You know you're a cancer patient when....

Page 99!!! Who's going to be the first to post on page 100?

Glad to see you got home okay Sas!  I had such a great day with you yesterday, thank you once again.

Love n hugs.  Chrissy

When your six year old daughter tells the Mall Santa "My mom has cancer.  All I want for Christmas is for her not to die."

...when you go through 3 pairs of clothes during the night. (warm clothes to go to sleep in, cause you've made the house so cold cause of the hot flashes, tank top only for the hot flash that hits in the middle of the night, warm clothes again cause you got sweaty during the hot flash then got cold cause the house was so cold because of the hot flashes-ugh!!!!)

BTW - I'm not married to Christopher Plummer, I'm not a book author or a recording musician, so ignore those other Elaine Taylors!  You will find a few listings about my art.

When you dr calls and says you have a herniated disc and your reply is "YES"

@bookart, I just had a look at your Facebook page, some pretty cool stuff there.  I love the zinnias.  Is it just me, or are the circle pieces inspired by breasts?

...when you find see pubic hair again and have to restrain yourself from calling everyone you know to share the "good" news.

...when you find yourself becoming the new "show and tell" object for your 5 and 7 year old, cause you can now see the hair growing back on your head.

ykyacpw..... people are starting to give you "pinktober" stuff .. and its september

but you know what?

i'm going to smile, and gratefully thank them when they do, you know why?

they don't understand how we think about it, they just think it's a way of support.. and if someone is out there, looking at that pink ribbon t shirt, and thinking of me, then thinking "wow, maybe i ought to make an appt to get checked" (which has happened alot since i was diagnosed with co workers) then that's ok with me. they are thinking about me, and they are thinking about themselves. getting a breast exam.

you all can chuck me in the fire, on the other forum if you want to.. but..

i cannot afford the butterfly tattoo i want so badly, not till next year anyways.. so

we wear aprons at work, so i am going to have an artistic co worker draw my tattoo i want and paint it on my apron, on the left side, since that is where i had cancer, and wear it . it can kind of be my like temporary tattoo till i can get the real one

hugs--Angel

oh good!! lol!! i think it's a neat idea, and i know it will prompt questions from people, but in october i'm willing to talk about it. Idaho ranks one of the LAST states for mammograms and early detection. mostly because there are alot of farmers here, and alot of out of country help, and they don't usually have health insurance. so by the time they find a lump it is end stage. so i went on the local news to tell my story, and to try to advocate a bus that goes to rural areas to give low cost or free mammograms during october, it will air the first week of october

Angel-------GO GIRL. everything you said was so right. Saving one life, gives you such a great feeling. When I was DX'd and it was put on the family net. I asked that everyone get checked. One first cousin found BC an had a MX and is doing great and it's two years later.

Angel , Barbies right we sit around the fire watching who or what we throw in and cyberspace hug each other

Yes Chabba I agree with you,  Angel has changed my mind, I was really getting jaded about Pink, i'll behave myself and just smile too. I have tried a couple of times to explain how we feel. The looks are just total non-understanding. The understanding will never come until...............

Last year @ publix's it took all the restraint I had when asked for a donation , to not pull up my shirt and say I've donated.

2 minutes ago, edited a few seconds ago by sas-schatzi wrote:  I'm re-postig this from another thread. tested hyperlink. There are implications , not just for us, but all women and childern males as well as females. Children being exposed to high levels of estrogen. Could explain why early onset puberty has been such a problem. AND newborns being born that have signs of going through puberty.

I'm even more bummed that article was published in DEC 2006. It should have been a Public Health Warning issued from some agency. You noticed that at the end of the article they said they were going to lay low. It was fascinating that the Mongolians to empirically figure this out and have been doing it for 2 thousand years. That's HUGE.

TO ALL---read the below hyperlink.-----How it affects us is--- Now we may have to make choices about milk.

Another thought the government has NOT dealt with the public impact of what this article identifies. Guess it's not politically correct.

I'm going to add the hyperlink here and re-post it on a couple of threads.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html

Discussions of the role of estrogen in the development of breast cancer always get me wondering if polysistic ovarian syndrome has any role in the development.  I've been a low consumer of outside sources of estrogen after the age of 14 when my dairy consumption dropped radically.  birth control the first two years of marriage.  started hormones when I got hot flashes in my 50's but only took them a couple of months (we moved, new pharmacy wanted new Rx, didn't get around to getting refil, no more hot flashes--how easy was that?)  But how much extra estrogen did I produce since my overies never shut down once a month?

Got to tell you what the girls at work did for Pinktober. We are OR nurses and ofcouse have to wear hats so one of my girls had her very talented mother make pink OR hats with hot pink ribbons all over them with our names on them. I hated pink before I got BC and moreso now, but their support and love with this gesture was very touching and moving. They have been wearing them since I was forced to stop working in May. The great part is that it get the conversation started with patients about why they wear the hats and what it means. Two birds, one stone-I can live with a little pink I suppose.

Our hospital mandate that they are washed everyday so they do. Clean ones are waiting for us in the am. That's how we started back using made hats.

I use to work at a place that gave you 5 pairs of scrubs to wear for a year. Was our responsiblity to wash them.

Funny how things change over and over again.