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  • ReginaR
    ReginaR Member Posts: 287
    edited April 2011

    Hello team January, I will try this again I had just typed a long post and my computer shut down when I was getting ready to summit-Ugh!! So take 2!!!   

    1st of all I agree with you Cathy I think we should have our team January retreat in Europe and Debbie can be our tour guide. I guess we'll have to do like My Girl Scouts Troop did to raise money for outings, We can have bake sales & car washes to get enough money for us to go! LOL

    Debbie been so exciting hearing about your trip , can't wait to see your pictures and don't forget to give us all  the Juicey details.


    Kim you look beautiful in those pictures congratulations on your last surgery hopefully your get your plastic shields off Monday and can give a great big hug then.

    Sally please let us know when you find out about your CT scan results we are all waiting anxiously with you. Sending hugs & Prayers for your DD to recover fully from her concussion. (She sounds like me,I was such an accident prone child.) Thinking of you & your DD.

     Well I'm so excited that Robin and I both are going to Kentucky Oaks ( thanks for your votes) we  will walk survivor pink parade May 6. Robin is already got her outfit all together from her hat to her shoes. So now I need to take her shopping with me to get my pink outfits together. We will take lots of pictures and post.

     My oncologist has scheduled me for a repeat MRI. They found a lump on the mastectomy side about six months ago and the MRI showed three areas of 1 cm and smaller. My oncologist wanted me to have it repeated first of May,to see if they have changed and shaped in size. If there is any change then I guess we have to talk about what were going to do. But I had them schedule it for May 10 which is a Tuesday after the Kentucky Oaks. Because I didn't want anything to rain on Robin and my Parade!!

    Hope everybody's having a great weekend! Sending hugs, love and prayers to all of my "team January pals"! {{{{{{{{{Team Jan}}}}}}}   love ya, Gina

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  • jizogarden
    jizogarden Member Posts: 375
    edited April 2011

    Kim congratulations on your nips :) I'm still looking forward to mine : /



    Sally what a scary ordeal you have been through.....hope all is well now...sometimes It all seems so endless.



    Gina, Debbie and Robin what a wonderful photo :). Debbie your travels are amazing!

    Gina hope your MRI gives you a clean result...wishing you all the best...



    Hello to all....still trying to get my ticker into better shape but it has strengthened since I last wrote. My teaching still goes well, so thankful for so many wonderful students. I'm looking forward to a summer break where I can work on my own pieces with less interruption ;)



    Andrew has been working very hard...we are going to take a long weekend next month and go up to Cape Cod for some much needed relaxation....lots of walks with Smudge, some sketching and piles of lovely seafood...especially Wellfleet oysters :) yum!



    Although I don't come on as often as I would like to it is always so nice to return and read about our Team January :)



    Stay well, strong and happy.....♥



    Laura

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  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 5,758
    edited April 2011

    Gina I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

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  • burley
    burley Member Posts: 631
    edited April 2011

    Nipple shields are off...ahhh, freedom.  I can see a slight pointy outline through my t-shirt, but I'm sure no one else would be able to tell.

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  • neversurrender
    neversurrender Member Posts: 508
    edited April 2011

    Yay Kim !  It is amazing what a difference the nipples make.

    I heard from my oral surgeon today. All clear here - the legion on my jaw is a type of birth defect. Yay ! 

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  • grdnslve
    grdnslve Member Posts: 310
    edited April 2011

    way to rally, sally!!!  congrats!

    kim-love the pic & congrats on the nips.  so jealous-am so far behind all of you.

    just got home from our trip to arizona for the winter.  we took the long way home & visited kin along the way.  miss the warm down there! 

    gina & robin--enjoy the oaks & wear a hat!!  get the skinny for us on the derby, ok??

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  • burley
    burley Member Posts: 631
    edited April 2011

    Yes, nipples...funny story.

    Tuesday I went out front to pull weeds...had a sports bra on and a big, baggy t-shirt.  Got hot, went inside and threw on a tank top instead over the sports bra.  Doing the duty...neighbor comes over and is chatting with me while I do it...son is out front talking to me for a bit...all is well and good until I go in to go to the bathroom.  And there I am, in a white tank top with HUGE headlights!  I almost died.  My poor kid.  Lol

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  • robinlbe
    robinlbe Member Posts: 585
    edited April 2011

    tee hee, kim!  you made me laugh...ha!  I have SO forgotten about those headlights....but I'm glad YOU have them againWink  p.s.  you look awesome!!

