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  • Julie50
    Julie50 Member Posts: 227
    edited December 2010

    Sherry:  I am still a little tan and my Rad. ended 9/14/10.  Who will really see it unless you go topless in the summer...:)

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  • Houndmommy
    Houndmommy Member Posts: 377
    edited December 2010

    A belated Merry Christmas to everyone!  I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.

    Hugs, Kim

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  • spendygirl
    spendygirl Member Posts: 231
    edited December 2010

    Hi ladies -I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! 

    Something I once again need to share.  When I was originally diagnosed in May, I had two MRIs that showed 3 other "areas of enhancement", the radiologist suggested perhaps intramammary lymph nodes.  So, time for the six month follow up MRI on Wednesday.  I have only told my children, not work folks because as well-meaning as they are, sometimes "did you get results yet" from so many people is exhausting.  But I know you all understand the anxiety.  I'll be glad to get it over with.

    How is everyone??  Hugs to all.

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  • Houndmommy
    Houndmommy Member Posts: 377
    edited December 2010

    Hi Trayce!

    I'll be thinkning of you on Wednesday!  Let us know how it goes!

    Hugs, Kim

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  • bailey1958
    bailey1958 Member Posts: 199
    edited December 2010

    Good Morning Everyone, 

    Just got back from Palm Springs - it was so lovely and great to have a change in venue. I am feeling for you Tracye - I hope everything goes well this week and like me your previously lite up areas no longer light up. Julie - I have very achy joints/body and find it helps to walk regularly - I also find the cold makes things worse - so in Palm springs everything felt a bit better. Almost 2011- I am certain we are all going to have a better year! Bring it on.

    Sonia 

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  • Julie50
    Julie50 Member Posts: 227
    edited December 2010

    Hi All:

     Tracye-I will be thinking and praying for you tomorrow, keep the good thoughts going..

     Sonia-So glad you had a nice time and got to just "GET AWAY" and enjoy the warm weather.

    Xmas for me was staying home and watching HDTV all day...LOL  Jim had to work so it was me and the doggies.  Was sad when I 1st got up, had a good cry over mom and Sue, then said "enough of that girl"...

    Yup the old bones hurt bad, my legs and arms the most, its very strange.  Saw the Onco yesterday going for a CT scan on Thursday said my stomach is very tender.  Then had to see my Family Dr. today due to my blood pressure being all over the map.  goes from 151/102 to 139-80 and this goes on all day.

    So they are putting me on BP pills, he still thinks its from all the stress of this year, with the BC, mom and my sister.  He could be right not sure. Always something or another and I'm really getting sick of not feeling good and seeing Dr after Dr.  This getting old is for the birds...:(

    I hope everyone has a great week, stay warm

    Julie

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  • changes
    changes Member Posts: 622
    edited December 2010

    Hi everyone,

    We've nearly got 2010 licked - just a few more days until we get to a GOOD year!

    Tracye - sending positive thoughts for your test tomorrow. Hope it all goes well.

    Take care everyone!

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  • spendygirl
    spendygirl Member Posts: 231
    edited December 2010

    I hereby decree: NO MORE BAD in 2011!!! Laughing

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  • bailey1958
    bailey1958 Member Posts: 199
    edited December 2010

    I'll second that!!

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  • Julie50
    Julie50 Member Posts: 227
    edited December 2010

    I can't wait until Dec 31st and I can KISS THIS YEAR in the ass...LOL  Its been one heck of a year for me and my family, Good - bye 2010....

    Tracye-Hope all goes well today for you, thinking positive thoughts all day for you!!!!!

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  • changes
    changes Member Posts: 622
    edited December 2010

    Julie - I agree with you about 2010 - I will be glad to see the end of it.

    Tracye - Hope today went well! Thinking of you,

    Karen

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  • Houndmommy
    Houndmommy Member Posts: 377
    edited December 2010

    Trayce - thinking of you today and I agree - NO MORE BAD!!!

    Julie - Good luck with your scan tomorrow and I hope you can get your BP under control!

    Hugs, Kim

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  • spendygirl
    spendygirl Member Posts: 231
    edited December 2010

    Boy those breast MRIs are no fun, are they???

    Julie did you have your CT scan today?  How did everything go?

    Just as an aside, I live on the west coast of central florida, very close to the water.  For the past two mornings, I've had ice all over my car.  Looked around the garage for something to scrape it off with, we don't have anything!  Just something we don't see very often,  I really feel for you ladies who live in snowy areas......it gets below 60 here and we've got winter coats on!

    Two more days till our GREAT new year begins!

    Hugs, Tracye

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  • spendygirl
    spendygirl Member Posts: 231
    edited December 2010
    Julie, please forgive me.  I just remembered it's Wednesday, not Thursday.  A little distracted I guess Embarassed
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  • Julie50
    Julie50 Member Posts: 227
    edited December 2010

    Tracye--Don't feel bad half the time I don't know my name.

