I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited August 2012

    Bren, he snorts, honks, sneezes and at times has trouble breathing.  He's on steroids right now but not working very well.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited August 2012

    Ladies I read all your posts and applaud you all.  Please forgive me for not addressing you all individually.  ttyl going to lie down for a bit.  Had massage therapy yesterday and man did it ever hurt.  Ice is my friend right now.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited August 2012

    Kay ... Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story!

    Blue ... I am really worried about Virg .. and you too.  Is there anything I can do to help?  When do you have the pain clinic appointment?

    Hope everyone is having a good afternoon.

    Bren 

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited August 2012

    Blue - have you tried a heat pack? I find it helps when my back is stirred up.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited August 2012

    The massage therapist told me to only use ice.  She has never felt muscles as tight as mine were.  Quite a job trying to loosen them up.  Another session tomorrow.

    I'm worried about virg too.

    Haven't heard from the pain clinic yet.

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited August 2012

    Sunflowers - yeah, I was lucky about the score.  I got to avoid both rads AND chemo.  I'm a little excited/scared about putting my foot into the employment water, but I figure if I get a different job - great.  If I don't - well that will be great, too, as I then won't be tempted to continue working after the date we already set.  So no matter what happens, I'm a winner - and that's the only way I'm ever willing to "gamble" - when I know I'm going to win.  Laughing

    Blue - get your rest.  Also, after a massage, make sure you drink lots and lots of water to wash out the toxins. 

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited August 2012

    Thanks GG.  I'm doijng everything I can to get better.

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited August 2012

    Blue, I don't know all the facts behind your pain but when you mentioned your muscles being tight I remembered a therapeutic activity I had enrolled my son in some years ago .



    Are you familiar with Equine therapy? I remember a girl the staff were working with. They told me the warmth and movement of the horse relaxed her muscles and allowed her increased movement.



    I may be completely off base but wondered if that would be something that would help.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited August 2012

    Chichadee its a long story, but the short version is I have a herniated disk in my neck and back, but because I had such bad posture due to Parkinson's, it didn't bother me much (probably caused it).  One shoulder and hip was higher than the other one.  Now I'm walking much straighter and my heels are actually touching the floor because of the DBS surgery.  This has irritated my disk problem.  Some of it is dystonia also a byproduct of Parkinson's.  My PD is the stiff type not the shakey wakey one.

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited August 2012

    You have been through the mill, that's for sure. I'm wishing much relief for you.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited August 2012

    Glenna - I'm speechless. What does one even say to that? Feel stupid to say "I'm so sorry for what happened to you."

    HL - Happy Liberal - don't call that adorable little thing a troll. :(

    Alexandria - A happy dance going your way! Yey!

    Paws are suffering from some exhaustion to at the wonderful speed of this thread and also the provocative conversation, but also from a looooooong day of work. One of those days where you believe you have performed miracles, but you haven't much to show for it.

    I don't think a crime victim should be "forced" to take or do anything. The morning after pill is, after all, a medication - you can't just shove it in someone - some people could have comorbidities making it dangerous.

    If a woman is a crime victim, she's a crime victim. As much as I wouldn't want to take away her right to have an abortion, I certainly wouldn't want to take away her right to have the child.

    Blue - candle up to Virgil from me. Not for you - we are virtual hospital mates - I know you are tough. Kiss

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited August 2012

    I didn't mean that pill should be compulsory at all Athena - just an option if wanted.

    Blue - why does my physio say that heat relaxes the muscles - strange thing for the masseuse to say. He always applies lots of heat before he treats me.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited August 2012

    I guess because there is inflammation involved after working with the muscles.  I was applying heat before I saw her.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited August 2012

    I am having similar problems, I believe there are times when heat is the best thing and others when it is absolutely the worst, and it isn't always easy to know which is which. Tt can be frustrating. My problem is with a right leg, which gives me more options, obviously.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited August 2012

    PS: Don't know if I can find a picture of a lioness sighing...

    trolls at it again. This time on the not dx'd forum. "They"/"it" seem/seems to be getting further and further out into the orbit. Next I'm expecting an apparition on the "New to BCO" forum saying something like, "I don't think cancer is important - any opinions?"

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited August 2012

    Athena, I lost it on one of those threads today. Kind of feel bad, but that idjut was pushing everybody's buttons. You probably know what I am referring to.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited August 2012

    Definitely, yorkie!

