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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited March 2006
    Mags,
    I don't like cowgirls Doctor, but at this stage it would only mean more delay getting treatment if she switched.
    And with an HMO she is limited.
    I hope so much your test come out good, CHEERS!

    Laucher,
    You said you haven't had anyone to really talk to, and you
    really need that. And I am telling you even if you did unless it's someone that has seen treatments up close they don't understand. I hope by coming here you can vent,
    and get hope that things will get better.

    Kari,
    I am so glad you are feeling good, and keep us posted about the upcoming test.

    hugs everyone,
    Carrie
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  • laucher
    laucher Member Posts: 2
    edited March 2006
    HI all--

    Thanks for your words. I think one of the "storms" has passed, this weekend was pretty nice actually. I have identified some areas in myself that i want to change, ways of thinking, etc, but mostly it helped to let ti out some and then go on. I have to get better at choosing what to let out with Suz and waht to let out elsewhere.

    Regards,
    Drew
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  • cowgirl
    cowgirl Member Posts: 777
    edited March 2006
    Drew good to know you are doing better.

    Big news show is this week, we are hammering plates to smitherines this morning, pouring concrete, and washing goats this afternoon. Hubby is working tonight, so I am going to need to grill a few steaks, make salad and tea too! Ahhh the joys of a busy life! I do love it that part of my life is back to normal, I am too busy to focus on what might have been. My shoulder is doing better since I move it all the time, pain is getting better too.

    I may not be here in cyber world, but my thoughts and prayers will always begin with this group! I love you all so much!!!

    happy venting, crying and dancing! For today we are alive!!!
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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited March 2006
    Denise had her first mammo today after DX ,It was the same tech too! No extra views, No long wait, Just We will see you next year!! Lookin good. She goes for her Pet scan on
    thurs. Fingers crossed!

    Cowgirl,
    Tell the boys I am thinking of them and to have fun!

    take pics and share with us okay?
    Hugs-n-Love,
    Carrie
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  • Notsopuny5721
    Notsopuny5721 Member Posts: 110
    edited March 2006
    Hi All: Just time for a quickie. We got back into town yesterday afternoon. Weather sucked--rained most o' the time--but was good seeing family, etc.

    Wow--so much has happened this past week. Let's see...Carrie: What's up with you, girl? Have you thought any more about your options, etc? Just to share a little from my wife's family history: grandmother and mother both had BC 2x. Her sisters both tested positive for the BRCA gene (as my wife says, BC doesn't "run" in her family--it gallops!)

    So, on that basis, both my wive's sisters had radical mastectomies as a prophylactic against BC (neither one had had it.) My wife, however (BC 2x since 1999) decided she wanted to keep her breasts and take her chances. On the other hand, a PET scan she took after she was diagnosed the 2nd time, showed positive nodes in her sternum--so she felt vindicated, b/c she said, even if she had had a rad mast. the positive nodes in her sternum seemed to suggest she might have gotten BC anyway. So...I dunno if the above helps you or not; but I figured another perspective couldn't hurt.

    Cowgirl: Frozen shoulder? Never heard of it. Is that better 'n a rotator cuff problem? Anyway, good luck gettin' the goats ready for the show...

    Mags: My wife just completed PT for lymphadema. She didn't have as many sessions as you, and in her case, she's still wearing this supportive piece of cloth (dunno what it's made of--but her PT gave it to her) that gives her extra support in her swollen breast. The doc measured her and said the lymph. was minor, but she'll have to keep an eye on it for years to come.

    Shemp: Sorry I missed out on the dacquiries (sp?). Got any leftovers?

    Laucher: Welcome, my friend, to the club. You've come to the right place. As you've already seen, this is a place where you can vent to your heart's content and no one is going to judge you--but the opposite--you'll get lots o' support--from both the wonderful men AND women here (God, I love you guys). And since you're new, I'm gonna repeat my "mantra:" if you haven't already done so, run out and pick up (or buy new/used on Amazon) a copy of Marc Silver's "Breast Cancer Husband." It's an excellent handbook for men on everything you wanted to know about this awful disease, what your wife goes through, physically, mentally, etc., and what to do and what not to do. It's been of great help to me and lots of other men.

    I think that covered everything, no? Guess this message wasn't as short as I thought it'd be. Oh well, back to work. Have a great day, everybody.

