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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited October 2010

    Michele - It arrived !!!! Thank you, thank you! I have PM'ed you as well :)

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited October 2010

    Jaimie~ I'm fine.  Worried abt Helen and a "real world" friend.  Plus, py quarterly onc visit is looming ... and a PET scan so I have some anxiety 'bout that.  Also, I really wish my MRI said "perfect" rather than "inconclusive".  Bleck. 

    Kerry- Yay!  I thought that there was a postal worker out there in your bras!  ;)

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited October 2010

    Okay Michele - was just checking on you. I am also worried about Helen (is she Gramof3 ??). I tried to pull by search and I couldn't find her screen name.



    Tomorrow is going to be a tuff day for me. My Mom is getting remarried and this man isn't even close to being like my dad :( I am going to just keep my face behind my lens and act like they are a paying client.

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited October 2010

    Okay Michele - was just checking on you. I am also worried about Helen (is she Gramof3 ??). I tried to pull by search and I couldn't find her screen name.



    Tomorrow is going to be a tuff day for me. My Mom is getting remarried and this man isn't even close to being like my dad :( I am going to just keep my face behind my lens and act like they are a paying client.

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited October 2010

    Jaimie~  How are things?? I know how you feel, my mom just got engaged to a guy I'm not fond of...

    Pls ignore if you don't want to hear me whine... I'm so weepy today.  I was so short with my kids yesterday... Work is over-whelming... And, I'm getting sooooo anxious about next week.  I wanted to badly to call in sick to work today but I have a grant due.  I think I'm going to run out over lunch and pick up a bottle of wine for after work... how's that for coping?  :(

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  • Artemis
    Artemis Member Posts: 759
    edited October 2010

    (((Jaimie and Michele)))  Much love to you both.  Been there, done that with my mom, too. 

    Michele ~ by all means, get that bottle of wine.  Drink it while you have a bubble bath.  I'm so very sorry you're feeling overwhelmed.  *hugs*

    Furies ~ I'm having a PET on Monday.  When onc ordered it, he said it was to get a baseline reading, but now he's a bit concerned about my hip pain.  I'm thinking it's just a Tamoxifen SE; he's not so sure.  It just never ends, does it?  Undecided  I tell you, the next person who tells me that I've beaten it and it's all behind me is gonna get a smack upside the head.  Bless them, they mean well, but they just have no idea. Yell

    Love to everyone!
    Artemis

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited October 2010

    ((((Artemis))))

    Oh, man, I can just imagine how you are feeling. I hope you can try and distract yourself this weekend, scans are no fun at all. 

    BTW, I know it is just the Tamoxifen.

    Will be thinking of you Monday, let us know how it goes.

    And, ((((Hugs))) to you too Michele. 

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited October 2010

    I'm with Kerry-- Tamoxifen.

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited October 2010

    Artemis~ I will be thinking of you and hoping Monday show absolutely NOTHING. 

    Michele~ It's been very hard on me because I was/am such a Daddy's girl.  I just miss my Dad :(  I know that I can never replace him but I thought my Mom would at least find someone with one of his traits and to be honest he doesn't :(.  It's been 2 years since my Dad has passed away and I still wait for him to call and I still try to call him to see what he has been up to. 

    So in 11 hours I will be at the airport getting ready to get on a plane to Sin City.  I am so excited :).  I get a couple days away with my DH and try to recharge my batteries or so I hope.  My clients have been on the phone with me all evening because they "forgot" about deadlines.  I do just love shooting it's the after stuff that drives me batty. 

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited October 2010

    Jaimie, hope you have a fantastic trip! Relax, enjoy and have fun!

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  • Artemis
    Artemis Member Posts: 759
    edited November 2010

    Thanks so much, you guys!  I felt you with me today, and it helped!  I hope to be able to get the PET report on Wednesday.

    Jaimie ~ I hope you're having a fabulous time!  

    Love to everyone,
    Artemis

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited November 2010

    Was thinking of you today. Let us know once you get the results.

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  • gcpommom
    gcpommom Member Posts: 883
    edited November 2010

    Jaimie, hope you're having a blast in Vegas.

    Michele, sorry you've been down, I hope you're feeling a bit better....

    Elaine:  I'm betting on the Tamoxifen too...but here are some (((hugs))) to get you through the stress of waiting for results

    Kerry:  did you get the windy weather last week? 

    Julia is home for now, back to MN in 2 weeks....Bill is in Miami, he has an interview tomorrow morning.  If he gets the job, he'll move down there alone, we're staying here in Michigan; I refuse to give up our house until we are positive this job will last.  Plus I just don't know about living in Miami...

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited November 2010

    Thanks ladies for the well wishes. We had a blast and now I am on the last flight home. I miss my babies but it was good to get away. We went to a mistery murder dinner show and my DH won :). We also went to Red Canyon and went sight seeing.



    Now back to reality :). I just hope it's not a crash back...lol..I already start work tonight so I guess it was fun while it lasted.



    Judy- I hpe your DH gets the job (if that is what you want).

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  • Nancyb7912
    Nancyb7912 Member Posts: 84
    edited November 2010

    Good evening ladies. It's been a while - I've been so focused on trying to catch up with work, not much time for anything else. Plus, I've been working on normal. We went back to Cape May, NJ for my birthday in October. I so love Cape May. The knee is still giving me trouble. I go back to the orthopedist in a couple of weeks. I wish he would just fix it and let me get on with my life. He still believes my problem is the ACL tear. Time for the oncologist and pulmonologist visits. I have really enjoyed not sitting in doctors' offices lately.

