May 2012 radiation

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  • SusannahW
    SusannahW Member Posts: 470
    edited September 2012

    Dear mckenna, you've helped so many of us, including me, it's hard to see you hurting. These bumps and valleys are awful to go through. I'm sure you will take your time and make a well considered decision that you can live with. Please know that I'm grateful for all your good advice, wish I had some to give in return now. I do know that the hard part, hurt and anger will ease.



    Thinking of you,

    Susannah

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  • BLinthedesert
    BLinthedesert Member Posts: 678
    edited September 2012

    mckenna -- I can completely understand your "I have had enough of this" feeling (and quite frankly, you are a busy Mom with better things to do than go through the wait and worry all of the time).

    Hugs ... 

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  • Neeners815
    Neeners815 Member Posts: 358
    edited September 2012

    McKenna - sending big hugs out to you. I get it.  I truly do.  I'm back on the tamoxifen and was hopeful that it would stop my period.  No such luck so far.  Pewp!

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  • STLmom
    STLmom Member Posts: 21
    edited September 2012

    Mckeena I am so sorry to hear about your rash. I hope you feel better soon. Our boobs sure have betrayed us all this year. 

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  • SheChirple
    SheChirple Member Posts: 954
    edited October 2012

    Nice...I love the feet in the shot!

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  • Neeners815
    Neeners815 Member Posts: 358
    edited October 2012

    How's everyone doing?  I hope well!  Happy Halloween :)

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited October 2012

    Hey, Neeners!  Good to see your name here!  I'm getting along well here.  I'm within days of finishing the "mop-up" chemo and will be looking forward to reconstruction early next year.  Kane's doing well, too--she finishes her 6 rounds of chemo on Halloween, the same day as me. 

    My canyon-size radiation wound is closed and dry.  I still rub cream into it a couple of times a day, but I'm grateful for the healing.  I think the scatter from the radiation turned off my thyroid gland, so I'm getting used to the idea of taking synthroid forever, but that's small potatoes.  I'm just glad it's over!

    Hope everyone is doing well and getting on with life!  Happy Halloween!

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  • jittersmom
    jittersmom Member Posts: 165
    edited October 2012

    Mckenna..I can understand your thoughts. i had a bad reaction to Tamoxifen..went off for 3 weeks felt so much better. Went back on and feel crappy agin. I am also on herceptin until the end of November. I have my followup mamo on November 26th...I have had surgery, radiation. chemo, herceptin...I told my family any signs of the big C off they come with no reconstructon. I just want to be active and normal again. Hang in there

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  • mckenna
    mckenna Member Posts: 413
    edited December 2012

    hello ladies,

    long time no chat :) we had a semi relaxing family vacation, with 19 people something is bound to go wrong but we were able to enjoy most of our time.  i am completly off everything and at this point unless one of my dr's calls to find out where i am with things, i will go to the breast surgeon every 6 months and just hope i did enough with surgery and radiation. 

    speaking of radiation, anyone that had a boob radiated have an incredible shrinking boob??? i swear my boob gets smaller by the day Tongue Out

    hope everyone is able to enjoy thier holidays. i think some of you were diagnosed around this time last year so i am hoping this years holidays are better.

    how is cane doing?

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited December 2012

    Hi, everyone.  I hope everyone's holiday season is going well!  Mckenna, you're right...these last few weeks have been shadowed by last year's diagnosis and all it involved.  This time last year I was reeling from the news, two surgeries, port placement.  I had my first chemo on December 15 and buzzed my hair on December 27.  But wow...I'm alive, thriving, and on the other side of it! 

    Kane is doing well, thanks for asking.  She finished her chemo and had a double mx a few weeks ago.  The holidays will be a break for her, and in January it's on to rads.  Thanks to all of us...she has all the information she needs to get through it. 

    Merry Christmas, ladies.  May the New Year bring us all health and happiness. 

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  • BLinthedesert
    BLinthedesert Member Posts: 678
    edited December 2012

    Merriest of Christmas wishes to you all.   I am hoping for a very happy new year!  

    SB -- so nice to hear that Kane is progressing through her treatment - and you too!!  Are you going to have reconstruction?  Hows the cycling going?

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  • SusannahW
    SusannahW Member Posts: 470
    edited December 2012

    Mckenna and sbelizabeth, so great to see your names again, and to know that you're both doing well!



    Mckenna, my radiated boob shrank to a youthful bud-if anyone needs a breast lift and doesn't mind some shrinkage radiation may be the way to go.



    Happy holidays to all, have miss you lots.

