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  • Joan811
    Joan811 Member Posts: 2,672
    edited February 2012
    Susan, that's great news.  I had dreaded radiation, but it really seemed to go fast and I made it through despite a lot of anxiety and claustrophobia.  I was very fortunate - completely healed within 2 weeks.  I am glad you have planned a trip.  I did also, for the summer....I want a do-over after getting interrupted last summer!
    Jo, sorry you have back issues confirmed; but amazed that you can get a treatment to relieve pain. 
    Ducky, I love the way you speak about your doc....some are very fortunate to have a great experience.  I plan to say bye to my MO tomorrow....my second MO prescribed aromasin or something like that - a change from arimidex.  I will start it after I hear what MO #1 has to say.
    Well, Valentines Day is done.....but i agree with Sheila - it was a good day.  My son got a job interview in CA and i am really happy for him. 
    Falling asleep.....happy tomorrow, everyone!
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  • hawk
    hawk Member Posts: 305
    edited February 2012

    Susan, great news on the low Oncotype Score!  That is awesome.  Mine was low but not as low as the rest of your at 14. I have 14 more rx to go.  5 regular and 9 boosts :-) 

    Jo - praying that the back teatments give you a ton of relief.

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  • mimi1964
    mimi1964 Member Posts: 2,163
    edited February 2012

    Happy Hump "Wednesday" to your all!!! Today is a beautiful 65 degrees here in Cullman.  Wish my hubby didn't have my car and I would so take the little one and go to the park.  Boo! Oh well there will be other days. 

    Love to all you ladies have a blessed day!!

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited February 2012

    Joan.........he was as good as I say...........I have 6 children, and he scheduled an appt. with them, and me before the biopsy, talked to us,then after the biopsy, and before surgery was decided, he spoke with us for 2 hours more to explain everything he found, and what my choices would be for surgery, and treatment. and as soon as he was finished the biopsy he came out to the waiting room, and spoke with them..........he said to my older son......"if this comes back negative"...............my son, interrupted him and said "you mean it might not be cancer"...........he said to my son........"hold on, and I will finish my statement"...........if this comes back negative, I will run other tests, because I'm that sure, that it is cancer"...........................he hand walked the "sample tumor" over to the pathology dept. which was in the same hospital........I actually saw him...........he smiled, looked me in the eye, and said "I'm taking your speciman to pathology right now"...........within 2 days, I had an answer, my options, and his thoughts".................

    After surgery, within 2 days I had the size, grade, and the margins of my surgery......and the treatment.............I cannot say enough about this man, and the fact that heis the "head hancho" in the Breast Center, doesn't change him one bit.............he is so sweet and humble, and actually looks "shy" when you tell him how good he is, the raves he gets, and your gratefulness to him........................wonderful man..............

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2012

    New Beginnings....Celebrating ducky's Anniversary    ♥

    We love you my friend♥

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2012

    Tongue out

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2012

    Beautiful azalea bud, Sheila.  Spring is springing here.  So many trees in bloom, and I even have some gladiolus which decided to make an early appearance.  They don't know what day it is.!

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited February 2012

    We're hoping to make a short trip up to NC this spring to see the Dogwoods in bloom.  They are absolutely beautiful!  Somewhere I have a photo of the tree outside my dining room window in full bloom.  Wish I knew how to post it.

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  • bedo
    bedo Member Posts: 1,866
    edited February 2012

    Dumb question for stage one sisters.... So can we just forget about this and "get on with our lives" if we are comfortable with that?  My MO told me that I will live for "a long long time, and die an old lady from something else "  I am sorry if I offended anyone, both of my parents died of different types of cancer by the time I was 26 and I have other health issues.  How realistic is it to put it behind me and not worry about it?  I want to get on with my life.

    Thank you.

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited February 2012

    bedo:  That is exactly what all of us want to do....get on with our lives!   I am doing that as we speak!  I'm on this site now to help other newbies and to share with the many friends I've made during this challenging journey.  Nobody would be offended if you decided to sign off and move on.  I think that most probably do.

    Prayers and hugs...wishing you a safe journey! 

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited February 2012

    Shiela thanks for the flowers, and sharing my 1 year anniversary...............I am moving on with my life, like many of us, but I find comfort in helping ;others who are "new" at this horrible news, and will continue to come back.......it is not about cancer anymore............For me it is the wonderful, women I have met over this past year, and have gained a friendship with people I never knew................If I passed you gals on the street, I would not know who you were, but on here, "I know you all better then some friends I have here at home"...................

    YOu make me smile, laugh, cry, and appreciate life with the best bunch of ladies I have ever met....many many times we never mention cancer when we talk, its just a friendship among women who came together for comfort during a time of their life when they needed someone who "understood......someone who went through what was completely foreign to us at the time........we were all "newbies" at one point.............Now we are friends forever......... I'm here to stay .............hugs to all my wonderful friends........................

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2012

    Like the sisters said....We are going on with our lives.....

    bedo....this journey we all went or going through can never be forgotten.........it will always be part our life at least for me........i can't pretend I forgot all about it.

