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  • ktym
    ktym Member Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2009

    I've always liked the pink.  My memory growing up was of not admitting to it being a color I liked because that was "too girly" and girls weren't as strong or smart. (Not the attitude in my family, but in school and out in the world in general).  Girls didn't have sports unti Title IX.  Girls didn't expect to want to take higher level math and science classes in high school.  They were expected to quit school or work when they got married or pregnant.  As mentioned above, girls went to sleep for a biopsy and accepted the fact that they may wake up with a radical mastectomy.  I love how much that has changed and that being female now means you can be strong, athletic, have muscles, and not hide how smart you are.  Pink has a whole new meaning and everytime I wear it I think of how far we've come.  Long before I had breast cancer the pin I wore on my blazers and jackets was a blonde girl with pink shorts and boxing gloves proudly proclaiming "fight like a girl".  I'm still wearing it.  My mother hasn't taken it off since I was diagnosed.

    Dream, thanks for the history lesson.  

    I like the pink.  

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  • EWB
    EWB Member Posts: 2,927
    edited May 2009

    fight like a girl...I really like that. especially when you think about women all thru history, we were the ones pushing boundaries, keeping families together etc.

    Fight like a girl!

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

    Hello all quick fly-by...I'm in Florida with my sweetie....home on Sunday, Traci, I'll call you, let's get together...Trish, how you?

    Big THAT SUX to all who need it, no IOS for me...,

    Have a great day!

    Love,

    Sue

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  • princessofpower
    princessofpower Member Posts: 30
    edited May 2009

    thanks missshapen.. it sucks bad - but i am planning ot have a nice relaxing evening - hopefully nothing goes wrong! regardless its with my ex but i don't care! i just want to enjoy one evening wihtout all this cancer crap!

    one of the ladies posted this - although not appropriate for our forum though it be nice to make up some of our own!

    http://shop.cafepress.com/chemotherapy?page=1

    I think "cancer is a bitch" would be great!

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  • idaho
    idaho Member Posts: 1,187
    edited May 2009

    Okay, Okay!  Jeese- I wasn't trying to get an act of congress to change the color of breast cancer!  I was just stating how I feel.  I thought this thread was for bitching- that's what I was doing.  Sorry... Tami

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  • kellyless
    kellyless Member Posts: 68
    edited May 2009

    When I read Idaho's post the first thing that popped in my head was BLACK - the breast cancer color should be BLACK, like my mood these days.............

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  • idaho
    idaho Member Posts: 1,187
    edited May 2009

    Thank you Kellyless- I mentioned that color also, not for mourning, but for anger and pain.  ANyway girls- I am sorry about my above outburst.  I had a bad day today.  It should have been good- I had my last rad treatment today (have 5 boosts to go though). Anyway I am laying there on the table just like I have for the last 6 weeks and it just HITS me that I am laying on the VERY SAME table and getting rads from the VERY SAME machine that my mother and brother did.  They have since passed on,(brother 2 years ago, Mother 1 year ago from breast cancer) and I just started bawling, couldn't stop.  I think the techs thought I was nuts- most people cry the first day not the last!!  I couldn't even get enough breath to tell them what was wrong.  Maybe tomorrow I can, I don't know.  Anyway, I still think we need something stronger that represents breat cancer instead of a pink ribbon. Kellyless- How about a PURPLE fist!!??  Tami

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  • Harley44
    Harley44 Member Posts: 5,446
    edited May 2009

    Purple is the color for ALL CANCER...  so we are covered with purple.  I don't think pink is that bad, really.   Pink can be POWERFUL!!  

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2009

    {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ TAMI ! }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} you shouldn't have been lying there alone! I could have been an elephant in the room with you...I didn't even notice a "rant"...

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  • Harley44
    Harley44 Member Posts: 5,446
    edited May 2009

    Tami,

    (((HUGS)))

    Harley

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  • flash
    flash Member Posts: 1,685
    edited May 2009

    IDAHO- never apologize for ranting.  You definitely had and IOS.  Hugs to you.

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  • BooBee
    BooBee Member Posts: 860
    edited May 2009

    I think black is for Breast cancer.  Idaho...You deserve to rant and bitch.  The floor is yours.

    Edited to read....Oops.  I meant Skin Cancer (melanoma).

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  • idaho
    idaho Member Posts: 1,187
    edited May 2009

    Thank you girls.  I am done for now though.  The hugs definitely helped!  Tami

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  • lisa-e
    lisa-e Member Posts: 819
    edited May 2009

    I normally don't post on this thread, but have a IOS.  Or perhaps I should say that one of the women I work has an IOS.  She came by my office today and told me she has just beeen dx with breast cancer.  I talked with her and gave her my advice. I hope what I had to say was helpful.   But It just sucks.   Big time.  

    I haven't been able to concentrate on my work - I keep on thinking of my co-worker and what it was like when I was first dx.   

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  • ktym
    ktym Member Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2009

    Idaho, Renee is right, you deserved the rant.  It's me.  I'm just too out of synch here anymore

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  • saint
    saint Member Posts: 1,877
    edited May 2009

     WhaSux????

    Where do I begin? I have been off line due to my hip pain. I really thought the Lyrica was the answer, but then it got worse & I spent 36 hours in bed doing the percoset-doezzzzzzz 

    Hopefuily upping the Lyrica will help--but now they have scheduled me for possible rads! WTF? This is the same pain I had 3 years ago!!! I find it difficult to accept that rads are indicated just YET! So we're raising the dose (thank you Lu ann!) then we'll try cortisone/steroid injections BEFORE I agree that rads may be the only solution--But really kids, if you read anything about mets----this just doesn't present as mets! Why is it that once we're stage IV it is the natural default dx for ANY & EVERY damned thing that happens to us???  Grrrrrrr.

