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  • SherylB
    SherylB Member Posts: 450
    edited December 2012

    Red most definitely!!

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  • HopeFaithCourage
    HopeFaithCourage Member Posts: 156
    edited December 2012

    Can i still get my chemotherapy on Wednesday if i have this chest cold still brewing?? I feel so much better but puny still. I have too much to do to be sick! My sweet mother is going to buy us a new mattress! My bed is not a " plain" but has " hills and valleys" lol. She can't come for my surgeries but I'm so grateful for this. Now to go get a latch to keep the dog off when I'm not home. They push my bedroom door open. Love to all. I'm scared of this new year. Terrified in fact. But my mother's words play in my heart. Fear is not of God and good and evil cannot not reside on the same place. So chase away the fear and ask for Gods peace. I pray for peace and Gods grace for us all.

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  • Hopex3
    Hopex3 Member Posts: 397
    edited December 2012

    EnglishRose: Red...It shows you have power and are a winner against this crappy BC. Now go click those red heels together and have fun tonight! Or is it tonight there already?



    Sheryl: sorry, your in the hospital with an infection! Hope you get out today!!



    Liv: love your list..I'm going to steal some of it. I also am TN and I have to tell you I have been reading about all the research and findings "they" have been doing an it gives me great hope for all of us!!! So, you will be here way past 2014, add that to your list!



    Happy new year everyone. And I want to thank all of you for being here for me. Even though my family has been awesome, I cannot do this without all of you! Sometimes, I feel I talk too much "cancer talk" and they get tired of hearing it. But you guys understand.



    Hugs,



    Erin

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  • minxie
    minxie Member Posts: 484
    edited December 2012

    time for some emotional spew, apologies in advance. I had briefly gone to a BC support group, on and off. I'd skip half a year, then show. Anyway, one of the women there, a lovely young woman, a puppeteer, so supportive - her BC came back 2 years after diagnosis. The last time I saw her, and I am ashamed to admit this, I did not say hello. It was in the doctors office and I was running in and out and I saw a patient in a wheelchair, weak, frail, a scarf on her head - I try to avoid looking at these people at the cancer center. I am a shallow, horrible person. But when I looked closely, I saw it was her - her face ravaged by all she'd been through, but indeed it was her. And I should have walked up and said - what? "How are you doing?" sounds do trite when it's obvious she's dying. Argh I am so upset with myself for saying nothing. Because today I read she died over the weekend. And I never had a chance to tell her what a kind, helpful, thoughtful, wonderful person she was. Because I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing to her, so afraid of looking my deepest fear in the eye - dying of cancer.

    I am supposed to have my TE placed on the 21st of Jan. Now I have all these dark thoughts in my head - what if when they open me up they find more cancer, again? I am having PTSD attacks just thinking of that hospital - waiting in the chair for the IV, the curtain around my with the leaf pattern, the stupid socks... how many times have I had surgeries now, I've lost count. I don't want to do it again. But I would like my boobs back. If I was sure my husband loved me and was going to stick around, I wouldn't do it. But I can't trust him or anything he says. Ugh, I'm a wreck. And I bet my therapist is nowhere to be found today.

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited December 2012

    (((Minxie))) Don't be so hard on yourself. We all rant about how insensitive/stupid etc others from the non-bc community are and get upset at the things they say . The truth is it is hard even for us to always know what to say. We have all been in this position. I'll tell you my story. 

    I owned a preschool when diagnosed with bc. The building's handyman told me his wife had had bc and was doing great (also TN) and offered support etc. A couple of months later she had a recurrence and was stage IV. To cut a long story short I closed my preschool and did not see him for about a year when I bumped into him in the store. We chatted, but I never asked about his wife because I thought it likely she had died and I didn't know how to react or what to say.

    It is hard. You are not shallow or horrible. You are dealing with things as best you can.

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited December 2012

    Englishrose:  Definitely red.

    Wishing each and every one of you and your family a safe and happy, healthy 2013. 

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  • JAN69
    JAN69 Member Posts: 947
    edited January 2013

    Let's all put on our red shoes, kick up our heels, and toast a healthy New Year!!!!!!!

    Jan

    And has anyone heard from Dawn?

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  • onvacation
    onvacation Member Posts: 1,344
    edited January 2013

    Happy New Year!  Can't tell you how much you all have meant to me!  I read much more than I post, but I don't think I could have gotten through this past year with out this board!

    Hugs and a festive and healthy new year!

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  • Sandlake
    Sandlake Member Posts: 211
    edited January 2013

    Happy New Year ~ I'm going to live each day in 2013 like it's the best day in the yearSmile 

    Cheers to all for a healthy new year! 

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  • OBXK
    OBXK Member Posts: 791
    edited January 2013

    Minxie - oh, sweetie, I hate that you are feeling so anxious. I agree with Gill, don't be too hard on yourself.



    EnglishRose - I hope you went with the red.



    Sheryl - speedy recovery wishes.



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    Happy New Year!

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  • HopeFaithCourage
    HopeFaithCourage Member Posts: 156
    edited January 2013

    Happy New year to everyone! I'm so grateful for this sisterhood and all of the wonderful humor and positive energy. Here's to a new year being warriors and slaying the monster!!

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  • sylviaexmouthuk
    sylviaexmouthuk Member Posts: 7,847
    edited January 2013

    Hello minxie

    I read your post and felt so sad about this awful disease. Please do not be so hard on yourself and take great care.

