Calling all TNs

Oh, I think I posted my first picture! Just traded my old film cameras for a new compact digital! Love it! We have a big digital camera, but this is one I can take everywhere!

Just popping in. I have not been here for awhile. Sorry I need to go back and read all the posts so I can see How everyone is doing. I see Bak got a new camera. How fun. I love technology so any new techie thing catches my interest. Have a great day everyone!

Inmate so happy for your good news!  You are very inspiring to us all!  Cannot wait to see pics of the flowers.

Bak so happy you  got a new camera.  My camera is my BF!

About rads, my tip is to use Miaderm 3 or 4 times a day, don't scrub the area just pat it when washing and drying.  My biggest se was fatigue so rest when you need to.

I am 9month pfc and 5 months pfr and I feel great!  Getting on with my life as I did before cancer!  

Have a great weekend ladies!  ((hugs)) 

Hi everybody.  Just poppin in for a minute to catch up on our little corner of BCO. 

Oh boy,  the forgetfulness is just awful...mine seems to be getting worse.  Misplacing things, making mistakes as to what time to be places(including a flight to see navyson-caught that one before it turned out to be a disaster) and remembering peoples names....I was never very good at that before chemo....hopeless at it now!.  I try writing notes and lists and such but then I leave them on the kitchen counter!  Yikes....makes me so mad!

Tracie, my last chemo was 12-1-09.  I am also a Moderate level type A personality.  I think that makes this mushy thinking even worse because I am used to being organized and on top of things.  I am trying to pay better attention to things..like being a better listener instead of talking so much. 

I will be seeing my PCP next week and will be talking to him about my memory issues and of course METFORMIN.

As requested:

Follow-up from LJ's friends in breastcancer.org----- it appears that LJ's friends in BC.org are planning to donate to the Fund(s) already set up at Key Bank at 418 S. College Mall Road in Bloomington, IN 47401.

We felt that this action best represented LJ's wishes and concerns. Please consider donating to either:

Laura Jane Shively Benevolent Fund (estate expenses, etc.)
OR
Joseph Shively Educational Fund (for LJ's son)

You must send your donation to the bank's address above and can note "ATTENTION: Karen" (I have spoken to Karen; she knew LJ)

You should also state how you wish the donation to be made (list your name or anonymous) AND the fund to which your donation should be made (Benevolent or Educational).

If you have any further questions or concerns the bank's number is:
(812) 331 0600

For MBJ- her husband suggested donations to BC.org

I have memory issues also. Notes taped to my purse help;). I also got an iPhone and set an alarm if I need to remember I'm supposed to watch grand kids or anything. I am two years post lumpectomy and still have chemo brain fog some days.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Thanks for the info on donations Heidi.

....and if I buy one more jar of kalmata olives because I can't remember if I have any at home, I'll scream. Honestly it's like I also need notes to remember what I don't need when I do the groceries. Pre BC, I could go without a list and get everything and in an orderly fashion. Now I wonder back and forth from one end of the store to the other with my list. The only good thing is I'm logging a lot of extra steps on my pedometre!

From the garage door dealer? God, I hope that's right.

My memory is gone, too. I can't keep new coworkers straight, I find the grocery list and then can't remember what I came to write down. I've literally wandered from room to room with the list, trying to remember what I need. And I've done that, too, Sugar! The one thing that sticks in my brain at the store is the thing I've already bought twice in the past week! This CRS syndrome (can't remember s***) is for the birds. What is that saying? "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."?

I have been being very good about not freaking out about this, but I have a hard area where my infected port was taken out. It is like a flat, kinda hard, but a bit squishy area right where my port scar is. It hurts and is very tight. My ro and pt has seen it and felt it and have not said anything. For some reason I really haven't thought much about it until the last couple of weeks, I think it has been there since my mastectomy. I am even sure my mo and bs have felt it. When they fixed my scar there they did send in tissue for a biopsy and it came out clean, but I am still worried about it. I see my mo on Tuesday and will have him look at it again. Anybody have a scar tissue area from their port? My infection was really bad and that is exactly where the infected pocket was, and they did many biopsies/cultures on it a few months back, but should I have them biopsy it again? Am I being overly cautious about this, as it had been biopsied before? My pt says it is scar tissue, would she know? Sorry for my freak out, I was doing so well earlier. Funny how quickly my mood can change!

Bak94 my port area is quite hard all around it but I think it might be a bit quishy if it was taken out. and then again mine has only been in for a wee while. Could it be a bit of extra skin that has stretched now you have had it taken out. It could be scare tissue as you had an infection but I don't think with this you can ever be overly cautious. I would check it out again. Not sure if this helps you.

I can never understand how I can feel so horrible on my 4th and 5th days after chemo.  If ever I feel sick its them days.  Tired, worn out, a few ulcers in the mouth and constipation yet I have been drinking until I am like a sponge.  It always on these days I feel my worst. Can anybody remember feeling the same. All the other days I feel ok.    Annie 

You guys are cracking me up with the memory issues.  I seem to have escaped that problem, surprisingly.  But my DH, on the other hand, has a really bad case of CRS and now we joke that I got chemo, he got the chemo brain!

Annie - days 4 and 5 are pretty typically the worst days after chemo.  I got mouth ulcers after the first treatment.  My MO gave me an RX for Valtrex and I never had another mouth sore. 

OMG!  I am actually peeing in my pants laughing at you all with the memory issues!  Excuse me while I go change my poise pad - which I hope to hell I have some left otherwise I will be driving to the drugstore with a wad of paper towels stuck inside my pants - so comfortable to sit on.  Kind of feels as though I'm riding a camel.

Have a wonderful weekend gals, and Bak - go take some pictures - don't think anything else, but pictures!

Linda

Oh my, ROFLMAO!!!