    Ducky....I'm glad to hear that you are staying otherwise i would sent granny after you LOL

    (((Kaara)))

    Nice to see you Meece ♥

    Hugs♥

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  • Joan811
    Joan811 Member Posts: 2,672
    edited February 2012

    (((Duckyk))) you sure are making me smile Cool with your warm fuzzy thoughts !
    I couldn't agree more.....the relationships here are real and they are whatever we want them to be....
    I met with someone I met here on line today - who has the same Dr. as I have at the same cancer center.  It was really good to actually sit and talk with someone who understands the concerns and agrees that we're tired of being told we are and always will be "FINE"....anyway, I am grateful for everybody here, the highs, the lows, the joys and sorrows....most of all the honesty.
    Thanks...
    I had my follow up with RO today and MO #1.  it was quite a day....on the way out I got so emotional....like I was graduating but would somehow miss all that drama.  Weird, but I guess not so unusual.    Life is getting more normal.  All I need to do is a colonoscopy, endoscopy, dentist, and a few other dreadful things.....
    Nite all!

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited February 2012

    Joan:   Happy "graduation"...glad it went well!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2012

    One thing with trying to get on with one's life is that we are constantly aging and with that come health issues.  Some of which have been made more noticable since our treatments for BC, thus we are often reminded of what we went through.  With time it becomes easier to not think BC all day long.  It can happen.

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited February 2012

    Meece:  I'm trying hard to make sure I stay ahead of the curve.  My diet and supplementation program have taken a few years off my age since dx...really!  People are asking me if I had "work done"...lol...no, I just got bc and decided to take charge of my own health!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2012
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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2012

    I need to look over my supplements and see what should change.

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  • mimi1964
    mimi1964 Member Posts: 2,163
    edited February 2012

    ducky you said exactly what I feel about life, bc and these ladies on here and coming back.  I would love to meet and just sit and talk with all of you but everyone lives so far apart. 

    Meece what a  beautiful cake for a beautiful lady that is now singing with the angels... Happy Birthday Lisa we miss you!

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  • Sherryc
    Sherryc Member Posts: 5,938
    edited February 2012

    Kaara-My Dad went to Reagan High.  He died 30 years ago but would be 79 if he were still alive. River Oaks is a beautiful place.  I have also changed my way of life.  I exercise, changed my eating, take more supplements.  I get compliments all the time that I look better than before I had cancer.  Just wish I did not have the aches and pains, but how bad would they be if I had not change my way of life?

    Bedo I think cancer defines us forever but I know that I am finally in a place that I feel good about my future.  It has taken me a while to get here.  I think for me it was taking control of my treatment.  I was not given my options in the beginning from my BS.  My MO is all about me making the decisions after he gives me the information.  Because I feel good about the decisions I am making I feel good about my future.

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  • TinaT
    TinaT Member Posts: 2,300
    edited February 2012

    I woke up this morning realizing that it was exactly one year ago to the minute that my NSBMX was getting underway.  I'm still here!!!

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2012
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  • hawk
    hawk Member Posts: 305
    edited February 2012

    Ducky, your beautiful thoughts made me smile.  I am not sure I will ever think that life is as it was before.  But I also would like to think that the Lord has a plan and I have to figure out what He wants me to do next.  I agree with you all.. It is awesome to care about people that we only "know" online. 

    You all make every day easier.  Hugs all. 

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  • Kaara
    Kaara Member Posts: 3,647
    edited February 2012

    TinaT:  Congratulations!

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2012

    TinaT

    Congratulations

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  • TinaT
    TinaT Member Posts: 2,300
    edited February 2012

    Thanks!  I guess it's pretty normal to have very mixed emotions when these "anniversaries" come up - diagnosis, surgeries, etc.  I wish all the events of the past year or so didn't have to happen, but I survived it all much better than I would have ever imagined.  When you're thrown into it you really have no choice but to learn all you can and try work through it.  It's still all kind of hard to believe...

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  • mimi1964
    mimi1964 Member Posts: 2,163
    edited February 2012

    It is normal to have mixed feelings, but as time progresses and we go back to living our lives believe it or not you actually don't think about parts of BC so much.  I just realized sitting here reading this that the 2 yr. anniversary of me completing radiation on Feb. 4th came and went and I never even thought of it till now.  That is the way I want it to be, something that doesn't consume me or my life anymore than it has to.  In Oct. it will be 3 yrs since my dx. my how time flies.  Smile 

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited February 2012

    Ducky----if you think about leaving BCO IM COMIN TO GET YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

    You are such a valuable player on all the threads.

    I dont celebrate anything that has to do with the beast...i used 4 BS,had 3 lumpectomies and i try to forget exactly which day what happened.I do remember finishing rads last feb.And i hardly ever talk about this beast unless someone brings it up and then all i say is I kicked bc right in the ass.

    Happy Birthday Lisa.

    hugggggggs everyone K

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  • TinaT
    TinaT Member Posts: 2,300
    edited February 2012

    grannydukes - I'm not exactly celebrating, but it's been a very reflective day. I think about it less and less, but I have had lots of good experiences over the past year as well as the obvious bad ones.  I know I'm taking much better care of myself.  I have a healthier perspective on life, I think.  It seems easier to ignore the unimportant stuff.  I have a renewed hope in the medical profession, of which I have been a part for 30 years and in which I had pretty much lost faith.  I have found out who my true friends are and have met some great new people along the way, including all of you here! 

    By the way......I kicked it too!!!

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited February 2012

    Tina-dont get me wrong about the celebration....most of the sistas do it...hey what ever works.

    I remember when i finished the rads everyone on the boards said they had a party at the hospital,ringing bells etc...I dreaded it but low and behold my hospital made no big deal.nothing.so right then and there i made up my mind i gotta make it like nothing too.

    yeah right...i was a basket case for at least 9 mos AND im tryin to do exactly what you are tryin to do....you wanna celebrate...celebrate and dance with NED!!!!!!!!congrats.May you dance with NED forever.hugggggggggggs K

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