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

    Barb,  Thoughts and prayers are with you today.  I know you are up worrying already, but try not to. 

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited April 2011

    im here, back on track, with you today...   ooops...3jays

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Wow, gals, thanks. My pocket is pretty full but I feel better knowing you are with me. 2 more hours and it will be over or close to over. Whew.  Next week is doctor week. LE therapist Monday, MO Wed. and the hated RO Friday. He is getting the boot after this. Period. The MO's vampires will suck blood out of me for tissue marker and other tests so those results won't come in until maybe Fri. or Mon. I usually call them and request a copy then go by and pick them up. If the mammo is good, I won't stress about the bloods.

    Thanks, Amy, Nancy, HnS, 3jays, Marybe, Ginger and anyone else my CRS brain forgot.

    DH is coming with me. He asked if I wanted him to and I said OK. This one is hitting me harder than any other appointment. Dunno why.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    ALL CLEAR!!! Thanks for going with me gals! Your support got me through slicker than deer guts on a door knob (old Okie saying).  For the Aussies and the Kiwis, an Okie is a native of Oklahoma.

    Now maybe I can sleep. Haven't had much for the past few days.

    Aaaahhhhh. Thanks again.

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited April 2011
    BarbaraA - knew you would come through with flying colors.  In Texas the saying is: "Slicker than snot on a brass door knob." Smile  Get some rest and relax for awhile. Enjoy the sunshine and pool.
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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited April 2011
    yeah     wahoo!!! good mammo.. nothin better!    3jays
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  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited April 2011

    Woo hoo Barbara

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Thanks, my gal pals. I am headed for a much needed nap in a couple hours.

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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited April 2011

    I'm impressed not only with the good results but with the fact that you got them right away.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Lassies, I am very blessed to have a compassionate breast center where if you had cancer, they know they cannot keep you waiting. The radiologist came in and gave me a big hug. Here's to St Anthony's Breast Center.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    A friend sent me this today and had to share.

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited April 2011

    hahaha! Great health tip! 

    So happy it's over and it's all good! I know what you mean - my mammo and my CT scan were bothering me more than usual and afterwards, I just had to take a nap! That was really nice of your DH to go with you. My son asked if I wanted him to go, and I said no, but I should have said yes. I know next time if I'm feeling that much anxiety over a test, I will take someone with me.

    Sounds like a huge sigh of relief, a nap, and a nice drinkie-poo are in order for the rest of the day! 

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited April 2011

    I do think things move along very fast if our at a Breast Cancer Center.............I had everythng done very quickly too.  From the redo right up to surgery, and I am already in my 2nd Radiation treatment.................and today I told them my arm was swollen, and they already made an appt. with a lymphedema specialist for this Monday, May 2nd, and I only mentioned it today.......Breast Centers do move fast..........And my bone density was also set up by them, and that is Thursday April 28th..........all this business began on Feb., 15th so you can see how fast they move.....Glad it all went fast for you goo.

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  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited April 2011

    That just makes my day, Barbara!! 

    Kathy

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Glad I gave you all a chuckle.

    Well, I slept 9.5. hours. Really needed that. Dicky, sorry about your arm. I am headed to an LE therapist next Monday. My bad boob is swollen so I think I have breast LE. Then Wed is MO then Fri is the hated RO (whom I plan to fire). Doctor week. Ugh.

    My Breast Center journey went like this: Dx 4/30. MRI 5/3. Surgery 5/10. Re-excision 5/20. PET 5/24. Rads 6/17-7/9. Done. Nine weeks. A whirlwind of fear.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    HnS when you heading down this way?

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited April 2011
    Stopping by to say "hi" and also to wish Marybe a smooth recovery from the cataract surgery.
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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Hey Eli!! Marybe said she has 20/20 in her eye now. Pretty good!

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited April 2011

    Hey Barbara! Just waiting for a little more cooperation from the world! I had to go to a GREAT deal of trouble to take one of my cars in (the traveling car) for some work, just as hard to get it back. 2 weeks later, something else went wrong!

    Anyway, I want to take my son and he just found out yesterday he has a summer job with Georgia Tech, so I'm shooting for the fall. He was going in there today to meet with the big boss, and he got there LATE! I went ballistic - he said, like a typical twenty-something, "Is it that big of a deal?". I said, "I've fired people over that. Your father has fired people over that. It's a firing offense!" Damn, I didn't know I had to tell him not to be late! Where are their little heads???

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Thinking of sex, right?

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  • SeasideMemories
    SeasideMemories Member Posts: 3,194
    edited April 2011

    Barbara,

    So HAPPY to hear that all came back well!!!  The anxiety level that I have felt leading up to these "anniversary" tests and scans has caught me by surprise as well!!!  I'm hoping things get easier the further out we are!!!

    Catch up on your rest!!! Get these last few Dr appointments DONE and then... ahhhhhhhh... time to relax!!  I have a couple appointments left in May and then I am DONE until Fall!!!! Nothing over the summer... YEAH!!!!

    Tonight

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  • heartnsoul76
    heartnsoul76 Member Posts: 1,648
    edited April 2011

    Barbara - hahahaha! OMG, that's funny!

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited April 2011

    Barbara - That was too funny. And I have paid for insurance for all these years. Smile 

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Seaside, thanks. So glad you have the summer free.

    HnS, kids don't really come back from brain dead until they hit mid 20's so hang in there.

    AmyJo, me too. He he.

    I have now had two nights of 9+ hours sleep and man oh man has my attitude and outlook improved 200%. I suspect that scanxiety will be with me for many more years to come. In fact the mammo tech said to expect to be anxious for 'say, the next 15-20 years'.  I will  just go with it. Forunately for me, I am real good at compartmentalization so I don't really start freaking out until maybe a week before.

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited April 2011

    Okay I thought I would try to take some pictures of things in my back yard.  I think I need a new camera, but here goes.

     Rose in Bloom

     Azelea Bloom

    Azelea Bloom

    Indian Hawthorn - Pink

    Indian Hawthorn - Pink 

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    Good job! Spring has sprung!

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited April 2011

    lovely pix amy jp....3jays

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  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited April 2011

    I really like that Indian Hawthorn, Amy Jo.  Our front yard plantings are limited to what grows in low light (lots of trees) and we mainly have azaleas and impatients there, no place at all for the daffodils I so love.  Do have some gardenia bushes, and in the back are hydrangeas, which over the years we have convinced to turn blue, as I wanted. 

    Tomorrow night is showtime for DD's school play, 101 Dalmations, the musical.  She's the music teacher and tonight was the dress rehearsal.  It went well but I think she's about on her last nerve!  Never again will she say, "now anyone who auditions will get a part", because she ended up with 62 fourth and fifth graders.  I kept 2 year old GS today and managed to get brownies made for refreshments despite his help!  

    Kathy

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited April 2011

    It is 12:35 in Madrid, who is watching the wedding?

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited April 2011

    I am.

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