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Veggy - I laughed. My mother has worn a breast prosthetic for over 30 years, and yes chicken cutlet looks about right but hers is a 3-4 pound one. I never knew how much those things weighed, well, at least hers does. She is very old school and has one from about 20 years ago. She can't afford to replace it.
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Veggie, you are totally permitted to start all the trouble you want right now~
best wishes for a non chicken look for you
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Veggy, one of my high school friends came back to visit her parents and we went out for a day. We were sitting in the parking garage talking about bc, she's had a lumpectomy and I had a mastectomy first time around. Got to talking about prosthetics, looked around (to make sure no one was there) and we both took ours out to compare notes. Yes, we both thought they looked like chicken cutlets too. Oh, and keep on making trouble, its a way to know we're all alive
Lauren I have to say that sometimes its just safer to feel everything when we're at the end of it all. During things we're too busy being positive and strong, moving forward, trying to hold it together etc. When you finally get to take a breath there can be a lot there that needs to be let out.
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Holy crap.im missing for not even a full day and look here!!!!!
Veggy-first your planting then you are makin trouble.You sound so good. Now when I see chicken cutlet ill always think of YOU>>>
Lauren honey----Everything thats happening to you is natural.We aaa at one time or another feel that way.Hey our life changed.We dont like change...especially this kinda change.Look for the end of the rainbow...its there along with all of us.
Ducky-damn we keep missing each other.Why dont you come over????
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Hello sugar pies! I've been MIA for a few days...the youngest had two days of college registration and I met with a new doc...didn't sleep much for 3 days and didn't wake up til 3pm today! I've caught up on all the pages and dang this is a busy group!!
Veggy....I work in the yard a lot....excessively I'd say...all for MH. I went a little crazy with it but I Love it....keep diggin darlin'!
Cancer fucking sucks ass....ass sucking cancer - my new diagnosis. I'm telling ya, you all are the most honest and strong people on the planet....Lauren, you too....it feels like hell now but cut yourself all the slack you can....I'm working on that myself. These damn meds, damn ignorant society, damn SE's, damn surgeries...but past that-i fell head over heals for my sisters....see my babies/DH/puppy/Mama/family/friends with deeper care and admiration....and see bullshit with a tolerance level of less than 1%. So, you've grown in ways (maybe not the same as mine) that maybe would have never surfaced. I swear like a mo-fo, sing in line at the grocery store, accepted that I need mental help...when its my turn to push up daisies,I want everyone to know that its all about a good time and no regrets. If I get pissed....fine. if I get silly, fine. If I sleep for 15 hours, then that's the way it is. If I ramble for an hour like I'm Going right now....it could be medication!! I guess what I'm trying to say is...this whole thing is shitty, no one earns or deserves it...but our dignity is ours and Nothing can strip you of that. Be true to yourself...cry when you need to...laugh so hard that people change seats....ok, do not stare into a microwave or purposely heat up anyone's testes.....but, evenif you do, I'd still love ya!
So, I am officially 41 years old. I made it: )
Oh yeah. My new doc is for acupuncture....anyone have any thoughts/experience/suggestions?
There's a lizard in Madagascar that doesn't have eyelids....so it has to lick its eyes to keep them clean....I can't even put in contacts without getting nauseated. But licking them?? Nasty. -
Ducky....any results on Your daughter?
Nancy...any updates on mom?
Sorry if I missed anything...can't keep anything straight I swear....
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Hi fuzzy. I think acupuncture is a great idea. It is very effective for chronic diseases. You will find they refer to things differently, possibly calling tumors Phlegm and mentioning that your Spleen is deficient and causing stagnation. Stuff like that. I was an acupuncturist briefly. I couldn't make a go of it because I am too shy to get out there and get clients. Acupuncture, at least the type I studied, looks at a person holistically. We called that holistic perspective bodymindspirit. Your emotions, your thoughts, your fears, your passions, and your physical strengths and weaknesses are all worked into your diagnosis and treatment. Enjoy your treatments.
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Dunezzzzz....thank u for the info!! Wow....you are trained??? That's incredible!! I'll let you know how it goes for my bodymindspirit. She's also an MD...kinda cool eh?
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Lovin you Fuzz. GG
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Love you too Fuzzy! Wish I could be with you and laugh so hard that people change seats.
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Fuzzy .......nothing, not sure I mentioned it, but she had a planned trip to Chicago to see her boys......both live there and work for JP Morgan Chase..........she will be there till Tuesday..........the hosp. she went to only does retakes on Mon, and Fri.....(absurd), and she was too late to have it done while she was here, and was leaving Thursday night, so that left out Friday , and wasn't coming home till Tuesday, so that eliminated the Monday also, so......................she is scheduled for the Friday after she comes home...........way too long for me, but no way was she giving up the trip to see the boys, plus "flights" were already paid for, and could not cancel......(not that she would)...........................so it is a waiting game for now........thanks for asking.
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VERY cool Fuzz! Do let me know how it goes.
