Chemo Starting Sep 09
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hello lovely ladies, I have been AWOL for a little while again, I so much enjoyed my time training with Breast Cancer Network Australia at the start of this week. Thank you to Jane, Patty and RonnieKay for your kind words about this. I loved it! The network was started 15 years ago by a gutsy, intelligent woman who was diagnosed with bc and got angry and distressed at how poor the human side of the patient was treated, and how little information and support there was. So she decided to do something about it! Now the BCNA employs 30 staff, and has numerous volunteers working for it, and has been instrumental in influencing government policy on issues to do with bc treatment, as well as providing loads of support and resources to women and their families. I am so proud to be part of such a wonderful organisation.
For those ziplining ladies, go girls! Sounds like huge fun.
Patty so glad you got the all clear. Well done you. I am sorry you had to endure more biopsies, they are never fun. But what a good result.
Catherine it was lovely to hear from you, I am sorry to hear about your mum's ill health, but I know you would be doing all your very best for her in the most loving way.
Vicki, cheers for your new position at HQ! Sounds exciting.
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Hello my lovely sisters!!
I can't stay long but I had to pop in.
I hope you are all having fun in...
campgrounds
Vegas
as Spring approaches (Neece :-)
and yay Catherine for checking in!!
The usual, teenager/senior year/Homecoming/job/Bloppity Blop Busy.
Love to you all
B
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Oh BarbAnne...how I wish I lived close to your DD. Had my hair foiled yesterday. I went to another! place since the gal that'd done it the last 4 times was having trouble covering my gray in the front. SOOOO, I went to ULTA (a big superstore w/salon) and the gal assured me she knew exactly what to do. OMG...not only was it expensive, I now have platinum hair...she took all color out, instead of adding...I was sick to my stomach. Soooo, guess I go back to my more expensive gal...who always seemed to be able to "fix" others' booboos. ANYHOO....I'm excited for DD's homecoming as a senior. Wondering how the Vegas trip went...bet the gals are going to bed early tonight!!!! Seems funny to think Neece's heading towards spring...lucky her! Hoping Vickilynn & Don stay warm & cozy in the woods! XOXO
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Hello SOSisters.... I'm tired and worn out from our wild weekend in Vegas. The very best part of the whole trip was getting to meet and spend time with Patty! What a wonderful sister she is and we had such a good time. The TATA sisters were very friendly but Patty and I decided that we would have had a much better time with our sisters. So we are talking next year, before school starts that we should all get together. Somewhere besides Vegas which was too busy and expensive. I suggested maybe SanFrancisco, my daughter suggested we go camping with Vicki. Anyway I wish you all would weigh in and see if we could come up with something. The Beatles Love program was fantastic, music was wonderful! Elton John (who I had doubts about) was very good and very entertaining. Never got to Freemont Street to go on the zipline and I confess that I didn't push very hard to go. We were so busy there just didn't seem to be any time to relax. I really would like to meet all of you, so please let me know when it would be convenient for you to break away for a few days and where you would like to go and let's see if we can't arrange our on SOS reunion.
Neece - so glad you are enjoying your new position with the Breast Cancer Network. What an amazing thing to be able to do. I wish you would send your spring weather here, it is turning cold and I don't like it!
BarbAnne - know this is going to be a very busy year for you. Senior year is always so exciting. You will need a break by next summer. How is the new job going, do you feel like you have settled in?
RonnieKay - I also ditched my hairdresser sometime back because I thought her prices were getting a little out there. Stayed gone about 2 months and went back - she knows me well and doesn't go nuts with my hair! So you need to look at your calendar and see when a good time is for you next year to meet for our reunion! And yes, I did go to bed early last night, I also have a horrible cold and am really hoping I didn't make Patty sick.
Patty - thinking of you and that gallon jug! ALL CLEAR COLONOSCOPY!!! Let us know how you do.
I will post more later and try to post a new picture of Patty and me this week.
Take care, thoughts and prayers are with you.
