I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

So will this be the POTUS's fault too?  When this happens 1/2 around the world - it always is. 

Here we seem to be going again.  I too fear it is local  and wonder what  ( how many hundreds of things ) could have produced a reason to do something so horrid.  Of course, there is no good reason.  I just feel a bit deflated at the moment and feeling quite sad and angry at the same time.

Jackie

For Boston.

Big hugs

Just say a news brief that there was a third blast at the JFK Library in Boston.  Incredible, and horrible.

Jackie

Thank goodness...enough is enough.

Jackie

I heard that Adam's mother was going to have him involuntarily committed, AFTER she went on a vacation. She obviously was unaware of his extremely violent tendencies or she would not have kept a virtual arsenal of weapons for him to use. IMO, if his mother had not been able to obtain semi-automatic weapons, it would have been much less likely that Adam would have caused such incredible and tragic carnage. Yes, I'm for a ban against assault weapons!

I did not have a Ki-67 test, or if I did it isn't in my path report. I didn't have an oncotype test because I was considered a shoo-in for chemo due to my tumor grade and nodes (and I refused chemo - haha!)

AIs, like Tamox and othe cancer meds are completely useless for some people. For others, they may cause disease to spread and for others still, they will be beneficial. It is entirely possible that Tam was of benefit to me. I had to assume it was before making the honest decision to discontinue.

As far as I know, there is still dispute among researchers over how to classify luminol A and B. The literature I have read is quite confusing.

Athena - no chemo and grade 3?  You are a rebel.  To be honest, I wish I had your hutzpah.  When my mother had BC, 45 years ago, I honestly thought there would be cure "when I got it."  (I did think it was my destiny given our family history, until I got past my mother's age, and then I relaxed about it - just about the time I skipped my yearly mammogram.)  They say treatments have changed a lot - that's not my observation.  Still extraction, radiation, chemicals.

Kam~~How did things go with your mother when she had BC?



My favorite aunt, who I referred to as AJ for Aunt June had breast cancer in 1993. Instead of getting chemo like we do, she went to the hospital everyday including Christmas for an injection. She lost her hair from it. She was 67.



I was living in Florida while she was dealing with it. She was cancer free until she died in my home this past June at age 86. She died 2 weeks before I found there was a problem with my mammo.



I never knew what type she had (I doubt if she knew) but I do know she took tamoxifen for 5 years. I assume they didn't have arimidex for post-menopausal women at that time.



Paula

Yes, I just heard the explosions had ball bearing in them which decimated peoples limbs. Plus the bombs were on the ground. 

Paula - my mother was the first of 3 sisters (out of 5) to get BC.  All at age 52, so one would assume peri- to menopausal, which goes along with brca2 er+.  My mother had a radical UMX in July of 2007 and died in Dec of 2008.  I was still young, so lived alongside it. When they realized the BC wasn't going away (by Nov 2007), she and my father headed to Standford U. to see Dr. Kaplan.  He is mentioned in the book "Emperer of All Maladies" as a cancer researcher, and consequently my mother became his guinea pig. I once had this down....they knew some cancers were stimulated by estrogen/progesterone, but did not know how to test the cancer and I think this was before Tamoxifen, so to stop her estrogen (if that even mattered - which is what I face now) they removed her ovaries and adrenal glands in Feb 2008.  Removing the adrenals had disastorous consequences.  They do more than just produce Aromatase!  She was constently on the edge of coma and the tumors (in her lungs and chest wall) continued to grow, despite this surgery (which makes me think she was probably TN or Luminal B with no hormone blocker effect).  I heard "virility high" back then, i.e. aggressive.  Lots of radiation with the Linear Accelerater, so we made 2 hour roundtrips everyday to Palo Alto for that.  Lots of percadain and morphine....in June, I went to Disneyland with a gf.  The day I left, she was saying odd things to me.  I came back to my mother being held down by neighbors outside screaming.  She was admitted to a mental hospital, which my father quickly got her out of to a nursing home.  Mostly likely drugged for her remaining months.  She recognized me, but there were no conversations for the next 6 months.  Journals she had written that week I was gone exhibited extreme paranoia.  I attribute it to removing her adrenals.  My view of BC is pretty scarey.  My other Aunt, the next one in line, just shut off communication, never talked to even her daughter, and died about a year and a half later (she was the black sheep of the family).  My next Aunt, 10 years younger than my mother, but at the same age, had a huge tumor....waited months, moved from one part of Canada to another; finally had a UMX and lived til she was 80 and died of bladder cancer. I'd like to say that is Universal Health Care - but I know better.  She never had chemo.  Presumably the bladder cancer came from her diabetic medication. Her daughter had BC 3 years before me.  My cousin and I both have er+; all five us had left upper outer quadrant.  Odd.  Presumably all brca2+...atleast I am.

Patriots' Day ( yes, that's where the apostrophe is in Massachusetts)- probably doesn't mean much to folks living in 48 states, but in Massachusetts - and MAINE - which used to be a part of Massachusetts, it is a very, very special day - celebrating ( honoring) the Battle of Lexington & Concord - April 19, 1775. "The Shot heard 'round the world."  

"Listen my children and you shall hear, the midnight ride of Paul Revere.  On the eighteenth of April in '75, hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friends, if the British march, by land or by sea from the town tonight, hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch, of the North Churh tower as a signal light. One if by land, and two if by sea and I on the opposite shore shall be ready to ride and spread the alarm to every Middlesex village and farm for the country folk to be up and armed." ( every school child had to memorize the first few lines of that poem, well, if you went to school in New England you probably did)- and you can depend, DEPEND, on two things: the Boston Red Sox will play at Fenway Park, and there will be a Boston Marathon, the oldest marathon, and joy, and celebration on Patriots' Day in Massachusetts.

USPost Office is open, but in Massachusetts, most everything else is closed. Fenway Park, the Finish Line of the Boston Marathon, are open - crowded with people, celebratory.  The bombs went off at the time when MOST of the runners would be crossing the finish line, at about the 4 hour time.  Maybe, maybe Copley Square will be renamed Heartbreak Hill, but I doubt it.  There is really only one Heartbreak Hill, and if you don't know where & what it is, ya need to learn more about the glorious and historic Boston Marathon.

A brief history lesson, for those who often attack the "libruls" who live and love here in Massachusetts. More for lurkers than our regular posters, and hoping many will understand the DEPTH of the significance of this day of violence against ALL OF US.

This was an act of violence, and heroism.  If you watch the constant running of video tapes, you see First Responders, Race volunteers, runners, race watchers ( who all gather at the finish line to greet their friends, and stay for HOURS to honor and encourage and celebrate the LAST runner, yes, hours, and hours after eveyone else has gone home) ran TOWARD the danger, ran toward the site of the bombs, to HELP those who were injured.

May the "Shot heard 'round the world" be heard again, there WILL be another Boston Marathon in 2014, and we will continue to celebrate, while we mourn, and honor those killed, maimed for life, there will be a Boston Marathon in 2014.  And we will PROUDLY stand along the route,  cheer, maybe cry, and CONTINUE to celebrate Patriots' Day in Massachusetts.

April 19, 1775.  The first Patriots' Day at Lexington and Concord.

White, 30s-40s, military experience, disgruntled.

Edited to fix spelling.  

Brief update -

No update yet.  :-)  I called my onc's office but no results.  The secretary said that MRIs usually take 48 hours to read, so it looks like I'll be waiting a bit longer.