    Now then - here's the question du jour. Is anyone still having fingernail/ toenail problems? My nails still crumble and fall apart. It has me stumped.

    Here's wishing each of you good reports. 

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited November 2010

    Nancy~ My toenails have layers that look like a stair case and they are still falling off.  They are also grey and gross looking.  I hide them under red toenail polish :)

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  • Artemis
    Artemis Member Posts: 759
    edited November 2010

    Nancy ~ my fingernails aren't peeling as much since I finished Herceptin in August, but they are still breaking and chipping every now and then. 

    My big toenails still hurt from Taxol, but they are gradually getting better.  Those nails never came off or even got very loose, but they did start to grow all wierd.  They sort of lifted and then grew out like tunnels.  I kept cutting them short, and now they're growing somewhat normally.

    I'm glad you had a good birthday trip, and I hope your knee problems get straightened out soon!

    Artemis

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  • Nancyb7912
    Nancyb7912 Member Posts: 84
    edited November 2010

    Thanks Jaimieh and Artemis. I had wondered if the Taxol was the culprit. Feet are still suffering the after effects with numbness and tingling.  I had the tunneling too, but that seems to have gone away. Now it's just the crumbling and splitting. I have lost my small toenails a couple of times, as recently as August - I finished Herceptin in May.  Hopefully, this too shall pass.

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited November 2010

    Has anyone heard how Ma's testing went ??  I have been looking and hoping that it was nothing but I can't find anything......

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited November 2010

    oh-- I know!  SHe had a string of nodes light up on her PET but on the non-BC side.  Had an ultrasound and the radiologist could find nothing wrong.  She's in limbo right now but it looks like she may have had a big false+.  I sure hope so!!!!!!

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  • Artemis
    Artemis Member Posts: 759
    edited November 2010

    Hey, Furies ~ I got my PET results:

    "Presently no evidence of residual or metastatic disease."  YAY!!!!!  Thanks so very much for your support!!

    Love to all,
    Artemis

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited November 2010

    So happy Artemis!!!  I also help they continue to find NOTHING with MA.

     Michele~ ((hugs)) I hope you hear about the nothing soon.....

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited November 2010

    Artemis - best news ever! That is fantastic, I am so, so happy or you (but not surprised)

    Michele, hoping the same for you! 

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited November 2010

    Michele, I just read your comment on FB, hope everything is OK.

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited November 2010

    hi everyone--  I'm OK... just a bit freaked out.  I had my PET yesterday morning and was fine.  Then I had my surgeon appt in the afternoon and he found a lump near my implant on my BC side.  I got sent to the "breast center" and felt like I wasn't really there... KWIM?  I had the SAME locker, the SAME ultrasound room, the SAME tech as that shitty day back in 12/08.  It was even the SAME damned radiologist.  Sooooo... there is a small "lesion"... 0.24cm to be exact but it looks like scar tissue.  The PET was clear.  I left feeling like I had seen a ghost and flipped out as soon as I got in the car.  I called Web and after a chat and good solid cry, I was back in business and ready to face work/home/whatever.  It was so hard going though those motions again.  It opened up an old wound... YKWIM?

    Anywhoo, saw the onc today.  He also thinks it is scar tissue but wants to repeat the PET in 12 weeks "to be on the safe side"...  My tumor markers are pending... will be read out tomorrow at which time he said he'd text me.

    That's it I guess. <sigh>

    Artemis~ Whoohoo!! Woot! And, YAY!

    Has anyone here taken Lunesta?  What's the verdict on it? Good? Bad? Helpful? Not?  I don't want to go back on xanax  or ativan ('tho, I admit to popping one last night!) but need help sleeping.  Benadryl mkes me wired so that's no help either...

    xxoo

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited November 2010

    Oh, Michele, I get chills even walking past the entrance to the place where I was Dx, so I cannot even imagine having it seem like it was all happening again.

    I am glad he got you "seen to" straight away, and it does sound like it is scar tissue, but I am truely sorry you had to go through it all. And it sucks getting scared, and it sucks having to get another PET in 12 weeks. Actually, it all sucks.

    Hope you get a nice low TM reading tomorrow, and can relax a bit. 

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  • Jaimieh
    Jaimieh Member Posts: 2,373
    edited November 2010

    ((Michele)) First I love Lunesta, I am going to be taking one tonight :).  Sorry that your surgeon found some scar tissue.  I completely understand flipping out.  I was put in the room where I had my biopsy and I couldn't keep myself together.  The poor tech had no idea but the memories are horrible.  I hope the scar tissue breaks up.  Another one hoping for nice low TM's tomorrow. 

    BTW, no shame in popping some Ativan.  If I had more I would take them but I am rationing them right now...lol... 

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  • susan13
    susan13 Member Posts: 732
    edited November 2010

    Michele-oh my gosh, you had every right to freak out... but so soon after your implant surgery there's going to be scar tissue.  It's been 10 months since my implant was re-done on my bc side and I can still feel scar tissue.  Glad the PET was clear! I am sure your TM is absolutely fine.   I take Ativan once in a while to help me sleep... my sleep went out the window back in Sept. 08 at first dx.  If I do not take something, I do not sleep.  I have not tried Lunesta, but have tried and with good success Ambien CR.  It gives me 8 hours of wonderful sleep!

    Great news Artemis!

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  • MicheleS
    MicheleS Member Posts: 937
    edited November 2010

    normal TM's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay, yay, yay, yay, yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     I get a reprieve during the holidays and have me next PET the end of Jan! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    thank you for holding my hand.

    xxoo

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited November 2010

    Just thrilled for you Michele!!!

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