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Lauren- for me it was expectations that messed me up too. I was maad as hell last month because I lost 17 pounds in a few months after yrs of not being able to lose more than 5 in a few. The expectation was that when I lost weight I would be cuter, I would be exhuberant, I would have more energy. That is not happening. The cancer was fueling itself on my fuel, I was losing pounds and gaining cancer cells. AND at that point the more weight I lost the less energy I had, and I lost weight and I was now over 50 and thinner. But then Hubby took a pic of me for his phone and I looked like I was FIVE again, the happiness of our moment shining through. ME::: Fat, maimed boob, exhausted and loveliness. It's in there Lauren, look closer, it will be okay, hugs for you.
Fuzzy I had acupucture a few months ago, trained in China for years. It was quite effective, she also gave me Chinese herbs to soften then liquify the phlegm that Dunezzz speaks of, said it causes the fibroids, cycts, tumors. Within two weeks the green bean like fibroid thingee in left breast with the wart like thingee that grew on top of it had disappeared and left a hollow in th healthy tissue. My colour was better than has ever been in decades, I had good energy and the water weight was down. I have a note on my profile of the Chinese herbs I took for that. And now, after two months and a huge detox in between the three masses that were growing in cancer side are disappeared as I cannot feel them at all. i went through intense exhaustion for 10 days or so and they were gone. I feel a bit better today but had a UVB therapy - ultraviolet light blood transfusion / IV treatment - on Thursday so that could be why. I ssee an onc Monday and will have tests this week, PET/CT and US plus blood and tumor tests to see how it is reading so far, will let you know as I go.
Veggy- Once a hole always a hole - you will find something to plant in those holes if the roses bite the dust. How about grape tomatoes? Love heat, don't get diseased like the big tomatoes, ripen quicker and are supposed to be good for most people. I love tomatoes.
GG - my daughter had a couple rabbits once, the lived under her tree fort but got to visit inside. One night she forgot to take them out and they spent the night sitting behind the entertainment center munching stereo wires.
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The rabbits remind me of a story, was just talking to sister about this one.
When my daughter was in grade school she and her friend who was a guy were always together, he went everywhere with us, even on Mother's Day. We went to the fair one afternoon and ended up purchasing a couple of fair bunnies for their pets, made sure they were both females. Took them home. Kids were going to be in 5th grade. They took bunnies upstairs to loft bedroom. I was in kitchen below. I hear.....
thudthudthudthudthud thudthudthudthudthud thudthudthudthudthud
Nothing. Keep working. And I hear
thudthudthudthudthud thudthudthudthudthud thudthudthudthudthud
Nothing. Another minute goes by and I hear again.....
"So.... whatcha doin'?" I call up to the loft.
No answer.
I wipe my hands and go upstairs.
The two ten-year-olds are cross-legged, side-by-side on the floor, chins on their hands, just in a daze, the bunnies are in a make-shift pen.
"Whatcha doin?" I ask again.
"Watching the rabbits."
The rabbits were sitting there twitching their whiskers. Boring.
Then his rabbit, the littlest rabbit hopped on the big fluffy rabbit and went to town.
thudthudthudthud thudthudthudthud thudthudthudthud
and it was over, no fanfare no fireworks.
OMG Cherokee was a boy bunny.
The rabbits got pens under the fort but a neighborhood dog got them before they could have the baby bunnies.
The youngsters had to have the talk that summer, after a few weeks I had Hubby drive the boy-child/young man home one day and have the talk about not touching his daughter because I was just certain they were thinking about it. Hubby is a cross between Grizzly Adams and Clint Eastwood. The boy said he was sure he was to die that day.
Today the children are almost thirty, have decided they will be together for life and have loved one another since first grade, but the rabbits were the fireworks of their young lives.
To this day the boy says he has never touched our daughter. LOL Right.
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love the rabbit story!!!
my dad raised rabbits and sold them to the medical center he worked at for prego tests! we had tons of them
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Thank you all for your thoughts, opinions, stories, and most of all, your hugs. I really feel them! I've been so busy the past few days to think about this crap. My sister finally came to visit from Floriday - I'm pretty sure I told you the story how we got in an epic fight because she hadn't come to visit. Well, she finally did. But now that everyone had gone, I'm ready to cry again. I don't even want to talk about it, because I'll start balling. Just like you all, I know it will pass eventually. It's just a matter of time... Until then I'm focusing on my family and all the good around me.
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Lauren...............hugs, hang in their, you will have those days.............I'm a year and four months, and I still get crying jags............don't ask me why, I just do...............when it gets too tough, come here, we will help.....we have all been there................hugs..............and more hugs.
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Nancy - I am so glad to hear your mom is doing better. Hopefully she will fully recover with time, and we will all pray for her and for you. The sign for SKK is funny - maybe they'll keep and extra good eye on him with that kind of warning!
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Nancynow so glad your Mom is doing better.. Have thought of you and her often..
Cindy -
NANCY, relieved to hear from you and that your Mom is making a recovery.