     Drinking my stuff for the CT scan, that is awful stuff, I can't get it down but will keep on trying.  I'm sure the CT will be just fine, my ONCO likes to play safe which I guess is a good thing.  All this radiation I feel is not good for one, soon I will light up like a xmas tree.

    Yup one more day and 2010 is behind us, I can't wait until midnight tomorrow.  I'm really not into New Years Eve, but I am this year.  It was my sisters best holiday, so I will have to have a glass of wine for her and my mom...Mom and I always make duck on New Years Day so Jim and I will make one in honor of her.....

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  • MagPag
    MagPag Member Posts: 98
    edited December 2010

    Hi everyone,  wanted to check in and say Happy and Healthy New Year to you all.  I'll be traveling home tomorrow, rested and refreshed for the first time since Feb when my journey began.   It was so great to be away and end this tough year on a positive note.  My son had a blast in London and it was so fun to share it with him.

    Good luck with your scans Tracye and Julie.  Good thoughts are with you while you wait for the results.  They can only be NORMAL, given the declaration of No More Bad!

    Take care and stay safe.  Donna

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  • bailey1958
    bailey1958 Member Posts: 199
    edited December 2010

    Hang in there, Tracye and Julie - I am sending good thoughts your way. I am setting my sights on a great year for all of us and it is just around the corner. So glad you had a great trip with your son, Donna - your certainly deserve the much needed rest and having fun is just the medicine we all need.

    To all my new sister's in arms - I hope your New Year is full of laughter, good health and an abundance of joy - AND NO MORE BAD!!!

     

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  • spendygirl
    spendygirl Member Posts: 231
    edited January 2011

    I don't know if it's because it's new year's eve or what, but I'm really starting to panic about the MRI results.  I can't stand the fact that the answers to my immediate cancer future are sitting on someone's desk.  I don't know, maybe just a little sad....

    Ok, enough of that.  Here's to strength, health and peace for all of us.  Thank you for always being there.

    Tracye

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  • changes
    changes Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2011

    (((((Tracye))))) waiting for test results is miserable. Sorry that it's weighing on your mind.

    I want to wish everyone a happy New Year (I was going to try to stay up until midnight, but I'm fading fast). Looks like we got 2010 licked - I won't be sorry to see the end of it. Here's to hoping 2011 treats us all MUCH, MUCH better!

    Thanks to all of you for being there :)

    Karen

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  • Houndmommy
    Houndmommy Member Posts: 377
    edited January 2011

    I was going to try to stay up just so I could kick 2010 in the pants on its way out the door but like you Karen, I am fading fast.

    Trayce, I am sorry you are having to wait for results.  Sending you a big HUG.

    To all of you, my friends - I am so happy that we have become friends.  I am just sorry that we had to meet due to cancer.  I just want to let you know how much each one of you means to me.  You have made this journey easier.  I wish all of you a happy and HEALTHY New Year!  No more bad!!!!!!

    Love to you all, Kim

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  • Houndmommy
    Houndmommy Member Posts: 377
    edited January 2011

    2010 is finally over on the east coast!  Yipee!  Happy 2011!

    Kim

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  • bailey1958
    bailey1958 Member Posts: 199
    edited January 2011

    Happy New Year East Coasters!!! This is our year - no more bad Tracye - keep those negative thoughts out of your head!!! Your almost through, hang in there. Happy 2011 everybody!! 

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  • changes
    changes Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2011

    Happy New Year to everyone! We made it through 2010. I'm hoping 2011 is a great year for all of us. Maybe we'll be able to switch from breastcancer.org and start communicating on Facebook about normal, fun life events - wouldn't that be a nice change??

    Hope everyone has a great weekend,

    Karen

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  • bennybear
    bennybear Member Posts: 326
    edited January 2011

    Hello friends,

    HAPPY NEW YEAR, yeah,  I laughed I didn't make it up either,  okay I feel better,   just got home from Phoenix where it SNOWED.  LOL,  glad this year is over. 

    Tracye,  hope it goes well for you. 

    Julie, hope the test goes well for you too,  Duck sounds great,  what a nice memory.

    Patty I am glad you had a BS Free holiday,  we need those.  London should do that.  Did you get to Billy Elliott??

    Sonia,  glad the sun helped,  the bit I had was great.

    Kim I am with you, glad we all met.  I find it so comforting that I can come here and talk to you all.  

    A strange story,  a couple of years ago I was organizing a number of trips for people on the net who I hadn't met,  and a friend commented why would I do all this for people I didn't know.  What is odd, is that it is this friend who didnt' contact me for 5 months, while I found solace in the words of all you friends who I have never met.  Makes you think, that life sometimes prepares us. 

    I have been having some strange dreams,  I was trying to have a normal holiday, so wasn't talking about anything serious.  it was bizarre,  a bunch of birds pecking my neck made me wake up. Also a really bad one that I couldn't go away,  and then I realized I need to face and deal with this, 

    My DH bless him  says to focus on all the good,  and there is lots ot that.   This in a weird way reminds me of childbirth, when you have to examine it all in your head and with friends before you can lay it to rest.  I think when something so big happens,  it takes time to process before we can move forward. 

