November 2009-Starting Chemo

Sue: three more pokes! yeah! Do you have a port, have they said when you can get deported?

WOO HOO Sue!  Now, if we can only get everyone feeling well and done with the Herceptin!!

Linda:  still waiting to hear how the PT went.  I hope it wasn't too painful. 

I'm off on my annual Sister Weekend, starting today when one sis flies in.  We meet the other two this afternoon and stay in a hotel for a weekend of shopping, eating, and acting like teenagers. Will be a much happier time than last year when I was recovering from my lumpectomy 8 days earlier.

Happy Thursday!!!  Nette   

Nette: that does sound like fun, have a wonderful time.

Alicia; are your boobs changing as you lose weight? Just curious.

I'm getting the herp today (I know that sounds bad but it makes me laugh). I am not worried about the poke, I am worried about the weigh-in. My eating has gone to hell, and yesterday I found Butterfinger candy bars for 29 cents. So I bought half a dozen.

Have a good one!

Sorry I haven't posted lately! I've been swamped at work, and my arm is still killing me! PT is going good, I guess. My onc wants to send me to a neurologist, the PT wants to change my meds, and I'm stuck in limbo. I'm having a hard time sleeping because of the pain. My hand keeps falling asleep now, plus I can't raise my arm above my head anymore, let alone straighten it out.

But, I AM STILL CANCER CLEAR...NED!!!! Scans show the spot on my liver is healed up...just scar tissue! Life is good!

Nette: Did you have fun? It sounds very nice!!

I had my naked Herp yesterday. The plan is to keep me on it another year, just for security. Oh well. I'd rather be port poked than spastic due to the roids & chemo!

I've been looking for the BC Awareness movies on Lifetime and can't find them. Hmmmmm????

Had my herp today and tonight I am having a lot of hot flashy things. I should pay attention and see if it worse on herp day.

I'll have an echo in the next couple of weeks and I will scan in November. They also gave me a flu shot at the Oncs.

I think I will finish these 29 cent Butterfingers and then try and get some weight off. It is slowly creeping up, I have gained 20 pounds since diagnoses.

Melinda.....  I think a more fruitful study would be the degree to which hot sex relieves hot flashes.

I was a bit tired from the flu shot, so don't be surprised if you are dragging. - Claire

Did someone say Butterfingers???? LOL  And yes I agree with Michele, you cannot pass up a good sale on chocolate.  I specifically don't buy my Halloween candy till the day before as I will eat it !!!!!!  And then I buy stuff I don't like.  Which means no Snickers or Peanut butter cups. 

Claire ~ I was tired from the flu shot but feel fine now, had it on Monday! 

 Linda ~ GREAT news on the NED.  But sorry about the arm.  Hope it gets better real soon.

Melinda ~ Hope those hot flashes get better.  Since I finally got my period last month no hot flashes really to speak of.  Just an occasional hot flush ~  not a real full on BLAST.  Regarding the boobie ?  or foobies ~ my left one has less tissue under the skin for some reason so I have some rippling there and with the weight loss it is definately worse.  Hoping when I get the new set in December it will be a bit better.  I tell you now that I have implants I don't know why anyone would ever GET these just because they want bigger boobs.  They are so foreign feeling. 

Michele ~ what's new, how's the hair growing.  I can't wait till my side burns grow and I can have it one length, this whole 80's bi-level hair is bothering me..........  and my ends are so frizzly like Albert Einstein.  I had perfectly smooth hair prior to bc.  Oh well...

Have a good day girlies !

Alicia

Mouse: Good to hear from you, glad your herps are coming to an end. I was also glad to see you mention about the hot flashes, mine are real bad on herp day and I was just starting to make the connection (I know, I am pretty slow).

Ditto - you are my sisters

One year ago tomorrow (our time - the 13th) I got my biopsy results - got to try and not think about it. Looking forward to the 21st - the day they cut that crap out of me!!!!

 ((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))) to you all

 Sue

Ladies,  I just stopped by to see how everyone is doing..so much good news lately!!  Sending {{{BIG HUGS}}}}} to all.  It's hard to believe that it was just a year ago that we all met - damn, what a year it's been!

I had my first real mammo since diagnosis last week....thank god still NED :-)!  The radiologist who read the results says I don't need to come back for a year...of course, my onc and rads onc may differ on that, but still, the thought of going a whole year is exciting and scary, at the same time. 

I'm hanging in on Tamoxifen, just the occasional hot flash, leg cramp and muscle ache, nothing major.  Have somehow managed to lose almost 20 lbs, but don't tell anyone about the Oreo I just scarfed down! My onc is big on 'no sugar', but really? I consider chocolate to be therapy. What fun is life without an occasional Oreo....!

Is anyone else feeling a little overwhelmed having a "cancerversary" at the same time as Breast Cancer Awareness month?   I almost teared up at the grocery the other day...something about seeing pink cases of soda and bags of chips was just overwhelming.  I appreciate the effort, but sometimes you just wanna get away from all that pink!

Sending out my love to all -- I read here all the time, but really need to get off my rear and post more often. Take care, stay healthy....

<<<Group Hug>>> Hello my sisters! Happy Anniversary

I'm on a high because of a HUGE presentation at work that went awesomely! Today has been a good day.

Still chugging along with my bum arm...LOL. I had an appt yesterday with a neurologist that got cancelled. Now I can't get in until Nov 11. UGH!! So I'm doing my Herceptin/Zometa/Tamoxifen train. Woo Hoo...

Words cannot express my appreciation to you girls! Thank you Brenda for starting this thread. I love you all! 

Michele:  I can't see your avatar very well...what is it a picture of?

Pam Pam Pam!!!   So good to hear from you!!!  Melinda and I (and I think Alicia, too) agree that we're so over the pink-thing.  Maybe some years from now it will look better, but not now.  Oh, but I would definitely make an exception for a ring with a huge pink stone!!!  

My breast surgeon said if the calcifications detected on my first post-bc mammo haven't changed in my Dec. mammo, I won't have to come back for a year, either, but I think I'm going to ask for a 6-month one:  Am too worried something will come up if I wait too long.  My original tumor grew very quickly and would have been huge, had I not gotten my annual mammo when I did.  I did not feel it in a June self-exam, but by the end of July, it was the size of an almond.   Don't even want to think of how large it would have been had I put off getting that mammo.

uhhhh, Alicia, congrats on the 2nd period?  

I'm all for chocolate therapy!!!  And my onc hasn't said anything about sweets, nor would I ask her.

Had my annual Sister Weekend this past weekend.  Had a ton of fun with my 3 sisters.  Didn't want it to come to an end, as we all act like teenagers on an extended sleep-over:  we eat, laugh a lot, and shop, though we didn't make our record of 11 hrs. of shopping.  Only made it to 10 hrs. this time.  (We stay at a hotel near a huge enclosed outlet mall.)  We definitely did our part to help the economy.  A true sacrifice.

Have a great evening!  Nette : )