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OMG edi that's awesome!!!! I don't know the conversion but I hope they raised enough!!! We all have to meet I would love to!! I need some fun!!!
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Dakota, did it go ok today ? We have sooo all got to meet.
Are you in America ? they have raised about 21,000 USD if not let me know what currency you have and will send you the details of amount raised.
We are all so proud of our youngsters :-).
They need at least that as her insurance will take most of it :-(
Edi x
Sure they will do it, money still pouring in.
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Ok im sooo getting on youtube to see it..cant believe i missed that part of your post
Im having 3 CMF correct may go for 4 doc says see what happens. -
Cyber mummy u are beautiful just as I had imagined....with the wig and more without....love love love it. Your daughter gorgeous like her mummy.
All the ladies such an inspiration for Lisa...well done
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Traii, glad you found it ! Thank you for comments too.
Dont feel at all gorgeous today . Think I have a yeast infection, burning and itching unbelievable. Triage said must go to Doctors first thing in the morning, meanwhile plastering on nappy rash cream. lol What next ?
Heard CMF not as awful as some chemo's, hope they are right.
Going to crawl into my pit and hope for sleep minus the itch.
night night x
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Oh dont talk about itching Edi....mines bad at times, think Im tearing her apart..lol...slapping on savlon for me...works a treat! Ahhh!!
Heard that too re CMF...can tell u on the 2nd Jan!!
Good night beautiful...sweet dreams x -
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I am. We are in MA!! You are so cute and happy!!! So far so good with #3. 5 to go. Sleeping will be tough tonight oh well. When are u up again ?? -
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Good to know haven't got that S/E yet. Think I am lucky enough to get hemeroids (yuck). It originated when I was pregnant with my son and since the colace and senekot yup back again. Sorry if TMI!!!! Goid nights hope u girls can skeep -
Lol Dakota not TMI...its ok...lol u poor thing
Well my roasts in oven for my dinner guests tonight...so much fun. I am gonna sit now did everything this morning
Good night all hope u can sleep Dakota...glad no. 3 went good almost half way there -
Traii, Dakota, Morning ( here ).
Googled thrush home remedy just before going up to bed. Like dear Benny's mouth wash Bicardonate of soda/baking soda mixed with water and sloshed on really calmed things down enough to sleep :-)
Traii sorry you get this too :-( gonna hit the savlon too, thanks.Hope your roast went well.We got little GD tonight YAY ! Mummy and Daddy on firms xmas night out ( piss up ) so we have her over night.
Dakota, MA ? I am total rubbish at geography. Hope you are SE free today.
Piles not funny, I avoided them through three pregnancies then POW last week there they were ! Years ago my DH got them, Doc gave him suposetries he goes into bathroom and I stand other side of door and shout instructions. The carry on was hysterical after much huffing and puffing he gets one in. He opens door with look of pure horror on his dear face, walks out in a very peculiar way then two mins later runs back in and of course out it comes ! Needless to say he has never mentioned piles again lol.
Hope you slept well.
Gonna hit the Doctors as soon as they open, don't you just hate going with anything in that area ? Hope I can get a lady Doc.
Laters. Edi XX
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Benny
Happy Holidays!!! I know things are rough right now but I just wanted you to know I keep up with this thread and have not forgotten about you!!! ALways thinking good thoughts for you here and hoping for minimal side effects! You can do this. Once you get to the other side you will be amazed how strong you are. The memories of the side effects lessen over time!
Big Hugs
Lesley
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Hi everyone love reading all the post. Sometimes I miss stuff. It sounds like everyone is doing well. Benny has been missing again? I haven't seen anything recent.
Third day out of surgery a little sore but not bad, its these drains that are making me crazy. I hate not be able to lift up my Grand-daughter.. I think I have the third day blues. Just waiting for the next step.
Take Care Everyone!
Prayers,
Carla
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Carla, well done you sound amazing, I didn't have drains but must be pretty awful especially if you can't lift little one.Do be careful with any lifting on that side at all even when no drains in. I have almost got used to using other arm for any lifting, carrying bags etc. The body adapts really quickly to the changes.Just please take care of yourself you are the important one now.
Benny hasn't been on for a while, she was still really weak and ill after coming out of hospital.We are all hoping she will feel better soon.
Rest and sweet dreams to you x
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Benny was going to try and get out to see Diamond yesterday, I'm thinking if she did that she may have gone out again today. Good medicine. Have a great weekend everyone.
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I did finally make it out to see the giant plush toy! I tried to go on Wednesday but had to turn back as I was so weak and dizzy. Then yesterday I made it out there with no dizzy spells and...... she remembered me! She whinnied when she saw the truck pull up and started racing up and down the fenceline of her pasture! When I walked up to her she nickered and lowered her head for a schmuzzle with her mom ♥ ♥ ♥ I was only going to stay for an hour but because my strength was okay I stayed about 5 hours. The downside is I didn't eat or bring water with me so that was bad. And then today I headed out there again for the afternoon. The Walking Horse News is out now and my story is featured on page 5. I'll try and post a pic.
