I'm bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

Kathleen I had to do that when I had an angiogram. They literally held the hole closed with a wood clamp! A nurse was at my side for 30 minutes without leaving for a second as it could bleed out. I don`t remember getting a lifting restriction...hmm..... What a bloody invasive procedure to not even do something with!!! Duh!!! I feel your pissed-off-ish-ness.

I  am back!  Now I have a dry cough that when I lay down to sleep becomes worse.  And everytine I cough I shed a few drops of urine - wonderful!  I am wearing a depends so no worries.  I am sick of being old!  It seems that once out of any hospital stay I develop all kinds of $hit!.  Sorry for my language but this is getting old fast.  I'm going to call my doc tomorrow and discuss this, some crap they found on a lung, and why they didn't do anything during the vascular procedure.

I'm just venting - don't mind me.

Barbe ... I pray you don't have c-diff.  Hospitals are the worse places to go with a damaged immune system!  I had it many years ago when it was very difficult to diagnose.  I spent 8 days in the hospital praying I wouldn't pick uo any new infections!  What surgery are you having?

Barbe, I had cdiff from the antibiotic I had to take after my post lumpectomy infection two years ago.  It was no fun, to say the least!  I literally had to go to the bathroom every half hour.  I had to insist on testing for it, my GP didn't think it was cdiff, I'm glad that I was persistent.  Good luck with your surgery.

Kathleen, I hop that you get the answers you are looking for.  ((hugs))

Barbe ... I can't believe another surgery ... I hate to say it  but the same thing happened to my cat!  Not that I would ever compare you to a cat!  (Although in my book that would be the highest compliment).  I am praying for you, for your surgery and your swift recovery.  I am so glad you don't have c-diff.

Pixel ... I had procedural sedation and didn't have the strength to talk.  Otherwise I would have - what?  Asked him if he toughgt I was doing this on purpose so he can't take the pictures?  However, he is a surgeon and like all surgeons skipped "bedside manner 101."  At least he left hardly a mark and no brusing and I healed well.

My only experience with Cymbalta involved adding it and Nerotin to my regimen of pills and one or both made my stomach really queasy so I quit both.  I mean queasy to the point of vomiting and I was still working so I would have to make a mad dash to the restroom (not much notice!).

Ahhhh, I feel so much better...you said it all for me.  thanks!!  it will be 2 years since i started this bs, and i am tired all the time, if i go shopping its maybe 2 stores and i am done, i hate taking so many pills they constipate me (sorry), i can't sleep even with a sleeping pill , hot flashes keep waking me up.  thought I'd add a few things lol

peggy

It was in December 2008 that I had a bilateral mastectomy and it hit me all over again that I don't have breasts.  I know I'm slow but it periodically comes out of nowhere that I had cancer (hate that word) and now I have no breasts!  Besides the fact that I am 65 years old, I really don't think Playboy is going to call!

I'm taking Cymbalta for chronic low back pain (6 years +back surgery).  Plus the chemo left me with the bottoms of my feet sooooo tender/aching ankles and knees/toes feeling like they are going to explode and my toenails pop off.  Fun, huh?  I have been on Zoloft for like 15 years and now am off it since the Cymbalta replaces that.  Good because I can have a glass of wine now and again without feeling poisoned (zoloft side effect).  I think I needed to keep on the 60 mg because I feel so much better than when I sent out the SOS on Saturday....I probably have fibromyalgia but don't want the diagnosis....I keep thinking that one day I'll feel better.  I try and keep all my meds to a bare minimum because I"m so reactive.  I"m only getting about 6.5 hrs sleep instead of my usual 8.5...but I"m still always tired....damn chemo.  Barb, I don't know how you do it!!!!!  I think of you often because you have somehow kept your wonderful sense of humor after all the S*** you've been thru.  More like Barb, less like me...more like Barb, less like me...(I'm just a pisser and a moaner~

gee thanks.....

Ruth, if you do have Fibromyalgia, you need to sleep MORE!! When I'm in a flare, I have to sleep 16-18 hours a day without fail. If I don't, I am into a wheelchair. I kid you not!! I am out of a flare now, and am back down to 10-12 hours a night/nap.

I was taking 2 Cymbalta, but like I said, it began to affect my heart (along with another drug).

This thread is great....my turn to bitch!  I went through 2 failed marriages and spent 12 years alone raising my 2 girls because I refused to "settle" again.  In 2010 I reconnected with a wonderful man I dated in high school 27 years ago.  We dated, moved in together, and on May 14, 2011 we got married. My avatar is on our honeymoon.  I had never been happier in my entire life!  I know without a doubt that I made the right choice.  So 5 months into newlywed bliss.....BAM...you have BC!  OMG!  I am so f'ing pissed not only about the damn cancer but because as a reult of it, I am spending my first year of marriage to the most wonderful man being sick!  He deserves better and I hate it!!  He is so wonderful and takes care of me and I know this is only bringing us closer, but give me an F'ing break!  I have been through 2 surgeries and am now in the middle of chemo.  Sex has gone out the window....hot flashes from chemopause and I can't stay awake for it anyway. 

Yesterday my DH told me that on our anniversary this year we will have a party and start our newlywed year over.  God I love that man.....and I hate cancer, it sucks!

kelloggs-he's a keeper!!!!!!

tnbcRuth - believe me I thank my lucky stars every day for him.  My heart goes out to all of you ladies who have to do it alone.  I could easily have been one of you....was alone for 12 years.  We gain strength from each other!  Cancer sucks!

My gripe...Yesterday I went to see my onc for my quarterly appointment here is what I was told:

Regarding complaining about the $3,000 echo I had for f/u on chemo that ended 2 yrs ago...'well, had you met your deductible yet?'   WTH does that have to do with an over priced, routine exam that HER office scheduled at a new facility after my old cardiac center closed, who by the way only charged $300 for the same damn exam!!! I ASKED SPECIFICLY how much it would cost at the new place and was told $800 -1,000...imagine my surprise when the scheduler said, 'I had no idea it would be that much!'...he didn't even ask the facility, he had 'guessed'!

Regarding the imaging place cancelling my MRI (due to 'slight' reaction to contrast in the past) that SHE ordered at my visit last September...'well you really don't need MRI's or mammo's anymore, you have less then 10% breast tissue remaining anyway...'

To which I responded - 'So since I had no symptoms with my first TWO cancers, I guess I'll have to be close to deaths doors before I get any scans?'  and she responded...'if the cancer spreads it does not matter how quickly it is found, your life expectancy is the same...Finding it early just means you will start treatment sooner...'

The only good part of the whole appointment is I that I am now on a 6 month rotation instead of quarterly! 

If I wasn't working two jobs to try to pay the damn medical bills and feed my family, I would be shopping for a new oncololgist.  Unfortunately the closest place to start looking for a new oncologist is over 100 miles away...