Jane
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I'm just sneaking in here to say hi to Patty and Jane who I met in Vegas. So glad to meet you both and hope we can do it again some time. (just not in Vegas
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Hi Gilly - everyone meet Gilly who was a newbie with Patty and me in Vegas We had such a good time. Gilly is a sweetheart and Patty and I invited her to join our not yet planned reunion next year. Gilly lives in Moscow - not Russia but Washington. Another West Coast gal.
Gilly hope you got home okay. I had quite the time getting our boarding passes and it was about 1 am when we finally got to bed and then back up at 6:30! Slept on the way home.
It was so good to meet you and hope you will feel comfortable posting on our site. We are a wonderful bunch of ladies and welcome you to our site. If you go back and read you will also see we are also a little bit nuts but lots of fun.
Take care
Jane
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Patty - thinking of you. Let us know how you make out today!
Jane
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Sorry to be MIA this week. Got back from Vegas and leapt into a busy week...highlighted by a colonoscopy. 2 days of fasting except for clear liquids, then the gallon of stuff in one end and out the other. They removed some sort of polyp that is now in pathology. Doc said it doesn't look cancerous, but it may be a more concerning type of a B9 thing. If it is of that type, I have to have ANOTHER colonoscopy in 1-3 months to make sure they got it all. Say what? Kaiser just keeps snipping off tiny parts of me!
Hi Gill! Welcome to the September 09 board. Gill and I met on the August Amazons 09 board. And, by the way, if in your head you are pronouncing "Gill" like the breathing mechanism on a fish, I learned in Las Vegas that the correct pronounciation is "Jill". Gill hails from England and this is just another example of two countries divided by a common language. HA!
Las Vegas was great fun especially getting to hang out with Jane, her DD (who actually has a name though I'm not sure we're supposed to use it here), and Gill. Sadly we did nothing that would evoke the rule that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. The TA TA's are an interesting group. Most of them originally got together on a BCO reconstruction board. Ronnie, I can tell you that there are some great looking boobs on these girls! Keep the faith.
Vicki congratulations on your new job! I'd love to work somewhere where everyone is 15 years older than me. You'll feel so young!
The BCNA sounds wonderful Neece. Kaiser (my HMO) has what they call the "breast care center" designed to provide Kaiser members with the kind of support your group does. Problem was the gal who headed it up and who was one's first contact after being diagnosed was an absolute nincompoop. When she called me to tell me I had breast cancer she beat around the bush so much that I had to ask her "Are you telling me I have cancer?". I (and I suppose many others) complained about her and she was replaced last year. The new gal is great.
Hang in there Barbara. I've discovered teenage boys have their own issues. My son got mad about something (I still don't know what) the other night, punched a framed poster hanging on the wall in his bedroom, which proceeded to fall off the wall and smack him in the nose. So the next morning I found the poster and frame in pieces on the floor and a boy with a cut and bruise on the bridge of his nose. We had a bit of a laugh about how effectively the poster fought back, then discussed less dangerous ways of letting off steam.
Have a great weekend ladies!
Patty
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I know - it's Friday - but I had to change my laundry day because last Thursday there was an annoying woman here - and she was so annoying I went back to camp with damp laundry (not a great idea when you live in a redwood rain forest!) and changed my laundry day to Friday.
DH is with me today. We wanted to see where we'd be working and living. We're hoping for a sunny sight - most are under big trees.
I'm so glad you didn't have a WONDERFUL time in Vegas but it sounds like a good time. So jealous you got to meet each other!!! And so sorry you missed the zipline, but your bones and muscles probably thank you.
Big bears in camp now every day... kind of scary at times walking through the woods! But so far they just munch apples. This morning a camper (he was on a motorcycle) came up to me chomping an apple and said, "I got in late last night and nobody told me not to pitch my tent under the apple tree!" All night long he had a big black bear over head in the branches, chomping apples. He was afraid to come out of his tent and move it!
Welcome Gill (pronounced Jill - thank you Patty - I wondered!).
Good for you Neece. you are such an encouragement to me, and I know you will do well as a volunteer helping and encouraging others.
