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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited June 2012

    minxie, I slept all the time during rads. A few weeks in sounds about right. How is your skin holding up?

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

    minxie-I was also very tired during rads. That is tough about the chemo, the thought of starting up again is just devastating, especially if you are not sure if it will do any good. I also still have neuropathy :(

    Inmate-Whoooooohoooooooooo! Can you hear me screaming?!

    Hi to everyone! Not much going on here with me, and I hope it stays that way after I see my MO for a follow up on Monday! Had my drain removed today, after a week of having it in.

    LuvRVing-that kinda scares me that one of your recurrences was found via a seroma! It just seems my seroma will not go away. He sends the fluid to the lab each time, so I hope it is all clear again this time. I'm not ready for more treatment, as I am quite sure you were not! Or anybody else that recurs:( Did I say how much I hate cancer?

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  • beccad
    beccad Member Posts: 326
    edited June 2012

    minxie, I don't know if it is normal or not, but I would sleep when I could. I was working full time at that time, would leave from work, and make a mad dash to the Rad center, change into their beautiful gown (hah!), and be called back,get zapped and go home. That was about the time DH took over the cooking(yay!). I would usually nap until dinner, then

    n back to bed. So,,,,,,,,,,my theory is get rest when you can. I don't know if was the rads or the stress but I was always tired too.





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  • Cocker_Spaniel
    Cocker_Spaniel Member Posts: 1,204
    edited June 2012

    Ladies do any of you like Andre Rieu.  The dear fellar and I went to his concert two years ago and it was fabulous.  Well the fellar has brought tickets again for tomorrow night so we are going again, can't wait. 

    My garage used to house my old fellars fairmont and my little rave 4.  Now it houses a new fridge, a new freezer, a till, a warming cabinet, a cold cabinet, two chillers, a large coffee machine, various bowls,  chopping boards, knife blocks, dishes of all shapes and sizes,  bowls of all shapes and sizes, a mixer, a panini maker, frying pans, toasted sandwich maker  and 1000 other things for a small cafe.  Needless to say the cars which cost thousands sit outside, make sense!!  I hope to God my old fellar  is not too old to run something like this.  It will be long hours  and I will be worried sick about him.  Still as long as I get my dinner!!!

    Minxie - oh lord what am I going to do if this neuropathy lasts a year, I can hardly type now and have to keep putting it right and I have so much work to do this weekend.  I do hope you try the chemo and that it works but I can understand your dilemma. What a horrible choice you have to make.  Sending you a warm hug to help with your decision.        Annie     

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

    Morning Ladies,

    Welcome to the new ladies but so sorry you have to be here. 

    I'm sorry, had a lot to catch up on but I'm asking one of the new ladies (can't remember her name) to reconsider chemo. 

    Melissa, congrats on getting thru your first A/C your a 1/4 of the way finished the hard stuff now. 

    What a roller coaster of emotion this thread is and it's not even 7am for me.  Annie, I would be devasted if you left!!!  Missed why you thought you might have offended someone and raced to the end to beg you to stay - read Inmate's post.  I couldn't be happier for you Inmate!!!  And I'll pray that your families issues resolve quickly.  And now see Annie, that everything has been resolved and your staying.  Thank God.  Seriously, I wake up every morning and look forward to seeing your post.  I hope your neuropathy clears up quickly. 

    Well, made it home to see my babies.  Boy I sure do miss them!  And my Harley's birthday is on 7/5 so we bought a slice of birthday cake for him at Wal-Mart and the lady even wrote "Happy Birthday Harley" on it.  Tonight the 4 of us will put on the birthday hats, sing, take pictures and then they get the cake.  Yes, I we are that weird! No kids so I have to make due so I torture the dogs. 

    Poor hubby, he's so clueless, he very proud of himself that he was able to keep up with the vaccuuming that I don't have the heart to tell him the rest of the house is a filthy pit!!  So it looks like I'll be cleaning and helping with the yardwork today but I sort of knew that anyway.  It will help me to clean out some crap we have anyway. 

