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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    How is everyone doing ???  Last day for my clients to order prints was today....now I finish my orders and get ready for my family Christmas fun :)  Just gotta figure out what I need from here on out. 

    I must tell you I went today to get my hair dyed by my hairdresser and after 3 tries I finally have a tad bit lighter hair.  The first color made my hair pull orange (I looked like an orange), second made my hair pull yellow (think canary) and finally the toner got it to the color it is now.  My hairdresser who I have used for years was so stressed out it was hilarious.  I knew it wasn't good after the second dye her eyes got HUGE and she said "You are not leaving looking like that".  I just laughed but all of the hairdressers at the salon think the color is from the drugs in my system from chemo. 

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  • gcpommom
    gcpommom Member Posts: 883
    edited December 2009

    Hi everyone....been a hectic few days, trying to keep up with Julia's meds & tpn schedule, it's like relearning it all over again.  At least she is done with her Vanco now, so that's one less thing to think about.  She still feels crappy, but the TPN is going well, and hopefully will give her more energy soon.

    Thank you to everyone for thinking and caring so much about Julia, you are all so sweet to care so much about someone you don't even know : )

    Kerry, Jaimie and Artemis:  YAY for the clean scans, I am so happy for each of you!  Now we can all relax and enjoy the holidays.  

    Jaimie, I wanna see your hair color...post a pic, lol.  Your poor hairdresser, I'm sure she didn't want you to leave with yellow hair, lol.

    Apple:  wow, that is a huge family!  I hope your next houseguests are more grateful of your hospitality....you are so nice to let so many people stay with you....lucky for me, we have absolutely no room here.  My daughter will be here over the holidays, and she will have to be on the couch, lol.

    My hubbys car died this week, so we're sharing a car right now...not the best time, since I have so much shopping to do.  My sister is giving us her daughter's old car this weekend, so we luck out again, and get another freebie. 

    Tomorrow is the last day of school, then sleeping in for 2 weeks, yay!  Now that DS is 12, he sleeps in til noon, and I can just come and go without worrying about him, so I can still shop this week.  Still have a bit to do.  Cookies will be baked mid-week (otherwise they'd all be eaten by Christmas).  We always make Spritz cookies, Russians, and Kolacky (which is the one I dread making, but love eating)

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  • Artemis
    Artemis Member Posts: 759
    edited December 2009

    Jamie ~ I'm glad you finally got a color that you and your hairdresser like.  I hadn't thought that chemo might make our hair go wonky colors.  Hmmm.  Something to think about (if my chemo brain doesn't forget!) because I'm planning to go blonde again next spring/summer.

    Judy ~ Oh, I am so very thankful that Julia's doing well.  I pray the TPN will make her feel better SOON!!!  My car died, too.  So annoying.

    I made oatmeal cookies today; I'm very pleased with how they turned out.  Baking isn't really my thing, so I wasn't sure they'd even be edible, lol.  I need to get some cute containers and get them given to friends/neighbors/family before they get eaten by the people in my house!

    Love to everyone!
    Artemis

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    It's Snowing here in Maryland!!!  We are have at least of foot of snow so far and it is still snowing hard.  Not so fun for cleaning the driveway but my kids are thrilled.  Now I just need to figure out how to finish Christmas shopping with them in tote .....:( 

    I am feeling pretty decent even though I am still dizzy.  Got a list a mile long so I must accomplish some of it today....

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    Well I think the snow finally stopped.  We have more than 20" which our normal Dec. average is 1.7 inches. 

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited December 2009

    Wow, that is a lot of snow!

    I am visiting the In-laws in Ottawa, it is really cold (minus 20) but not too much snow. Go figure.

    Jaimie - I love shovelling - I will come and dig you out....

    Well, we are taking advantage of free babysitting and are off to a movie and lunch. Should be nice!!

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    Oh Kerry I wish I loved shoveling.  So no school today which is not such a bad thing.  Tonight I am going to start and finish wrapping.  I am not messing around this year.  I still have to get 3 presents but they are all for adults. 

    I also learned last week that my MIL is coming up from Florida on Christmas day.  My kids are going to be thrilled but I am not so thrilled about having to get ready for her visit. 

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    Pictures of my tribe :)  Did I mention how much I adore them ??  Every time I feel like I am getting in a funk I look at my kids and my DH and then I go on for a good reason. 

