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    edited February 2012

    mamav,

    i'm up to half inch now.  i'm happy to have hair back:-)  i look like a "real person" again hehe. 

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  • bak94
    bak94 Member Posts: 1,846
    edited February 2012

    I still have a bald spot:(

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  • MamaV
    MamaV Member Posts: 907
    edited February 2012

    Ya Laureen!  Me too - although not like myself, but at least not like a cancer patient!

    bak - ah poop!  When did you finish chemo?

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  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Member Posts: 1,076
    edited February 2012

    Bak - I'm sorry, is it the top front of your head?  I started to panic thinking that part was not going to grow back on me but filled in pretty fast once it started growing.  Still shorter then the rest but I think after a trim next month it should look pretty even.   

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    --- Member Posts: 197
    edited February 2012

    I celebrated my 1st year Cancerversary today!  Thank you all for the love and support since I started this journey:-)

    Laureen 

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  • Patriotic
    Patriotic Member Posts: 281
    edited February 2012

    Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing great. I have been off the boards for a few weeks. I started rads this week. Anyone else start in Feb? I am going to join the Feb rads board. The hair is coming in quickly now. Yeah to all of you.

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  • MamaV
    MamaV Member Posts: 907
    edited February 2012

    Congrats Laureen!  Keep going strong!

    Good luck with rads Patriotic - I did rads July - September - PM me any questions if you want.

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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited February 2012

    Laureen, I am so happy for you celebrating your first cancerversary.  Wishing you many more years of good health.

    Patriotic, Good luck with rads.  Hoping you will have an SE free experience. 

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  • Cyborg
    Cyborg Member Posts: 848
    edited February 2012

    Cancerversary is coming up. I am going to begin counting being ok from 9/19/11 it's good to see sone if the girls from the original pack.

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  • justme1
    justme1 Member Posts: 223
    edited February 2012

    HAPPY Cancerversary !!!!

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  • justme1
    justme1 Member Posts: 223
    edited February 2012

    I got a question ?? Do Yall still forget things? I can have a conversation about something to my husband and forget i did until i start to tell him and he says u said that already ,I would of totally forgot it .Scares me....... my arm hurts alot the one they took lymphnodes out .All the way down my arm . Wonder if thats normal ? I feel like i did win the battle but that war  was rough and i still feel the after shock .

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  • mccrimmon324
    mccrimmon324 Member Posts: 1,076
    edited February 2012

    justme1 - haven't posted on this thread in a long time but YES I still have chemo brain.  Last Chemo was 9/27.  It's better than it was but Hubby says that was my worst side effect.  Good thing about it is that I don't remember if he's right or not. LOL.  I'm really sort of thankful for it.  I find that I can remember simple things, names, etc...  They are on the tip of my tongue but it takes a while for it to come out.  I think I heard we're to give it a year for it to fully go away. 

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  • MamaV
    MamaV Member Posts: 907
    edited February 2012

    Justme and mccrimmon - still have chemo brain here too :(

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  • bak94
    bak94 Member Posts: 1,846
    edited February 2012

    Heather-yes! front top center is still very thin, I finished chemo Oct. 27th. My hair was always just a bit thin right there, but not this thin! The rest of my hair is getting thicker, but not longer, by the day. Lots more grey than I used to have.

    Justme-also yes! I am so forgetful! I a taking 2 online classes and I do fine with papers and assignments, but when it comes to the multiple choice tests I do really bad! I used to be an A student, now I will be lucky if I get a B!

    I finally started radiaiton! Patriotic and I are on about the same schedule:) Saw my very first pet ct. It was scary looking! That internal mammary/mediatinal node was HUGE! It was 2 nodes that became one! I think the doc that said I was stage 4 was right, that thing was nasty, and it sat right above my heart. I still think I will stick my head in the sand and go with stage 3, like my mo said, he has to have some credibility, right? Of course he does, I just love him, he did get me to NED!

    I can't believe it has been one year for some already! Congrats! I hope you are feeling great and moving along! MamaV-you are a bit ahead of most of us!

    Cyborg-How are you doing? Are you done with that cellulites (sp?) Hope so! Are you healed from the car accident?

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  • 40-years-old-now
    40-years-old-now Member Posts: 309
    edited February 2012

    Did I respond already to if I forget thing?? Well I do all the time!!

    I have postit notes all over the place.

    I have to get thing in, I am also taking 2 classes online. I have a midterm that is due by tomarrow. I slept most of today. Onlly got up because hubby is not feeling well and someone needs to watch daughter.