    Sally....yippee for birth defects!!  ha!  My daughter had a concussion in January....fun, fun.  Took her a little over a week to get back to normal...very scary.

     But, I need to brag on this very same daughter...if you ladies don't mind....this daughter of mine, my little preemie girl who weighed about one pound, four ounces at birth (given less than 15% chance of living, and less than 5% chance of being normal) just got a call today that she was accepted as one of 30 members in the honors college of the freshmen class at her intended college!!!!  Even with her sensory issues (and she is going to have to have a single room, bless her heart), she made it....I'm very pleased.  She graduates from h.s. a month from today!!  She has been homeschooled all the way throughLaughing  I'm a proud momma!!!  She's my little soulmate, too....I have no sisters, and no girl cousins....

    Ok, thanks for indulging me.....

    Think of ALL of you often.......blessings and prayers and love...robin

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  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 5,758
    edited April 2011

    Sally and Robin:  WHOO HOO!  I'm thrilled for your both!

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  • jizogarden
    jizogarden Member Posts: 375
    edited April 2011

    Sally..wonderful news...so glad your in the clear :)

    Robin your post is beaming with pride....so happy for you and your daughter...what a great accomplishment :)

    Kim so funny about the headlights...made me laugh =D  Still waiting for nips, I have to say I enjoy never worrying about headlights (kind of shy). Maybe I should just get tats...I've come this far might as well go for the whole kahoonah ...honestly I'm really nervous about the whole thing =\

    I'm going to go visit the Nips and Tats subject line and see if there are any new postings..help me get my courage up :)

    Today is grey with rain coming...time to get out in the garden before the rain comes :)

    Love to you all,

    Laura 

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  • burley
    burley Member Posts: 631
    edited April 2011

    Laura, I'm shy too for the most part, so the headlights are quite embarrassing.  I'm going camping for Memorial Day, and I'll have to wear a bra the entire time just to ensure they stay hidden.  So much for tank tops.  My best friend actually had them done years ago, and hers are pretty flat now...I don't necessarily want them to be flat, but when they get smaller I'll be less self-concious (although I will probably never be able to walk around the house braless.)

    Yayyy Sally!  I bet that's a big relief!  Congrats :-)

    Wow, Robin-sounds like you have a a very special daughter :-)

    Huge to everyone-speaking of that, where is everyone?  Kat?  Paula?

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited April 2011

    Congrats, congrats, congrats to so many for forward progress.

    Yeah, Kim!!!!

    Yeah to Robin's successful mothering in the face of staggering odds.

    A huge HALLELUJAH!! for Sally.

    Just wanted you to hear this amazing story:

    Just had THE most amazing serendipitous 'thing' happen. We have arrived rather 'accidently' in Verona, Italy. (Somehow yesterday, we realized we didn't have a hotel booked for tonight -- Easter Saturday, and DH scrambled around to find a room available that we could afford at this last minute's notice.)

    Anyhow, we somehow landed in Verona.

    We were mucking about downtown, me maxing out my camera memory card again..... when we finally figured out our way to the ancient Roman Colloseum. We decided to go ahead and pay to enter and climb the interior walls.

    We get to the top of the vista below -- of the town square -- and I'm just beginning to take some pictures -- when we hear a muffled Italian announcement over speakers in the square below. Up rolls the first of many, many, many US WWII ARMY vehicles: of every sort & description. Led by a couple of relic tanks, then jeeps, trucks, motorcycles -- many with sidecars, amphibious trucks, half-ton, Red Cross evacuation vehicles.

    Anyhow. It would seem that we have stumbled into the annual day of celebration & re-enactment of the United States 'liberation' of Verona during WWII.

    I took another 100 pictures of the unfolding, unbelievable 'parade'...... as the vehicles passed us below, they then began 'massing at the corner of the square.'

    Ultimately we went down and mingled. Found an Italian woman who could speak English and she spoke long and eloquantly of the day and what it 'still' means to them. They were old. Her husband was dressed in US military uniform. Actually it seemed that ALL of those dressed as US soldiers were actually Italians.

    The US flag was flying from the vast majority of the trucks and jeeps and motorcycles.

