Hello, Anyone Over 70????

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Oh Kaara----Ill be prayin for you tomorrow.please let us know as soon as you can how you are doin.....the letter to Washington will not be till some time in Jan.sooo you will/should be up and running by then....

    can I jump in your pocket tomorrow?Good luck and God bless.huggggggggggs K

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    Thank you granny!!

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2011

    Kaara.....................me too.......................come on Granny, move your ass over, you take up too much room....................hey we need a bigger pocket.............especially considering I'm bringing my bottle of Vodka with me.....................................................see you tomorrow in Kaara's pocket.

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Hey Ducky---are you in her pocket????sober????I smell something that doesnt smell like water.Ha.

    We are watching you Kaara...keep us posted!!!!!!prayin too.hugggggs K

    Ducky did you find that thread yet?

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2011
    Hey Granny.............sober as a judge, are you sure that isn't you........................ha...............no I did not find the thread yet.......................just call me stupid........................I need serious guidance...............Undecided
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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited December 2011

    ducky...i will bump the thread until you find it.

    Are you wearing your glasses?

    Maybe too much V Kiss

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Ducky---its under the heading Advocacy.Lets draft a letter to Washington...

    i sure hope there is gonna be a march cause im gonna march right over to one of your houses and come to get you.now put the V down.

    Sheila I hope you bump it.you cannot post and bump at the same time.

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

    I saw your recent post granny so i didn't bump it.

    Now somebody please educate me about this.

    I kinda don't understand what is it we are asking for Embarassed

    Make it detailed please.

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

    Lets draft a letter to Washington

    This is for ducky

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011
    Sheila==did you read the posts????i know there are quite a few but everyone has lots of info on there.Im just spreading the word.basically in plain old English we want things done for BC.We need letters written.ya gotta read what Merilee wrote...and many others...this could be huge....Im not good with details cause my brain is kinda radiated out but its all there. And very easy to understand.I would love to hear your feedback.I watch the thread very carefully.Ask questions if there is something you dont quite grasp but i doubt it.Thank you for takin the time for this...its gonna be HUGE!!!!!
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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Now we gotta drag Ducky over there.........

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    Hi Ladies:  Thanks for your support and prayers!   Surgery went fine...I'm home from the overnight stay at the hospital, exhausted, because a hospital is not where you go to rest!  They kept me up all night coming in and out and leaving the lights on.  The poor lady next to me was bedridden, so guess who had to get up and drag the IV machine all around to shut them off!

     Oh...and the hospital managed to lose the clothes that I wore there.  I gave them to a nurse to keep and haven't seen either of them since!  Had to have my boyfriend bring me more clothes to wear home.

    Just waiting for the pathology report to tell me about the SN and clear margins and I'm good to go! 

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011
    kaara====when do you get your results from the path report?
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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    Thanks for asking granny....supposed to be any time after today.  If I don't hear by tomorrow morning I am going to start calling the Dr.'s office until I get an answer...actually, that is what he told me to do because he doesn't want this to go over the weekend...nice of him!  Even the thought of having to go back to the hospital for more surgery is enough to make me want to jump off a building!  Hospital still didn't find my clothes...they're history.  I can probably go on ebay soon and buy them back from the thief who took them:( Grrrrrr!

     I told BS before surgery that I didn't care what the boob looked like (no more topless contests for me) and to take whatever he needed to get the clear margin, but it doesn't look like he took that much...boob is pretty much the same.  Can't say he didn't warn me that it could happen though.

    I can deal with the upcoming rads because they have a start and finish date...it's the waiting....and waiting that is killing me. 

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Kaara---count your blessing sista.....do you have any idea how many sistas wait for at least 10 days to get their path reports?????I for one....and it was wrong!!!!!!!! most sistas have to wait a while.by the time my 3rs surgery was done with #3 dr.i too got my results right away....imagine waiting 10 days and the dr tells you its protocol...yeah...just wondering if it was his mother if she had to wait that long!!!!!!!!

    everything is still makin me angry!!!!!!!

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  • Rosieo
    Rosieo Member Posts: 262
    edited December 2011

    Hello, anyone over 70???????????