    One year ago in the shower I found the little lump that changed my lifeFrown .  I am only giving cancer today and only for 15 min. that it will take me to type this and then it's over.  I am sad for what I have lost (my breast and carefree feeling) but I am determined to appreciate my life to the fullest.  This doesn't mean I will not have my bitching days, afterall it is what I do best some days...lol... but for today I have thought about my last year and I am off to have some fun.   One year down and 50+++ to go.  I want to be alive and thriving when they find the Cure for this beast.  Now onto my next year in 37 days Dr. Scott Sullivan will restore tissues back to make me some cancer free boobies which I will be eternally grateful for.  Funny part is I have not meet him yet and I already love him :).  Then when I come back on Feb 15, 2010 I will drag my weary butt into the infusion room for the very last time ever.  I will then only come back to visit my friends that have taken such good care of me and helped me get thru the year of HELL.  Oh and to show them my new boobies..lol...  Breast cancer has made me sort of a flasher which I would have NEVER done before. 

    SO HERE IS TO NEXT YEAR AND ALL THE GOOD IT IS GOING TO BRING ALL OF US!!!!  (yes I am yelling this) 

    MUCH Love to all of you (and don't take this lightly, I rarely tell people that I love them)

    ~J

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited December 2009

    stopping in for a quick hello.

    apple is busy in KS.

    prayers and hugs to all.

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited December 2009

    Jaimie - Heres to a great 2010!!! New boobs and all.

    Merry Christmas Everyone

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited December 2009

    just stopping by to say "hi"

    xxoo

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  • Artemis
    Artemis Member Posts: 759
    edited December 2009
    Jamie ~ Here's to a great new year with a terrific pair of boobies! Kiss  I like that you wrote you're giving cancer only 15 minutes for your cancerversary.  Mine is fast approaching, and I don't know how I feel except "weird".  Maybe I'll try your "15 minutes" mindset. 

    I wish a very Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates, and I pray God's blessings on us all for a wonderful 2010.

    I love all of you so much.  *smooches*
    Artemis
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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited December 2009

    I feel weird too.  I found my lump on Christmas... Had the mammogram etc the 29th and was told that it was cancer then... biopsy was 12/30.  I used to LOVE this time of year.  This year, I'm torn.

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  • MRSROCKYTOP55
    MRSROCKYTOP55 Member Posts: 403
    edited December 2009

    Merry Christmas to all and have a wonderful time with family and friends.  2010 will be great and filled  with many blessing.  God Bless, Kathy

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited December 2009

    i found out i was pregnant with my 3rd and unexpected child when I was 43 on Christmas eve.. i had a dawning of a revelation.. my period hadn't turned up.  I'm happy to be here on my 2nd Christmas since my diagnosis.. i have hair this time.

    here's too many more.  I am wrapping cookies today..

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  • gcpommom
    gcpommom Member Posts: 883
    edited December 2009

    Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful, special day.  Me and Julia went power-shopping the last 3 days, so I wasn't home at all!  She hasn't gone out for such long periods of time in months, and she held up pretty well during shopping, we took lots of rest periods on the benches in the mall.  We were out until midnight 2 nights ago, til 8pm last night....craziness

    Today was nice, my son slept in til 10 am, it's so nice to not have him waking us at 7am, lol.  Glad he outgrew that.

    Congrats to those hitting their cancerversary....we've come a long way this last year.  Next week, we can kiss 2009 goodbye, and welcome in a new and better year : )

    I'm going to bed, I was up til 4:30 am doing santa stuff, and I'm TIRED, lol

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited December 2009

    Hope everyone had a fabulous day yesterday! We had general mayhem all morning, but a lovely day all in all.

    Thinking of you guys coming up to your cancerversarys.....it did really rattle me. Good advice from Jaimie - only give it 15 minutes of you day. then onward!!

    Rainy rainy here, most of our snow has gone now.  Think it is going to chsnge over to snow again by tonight.

    Have a great day everyone!

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    Glad to hear everyone else had a great Christmas.  My kids were up at 7am yesterday and went to bed a midnight....long, long crazy day but tons of fun.  My daughter who is 6 wanted a cell phone but got over it quick when she got an MP3 player that plays movies.  My MIL made it in yesterday afternoon and the kids were thrilled. 

    Today we have a family party so more craziness and then I will begin the week of cleanup from the one day.  Next week is my daughter's birthday.....party...

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  • gcpommom
    gcpommom Member Posts: 883
    edited December 2009

    Sounds like you guys had a great day!  For all the craziness, you gotta love Christmas...it's so about the kids, and worth all the stress (remind me I said that next November)

    I do hate the clean-up though....I've been successfully ignoring the mess so far, but I know I need to clean house.  Maybe tomorrow, lol.

    Gotta take daughter Michelle back to her apartment today....her boyfriend goes home to Texas every christmas, and she comes back home, it was nice having her around, for the most part.  She is 20 now, but still acts like a bratty teen sometimes.

