For Older People with Sense

Marianne - I will still be praying for your duaghter that the baby will come before the doctor has to induce her.  And that you will soon be holding a healthy, happy grandchild.

3jays - you and I were posting at the same time.  So glad you finally got some news about your sister.  I know how maddening a dysfunctional family can be as we were a dysfunctional family before there was the word dysfunctional! Glad I don't have to deal with my family very often and after we get Mom's estate settled I probably will not ever hear from some of them again unless they want something, ususally money.  Hopeing you can have one of those rare good moments with them until your sister is able to talk with you again. 

3jays glad your sister is home. Why don't you send a card with a note about your MRSA? Someone there (surely!) will realize why you didn't 'fly to her bedside' when they read about the infection!!!!! Make is an upbeat note, not a blame game....

Show me a FUNCTIONAL family! I mean, come ON!!! My family has learned to put some of the fun back into functional as we got older and our parents died off.

We have a dove that is nesting in a wall flower planter at our front door. She gets really upset when we go in and out. We talk to her and call her mommy and she is getting used to us, but we really don't need the crap every time! What a dumb spot!

Welcome, Clyn.   I'm sorry you have to be here but you can be sure you'll get support, comfort, and encouragement from the women on this thread.  Once you get started with your surgery and further treatment you'll be surprised at how quickly time passes.  I can imagine how hard it is for your mother.  My older sister is a BC survivor and the hardest thing I had to do was to tell her about me.

Chrissy, prayers for Junie, and for you too.

3jays, it's shocking how many of us have disfunctional families, although I suppose we all do to some degree.   Anyhow, I'm glad your sister was well enough to go home and am sure  that you and she can get things straightened out soon.  You two are the ones that matter, anyhow.

Barbe, your story about the dove reminded me of when a bird built a nest in a corner of our garage.  Baby birds learned to fly in the garage, etc.  It was a relief when they all left the nest and we could close the garage door again.

Kathy

thanks for all the prayers ladies. i spoke breifly to my sister today. she answered the phone for me, and they ALL b**her out for it.. what, do they think I'm deAF? anyway, i explained about the MRSA, and she said thank for not coming.. we also agreed her DH will stay in touch w/me from now on!!!

   i went to the dermo . today; Dr. no #4.. she offerred to call my GP and have me hospitalized. said i've had this MRSA for at leat 3 MONTHS!! that's when the folliculitis showed up.. Said she couldn't believe they all said to let it perculate.. said another month of "perculating" would've KILLED me.. no kidding, she really said "how are you walking>"

    i told her they go by no tempuratue, or white blood count... she said get new DRS... they don't understand MS very well.. your body DOESN'

t fight infections, so, no WBC, or fever..

    i told her i'll just come to you first from now on!!!so, her first question, when i showed her the rash, and told her she'd be my 4th Dr, she said well, what antis' have they tried... when i told her none, she dropped her jaw...! so, now i know why i feel so bad. she ordered the light antis' for 3 days, followed by the big ones, so i might be out of circulation for a few days.. i'll try to ck in, as i can... love to all, esp newbies, and ones waiting...    3jays

I am 58 and was just diagnosed with stage 1 invasive cancer.  Original biopsy (core needle biopsy) was negative, but  the said there was some precancerous cells so they did an exisional biopsy on May 9.  Told me that the chance of cancer was less than 5%, so I was very shocked when the said it was cancer.  My mother died of breast cancer at the age of 48 and my sister is a breast cancer survivor.  She had her cancer in 1990 and is now cancer free.  She had bilateral mastectomies, one being prophylatic.

The rest is a bit of a blur.  My choices are to have more breast tissue removed that was surrounding the original lump (something about there being cancer cells in the area around the lump), a sentinal node biopsy and radiation or a mastectomy.  I know I need to ask more questions, but my head is still spinning.  Has anyone else had a similar diagnosis?  What were your choices?  What did you do?

Momoftwo, so sorry you are joining our club. My tumor was small so I had a lumpectomy followed by radiation, As it was early stage and I had a low Oncotype score, no chemo. Ask your onc to do that test for you. It is used to determine of chemo is necessary.

(((3jays))) I am so happy you are on anti-b's. I can't believe the other docs didn't start you on one!!!

Right now there are 2 egss in the nest. The container is like a terra cotta wall pocket for planting. It's not big at all and sometimes the mommy dove has her nose pressed into the wall. I did some transplanting the other day and left a couple of dracena strips on the porch and sure enough, she picked them up and they are hanging over the sides of the nest! Too cute!

Chrissy, did the Rapture hit Aus yet?

Another option is to not have recon at all. That's the route I took 2 1/2 years ago and haven't regretted it for a second! The arthritis in my neck is much better from not having to lug around my 42Ds, my clothes fit better and I look slimmer. No more bras!!!!

This is from the program I went to this morning where Marisa Wiess spoke. I went up and told her I was more excited about meeting her than the President (not that I have any desire to meet him) or any movie star and she asked Why is that? and I said because I spend half my life on the message boards.  I bought her new book which was there and had her autograph it for me.  There were several speakers and most of the discussion was on environmental issues and diet and exercise.  We have generation of fat kids now who are headed for health issues big time.   As you can see my hair is still there.... coming out, but I have a long way to go.

Maybe, good for you...thanks for the note about Marissa, the two of you are looking well...

My goodness, what a time we've had!

My dh took a bad fall Fri late afternoon (he's OK now). Hit his head and cut the side of his face near his eye pretty badly. We are literally down the block from the ambulance station so the paramedics were in the house in less than 5 minutes from calling them. They took him to the on-duty doc in the area who said we should go to the ER since a PS had to do the stitching ASAP and the head should be checked, too. Here's where the fun complications came in. We're Orthodox Jews and our Sabbath starts at sunset Fri evening, which was about 7:15 this week. We don't ride, we don't cook, we don't use the phone. Now, going to the hospital was not a problem (you are allowed to ride for a serious medical reason like this, and I'm allowed to ride with him) but - then we were there. Things went pretty quickly in the hospital. The head was OK, the PS stitched him up (that took time but it was a nasty bunch of cuts) and the ortho guy checked his arms and hands since he tried to break his fall with them. All is OK now, just need to heal. BUT - as I said, we were at the hospital in Jerusalem and we live outside the city. Can't walk home! As with most of the hospitals in Israel, there are provisions for people in this situation, a room for the women and a room for the men to sleep and meals available, but just try to imagine spending a day in hospital waiting rooms when you're not even waiting  your turn. We have friends who live about 1/2 hour walk away from the hospital so - we walked. Remember - no phone. So we knocked on their door at 10:45 and said - you have company! These are wonderful people and they took us in and immediately gave us dinner and then a room to sleep in. We spent a relaxing day with them before going home when the Sabbath ended at nightfall. Such terrific friends! Remember - no cooking but they managed to have plenty for all of us with what they'd prepared. They made us feel like we'd done them a terrific favor coming to them.

But I will tell you this, Dorothy was right - there's no place like home.

Leah