo brain, lol

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  • kerry_lamb
    kerry_lamb Member Posts: 778
    edited January 2009
    Funny thing happened yesterday. I went in for my bone-density test and was tested by a very formal and sober lady who bought my report out to me and explained that I had osteopenia. I was gutted. After 2 months on femara??? She explained it could be due to any number of factors blah, blah, blah. I drove home so peed off..surely this is not The Year of One More Fecking Thing! Anyway, I got half-way home and I get a call: they'd given me the wrong report!SurprisedThey gave me the report of a 65 yo woman! Mine was normal. How happy was I! Last night we went out with a group of really special friends, including a young man I taught who now teaches 500kms east of Darwin. This is very, very isolated and he just absolutely loves it. He has a class of about 6 aboriginal children. He is the funniest and most extraordinary person, and has never lived one ordinary day in his life. His name is Emanuel..never a more aptly named person. Anyway, we had a huge night and I am hoarse from trying to talk over the music, laughing too much and sleeping badly due to a cocktail of femara and champagne. One more dinner tonight with friends and SURELY that is the end of the festive season. It has to be for me...my liver is not amused.     Kristy? Are you ok? Hope you are being waited on hand and foot (whatever that means) and Rock..OMG..you leave when? It is so exciting. I am really worried about RanD. I hope against hope that she just decided to ditch the cancer-contact-world and get on with things. Love you, Rand.  I guess we have all got a kind of anniversary going on...about one year ago the sky fell in.....XXX   
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  • drcrisc
    drcrisc Member Posts: 836
    edited January 2009

    Kristy - You probably won't read these for a few days, but sending good healing thoughts your way. 

    By the way, if you (or anyone else) are looking for a good book to read during recovery, I can recommend one.  It's "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor.  She was a neuroanatomist who had a very debilitating stroke to her left hemisphere and has recovered.  It was very interesting to me in a number of ways, but not the least was the way in which I related to her first, observing herself as a science experiment as she realized she was having a stroke and "watched" herself deteriorate.  Second, for some reason, I found it very encouraging as a survivor of a major physical event.  It gave me hope that my brain and my body can function again in the way that they did before surgery and chemo and radiation.  It's not very long and not too scientific, if those are anyone's concern. 

    Have to go.  I have spent too much time on the computer and my arm is starting to rebel again.  G'night.

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  • MsKarin
    MsKarin Member Posts: 647
    edited January 2009

    Just a quick hello to everyone. I doubt I’ll get a chance to get back on the computer today. I’m off to volunteer at our PAL in a few hours, and then I have my grandson for the night. Since they are calling for snow tomorrow I think I will also stop at the store to pick up fixings to make my homemade bean soup. It always seems to taste better when you eat it on a cold snowy day.

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  • sueper13
    sueper13 Member Posts: 1,224
    edited January 2009

    Finally made it to Friday.....the Navy pilot trainees were out of control today and doing it wrong.....made for a long day!!!

    Kristy,  healing thoughts and prayers coming your way ton

    Kerry, that story sounds like something that would happen to me!

    Love you guys, dog.ass.tired., talk to you tomorrow

    sue

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  • Jeano77
    Jeano77 Member Posts: 237
    edited January 2009

    I am soooo jealous, yet happy that Nicole and Rock were able to meet and talk until weeee hours of the morning.  That warmed my heart to read that!

    Kristy - Hoping that your surgery went well and you are recovering nicely. 

    Mary - Thinking of you and your Dad.  Healing thoughts and prayers to both of you and Kristy!

    Karin - Excellent idea with the photos, will send one this weekend!  I would love to have a photo of everyone as well.

    Crazy work week, feeling DAT as well.

    Goodnight and love to all!

    Jean

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