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Gee shucks ! Thanks tracyc. I can only post what is relative to me so if you have any concerns at all you should contact your BS or someone at the cancer agency. I know I emailed/called my patient navigator nurse almost every day after surgery asking if this or that feeling was normal.
Karenneedshope: sorry you had to find yourself here, but really here is your place to vent, cry, rant, laugh… whatever emotion you have get it out and share here – we all get it. The beginning really is the scariest time. My scans showed a couple of nodules on my lungs and one on my adrenal gland. My MO & BS both thought likely benign and if not, so small the chemo I was about to start would zap them. I had a cough on chemo…. Called it the chemo cough – hope it is just that. Listen to the advice of websister & the others…. Stay away from Dr. Google – you can and will scare the crap out of yourself.
Hugs and love to you all – hope you manage to have a wonderful weekend. Snowing like crazy here today.
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Hi Karen....welcome....you certainly came to the right place for support, advice, ranting,
laughing and a feeling of warmth that I get from all these gals.
The google thing....been there, done that...step a way, the girls a right, it can give you nightmares....been there, done that too. -
Hi tazzy - thank you for your support and advice. Do you mind if I ask you the size of your nodules? Were they 1 - 4mm in size like mine?
Hi Scottie1 - thank you also for your help! I will definitely be here ranting, worrying, crying - and hopefully before long - laughing and celebrating!!
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karenneeds - yes they were very small - just under 2mm. My MO said that most of us - men and women - would live with these benign nodules and never know a thing about them. It is only cos of our scans we find out.
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Tazzy - I'm so glad that yours were small and benign! Im hoping for the same of course. But if not, I'll try to be strong and go with the flow. I guess it's good that we are subjected to so many scans and tests - the waiting for results is challenging - but knowledge is power I guess!
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Checking in after my exchange surgery. Alas things did not go as planned and my simple in and out same procedure has turned into a 2-3 night stay here. I have confounded them with ny stroke-like symptoms that showed up right after surgery with clean scans. They think I had a TIA so here I stay for observation and more scans. Sigh...
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Karen,
You are not alone! Know that to be true. Wonderful people here and all over the virtual world are with you to support you. We've got your back.
I have about 8 or so nodules scattered throughout both lungs. They have responded well to Tamoxifen--the only therapy I have had thus far. They were pretty small to begin with, and are smaller--some have disappeared. But you may not have cancerous lesions in the lung at all. As websister says, one step at a time.
It's natural to scour the web for answers and then get convinced you'll be dead in 25 minutes; it's all part of the process. I think it's waiting that is the worst part of anything that we go through. But that's why you're here with us--we'll wait with you. Keep us posted!
Scorchy
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Hi Scorchy - thank you for your words of support! Im so happy for you that your lung lesions have shrunken and disappeared! That has given me tons of hope!! I'll be checking in to see how you're doing and find love and support. Take care - Karen
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Oh! ramols that just sucks big time. Get rest and let us know how you get on with the scans.
Hugs and love xxxx
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Ramols- saying a prayer for you! Did you get your new girls?? Keep us posted on your recovery and what the Dr's say. Keeping you in my thoughts!
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Ramols - that does suck big time!!! Sending prayers and hugs, hope they break you out of there soon
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Ramols I am sorry you are stuck there but better there where you can be observed. I know it sucks. Boy do I know. But at least you'll go home healthy.
Karen - welcome to our family. You are in a good place here. I didn't have the nodules scare but the beauty of this group is if you ask about a symptom or side effect someone has had it and can tell you their experience and offer some comfort. My input to you is a big huge hug and to be here like all the rest of these amazing woman. One day soon we'll see you over at 2013 Survivors! -
Thanks ladies. Happy to report I'm home in my bed. They agreed to let me do the remaining scans and f/u as outpatient. Off to bed as I'm wiped. But will write more after some much needed rest. Hugs!
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Just catching up a bit...Ramols, so sorry to hear all this, but so glad you are tucked in at home! Hopefully this is all just precautions! Rest up!!
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Ramols, so sorry for your crappy time. Glad you are home now and didnt have to try any potentially humiliating escape tactics- hard to look cool and/or casual when walking out in winter in those hospital gowns! Rest up and get well.
