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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited January 2010

    Renee it sounds truly awful -- much worse than chemo.  I am sorry and hoping it heals quickly.

    Lilah

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  • mimi1964
    mimi1964 Member Posts: 2,163
    edited January 2010

    Once again, many thanks LIlah!

    Renee

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010
    Renee, sorry your boobie has a boobooCry  It kind of freaks me out a little since I still have rads to look forward to...yah meFrown
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  • Ezscriiibe
    Ezscriiibe Member Posts: 598
    edited January 2010

    Yowch!

    Hope it starts feeling better soon!

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited January 2010

    Renee - if it gets too sore, would they ever consider giving you a few days break?  Sorry to have you're in pain over this.

    Micheleboots - when do you start rads?  From what I can see, I'll be starting in March.

    Juanelle - hopefully all is going well with your radiation treatments! 

    Sherri 

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010

    Ezscriiibe...it will get better soon...look to the future.

    Sugar, I see my rads onc on Tuesday...he did say I would get a month break when I first saw him..

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010

    Vivian, here is the picc cover info    drycorp.com/content/picc-line-protector-information/index.html 

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  • jburke1
    jburke1 Member Posts: 283
    edited January 2010

    Renee- I am so sorry for what you are having to go thru with rads! I hope you start feeling better soon :) Good vibes and big gentle hugs to you as you finish treatment.

    Linda- Wow, what an amazing story of love and commitment! It is absolutely inspiring. Thank you for sharing it with us! Hope you are well.

    Alicia- How are you feeling? Hope you are well

    Juannelle-How are you doing with your first few rad treatments under your belt? Hope you are doing well:)

    Michele, Pam, Magob, and anyone else my crazy brain forgot! Hope you are all well today! Wishing all of you peace and rest :)

    Hugs

    Jen

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  • jburke1
    jburke1 Member Posts: 283
    edited January 2010

    I finally put a picture up of myself! Yes I do exist:)

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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited January 2010

    Jen you're a cutie!  :)

    Lilah

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 25,402
    edited January 2010

    Hi Jen,

    Sorry I am slow to respond about blood work. I see my med onc ever since radiation ended in mid June. Every three months.  And each time they draw blood. The sample is sent for two tests: a comprehensive metabolic panel with EGFR and a CA15-3.

    The first checks lots of things like glucose, urea, creatinine, sodium, potassium, chloride, carbon dioxide, calcium, protein, albumin, globulin, albumin.globulin ratio, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, AST and ALT.

    The second is a tumor marker. LOTS of doctors do not so them. It looks for certain proteins shed by active tumors (mets) and is not considered absolute evidence of "the presence or absence of disease."  

    I just got a copy of my recent results in the mail, that's why I know the data just now.

    I told DH there were 2 good things about it... one, all levels were normal and two, I forgot I was waiting for it so I must be less nervous!

    Hope that helps.

    pam 

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010
    I am now all done chemo...yah meKiss
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  • Luah
    Luah Member Posts: 1,541
    edited January 2010

    Michele:  Congratulations being all done with chemo!!!!  I can't wait to be in the same position.

    Re PICC line: Were you told not to vacuum or shovel?  My nurse said to avoid lifting more than 5 pounds for first few days but that was all. I'm in a BC exercise trial and we all lift weights - I don't over do it, but I don't give that arm special treatment either. Wondering about that now...   

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  • jburke1
    jburke1 Member Posts: 283
    edited January 2010

    Thanks Lilah :) Your sweet!

    Pam-Thanks for the info. I don't want my doctor to think I want to be over tested, but I want to make sure that they are doing for me what needs to be done. So, I will make sure I ask him about that on Wednesday. And actually, it is my first official 3 month visit since I finished rads in November. Thanks!

    Michele-YAY for you!!! That is great! So happy you are done with chemo. Rest easy sister, you deserve it :) Sending you lots of love!

    Have a great afternoon everyone!

    Jen

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  • JustmeAlicia
    JustmeAlicia Member Posts: 1,529
    edited January 2010

    Yeah JEN  ~ nice to see what you look like.  Your pretty Wink.

    Hope everyone had a good day.

    :)

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  • jburke1
    jburke1 Member Posts: 283
    edited January 2010

    Awe! Thanks Alicia Embarassed 

    Takes a beauty to know a beauty!

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010

    I read about vacuuming and shoveling on the threads, not my doc...since I hate to shovel and vacuum I used that excuse when I could...i did do a little of both, after all I have cats, kids and a husband, vacuuming could not always be avoided...but I did take it easy...I also had to shovel as well but didn't lift to much at a time..

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010

    Jburke,  love your pic..at first I thought you were a newbie..

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  • JustmeAlicia
    JustmeAlicia Member Posts: 1,529
    edited January 2010

    Thanks Jen... but with just a few stray brow hairs left, and about 2 eyelashes on each eye...  I look more like Uncle Fester...  *bald too of course...

    :)

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  • one-L
    one-L Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2010

    jen, you are a beauty and am glad we finally get to see you. 