    Greg
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  • mags
    mags Member Posts: 233
    edited March 2006
    Hi Carrie, birthday girl. Kept seeing all these cakes next to your name. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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    Hugs
    Mags
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  • mags
    mags Member Posts: 233
    edited March 2006
    Can't have a brithday without a cake.

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    I hope he doesn't scare you Carrie lol.
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  • mags
    mags Member Posts: 233
    edited March 2006
    Hi Cowgirl, when is the show? You'll have to let us know how Arnie and John Goodman do. I can't remember their real names of course lol.
    Greg, think we'll all be on the champagne celebrating Carrie's birthday.
    Laucher, you know that you're always welcome to come and vent in here. Hoping that things will work out for you and your wife
    Hugs
    Mags
    xxxxx
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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited March 2006
    Karilynn is on her way
    to Houston today
    for a day of tests(CT, Bone Scan, Bone Survey, blood work)...

    Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers today Kari

    Thank you Mags So much!
    Yeah Greg wheres the champagne?

    This year has been a real eye opener!
    And my birthday wish is a cure for the beast
    good health for us all in the coming years!

    It is good to see you back Greg ! Hope you and DW
    had a good restful time. We missed you!

    Hugs everyone!
    Carrie
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  • Notsopuny5721
    Notsopuny5721 Member Posts: 110
    edited March 2006
    Carrie: Happy birthday, girl! May all your wishes come true.

    (Sorry; I haven't mastered the inserting-the-graphics-thingie, but if I had, you'd see a big bottle of bubbly overflowing...) ;-)

    Best,
    Greg
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  • wendyintx
    wendyintx Member Posts: 51
    edited March 2006
    Carrie,
    Happy, happy birthday!!! Just saw the cake, too! Hope you have a superfuntasmagorical day (in the words of my ds).

    Big hugs,
    Wendy
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  • Shemp
    Shemp Member Posts: 89
    edited March 2006

    Cool! Happy Birthday!

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  • beachcottage
    beachcottage Member Posts: 4,688
    edited March 2006
    Just popping in
    to say Happy Birthday
    Carrie!

    xoxo
    Patti
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  • mags
    mags Member Posts: 233
    edited March 2006
    Hey hey Greg, I knew I had some somewhere.

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    Cheers Carrie.
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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited March 2006
    Okay I'm ready lets party!!

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  • cowgirl
    cowgirl Member Posts: 777
    edited March 2006
    Wooo Whoooo!! Happy Birthday Carrie!!!!

    Our show is Friday at 2 PM CST. Please be praying for us! There are 160 goats, so our chances are slim to none!!!

    Today oldest said he is going to a Tennis tourney tomorrow, which leaves us three to get 4 goats to the show barn!!! Yikes trailer traffic in a small town!!!
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  • mags
    mags Member Posts: 233
    edited March 2006

    Ok. I'm here Carrie let's break out the drinks while we're waiting for the others. Mine's a gin and tonic please,

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  • cowgirl
    cowgirl Member Posts: 777
    edited March 2006

    I am drinking a Marguarita Please!!!!

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  • DebraLynn
    DebraLynn Member Posts: 228
    edited March 2006
    Happy Birthday Carrie!!!

    hugs,
    Debra
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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited March 2006
    Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes
    Hubby made me breakfast in bed today and my daughter Teah took me out for a girls day together and She had made an appt. at a salon and payed to have my hair cut and styled and when I got home hubby had made dinner so no cooking today woo-hoo! and then I got all these happy birthday wishes one in the moving beyond thread and here made me feel really good! oh yea, my 13yr old grand baby sang me happy birthday too so sweet!

    I had a wonderful birthday!
    I love you guys,
    Carrie
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  • Deese
    Deese Member Posts: 144
    edited March 2006
    Sis,

    Happy, happy birthday baaaby, and may all your dreams come true! Okay...not original but way better than me actually singing to you.

    Look who followed me to your party...

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    PARTY!!!
    Denise
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  • cowgirl
    cowgirl Member Posts: 777
    edited March 2006

    Oh yeah you had to bring out the dancing goat!!! Well he is for special Birthdays!!!

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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited March 2006
    Cowgirl,

    She is at it again!!

    What a brat, Using my happy day to taunt with the dancing goat.



    was funny though hee-hee



    hugs,

    Carrie
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  • Notsopuny5721
    Notsopuny5721 Member Posts: 110
    edited March 2006
    Carrie: Sounds like you had a wonderful birthday, dancing goat and all. Nice to see so many of your friends (and family!) stopping by to wish you well. Hope you all come back more often!

