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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010

    Today my picture at the top is for my oldest friend, who just got a Dx of ILC this month.  Just more horror as more women become acquainted with The Beast every single day.  Of course, I mentioned this site.  We all know how helpful it can be navigating thru' decisions and treatments.  

    I have a bunch of B/C info. in my brain now.  I think I had to throw out some old info. to make room for all of it.  Don't ask me the rules to euchre or cribbage...I don't have that anymore.  

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  • suzwes
    suzwes Member Posts: 1,740
    edited April 2010

    I'm so sorry Elimar.  Please tell her she's in my thoughts an prayers.  The BEAST must go!

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited April 2010

    Hi friends, everyone's connecting & friends with recent diagnosis stories are making me tear up, which actually is kinda good.  I cried so much from July to Nov last year during chemo & rads & then I sort of dried up.  Oh except when I recently watched "A Star is Born" with Kristopherson & Streisand again-blubbered like a baby at the end of that!  My eyes feel burny though from the tears just sitting in there.

    Have a good day . Joni

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited April 2010

    Joni- I watched the old black and white version of A Star is Born on Sunday.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    Never seen that movie, but I'll keep it in mind when I need an excuse for others seeing me cry.

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  • ReginaR
    ReginaR Member Posts: 287
    edited April 2010

     Pink glove dance for my Pink pals! click below to see. I hope it pump you up as much as it did me!< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw>

    Hope you all are feeling stonger ,  I pray for all of you & Hope all the Appt & treatments are going well. Thinking of you often, sorry I haven't posted much,  Now that Iam back to work & come home exhausted! I try to read & keep up with all of you daily, just havn't had the energy to post! But love reading  all about you life. You all keep me going you Middle age gals Rock!

     I see my Oncocgist tomorrow to get lab & make sure infection is out of my system, Then if it is, we talk treatments! Ugh.

    {{hugs]] Gina R

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    I saw that during BC awareness month last year.  And yes, I thought it was great!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited April 2010

    I saw that last year and LOVED it! Then at work months later it came on the Muzak. I kept asking everyone what it was because I was SURE I knew it somehow....heheheheh...finally figured it out! Sheesh..

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  • lh88
    lh88 Member Posts: 21
    edited April 2010

    Dark chocolate covered beans! No guilt.

    Glad you don't "card"! 

    I finally, a month after diagnosis of recurrence of DCIS after lumpectomy and 33 rad treatments in 2007, have an appointment (May 6) for a consultation with a new BS. My hospital closed right after I got the news in March and I've spent weeks collecting my records from all over NYC.

    This site has helped so much in this interim, when I don't know what's going on yet. So much to learn; so many generous folks giving their knowledge and time.

    Thanks! 

    Lil

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010

    Welcome, lh88, and if we can help with info. and support, we are happy to.  You probably became an "expert" the first time around.  I have said before that it truly felt like I was getting an "associate's degree" in B/C.

    Since you say recurrence, was your first DCIS also Grade 3?  

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  • ReginaR
    ReginaR Member Posts: 287
    edited April 2010
    Hello My Middle age Pals! Hope you all have a great weekend. One good thing about weekends, No Appts & No Treatments. Thinking of all of you & enjoying the Post I esp love reading about  all the comfort food!!  Thanks for the great info & Thanks for all the support!

    I Saw my oncologist yesterday!  Had a check up & they drew 8 vail of blood . Got a few results back. Still anemia, Low on Iron,( no wonder cause they took all my blood-LOL) Good news White count is back to normal yea, Infection gone. But My calcium is still low ,after taken extra 600 mg daily!!  So on my day off today ( I work the weekend) I had a Dexascan done..(Bone Density Testing ). Sound so much fun for a day off!. I am suppose to be starting back on my tamoxifen  as soon as possible, But I am planning on waiting til after Ky oaks Breast Cancer Survivor Parade April 30, so I can Parade around the track with no Leg pains & no headaches, I am finally feeling good. so I think I can wait a week, I so dread those Side effect! But I Know it necessary! 

    Thanks for all your prayers !

     Happy weekend! {{hugs}} Gina

    Please click' Pink glove Dance"< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw>

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited April 2010

    Do any of you get ankle and or foot cramps at night?  The last two nights I have had terrible cramps along the outside of my ankle and foot, I am figuring what the h... now!  I have had leg cramps in the calf but these are different and very painful.  On a good note probrbalt felt the best today I have in a month, yeast infection feels liek it is gone, bladder infpection feels like it is gone, and I had enough energy to visit Mom after work and then help my hubby cut lawn.  Oh how nice!!