    Michele, yea for you.  Isn't it a great feeling to be finished with chemo?  The last one I had I was so excited to go, knowing that it was the last.  I am 5 weeks out and finally have some energy back.  I guess rads will take care of that in about a week, but now I am really feeling good.  I am still retaining fluid and the Med Onc gave me some more Lasix today and told me to take them every day.  My toes hurt and I expect them to be blown out, like a wiener in the microwave, every time I take my shoes off.  Boy what a picture. lol

    The saga of the plumbing problem continues.  We got the leak at the toilet fixed and we thought all was well.  The carpet dried quickly and it didn't look like there were any stains on the living room ceiling.  However, on Monday when I got home from work water was again dripping from the ceiling.  I went upstairs and the toilet area and rest of bathroom was dry and no problems there.  Anyway it got worse everyday and it just spread out over the ceiling, we had to cover everything and what a mess it was.  Finally my DH went up to investigate what was going on in the attic, well we had a busted pipe and I guess it had started out as a trickle and then became a gusher.  The insurance man came today and he said we would get a check in the mail in about a week.  At least we don't have to replace the carpet or any furniture.  It could have always been worse.

    Hello to Alicia, Pam and everyone else.  Hope everyone has a great evening.

    Juannelle

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 25,402
    edited January 2010

    All I can say is... BEAUTY IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG! You guys don't know how beautiful you are. Yes, even without hair :)   I do wish breast cancer was only a disease of older women. It is too cruel for you youngsters to have to go through all of this. I admire all of you with children, jobs, parents, whatever ... all of you who endure and carry on.

    And hooray for Michelleboots!!! You made it.

    pam 

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited January 2010

    thanks Pam

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  • MAGOB
    MAGOB Member Posts: 299
    edited January 2010

    HOORAY MICHELE!  You did it, sister!  

    Jen - lovely photo. It's nice to see your face.

    Juanelle - Hot dogs in a microwave.  You're a NUT!  Loved it!  Hope you get some relief.  

    All - tomorrow is my last day of radiation.  Woo-HOO!  A little sore, but not too bad.  Just tired and ready to cha cha across the finish line.  

    Who knows when it's safe to color hair after chemo?  I heard that if you do it too soon, it can fry and fall out.  Is that a tale or is it true?  Also looking for some kind of industrial strength hair product that will calm this do the heck down.  It is so weird - pokes up all over the place.  Bed head all day.   

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited January 2010

    Michele - congrats on finishing chemo!!! Feb. 8th is my last round.

    Juanelle - wow, sorry to hear about the pipe.  Time has certainly gone fast....I can't believe it's already been five weeks since you finished chemo.

    Alicia - you are beautiful.  I see the Uncle Fester look myself whenever I look in the mirror.  I keep reminding myself that it's only temporary. 

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  • Sugar77
    Sugar77 Member Posts: 2,138
    edited January 2010

    Mary - I recall them telling me at the wig shop at the hospital that I can't colour for a few months and that is depositing colour only - no highlights.  I think they said I'd have to wait a year for highlights.  I can't remember exactly because I was - and still am - in "hair fallout" mode when they mentioned this. There is a thread called Hair Hair Hair and I'm sure someone on there would know for sure.

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  • one-L
    one-L Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2010

    Pam, I am with you on BC  shouldn't be for the young.  I admire all of you young mothers who are on this journey. 

    Mary, congrats on finishing rads.  I am 6 down and 27 to go.  I know it will be over before I know it.  Hope you are feeling better and all the pain has gone away.

    Sherri, I finally lost all my hair on my head.  The last of it fell out after my last tx.  I still have eye lashes and brows, so I don't think I will lose them.  I do have fuzz all over my head some of it is about 1/4 inch long, but most is probably about 1/8.  It doesn't have any color, so maybe I will be a blond.  I think it will be all gray.

    Alicia, I also think I look like Uncle Fester.  Round head and all I need is that light bulb, especially since I have started rads and work at  a nuclear power plant.  Maybe I don't even need the bulb to glow in the dark.

    Good evening to all.

    Juannelle

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  • joanneasiata
    joanneasiata Member Posts: 719
    edited January 2010

    HI GUYS CAN I JOIN IN HERE AS WELL ILL BE FINISHING CHEMO NEXT WEEK IVE  MANLY BE ON THE OCT THREAD SO SOON ILL NEED A NEW HOME TO GO T,O I DON'T EAT MUCH  WELL SOMETIMES I DO AND I GO TO BED EARLY !!!  AND I SEE THAT SOME OF MY SISTERS ARE ON HER AS WELL

    JOJO

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  • Lilah
    Lilah Member Posts: 4,898
    edited January 2010

    Waaaaaa hoooooo Michelle!!!!!

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 25,402
    edited January 2010

    JoJo,

    Glad to  see you here. We will share all of our virtual brownies and cookies you can eat if you will share your wisdom and experience :)  Hooray for finishing your chemo! What a big step in this terrible journey.

    pam 

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  • one-L
    one-L Member Posts: 1,110
    edited January 2010

    JoJo, so glad to see you here.  Just a few more sleeps and you will be through, waaahooo, yipeeee, hooray, and on and on and on. 

    Juannelle

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