LOVESSA, what is it with bunnies and speaker wire? When the male died, to offset the loss for the female, I started letting her into the back den for romps, and husband discovered that's what she had been doing with her newfound freedom. GG
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Nancynow thanks for letting us know your mom is recovering. That's very good news. Sorry to hear about the shitstorm. Damn shitstorms. Will it ever end? I deal by laying in bed. I did get up to give my dying parakeet a drink of water. Now back in bed. I do have to do laundry. Poor parakeet has cancer too. I think I need to be sick. Hopefully I will wash clothes so I have clothes to wear to work this week. Two weeks to go. Then I wonder if I will get out of bed. My parakeet is fighting for life. Not me.
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Does anyone know if there is a quit smoking support group here somewhere? If so, can you point me in that direction. I am jonesing for a cigarette something awful. Here is Puff resting on the top of the cage.
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Here's a quit smoking group. You might have to copy and paste it.
http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/6/topic/727307?page=264#post_3070869
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Thank you veggy!!! ((( HUGS )))
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(((HUGS)))
10 days to bmx.
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Fuzzy - only 41? You're just a baby!!! I've had LOTS of acupuncture; unfortunately, it didn't work for what I was needing it for (back pain), plus, the practitioner - who was an M.D. as well as an acupuncturist - was really old and kind of forgetful...like he'd forget to take needles out of me when I was all done. The only painful part was when he stuck needles in my feet, near the bones in my toes. Maybe he just forgot where they were supposed to go...who knows. Anyway, one day I just got tired of being stuck, and quit going. (But there is another M.D. on staff who does it, and she's younger, and a woman. Maybe I'll go back, because I do believe it works in many cases.)
Ducky - continued prayers for your daughter...
DianeEssa - love your description of the picture with YOU shining through!!!
Veggy - I'm six months out from my BMX. Never thought I'd see this day....and in fact just posted in "December Surgeries" about how anxious we were all feeling in the days leading up to our procedures. I still have lots of positive energy about mine, so I am sending you some right now!
Lauren - It might be time to eliminate the words "bad" and "punishment: from your vocabulary. I love the quote by Maya Angelou: "We do the best we can with what we know. And when we know better, we do better." Every day is a new opportunity for a fresh start, and to do better, my sister! Sending you big hugs! (And I may be in the same shape after MY exchange in September....sort of a "now what?" feeling...)
Nancy - so glad Mom is better...and I completely understand the shitstorm. Been there, done that. Try to take a big step back...out of the line of fire.
Dunesleeper - oh, no - poor birdie!!! It's so hard when our furbabies (or feathered babies) are sick. Cheering you on in your plan to quit smoking!!!
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Computer crashed, but got a new one, and didn't lose any data. Found a way to use my old keyboard and mouse. Weight loss continues at 1.5 pounds a week ... OMG - we start eating regular food on July 11th!!!! I'm not ready!!! I could speed up the weight loss if I could just get my butt in gear...but sometimes the chair just sucks me back into it with a good book....no calories burned that way. Church this morning, then to the nursing home to see 91 year old MIL (and 90 year old FIL), then errands...and we had a cold spell - only 101 degrees today!
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Hi Blessings. What do you mean "regular food"? And congrats on your weight loss. Mine seems to have stopped, but then again, I'm not moving my body. I will need a kick in the butt come July since exercise and other taking care of myself activities will be my new job.
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Dune the support group I used when I quit smoking is AS3 on the web... Just google it and you should find it. You have to sign up to use it but the people are wonderful on there... Let me know if you need any help finding it.
Cindy -
Thanks Cindy! How long have you been quit?
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Dunesleeper - I've been on Optifast through Kaiser since March 22nd. I get four shakes, one soup, and one nutrition bar a day for 960 calories. That's considered the "Meal Replacement" phase, and lasts sixteen weeks.
On July 11th, we start the "Transition" phase, which means that each week, we'll replace one shake with actual food, like half a cup of veggies and 3 oz. of protein. The list will be quite restricted at first. That phase will last for 14 weeks as we taper off the liquid diet. Then comes an additional year of monitoring and follow-up. I lost 20 pounds before my BMX in December, then another 25 pounds since starting Optifast in March. I still have 20 more to lose.
It's coming off slowly - 1.5 pounds a week - but I feel great, am off all my meds, have lost several dress sizes, and all my lab tests are normal.
I know when I start the Arimidex in the fall, it will cause a weight gain, so I'm being especially agressive about weight loss right now. (That, and the fact that I have in Amazon-sized TEs, and if the PS replaces them with the matching saline implants, I'll have stripper boobs.)
My MO said this was the best thing I could do for my overall health, AND my ER+ breast cancer.
We had a speaker in class a few weeks ago (our mandatory support group following weekly weigh-in) who told us that after a big weight loss, you need to exercise 60 - 90 minutes A DAY in order to keep it off.
Then she went on to explain that we didn't need to spend an hour and a half in the gym....all we needed to do was keep moving throughout the day....ten minutes here, half an hour there, it all adds up. And any activity counts.
In the beginning, we all got pedometers, and our goal is at least 10,000 steps a day. I have a long way to go to get there, believe me.
Yay for you for making taking care of yourself your main priority!!!
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