    Have my 3 month followup yesterday and everything was good.  Hate the dang anxiety beforehand, its been bad for about 2-3 weeks.  My tumor markers went from 7.4 to 8 or something ridiculous but I still can't seem to stop dwelling that they went up along with my weight!!!  I gained 6 pounds but I knew I've been socializing to much and not focusing on my diet so I'm back on track now. 

    Another insurance question - MO seems to think that I'll still have trouble with a new insurance company and even though they have to cover me they may charge me outrageous premiums.  Can someone help?  We were so excited before talking to him and now he's got hubby all worried again.  This dang insurance crap is like a black cloud we can't get out from under!!!  Having a pity party for myself, it's so damn unfair that I can't be happy and live where I want to because I had BC.  And, while I'm happy to see my boys I DO NOT MISS florida!!  It's hot and humid and I just can't take the heat anymore.  I'm just a northerner at heart and I'm not going to change. 

    Hope you ladies are having a fabulous weekend!!!!   

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited June 2012

    Heather - will you be getting health insurance through your employer?  If so, I've never ever heard of an employer-based health insurance program charging more than what has been negotiated between the employer and the insurance company.  If it's a large company, they are probably self-insured and the insurance company is really just administering the negotiated benefits.  I think your MO is needlessly worrying you, really.  And hey, it's hot and humid here in NH, so Florida is probably no worse!!!  Now, you really must post a picture of the doggie birthday party - that should bring smiles to everyone!  And woohoo on a good follow-up and nice, low tumor markers!  I am envious of those single digit results!

    Annie - I hear your fears about running an eating establishment.  Hard work, long hours, high percentage of failure (at least here in the US).  On the other hand, your fellar is taking steps to live his dream, so what's a gal gonna do?  And do talk to your doc about a med for the neuropathy.  There are several out there...neurontin, celexa (I think), and others that can help relieve the symptoms.  It might not take it away 100%, but it certainly should improve things so you can function better.  Please don't suffer needlessly Smile

    It's going to be a lake day today - close to 95.  For a change, we have no plans this weekend so I took out a small turkey that's been in the freezer and tomorrow it's going on the barbie along with some wood chips.  Smoked turkey, here we come!  And my DH should finally be getting our little inflatable dinghy into the water - he was missing a couple of cotter pins that arrived yesterday.  So he can install the little electric motor and take me out for a 3 hour tour, a 3 hour tour...  Cool

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  • kathyrnn
    kathyrnn Member Posts: 393
    edited June 2012

    Bak94 - congrats on the drain gone and prayers for Monday. LuvRV scared the chit outta me, too.



    Beccad - after your comment and my experience, I'm thinking of making a pattern for a Rad shirt, that can be whipped of and on easily, to bypass that Johnny thing.



    Cocker - have seen Andre and I'm jealous. Just went online the other day to see if I could get tickets to take Mom, but he's not in the US this year. (sadly, I don't think she'll be up to it by next year). I hear your fears, but old fella is living the dream. Hopefully if it's to much, he'll be able to hire some help. Maybe even a career change for you when you're thru treatment.



    McCrimmon - Yay to good follow-up and a weekend with babies and hubby. Like Luv said, if your insurance is through work, I think you will be okay.



    *sings along with Luv". My "3 hour tour requires paddling the whole way. Hopefully the tide is running in the right direction for us.



    Have a wonderful day everyone!!

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  • LNBCA
    LNBCA Member Posts: 49
    edited June 2012

    Oh ladies, it seems this crap just won't let up with my mom. She had to stay overnight in the hospital last night. Woke up yesterday morning with a swollen left arm, slightly blue-ish, and it felt heavy to her. She called the nurse at her onc.'s office and she told her to go to the ER. They did an ultrasound and found a blood clot somewhere near her collar bone, they are pretty sure it's from that damn port that hasn't worked right from day one. They are taking it out this morning. They will also take a close look at her lungs to see if she's got a clot going on there too, since she's had so much trouble breathing. Other than the breathing, she feels good. Just wanted to give an update as I'm reading everyone else's. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

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  • kathyrnn
    kathyrnn Member Posts: 393
    edited June 2012

    Not sure if this is going to work, but this esp. for Annie who requested it.  If it works I'm only going to leave it on for a couple days