Jane - I can only fit one person on my couch, but you can all come pitch a tent under an apple tree next Fall here if you want!!!! Fresh apples - some of them will be knocked out of the tree, and probably land right on your tent : )
BarbAnne - hang in there - only 9 months until graduation (sort of like giving birth again?). After which, she'll think herself a woman and life will change.
Patty - Waiting to hear the ALL CLEAR again. They do just keep biopsying you! Love the poster story... tell him he could be a Poster Child for non-violence!
Went to a new M.D. (we wanted someone closer) and he was not long out of medical school - and looked about 30 years old. When he saw I had Breast Cancer he said, "So what type? Oh - I'm not really "up" on women's health". The conversation went dowhill from there. Decided I'd go to the woman in the same office who is "up" on women's health.
DH has multiple medical issues and I think the page-long list I gave him was overwhelming... oh well!
OK - laundry is calling. I sure love you all and miss you during the week!!!
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Jane & Patty: I can imagine Vegas was like a big circus & you could probably get lost in what to do & where to go...but I'm glad the most important part was being together & adopting a sister for all of us! I'm totally excited because Gilly & I don't live that far apart.....in fact, GILLY...we are originally from Endicott, one of the small farm towns by Colfax. My sister's family lives in Pullman & we love the food co-op in Moscow (ps..I'm a Coug). We actually own the home I grew up in and so we spend lots of time on the "east side". We're on our way over there today...just to spend the weekend (again...after a wonderful reunion the same time you were in Vegas). Maybe..hope, hope, hope...we can get together sometime soon! Our "most of the time" home is in Renton.
Patty...little snip here...little snip there...once again, praying for the ALL CLEAR!!!! As long as they keep coming up with B9 things..let them snip away (easy for me to say!!! There's really not much of you to snip!!). Soon they'll be snipping the fat from my tummy & yes, I'm praying for nice boobies. AHHH...the teen boy..our son paid to patch a wall when he was about your son's age...glad they find pictures and walls to smash & not other people's faces!!!
I'll be happy to go anywhere to have fun with all of you!!! I still think of Vickilynn's road trip...remember! I like the idea of "after school's out"...which translates to "warm weather!" It's totally fall around here & I'm chilly! I hope you have lots of cozy clothes Vickilynn...worried about you in the woods in the winter!!!
Better get packed...love you all & hope you have a restful weekend!
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Thanks for the fabulous welcome ladies!!! Jane, just so you know, Moscow is in Idaho, though we are a mere hop, skip and jump from Washington state. Ronnie - that is incredible that you know this area. We should definitely plan to meet up next time you are over here. I'll invite you to dinner, or we can meet for lunch.
I'll keep listening in to you all, and try and sort you all out. But it is wonderful to put real people to names.
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Welcome Gill, from Down Under. I spent a year (MANY years ago!!!) as an exchange student in Washington state, visitng Ronnie's area and also travelling through Idaho, Montana, California and so on.... I have very fond memories of your neck of the woods.
The reunion in San Francisco sounds awesome. Not sure if I could make it but you guys know I would be there in spirit.
Going to post a new pic today, thought I needed to update!
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Well, maybe not today - some problems uploading a new photo. Will try later.
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Hi there Neece. It is not often I find anyone who knows anything about this neck of the woods, and now 2 of you on this thread!! About this time 3 years ago DH and I left on a 5 month trip to NZ. At the end of our trip we spent just 2 weeks in Australia - Sydney, Cairns (barrier reef) and Brisbane as we had friends there. We had a great trip, but I found it very hard to be gone from our kids for so long. The boys were 18 and 20 at the time, so perfectly capable of looking after themselves. Not long after our return, I found "the lump" and this whole bc thing began.
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Hello SOSisters.... sorrry it has been so long since I posted. First day off since Vegas trip and yes, I am tired. Been sort of blue since coming home from the trip. We talked about it so long and now it's over. So you have to make a decision about next year so I can start planning my plane ticket!
Patty - so glad your colonoscopy is over. Your biopsy will be ALL CLEAR! You won't need another procedure for 10 years!! Sort of sad that we cannot report anything terribly exciting from Vegas. Do you suppose we let down the team? LOL about son throwing something. Our grandson also did the samething and broke a lamp. However, he was about 12-13 at the time and very hormonal. Thank goodness those days are gone. You are such a great mom!
