MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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Hauntie - Oh crap!!!! I HATE THIS DISEASE TOO. ((((HAUNTIE))))
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Kleenex, Jo & SAB, thanks so much. She is doing better this evening, the relationship is over and I feel better for having stayed with my gut. I'm sure it will still be a rough week for her but i feel like she will manage it well. Plus my mom got here tonight and she has been spending a lot of time making us laugh. It's been a good night.
Hauntie: (((HUGS))), I hate this disease too....it sucks that it is still so prevalent.
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Couldn't agree more Hauntie. Absolutely sux.
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Claire I'm jumping in. Sure hope someone brings the cheetos.
Hauntie (((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))) cancer sucks
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claire-are you still running? will be there tomorrow can we have chocolate to!
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Hi again!
Elimar my Mom was diagnosed with 2 separate primaries 5 years apart and them mets 5 years later. She was Stage 1 with both her primary's.
My brothers have had colon ca.,melanoma and lung ca.
Ladies, I gave been affiliated with an organization known as Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered (FORCE) (www.facingourrisk.org) for those who are high risk and or BRCA + for 11years...way before my diagnosis.
It is important to know your family (medical) history, on BOTH sides of your family. Some of the cancers associated with a BRCA mutation are esophageal, pancreatic, prostate, ovarian, breast, and primary peritoneal ( treated as ovarian.. but this can occur in the absence of ovaries).Thanksgiving is a great time to discuss this topic with family members and to compile as thorough a history as possible especially getting info from elders regarding past generations (if possible)
OK, this was my PSA for the night
! Thank you for welcoming me into this forum
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Marcia -
good idea marcia with all the holidays coming up, , now would be great time to fill in any blanks on the family hx at any gatherings, wouldn't it be nice if there was a designated history gatherer in every family
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Juliet and all,
If you go to this website there is a downloadable printable form for the purpose of compiling family history...
https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/fhh-web/home.action
YES, the pomegranate is very timely!To those who celebrate the holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
L'Shana Tova! (Have a Sweet and Healthy New Year!)
Marcia -
thanks for the info, marcia, will download the form, my dads parents both died in there's 30's so family hx a bit sparse on that side, but everything will help
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cmb, In case I sleep in tomorrow, just remember what Shakespeare had to say about the colonoscopy, "All's well, that end's well." Something like that. Good Luck!
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Claire.....I am in that big purse with you. There are many others. We are all right here for you hon!
Today is my last regular radiation treatment. Good thing, I don't think my poor skin can take much more. The peeling in my underarm is really painful. Nipple is the color of a cranberry. Very angry looking. The rest of my breast is just one big read rash. So glad I start boosts tomorrow and will be done next Tuesday. My skin needs to recover from this for sure.
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Janis - Sending very gentle (((HUGS))). Look up the After Rads thread. Lots of good information on there for after care.
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Soccermom, you're so right about getting that info down. My mom is 85 with Alzheimers, so can't get any info from her. She is the only sibling still here of 9. My Dad passed away, and so did all his brothers and sisters. I always thought there was no BC in our family. At a funeral recently, I was told a cousin has BC (her mother was my father's half sister, so not sure how much that counts for my history). The cousin claims that our grandmother (my father's mother) had BC and died from it. She was old when she died. She lived with my parents and no one ever told me or my sisters that my grandmother had cancer. I think I was told she died of old age. Now there is no one to confirm it with, but my other cousins and siblings never heard my grandmother had cancer either. Good advice to get history from relatives. Not only medical, but whatever you can. It is great to pass on info like where they were from, what they did, etc. You should write it down.
Congrats on your last radiation Janis! My first is next Tuesday.
Claire, how are you doing? It's nice and cozy in the purse here.
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(((((((janis))))))))
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I agree with the other gals., he is being very sneaky and manipulative. I have a now 18 year old daughter, and she started dating a 17 year old when she was 15. They dated two years, and he became more controlling and obessive, and she finally broke it off with him. I feel he changed her sweet innnocent personality, but teens, sometimes will do what they want and sneak around behind your back, and blow, of the wisdom of experience you share with them, so I am glad your daughter sees early on, that he isn't a healthy choice for her.
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YEAH Janis! Giving you healing ((HUGS)). Claire, it will be soon over and you can join the party! Hauntie, this disease surely does suck and I too wonder with all the money being pored into research for BC why are we not yet closer to knowing it's cause or a cure???? Kitty
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janis, Your big rad zone rectangle will actually begin healing while you are still on your boosts. While it was only my boost area that did a little peeling, it was not bad because it was a smaller area. Hang in there, not much longer now.
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E-did you photograph those dogs while you were visiting TN? (no offense to the Tennesseeians here-just seemed to good to pass up!)
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I put those beauties up because I was at that dog show in the Ozark Hills Weimaraners must be extremely hard to embarass.
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Elimar, my favorite picture so far (and you've had lots of great ones.) By the color I guess they may be Viszlas?
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SAB, At first I thought they looked more golden because of the sun, but you are right. They are Viszlas, and acting just as shameless as a Weimaraner!
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hahahahaha
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Haha-Love it!
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Speaking of em-bareass-ment...cmblastic must be done with hers by now. Where is she? I've never know a mothership to detain anyone on these routine procedures.
Do you think she just went to a buffet lunch then right back to work, or should I worry?
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LOL You're on a roll. I think she will check in soon. There's still some Cheetos left.
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I got in the pocket too late, and there were just a few crumbs left. No wonder I am anxious.
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Well I got the results of my oncotype DX test and it was a 9!! Yeah! The oncologist's assistant said I would not need chemo and yet he comes in and says if it was him he would get chemo. I told him no and then he started pushing radiation on me because I had one positive node! WTH does he get some kind of bonus for every patient that takes chemo or rads??? If I had 7 nodes removed and only 1 tested positive for cancer and I had a DMX WTH would he be radiating?
They both sort of talked me into Femara. I'm one of those annoying logical patients and I'm asking myself this: if I was taking Evamist (an estrogen replacement) when I was diagnosed and I haven't been taking the Evamist in the last 5 months isn't that effectively discontinuing estrogen? If I'm 56, had a partial hysterectomy in 1997 and had to start taking HRT do I need to kill off any little bit of estrogen I have left? I'm going to call the assistant tomorrow and ask her. His nickname is Dr. Doom and I'm not talking to him anymore if I don't have to.
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Ok, Im baaaaaaaaaack. . . What a way to lose 5 pounds!! But I'm pretty sure I have gained them all back in the last few hours. I really appreciate all the company in the bag--the other peeps in the waiting room were a little jealous and kept telling me to keep it down!! I felt really special when they put a big yellow flag on my bed to say not to stick me in my left arm. I think that was the only place they didn't stick me. . . . My MIL thought my doctor looks like Ichabod Crane
Not quite an alien. . .but close.
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However the anesthesiologist looked pretty good.
Or maybe that was the drugs. . .
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They must have given you some good medication. I'd go annually if I could have the Johnny-drug.
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