    I shake my head in amazement -- that I am in Italy on contract with the US Army and we literally stumble into this day, completely unaware that it was about to unfold.

    Pictures to follow...................

    xx00xx00xx00xx

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  • ReginaR
    ReginaR Member Posts: 287
    edited April 2011

    Easter Blessing to My "Team January"

    Thinking of all of you! Hope you all have a Blessed Easter!!

     Love & Easter {{{{hugs}}} Gina

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  • Leah58
    Leah58 Member Posts: 159
    edited April 2011

    Dear Team January,

    I do not get here very much but I often think of you and pray for you.  Wishing you all a blessed Easter with your families.

    Leah

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited April 2011

    Here's the image I added to my blog for Easter:

    It's a shot I took in Venice a week ago.

    (Bookster: I have added a hundred Venice photos to my blog..... enjoy)

    Come take a little European holiday with me.

    We are to fly home to the states in less than 10 hours.

    I hope & pray for travel mercies, to make this absolute dream of an experience something I can share with my WonderPeeps et. al.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited April 2011

    The address for my blog is:

    www.rainbowswithinreach.blogspot.com

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2011

    Yay Sally, great news!  You must be so releived.

    Kim, I am just behind you on the nipples. However, my surgeon is doing the tattoos first and then the nipples. Apparently this is what they are doing now?  Kind of makes sense to me. I am booked June 2.

    Robin, that is such a nice story to hear of your daughter's recent success.  My daughter was also a preemie, 1 lb 13oz, born at 25 weeks.  So it is so nice of these great stories.

    We get to live and travel vicariously through you Faith. Great picture!

    Happy Easter Everyone!

    Take Care Cathy

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  • pbebow
    pbebow Member Posts: 575
    edited April 2011

    Hello Team January!

    I have been checking in and keeping up but as always by the time I read everything I run out of time.  I am happy to hear all of the good positive things happening.  Kim, beautiful!  My nips were like that to start with (headlights) but they toned down,for me they are just right now.  Just a little hint of a nipple there, no headlights!  LOL!

    Robin & Regina, have fun on your walk! 

    Faith, awesome everything!  Love that story, must've been a once in a lifetime, breathtaking event!  Love the pic too!

    Sally, great news!

    I'm sure I am forgetting someone, sorry!

    Our life has been a little crazy over the last few weeks.  I was scheduled for another surgery on April 15th...  a couple weeks before that my husband's sister, Jill, started having problems talking, long story short after many tests, they found a brain tumor (she had one back 20 years ago and had it removed and chemo and radiation).  So on the Monday, April 4th she had brain surgery.  Everything went well (other then the fact that my FIL told us she was just having an MRI that day and the surgery would be later that week, so we weren't there for her surgery). Anyway, the next day I was on my way to work (after I had missed 2 weeks for various reasons) and my DH called and said that Jill had a bad night and they were putting her on a ventilator.  So I turned around and came back home so we could go to the hospital.  So that went on all week, her basically in a Coma.  Saturday April 9th we were at a party in our neighborhood with friends when our oldest DS called and said that my DH's cousin (that is a neighbor and he farms with) just got hit by a car.  He was sweeping his lawn with a lawnmower and brush thing (at 9:00 at night, less traffic he thought) and pulled out onto the road to turn around, and we think the mower stalled and a truck hit him.  Sent him 75 ft through the air to land on the blacktop.  He was airlifted to Lansing.  He is still in the hospital in NICU.  He had clean breaks on C1 and C5 on his vertibrae, but C6 and C7 had all of the ligaments torn away.  He broke his pelvic bone.  He tore his diaphram and his stomach pushed up into his lungs.  His one lung was deflated.  He broke 3 or 4 ribs.  Skull fracture (minor).  Lucky to be alive.  He had surgery that night to repair the diaphram and reposition stomach.  He had another surgery to repair C6 and C7.  Yesterday they had to do another surgery because he had a blot clot in his lung and it was deflating it, apparently it was the size of a grapefruit!  Anyway, he is getting better daily and off the vent (because he kept ripping it out).  My SIL is off the vent but her right side is paralyzed.  They are moving her to a nursing home to try to get better there.  In the meantime, my FIL was scheduled for a heart cath and possible stent because of heart problems on April 12th, and found out just before that he had an aortic aniorism.  So, I did two things, I called and quit my 2 day a week job because it had been weeks since I had made it in and it was getting downright embarrassing and I called and canceled my surgery and I'll do it in the fall (just more fat grafting and moving things around a bit, I am a perfectionist).  I just couldn't put my DH through one more family surgery and one more hospital.  At one point we had 3 people in 3 different hospitals in 3 different cities!  And my FIL and this cousin in the hospital are my DH partners on the farm.  Also my MIL is to the point she cannot be left alone because of her Parkinsons and falling, so it's all up to my DH to plant this year.  Luckily my DS also farms with them so he has him to help.  But a lot of stress.  Anyway, I am doing good, other then the stress, and this crappy MI weather, but am looking forward to a great summer (and no more hospitals!)!