Sorry for the delay in responding here but I just decided I wasn't going to post anymore until I could post something positive for a change, instead of "I'm sick" all the time. No one likes a Debbie Downer or a Gloomy Gus. I wouldn't say I'm a 100% yet but much better. Unfortunately my freedom will be short-lived as i have to go for chemo #2 next week.
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Not a Debbie downer! It's good to hear from u!!!
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Thanks for the update
Carlads -
The drains do stink. It took me two weeks to get mine out but I did BMX.
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Good to hear from u as always
# 3 went well a little more tired but doable. No sickness. I took my compazine like a good girl!!
Hope u girls/warriors are doing well. Benny god willing it will be better for u!!!😍😍😍 -
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Benny, good to hear from you and glad you got out to see your giant plush. How adorable she was excited to see her mummy just as her mummy was excited to see her.....glad you got out there for longer than expected but no water or food..naughty girl...lol well you'll know for next time.
Congrats on making the magazine, great pics.
And NO you are not a Debbie Downer, we are here for the good and the bad times
Glad you had better sleep Dakota
Well Done Carla, glad to hear all doing well
Drains are draining, literally !!( I only had one for the axillary lymph node removal) but will be having BMX mid next year!!Edi, after that story I bet your hubby never mentioned piles again !! how lovely you had your GD over for a sleep over while mummy and daddy did the piss up....
Can you believe, its not every weekend we have something planned, next weekend we have 3 things in the one day.
Hubbys not going to his christmas party...instead we are going to my christmas party for dinner at the casino, then head over to his friends wifes party afterwards.....shes turning the big naughty forty! So I have lots of things in mind for her pressie...(wink wink) we too have become good friends over the years and she constantly messages or calls to see how I'm doing
Can we have a drink or TWO while on chemo ladies .. I'm not use to going to a christmas function and coming out 'sober' lol.
Enjoy the weekend ladies, I'm off to my Aunty's pool today......its 37degrees right now, stinking hot but waiting til a little later where we are going into the pool and have a BBQ for dinner , yum yum !
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Websister, relief to know our beautiful Benny was improving, thanks. Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Benny !! You are a not a moaner, if you feel yuk please at least post" I am still here" I for one have a mental vision of you in such a state that you can't get help. We are here for good and bad.
Love the article, fab pic. Just had to dab away a tear of joy imagining your reunion with Diamond. As Traii says PACK A PICNIC next time lol.
Sure next chemo will be as normal as these things can be, and you will be on here about hair and itches and other fun things.
Have a lovely weekend with giant plush toy.
Dakota, hope you still ok, weekend of fun for you too.
Carla, hope you weekend painfree and fun.
Traii, Wow that is my kind of weekend you have coming up. I was told not allowed to drink while on chemo. Then as I was having no2 asked could I have a little scotch for my birthday. The head nurse looks at me and says " of course you can " she couldn't understand why I had been told no. As she said just don't overdo it. I would ring your advice line and double check and if ok ENJOY !
GD been little angel while Mum and Dad out having fun. Only bad part was being woken up just before dawn to come and play ! We are watching Disney and making models.
Soooo jealous of the 37 deg it is sodding freezing here and my stupid gas fire will not light !! Heating just come on at least, but DH will be getting an earache when he climbs out of his pit. Fire has been playing up for weeks and all we get is the " Must get this seen to " speech. He WILL have piles again from the kick up the butt from me.
Fun and laughter + minimal SE's to all Warrior Sisters.
Edi X
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Well back from the pool, it was gorgeous......yummy dinner too:)
Love your humour Edi, you always manage to make me laugh.....I can imagine you kickin' your man up the butt bringing on piles.....lol get that heater fixed I say.. I've heard your winters are absolutely freezing and you don't want to get sick.
I will see how I feel next week anyway.....at this point I AM going out but I do have chemo on Wednesday so hope I'm feeling ok by the weekend, perhaps a scotch will get rid of my 'furry' tongue that will come back next week...lol
Too cute, its a good way getting woken up at dawn to play and watch disney...what better way on a Saturday morning with your GD.....how adorable
My son wakes me up on a Friday ( day off) around 5-6am because he hears the bin trucks, comes running in my room full of excitement ( now you can just imagine how excited I am..at least you watch disney, my son opens the blind while I'm in bed and makes me watch the damn bin truck...yes I know, cute....but not at that time....lol ..... he is OBSESSED with bin trucks...watches them on you tube, has bin trucks and bins all over the place......that and Fireman Sam...lol.
