Positive Girls Club

Pk0199-Glad to meet you, I too had a mild tx course (bilat with expanders/perm implants) but I would rather focus on the positive. I do get angry and bitter when I hear of another wonderful woman who dies from BC but then I go back to positive and trying to find a cure. I have lost 3 wonderful women that I was close to from my local support group since my dx and several more are stage 4 and fighting a good fight. Our local group likes to have fun things at the meetings, not just statistics. This year for the Komen luncheon, our county was responsible to organize and plan the luncheon with the entertainment. We designed bras (art project) and made them personal. we then had a local dance team model the bras (with shirts on underneath) in a 'glitz and glamour' fashion show for the show and it was a hit.

Sheila

I love this time of year.  It's cool and crisp out.  Leaves falling.  I just love it and I appreciate that I am here to take it all in!

Lorrie 

Lori,

I am sorry to hear about your newest diagnosis. Being positive is the way to go, not that it heals you but you can deal with whatever is thrown your way.

Sheila

I just joined this thread and you are a breath of fresh air to me.  Yes we all have an assigned day and time it written in the good book.  God Bless You. Recuperating from a BMX with Reconstruction and just read cancer can sometimes come back.  Fear gripped me, but then I said Lord let me take it one day at a time.

Hi Chevyboy and welcome.  I too love this thread. 

Hi, I've been hangin around the BCO site since April 2011, and just today, came across this thread.  It's great!  There is so much fear when dealing with BC, It's good to focus on the positive. I'm tired of complaining, I want to live a thankful and grateful life.  (Though I'm all for a good vent once in a while. *grin*)

2hands - your verse Phil. 4:13 is encouraging.  Thank you!

Today I'm thankful to be alive! Thankfull they got all the BC with the Bilateral mastectomy.  And I'm thanking God ahead of time for the right help at the right time in getting my implants out in the near future.  I don't have to work today, but have I mentioned I'm thankful for a job!!  As I count my blessings it could go on and on!  Is my life perfect.  Hardly. ha!  But there is still so much to be thankful for! 

Thank you to the person who started this thread years ago. What a wonderful place to come and find uplifting encouragement. 

Pink Stinks

Wow, no one has posted here in over a month, but what a great thread.  I love having a positive thread.  I've done really well with my surgeries.  But now I'm about to start the hard stuff with 1st chemo tx coming up in 9 days - Taxotere, Carboplatin, and Herceptin.  I'm hoping I can get through this as well as the surgeries but I've been reading a lot of threads with the side effects from treatments.  I can really use a positive thread right now.  Hope some of you ladies still check in here.

Hey libraylil

No crickets here. We have to stay positive. I have been in a positive way since DX. Am I mentally deficient. No I don't think so. There is no need to add to the negative energy this trip can bring. 

You seem to have done all you can  according to your dr's and came out smelling like a rose. What is your next approach? Mine is diet excersize and etc....................I'm sttill trying to quit smoking. Bad Girl.

BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY...........................maureen

Yay, activity on the positive thread.  Welcome!

I just found this thread.  Yay!  I seem to have the same problem as you libraylil, any time I try to put a positive spin on anything I am also met with silence. 

 I have found that hitting things head on with a positive attitude and a sense of humor makes it easier to swallow.  I have to admit though, this dx isn't the first life altering thing my husband and I have dealt with, and I think that has made it a little easier to confront and  do what needs to be done.  He was dx'd with MS 12yrs ago.  We work with the bad and savor the good in life. 

Hi librylil, Judy, chef, and twozzs.

I found this thread 5 years ago when I was going through chemo and radiation. It sure helped me to get through it all. It helped that most of my friends were positive about things, too. Only my mil treated me as if I was dying. I met some terrific ladies here, on my radiation thread. and on my Chemo Thread, and I met several of them in person.

I still remember one humorous thread about "Big Girl Panties."  I had to tune in everyday to see what people had posted.

I don't post as much as I did, but I keep this topic on my email notification. So ladies keep your positive attitudes and get through your treatments. It's worth it now that I'm 5 years out from it all, and the bad stuff has been forgotten.

Hello, ladies! May I join this club? I was diagnosed with IDC in December and so far things have been "easy" (as easy as possible with a BC diagnosis!) One aunt to whom I'm really close (she's actually my age) told another aunt (much older) how well I was doing and yes, the older one said I'm in denial!! I happen to believe that self-pity is a terrible waste of time and energy. Of course, my prognosis is pretty positive so in that regard it may be easier to have a good attitude.

I had a lumpectomy last month and it was a breeze. My sister asked me to stay overnight at her house the first night just in case I had a late reaction to the anesthesia (I appreciated her concern) but I could just as easily have gone home. I'm awating the results of my Oncotype test to see if I'll need chemo. If not, they'll start radiation. 

I've always been a fact-based, no-nonsense, let's-get-on-with-it kind of person (military, corrections, computers). Just tell me what I need to do then stand back and let me do it!