VickiLynn - so glad you posted. Was worried about you and your laundry
Do you want us to come out and beat up the annoying lady? Can't have her aggravating you! Patty and I both thank that had we been with our original group we would have had so much more fun. I hate to say this but I would say most of the TATA's were younger and they have been talking so long they have quite a strong bond with each other. However, they were a lovely group of ladies and I'm glad I got to meet them. So where are we going next year? What is close to you that has a 5 star hotel and a few sights to see? As much as I'm sure it's an awesome sight, don't think I want to meet your friendly bear. Are you still moving to the headquarters Nov 1? It will be here shortly and we are all looking forward to your being able to post more often.RonnieKay - maybe you will get to meet Gilly since you are close to each other. She is a wonderful lady and you will enjoy spending time with her. She just fit right in with Patty and me as she was a "newbie" too. So I'm asking you the same question, where can we go next year that we be fairly convenient for VickiLynn? We definitely need to do something. I'm glad you are enjoying your job, work keeps me sane. So when do you have your next surgery? I know you posted but if I go back I will lose this post.
Gill - remember the conversation about American's use GPS? Apparently I didn't have mine out but will now remember that Moscow is actually in Idaho. I have met many people over the years, you are the first I have met from Idaho with an english accent! I hope you will be able to meet up with RonnieKay. I'm going to be so jealous! Where do you want to go next year?
Neece - looking forward to your next picture. I know we all cannot go to Austraila but would love if there was somewhere we could all meet. Sounds like you and Gill will have a lot to talk about, funny how small the world really is when you start speaking with people. Glad you are doing well and enjoying your new position.
BarbAnne- hope you are doing well. How's the new job coming? You are definitely going to need a vacation after this school year.
Take care everyone. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
Jane
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Hi Ladies-
Busy- busy, you know the routine, have to go in late today because we have a late-day staff meeting. Yes I still like my new job, even the bad days are less annoying than times at my old job.
Patty- glad you had fun in Vegas! Just think of the snipping as a weight loss program, ha ha...no really I am chanting All Clear!!! Oh Patty, I am happy you guys had a laugh over it, teens sure do have a lot of pent up stuff to muddle through. Lordy thank goodness its temporary.
Jane- I am glad you too had a good time in Vegas. Don't worry about the zip line, maybe some day when we all get together we can go zip lining, or not :-) How are your new associates?
Gill- Welcome!! Idaho? I'd make a silly joke about my love for potatoes, but wasn't sure that was completely appropriate it.....but I do love them.
Vicki- I'm with Jane, we'll come out and handle the annoying woman! Sister power! Yes Senior year is a bit like being pregnant, only I am fairly certain I will get some good nights sleep when its over, unlike when she was born. Enjoy those woods.
Neece- Can't wait to see the new photo!! How is spring coming in?? Hope your summer is flood and fire free this year!
Ronnie- How are you girl? How is that job? Does it still feel good to be out and busy?
Well, I am off to do something productive before work, don't know what but I figure I should make good use of my morning.
Love and hus to all my sisters
Barbara
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Ronnie! Sorry about the hair, yes to you and Janie!! Good hairstylists who as my DD would say "know your hair formula" are hard to come by and normally pricey...I'm lucky my DD seems to have an affinity for coloring. If we all were closer I would have her do both your heads and we snack and talk!!
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Barbara - So...next reunion at your place! Free hair color!
Gill - Don't forget my Idaho connections. I was born there! My Dad graduated from U of I, Moscow! I love potatoes! Not to mention that Jane and I have both lived in your native land...England that is. The way I see it you are related to half of us Sep 09 ladies and didn't even know it.
Happy weekend ladies!
Patty
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I won't forget Patty! I know Idaho is famous for it's spuds - we even have it on license plates for goodness sake - but there are not many grown in our part of the state. This area is known for wheat and lentils!
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Gilly - OK! I too have traveled to Moscow (nice college town) and even spent one night there in a motel!!! (Can't remember which one.) AND our son ALMOST went to the university for his Master's.
