November 2009-Starting Chemo

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited June 2013

    Hello ladies, how is everyone doing?  It has been a while, so I am checking in.  Today is my 47th B-day and I am so happy to still be kicking around.  I have never dreaded my birthday like some people, but now especially it means so much.  I am so grateful for all my wonderful friends and the loving arms that embrace me from all over the globe.  Linda, Melinda, Sue, Nettie, Alicia, Brenda...Love you gals.Kiss

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  • doronet
    doronet Member Posts: 342
    edited June 2013

    Michele, I just posted on your fb, you "Like"-d it immediately, and then I checked this site because I was going to post that it was your b-day and your beat me to the posting!  Guess we're on the same wave-length, if not in the same country!!  Do hope you are tolerating all the treatments well and, again, happy birthday!!!  Nette  :)

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  • Cafelovr
    Cafelovr Member Posts: 1,534
    edited June 2013

    Happy birthday, Michele!!

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited September 2013

    Just wanted to wish Sue a big giant hug and super big birthday wishes.. Don't ya just love birthdays.  They rock.  Keep on getting old.

    Oh ya thanks girls for the birthday wishes...I have'nt checked here in a while.

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  • BrendaSharon
    BrendaSharon Member Posts: 506
    edited September 2013

    Hey sisters,

    So strange I haven't been on here what seems like forever now. I started back at page one to review & read from the beginning posts. Oh my, they so touched my heart! I remember all the girls climbing aboard a train ride, that none of us will ever forget, but because we did we all made some of the best friends for life, we will be sister "Warriors: forever in our hearts, mind and soul. $ years already have passed and there are times I still get scared that it can happen again to me also. As we know there is that possibility. Like with Linda and Michelle, I pray God be with you both and all is good, Sweet Jesus Amen, please take care of my sisters. I am going for my mammo and also my Onc gave me a proiscriptions to get my left arm X-Rayed as well where all the nodes where taken from. I have had a lot of pain there as of late. In fact, I didn't tell my Onc this; but I have noticed a lot of pain in my entire body, kind of like what my daddy went thru before he passed. I had found out my dad had cancer in his lungs (HUGE). so the possibility of me having my cancer spreading right now is scaring me. My hubby wants to know why I was depressed acting last night and I just don't want to even alarm him that I'm a lil nervous about having cancer again. The thing I know is I still have my sisters to listen to, and just to be able and post gets things off my chest.

    Other than this I've finally gotten over the sadness of losing my dad. It was hard because he lived with me. After his hospital stay, he was on Hospice for two more weeks, of course back at my home, which is where he wanted to be. I am glad he was there still so I could share his final two weeks of life. I was hard for me to bare watching him being taken away though!!! I still miss him tremendously. He had said he didn't know how I handled what I went thru with my cancer, because he knew he was ready to die and couldn't wait to pass. He said it was no way to live. He never knew he even had cancer. His family said no way Bob could of had it, that no one in the family did, well wrong I did and so did my oder sissy who passed away at 32. I just don't think the Stock men lived long enough past heart attacks which killed them.

    Anyway before I loose my post, computer always shutting down I'll close. I just needed to ramble today to my girls. I love you all so much. Happy Birthday 4 years later to all of us!!! 

    We are "WARRIORS" (((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))))) <3Kiss

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  • JustmeAlicia
    JustmeAlicia Member Posts: 1,529
    edited September 2013

    HI girls !!!  I don't know what made me pop in here today ~ but here I am.  Seems like the thread has been quiet.  Brenda, I am hoping you are just feeling the normal aches and pains and it is nothing bad.  Please keep us posted.  Sending up prayers for your tests.  Michele ~ How are you doing?  

    To all of you Linda, Sue, Nettie, Michele, Brenda and anyone else I am forgetting.  Big hugs as we approach PINKTOBER.  Not sure if I am embracing it this year yet.  We shall see !

    Big hugs ~

    Alicia

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2013

    Thankyou Michele - I'm 61 now - wow!!! It didn't hurt one bit. Hope you are OK.

    It's so great to hear from you all.

    I just made my screening appointment for next month, unfortunately my birthday brings back all the bad memories as I had my mammo on my birthday that fateful day 4 years ago. I've moved the date out a bit, so it never happens again.

    Brenda - so sorry you lost your Dad but it's good you were able to care for him.

    I still check this site out everday, but don't post much. I really miss our Nov2009 girls - thankyou for saying hi.

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited September 2013

    Brenda, don't ignore any thing.  Talk to your hubby and your onc.  It could be anything...like age creeping up.   Wouldn't you like to hear those happy words" your all clear, no cancer" Then you can stop worrying. If it's something bad then the quicker they get it the better.  Now I'm going to worry about you...

    Sue, I hope you are doing something special for today.

    Alicia, how are you my dear friend?  