    I have been having green poop. I thought it was from some creame de mint torte that I have been having, then relised that it had been over a week an it woudl have been out of my system. I think it is from the iron I was takeing.

    I am going to stop the iron for a few days or more. maybe it is from the amount of oranges I have been eating .

    Who knows. Oh I am so glad that my pain med time is here.

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  • twistedsteel
    twistedsteel Member Posts: 156
    edited February 2012

    My chemo brain is awful and i think made worse by rads. I find it very frustrating and sometimes kind of funny too. I went to a casino tonight w a friend and I was very slow with blackjack. Uhhhh, um mm, that's 13.... Uhhhh, I want to..... Hit, I guess. Wait, how many is that again... Ok, well.... Just hit me again. Oh! Right, I have to make the hand signal for the cameras... Right.



    Jeez, it was embarrassing. Then all of a sudden all cylinders and synapses will work and I will remember something from 20 years ago that held no importance in my life.



    And I blank out a lot more when driving. Just not remembering how I got somewhere.



    I will be so grateful if it is over in a year.



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  • justme1
    justme1 Member Posts: 223
    edited February 2012

    LOL Yes i am not alone ! I can remember stuff  from long ago but sometimes dh  will say u remember when we did so and so i cant remember . I used to have great long term memory now its good not great. But short term lol forget it. Scarey sometimes .  OH and bone pain OH MEE my arm hurts when i lay down to go to sleep my leg hurts waking me up in the mornings. Both on my right side on the side i had surgery . The right arm hurts like theres a catch in it so i am just falling apart . I go back in march for my check up and my doc willl love me when i tell him all that i feel . I am alive i got to keep on the bright side or lest try to. Happy saturday to all !!!

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  • 40-years-old-now
    40-years-old-now Member Posts: 309
    edited February 2012

    My bone pain is on the right and left side. I can lay on my stomace (dr orders) , right side is out because of hip replacement (again dr orders), left side is out because I hurt after 30 mins. And I think my but is getting pressure sores.

    I need zero gravity to sleep in.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2012

    Hi ladies! It's been a while since I've posted anything.  I hope everyone is doing as well as can be and doing the best to stay positive and remember God has the plan!

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  • Cyborg
    Cyborg Member Posts: 848
    edited February 2012

    Hey there. My chemo brain was hitting hard core for a long time. Memory not so good but I am thinking on my toes better. I am having some bone and joint pain from the Fareston. Also, I am having some weird pain on both sides near my kidney... Iceel so somatic and crazy. Still taking antibiotics... The infection seems to be lessenig. I have gray, curly hair. It's kind if salt and pepper. Kind of pretty in some ways. It's good to see everyone on the thread.

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  • Cyborg
    Cyborg Member Posts: 848
    edited February 2012

    Almost forgot... Tomorrow is my one year cancerversary. I am counting my years out- if I'm lucky- from my last day of treatment.

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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited February 2012

    I hope you will have many, many more cancerversaries, Cyborg.

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  • Cyborg
    Cyborg Member Posts: 848
    edited February 2012

    Thank you, Elizabeth xoxoxoxo

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    edited February 2012

    Happy 1st Cyborg!  I had mine two weeks ago:-)  Now let's count all the good years to come:-)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2012

    Cyborg, congratulations on completing this milestone.  I wish you so many cancerfree more!  

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  • justme1
    justme1 Member Posts: 223
    edited March 2012
    what boards are yall hanging out on i feel  kinda lost now not sure where to go I am done with treatmeant except the pill i get to take 5 years .Surprised I feel like i need support as much now as before trying to get used to the new meee
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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited March 2012

    Hi everyone, My BS removed my port this afternoon. Today was a good day for the procedure because I learned one year ago today that I would need chemo.  What a year!  I decided to have the port removed in his office with local anesthesia instead of going to an outpatient surgery center.  I needed a lot of novacaine to become numb, but it was painless.  I was able to keep my port for a souvenir.  That gizmo saw me through some bad times. Here is what it looks like.  

     

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  • MamaV
    MamaV Member Posts: 907
    edited March 2012

    justme - I think everyone is one the tamoxifen or arimidex boards

    Elizabeth - you kept it?  I never wanted to see mine again!  In fact, I'm trying to decide what tatoo to get to cover the scar!  (I wanted to get a middle finger with a pink BC ribbon in it - saying F.U. to cancer, but my hubby thought it was a little harsh LOL)

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  • justme1
    justme1 Member Posts: 223
    edited March 2012

    seems like we get harsh with this crap

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  • justme1
    justme1 Member Posts: 223
    edited March 2012

    thanks for letting me know where to gooo

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