We're awaiting a possible change for the winter. A camphost is needed at Lake Mendocino (about 100 miles south of here) which would probably be good because the redwood rainforest is really getting mold-y this time of year and I do have a bad mold allergy!!! This would be out of the redwoods and a drier climate.
I'm secretly glad that Las Vegas wasn't so outstanding because that would mean you didn't really NEED the rest of us!
I had my first really close encounter with a small black bear - walked in front of me across the road within 20'??? But thanks to Mr. O'Riley (who is now officially my EBWD - Early Bear Warning Device) the bear hurried across the road at a much quicker pace. Mr. O'Riley is small, but when he saw that bear, his voice lowered and he sounded more like a Great Dane than a Llasa Apso!!!!
We're enjoying an "Indian Summer" here - beautiful weather. It's cool but sunny (after a bit of fog clears in the morning) and I'm taking some great photos of the redwoods.
Love to all my sisters.
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OH! And thanks for the offers of taking care of annoying women for me! We sisters need to stick together (no matter how far apart we are)!
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Hello SOSisters.... seems like it has been a while since I posted. My excuse is work, work and work.
BarbAnne - I'm glad you are enjoying your job! We knew you would be great. This is the job you were suppose to get! My new associates are doing well and I'm glad they are on board. It takes a long time to train a new person but so far, so good. So when we decide on the location of our reunion this coming spring/summer we will definitely snack and talk. Free hair color optional.
Patty - wondering if you have heard the results of your biopsy. You know we are all anxious to hear. So glad to see you talking about our next reunion. This time will be our sisters and make it so much more fun. How do you feel about Kentucky? VickiLynn mentioned it, I've never been to Kentucky. Maybe we could go to the races, wear fancy hats and drink mint julips.
Gilly - so glad you are checking in with us. You have a lot in common with all of us so we are making you another SOSister. SOS stands for Septembers Outstanding Sisters. And yes, I lived in England for 3 years, loved it. But I have never been to Idaho so I'm with Barbara, I only know the potatoes!
VickiLynn - we needed all of our sisters in Vegas. We would have had such a good time. So now we have to plan a spring/summer reunion and somewhere convenient for all to meet. Vegas was not relaxing and it was go, go, go. We need somewhere we can relax, do things at a leisurely pace and have plenty of time to talk (and eat). Somewhere that has clam chowder and chocolate desserts. Isn't it funny how little dogs can sound really threatening? Mac & PC do that and it just cracks me up. Stay away from those bears. Still warm in NC but suppose to turn cold this weekend. I hate the cold
To all our sisters who haven't posted lately - know you are busy but we miss you!
Take care. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
Jane
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Hi to everyone who has made me welcome in this group. Now that I have met Patty and Jane, I can really imagine you saying the things you write here! It's great when you hit it off with people. I'm with Jane for the relaxing get together idea. Vegas is anything but.
I hope you regular ladies won't mind giving me a bit of background about yourselves. Can't read back through 87 pages!!!!
Quick bit about me. Cancer-wise, diagnosed June 2009 did lumpectomy, chemo DD AC/T then the usual rads. Then as a TN, that it is. I have recently graduated to 6 monthly oncology appointments and see no one else regarding cancer. Feel fine etc etc. Had 6 monthly mammogram and ultrasound on bad boob today. I had a minor glitch last summer with a staph infection near the scar line and so I've been having these follow up ultrasounds. All seems fine.
On a personal note, I am English, have lived in Moscow, Idaho for 25 years, have 2 boys aged 22 and 23. I started off teaching high school in England and ended up teaching preschool (my own business) for 12 years and closed my school in June of this year. Now I am continuing to teach Musikgarten classes, an excellent curriculum if there are any of you with little kids and also having fun working on my podcasr project.
Phew - me in a nutshell.
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Jane! I am so glad your associates are working out. Kentucky I have never been either. I better strat warming up the DH that I may want to take a trip without him eeegads!! but if i can do this I sure would like to.
Patty!! I want the all clear!!