    Well, talk to you all later, have a nice weekend

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2009

    just wanted to pop in and say belated merry xmas & early happy new year to the furies!

    thursday is the one-year anniversary of my bilateral mastectomy. i belatedly decided to go ahead with rads - 6 months after chemo - just to make sure (an "atypical cell" scare on the exact anniversary of my diagnosis cemented the decision), and i have three more treatments to go. (it was a walk in the park until about a week ago. now it's a little bit nasty, side-effect-wise.) and my sis gave me my first haircut, and i'm sporting a tres cute pixie these days! normal looking hair is by far the best xmas gift i got this year. along with being cancer-free, too, of course!

    i know i don't post much anymore, but i think of you all often. i would've been lost without all the support i've gotten in this special little corner of cyberspace.

    here's hoping we all enjoy a much much better and healthier 2010! xoxo

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  • Beverly11
    Beverly11 Member Posts: 443
    edited December 2009

    Belated Merry Christmas to everyone.  It was a mixture of happiness and sadness this year.  But, only had one melt down.  Had some really fun times and stayed in the moment as much as possible.  My daughter has been home from Montreal and brought her boyfriend who was a big hit with everyone.  I was teary eyed when he left yesterday.  I  too will not be sad to say so long to 2009.  My mother in-law gave me a china figurine that had the message of new beginnings.  Cheers to that! 

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    So we survived the holidays so far :)  What are you doing for New Years ??  Is anyone doing anything fun ??  I think we are just going to visit family again.  I need to get off the couch today and get moving.  I don't think I mentioned this but my body brought me a Christmas present Aunt Flo started on Christmas eve and I have been exhausted since. 

    My Surgery is in exactly 30 days and I leave for NOLA in 28 days.  I still have so much to figure out like how I am going to pay for it....lol....  I have 3 herceptin's left which seems hard to believe.  I have 2 before I leave for NOLA and then 1 when I get back. 

    Since I have 28 days until I leave I need to put myself on a schedule so my MIL comes up to an organized house and there is not question of where things are.  The positive will also be I will come home without the stress of worrying about my house. 

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  • gcpommom
    gcpommom Member Posts: 883
    edited December 2009

    Lisa:  Good to hear from you, glad to hear you are doing well!  I'd love to see a pic of your new hairdo : )

    Bev:  Good to hear you are doing well too...these cancerversaries are hitting all of us, and it is a mix of being glad to have that first year down, but being sad that we went through this at all.  Here's to next year, indeed!

    Jaimie:  wow, you must be getting excited about your surgery....just picture the beautiful new foobs when you are done!  You'll be in excellent hands there.  I am soooo jealous that your period came back.  No sign of mine yet....I have a 50-50 chance at my age, although I did hear of one woman who got hers back after 6 years at the age of 51...crazy.

    I'm sitting in ER *again*....Julia has an impacted wisdom tooth, it's getting infected and very painful, but our dental insurance doesn't kick in until after the 1st, so the ER was the only option.

    I just want to say that as this year ends, I am very happy to have you all as my friends....though the bc thing sucked, I would never have gotten to know you if it hadn't, so for that much I am thankful.....I hope we all continue to stay in contact either here or through FB, you all mean alot to me : )

    I don't think I ever mentioned my appt with the clot specialist....she feels I can go off the coumadin, but asked me if I was disease-free....now how do you answer that one?  I can never say with 100% accuracy that I am disease-free.  And since cancer is a risk factor for blood clots, I am torn:  I want to go off coumadin, but I'm afraid to.

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited December 2009
    cancerversary is today.Frown looking forward to tomorrow.
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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    ((Bighugs)) Michele :(  Look forward to tomorrow, next week, next year and many years to come.....

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited December 2009

    Michele - hoping the next year brings better things for you, and for all of us. Uneventful and boring....ah, that sounds nice!!

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  • gcpommom
    gcpommom Member Posts: 883
    edited December 2009

    Everyone have a very happy new year!  Hope you all have fun tonight, I'm going out, DH's band has a gig so that's my plans for the evening.  Good riddance to 2009, here's to 2010!!!  I agree with Kerry, an uneventful year would be wonderful

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited December 2009

    Happy New Year!

    I hate the circumstances that we all met under, but I couldn't have made it this last year without you all.

    Heres to better things in 2010!

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited December 2009

    Happy New year !!!! 

    I got the go ahead from NOLA today.  So webbie, Michele I will be down your way at the end of the month....  Here is to 2010!!!!! 

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  • Bethie1
    Bethie1 Member Posts: 393
    edited January 2010

    Hey gang!!!  How's everyone doing???  Did everyone have a nice holiday? I did!!! 

    I'm nervous for Jan 6th--I'm getting the BRCCA 1 and 2 done, along with mammo of left breast.  Has anyone had this test done? What does it entail? Any tips, etc???

    Thanks sisters!!!!

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