    Susannah

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  • Neeners815
    Neeners815 Member Posts: 358
    edited December 2012

    Hello ladies, and happy holidays!  We will be going to Hawaii for the holidays this year (cashed in the frequent flyer miles!).  I'm very excited to go back - we were married there and it's my favorite spot.

    My boob has done a pretty good shrinkaroo, too, and my nipple still winks.  The great thing, though, is I'm not thinking about bc all day every day any more.  It's good to mostly get the old life back :)

    Hugs and love to you all!

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited April 2013

    Hey, rads sisters!  Just popping in to tell you my reconstruction is MONDAY!  Can you believe rads were nine months ago?  

    Hope everyone's well and happy and looking at breast cancer in the rear-view mirror forever.  

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  • SusannahW
    SusannahW Member Posts: 470
    edited April 2013

    Congratulations!! Hope it went well. By now you're probably back on your bike!

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited April 2013

    LOL...hi, Susannah.  Not yet, but it was one of the first questions I asked about at-home activity!  I tried to talk the husby into helping me onto the mountain bike so I could ride down the block and back the day after I got home, just to say I'd done it, but I lost the vote, big-time.  I guess some things are just too silly...

    The new sisters are amazing.  I am so thankful to have been blessed with a team of fierce cancer fighters and reconstruction masters.

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  • BLinthedesert
    BLinthedesert Member Posts: 678
    edited May 2013

    Hi Strong and Brave!  I thought about you two weeks ago as I ran my first post-radiation marathon!  Yippee!  I ran a personal best - was first female 50 year old (and I think 5th over 45!).  So happy ... I thought of all of you, during and after.  

    So glad things are coming along.  was it weird to wake up with bumps again??  

    Hugs everyone!

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited May 2013

    Hi, BL!  Thanks for thinking of me, and I'm thrilled to hear about your marathon.  What a fabulous finish!  I'm very proud of you!

    The bumps are indeed weird, but it's a step in the right direction, leaving breast cancer in the rear-view mirror.  I was back on my bike in just a couple of weeks.  There's still more surgery to go, including treating the big adhesion that was left when that big burn on my back healed, but I'm up for it.  

    Are you happy with the new job??

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  • BLinthedesert
    BLinthedesert Member Posts: 678
    edited May 2013

    I think of you often!    I am so glad you are back on your bike.  Bumps or no bumps, I am sure you are as beautiful as ever!  I hope Kane is recoverying well?

    (I think happy thoughts for all of my May 2012 friends).

    I am the luckiest person in the world.  I LOVE my new job.  It is even more demanding than my old job, but extremely satisfying!  I am working on several projects -- all having to do with cancer, from biomarker research at the laboratory level to trials for personalized treatments for late stage cancers.  I work specifically on the diagnostic side (like, IHC tests for ER, PR and HER2 Smile, but primarily for colon cancer) - and not the therapuetic side - but it is so very rewarding!!  The pace is pretty frantic, kind of like me ;-).  My house is always a mess, and I feel like I am always late, but ... I am in a happy place.

    I will have to find a race to do in California!  I am sure there are a few Wink

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited May 2013

    Bonnie, if there's ever a race in California--Los Angeles, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County--you have a home at the Katy hotel!  I'm so happy you like your new job.  It must be very rewarding, especially for someone who's been there and back.  

    Kane's doing well.  She came for a week after my DIEP surgery and thought she'd be cooking and cleaning and stuff, but none of that.  We went shopping, got pedicures, went to the beach and the movies, and generally had a fun vacay.  She finished her radiation the end of February, and will probably have her own reconstruction surgery early next year.  

    For me, the surgery to begin the recon (there will be several more) was a GIANT step toward hope and healing.  I think it will be for Kane, too.  

    Thanks for working so hard at helping people with cancer.  I don't care where it is or in what capacity your professional corner operates, we need you and appreciate your work.  Keep on running, girlfriend!  Katy

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited November 2016

    A holiday shout-out to my rads friends. I hope you're all doing well and BC is just something you dealt with a long, long time ago. The support we provided one another as we got through that time in our lives was something I'll never forget. Hugs to all!

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  • BLinthedesert
    BLinthedesert Member Posts: 678
    edited April 2017

    SB!! I hardly ever log on anymore, but today I did, and I saw this link flagged as my "favorite" -- and low and behold, there you are. So happy you are doing well. I also think lovingly about this group.

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited April 2017

    Hi, BL! I'm thrilled to see you here, and more thrilled that you're doing well. Are you still loving your job?

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