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Hi ramols - So happy to hear that you are home and resting. We always feel better once we're home and then we heal so much faster. All the best to you! Karen
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ramols: glad you are at home and tucked up in bed - no place like home eh?
So my return to work has been scuppered by snow... we have a snowfall warning in effect and the plows cannot keep up with it to keep the highways cleared. Shovelling is good exercise eh?
Love & hugs to all xxxx
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Gosh Ramols - Is anything easy on this journey? Glad you got your "get out of jail free" card and home to your guys and own bed. Hope you are getting good rest.
Love all my sistas here.
Welcome Karenneedshope - Glad to have your here with the group but sorry for the need to. Someone on here has most likely been thru what you are having. If not we are quick to point you in the right direction or send you quick as a bunny back to your docs.
Tazzy - First day back at work today?? Yeah for our cheerleader here. OhOh, posted my preview and see your sidetracked by snow. Enjoy the day.
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Ramols: so sorry to hear about this latest--shall we say--"adventure." But glad you are home and in your own bed. Keep us posted.
Tazzy: Sidetracked by snow? That must be some snow to sidetrack a Canadian! I tried to go back to work today--beore the doc gave me clearance--and I couldn't do it. i just can't wait to go back. I hope things clear out for you so you can get back to work.
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Ramols - glad you're home, hope you a taking it easy today
Tazzy - hope the weather improves soon so you can have that first day back at work
Karenneedshope - you sound better, so good to see
Hi to everyone else. Had my MUGA scan this a.m. so will glow in the dark for a few days. We'll see what the results are when I have my MO appointment next Monday.
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Karenneedshope: Welcome Karen. Hold on because it will be a bumpy ride. If need (and you will need) hold on to us! (((HUGS))) I never NEVER Googled anything at all... EVER. It's always a bad idea as we are all vey unique and a positive attitutde is some important. Dr. Google can really take what little wind you might have in your sails right out.
Tazzy: What Schorchy said... what kind of Canadian are you that you get sidelined by snow!? Oh wait... I know... I BRITISH ONE! LOL!
(I crack myself up some days!)
Well back to work for me... HUGS!
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You girls crack me up too.... Juneau you are so sharp with your wit... careful you dont cut yourself
I have the most amazing boss who called me this morning to say not to drive in for 4 hours - I can go in on Friday instead. Suits me. Seems that the highways are now clear - thankfully, but we have a snowfall warning in effect for the Okanagan.
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Ramols, Oh wow! Sorry to hear you were sidelined like you were but so glad you were able to come home. Hope all is well now and that you atleast got your new squishes so you can lay on your side while you recover!
Karenneedshope, as the others have said so sorry you have to be here but you landed in with the greatest group of ladies ever!
Tazzy I have to say Juneau and Scorchy got you on that one. lol It's funny because I was taken back a bit by Canadians being "snowed in" too
Websister Hope all is well on the Muga scan-nothing like having to wait a week for those results although I think it's a little easier now after all we've been through right?
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Ramols....so happy you are home....take it easy and be good to yourself.
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2Fried/Juneau/Scorchy: I am sure 'real' Canadians would laugh at me and to what they get in the East of Canada with have nothing but a skiff. I am just a real wooss when it comes to driving in it, and I got a snow day before I even started
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Tazzy, I hate winter .... I grew up in a snow belt area in Ontario and I still hate it ..... I go to work and back but will not commit to anything else in the winter ... I am the wooss (?) ...
I work in a high school and there is nothing better then hearing that the schools are closed.... never too old to like a snow day !!
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If I am indoors and warm and cozy and dont have to go out - love looking at the snow. Otherwise keep it on the mountain tops where it belongs... guess that will teach me to move to Canada and half way up a mountain. It really is something you love or hate eh?
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OMG!! I just had a tissue expander fill this afternoon and geez does it hurt! Wowsers! Whoever came up with this idea must have been a sadist!! ARGH!!
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Karenneedshelp, I am with you on the fills - they HURT!
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Thank god that my breasts (or whatever they are called now) are completely numb. Can you imagine what this would feel like if they weren't?? Yikes! Not sure how I'm going to sleep tonight...
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