    I guess that is me.  I have been reading all these wonderful letters from so many wonderful ladies.

    I have just turned 76.  Had a mastectomy 15 years ago and now in Feb. had another mastectomy.  You only get two, right?  LOL  LOL

    Looking forward to connecting with all of you.

     Rosieo

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

    Hi Rosieo...Welcome to ducky's thread. HUGS♥

    I'm not 70 but i have permission to post LOL

    Duckyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy where are you?

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Hello Rosieo---and welcome to the 70 yr old nuts....we can say what we want now right?

    this group is really great when you catch them.....

    And yes you only get 2.THANK GOD.

    please come and visit and share your stories.At our age we can all write more then 1 book....without bc......

    hugggggs everyone and good nite.K

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Shiela someone gave Ducky a case of vodka...early Christmas present!!!!!!!!!ha.

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    Welcome Rosieo!  Sorry you had to have a second mx.  Wonderful people on BCO...you will get lots of comfort and support.  Don't know what I would have done without finding this place.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2011

    I'm here Granny....................and welcome Rosieo............................sorry your here, but happy your with the best bunch of "nuts" this side of heaven.....................

    I am 76 also, have 6 children, 18 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandaughters (identical twins, 9 months old)........................ok enough about me..........you have to tell us something about you.

    What is with this I hear women are wating as long as 10 days for the 'path results"....................Good heavens I had my 1st one in 2 days, and 2 days after that, the entire report was in my hands...............that shocks me............. although eveyrthing was in the one place where I went.......I didn't have to have anything sent out.............It ws a Regional Cancer Center of Fox Chase in Philly. 

    Even my biopsy was back the same day it was done...................that is horrible to have to wait that long...........like BC isn't bad enough, then they make you wait for the result...........well what the hell do they care.................its not their body......................its a job to them................

    Well welcome again Rosieo, and Kaara.......hope its all good news....................hugs.

    Oh, and Granny........................I have been a good girl.................no drinking lately...............Damn a case of Vodka......................yowza yowzy...........................hahahahahahahahaha

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    I'm still waiting....although the waiting time has given me the opportunity to do additional research that determined that if there is cancer in the SN, additional surgery to take out other nodes are of no benefit...the survival rate is the same or only slightly different, so that worry is off the table.  I could further reduce that by having rads to the node area under the arm in addition to the breast.

     Now I only have to worry about the clear margins on the surgery...certainly those need to be clear or they will have to go back in for more tissue removal...UGH!  Also hoping that the grade and staging stays the same.  Why would they give you all this information after the biopsy if it could change??  I don't like surprises, and this process is all about surprises it seems.

    Probably won't hear from my doctor until late today.  He always does his calls when he gets back from surgery...very predictable guy.

    duckyb:  I could use some of that vodka about now! 

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    yeah i waited 10 days alright.2x with the same jerk dr.he even lost my Xrays.I brought my own Xrays and he lost them...big schmuck from big hospital in NY...even my path report was amended!!!!! i dont want to think about that.it was almost 2 yrs ago.I did get fixed by a wonderful Lady dr.who actually ent to schmuck drs seminars.she almost fainted when she saw the amended path report.....

    enuf.its Christmas time and time for joy and time for cheer.

    Come on duky-----share that case of vodka ya got.....ill be right over.

    hello everyone.....and a big hugggggggggg to all the sistas who made it past 70.Damn we are good...and we will beat this sucker....yes we will...B9 everyone forever. K

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  • Rosieo
    Rosieo Member Posts: 262
    edited December 2011

    Thanks to all of you for the nice welcome.

    I know from reading all these posts most of you seem to know each other well.

     Hopefully I can get to know you all, as well.

    I guess just a little background on my problem can get me started a little.  I had Hodgkins probably around 40 or more years ago and had many rounds of radiation.  I had read that a younger person having Hodgkins and lots of radiation is very prone to breast cancer.  I then asked my oncologist and he said that is very true.  So then of course I think maybe the breast cancer was caused by the radiation and not necessarily from my hormones and thennnnnnnnnnn I think do I really need to take Arimidex.  Just putting some feelers out if anyone has any input to my situation.   Thaks

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  • Rosieo
    Rosieo Member Posts: 262
    edited December 2011

    Ducky

    I have to admit I had to laugh at one of your last posts.  I will bet you are the life of the party.