    Greg
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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited April 2006
    Okay where is everyone!
    Spring is here I am so glad!
    Last fall I planted Denise a victory flower bed of 100
    spring bulbs the green shoots have pushed above the soil.

    She has her last test on monday she is having a colonoscopy
    can you relate Greg LOL! Then that is it for the testing!

    Karilynn got very good results on her test and scans,
    I hope I remeber right but healing and no progression
    thats it for testing for 6 months!!
    woo-hoo Kari you go girl friend!

    Cowgirl,
    I am sending postive thoughts that your son got
    in the big money show with his goat today....
    fingers crossed.
    have fun today.

    hugs everyone,
    Carrie
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  • mags
    mags Member Posts: 233
    edited April 2006
    Hi Carrie, I'm here. Every time I see that goat I think about you and Denise fun fighting on the other thread. I think of you both as teenagers. Her flowers are going to be fabulous. I hope everything goes well with her colonscopy and that they give her good drugs lol.

    Fabulous to hear the Kari got good results and no more testing for 6 months. Whoopee!!!!



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    Happy dance for Kari.

    Cowgirl, how did the show go. You have to let us know how Arnie and John Goodman got on.

    Hugs all

    Mags

    xoxoxoxox
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  • Notsopuny5721
    Notsopuny5721 Member Posts: 110
    edited April 2006
    Hey Everybody: Carrie, thanks for sharing the good news about Denise and Karilynn.. Please don't mention the colonoscopy--I just finished breakfast, lol.

    Went out yesterday and bought bicycles for my DW and me. Then, the three of us (DW, DD, and me) went for a ride on a local trail. The smile on my DW's face was worth a million bucks--and worth maxing out my credit cards, lol (of course, that night she came down with her 3rd strep throat of the season! But, as I was quick to point out to her, last year, during her treatment, she did not have a single incident of strep throat--which could have been disasterous!)

    Best to one and all,
    Greg
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  • Shemp
    Shemp Member Posts: 89
    edited April 2006

    It's the start of autocross season for us, so I was getting the car ready. That, and wife and I are having a little weight loss contest of our own. We're not too terribly out of shape, but both of us could stand to drop the extra 15, maybe a little more for me. So she's been out roller blading a few times and I've been jogging a lot more. We're waiting to get the bicycles out too! It seems like it's been either windy or wet most days, so I've had to forego the bike for jogging. Can't wait to get the bike out though. I ride to work on nice days, and we're doing a bicycle touring vacation this summer, so time to get those quadriceps awakened from their winter slumber!

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  • csp
    csp Member Posts: 2,765
    edited April 2006
    Mags, Denise and I are very immature for our ages lol!
    Denise is home resting and the results are nothing found woo-hoo she gets the results from her pet on thursday.

    Shemp- my son in law races in pro stock and he too is busy
    tweeking and re what ever you racing guys do . he just bought a new body this winter so he is very exited.

    Greg - for your wife {{{{hugs}}}}
    I am sorry she has strep throat hope she is feeling better soon!!

    Update on Cowgirl- Cowgirls DH is in the hospital with gall bladder attack he has been there I think today is day 3 waiting for surgery, they wont let him eat because they keep saying they are going to do the surgery and then he gets bumped again. He is not the lay around kinda guy and is going stirr crazy laying there waiting.
    Thinking of you both cowgirl hope he had his surgery today and all went well!

    hugs everyone good to hear from you all!
    Carrie
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  • Deese
    Deese Member Posts: 144
    edited April 2006
    Hello everyone,

    You guys are sooo sweet! Thanks for thinking of me.

    Mags, I am the younger of Carrie & I so it would be natural to think of me as a teenager. Carrie, I think, is due to a genetic disturbance of some sort!(hee hee)

    Greg, so sorry your wife is feeling bad. I use to get strep alot when I was younger, it is such a crappy illness. Speedy recovery for her.

    Cowgirl, darn it!!! Are you getting frequent hospital miles? I'm praying that all goes smoothly and recovery is quick and comfortable. You take care of you too!

    Shemp, I admire you and your DW's get up and go. I'm still in the 'talking about it' phase of excersising. I'm not sure I remember how to ride a bike (despite the saying '...it's like riding a bike').

    Oh yeah, Greg, I could use some advise. How long before you felt it was safe to eat beans again? Just wondering!LOL

    Denise
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