    URL=http://s350.photobucket.com/albums/q414/kathyrnn/?action=view&current=Trapeze.mp4][IMG]http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q414/kathyrnn/th_Trapeze.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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  • kathyrnn
    kathyrnn Member Posts: 393
    edited June 2012

    <embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullscreen="true" allowNetworking="all" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf&quot; flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fvid350.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq414%2Fkathyrnn%2FTrapeze.mp4">

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  • TifJ
    TifJ Member Posts: 1,568
    edited June 2012

    Luv- yes, Dr. M has me do labs every 3 months along with a feel up! This will go on for another year and a half then will go to every 6 months for another 2 years. My BS still has me in every 4 months for a quick feel up and she also has me on a 6 month mammo schedule for lefty! I guess I get felt up year round!

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  • kathyrnn
    kathyrnn Member Posts: 393
    edited June 2012

    <embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullscreen="true" allowNetworking="all" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf&quot; flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fvid350.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fq414%2Fkathyrnn%2FTrapeze.mp4">

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  • kathyrnn
    kathyrnn Member Posts: 393
    edited July 2012

    Annie, posting as promised, but this is the best I can do.  Link will take you to my Photobucket album.  Once there, click on the "album tab" and the Trapeze video should be first on the list.  For personal reasons, it won't be on there long, lol

    [URL=http://s350.photobucket.com/albums/q414/kathyrnn/?action=view&current=Trapeze.mp4][IMG]http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q414/kathyrnn/th_Trapeze.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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  • mags20487
    mags20487 Member Posts: 1,591
    edited June 2012

    yes Minxie...fatigue is normal.  When I was on the Jan rads group some would get the fatigue early on.  For me it was right around #14 or so.  Overwhelming to say the least.  Just move out of my way whilst I climb into bed for a long nap.

    Tough decision for you ...to chemo or not to chemo....Hopefully you can find some answers soon

    Maggie

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  • JAN69
    JAN69 Member Posts: 947
    edited June 2012

    Good Morning from sunny California---I hope everyone is having a SE-free weekend.

    I've been wondering about this BC returning because of all the follow-up scans.  Like most, if not all, of you, I've had so many CT, PET, MRI, US, Mammo, xrays and so on, plus 37 rads, since I've been declared NED.  It's always nice to hear the NED results of these procedures, but what is the cost to my body of all the radiation I'm accumulating? Again, like many of you, I feel sometimes I'm just waiting for the other shoe to fall.  I wouldn't change the treatment plan we followed, but...............

    Jan

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  • FernMF
    FernMF Member Posts: 349
    edited June 2012

    Thanks Kathymn - awaiting the scheduling of Oncologist #2 . . .

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  • FernMF
    FernMF Member Posts: 349
    edited June 2012

    Thanks Melissa119.  The sentinel node (only one taken during surgery) showed NO cancer at surgery time, but came up with 0.83 mm AFTER surgery in the pathology . . . I was (probably wrongly) SO sure it was ALL gone . . . now, want mostly to know the %'s on rate of recurrence, especially with the triple negative factor.  I also have a heart condition that will define the types of chemotherapy that will work and NOT destroy my heart muscle at the same time. . . . TOO many things to think about and I really spent the first 5 weeks post-surgery thinking I had this thing beat already. 

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  • FernMF
    FernMF Member Posts: 349
    edited June 2012

    Thanks LuvRVing:  scary, way scary . . I am so sorry for you . . and thanks for the information.  SO true, stats do NOT qualify as the only predictor.  Point well taken . . . I just SO didn't want to do this . . . (I'm whining for a moment.)  OK - done whining . . . I await the Oncologist' appt.

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  • DorMac
    DorMac Member Posts: 155
    edited June 2012
    FernMF - I know you said you are waiting for the 2nd oncologist appointment but, in the meantime, I'd like to share my opinion with you, mainly because we were in similar situations. I'd like to PM you, if I may. Please let me know.

    Doreen

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  • Cocker_Spaniel
    Cocker_Spaniel Member Posts: 1,204
    edited July 2012

    Good morning ladies.  Hoope you slept or sleep well.

    I was up in the night with this terrible rash on my hands.  The itch nearly drives me crazy and no creams seem to work.  The skin on my hands now feel like leather and it used to be very soft so I can't understand what is causing the rash.  Although I had it when I was having taxol  I haven't had any taxol for a week now.      

