Positive Girls Club

Hi everyone.  I'm new to this post, but i have to say i love it!  I was reading some of the post from the beginning and truly love it. I have  stayed positive ( for the most part) through all this and my family and friends could not believe it.  I told them all I will not allow cancer  to bring me down and keep me down.  Yes i have the scary moments and fear etc but I try not to allow them to control me.  I have a lot to be grateful for and focus on that. Thank you all for your positive attitudes!!!!  

We have had rain for  5 solid days (yeah - end of drought conditions) (boo - can't get anything done outside) only 30% chance of rain today and weatherman is calling for sunny weekend! but more rain on Monday.

Sheila

Penny welcome to the pgc. We do like to check in weekly and post our positives for the week but if you can't wait til Friday to post, feel free to post when ever you want to.

Note on my earlier postitive, the sun is out now and the clouds are dispersing!

Last Friday, My boss gave me the afternoon off, I went by a restraunt I haven't eaten at in a while and there was my SIL. We had a nice lunch together then went shopping. And I only spent 8.25 on new blades for my mohter's and my rotary cutters. We found a deal, the 4 I bought would have been 16.00 at another store. It was another nice Friday and we drove around in her Mini with the top down.

Sheila

Happy Friday all!!! It is raining here so not really nice but it is Friday, I am meeting my sister to go shopping and guess what, I dropped 3 lbs this week, woohoo!!!

I won't be going through any of the parks this year that Dream mentioned but if anyone is going opposite direction and going near Banff National Park, look me up in Cowtown (Calgary)

Have a great day everyone.

Penny

This might seem a little out of subject but our local Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is tomorrow.  I am nervous and excited to be attending.... this will be my very first.  It will be so awesome to see all the other survivors in my surounding area.  It really does give me hope for the future.  So here is to all of us survivors

It was so awesome.  I dont know if you could put anymore emotion into one day.  We had booths:  food, jewelry, flowers, shirts, hats, info, drawing for a pink iPod, information from surgeons, information on awareness/self exam instructions................  The mens group from one of the local high schools sang "Livin' Out Loud" from Sing for the Cure.  We had a "survivor parade" which led us up to bleachers for the group photo.  And guess what song was sang???  Bet you cant guess.  "I Will Survive".  Then, after the group photo we were asked to go to our family and friends (our support groups) while someone sang "You Lift Me Up".  Not a dry eye in the crowd.

I strongly encourage everyone to attend atleast once.  It is amazing!

Can I join too?  I have had a totally positive experience throughout my treatment (with the exception of my diagnosis and last mammo).  I feel so lucky for all the good things that have happened.  

I've also had people think I was in denial because I was so happy and positive through treatment.  That got me really mad.  As if!  

Lorrie 

This is a great threat--I too had a pretty good experience all around--as my h likes to say, the only bad news we ever got was that you had bc--other than that, it was all really quite good..... my treatments (short chemo and radiation) were really not terrible the way people think they might be, the surgery (lumpectomy) was pretty simple, and the hormonal treatments, while with some se's are not really as bad as I expected.

I have an onc who considers me cured--- a very low possible rate of recurrence and a wonderful life.... I wondered whether I would be positive through all of this, and I was--- and I was glad for that---- it made everything a lot easier.  I consider myself one of the luckiest people in the world having found this early and having access to great medical care....... if one has to have this experience, I think mine was a pretty good one!

carole

OMG...can't believe I haven't been on this thread before...I've been looking for it!  I had a lumpectomy in March, chemo April through July, rads August through Sept.  ..now I am done with freaking treatments and I feel happy!  I don't feel gloom and doom...I feel damn good and haven't found a thread anywhere with people feeling the same way I do...I have felt good through the whole process...except for a few of the primal screams mentioned above.

I feel healthy, emotionally I feel pretty darn good...is it WRONG to feel that way???  Sometime it seems we are supposed to be freaking out about reocurrence...well darn it I'm going to live and live well until that may..or may not happen....I have had a couple of days where I freaked for really no reason..

I'm glad to have found YOU!

Hi girls!  I'm checking in again.  Sometimes, I lose sight of how happy I was during diagnosis, treatment, etc.  If I relax, my happy feelings come back and all is well.  I think sometimes the negativity gets under my skin and makes me feel angry.  I think today I will reacquaint myself with my happy feelings and optimism for the future.  

Thanks!

Lorrie 

Sheila--that's awesome!  Congratulations!  

Lorrie 

Glad to see you here Lynne, even though we don't want to be here.

Lorrie, one thing I didn't mention, this was my 9th consecutive race. I started forming a team the year my mother was diagnosed in 2001 and each year it has gotten bigger. This year I had 18 registered team members for my team. The race organizers said that it was the biggest one that they have had in the 10 yr history of the NC Foothills with over 2100 registered participants and they raised over $85,000.

I haven't reported for awhile.  We have been very busy with our apple orchard and health issues with my mom.  But here I am now.  I am looking out my window over our orchard.  The sky is a beautiful blue with a few fluffy white clouds.  The sun is shining and the birds are busy collecting seeds for winter.  Ah crap...I said winter.  Oh well, I live to see another one!

Hi all

I am finding I need this thread more now as I approach my 1 year anniversary--- I don't feel the need to mark or celebrate--- it is over for me and I am interested in just living my life as though it will never come back..... I too get a little down over some of the other threads--although many are quite helpful, I always have to remind myself that there are millions of people out there who have lived through bc and are living their lives---- they are not all here on bco..... I have been a little out of sorts because I know I have to have several dr. appointments over the next 8 weeks--just routine check ups-but you know, a mammogram, etc.  Rationally I know there is nothing there, but emotionally I have not caught up yet....

OMG, I can't believe this thread! After reading some of the threads, I would have never expected to find a thread this positive. So many women are so angry and bitter, rightly so but they just seem to blame everyone and everything for their situation. Having BC sucked but like Marlenet said, it was all doable. (okay i had a mild tx coarse compared to most of you but...)

Anyway, I like this thread and will continue to read here. Life really isn't that bad is it? I think it is pretty darn good!