2012 sisters

Christy/Robin... how cool you 2 are meeting up.   Hugs from me xxx

gonzard222: my MO told me that if you have no positive nodes (I was 0/5) then scans are not needed. That is why I am guessing you have not had any either. :-)

juneau - glad to hear you are escaping for comfort. I am so thankful to be at my MILs. Was able to have a normal dinner with lights, take a hot shower, watch some tv, crank up the heat when I got cold, etc, etc... Now to just find some gas!!!

Any of you herceptin takers out there - did you get a fever and killer headache from it? Been battling a headache for days - which I realize could of course be stress induced. But tonight I clearly had a fever of about 100.2 or 100.4 - and as I sit here now with my face still feeling flushed, I assume I still have it. I called the on-call Dr at my MOs office - and didn't care for him at all. When I reported my syptoms he said "so whats the problem?" Well... Just that every f'ing piece of paper I've ever received from the MOs is that a fever of 100.4 is reportable. His response - "yes, we like you to report it but I wouldn't be worried about it." After nudging for more guidance, he left me with the instructions to just keep an eye on it and let them know if it goes up. So now that I am wide awake in the middle of the night, I'm of course googling taxol and herceptin side effects - as I always tune out and ignore the list the spout out when they tell you these things (b/c really - who wants to know...). First thing I see for herceptin is fever, chills and flu-like symptoms. Sounds like me but wondering if others have experienced it. Thanks!

And Juneau - your line of thinking above reminded me of an email exchange I had with a customer today. He knows about my cancer situation this year and I shared with him the damage we suffered from Sandy. But I noted that the silver lining was we are all safe, our house is standing and has no water damage. His response was kind but one of complete shock at my ability to find any silver linings after the year i've had. I didn't respond - but I've been thinking about it. And I realize now that I think one of my cancer life lessons has finally arrived and settled in. You can't control the world around you. All you can do is control your reactions to it and what you do moving forward to keep your life going in a way that makes you happy. I guess facing a life-threatening illness (especially at the age of 37 with two young kids) will help you learn that if you open you mind/heart to it... Anyway - just my middle of the night train of thought and rambling.

To all you newbies - welcome and sorry you have to be here. I haven't really been able to keep up with posts so know I am missing sending out some personal happy dancings and comfort hugs - so consider them all sent here.

And one more thing I wanted to share. When I arrived at my MILs the other night, her upstairs neighbor camed down with a package for me. He recently lost his wife to BC and wanted to give me her wigs and scarves, as he hadn't yet parted with them. The two of us shared a big bear hug and mini-sob-fest on the porch as I let him unload his story. But I was so very touched by his gesture.

Love you all. Hope you are sleeping better than I am!!!

Miranda - my DH was the same in the beginning but talking to the MO and learning about the medicines helped a lot. Once he realized that this was going to be ok (thank the goddess that all my drs were positive ones) it was all systems go. He (as always) has been my rock. He offered to go to every treatment and appts but I only had him go to important ones. First AC, what's next MO appts. That dort of ghing. Brought my friends to treatments. Then before the pesky SE's kicked in had a wonderful dinner with laughter and normalcy for a bit. Remember we're all here if you need to vent anything. Support is the best thing to get us through this. And the meds for SE's!



Juneau - we've been joking all week about going to Hershey. Still have no power but we have a borrowed generator that my DH hooked into furnace and never lost hot water. I sent my kiddies to MILs and have been doing laundry there. What is making me feel good during this outage is I'm able to give back a bit to friends and family who helped us during AC and taxol. A lot of them had/have no water or power so they are coming here to shower and warm up. Every night they come over and we have pot luck and lots of wine! My sister said the shower just made her feel human. I get that. Happy to say she got power back and can now flush! Oh the little things! Hopefully by Monday. Good luck your first day. I always liked starting new jobs. Kind of a fresh start in life.



Enjoy your weekend everyone and feel good!

Hey Robin - Invite you to join the Texas thread, too.  Talking about getting together as a group.  I'm NW of Ft. Worth.

Power! We have power! Woo hoo! So very nice to be home. Can't wait to sleep.in my own bed. And my hubby managed to get gas for our rental out of our crushed vehicles - so we should be all set to get me to chemo o. Wednesday. Good luck to the rest of you still waiting for power.

ramols/juneau - woo hoo for you both.  I can only imagine how wonderful it must feel to be at home, with power, in your own bed.  Enjoy ladies - you are both so strong eh?

hugs to all xxx

Robin go to my profile and it shows a list of threads I've commented on, Texas is on there. I've enjoyed talking to you as well! Here's to New friendships!



Juneau/Ramols yes congrats on going back home to power. It's amazing how we get use to such things as Powr and running water.



Hope everyone has had a good day. I spent the day with my grandparents. Took them to lunch and of course it was a fight to the end on who was paying, and I won once again. It's nice to spoil my grandparents.

MirandaSW:  me too.  shaved it all off.   

Good luck tomorrow! Excited for you especially after all you went through last week. Let us know how it went!

Juneau- Good luck on your first day tomorrow. You will have a good day. If you have a power surge, just stick your face in front a fan. I do, and I don't care what people think about it. It's better than me having to go home. We will all be with you tomorrow and waiting for an update.

juneaubug---good luck tomorrow! hope you have a great day!!

Best of luck tomorrow juneaubugg!!! We can't wait to hear what a great day you had!

hey juneaubug- have a great Monday!

Juneau - go get 'em. You'll be awesome. You've learned that you can handle anything life throws at you now! We'll all be with you.



Just woke up and already found my happy. Friends of ours still without power moved in last night and we decided to let our two four-year olds have a sleepover in my sons room. Listening to them play and chatter now as they just woke up is adorable! Hope you all feel good and find some happy today!