    Only have the expanders if you feel you want them for yourself. I am so sorry you do not have more support.

    Thinking of you and trying to give you a bit of moral support.

    Best wishes.

    Sylvia.

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  • sylviaexmouthuk
    sylviaexmouthuk Member Posts: 7,847
    edited January 2013

    Hello everyone and a special hello to Gillyone.

    Wishing all of you on this thread a Happy, Healthy New Year.

    Best wishes from the UK.

    Sylvia

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  • liv-
    liv- Member Posts: 521
    edited January 2013

    sheryl b -  hoping your doing ok and wishing you a better 2013

    and just to let you know completed my first goal to see out 2012 with a blast,

    done n dusted, got home 5.30 am after dancing in the club and on the street with all mixed generations and cultures and ethnics. slept till lunch time then down the beach for a few hours.

    lets kick the critters ass in 2013

    luvs

    xxx

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  • gillyone
    gillyone Member Posts: 1,727
    edited January 2013

    Hello and Happy New Year to everyone and a shout out back to Sylvia representing the UK thread. It's great you are keeping it going and providing support and up to date information.

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  • yananma
    yananma Member Posts: 21
    edited January 2013

    Happy 2013! Best wishes to all chemo sis! Start 2nd round TC on 1/3/13! Ready!

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  • GuyGirl
    GuyGirl Member Posts: 182
    edited January 2013

    Happy New Year to all.  Just had a clean mamo and a clean PT/CT Scan.  Have graduated to one year apart for mamo and scans.  Yippee.  Thanks for all the prayers and support.

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  • liv-
    liv- Member Posts: 521
    edited January 2013

    erin -  you can  steal anything that makes us stronger. love to hear they are doing lots of research so i definitely have to hang around till at least 2014 to get the heads up on all the positive new treatments for trip negs. and have another excuse to go out and say goodbye to 2013 with a blast.

    im with you erin.

    guygirl - congrats so happy clear mammo pet scan, well done.

    xx

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  • TifJ
    TifJ Member Posts: 1,568
    edited January 2013

    Luv- just wanted to pop in and wish you all the best on the carbo!

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    Thanks, Tif!  Happy New Year to you and your family!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2013

    Hey ladies, I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday.. Mine was quiet, just DH and I, then on New Years eve we celebrated with friends at the Legion hall. It was a fun and loving night.

    On a different note, just came back from the doc's to review MRI results of my neck and back (ongoing pain). Well the neck MRI shows a nodule on my L thyroid and my L clavical lymphnode.. This was not what I wanted to learn about. Anyone of you have nodules on your thyroid?

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  • TifJ
    TifJ Member Posts: 1,568
    edited January 2013

    Happy New Year to you as well, Luv! I will be sending you strength for your New Year's resolution!

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    Tif - when I come back to KC for a visit, we have to get together Smile

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  • TifJ
    TifJ Member Posts: 1,568
    edited January 2013

    I would love that!! Please let me know! By the way, did I mention Monaghan is retiring? I will see him for the last time in April and then some gal that is currently in Joplin will be taking over for him.

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    You did mention it, but I don't think you said when.  I hope you like the new onc...you know how I felt about Monaghan Wink

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  • mags20487
    mags20487 Member Posts: 1,591
    edited January 2013

    well 2013--a new year full of new insurance decuctibles and copays--=sigh

    Wound on belly is still taking it's time to heal so still dealing with wound vac and possibly more hyperbaric tx in my future--waiting on insurance for that one.  Love my "good" diep boobie.  It looks so amazing and super great in clothes.  March is my next surgery date to restore the left one this time with a gap flap. 

    Luv--you are amazing the way you encourage us all...we are your personal cheerleaders!  GO LUV GO!

    Pet scan friday to take a second look at nodule on lung found last time...here to hoping for scar tissue!!  Will keep you posted. 

    tonights dinner--wine and cheese...fantastic

    Maggie

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  • TifJ
    TifJ Member Posts: 1,568
    edited January 2013

    I hope I like her too. It will be weird having someone new do my follow ups, but having a woman will be nice!

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  • jenjenl
    jenjenl Member Posts: 948
    edited January 2013

    GuyGirl - congrats, what a great way to start 2013! :)

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  • LuvRVing
    LuvRVing Member Posts: 4,516
    edited January 2013

    Thanks, Mags!  You all give me energy to carry on...along with my 4 kids, 3 grandkids, hubby, great friends, etc.   Laughing  And my fabulous oncologist who was disappointed that I didn't wear my deranged Easter rabbit suit in for chemo.  I promised her she'd see it one of these times, probably when both my DD and DH are there...it was their doing that I got it from Santa Jammie.  I might have to play A Christmas Story on my laptop for some of the nurses to get the joke...lol!

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  • melissa119
    melissa119 Member Posts: 172
    edited January 2013

    Hi ladies. Just stopping by to wish everyone a very happy new year! It has been so crazy with the holidays and tomorrow is my sons 7th birthday! I am ready for a vacation! Lol! Hope everyone is doing well. Been trying to catch up on the posts :-).

    My best Xmas gift was that I had enough lashes back on Xmas eve that I could actually use mascara! My eyebrows are also almost back although still a little more sparse than normal. I am still a little freaked out about the whitish fuzzy hair though....hoping that changes soon though.

    Wishing everyone a happy 2013... Much health and happiness to us all! We deserve it!

    Melissa

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