Calling all TNs

Hi ladies I'm on lunch break so quick post but I simply must say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a very special lady called Karen, OBXK. Unsure of the time zones so hope I am not too late.  Have a great day with a glass of wine, some green if you can and hopefully your old feller will take you out for a meal or cook you a scrumptious one.  Either way hope you enjoy your birthday with many more to come and have a great time.  Luv Annie   

Hi Lovelyface. So good to see your post.  Will catch up with you later.

Happy Birthday Karen! Hope you are having a joyous day!

ud45 - My dx was very similar to yours; see my signature (my 1 lymph was a micro).  I did TAC, all three drugs every 3 weeks for 6 rounds.  The T is Taxotere, not Taxol, just to clarify.  In my part of the (USA NW) world that is the given standard treatment.  I'm not that far out, but I am 16 months post chemo.  I personally don't want to "waste" time mentally second guessing my therapy.  I pondered whether to choose being in a clinical trial and deliberated over it for some time.  I finally decided to go for it, then discovered I didn't qualify.  I was secretly glad as it would have extended my treatment.  If my cancer recurs, I will not blame it on the fact that I did not qualify (I did not have enough lymph nodes removed).  We make the best informed decisions we can based on the information we have at the time.  Best wishes and prayers going your way.

Luah & Titan, thanks ladies.  So good to talk to you both.  So happy to hear you both are doing so well.  Luah, sorry to hear you had a few scares.  I am wondering how strong you had to be to hear the results.  My goodness, that is something I just can't handle, it is beyond imagination.

I had reorganized my eating habits (don't want to say diet), from March 4th and strictly followed the plan.  I thought to myself that finally in 55 years, I have finally learned how to eat and lose weight.  I lost 7 lbs. in March, but in April did not do well.  The food and habits were great, I started having symptoms of that same shaky, weakness type thing I was feeling before diagnosis.  It is the worst feeling in the world.  I remember seeing many different types of doctors and getting many blood tests, everything was negative.  Yes, after 6 mos. I was diagnosed. 

Anyway, this time around I feel that maybe I was not eating enough fat in my diet. I never thought like this before.  Is it possible that I am not having enough hormones due to lack of fat in the diet? I am seriously thinking this seems to be the case.  I ate lots of fatty food today, but by the afternoon still have that looseness, shakiness.  Anyone know anything on this subject?  I understand at menopause our ovaries don't make reproductive hormones anymore, our hormones come from our fat cells.  Is this true?  Can anyone can shed a light on this subject, please.  Anything?  I also have been feeling lots of activity in my neck (thyroid).  The nodule????  So scared, so damn sick of this crap. Thanks everyone!!!!!

So so cute

lrm216 and PeggySull Thanks for the info. I will pass these along to my sister.

Lovelyface  (what a nice moniker)...Sorry you are going through pain and worry.  You know everyone on this forum understands and empasizes with you.  Please keep us posted.  Nat

Lovelyface...I sent you a PM...hope that is OK.

LuRVing....best news ever...congrats!

LuRVing that is fantastic news.  Dawn so glad we heard from you this week. 

Adding to the gemzar related tumor number congrats! How was the treatment itself in terms of SEs?

Don't revisit SEs if it rains on your parade though.



So happy for you!



Peggy

 Oh you all lovely ladies, all of you, thank you so much for sending me such wonderful posts, and each and every one, incuding the PM from schatzi14, are very informative and may be able to solve my fears and problems.  Inmate, honey, you are still fighting so hard, I love you so much.  You are one heck of a beautiful woman!!!  Inside, out.  I am so proud of you!   Peggysull - your post contained soooo much good info.  As soon as I finish writing this, I am going to check out the Pink Ribbon Diet by Lynn & Barr.  I bet that's where my anwer lies.  This weekend I will go and buy a real good olive oil.  I saw Dr. Oz show regarding Olive oils, and became really grossed with it.  He said they had done a research on thousands of store shelf olive oils and found many that were not olive oils.  They found things such as garbage, diapers, poop, etc. when they analyzed some of the olive oils.  Earlier regarding fish, when the revelation had come that when fish came from China, they were breeding the fish in sewer water. Having heard about olive oil, I totally decided I was not buying any imported food items anymore. I don't know what crap they send us here to USA.  We are the largest consumers, and they have to meet our demands, so they send us crap.  Dr. Oz says that if you put your olive oil in the fridge, and it does not become solid, then it is not olive oil.  I tried, the one from Trader Joe, and it did not solidify, ever since then, I stopped using olive oil.  I just got something from Costco, just a regular oil, and am using that since.  Dr. Oz also said that if olive oil is real, it will be highly priced.  I will pay for a highly priced one and check it out by putting in the fridge.

I wouldn't doubt it if I got diagnosed with PTSD, it sounds like it.  LuvRVing - good to see you here again. I see that you are still your very strong self.  I am so happy for you, girl, I am certain you will get out of this, you and Dawn both will one day have survived this.  Linda - hello!!!!  All of us oldies on this topic, still here, eh?  Tazzy, OBXX..... anyone that I have missed, sorry. Lovely finding everyone here.

Schatzi14 - I will PM you.  Thanks so much.

Wow, you are amazing!

Thanks Nat - for liking my moniker .... I hope it doesn't sound too proudful to name oneself "lovelyface", but at the time I was having chemo, I told myself that I had in fact a lovelyface, therefore, chose that moniker.  Positive reinforcement when everything else was not so great. 

Luv - so glad the Gemzar is working. I wanted to stay on Gemzar as se's were very tolerable - except for the one I could not feel - very low white count. I had to self-inject neupogen in order to continue Gemzar. My body hated neupogen and fought back with lots of se's. One scan showed that Carboplatin with Gemzar was working for me - lesions in my lungs actually shrunk! In fact, before the scan, I was considering stopping treatment, but decided to continue as I was so excited about the significant shrinkage. But, my body could not handle carbo. I had to do neulasta and have blood transfusions on that combo. My onc was hoping the Gemzar alone would help me - but recent scans show increase in lesion sizes and new ones....oh well, on to Xeloda. 

Best wishes for continued Gemzar success!