Chemo June 2010

Julia

We have a winter home about 30 minutes from Scottsdale in a town called Anthem. Right off 17. Would love to get together if you are in AZ next winter. I have extra sleeping for 2 if any of the ladies want to join us.

SKD-  That is so wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!  One year !  I am soo soo happy for you !  I too am looking for ways to tame my chemo curl.  The humidity is doing quite a number on my two inches of hair.  I'll let you know if I get any answers.

Chey-  You are the best.  Keep that silliness going.  Your brother in law and dear sister need it.

Julia-  I am so sorry about the continued troubles.  As Bon said cancer is the gift that keeps on giving.

My daughter went on her first date and we all survived the experience !  My spies tell me they held hands but did not kiss.  She will tell me nothing about her thoughts or feelings or even if they will go out again.  I am trying to take a chill pill.  It's not working.

Have had lots of company this weekend and finally blessed with summer weather.  Enjoy your Memorial Day !

cheyenne-  Just like I said, the village must have been missing its idiot and wanted her back!  Like DH keeps saying "why are there more horses a$$es than horses"!

Jackie...fingers and toes crossed for your 'clean bill of health'!

Hoping that the bone scan comes out clean tomorrow and you can just enjoy wearing your pearls because YOU MADE IT!!! Last June we were all on very different mindsets than we are now, one year into the whole production of bc survival! May we all live long and prosper, in our pearls of course!

Jackie-  I think pearls (and nothing else!)  is the perfect attire for a scan!  Prayers going up for a scan that is clean as a whistle!

Jackie, I am wearing my pearls to work today for you.  Thinking positive thoughts all day for you.

Ok update - Onc called.  Bone scan did show an "uptake" on a couple ribs.  Next step - CT scan. Onc was very upbeat and told me he is still convinced a lot of this is from the surgeries but feels we need to do the next step.  I will let you know when I hear about the CT scan.  Keep those prayers coming!

Jackie, Pearls and Prayers for you. Do let us know when the CT is booked.

Cyber hugs, Mimi

Jackie

I am flying back to CT tomorrow from Green Bay WI...will wear my pearls (always have them with me)and will add you to my prayers while I help pray the plane off the runway and into the sky.

Hugs

Liz

Chey - so glad to hear that they found a donor for you friend's son.  I will keep Rick in my prayers.

As for me - had the CT scan today with contrast.  I should have results tomorrow.  I am feeling good about it. Keep those prayers coming!

Hugs to you all!

Jackie

Joan...So sorry for your coworker and her husband having to deal with brain cancer. CANCER SUCKS!!! Scream it loud....CANCER SUCKS!!!  So does kidney disease (hope Uncle Rick gets a transplant soon) and liver disease (my mani/pedi gal died last Tuesday from liver failure, most probably associated with either fumes or Tylenol) and every other disorder or condition that takes away a vital existence.  My prayers are for peace and renewed health for everyone.

Today was my Herceptin IV #17.  One more infusion to go and I'll be done with the tx.  Hope soon to be done with the SEs, too.

Love and prayers for all.   Bon

Hi,we just found out that Rick is not gonna make it! My sister is falling apart, wow! We have been hit so hard, I don't understand, grandma,mom,barbie me and now Rick,tho I'm alive, I hurt for her she spent 8 months taking care of me, and just getting back to normal life, and now she loses him. I hurt for her, she called me and said, he is gonna die sis, he really is, I said I'm so sorry sissy,she was in tears by herself at the hospital.. I keep thinking that we have no one above us to look to,like parents grandparents,aunts uncle, you know, I'm on my way now but I can't stop crying and hurting for her! She does not deserve this.. how do her and I make it through? What do we do, we r way too young to have no family.. we were always so close, my mom was a nurse, Rick was a deputy sheriff,his only job ever, my sis trains horses, barbie owned a craft store in australia,both my grandparents woked for GD,they built missle parts way back then. We were such a holiday family, my grandparents took us camping,taught us how to ride dirtbikes,we all rifles, pappa taught us how to shoot,and handle a gun, we had hrse. my mom would always cook holiday dinners when my grandmother passed it down, I never relly got passed down to me.. I love you big sisters, I read all the thoughts and prayers from you girls to her about Rick love Chey

At 1:13 am pct,on this second day of June Detective Richard Bankie passed away, he was my little sister husband, the father of Justin,he treated the three of us like gold! He gave his wife to me,so she could be my sister and rock through this past year, never a complaint, my first Monday with no chemo,sister came to spend it with me,in her suitcase we found a gift certificate, pedicures and manicures for my sis and I.. what a neat thing for him to do for us on my first week done with chemo. I love you so much Rick and will miss you!!
With love
The "needie big sister",
lol

Oh, Jackie...will it never end?  So sorry that you are in cancer limbo now.  The news you got isn't great but it isn't the worst either...still worrisome. Waiting and seeing what happens next.  That's what limbo is...not just a dance. OK,  so we wait with you. We have been together through it all so far and we'll be here for you through whatever comes next, good and bad.  The joys and the sadness...we are family now.