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Steiner, yes, thank goodness it's outpatient.  The plastic surgeon has privileges at a hospital that's closer to our home and unlike the hospital where the BMX was done - this one has outpatient surgery services. 

I'm now up to four hospitals.  

The first one (ultrasound/biopsy/mammogram/diagnosis), the second one (MRI/BMX), the third one (echocardiogram - would-be PICC line - plus, the mothership to the cancer center where my oncologist practices) and the fourth one tomorrow.  I'm spreadin' this thing around!

MsTori, I read about your experience earlier today  from the waiting room but didn't have time reply.  

I hope you're feeling better by this evening!!

Lee,

Sorry about your TEs.  Hope you recover soon!

Well, the king pin frenemie is in the EU for a couple of weeks with not so good intentions towards her male coworkers, so I hear.  Her husband is a saint or clueless...So for now I don't have to deal with her.  I'm heading home to Philly around the time she returns.  I do need to get my garage door opener back from her though...I need it for my Christmas cat sitter.  I hear you can buy garage door openers and program them from your own system.  Anyone know about that?  I don't think I'll see frenemie number 1 before I leave for the holidays.

The other frenemie and I have made up, but it is still strained.  I feel bad, but I think these ladies just spiraled out of control and fed off of each other in a very mean way.  I don't think it was called for.  Like I said, yeah, the house was a mess (especially the master bath which was disgusting), but I had a potassium of 2, a hemoglobin of 9, a hematocrit of 26, a temperature of 102 and no white cells to speak of.  I just didn't care if my house wasn't clean.  

Anyway, I'll stop babbling.  Thank you for checking.  All you guys on this site are so wonderful.  I need to meet up with Fluff in Greenfield :-)  We could take our bald selves out to lunch and gossip about how rough people are with cancer patients.  It's an eye opener.

BTW, I got two buffs in the mail today.  I ordered them about a week ago.  They are so comfy on my hairless, sensitive scalp.  I'd recommend them to everybody!

Pbrain - I'm glad you gave us an update!  Admittedly, I'm curious about this EU thing...it sounds kind of cloak and dagger (with an emphasis on the dagger, and that might be a euphemism).  Is KPF (King Pin Frenemy) the ringleader/former pet walker?  You don't have to say - if you don't want to incriminate her.  

These buffs - I saw you and MsTori talking about them.  Did you have to order from New Zealand?  

Re: Herceptin - I'm just nervous that we're getting too far out from my surgery...hey, if you work for the Boniva people then you also work for the H people!  Wow!  

Re: sleep - I've been taking a lot of weird little cat naps lately.  

Re: garage door openers - my mom has one that you can key in a code to open.  We used to have one like that at our other house and they're quite easy to use!  And IIRC, not all that expensive.  I don't think you have to reinstall the opener - just get the keypad but I'm not certain about that. 

Shore, I haven't started on the tamoxifen/AI inhibitors yet, but I suspect they could be altering your sleep.  I know that menopause in and of itself can make sleep tough.  Are you dealing with hot flashes or night sweats that are waking you up, or are you just having issues actually falling asleep?  My heart goes out to you because sleep is a many splendid thing.  I am not myself without it.

Lee, KPF who is the perfect 1959 housewife to her and her husband had to take a large project through the FDA.  It took over a year to get clearance and she became very close to her Austrian colleagues.  She has told us time and again how she has a carnal lust for these poor men.  So she has taken her vacation time to go visit them in Austria without a business reason, and without her husband.

Somehow it doesn't make my dirty master bathroom look so bad.  Tee hee....

Ok, I'm being snarky.  

specialK - how interesting about the scanner at the airport picking it up.  I've flown at least 3 or 4 times now with my port - nothing ever picked it up.  I was ready to show them my card, but not needed!  I wonder if it is the special scanner you mentioned.  

LeeA - I'm so sorry you have to get your TE replaced! 

shore - I too have difficulty sleeping - wake up 5 to 6 times a night due to hot flashes with night sweats.  After several nights of that I end up feeling pretty exhausted.  My doc also prescribed Temazapam.  I take it usually twice a week just to keep myself feeling more rested.  On the off nights I take melatonin.   When I was off Tamoxifen (took a break) I slept significantly better b/c the hot flashes were just "warm" and didn't wake me up as much.  

LeeA, I am surprised they are putting one back in. Interesting. Let us know how it goes.

Shore, I wake up in the nite for hours sometimes. At least its not every nite so I will make it.

Pbrain, I hope the treatments go better. I heard a lot of people like the buffs. There two longs. One is polar fleece and one is a thinner knit. I know Duluth trading Co.

has them and I suppose Cabelas or other sporting stores will have them too. BTW, I am so happy Duluth Trading opened a store here in Port Washington, that is awesome. They make sturdy clothing. My daughters SO works in a foundry and the pants last, amazing. Ok, sorry, last commercial.LOL!

My MIL wake is tomorrow and the funeral is Saturday. Gonna be busy. so I am about to get behind on this thread. Apologies ahead of time! Much love to all.

SpecialK-I don't think our vaccine trial and the Neuvax one are exactly the same, are they? They locations seemed to be different, but I didn't read much about vaccine injection components. Congrats on finishing. I was really tired of the every three week thing at the end. I ran out of things to do. My nurse said go to the beach. I to.d her I just drove 9 hours down here (or flew depending on the week), and now you want me to get in a car and drive 4 hours one way to the closest beach. Ummm....no thanks, lol. Hotel pool is fine.



Pbrains-I'm in Greenwood on the south side, not Greenfield so would be much easier to meet up.



Moonflower-don't get too stressed out over this weekend. Take a little time to step away. Funerals are exhausting both physically and emotionally. May you find some peace.

Fluff, Sk, forgot to say I am glad you are done with the trial. And thanks, its a lot of effort, but we will hope there is a good result! .BTW, if you can't do a trial, make surevto sign the paper work to allow them to use your tissue and sometimes results for testing and research. An easy way to contribute, after all, you sure don't need it anymore! They remove all identifiers before using the stuff, so you don't have to worry about it. Ok, speech done LOL. Much love.

SpecialK - Thanks for the Buffs link.  

thinking of you and your family Moon

My sincerest condolences to you Moonflwer and to your family....



Rickythebean..

Very exciting indeed. I so admire people like your mo who devote their lives to scientific research the vast majority of whom never get public accolades and rarely receive financial reward.

My nephew is a post doc researching MS.

Sounds like you're in very good hands.....

Tonle - Yes I'm done with reconstruction!  Yeah!  Very pleased with my results.  Now on to finishing Herceptin this month and getting my port out!  The light's getting brighter every day!