    Gotta run, VIP day at my youngest DS school!  

    Love you all!  HUGs!

    Paula

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  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 5,758
    edited April 2011

    Paula I will say extra prayers for your family!

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  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 5,758
    edited April 2011

    Hi Team:

    I just wanted to share the link for the Pink Glove Sequal in case you haven't seen it.  I think I like it better than the first one!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTyIhMLp3FA&feature=related

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  • Braveheart
    Braveheart Member Posts: 66
    edited April 2011

    Hi everyone,

    I just found this post. Can I be added as well? I wish all you girls are recovering nicely after mastectomy.

    Jan 23 - braveheart - radical right mastectomy

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  • burley
    burley Member Posts: 631
    edited April 2011

    Hi Braveheart-you're welcome to join, but we all had mastectomies in January of 2010.  I know there's a group out there for January of 2011 (sorry, I don't have the link.)  I'm sure they are much more active then our thread here.  But if you have any questions, we're the girls to ask!  We've all been through reconstruction at this point :-)

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  • KatRNagain92
    KatRNagain92 Member Posts: 522
    edited May 2011

    Hello Team!

    Hope this post finds everyone well.  Paula...I am so sorry for what your family has been going through!  2011 was supposed to be a quiet year!  Hang in there and celebrate another birthday this week!  Birthdays are always a thing worth celebrating! :)

    Even though I've 'resigned from my position' and my last day was supposed to be March 31, it hasn't quite worked out that way.  I took a couple weeks off the first week of April but am back at it and will train the new Director the 2nd week of May.  If she's a quick study then I'm hoping my last day will be May 20th.  Kendall graduates on the 22 and I would like to empty nest the proper way....wandering around aimlessly with nothing to do feeling sorry for myself!  lol  Not really...I just want to spend some time with her before she goes to university (NIU)  She and I are going to AZ in June for her birthday and then Hollywood is just a 6 hour drive from where we're at so we'll go see the sights there.  Pretty excited. 

    Then, it's back to California in July because I'm officially signed up to be a CAbi consultant!  I have to (get to!) go to the Scoop in Long Beach California that is quite the fun event I understand and it will be great to be a part of it!  The fall selling season starts August 1 and I'm optimistic that I can have a stress free profitable career with CAbi.  I was actually thinking that while I was convalescing from breast cancer, CAbi literally lifted me up and kept me going.  Pouring over the catalogs, learning new friends...it's been a very good thing for me and I hope it keeps on!

    Congrats on nips Kim!  I was going to propose a 'Nip Trip'  to South Carolina (or is it North) for all of us who want tattoos (or to have the ones we have touched up) by that gal Sherlene who does them free for Breast Cancer Survivors.  I've had mine done twice local now and they're horrid.  I don't want the doctor's office to them again...so if anyone is interested maybe in Sept/Oct, let me know!  We could certainly make this work I'm thinking! 

    I hope everyone had a blessed Easter and are finally enjoying some Spring like weather.  It's still a little cool today but the sun is shining.  It's May Day!

    Have a good one ladies!
    Kat

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  • burley
    burley Member Posts: 631
    edited May 2011

    Hey Kat!  Long time no see.  Congrats on the new "job."  Sounds like a lot of fun.

    I'm hoping my tatts turn out ok-I saw a picture of one set she did, and they look awesome.  She's a very fancy tattoo artist, located in Scottsdale-expensive area of town, so those of you that haven't been here.  We'll see.  I have a consultation on the 19th, so hopefully I get to see more of her "work."  Lol

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  • robinlbe
    robinlbe Member Posts: 585
    edited May 2011

    Happy Belated Easter and Happy Early Mother's Day, Ladies......