Vicki! You be careful around bears, all we need are lions and tigers!! Oh my, be safe!
Gilly- Well Born and raised in Michigan, live in the Ann Arbor, I am a slap happy U of M fan. I work at a college in A2 (that's what we call Ann Arbor) but not u of m. Have a great DH whom I have been with for 20 years and a DD who is almost 18 and in her senior year of high school.
At the ripe old age of 40, March of 2009 I collapsed in the kitchen from bleeding in ulcers and almost died. After being rushed to the hospital,several pint of blood and few days in, they released me at my follow up he said you need to start having mammograms, they found something suspicious, and on May 8 2009 my 41st birthday I had a mammo and ultrasound, he said it was most likely cancer.
Lumpectomy end of may, lymph nodes in June, rads for the summer, and chemo in the fall. I reversed treatment to let my body recuperate after the ulcers etc...etc.. now i am on tamoxofin for 5 years, and mammos every 6 months. Oh my chemo was 4 AC and 12 Taxol, but my feet went numb so I only made it through about 7.Glad to have gone through all this with these great ladies. Dreading my next mammo in November, but it will be fine!
Love and hugs sisters!!
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Gill - Great update. I learned things about you that I didn't know even though we've been on the August 09 board together. A couple things Gill didn't mention...while on chemo she 1) broke her foot and 2) got shingles!
Barbara - Gosh. I didn't know all that about you either. Where have I been? Your November mammo will be FINE!
I got the results of my biopsy today. Benign, but of a type that needs to be watched. Another colonoscopy ordered for 1 year, then every 5 years until I'm 75. I told the doc I'll be delighted to live that long! My family has absolutely zero colon cancer history so I'm not too concerned about this.
As for BC...in 2003 my right nipple inverted and I rushed off to Kaiser to have it checked out every which way. Nothing showed up on any test so they didn't recommend surgery and told me "not to worry". Had clear mammos every year until May 09 when cancer showed up...directly under the nipple and attached to the skin. Had lumpectomy in May 09, lymph node dissection in June 09, 24 weeks of chemo, 28 rads, Femara (for forever as far as I'm concerned). I did the same regimen as Barbara - ACx4 plus Taxol x12. Except for the general challenges of BC treatment I didn't have any extreme problems...my blood was perfect the whole time, finished every last one of the Taxols with almost no nueropathy, completed radiation with a nice little sun tan and have had very minor SEs from Femara. BC runs in my family but no one in the last three generations has died of it. Everyone gets treated and dies years later of old age. That's my plan..
Patty
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Great plan Patty.
Hi BarbAnne - DH went to grad school at Purdue, so I know all about those big ten teams!!
Of course I don't know the ladies here, but it is interesting that we usually tell stuff about ourselves early on in a thread - and we are all caught up in our own cancer and I think it's hard to digest a lot of information.
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I have WIFI tonight because we are at an RV park! I had a great day holding my 6-week old grandson (he's soooooo beautiful and his smiles are infectious!) and spend time with his 6-year old sister. We let their parents have a 3-hour date and they got to walk on the beach and have much needed time alone together!
Then they headed home (2 1/2 hours) and on the way home, had a rock fall off the cliff and total their car!!!! I was so grateful that they were all OK! DH took off to meet them and drive them home... it will be a long night for him, but he really felt the need to go. (Not enough seatbelts for me too).
Also got a call that we will be starting at Lake Mendocino as camp hosts so that's a good thing.
Gill - My mini-bio: Married 39 years Nov. 11!!! We have 2 sons (both are pastors), 2 DILs (who are also sisters!), and 6 grandchildren. DH was disabled so we are "early retired", live in our travel trailer and have just recently started the interesting volunteer jobs as camp hosts. I have been: a secretary, a director of a private school, a director of a non-profit, a professional (full-time) musician (with my family - traveling for 7 years), a pastor's wife (DH pastored for 4 years)... and more... quite a varied and never dull life!
I am also a TN - single mast. with no reconstruction... couldn't complete the chemo due to a chemical burn on my hands and feet from one of the "T-drugs". Within a couple months after finishing chemo, ended up with a broken rib while painting a cupboard (!) and was recently diagnosed with osteoporosis - and my rib has not healed!