    Thanks for being there and here is to a much improved 2011.

    Brenda

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  • bailey1958
    bailey1958 Member Posts: 199
    edited January 2011

    Thanks for your post Brenda - my dreams have also been quite vivd and compelling of late. I feel like I've had a bit of a breakthrough this week - I think I am just realizing just how big what we've been through this year is and I think I am in some sort of transition right now - I think the ringing in of a New Year is going to be helpful. Told my guy that even though everyone else feels like I am great and fully recovered that isn't how I feel - I think he was shocked - he has in a way resumed his life too. It's funny how badly everyone wants us to be ok and that if you look back to normal then you must be back to normal. So glad I have people in my life who do really understand and don't need to be reminded or helped to understand how my life has changed - I am really trying to focus on moving forward from this but it really is so hard to do - to let go of the worry and just be awake to today with no thoughts to health, reoccurrance rates, treatment etc. and so it is comforting to know you guys are here and understand. We are getting through this - thanks to all of you for checking in and responding, for just being here - I am very grateful.

    Sonia 

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  • Julie50
    Julie50 Member Posts: 227
    edited January 2011

    Morning Ladies:

    I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year!!!

    Well 2010 is behind us, Kick in right in the butt....I never thought in a million years I could have a year like 2010...I never want to look back just forward to a new beginning.

    CT went fine 3 minutes in and out, drinking that crap was awful tho, I hate that stuff but did it.

    Decided I will start the Pill from Hell tomorrow, been putting it off as I just wanted to feel like "ME" again before I start to feel like "Crap" again, but will give it a try at least.

    COLD here in Chicago, makes the bones hurt.  Ended up in the ER on Christmas as the pain in my legs was so bad, gave me two bags of fluid and said he thought it was a virus that is going around.  Saw my ONCO two days later, said they might be right but because my hips, stomach, etc hurt so bad he ordered the CT which I am fully sure will be NORMAL as can be...:)

    Ok, time for coffee and going to buy a new Cell phone, and decided getting a new Hair cut with highlights, need a new look for the new year..

    Hoping 2011 is the best year for all of us and no more BC found.

    Hugs

    Julie

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  • changes
    changes Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2011

    Julie - sorry to hear you ended up in the ER at Christmas - that stinks! I hope your CT results come back quickly and all is well. Congrats on the new haircut.

    Sonia - you're so right - everyone thinks we're fine. Outside of here, I have no one that gets that this is NOT over, and to some degree will never be. People act surprised when I tell them I have an appointment with the oncologist or breast surgeon.

    Tracye - hope your results come back soon and are ALL GOOD!

    Kim - I don't think I ever thanked you for starting this thread. This has been such a wonderful lifeline throughout this process. So thank you VERY MUCH!

    Karen

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  • bennybear
    bennybear Member Posts: 326
    edited January 2011

    Hello again,

    Sonia,  thanks for the kind words,  I so appreciate being to share honestly here and being made to feel that I am (sorry Julie) NORMAL. 

    I think you are right,  we look okay, but in a lot of ways it is all just hitting us now.   I am thinking of taking some time to deal with it all,  but parts of me thinks I am being a wuss,  yet I know I am NOT okay.  I want to be,  I guess I am thinking of what they have said in the book picking up the pieces that you need to take time to heal.   I want to be okay,  and I want to put this behind me,  yet those in the real ? world don't really get it.  So you are right another big time of transition.

    Karen,  I agree that it is here that people get it and Sonia is right together we WILL get through this.

     Julie,  yikes,  I sure hope this year is better for you. I agree I was happy to see the end of 2010!   I like the new haircut,  we need some positive vibes.

    Heres to something good for all of us. 

    Brenda

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  • Houndmommy
    Houndmommy Member Posts: 377
    edited January 2011

    Happy New Year - I hope it has gotten off to a good start for everyone! 

     Normally I don't stay up to ring in the new year but this year I felt I had to so that I could kick the old year out.  It was weird.  My family was asleep and as the new year came in, I cried.  I was quite emotional.  Something else that I have found myself doing over the last month is thinkig things like"last year at this time I had no idea what I was in for." or "When I wore this Christmas sweater last year I had no idea I'd have only one breast next time I wore it."  Like Julie said, I never expected 2010 to happen the way it did.  I really want to be hopeful for the new year but I find myself scared to be too hopeful.  I guess this is just more of learning to live with our new "normal".

    Well, off to finish taking down the rest of the decorations - everything always looks so blah after Christmas!  Have a good afternoon everyone!

    Kim

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  • bailey1958
    bailey1958 Member Posts: 199
    edited January 2011

    I am flooding with emotion - I think I am completely irrational - but then I read your post Kim and think "this is normal". I've been feeling so mad - it's like once I iopen the door for it to come out I have a hard time closing it again - I think my DH thinks I'm completely insane. Maybe I am.

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