Hope you lovely ladies have a fantastic weekend .... x
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Traii, GD just gone, she is lovely but feel as if I have been run over by a bin truck now lol. Love the way little boys adore these things but not to be awakened at dawn to watch them !
DH was getting a bit pixxed of with ED as she had bad head ( surprise surprise ) so lunch time before pick up. Her other Nana refused to do any looking after while she was going thru BC for TWO YEARS. May have to pull back a bit much as I adore her.Take my hat off to you with a full time little one.
When he got up DH was bent over fire trying to light it,( just the right position for a kicking ) I had to sit on my foot ! Think he may have sorted it out :-) Better had as we a supposed to be getting the worse winter since records began.Found all the hats and gloves, thermals and boots yesterday. Rumours of 6" snow on way. Wish we had emigrated to Aus years ago. We had everything in place and then chickened out, stupid poms :-(.
Hope your chemo ok next week, scotch will defo help with the tongue. That's my excuse and I am sticking to it lol.
Laters Edi xx
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Hi Girls, it's been a bit, I haven't been posting much...after chemo I just needed a cancer break.
It sounds like you are all doing so well, even you Benny, your next round I imagine will be much better. So happy you could spend some special time with Diamond.
Dakota, tough times with a ex (since your not together I am assuming he is a ex)..my oldest daughter is going through a separation, it has been ongoing for a year now, it is very stressful and to do it with a cancer DX like you have to...you do need your warrior panties on!...I am thinking of you and hope it goes okay..
Carla woohoo surgery done!!...get well soon!!...I never had drains but it is doable, it must be hard with a little one, lots of loving without lifting for now.
I am 3 and a half weeks out from my last chemo and my hair is starting to grow, it is white, with a few dark hairs all going every which way....I am just wanting a pixie look at this point!! A few more months I imagine, but it is true it comes back!!!!!!! I go in on the 13th for my ct simulator for radiation treatments that begin Jan 3rd...16 treatments and then just herceptin..16 more of those, and they are easy as pie..OMG I can actually see the end of the road at this point.
I hope everyone is feeling well this weekend and the coming week brings minimal SE
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Great article Benny, I can see you next summer on the Wild Pink Yonder Ride!
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uGH, TWO STEPS FORWARD AND ONE STEP BACK. hAD A BAD DAY TODAY. VERY WEAK WHEN I WOKE UP, WHICH MAKES ME PANICKY, AND ENDED UP CRYING MOST OF THE DAY. iT WAS -17 c WITH A WINDCHILL OF -27c SO NOT AN OPTION TO GO OUT TO THE BARN, BUT i WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE STRENGTH TO ANYWAY. wHY AM i WEAK AGAIN?
Oops, caps lock, sorry, and I'm too lazy to go back and fix it. I am afraid i will never be normal ever again. It is day 24 and I feel like it's day 5. Is that normal? Does anyone else have serious relapses? I also made the mistake of reading a post on BCO this morning (not in this thread) which really depressed me. I think I spent the day mourning my old life, which is lost to me forever. I don't want cancer to be a part of my future, but this particular post made it seem like it will always be my reality, especially because I am late stage. The other weird thing is what the chemo has done to my skin. I swear I had practically no wrinkles on my face until this nightmare began. It seems like the chemo has sucked the collagen right out of my skin and it's just sagging on my face. Wrinkles, substantial wrinkles, have appeared out of nowhere. And all this after one cycle. I resent that the medical community calls this 'treatment'. It's not treatment. It's injecting poison and waiting to see which side wins. Millions upon millions of dollars and for what? So that I spend 3 weeks sicker than a dog, hospitalized, and experiencing latent effects like double vision, hearing loss, and nausea? Some treatment.
I hope tomorrow is better but each day I seem to lose a bit more faith and hope. Seeing Diamond helps but even that is a constant reminder of how sick I still am. I can't do a quarter of the things I used to be able to do.
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Benny, sometimes I wonder why we are having something injected in us that makes us sick when prior before and at diagnosis I felt normal!
But then I think 16 years ago I had chemo, stem cell transplant and rads and there was light at the ebd of the tunnel...we will survive all this, we constantly hear that these are just hurdles we are going over but this all too shall pass!
Its normal to feel good one day then feel weak the next especially if youve done more than what youve been doing the days prior.
Just remember you had a good 5hrs with Diamond , lets aim for a couple of hours tomorrow (weather permitting)
Im so sorry you have had a rougher time with your first treatment.
My advice would be not to read statistics and stories...Ive done my share of reading about my prior cancer and a new cancer etc etc and then I look at my son and say Im going to get through treatment, beat this bitch of a thing and come out ofthis even stronger than I was before! You too will be a stronger women.....you are strong now and you need to remain strong Benny. We all have faith in you...you will get through this with all our support, we are here for you.
