Bottle 'o Tamoxifen

Chan - Might be the reason too. I slacked off the good food and had pizza for supper...but it was LONG before bedtime...wasn't sure if it was happening in a dream or reality given the time of morning...weird! Guess I should keep some tums beside my bed just in case! thanks!

Been a good weekend building the raised veg garden and getting it planted. It looks so good ca't wait for the fresh veges. DH and I are mow relaxing having a shiner bock on the patio. Funny the only time I like beer is after doing yard work when I am hot.

My dad told my aunt today he was not doing chemo and that he should just start smoking again. My mom said she did not think he would tell the dr that but she is a little worried about the smoking. I assured her he is just angry and mouthing off. I told her I am still angry about getting cancer and have mouthed off plenty to DH about things I would not do but makes me feel better. I don't think she quite gets it, but I will have plenty of time with my dad to talk about it.

Thanks sander and u are so right about my garden being good fit the soul. There is just something about digging in the dirt

Hi all.  Just back from Jamaica and have a great time, only wish I felt better so that I could have enjoyed and would have been able to have done a bit more.  However, sitting on a beach with a flavorful rum drink relaxing was not the worst time in my life, trust me. Arrived home to a fresh covering of windswept snow!  SHEESH!!!

Teklya

TEKLYA  S o glad you had a good time!!  nothing better than listening to the waves at the beach, one of my favorite places to be.

Sherry, you do have so much going on sweetie, I agree with the ladies sounds like a little denial . They are very lucky to have you bytheir side to help them through this. You are a very strong women , and know you can lean on us when you need to we are here for you too! 

SLINKY...I do think it is all very "normal" right now... probably a combination of everything. I have been on Tamoxifen since SEpt and I still get those days , so much has happened and it takes awhile to process everything because we are so busy doing what we have to do to beat this beast... youll find lots of good advice hear and support. I do agree though if you feel like it is lingering and you cant shake that feeling would be a good idea to call you ONC.... HUGS!!!!!

JO...Happy sewing!

Tekla glad your home and had a great time.  Sounds wonderful, beach and rum drinks

Slinky hope you get to feeling better soon.  I hate being in the dumps.

You ladies are so right about my mom being in denial.  I could go on and on and but I won't.  One of the most frustrating things for me is she has memory issues and can't keep things straight.  I am constantly having to go behind her and make sure everything is good or type up the doctor visits etc so she can read them because she can't remember well enough to make heads or tails of her own notes. Thank goodness for a big family and brothers who are helping out.  I also have lots of cousins who live here and have called to say they will help out if we call them.  My Dad is their favorite uncle he was always the fun one, so they have lots of memories and stories.

Hope everyone has a good week, think I will have some ice cream and read a book

Teklya - Welcome home and glad to hear you had a great time in Jamaica.  I will be there in 5 weeks but will also be going to the Cayman Islands and Cozumel on a cruise.  I love Jamaica.  Where were you on the island?  We will be docking in Montego Bay.  We plan on going to a rum factory when we get there. 

The bad days are getting fewer and fewer.  But I realize there may still be some in store for me so I will deal with them as they come.  I do know I don't want to be around people as much as I did before.  I got so tired of answering all the questions and think that is still going to happen so I avoid the residents in my park except when I am working and I have to take care of them.

i spend more time at home in my sewing room and watching TV.  The sewing relaxs me and I don't have to think about anything else.  Total focus is on the project I am working on at the time. 

Thanks for your support, ladies! I slept and ate my way through this day - not even answering my phone.  Tomorrow is a new day and hopefully I can get back to exercising (slowly).  That was my drug of choice before BC and I haven't worked out in 3 months.  Once I get back into the routine of it, I am pretty sure I will feel better.

Slinky I encourage to get back to exercising. I never exercised nd started when I started the diag process with bc. It is what has kept me sain during this process and I feel better than I have in years

Anetnut I am only stage one but will get yearly mri's I don't know how I would feel being stage3 but I think u need to gather more information maybe ask some others with stage 3. There probably is a thread for it. But ultimately I think u have to do what your gut tells u is right and sometimes that does mean switching dr. Good luck with making the decision

Wow you girls have been busy since our Friday party ~  I too woke up with red clown lips drawn on me.  You guys....  lol  now those guys !  woo hoo cuties. 

Hoping everyone had a good weekend, the weather was pretty nice and spring is in the air ! 

Welcome to the new girls. 

I have several tattoos.  2 I would like removed.   But for the most part I like them.  Have one on the tope of my foot and yup that area definately hurt the most !  Tink love the idea of tinkerbell tattoo.  So cute ~

Have a great day everyone !!!

Ladies I miss you all, how are you?  So much reading to catch up on so welcome to all the new gals on this thread and hugs to the rest of you....

Having a really yucky day and not sure why......so tired and achy all over.  I was supposed to hit the gym and then do a 3-4 mile walk and I have absolutely no motivation or energy.  My appt for my MO is at the end of the month and I hope he seriously will do some blood test as I cannot take this anymore.  I wonder if I am feeling like this cause I still have not gotten a period.  Does that sound right to any of you who have already gone through menopause?  My belly is funky and I just cannot put my finger on it.....sooooo tired today and just feel off balance.....

June:  I am feeling the same way....so exhausted and I hurt all over.  This has been going on for about a week. I force myself to workout, but it's so hard. I have not had a gosh-danged period since November, so I don't know if that's the cause of it or not.  My MO appointment is at the beginning of April, so I will talk to him about it. In the meantime, I'll just be walking around like a cranky 90-year-old woman :-(

June - Sweetie, where have you been?  I missed you over the weekend.  I haven't been on here as much as before - too darn busy.  Got lots of yard work done and some pre cruise clothes shopping done.  How are you feeling these days?  Hope you are doing good.  It is about time all of us get back to our old selves.

June:  Actually, I was skipping periods now and then even before starting the Tamox, so I figure I was probably starting meno back then anyway.  I turned 45 in January (sigh).  I've really only started feeling real bad like this for about a week or so.  The last time I felt like this was about 3 years ago.  I had skipped several months back then too, went to the gyno who did an ultrasound and lo and behold, I had 2 ovarian cysts - one on each ovary (a matching set...lucky me!).  One was a solid cyst so they removed the entire ovary.  They removed just the cyst from the other ovary.  A few months later, I finally started getting periods again and even though they had been getting irregular the past year or so, I have felt great.  It's just been recently that this achy fatigue garbage has set in, so in a way, I hope it's either the Tamox or menopause and not a cyst on my remaining ovary.  I don't have any pain or anything, so I suspect these "old lady" feelings are all due to whacked-out hormones

I am still on FB.  I think I was on a lot more during the winter when we were snowbound, but now that the better weather is here, I'm finally emerging from the igloo and trying to do things outside 

Here's to hoping we can all start feeling better soon!