Starting Chemo February 2009?

Artemis- my liver enzymes are high too. Don't know why.

Apple, flooring looks cool. Cabinets sound wonderful. So great to have a new home to focus on. I'm really hoping your docs find a rabbit to pull out of the hat.

Hoping the funky blood test results everyone is getting prove to be a fluke. It can be so unnerving. And for everyone else undergoing procedures, recon, etc., my you heal quickly and without event.

 I get to meet my new doctor, the pulmonologist on Monday morning. If that's all I had to take away from the bad lymph node, I'll take it. Also can't wait to get the port removed after this appointment. Monday's going to be a busy day. 

 Last thing - wish me luck with Race for the Cure on Saturday. Neuropathy is still SO painful and feet so numb, but I'll make it even if I'm bringing up the rear.

Jaimie~ Sent you a message on FB but thought I'd ask here too:  am I correct in remembering that you pulled your own jp drain(s)?  my ps told me I could pull mine if I got lower than 30cc over the weekend... 1 of them is down to 20 today so I may pull it tomorrow afternoon if it stays low... so, do tell: is it creepy to do it yourself??

Whoo-hoo Nancy! Good luck tomorrow!

Apple~ Love the pics.

xxoo

Apple, a big Furie hug for you. I think the projects you have going on these days are perfect to keep you busy and distracted from all the "what if"s we all fall prey to from time to time.

Jaimieh, how do you like your blackberry? I love mine! Not only is it a phone, but I have nursing software for work, ebooks and games for when I'm not at work, and a camera, etc.


Michele, I had a tissue expander in for my reconstruction. The expansion was done before chemo and the exchange was after. I had robaxin for the occasional muscle spasms.I have not regretted it at all. I think the result is absolutely fabulous!
Nancy, I hope you have a great time at the race for a cure. That's in DC, right? I was going to walk in that race, but I dropped out because of my continuing hip/knee pain.
Bethie, it's so cool you got to talk to Donnie and Marie! I used to be obsessed with him when I was a teenie-bopper. Donnie is good looking!

Thanks Cheryl--I've followed the family since I was 6, and I'll be 40 this year--it's gonna be one bad-ass party that's for sure-wish you guys could all come!!! I know I'll love them forever--don't feel like using til I die-too close for comfort after what we all went through.

Apple--what's going on girl--why the down and out?? Big hugs sis!!!! we love ya!!!

Michele and Jaimieh--I'm on FB too, look me up

Oh, my goodness, the thought of pulling my own drains makes me squirm. You guys are made of stronger stuff than me. Good luck Michele if you do it today!

Just back from a 10km run....sweaty and stinky. 

have a great day all. 

Just returned home from DC Race for the Cure. What an incredible day! Going to try and assemble a team next year. Cheryl, I know exactly what you're saying. My hip joints were on fire and I have a raging blister on my toe, but I made it - dotted my i's and crossed my t's with no short cuts. The survivors were treated so well and everyone is so nice. There were an estimated 45,000 walkers on the mall. Wonderful! I thought about all of you and our battle the past year. Never give up! Never!

 I see this weekend as truly crossing the finish line - both physically at the race today and metaphorically on Monday when I go in to have my mediport removed.

 Now a question - anyone else blister more easily or have especially thin skin now? I swear, I scrape, cut and bruise at the drop of a hat nowadays. 

Kerry, I agree with you...I never could've pulled my own drains.  I had some issue with mine, it hurt all the time and when they pulled it...OUCH!  I had formed some sort of lump around it, just on the one side. 

Beth:  I loved Donny & Marie when I was a teen, too, lol!!!  Deep Purple!  Glad you had a good time in Vegas, I've never been there

Jaimie:  you don't know who Donnie is because you're just a youngin', LOL!  You've heard of the Osmond Family maybe?  They are part of that family.

Nancy:  sounds like you had a good time at your walk, 45,000 is a lot of walkers, wow!  Hope your appt goes well tomorrow, what is the pulmonary doc going to do?

Been a busy, stormy weekend.  Last full week of school this week, then school's out next Wednesday, yay!  I really don't want to go have this ultrasound on Tuesday, I'm really just not in the mood for poking and prodding and discomfort....it's been a while since I've done anything medical, and I'm good with that, lol.

My blood sugar was a bit low, so on Wed I'm getting a blood test, the fasting kind, so I can't eat after 8:30 pm....that will be tough, lol, since I do most of my eating late at night.  I'll have to go to bed early on Tues I guess.

Ohhh, good for you Michele!

Enjoy the day everyone.

Michele, lol...you won't look 12 for long!  Good job on the drains, was it weird to pull them yourself?

Jaimie, it's awesome that you've been so successful and busy....you seem to be a very well-known photographer in your area : )  Love your pics, you do very good work.

I cancelled the sonohysterogram for tomorrow....not sure it was necessary based on my symptoms.  I'm thinking of switching gyno anyway, he is too gungho on tests and procedures, he's always saying "I can fix that"!!!  He drives me nuts.    I want to wait and see how my period goes this month, first.  I see my general doc on Wed and will get her opinion.

Hey ladies!

Yes it's been some time, a very long time since I have been on this site. Wanted to get away from thinking and living cancer, and for a while it was working.  I wish I wasn't here right now and I hope you don't think I am only here for myself. But when things turn ugly you have to go back to your roots, so to speak.  Had my ovaries/tubes and a d+c 2 weeks ago. Surgeon said right after surgery it all looks "benign" and that the report "very rarely ever changes" and that he has never seen it change ... well I guess I am special cause yesterday he called me and said there was "evidence of bc" in both ovaries and uterus....and that he was very surprised.   So now a hysterectomy coming up, and "possibly more chemo".  I don't have any real details, still waiting to talk to my med. onc. who usually always puts my mind at ease.  But for now I am a F**KING MESS.  And I just can't come to terms that I am now Stage 4...

Michele, I sure hope you are feeling better. Those TE's are a bit painful but you should feel better in a coule of weeks, I think it toom me 4 weeks to feet better. And I can't believe u took the drains out yourself! You are a brave woman!!

{{{{Susan}}}} Crying for you.... I can't imagine the shock... I didn't realize that it could go to the uterus???  Have you had a PET recently? Lungs and liver are clean, right??  <more hugs>

Michele, yes I had everything done in April after the tumor markers were rising to the point where my onc thought I needed scans... ct scan, pet scan, ad bone scan.  Everything was clear, except "cystic like" masses on both ovaries.   Also with scans I had a uterine biopsy that came back negative ... so both my doc's, surgeon and me surprised.  The path was breast cancer in the ovaries and uterus... so yeah, it could go there.

Youi know, I have heard of a woman who had a similar thing happen (BC in Ovaries), she had a hysterectomy and it never went anywhere else.So, hopefully they have caught this early. Still it sucks big time.

I don't know, I just remember reading it sometime ago on the Stage 4 forum. She had been NED for 10 years or something.

How are you holding up?? I just welcomed you to the exercise group, then I found this post.