    Tifj - I like the idea of using chemo brain forever.  We could get away with murder!! couldn't we. Just blame it on chemo brain.

    Jan69 - I know where you are coming from.  I wonder too what the chemo has done/is doing to my body after all it is poison even my BS said that.  Is it helping/has it helped.  What are my chances now.  Will this come back and when ...  These thoughts never really leave me and when I see my oncologist I wonder what she is going to tell me.  Nerve racking to say the least.  Something tells me it won't be  too long before I have a recurrence, maybe its because I am 3a, stage 3. But very frightening.   

    Glad your drain is out, more comfortable for you and hopefully your seroma will clear up soon.   

    Kathrynn - it would not let me into that site at all.  Just told me how to photobucket my photos but I couldn't get in to see anyone elses.

    Heather - so glad you had a good weekend with hubby and your babies.   Can just picture  you singing away and Harley sitting patiently waiting for the cake.  "What the heck are they making that noise for,  just gimme the cake".  When my daughter was younger and not married she had a little bichon friese called muffin, and on muffin's birthday we all had to sing and then she got an icecream all to herself. 

    Know where you are coming from  with the vaccuuming.  I remember one day being techy with the old feller because he had missed so much.  He looked at me so sadly and said "I am doing my best".  I looked at him and thought he is, he is doing his best.  Most men just don't so see things or fluff the way we do. I don't stop until everything is done properly they just skip round it. And yet I don't think I could live with a houseproud husband where everything has to be perfect.  But I wouldn't change a hair on his head. Well maybe, its white and he hasn't got too much left lol.  Hopefully your dear fellar will be with you soon                                   

    LMBCA - I am so sorry your mum is having all these problems.   It's crap all right.  She must be so tired of it and so worried the poor lady.  Hopefully things will come right for her  after she gets that port out.  Somebody once said "cancer,  the gift that keeps on giving" and they were so right.  Cancer Sux.          

    Well I am off to get ready for Andre's concert.  Should be really good. 

    Have a good weekend with no worries, no SE's and lots of happy smiles.  Annie    

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  • Cocker_Spaniel
    Cocker_Spaniel Member Posts: 1,204
    edited July 2012

    For all those sweltering gals out there!! Hope you get some rain soon, in fact I'll send you mine.   

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  • OBXK
    OBXK Member Posts: 791
    edited July 2012

    I feel so far behind, that I'll never catch up! Welcome to the newbies, I see your questions have been answered.



    Annie - maybe I can get a work visa and go to work with your husband. It sounds right up my alley! At 50 - it would be a brave undertaking, kudos to him for following his dreams. I am a very social person, being able to cook and be a part of the world, would feed my soul. I hope he feels the same. My aunt, a wonderful typist, said send her your work, she's retired and could do with a project! I so hope your hands, return to your new normal soon. In my experience, taxane neuropathy peaks at there months from when it shows up and is horrible, then slides back to normal. By the way, what do you type?



    I've been away for the past few days, helping a friend who needed a few days company, saw my autistic brother, took him to see our aunt, visited my girlfriend in the nursing home, sprung her for lunch and a major restocking of snacks and such. So now I am home, enjoying being waited on hand and foot by my DH.

    I think I'm caught up on my karma!



    My calcium is trending up - having it re-checked Monday. I so hope it goes down! I am too busy in July, to deal with it. Kids to take to camp, oldest kids girlfriend visiting and helping a friend on VA , who's retarded son needs back surgery.



    Life is good! For once, it's not all about me! Hang in there dear ones, life does become normal again!



    Best wishes to those in treatment, or pondering treatment. Hugs!