I took a photo of my granddaughter and myself today and said to my DH - "I actually look healthy again!" I think camp hosting - walking daily and being outside - and just enjoying life - has agreed with me!
I agree with a laid-back reunion - let's not plan ANYTHING - just sit by a pool, order food delivered, and talk until we're all talked out. And if the DH's want to come, let them, but they have to go do something else during the day so we can visit without them there.
Just got a call that DH made it safely to pick up our son and family. I can sleep now!
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Hello SOSisters....where is everyone?
VickiLynn - my gosh, I bet you were beside yourself when you got the call about the rock slide! So glad nobody was hurt. Where are you now? Still in the redwoods? I bet the grandbaby is just beautiful. Is his sister a little bit jealous? I had a photo taken of me not to long ago and thought the samething. I look healthy - fat and old but healthy!
Gill - so glad you are posting in with us. You got to hear all about me and my diagnosis so I won't share. I will tell you that I'm incredibly busy at work right now and my 6 day weeks start next week. I am a military brat, lived in all sorts of places. DH was Civil Service and we moved a few times so I've been all over. Came back to NC to be close to family who have since all passed away. Have one cousin left and she is less than a year out with her breast cancer!
BarbAnne - how is it going? Can't really ask about the new job because it's not so new anymore. Feel like you have it under control now? How is DD doing? What an exciting year for her. Are you still walking? Can you walk for me too? When in Nov is your mammo?
Patty - Sorry you have to do another colonoscopy a year out but it will be all clear and then on to every 5 years. I'm every 5 years too. I have to wear a heart monitor for 2 days next week and then have an appt later with heart doctor. Then an appointment with onc and then done for the year. I am really hoping to have fewer appts next year! Where are we having our reunion?
Hope everyone is well. Take care. Thoughts and prayers are with you!
Jane
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Hello my darling Sept ladies, have been off the boards for a bit, snowed under at work, enjoyed a lovely birthday weekend away with my DH in between. Do you ladies remember the picture I posted in Oct 2009 - me standing near the Sydney Harbour Bridge wearing a big purple sunhat (no hair underneath)? Well, we took another photo at that exact same spot, as we went to stay in the same hotel in Sydney - my DH even organised for us to have the SAME ROOM as last time!! Glad to go back there two years on WITH hair this time and not feeling totally awful from chemo. It was a lovely sunny spring Sydney weekend; we caught ferries all over the sparkly harbour, ate out with friends, ate breakfast out with my stepson and DIL, and dinner at the end of the weekend with my son and hsi partner! I was a very happy girl indeed. Life felt very good.
Have had a quick scan of the posts - goodness there is a lot going on.I hope everyone is travelling well and enjoying some cool autumn weather. it is supposed to be spring here but apart from our Sydney weekend, not much evidence of it - very cool and rainy.
Tomorrow my little family are taking my mum and dad out for a special 'High Tea' (English style afternoon tea) to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary!! Quite an achievement, huh?
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Hello my dear September Sisters.......I know it has been a long time since I have posted. I think of all of you often and apologize for not posting. Just got back from picking my Mom up from Chicago and bringing her down to Florida. Had to make two round trips but it was worth it. Got to spend some great time with her and my sister.
Work has been extremely busy and am exhausted at night when I get home. I had cataract surgery about five years ago and my one eye really bothers me starting at the computer all day.
Have been doing well other than that, I am going to have my nipple tattooed (not sure if that is the right spelling) this Thursday. I was not going to do it but a gal I know from the neighborhood does permanent makeup and she said she would do it. Does not want any money for it just to contribue to charity of my choice. I am going to give her a card with money in it. She is going thru breast cancer right now. Going thru tissue expansion right now and having reconstruction November 7th.
My stepson his wife and three kids are going to stay with us the week of Thanksgiving. Really looking forward to that. My Mom and sister our going to come back in February it will be for her 88th birthday. Two more round trips to Chicago for me.
I send my love to all of you!
Barb T
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