    Paula....wow!  When it rains, it pours...Things come in threes.....umm, trying to think of some other cliches', but I won't....I'll just be thinking of you guys and keeping your entire family in prayer!!

    Debbie...can't wait to get on your blog and see some PICTURES!!!  I hadn't heard the story about your Verona day....WAY cool!  I missed so much by being off Facebook for those 40 days....

    Kat...congrats to your graduating daughter (and to you!)...and to you for your new job!!

    tits, tats, tucks, and more....you all are just amazing!!

    My husband's co-worker's wife just had a BMX yesterday with immediate reconstruction with TE. From what he hears, they both (the husband and the wife) are both "boob people"...but her mom and her g'mother died from BC....the cancer was also found in her nodes, although I'm not sure how many.  Milo (DH) stopped by the hospital during the surgery, and made a good impression on the wife's many lady friends who were there waiting with her husband....guess they'd never seen another man care before.  But, he knows what that other husband is going through...

    Anyway, the Oaks is in two days!!!  Gina and I are set with our outfits...now, if the weather will just hold!!!  The Survivors' Parade is supposed to be about 5pm (EST), and will be broadcast on national TV, along with the Oaks Day coverage.....turns out, we got Dan and Milo (our husbands) the exact same color polor shirts...and we didn't know it!!  They'll look like twins...ha!

    blessings and love to you ALL!!  robin

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  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 5,758
    edited May 2011

    Hi Ladies,

    Just wanted to check in and report after my onco today I am still NED. Yippeee!

    I see BS and PS in June for follow ups and mamo in Aug and onco again Sept. 

    I hope everyone else is doing well.

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  • pbebow
    pbebow Member Posts: 575
    edited May 2011

    Hi Ladies!

    Thanks for the extra prayers.  My DH Cousin is doing wonderful, has already been transferred to a Rehab facility, looking like another week and he should be home.  My SIL isn't doing as well... she is in the nursing home but still not able to move right side and can't get much more out other then yes or no, other then that she can't find her words.  She is still going through Speech therapy and stuff like that, so we're not giving up.

    Celebrated birthday number 45 yesterday.  Birthday's mean a little more now-a-days.  It was a nice with my family.  Should be a fun weekend too.  Going to see Kenny Chesney tomorrow night and then Mother's Day on Sunday!  

    Kat, hope that you are able to train her quickly so you can get on with your new career, which by the way sounds perfect for you!  Hey, how far will you travel for parties?  Michigan?  LOL!  I love the idea of the tats in NC!  I'm just not sure that I will be ready for mine in Sept or Oct... I'm supposed to have another surgery in the fall and I don't think I should get my tats until we are all done messing with the girls.  If you end up doing it then I'll probably have to pass but if it turns out to be later then I'm in!

    Great news BC!

    Robin and Gina, have a great time on your walk today! (I think it's today...

    Our Relay for Life team had a Euchre Party this past weekend to raise money and we raised $1419... and had a blast!  Can't beat that, fun and money!  Here is a picture of myself, my sister and two friends that also had BC, Kristi and Bobbie...  We are all on the team along with a few other people...

    Photobucket

    Talk to you all soon!

    Paula

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  • robinlbe
    robinlbe Member Posts: 585
    edited May 2011

    Today was the Oaks.....you know, the female horses that run for the LIllies the day before the Ky. Derby, where the horses run for the Roses....the fastest two minutes in sports???

    Well, I took a boatload of pictures....not sure if you're interested or not....I'm NO good at posting on here, so I'm including the link (which I HOPE works) to the album I created on Facebook....

    just click and go to it (or you might have to cut and paste, if it's too long)...

    http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2051970576476.2127953.1160875113&l=2d36fec9e4

    hope it works.....

    blessings...robin

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2011

    Congratulations Kat on your new career, how exciting for you. Hopefully you get your replacement trained soon and can get on with it.

    Doing the NED happy dance for you bcincolorado, great news.

    Happy Birthday Paula!

    and Happy Mothers Day to this great group of ladies!

    Take care and have a great day.

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  • pbebow
    pbebow Member Posts: 575
    edited May 2011

    Happy Mother's Day Beautiful Ladies!!!!

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