    As for me, I'm still doing my treatments.  I am having a head CT as well as my usual neck to crotch scan.  Hope they find nothing but a big bag of brains..I've been having virtigo.  My onc wants to have a scan as she feels it's not a SE of the Letrazole.  But it does say, both on line as well as on my prescription insert, that it can be  a SE.  We'll see.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2013

    Michele - I just went to work as usual, which I enjoy anyway.

    I hope your treatment is working!!!!

    (((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited September 2013

    me too

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  • BrendaSharon
    BrendaSharon Member Posts: 506
    edited September 2013

    Well girls,

    I too just stayed at home and went to work, my b-day was on Thursday Aug. 29. But, I did celebrate all month ~~ Ha-Ha, my kids said so when your 60 ya just keep on and keep on celebrating & I said yup, so aren't y'all looking forward to that? 

    Michele, I really am taking care and I am the one that asked my Onc. to get the other check up for my pain in the arm in addition to my norm mammo. And, I do pray it's nothing. 

    I hope all stays NOD clear for all of us. I keep all of you in my thoughts always. I pray also, for each of us girls that we can celebrate every year one more time. My B-day and diagnosis was in August and I have delayed somewhat in my testing, (bad girl I know). I just get tired of always thinking and worrying about -C-, trying to keep it out of my mind. But, I knew it was time and so here I go again. My appointment is tomorrow and I'll let all of you know what is said when I get the results back. 

    I'll say, it's been good to chat with the group again and great to see how good ALL of you are looking!!! The Lord is with all of us ~~ (((((HUGS))))) Love to everyone

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited September 2013

    Happy Belated 60th Brenda!!! I hated turning 60 last year but after it was over it wasn't so bad. I hope your scans are OK. At our age aches and pains seem to be the norm. I have arthritic pain and need new knees, also a bad back that goes out every now and then.

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  • Cafelovr
    Cafelovr Member Posts: 1,534
    edited October 2013

    Hello ladies! Something just prompted me to get in here and say hi.

    Life is pretty standard for me...herceptin every three weeks and zometa every 12. Still taking Tamoxifen. I found out that I will be on that for life. Man, it makes my joints hurt...back, hips, knees, and ankles are useless sometimes! Luckily, I am still rocking the NED!

    Michele, I am sending healing {HUGS} and hoping scans come back empty! Well, except for the brain part...LOL

    I, too, just had a birthday. I was loud and proud to turn 42. Birthdays are welcome gifts to me.

    Wish me luck for Saturday. I'm doing a breast cancer 5K walk. I've volunteered for the event ever since I got sick, but this year, I am healthy enough to walk it.

    Menapause has really caused me to put the weight on. That and hurting to move sometimes. Jelly donuts don't count, do they? Regualr menapause is NOTHING like chemical menapause! Night sweats and hot flashes are the pits!

    I love you all! You are constantly in my heart and my prayers!

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited October 2013

    Hi Linda - so great you are still NED - you are a miracle!!!!

    Happy Birthday!!!! and many many more

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited October 2013

    Linda, good luck with your walk.  My onc wants me on Letrazole for life or until it stops working then it will be something else.

    I think of all my sisters so often.  I pray for us all, no matter our faiths and beliefs.  Love you all.

    Michele

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  • doronet
    doronet Member Posts: 342
    edited October 2013


    OMyGOSH!! It's been so long since I've been on here, I FORGOT MY LOG-IN!!! :P I checked this site weekly for so long, only seeing Michele's birthday greetings from Linda in June every time I logged in, so I stopped checking and now I see everyone has posted. Bad me. And birthdays galore! I, too, would change any annual medical procedure if it fell on or near my birthday. Birthdays are traumatic enough at my age without the added bad memories!! Hope all's well with you, Brenda, and as several others mentioned, though not in these words, age is a bitch and that could be all it is, that and the added medications we all take. So proud of you, Linda, for completing the 5k run/walk!!!! (If you, guys, didn't get a chance to watch her interview via facebook, maybe Linda will post the link here as she gave an AWESOME interview for the local news.)


    I'm still subbing in the neighborhood school, though I don't know how many more years I can do it. Working with the young preschool autistic kids and Special Ed. preschoolers is tough when you have to lift or carry one of them: About those aches and pains... Other news on my front is that I finally got up the courage to see a counselor for my phobia of medical procedures and needles. A month ago, I canceled a procedure due to the horrible anxiety I was having, though it ended up not being a necessary procedure after all, but it prompted me to "seek help." She gave me some strategies to help me get through those times and I will practice those strategies to get me through the month of January when I have about 4 doctor appts. She complimented me in not avoiding the procedures due to anxieties, especially in light of the cancer necessitating so many procedures, and she asked me what pushed me through and I said my faith, my family, and my Warrior friends on the internet. :)


    Have been planning for my daughter's wedding for next April 12th. All the plans are going well. Helped move my dad into an independent living complex in August and he's thriving there. Life without my mom was very depressing, but now he has lots of other people "in the same boat" and that's good for him. Son, Josh, is in his sophomore year of college and is doing well, as far as I know. (Ya never get much information from a boy child!) Guess I need to close as no one will have enough time to read all of this! You, all, are never far from my thoughts! Nette :)

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited October 2013


    Nette!!! SO great to hear from you. Exciting news for you with the wedding coming up. Good on you for tackling your phobia.