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Benny hang in there girl, and don't go reading some of those posts. I have done exactly that and I was so depressed afterwards, I had myself thinking I was going to die....and that certainly was the wrong frame of mind to go to. It can really bring you down. You are not late stage. Yes chemo can be nasty, and yes you will have yucky days but when it's done you will start to come back, your energy, and I actually heard that the skin can turn beautiful when chemo is done...lol I am waiting for that to happen to me!! ..Mind you mine was never that great to start with! Always remember when you start to feel down, CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR DAY, CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!...my mantra....its okay to have a down day..now get back up on the horse!!!...can you see me with pompoms and a cheer leading outfit, lol...
I hope everyone is warm and toastie in there homes ...keep the cold weather outside...lol at you Edie sitting on your foot. I could so picture that. It's minus 12 here, and lightly snowing. That's not too bad!...my DD home 4 hrs. North is -35...
I hope the rest of the weekend is awesome for you all, no matter if you are healing on the couch, or resting from chemo try and have a good one ladies.. -
Benny, sometimes I wonder why we are having something injected in us that makes us sick when prior before and at diagnosis I felt normal!
But then I think 16 years ago I had chemo, stem cell transplant and rads and there was light at the ebd of the tunnel...we will survive all this, we constantly hear that these are just hurdles we are going over but this all too shall pass!
Its normal to feel good one day then feel weak the next especially if youve done more than what youve been doing the days prior.
Just remember you had a good 5hrs with Diamond , lets aim for a couple of hours tomorrow (weather permitting)
Im so sorry you have had a rougher time with your first treatment.
My advice would be not to read statistics and stories...Ive done my share of reading about my prior cancer and a new cancer etc etc and then I look at my son and say Im going to get through treatment, beat this bitch of a thing and come out ofthis even stronger than I was before! You too will be a stronger women.....you are strong now and you need to remain strong Benny. We all have faith in you...you will get through this with all our support, we are here for you.
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Benny, you sweet beautiful girl. Please don't despair. You started this thread and we all found you. I know we chatter on about silly things but just remember we are ALL scared whitless !! It is a way of coping with all this terifying stuff that they are doing to us.
I read some of the other things on here and other sites and promptly planned my funeral.Then thought" sod this for a game of soldiers" ( one of my dear mum's sayings ) I will stick with the warrior sisters they are a different tribe.We are ALL not going anywhere, you included we would all be lost if our scout gives up so get back on your horse and ride.Weather permitting lol. Now come on give us a little smile :-)
I know I am a nagging old bag but I hope you are eating and drinking enough ? X
Bearcub, lovely to hear from you, and that hair coming back ! I really don't mind the baldy look, but as it rather cold right now look a bugger in a black fluffy hat trotting around doing housework ( not a lot ) Let us know how the Rad's next step goes. I have them in the spring.
Traii, Hope you are ok ? We are going away next weekend with 8 of our friends we have known for almost 60 years. All our birthdays are around this time of year so we meet up every Nov/Dec for a get together. This year we are going to a 60's weekend in a lovely hotel so need to get all the best gear washed, pressed and packed YAY.Getting DH to do this is a minor miracle in itself lol.
I hear him clanking around, will put kettle on.
Laters Edi X
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Traii, Bearcub and Edi, thanks so much for the booster shot! ♥ Yesterday was a really bad day. Today I feel a bit better. Not sure about the barn option (it's still -15 with a windchill of -23) but I will stay away from parts of the forum that make me feel bad. Maybe I'll change the sheets today. I bought new flanel ones so will launder them and fluff them up.
I am dousing my face with glaxal base to counteract the dryness so maybe that'll help my poor old skin.
Edi, I am eating pretty good and making a point of having protein at each meal (always a challenge for vegetarians). Love your mom's saying about the soldiers!
Bearcub, I also love your mantra. I will try to keep it in my pocket and bring it out when I'm down.
Traii, I'm relieved to know some days are worse than others. Being reminded that what I'm experiencing is normal is relief in itself.
Forgot to mention.... not yesterday but the day before I had visited a store in Calgary that specializes in products for BC women. There were a bunch of young teen girls in there looking around at the products and that made me feel very uncomfortable. Then one of the salesgirls, who had a full head of long thick brown hair, came up to me and grabbed some of my hair and pulled it out. Of course it came out in a chunk and she said "Oh dear, look at you. What are we going to do about this". I said "Nothing" (in essence, leave me alone). I did buy some bangs for hats, some double-sided tape and a few hats, but the experience was pretty awful. I ended up in tears sitting in my truck in the parking lot.
Okay, onward and upward. I just had a healthy breakfast now will have a quick cup of sweet tea, then off to fluff the new flannels!
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