    Add to this that I can't sleep (been sleeping for weeks! LOL)  & I can't type without the light on---but most of the keys on my laptop have no letters left on them!!!! Go figure!

    Princess---you used a word that perfectly describes your "ex"-a BOY!!! Now go looking for a man & get what you truly deserve!

    Renee----you rock!

    Idaho & Dream----I think I used to like pink, but not so much anymore! I hate the commercial use of it, but a pampered chef demonstrator just gave me a new perspective on it all---she said each time a friend uses the pink scrapper she may be reminded to do her monthly self-exam. I can't argue with that one!

    ---all opinions here should be stated as a rant or vent and then can NOT be trashed since this IS the bitch thread!

    Hugs--new page & can't go back to remind myself of what else is going on (maybe the percoset is finally working....zzzzzz)

    THAT SUX to all waiting for results, new dx's, worthless men, & pink disagreements!!!!!!!!  HUGS all--be well & stay strong 

     

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  • ktym
    ktym Member Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2009

    I thought we were all weighing in regarding colors.  I did not mean to trash anyone's opinion, I am sorry if it came off that way.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2009

    You? Trash? This is the BITCH thread! There is nothing you can say or do on this thread that would offend anyone!

    I think I was the first one in the world to say I don't like pink! I love purple! 

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  • ktym
    ktym Member Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2009

    Barbe, there have been those that thought I belong on the BITCH thread Innocent

    I like purple as a color too, thought it was pancreatic cancer?  I really can't keep all the different colors straight anymore.  I do know there is one for peanut allergies, my nephew taught me that, just can't remember what it was, just remember it would have been easier to remember if it was brown like peanuts.  Guess no one liked brown 

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited May 2009

    Cancer ribbons, colors,and meanings:

    http://www.craftsnscraps.com/jewelry/ribbons.html 

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  • ktym
    ktym Member Posts: 2,637
    edited May 2009

    Thanks, that's helpful, plus, I feel better now about not being able to remember everything on that list.

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  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 3,596
    edited May 2009

    OMG - what a great site lefty!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2009
    Holy crap! I could wear every single one of those colours! Now I'm REALLY depressed....sigh. Cry
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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited May 2009

    kmc:  Goggle knows all... LOL !!!   My IOS:  biopsy today, son will be there with me and take me back home.  Then the horrible wait until Thursday for results.   I am sure someone is gonna say "Have a nice day or weekend ".  I just might punch him/her if it happens.   

    Just when I was on the soon to finish all this business, Mammo showed suspicious area on the other breast, but I was assured it is not ductal.  Little comfort to even have something else suspicious, but I will survive, this too will pass.   Last summer I had no hair and no shaving of legs.  Can I be so "lucky" again this year?   I know, sick, but gotta find some humor, even if mine is weird.  

    About time to get a shower and ready or steady myself for this.   Hugs for everyone.  Blessings and prayers for NO IOS.   That Sucks, as needed.        Nancy

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  • princessofpower
    princessofpower Member Posts: 30
    edited May 2009

    i personally hate pink - always have

    at the moment the way i'm feeling - i would like black something dark dark dark - pain is killling me stupid bone mets

    ive also got these super awful headaches that come and go whenever they please.. not sure how much of work i can keep doing

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  • Krista
    Krista Member Posts: 35
    edited May 2009

    Nancy,  I am saying prayers for ya!  Keep that sense of humor going!  It's the same kind that I have!  Ya gotta find the few positives in all of this and hang on for dear life.  There aren't many but they are there!  No shaving is a BIG one!  All will be fine I know.  Big hugs to you!

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  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 3,596
    edited May 2009

    Nancy - Best of luck on your biopsy today.  As to the answer to "Have a nice day or weekend" you might ask "how?"  Waiting for test results is the worse.

    PrincessofPower:  I hope you find some measure of peace with the bone mets or at least some relief.  I know no one likes to be in pain but I really hate it.  I tend to take it as a personal affront.

    Kathleen

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  • navygirl
    navygirl Member Posts: 886
    edited May 2009

    Hi all...sorry, I was MIA...went to ONC yesterday and got good news/bad news....good, no more Herceptin! After 9 months of hell ONC finally said enough is enough -your body is just not tolerating it. Bad news, she doesn't like the lump and has ordered an ultra sound and who knows what next...so the ultrasound is next Thursday. Right about when Nancy will get her results from her biopsy - Geeze Nancy...we don't have to be THAT close Wink (last year I she was following me through the journey...now our roles are reversed).

    Sorry I can't send out seperate shout outs...my brain is mush, I'm tired as all get out even though I played hookey from work today and I'm pretty much ready to crawl in bed!

    SOI...I get to see my brother tomorrow -he's in town for the weekend and we're meeting up for breakfast.

    Happy Friday everyone...

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  • lovinmomma
    lovinmomma Member Posts: 1,879
    edited May 2009

    Wat suxs for all of you that need it today. I had my bilat mas on Monday and am doing good that is a SOI. Able to stop myt pain meds and feeling good.

    My IOS is that I still do not have pathology results from it. They have a suspicious area that they are rechecking out. I hate this cancer. they just caqlled and said maybe I will get my results on Monday.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2009
    At least you don't have to wonder....you now have a 2 day break from worry. Enjoy your weekend! Laughing
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