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

YKYACP when you let your BCO buddies know you're going on vacation so they don't worry about not hearing from you for a week.

Happy Holidays everyone!

YKYACPW the water main in front of your house breaks and you just KNOW that it's because of the 'cement' movents you've been passing. Expected a knock at the door any second!!!

YKYACPW --- every chain email that has the word breast cancer in it is sent to your inbox.  Just a few days ago, a lady I used to work with sent me a chain email with the following in it -------

Cancer is a strange cell.
You can go along for years in remission
and then one day it pops its head up again.
If you ever have it you will never be free of it.
Pray for the day there will be a permanent cure.

HELLOOOOO!!  Does this sound like encouragement to you gals???  I know she means well, but is it really necessary to send me these emails to remind me that I will never be free of the fear of cancer returning!

I really hate that to many of my 'friends' my name is now synonomous with 'cancer.'  I'd like to think that there is more to me than that! But for some people, when they hear my name, breast cancer is the first thing that pops into their head.  I hate that!

YKYACPW - You're excited to see hair stuck on your soap again :-)

YKYACPW you hope that a breast friend's back pain is caused by herniated discs or something like that rather than bone mets. 

YKYACPW the having a herniated disc is good news.  

Have I said recently that bc $UCK$?  

YKYACPW... you look at your shelf filled with tampons, maxi-pads and panty liners and wonder how you could use any of these for anything other then the period you'll never have again.

YKYACPW ... it's been almost 3 years since you finished tx, and you're flying from CA to NY ... and the pilot comes on to give the connecting gates in Dallas... and when he loudly announces one of the connections is gate "B9," your mind instinctively hears "benign," and you feel like crying because you realize how deeply bc lingo is ingrained in your brain...    Deanna

LOL Darla, I saw my family doc for annual exam this past summer and he was going to order a mammo and I asked what would they put between the plates.  I've been going to this doc for 20+ years and he visited me in the hospital when I had the BMX.  Yikes.

deanna - that would happen at bingo too.

Rocky,

So true.....I just moved them to the guest bathroom where they've been gratefully appreciated on a few occasions! 

You have spent the past week reading this thread while waiting for your post surgical path report. Did they lose the evidence? And at about page 39, you accidentally clicked last instead of next and from that point on it would only start at 1 or 107. It has kept my spirits up! Thanks. (I'll post stats if I ever get them.)

YKYACPW the entire top row of your bathroom cabinet is full of bottles of stuff that either makes you poop, stop pooping, modify your poop, or clean yourself after pooping.

 I finally took the emergency plastic bags out of my center console of my car this week, 14 weeks PFC. 

YKYABreastCPW when----

• you tell the doctor, now I'm having the same pain on the other one and you stand up and pop it out too.

• you throw a weighty candle through your bedroom drywall and don't really care.

• you are wearing incontinence pads over your drainage site and tell all your new friends on BCO what a great idea... yes, Rocky, that is what you can do w all those pads, except incontinence pads are best.

• you run around telling people who need to know or who know people who need to know that a box of fluffy cotton is good to purchase, use a wad for a nipple cover under the bra, stops pain.
• you're losing weight, looking great and no one who knows you were dx'd w bc will tell you because they think you are dying, not realizing it is the new macrobiotic food plan. 

LOVE THIS THREAD, btw

Rocky----you are so funny.

ha! Essa, I never thought about the candle trick . . . good one. I'm going to put that in my back pocket :-)