MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited September 2011

    Welcome Nancy - This is a fun bunch of ladies.  Pllease keep us posted on your treatment.  We have all been through it and are willing to help you through it also.  Even if we are in the midst of a paty and you need to vent, cry or whatever by all means just jump in and we will stop to help you.

  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited September 2011

    ok ... i didn't forget!!!  hold on and i'll post the pic.  (trying to figure out how to do it.)  ha!

  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited September 2011

    here's the mystery pic.  sorry it's taken me all day!  good luck. 

    Photobucket

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited September 2011

    Yaya that is a good one what the heck is it.  Oh well I think it is a bubble of oil.

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited September 2011

    orange juice thru a straw

  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited September 2011

    Is it my artery, clogged with Cheetos cholesterol?

  • YaYa5
    YaYa5 Member Posts: 667
    edited September 2011
    elimar .... how did you know???  NOPE, but LOL!
  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited September 2011

    Whew!  That's a relief. 

  • glizzie60
    glizzie60 Member Posts: 2
    edited September 2011

    Hi,

    Your story is sad and my family did a similar thing when my parents passed, leaving my brother with mostly everything because of the fact that he took care of my parents. Now none of them bother much with him with the exception of me he his alone pretty much. I have stood by him and now I have been faced with this placed in my lap and I worry about him now because I am the only one that really coommunicates with him and now this is a worry for him. I have a daughter who is an only child who I worry about now 24/7 because she would be alone if anything ever happened to me. I am in Chemo and hopefully all will go well with it and then on to Radiation when I am done with  that. I noticed that you said you took a trip to Maine, that is where my brother live. where in Maine are you? I am hoping to hook up at some point through all this stuff with someone locally .

  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited September 2011

    I say it the swirl on a Dairy Queen orange Dilly Bar!

    Betty, sorry you have to come on these boards. 

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited September 2011

    If I say what I'm seeing in the MP I'm afraid Board Police will report me. Sealed

    hahahahahaa

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited September 2011

    Side of a glass vase.

    Betty - Sorry you have to be here with us. 

  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited September 2011

    Welcome Nancy and Betty.  Im sorry we have to meet this away.  The gals around here will help however they can.  Just post and if someone can help they will!  Good Luck to you both. 

  • Hauntie
    Hauntie Member Posts: 483
    edited September 2011

    Welcome Nancy and Betty. Any questions or concerns you have, please feel free to speak up. Somebody on the thread has probably already dealt with whatever you're going throough and if not, we're still always hear to listen.

    I'm getting a bit discouraged here. I've been wearing the damn binder at least 22-23 hours a day and today I noticed some fluid build up. My prosthesis fitter noticed it also. I thought I had this licked and the skin had adhered to the chest wall. I had a near melt down this afternoon - ready to kick, scream and just throw a temper tantrum. Thank God for xanax and a nap. Things always look better after both Wink My BS keeps telling me I have to keep my left arm still. Easier said than done. It doesn't hurt, so it takes a real conscious effort not to move it. She tells me to keep my left hand in my pocket, yeah right. I think the only way I'm going to keep this arm from moving is to strap it down.

    On the plus side, this has probably been my best day so far re nerve irritation.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited September 2011

    I sorta see 'teeth'. I think the MP is a blown glass bottom of a vase. OR a dental xray of some type.

    Welcome Betty, how the heck did you get mets with DCIS?? Where do you have the mets? That's a tough one....

  • KittyGirl2011
    KittyGirl2011 Member Posts: 537
    edited September 2011

    Welcome Nancy and Betty but sorry you have to be here because of BC.  Nancy you are almost my neighbor!  Are you having the traditional rads or mammosite?  Hope your score is low like mine turned out.  Ask any of your questions and I'm sure many can give you their experiences.  As for the food, its all calorie, fat, and carb free!  Late nite snacks anyone?  Congrat Eli!

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited September 2011

    I think it's a Cheeto. LOL

  • prayrv
    prayrv Member Posts: 941
    edited September 2011

    Mystery Pic - Lava lamp??

  • nancygv55
    nancygv55 Member Posts: 32
    edited September 2011
    Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.  Kittygirl, yes we are just a stone's throw apart and I will have traditional rads.  Claire, the cake is fabulous!  Please let me know how I can support each and every one of you "seasoned" women.
  • Paula66
    Paula66 Member Posts: 1,728
    edited September 2011

    Fpr my sissy! 

    http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh234/middlesis1966/daughter.jpg

  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited September 2011

    Paula ((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))))) I now you are missing your daughter something terrible.

  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 2,264
    edited September 2011

    Sheila, I cracked up when I read your post - we saw the same thing hon!!!!

    My official guess ... it's looking from the bottom up, through a glass, of what I'm not sure! Let's say it's an orange just so I have a guess out there

  • cmbear
    cmbear Member Posts: 1,086
    edited September 2011

    Is that the bottom of my mimosa glass from this morning? 

  • mostlymom
    mostlymom Member Posts: 466
    edited September 2011
  • Foxlairfrm
    Foxlairfrm Member Posts: 214
    edited September 2011

    Welcome Nancy and Betty. The MP is perplexing this week! If it was black and white, I would swear it was an ultra sound pic. I never could "see" the things those techs kept saying. Lol

    DD and little Ragan are doing great! I've been busy at work and being a grandma so it took quite a while to catch up this morning. Congratulations on the 500 pages! That's great!

    Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

    Foxy

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited September 2011

    Hauntie, my surgery buddy, sorry you're having issues with the healing.  I am doing well with everything except the armpit and upper arm where they removed the lymph nodes.  Getting therapy 2x a week to get range of motion back.  I have been working hard because I need it to begin rads.  I don't want to put them off.  Don't know how quickly any little buggers could start multiplying again.  I am good with it, can get my arm up now, but it hurts!  Hope you're doing better and the fluid stops building up.  ((((hugs))))

  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited September 2011

    Nancy, if you do have to start radiation, we can be radiation buddies!  I am getting simulation tomorrow and then supposed to start rads next week.  It would be great to have a buddy to go through it with.

    I don't know whether to be nervous about the simulation tomorrow or not.  I guess the biggest thing I'm afraid of is laying with my arm held up for 40 minutes.  I've only just gotten to the point where I can lift it, and it hurts.  How am I going to stay that way for 40 minutes?  Vicodin and Ativan I guess.

  • janinnj
    janinnj Member Posts: 89
    edited September 2011

    Hauntie and Kay-  Hugs. Hope your problems are resolved soon.

    For those of you starting Rads.  I just finished and I swear Emu oil is what saved my skin.

    I think the MP is hot glass being blown.

  • KittyGirl2011
    KittyGirl2011 Member Posts: 537
    edited September 2011

    MP looks like the center of the mustard jar when you open it.

  • Hauntie
    Hauntie Member Posts: 483
    edited September 2011

    Hi Kay - Maybe my memory is bad, but I don't remember having this kind of discomfort after my first MX. It's getting better, but not soon enough for me. Good luck with the radiation simulation. My radiation didn't start until after 4 rounds of chemo, so I had healed enough to have full range of motion in my arm by then. What did happen is a slip of the needle during the tattoo process. So instead of a pinhead size tattoo, I have about a 1/8" blue dot on my upper chest. It's become my mark of how low a top I can wear.

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