You know you're a cancer patient when....
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Well, Veggy, now I really understand your screen name.
Leah
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Good one Leah.That's one I didn't think of.
I thought the VEGG was just my initials. I put the Y on it because I liked it.
You made me smile.
Thanks
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thanks NM, I like that one two, I'll order 1 of each so my daughter can choose hers. YKYARCPW when coffee cups advertizing your favorite veggy make you happy. I live in a duplex above ny daughter and my 2 grandchildren and we are all chocoholics, Klondike bars are a favorite this month. I caught my grandson, he's 12, raiding the freezer at 10:30 the other morning. Karen
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What does putting a chocolate bar in the freezer do? I've heard a lot of people do that...
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It makes it cold
.We used to put MilkyWay bars in the freezer, and when they froze it was like they were ice cream bars, only better.
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i put them there so that i cant eat them too fast...
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it's also a good hiding place, no one expect chocolate in the freezer. So stash your emergency chocolate in the freezer.
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YKYACPW you get super paranoid cause a snot nosed little 5 year old behind you in line at the Walmart sneezes and doesn't cover their damned mouth!!!!!
AARRRGGHHH ! this happened today while I was out shopping!!
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I don't buy chocolate any more as I just eat the whole thing. DH does and doles out little strips. I somehow manage to keep out of it as he knows exactly what is there. If I "stole" some I'd have to eat the whole bar and then some, to leave a new one replaced to look like the old one. Too complicated
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YKYACPW-all you want for christmas is to get into a new clinical trial:)
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YKYACPW when you hand a copy of the latest study you signed up for to your onc and he responds (with a smile) "You're a trial junky!" And you respond back (with a smile) "Aw, Dr. Kim, it was just one trial and two studies! And the last one is just a blood draw and a donation of one of my biopsy tissues!"
But you know in your heart that he is right! I am a trial junky!
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YKYACPW you go to the onc office for your every 4 month lupron shot and when the nurse opens the door to the waiting room with the syringe in her hand you burst into tears and try to run out of the office.
Happened to me today. New nurse. Saw the note on my chart to make sure I don't see any needles due to extreem needle phobia but didn't pay attention becuase "nobody with cancer is that scared of needles."
Note to self: make sure to find out what nurse the lupron approintment is with, make sure it's not the new one again.
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YKACPW you assume you are having a gigundicous, monster, mother-of-all- hot flash thanks to Arimidex, and then you realize you have accidentally turned on your car seat warmer in July.
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weesa, that's funny! that sounds like something I would totally do!! even before chemobrain!
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I've actually done that too......
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Thanks to both of you for posting. It's nice to know I'm not the only klutz in the barn...
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Now I know why I don't have a car with heated seats. It would just be way too confusing.
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YKYACP when even 'auld acquaintances' don't recognize you with new post-chemo hair.
It's happened more than once: people who've known me for years, but with long hair, walked right past me with that half-smile reserved for strangers. It's like a whole new level of anonymity!
Wishing everyone a healthy and Happy New Year!! {{hugs}}
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YKYACPW, you need to get the "ok" from your oncologist to eat at a small buffet for new years! and you only get the go ahead cause your counts were up!!! wooo hooo! i get crab legs tonight!!!
happy new years !
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I can definitely relate to the mascara story!!!
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when you decide to try out your ATV while out in the desert camping and get excited that your wig didn't blow off. Then..... the Ranger catches you riding without a helmet and goes to write you a ticket. Then... you mention it's your first time riding since having chemo and promise to wear a helmet. He feels terrible and doesn't write you a ticket!
THE CANCER CARD SAVED ME $100!!!
Funny thing is that I always wear a helmet but didn't know how it would fit with the wig. LOL!!! And I was only riding around camp. 
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when you find your "hair" in the pantry because you told your hubby to put it where the pets won't get to it! He didn't want to go all the way upstairs and put it in my closet! LOL!
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Very funny!!!

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YKYACP when you get into your first serious kissing session with the first after-cancer guy and ...the breast-enhancer drops out of your bra ...and you just don't care. (He had been warned that I'd had a mast .. but I didn't think to tell him that it might fall off!)
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Lauri, OMG...too funny.
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Kitty & lauri - thanks for making me laugh today!!
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When you buy a small round brush and it's still not small enough for your hair! Really???
Lauri - that is super funny!!!
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You longingly stare at your husband's.....
Eyelashes! LOL! -
Laurie and Kitty - Way too funny!!!! Thanks.
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gingerbrew: omg I so feel like you. Glad you said what you said on these boards. I too am sick to death of meaningless walks, awareness and all fun campaigns. I believe it is fruitless. I find it unbelievable that after 40 plus years there is still no cure in sight. I have watched my aunts, mom sisters and friends and now me become part of this disease and I am angry. Yes very angry that there is nothing that can be done about a woman losing her hair or her breasts.
Okay that is my rant for the morning
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