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  • beccad
    beccad Member Posts: 326
    edited July 2012

    Kathryn,

    You will still have to change clothes so they can see your marks, but you might think about a tshirt 2-3sizes too big, cut it open down the front, and add ribbon ties to close it at critical areas. If ya know what I mean. I would only 1 or 2 because you will only wear them 10 - 15 minutes a day,with weekends off for like 28 - 30 days. Do not spend big money on this project!



    beccad

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  • Cocker_Spaniel
    Cocker_Spaniel Member Posts: 1,204
    edited July 2012

    Karen - so very glad you are back.  Just hate it when you are away and don't come on here.  Yep that would be fine the old fellar  would hire you like a shot.  Yes he is very passionate about cooking but I'm sure as a chef you would be wonderful.  I just hope it won't be too much for him as I couldn't live without seeing that wonderful face every day.    We have 12 doctors at our medical centre.  I supervise the Admin staff.  All the doctors dictate all their patients consults so we have to type all them.  Plus I do specialist letters for them and their own private mail.  All the docs see about 60 patients in a day so that is a lot of typing for us and most of them are long consult notes.   Plus I have to deal with every other query that comes in from outside docs,  specialist,  hospitals etc.  It is a very busy position and the girl I left in charge while I worked from home is finding it very stressful so I have been doing almost as much from home as I do at work to take the stress from her.  So your friend who can type would be a god send to me.  Send her over I'll pay her fare.  I didn't know you had an autistic brother.  The lad at work who does the scanning for me, Phillip, is autistic.  He is good at his job (I trained him well) I just have to keep an eye on him quite a lot because he goes to read the paper as soon as he starts work for ages, makes endless coffee's during the day, chats for ages to everyone in sight  and generally tries to change systems around without asking me and of course then he gets muddled but I love him to bits.       

    Whats does that mean in relation to BC that your calcium is up.  You have had a very productive but busy few days away so its nice that you are being waited on by your old fellar.  Just don't go away too often.     I'm scared now my oncologist will put me on taxotere and I will have some new side effects to deal with.  I'm just getting so weary of it now all of a sudden, it just seems endless and my hands hurt so much when I type but can't moan too much, doesn't do any good does it. So happy that life is good for you, you deserve it so much. Have you read Inmates post she is doing really well too.

    Kathrynn - what is all this about you having to change clothes. You just keep them on. I know that chap only lives a few steps from you but its too soon!!!

    Andre's concert was really good. His music brings tears to my eyes.

    Have a good evening ladies. It's 10.30pm here and I'm off to do some more typing. Excuse ny mistkes on here won't you.  Annie               

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

    Morning ladies. 

    Have had a wonderful weekend with my boys.  Managed to get the house cleaned up and one of our trees cut down.  Got some pool time in too.  We had our little birthday party for Harley. 

    http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/425529_4229861953116_1890670331_n.jpg425529_4229861953116_1890670331_n.jpg

    Tired to post pics but I stink at it so I hope this turns our. 

    Annie - Please don't think like that.  You have gone thru so much to wait for the shoe to drop.  I really admire your old fellar - Hubbies a baker and his best friend is a chef and both would like to open up a small sandwhich / dessert type place but are too nervous to try.  I think it's fantastic that he is going for his dream.  Best of luck to both of you!  Hubby is worried sick now after speaking to MO about insurance so tomorrow morning I need to pull my boss aside and tell him that I had BC and need to know for sure that I will be covered.  If not, it's back to Florida for me.  And I just don't want to do it.  It breaks my heart to think I'd have to come back.  I just want my boys up there we me and keep florida as a place to vacation. 

    Hope everyone has a great day.  And no SE's! 

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited July 2012

    I'm with OBXK - so far behind I'll never catch up.

    Just want to say Annie it think it is wonderful that your old fellar is going to live his dream and as my Mum always says to me "the only failure in life is not trying".   So good for both of you.  I wish you every success and happiness in this new venture.   I really hope you can get something for the neuropathy and now the rash ?!  Poor thing sounds awful.

    Mccrimmon - great news on the 3 month check up and great pictures of the birthday party.    Happy
    you are all together again.

    I am trying to find out what is the difference between taxol and taxotere - I had 4 treatments at 3 weekly intervals of taxotere - the SE's really don't seem as extreme as you poor girls on taxol.  

    Oh! and great.... More fatigue on rads - cant wait for that one.   

    To all of you suffering on chemo, with SE's and just generally having issues.    Really hope you can find some comfort and answers to all your troubles. 

    We are enjoying a long weekend here in Canada - Happy Birthday Canada - so DH is home for 3 days.   We managed to spend time in the garden yesterday (inbetween rainy showers) and just hanging out with each other. Just wish our weather would be a bit more like summer.