    I finally got up the courage to have a pap smear - hadn't had one for more than 5 years - all clear!! so now just have to get through the breast screening crap in 10 days.

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited October 2013


    Nette, we always have time for a good read.


    Michele

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  • feistybluegecko
    feistybluegecko Member Posts: 133
    edited November 2013


    Hi everyone - I have also just been prompted by some unknown prompt to call by and it is good to reconnect. Yes, this anniversary time is a tough one. Four years.............. we have a great deal to bind us in friendship


    I am fine, though continue to really struggle with Femara / Letrazole.


    I have been working with a group of women here on Awareness and Education as the context so demands it here - here is a link to what we have been doing. It is very different to the whole pink October scene and very, very complicated...


    https://feistybluegeckofightsback.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/tropical-cancer/ and


    https://feistybluegeckofightsback.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/with-all-due-respect/


    Warm hugs to you all - and wishing continued strength and solidarity


    Philippa

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited November 2013

    Hi Philippa - so good to hear from you.

    Anniversary time wasn't so good - I went for my annual screening and had to have a biopsy - luckily it was B9 - still don't know what it was - I'm seeing the surgeon this coming week. My god it was awful - I spent the following day waiting for the phone to ring. Finally at 4:30pm I got the good news. I'm starting to wish I'd gone for a BMX.

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited November 2013


    Hi Philippa, haven't seen you in a while. I guess this means you are busy keeping cancer away.

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  • kayh
    kayh Member Posts: 37
    edited December 2013


    Hi Ladies,


    I haven't been here for such a long time. Just past our 4th anniversary. I had a scare a few weeks ago but a biopsy found only fibrosis & microcalcification. I'm 72 now and feel 82. I have bad feet and can't walk too far. Also my hair just did not come back after chemo.


    Enough winging, I am cancer free, I have found a nice hair piece to wear and I have the loveliest little great grand daughter and my Mum is still alive at nearly 94.


    Also a great husband, married 54 years now, who I am currently nursing through MAN FLU. Never mind, he has done his share of nursing these past years.


    It's good to see so many doing well and my positive thoughts go to those who are not.


    Regards Kay

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited December 2013

    Welcome back Kay - I had the same thing a few weeks ago - biopsy, but it only showed normal breast tissue. The surgeon wants to cut just in case the biopsy got the wrong spot, but we've agreed on a follow up ultrasound in 6 months. You'd think we wouldn't have to worry any more, but it just goes to show you we can never really relax.

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited December 2013


    Kay, Man flu love it.

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  • Cafelovr
    Cafelovr Member Posts: 1,534
    edited December 2013


    Kay & Philippa,


    So wonderful to hear from you again. I peak in every now and then to see who still checks and how everyone is doing. I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving here in the States! I finally had to toss the leftovers...LOL For those out of the States, hope you are enjoying your days!


    Life is good here. Still continuing with my naked Herp every 3 weeks and my Zometa ever 12 weeks. Have to have an MRI on my back and pelvis. No worries, onc thinks I have arthritis brought on by a compromised immune system. Ahhhh, more meds to add to the pill container! My neck, back, hips, knees, and ankles are giving me fits. Lately my fingers and elbows have been aching. We'll see what happens! Found this out on Tuesday, and I'm still waiting for the hospital to call with the information.


    I'll be back! Godspeed to all, and I love my Warrior Sisters! (I miss Brenda...LOL)

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited December 2013


    Hello Linda good to see you here

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  • Cafelovr
    Cafelovr Member Posts: 1,534
    edited December 2013


    Well...got the dates for my scans. December 24. So I get chemo and two MRIs on Christmas Eve. I have church service at 11 that night. I'll be saying an extra prayer and lighting an extra candle!

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  • micheleboots
    micheleboots Member Posts: 1,993
    edited December 2013


    Linda, did I miss something...Chemo?

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  • Cafelovr
    Cafelovr Member Posts: 1,534
    edited December 2013


    I still get Herceptin every three weeks and Zometa every 12 weeks. This is a lifetime regimen for me, but I remain NED, praise The Lord! Maybe I shouldn't call it chemo...it's more like maintenance therapy, but it sure gets me down at times!

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited December 2013

    Linda - you are a miracle!!!

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