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

    Hi Sugar,

    I could use a little steroid boost. It takes an act of God to get me moving these days. We are getting a new fridge delivered Wednesday and I don't want the deliverymen to know how long it has been since I cleaned behind my appliances. The things they must see!

    pam 

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

    What, you are suppose to clean behind your fridge!!!! I thought that is why god made dust bunnies...I thought they did it for you.  All joking aside, the last time I moved my fridge was when we had new cherry hardwood floors installed...we rolled the fridge out so we could do under i,t and made two beautiful long dents in the new floor.  They go half way across the room...

    But enough about me...how is everyone doing...

    Pam good luck with your planning...

    Mimi, we are enjoying the best winter...only a bit of snow and now beautiful warm weather.

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  • jburke1
    jburke1 Member Posts: 283
    edited March 2010

    Happy Monday ladies!

    Hope everyone is doing well today. It is rainy and in the 40's here in the Chicago area. But it was really nice on Saturday I got to get out and I walked 5 miles for training for the Avon walk. I was pretty tired and sore! But I did it :)

    Take care!

    Hugs

    Jen

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

    Jen - you are amazing!  I am such a slug.  Walking two city blocks does me in :)

    PJ -- OMG if the space under and behind my fridge (which I have not seen in ten years) could talk!

    Hope everyone is feeling good today.

    Lilah

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

    Jen, way to go...I wish I had that energy.

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

    Pam ~ thank you I will now have to clean under and behind my fridge... it has been quite awhile.  :) 

    Jen ~ 5 miles YOU go girl !!  How is the hand doing? 

    I have pre-op testing today in NYC so a few blocks of walking to and from the parking garage are on the agenda !  It is a beautiful day here.

    Hope everyone is doing well.

    :)
    Alicia

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

    Alicia - good luck with your pre-op testing.

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

    Good luck with the testing Alicia!  Are you scheduled for exchange surgery?

    Lilah

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

    Exchange scheduled for 3/16 !!

    thanks girls ~

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

    Alicia, Lucky you.  St Patricks day boobies.  You can call them your Sham-Rocks...

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

    Hopefully I will be ERIN - GO - BRALESS !! LOL

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

    Alicia, are you not going for the Pamela Andersons...

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

    Don't do it, Alicia!!! The Pamela Andersons come with a personality transplant. We like you the way you are.

    pam 

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  • jburke1
    jburke1 Member Posts: 283
    edited March 2010

    Alicia- Hope all went well today! Glad you will get your St. Pattys Day Boobies :) And I agree with Pam, we love you the way you are the Pamela Anderson might change you up a bit :) Thanks for asking about the hand, it is doing as good as it can be. It is still swollen and sore, but I am getting along.

    Jen 

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

    Jen,

    Have you reverted to wrapping your hand instead of the gauntlet? Seems like you were doing fine until you got your new device! I guess it could be a coincidence but....Wishing it  well for you.

    pam 

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited March 2010

    Sugar,

     We live about 60 miles N E from Frankenmuth and go every year during December, it is a great town.  I go to Birchrun about once a year shopping.  I love the Le Gourmet store.  So far all is good, my bone density is normal butwas told to keep up my dairy and calcium supplements.  Mammo looked good, wil see the Radiology Onc Wednsday to discuss.  Have to stoo my antinflammotory drugs for a week so will be sore about Wednsda, oh well will be able to start it back up soon after surgery.  Hope all had a good day.

    Carol

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  • txstardust
    txstardust Member Posts: 599
    edited March 2010

    Erin go braless, that had me LAUGHING Alicia!  And Michele, you should do stand-up comedy!  Thanks for the laughs, I needed it.f

    It was a tough weekend for us here - my DH's family was in a bad car accident on Sunday morning, his father is still in the ICU but is improving, thankfully.  I'm already in a touchy emotional state, and this isn't making things any better.  I'm just glad they survived - two of the three were not wearing seatbelts, and the car was rolled over.  Please, everyone be careful out there and wear your seatbelts! 

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  • Psalm121
    Psalm121 Member Posts: 238
    edited March 2010

    TxStardust:  so sorry for your DH's family's terrible accident....many prayers are definitely going up on their and your family's behalf.  My husband refuses to wear a seatbelt and it scares me so...

    Alicia & Michele:  I laughed out loud with the Sham-Rocks and Erin-go-Braless!!  I told my husband and he of course got it, too.  My 14 year old son is in the other room and of course any other time he doesn't hear me.....so he hollers in "I don't get it!!"  Kinda loses the effectiveness if you have to explain it....!

    Jen:  Hope your hand/lymphedema is doing better.

    Pam:  I had to have a repairman check out my fridge a few years ago and worked my butt off cleaning before he got there.  He comes into my house and says...."Ma'am it's women like you & my wife that make life rough on men like me!!  You must clean every day!"  ....yeah, I just smiled !!

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

    Sounds like everyone is doing well today.

    Jen, 5 miles, are you trying to show the rest of us up?  I am glad that you felt well enough to walk 5 miles.  Hope that arm is getting better.

    pam, I got a new refrigerator end of last year and had to do some cleaning before the delivery man got  here. 

    Alicia, hope everything went well today and you are getting ready for those Sham-rocks.

    Shelby, sorry to hear about your in-laws.   I can't imagine not wearing seat belts, even in the back.  But I do know that some just don't like to wear them.

