MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Eph technically you're not really a second cousin but a cousin 1st removed. Next generation is 2nd and so on. Commonly, most people just say 3rd cousins or 5th cousins. Either way it is a distant relationship. Sherry,  how cool is it,that you two are related!! What a small world!! I'll have to look you up on Ancestry. I love the story about your MIL, she sounds like a true southern lady. My DH aunt passed a few years ago and she was very similar. Very petite and definitely knew "her style". She was very proper and wouldn't wear just anything!! Shopping for her was always a challenge!

Eli--what strange and wonderful hints. . . I am still stumped. Has the color been altered at all? Is that fair to ask?

extreme close-up for a mosaic swimming pool bottom or rim around the shelf of the pool.

Eph and everyone!  My son found this website that is really for doing calculus problems, but for the fun of it, I guess, the guy included geneaological relationships.  I use this all the time when I'm trying to figure out how I'm related to someone else.

For example, here is the breakdown of how Sherry and mjb are related:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=seventh+cousins+once+removed

Here is how I use it. Randy Travis and I are cousins, and I was trying to figure out how close. So I typed in: grandmother's cousin's grandson and I found out that we're 3rd cousins. 

It's really cool for that!  Forget about the math... 

Barbe, you did such a good service for that tech.  It was shocking to read that she was told she wouldn't get cancer.  So many of us on these boards are BRCA neg, and don't even get tested until we have a dx.  That tech should think about changing docs to one who is more informed.

Okay...the pic looks like old broken pool tiles.  Hi everyone!  I've been doing lots of waiting lately.  Wait for the doctor, wait for insurace coverage okay, wait for appointments, wait for test results, and on and on.  I'm sooooooooooooo tired of this waiting.  GRRRRRRRRRRRR!   Kitty

LOL, so instead of really, really close it was really, really far.  Cool picture!

Hi everyone,



I have been AWOL for quite a while but wanted to drop in and give you an update....I am done! Rads are over, skin is healed and I am down to taking a pill (tamoxifin) and 6 month checkups. I have been slammed at work, a combination of catching up from the lost time and budget creating season and have not been on the boards for a while.



I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for all the advice, the cheering and just being there. I have never been a journaler, blogger or social media person so going to these boards was very uncharacteristic for me especially for something so personal. I am so very glad I did. All of the ladies on these boards have been so encouraging, cheering me along every step of this year and allowing me to play it forward by helping other women just beginning their journey. I feel a bond with all of you. It has been such a lifeline to be able to post here to vent, to check a symptom, to get feedback or just hang out, especially on those days when I was too tired to do anything else. As much as I hated that we all have breast cancer in common, it was helpful to know I was not going through this alone and that so many of you were long time survivors. I received so much from all the women here and on the other boards and I wanted to thank you.



I will be stopping in, but I know I cannot keep up with every post- you are very prolific writers. You can always pm me.



PS my hair has grown back enough that I am going wigless, the 104 degree days a few weeks make make it a very east decision. It is very short but you cannot see my scalp, my condition for stopping the wig. I don't even think it is as long as Jaime lee Curtis but it works!



Love,

Jean

Jean, congrats on finishing TX, now on to hair growing!! : ) 

Eli- great picture! My DS said a sattelite picture of igloos!! He thought it was snow or ice. Close but no cigar!! On another note, I have a good friend that raised a squirrel from a baby till it was a year old. It had the run of one of the bedrooms, and would run up on her shoulder or head when she came into the room. When she finally released it in the neighborhood, it took off and lived happily for quite awhile. Whenever she would walk her dog, it would come up and crawl to her head, just like before. Sadly, it got swept out of a tree during a tropical storm the next year.

Jbmiller-what a wonderful thing the funeral home did with your Dad's photos! And hooray for the clean CT results! My mom is interested in geneology and works at it off and on. She's found some interesting stuff.

Paula66-Congrats on the job offer! Way to Go!

Jusmejanis-having a date helps a lot, doesn't it? Hang in there!

Ginnybee---WELCOME! We all get tired of treatment at one, or sometimes many points. It's normal, and we just keep muddling through. We all deserve a whine and cry party or two along the way.

Hooray JeanH!

E-what's a fot flash? Hot flash while farting?

the last week I have been having hot flashes at night again.  Nothing to major but I liked not having them at all.

Hi All and welcome to any neebies I've missed.  Last month I was really in that dark place with this BC diagnosis and then on top of that I lost my job to downsizing.  I've applied around and got two interviews thankfully.  I finally heard today that I DID get the job I wanted!  YEAH!  Finally something good happens!  So now all I need is that darn Oncotype score to come in low and I'm ready to celebrate!  Drinks anyone?  Kitty