Do you have young kids?

browinefranks- so funny! I am glad you were proactive and put her into therapy, some parents sadly wait til the damage is done and there is a LOT of needed therapy...

Thanks you all chemo was not as bad as I imagined, having the port was great. I was able to eat lunch with my husband, read and work on the computer during the process. 2 hours after chemo, though was a different story, I could hardly play with the kids when I got home and I feel like a bad mom. Thank God my hubby and daddy have them. Five hours later as the anti nausea meds wear out, but I can't sleep. Will be signing off to take some meds for nausea and sleep. Thank God for proactive oncologists.

so last night was a bad one for me.  My nanny walked out the door and said she wasn't ever coming back. She has been with  the family for almost 4 years. I am upset at how she treated me and this has been a long time coming, well since i got cancer. mostly i am upset that my 8,6, and 3 year olds have no closure.  i had to spend last night with them angry at me over this and i cant explain it to them.  they are kids and dont understand some of those adult interactions.  now, i am an hour away from a chemo infusion and am totally upset.  talk about messed up.  no words. not even ativan can help me right now.

 thanks for letting me vent.

thank you browniefranks.  The infusion went well but i was really really tired afterwards. Later that night my middle son started throwing up.  My husband was working an overnight so this left me with all four kids by myself on infusion day.  I was wiped out. Somehow I managed to get through it as we all do.  Son is feeling better but now my middle daughter has the vomit bug.  I am praying I don't get it and that my oldest and youngest done as well.  This week is filled with surgical consults and chemo so it would really be bad if I got sick.

thanks again for being there for me.

Yorelh, please try not to get the bug. Do you have any friends or family nearby that can help you?  If not, do you have a local American Cancer society, some sections have volunteers and contacts that would help with the kids. Please try and take care of yourself and make sure you go in for IV fluids if the  fatigue continues or you get the bug. I am with Laurie08 in sending you hugs and wishing you a wonderful week.

yorelh, good thing she handled that for you. No notice, what a lack of repsonsibility and professionalism. Take it as a blessing, just what your family doesn't need considering your circumstances. And remember her walking out could have nothing to do with your family, it could totally be a thing with herself and her life and she is taking it out on your family.

I honestly have to say i am a young kid. I joined this website because just yesterday, May 4th, my mother died of breast cancer. She fought for 9 years. And i was only 3 when she got it. I never got to tell her that I love her in person and when she was awake. I was more than 1000 miles away from her and still am because she was in the middle of taking some meds and treatment in Germany. While now and before, i was and am in the United States. At the moment, i don't even have my dad. My dad is in Germany, probably weeping by himself and packing to come back tomorrow. I can't imagine how he feels.

I also joined because i have nobody to talk  to. Nobody i know know how i feel. Only my dad, which i cant talk to in private and my siblings who just hold it in and wont talk about it with me. My friends just don't know what i am going through. They are all with 2 parents and just keep saying everythings gonna be okay, which it's not! They said that when my mom was alive ever since she's gotten cancer. It just kept getting worse and worse. She just couldn't take it anymore and she just gave in.

Do you ever feel like you have a missing piece in your heart and it's impossible to fill in?

Yorehl so glad things are improving, please take care and know that it does get better.

Carissa, sorry about your loss! As a mom I am sending huge hugs your way. You are only 12 and should be with your family and friends right now in real time. I am praying for you! Please accept help or demand help from your teachers or one of your mom's best friends. It will get better and you have the strength and spirit of your mom in you. 

browniefranks, I have had hair lose for quite some time, certinaly not nearly as much as someone going through treatment, however did you ever notice before then that you were losing hair? I am just curious if there are any signs of pre-cancer that exist. I have had some hair loss and blamed it on after baby hair loss and thinning...  

Oh lol i got online to share a coupon code from walgreens.com for a free 8x10 collage. the code is FORMOM and the 8x10 size is 4 bucks normally- It expires 5/7 so get on a do it ASAP! They have a new arrange option before the pictures would just be random but not you can choose which goes where

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!

Angelinac- really the early signs of cancer is the lump- most people can go YEARS with it in their body without knowing it and the only symptom is the lump, or when it spreads and causes other problems.

They say BC isnt painful but mine was. (one of the reasons my dr didnt think it was bc at first becuase i complained of pain) I've read a few people have said theirs was painful too.

Depending on the type of BC some cause changes to the skin (sorta like an orange peel) some cancers will make the nipple draw in- sorta inverted... There are a lot of odd symptoms that comes with cancer but often times its mistaken for something else....

Hi Texasrose361, your doctors were idiots to say that breast cancer does not cause pain. I find it so annoying when the doctors view breast cancer through the prism of an over 50 postmenopausal woman's symptoms, that's likely why they tend to under diagnose younger women.

Angelinac please insist on a biopsy of ALL of the lumps you can feel, mammograms and ultrasounds are merely detection tools not diagnosis. I had pain in all my lumps and only 1 of 6 was cancer by biopsy. The others were fibroadenoma. Luckily, I insisted on biopsies on every lump.  If it's not cancer thank heavens! But just make sure you check everything because early diagnosis SAVES lives.

browniefranks, funny you say that because I was thinking while we are there do all three. Thanks for helping me make that decision.