    I only have 2 more rads left to go.  I saw the Rad Onc last Thursday and he said I was doing so well, that he didn't want to see me for 4 months.  He did say some of the SEs might get worse after tx is over.  I see the Med Onc tomorrow to get my prescription for Arimidex, boy can't weight.  I also get the results of the bone density scan.  I hope that is OK.  I have never had any problems, but who knows.

    I did find out today that my Med Onc had breast cancer early last year and went through tx.  Interesting things you find out while  waiting and chatting with other rad patients.

    Juannelle

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

    Hi Michelle, Alicia, Jen, Lilah, Juanelle, Shelby, Pam and anyone else I may have missed.

    Pam I am completely healed up from rads other than for some strange reason I still have a  little bit of a pink nipple and it seems to be a little bit larger than the one on the health breast (not much but I can tell).  My breast is still 2 cup sizes smaller than my healthy breast too, but I have been healed up from all the burns since about 2 weeks after rads was completed and the peeling finally finished off last week.  The skin is still dry and itchy though. LOL

    FYI:  My friend Michelle passed away from Breast Cancer this morning with her family by her side.  She was 35 and leaves behind her son and the man she was in a relationship with.  I only met her through this board but she touched my life in a very special way.  She fought hard but in the end stage 4 cancer won out.  

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  • Psalm121
    Psalm121 Member Posts: 238
    edited March 2010

    Mimi:  My thoughts & prayers are with your friend's family....sending you a comforting hug.

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

    Renee,

    So sorry for your friend and for her loved ones. This disease is so cruel to take such young women. I am glad you are doing as well as you are. Even now, 8 months post rads my nipple on the treated side is almost colorless and still looks larger. I can't figure out if it is an optical illusion or for real. I was told size reduction was a possible se of radiation so I half expected it but so far, not.

    Juanelle,

    Only two more treatments! Hooray for you. I think things do seem to keep "cooking" for a week or so after treatments end but it is soooooo nice to know you are through!

    And what is it with us cleaning for repairmen? He could eat his lunch off the floor behind my fridge NOW. Not earlier today, for sure. The fridge had set in one spot so long it did not want to roll. I thought about the floor and was careful and finally got  it to slide. I am making a vow to do this more often with the new one.  We'll see.

    pam 

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

    Shelby ~ so sorry to hear the car accident.  Sending up prayers everyone has a speedy recovery.

    Renee ~ glad to hear you are healing up from the rads.  So sorry to hear of your friend losing her battle with BC.  It is just soooo unfair.  :(

    Pam ~ my sister-in-law had rads and that boob stayed darker colored on the skin and her areola is definately lighter. 

    Juanelle ~ woo HOO you are done with rads after 2 more !!  That has to feel good. 

    All went well with my pre-op.  Just hoping my chest-xray is clear.  They said they will call if something is wrong but they don't expect anything to be.  My heart was great they were surprised it was so good after the chemo regimen. 

    Goodnight lovely ladies !

    :)

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited March 2010

    Mimi my thoughts are with you, I have a co-workers wife who was diagnosed 2 days after me last year, she is 32 and was at first diagnosed stage 4 but is now considerd stage 3.  She begins Rads this week. 

    Juanelle yea!!! 

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

    txstardust,

    Prayers for your family, especially father in law.  How terrifying the accident must have been!

    pam 

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

    Shelby - sorry to hear about the car accident.  I hope their conditions improve quickly.

    Juanelle - contrats on almost being done rads.  What an accomplishment!

    Renee - sorry to hear about your friend.  She was so young...that's really a tough one.  My heart goes out to you and to her family.

    Carol - I couldn't talk my DH into Frankenmuth...I think it's because he knows I'll want to shop a lot at Birchrun.  So, looks like it will be a couple of days in Sarnia and then a couple of days in Niagara Falls.  It'll be fun to get away. 

    Alica - you crack me up.  That was so funny about Erin go braless.  

    Have a nice evening ladies.

    Sherri 

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

    Mimi so sorry to hear about your friend -- so young and way too young to die like that.  My heart and prayers go out to you and to her family.

    Alicia -- WTG on the good heart test and the successful pre-op! 

    Txstardust -- so sorry to hear about your family; so glad they are improving.

    Hugs Sherri, Juanelle, Pj, and the rest!

    Lilah

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

    Renee, so sorry about your friend...cancer is such a horrible thing...taking so many lives

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

    Thanks ladies.  I hope everyone has a great Tuesday.  It's going to be a rainy, stormy week here.  I wish I could understand why when it gets hot in the south we have to have thunderstorms and potential tornadoes.  I will never understand that...

    Juanelle, I guess after today you have one rad to go... Woo HOO!!! I am amazed at how well you have done it is totally awesome!!! And the fact that your rad onc hasn't seen you every week is even better.  I wish I hadn't had to see mine every week and be charged a ridiculous 500.00 for him to look at "my skin" for 5 mins and send me on my way with nothing said, except "your doing great".  That was a pain in the pocket book.  This is why insurance companies charge us outrageous premiums.  LOL!!   Of course he knew ahead of time he was going to burn his patient's up too.  Yours has done a great job and didn't do that.  Yeah!!!! 

    Renee

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited March 2010

    Done Mimi. It's these stories that really put things in prospective. 

    TXStardust-so sorry to hear about the accident. Prayers sent for quick and full recovery. 

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