    Gina glad to hear you are doing better!!

    Hi Lil, glad to meet oyu sorry as to why, hope you find a good BS, sorry to hear of your recurrence, I like the thought of dark chocolate coverd beans!!!

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010

    ReginaR, Do you supplement with Vit. D?  (There is a whole long thread about it on here too.)  The Vit. D help with absorbtion of calcium.  Your calcium supplement may already contain Vit. D, so check the label.  If it does not, you might want to read thru' that thread I mentioned as there is some debate on how much D is best.  Also, you can take 1200mg. of calcium daily.  It is advised to take 600mg twice daily, with food.  Also, check if your calcium supplement contains magnesium.  They work together and should be taken in a 2:1 ratio.

    carolyn79, Any swelling with the pain?  Do you take AIs?  They can cause joint pain.  So can Tamoxifen, but it is more rare.

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited April 2010

    Someone told me yesterday that I had cheated death??? What theeee!!!  I looked them in the eye and told them that God wanted me to appreciate life a little more. I"m still not sure why they said that. I don't feel like I cheated death, just got the crap scared outta me.

    Carolynn- You doc. can check you vit. D. level with a blood test. I hope this helps. 

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/79/topic/741446

    Here is the link for the Vit D Page

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  • carollynn79
    carollynn79 Member Posts: 654
    edited April 2010

    Thanks, they just checked my Vit D don't have the results a bunch of others too.  No swelling I take Tamox and have osteoarthritis.  Dr put me on Vit D and calcium due to low numbers after thyroid surgery, I go back to see the Endo in two weeks so will ask.  I do find that since I have 2-3 differnt things going on and that some overlap sometimes the Docs like to blame it on something else but will try to ask a lot more questions and see what's up.

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited April 2010

    Paulding-I think I would have told that person, they CHEATED death, cause they said that to you & instead of killing them-you walked away!  People-just don't think!

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited April 2010

    I was Dx 3 months before my 50th b'day....recovering from chemo #3 on 50th b'day.....4 years later, this is the first year that I'm not dreading my b'day or should I say not dreading anticipating my b'day....I had been so excited to turn 50 and bam, thank you mam, you have BC...so planning in advance was hard....my b'day is in 2 weeks....my 2 oldest kids and I all have b'days within 9 days of each other....3rd, 8th and 12 of May....and then mothers day is between may 8 and 14th!! busy month.....

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited April 2010

    CELEBRATE YOUR BUTT OFF KAREN!!!

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  • ReginaR
    ReginaR Member Posts: 287
    edited April 2010

    Have a great week girls, Good luck with appt & treatments .prayers & Hugs

    I worked all weekend, so I am off today & waiting for  my Oncocgist office to call me back with Lab results & results from the dexan-scan I had friday!

    Hope you enjoy the song, it inspired me today, Iam in a boo-hoo modd, but it raining here, so that doesn't help!

    YouTube - Bomshel-Fight Like A Girl Lyrics

    Love Gina

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    Gina, you didn't warn us that the song would make us boohoo!  I am at work, and listened to it!

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  • PauldingMom
    PauldingMom Member Posts: 927
    edited April 2010

    This is a great song. It doesn't make me cry just gets me focused. So today, "Kick A$$ and take names."  my favorite line :)

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    It doesn't take much to make me cry when I think of BC and how indiscriminate it is.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010
    Nevermind.
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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    Elimar, you'd better check your calendar again.  If I am correct, the year still has 12 months in it, which twto did you get rid of?

    When you said 8 months, I thought we had joined around the same time.  But, you seemed like a long-timer here when I started!  I rarely look at the date joined but this made me...

    Have you ever heard of the "Sarc-mark"?  It is a punctuation mark made up by someone, and you can download it (for a fee) and use it in your emails and postings to indicate when you are being sarcastic.  I think I will have to think one up that is free....

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010
    Forget it.
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010

    Ditto.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited April 2010

    Boy, Elimar...you must be irritated, you are repeating yourself.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2010

    Yeah, I was having a cranky day yesterday, so I just took those postings away.  I joked that I was PMSing, since my meno has been paused for over six mos. due to natural and/or Tamoxifen  causes.  Well, the joke was on me today.  It wasn't menopausal crankiness, it actaully was PMS.  Guess I can't even recognize it after all this time

                                             pms Pictures, Images and Photos

    Why not have both, eh?  Menopause moodiness and PMS crankiness.  Great!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited April 2010

    Oh, Elimar--that is so not fair! 

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