anyone starting chemo in Nov 2005

Hi ladies - How about having an email distribution list for the group that way when the boards are down we can still communicate. I would be willing to set it up to include everyone who is interested. Any thoughts?

Deb - count me in for the next package.

Have a good day ladies. Good luck to those receiving treatment today.

Deb - You email anytime, and the rest of you all too! My addy is : ww100lbs2go@yahoo.com I think that is a wonderful idea Odlays.

I had tried a website for us a while back, but I couldn't get it to work later. Sorry

I may work on that today. I wanted to be able to share pictures with all of you , and you all to add to it. All we need is a code to type in.

I think I'll call it CANCER SUCKS! Speaking of that, at the center one of the nurses was selling shirts with Cancer Sucks on the back for $10.00 as a fund raiser. ( I'm getting a deep purple one )

They made her take them off of the table. You can still buy them, but you have to ask. Hospital rules. I thought that was a little odd. And I told her cancer does suck.

Glad the box made it Deb, was everything new? Did you get the card I sent? And so sorry about the handwriting. I have a hard time reading it and I'm the one writing. That's bad

Hope all is well for everyone this morning. (((HUGS))) to all my sisters. I'm off for my 10th rads!

Margerie- I'm so sorry. You are going through so much. I'll keep praying for you. Love and many hugs...

How I wish I could have another cat, but my husband is sooooooo afraid of them. My cat (acquired before I met my husband) died at the age of 17 five years ago, and I still think of him often.

Debbie, I hope your husband is giving the meds to the cat. Don't get extra scratches, even if your surgery is still in the future, and especially after the surgery if it involves removing any nodes.

Anna

Nancy, so good to hear from you again!

I think all of you on this board are just totally classy. I feel like this is a home to my heart.

I get to spend tomorrow with my mother, and I feel lucky. My daughter is in France for the year and had no clue tomorrow was Mothers' Day till I happened to mentioned to her in our phone conversation today that I was going to spend the day with my mom. The French celebrate M.D. later this month. Now we'll get a phone call though, so that'll be nice. Mothers are incredible. I don't think it's fair that mothers should have to deal with breast cancer. Some of my very best memories as a mother have to do with nursing my baby. It just ain't right....

I wish all of you dear sisters a good day tomorrow, mothers or not, all of us have nurtured others in our lifetime.

with much love and wishes for peace and goodness,

Anna

Happy Mother's Day to my "sisters". I hope you all have a wonderful day.

love,
Kim

I want a Beagle!

Mary Lou, I can imagine your frustration. Try this: just before you hit the continue button highlight everything you have written and copy it. That way if it doesn't go through you can paste it again.

Margerie, when is your surgery scheduled? How long is the surgery, and what is the recovery timeframe?

Kaye, I hope you are doing well.

Getting ready to go for Herceptin treatment.

Three black toenails and very very very sore joints, but the breathing sure is better. My onc. explained to me that the toenails did what the hair did, but it just takes longer to notice bec. they take longer to fall out. Also, she says chemo put me into menopause and my joints don't get the same lubrication they used to, that's why they hurt. She says it'll get better. I just hope they don't get better just to get bad again when I start the AI treatment, namely, after Herceptin. We have to make sure I'm menopausal then, too. I haven't had any hotflashes (I hope I don't regret these words).

Odalys, how is that little beagle? My husband and I walk in the neighborhood (pretty far from town, houses far apart, gravel road, no sidewalks, unfortunately) and just about a mile from our house live two Beagle pups, maybe the same age as your new puppy (aren't they puppies till one year?). They howl and howl when we walk by, no barking per se, just little hoarse attempts at serious howling. One of them is way more courageous than the other. They are inside an invisible fence and the feistier one comes right up to the edge, still way back from the road, but he comes right up there. The other one stays back and just imitates Mr. Champ. I love seeing them and am always disappointed if their owners aren't back from work and haven't put them out when we walk by.

If we walk in the other direction we get to see Lily, a black lab who comes running and plays fetch with us for the rest of our walk. She's the friendliest dog I have ever met.

I spent the weekend cleaning house. Two family members are coming tomorrow (but not together) to spend the rest of May with us. One of them is my sister-in-law, who is very dear to me. I hope to teach her some quilting while she is here. The other is my stepdaughter, who is going through some sort of nervous breakdown (this has been ongoing for the past two years or so) and who often causes great pain in our family. I have resisted the latter visit throughout chemo, but can't resist any more. Needless to say, I am hoping I can keep hold of my positive frame of mind.

I wish we could have that retreat we imagined back in the winter. Remember? I think we were picturing ourselves on the beach near Odalys. That's what I'll put in my mind during the coming days. That haven. That is exactly what all of you have been to me these past months.

Have a good Monday!

Anna

Oh Odalys, I hope Maggie finds her way back home.
ML that stinks that you typed up that whole message and it got lost in cyberspace. I'd be pissed also. Anna's suggestion sounds like a good one especially if you are still having trouble with these boards. Anna hope you enjoy your company and don't get stressed out too much. I have my run through with rads tomorrow. Then Wednesday should be first treatment.
Hope you all have a great week.

Kim

Now that the dog drama is over...Hope everyone had a nice mother's day. Just want to share with you the mother's day poem Steven wrote for me in school. Here it goes:

I hear my Mother's soft voice reading poems to me, words like music over and over. I hear the sound of her cooking spoon beating against a white bowl in her sweet-smelling kitchen. I hear her car turning into the driveway home from work. I hear her heels taptapping as she comes into the bedroom to kiss me good-night and I feel her smooth skin as she takes me in her arms and holds me tight.

Is he talented or what? I think this is very deep for an 8 y/o but who is bragging?


PS: Sorry, I don't mean to hog the board today; just have a lot of time in my hands today.

Thanks, Kim. How are you doing today? Hope RADS goes well on Wednesday. You will see the actual treatment will probably be a breeze compared to everything you have gone through already. Let us know how it turns out.

Oh, Margie how sweet. I know what you mean, they sure keep things in perspective for us as we're going through all this bc stuff. Hair is a big deal to them too.

Deb, I hope Daniel is feeling better. It is kind of funny when the kids throw up on you. Usually Anthony gets the brunt of it. Then he has to clean it up because I will puke from the smell. LOL!!! Glad you had a great Mommy's Day.

Kim

Nancy, and anyone having a hard time with the leg pain and the Neuropathy. Try the Cymbalta. I see a difference and it has only been a few days.

Google it if you want to know more.

ML, glad you are feeling better only after a couple days on the Cymbalta. That is good news.
I go in for rad. #1 today. I am so glad to get this started. I wish I could say I am off the chemo, but that won't happen for a while. My breast is still very red, warm and swollen. You'd really think I have an infection, but I guess it isn't. The funny thing is that I've had a fever of 100.4 the last 2 nights. Did I call the doctor, NO because they said to call if it was over 100.5 So we didn't call. I do have a call into the doctor with some other questions, so I will mention about the "fever".
Hope you all are having a great week.

love,
Kim