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  • CLC
    CLC Member Posts: 1,531
    edited August 2012

    Athena...I really appreciated your Cervantes reference.  Quite apt.

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  • CLC
    CLC Member Posts: 1,531
    edited August 2012

    My family and friends wonder why I continue to come to bco (not critically...they are very supportive...but they don't understand completely).  Like many of you, one of the most important reasons I return here is I find it very important to reassure women who are just arriving that are diagnosed with similar diagnoses as me or are having surgery.  I don't have something to offer all of the women, but the ones that I can support, I try to do that.  It gives my own experience meaning.

    It is horrific to me when anyone wastes the time of those of us that stay here to help newcomers.  It is so insulting and offensive.

    I have found myself ignoring various new threads and it pains me when I do.  I really want to support women finding themselves at that incredibly stressful moment...the beginning of the breast cancer experience.  But I don't want to be part of any agenda.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited August 2012

    CLC, I so agree with what you said. My DH does not like me to be on this board so much, because I'm supposed to be done with cancer. Uh huh, not that easy.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited August 2012

    I'm really sad at the loss of innocence, in a way. When you KNOW it's a troll, and there's some de-trolling necessary. It is not nice to be jaded. Don't appreciate it one bit.

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  • Lezza13
    Lezza13 Member Posts: 957
    edited August 2012

    Went back to work wearing my scarves.  Did not feel like a wig. Thought I would look too much like them.  Fellow teachers had the summer off I  had surgeries and chemo treatments.  The ones I worked with last year were great but they knew what was going on. Got more stares than hugs.  I think they are scared.  To say hi or ask how I am.  Yes people are strange. Was not sure how to react.  Irritating

    yorkiemom : I agree with you. My DH says the same thing.  It is not that easy just to say I am done.

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  • CLC
    CLC Member Posts: 1,531
    edited August 2012

    Athena...I have spent my life losing my innocence...and yet it keeps being there to get lost all over again.  I guess some call that gullible.  I could say I just prefer to live that way...and I do...but the reality is...I am really gullible!

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited August 2012
    Lezza, I want to be done. I hope I am, but I won't know, unless/until I die of something else. Sigh, it is very hard and only those who have walked in our shoes know what we're talking about. I just got all my plastic surgery, except for tattoos, finished, and that's a blessing. So, for now I feel done, but it is still an unknown.
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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited August 2012

    When I first saw that post you are talking about, Athena and Yorkiemom, I immediately thought of Rena and her "watchful waiting" thread. I wonder if this is also her? Someone with waaaaay too much time on their hands, that's for sure. Just waiting for the defenders to leap in......

    Got my new fridge today! Yay! No more ice cream soup!

    Mary 

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  • Lezza13
    Lezza13 Member Posts: 957
    edited August 2012

    yorkiemom: I know what you mean. I want to be done too.  all I have left to do is my tattoos and I will be done as well. Good for you to be finished  I feel done like you. It is that unknown that keeps me coming back to these boards.  I believe you have to take life  one day at a time because you never know what tomorrow brings.  Count all of your blessings.

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  • CLC
    CLC Member Posts: 1,531
    edited August 2012

    Lezza and Yorkimom...I agree with you.  BC is a really hefty thing...it changes every aspect of your life...so how could you ever be truly done...as if to go back to life before bc... 

    I find reassuring new women allows me to remember what I have come through...and remember how I have changed.  And not let the experience ever be belittled...even by my own mind.

    I wish the trolling would stop.  It belittles the experience.

    Thank you all for being here...to understand it is not an experience to be belittled.

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  • Lezza13
    Lezza13 Member Posts: 957
    edited August 2012

    CLC:  I agree with you about this is not an experience to be belittled.  Those women who have asked how I am doing I tell them the importance of digital mammograms and how they helped me.  It helps me to show them that I am an example of someone who has gone through BC and has returned to work.   Thanks for understanding.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited August 2012

    Mary, I had the same thought, as did some others. Wasn't that first thread locked?

    Lezza, glad you're close to being done as well. Blessings to all my bc sistahs! 

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited August 2012

    Hi all,  Been out celebrating her b-day with DD.  Saw the discussion on the alternative forum and went over to check.  The style and tone is very much like Rena.  But whether or not it is - doesn't this person have something else to do with her/his life?  Why bother posting on a bc forum when you don't want testing or treatment?

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