    Peace & hugs to everyone xxxxx

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  • Kayak2
    Kayak2 Member Posts: 8,561
    edited July 2012

    Annie (CS), I saw an abstract that was presented at the recent annual meeting for oncologists (ASCO), which gave the results of 3 trials indicating that Duloxetine (Cymbalta) was shown to reduce pain in chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.  Maybe your doctor would prescribe it for you.  It is an anti-depressant, but this class of drugs has been used to help pts with diabetic neuropathy, and now clinical trials have found it to be effective in neuropathy caused by chemo.  Venlafaxine (Effexor) is another drug in the same class which has shown efficacy for this too.  Hope you get some relief soon.



     

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  • OBXK
    OBXK Member Posts: 791
    edited July 2012

    Inmate - Great news!

    Annie - elevated calcium, can mean you have a problem with your papathyroid glands, bone mets, or multiple myeloma. Because of my BC  history and my mom's M/M history, I am at greater risk for the later two. However I feel like it will have gone down, when I retest. I'll make sure I am very hydrated. If it is higher, that means test to find out why. That's just a merry go round, I have no interest in hopping on.

    I think I'll be a slug today!

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  • CatWhispurrer
    CatWhispurrer Member Posts: 263
    edited July 2012

    Hi Gals - I am officially finished with treatments.   I had my last rad on Thursday.  Yea! The girls let me ring a big bell, gave me a card and balloons.  I had made them some oatmeal/blueberry muffins.   For those going to start rads, after trying their large, thin hospital gown, I just asked the rad tech's if I could wear a flannel shirt and they said yes.   So, that is what I used for the rest of my rads and it worked out well.  It kept me warm along with the blanket they put over me because I am always cold and the room was freezing, especially laying there half exposed.  My skin is pink but holding up pretty well.  I just used pure aloe vera jelly made by L'Bri.

    I meet with my BS on Monday to talk about taking out my port and follow-up screenings.  I feel I should get 2 different screenings every 6 months,  like a mammo and MRI for at least the first 3-5 years.   I have a family history, dense breasts and the tumor was deep against my chest wall (hard to see with a mammo), besides being TN.   For those who are done with treatments, what screenings do you get?  My MO did a CA 27-29 test (?) two weeks ago and I never heard results.  This is the first time I had one of those.  I don't even know what it means.

    Karen - what does high calcium mean?

    Heather - I sure hope you don't have to worry about insurance.  That sux!  Glad your 3-month follow-up was good.  What are the "markers?"   Love the doggy pictures.

    Jan - it sounds like you have had a lot of screenings.  I am still shaky because I have not had any screenings since this whole BC started last September.  It took them 3 months before I had surgery due to various delays in screenings and I am so afraid it spread during that time.  I have been given the "all clean" by my MO just from a feel-up, but no screenings in 9 months!    I sure wish they could tell me I was NED.  I agree with you though, it is a lot of radiation for a body, at what cost?   In addition, I had a lung collapse from the port insertion, so I had lots of chest x-rays too which I know are bad.

    Inmate - so happy to hear of your NED!  Congrats :-)   That is the best news I have heard.  Happy dancing for you.

    Annie - I have bad neuropathy too, except mostly in my feet and I am 2 months out from taxol. My fingers have some, feel swollen and fat, but still function.  I keep hearing it will get better but so far, NOT.   It hurts to be on my feet,  try to do my walks and I almost fall over when I get out of bed.  Well, I guess I am moaning along with you.  We can commiserate together!  

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  • TifJ
    TifJ Member Posts: 1,568
    edited July 2012

    Congrats on being done Tina! The CA 27-29 test is the tumor marker test. The MO watches this and if there is a large spike in the number it could signal a recurrence. Most MOs don't have a lot of confidence in this test, it can be inaacurate for some yet highly accurate for others (LuvRVing). The only screening I get done is a 6 month mammo on the remaining breast, but that will go to yearly in Sep't, my 2 year surgery anniversary. I am not offered any other tests unless new syptoms warrant it.

    Oh, someone please correct me if I am wrong. I think an acceptable CA number is anything under 35?

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