    I too am 76.  Have 3 children, 5 grandchildren.  No great grand kids yet.   None of my grand children are married.  I don't know what they are waiting for.  They don't take after their old grandma!!  Married at 17!!  And you can really bring over that vodka, because I have great fixins to make a great chocolate martini.  LOL  Oh yes I mean really bring it over as I don't live too far from you.  I live in Pottsville Pa.  (Did you ever hear of it) 

    I, too, had my last mastectomy in Feb of 2011.  No lymph node involvement, clear margins and stage 1.  I had no chemo.  Did you? 

    Rosieo

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    Didn't hear from my dr.....so have to start again tomorrow calling and waiting!  I'm very disappointed that this is taking so long.  Others have received theirs immediately so what is the problem with mine.  I'm not as calm since they took me off my hormones so I might just give this guy a piece of my mind tomorrow if I don't get answers.

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2011

    Ro..............no chemo either..............Rads, and I am on Femara.............the (brand), not the generic..............I am familiar with Pottstown, (went there as a little girl to visit an aunt)........so Pottsville can't be far from there..................

    We do have a lot of fun oh here, and honestly we sound like we know each other well, and have actually met.........we haven't, at least I haven't.............Threre a several women from the area around where I live.......but have yet to meet any of them........

    I have 2 married grandchildren, both girls............the others, even though some of them are old enough, are not ready for trip to the altar..................I was just 21 when I married, so waiting till so much later blows my mind, but that is what the kids do today..............I was married in 1956, had my 1st baby in 57, 2nd in 58, and 3rd in 59............then took a rest, and had 3 more...........63,65, 69........my youngest is 42, and my oldest is 53.............3 boys, and 3 girls...........all good kids, with great careers..............and all within 5 minutes of my home..........actually one of my daughters took me shopping today (food, not xmas), and another daughter came, and trimmed my whole house , inside and out...........my youngest daughter bought me a Santa hat that says "bah humbug".......................that just about describes xmas for me......................I always say "I love New Years".............people say "why New Years".................I tell them........................"cause all the xmas "bullshit" is over, and we can all go back to quiet living again..............................my husband (who died 20 years ago) loved xmas..................but why wouldn't he......................I did all the work..................lost him very young he was 57, and to cancer...

    Well now that I have probably bored you to death , let me end by saying.....................WELCOME........................come back often...............its always good for a laugh........................and watch that Granny, she will steal your Vodka when your not looking.Surprised

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited December 2011

    Hi Everyone!

     Path report finally came in....clear nodes and margins!!  I'm a happy camper right now!  

    Break out the vodka and have a drink on me!  Thanks for all the support through this ordeal!

    PS...I'm 71, have 4 children, 8 grandchildren and one great grandchild. 

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited December 2011

    Kaara.......................what a fantastic christmas present...........I am so happy for you.........the clear margins are really important...................not to make slight of the "no node".........that is great too............once I had all those Dr. things behind me, I managed to control everything else so much better..............I always said it was the "not knowing" that drove me nuts...........

    I'm gonna fill my  "RED SOLO CUP", and drink to my good friend, with great news..............hugs, and you go girl....................get out that "RED SOLO CUP"...................Laughing

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited December 2011

    Hey---My family has a house in Honesdale....is that near any of you????how about planning a PA get together after the winter....yeah we are over 70 but WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!

    Kaara---congrats.....I know someone on this thread who is now waiting 10 days for results...you are lucky.again congrats.

    Ducky---my new pic.is my greyson when he was first born.#3 Ggrand..

    I too was soo young when i got married.18 married,19 first 20 second 23 third and 25 #4.now at the ripe old age of 71 i have 6 grands and 3 GG.life is good.we need to celebrate that we made it this far...pass the vodka Ducky!!!!!!!!

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