For those starting chemo in June

Yah, Janie, but it was a Walmart SUPERSTORE!!!!! And it was having a grand opening and I just felt like running away--So I DID. Sometimes driving and yelling along with the songs on the radio is really relaxing. I say yelling because my singing leaves a lot to be desired. I had a quiet day--No calls--no company--no stress & Jeff Gordon won the Nascar race. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

I got a really nice oldies station when I was driving through Idaho--I think it was in Boise. They play all oldies all the time. It was really fun. I heard some songs that I haven't heard for ages. Well, I'm mostly packed and headed out the door for my little adventure. Depending on what happens, I may be gone for a few days. Hope everyone has a nice week. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

PJ and Nancy -- we will all be with you and praying for what we know will be good news.

Paula, I would love it. Let's do it.

Chicago, here we come!

Hey girls,

Good news. Scan was clean. So outside of mammo on the other side in September and continuing the Femara, I'm good to go. Did you feel the giant sigh of relief coming from Texas?

Here's hoping Nancy Lee gets equally happy news.

Paula

Hey now, my drunkin, lifts her tail for any male with a flashy collar, is dragging the salt box around the house as we speak. Job well done girls, I am so happy everythings clean and clear. Well I have an onkie apt. Thurs. for check up and mammo Fri. I see the cutest little Dr. now that my Dr. is always gone. This guy is like 5'4" and he is the cutest man!!!!. He loves to laugh at me when I am high on benadryl. He just looks at me and laughs and says, "shes loopy". I have a mole in my yard that is tearing it up. You could break an ankle stepping on the ground he has tunneled. Today the grandkids and I were outside and they saw him or the ground churning and I grabbed the pitch fork and was out there slamming it into the ground and I don't think I even came close. He has dug up 1/3 of my yard and it is brown. He dug up a bunch of my flowers not that he eats them but they die. I thought from the dept and amount of tunneling he does he had to be like as big as a dog but I read that he is like 4 or 5 inches long???????? This mole must be on Meth!!!!I can't believe something that small could do so much damage....Theres absoultely no way to get rid of them except kill them or wait 4 or 5 years to eat all the grub and earth worms on your property and leave. I am on the outskirts of town now. I didn't have this problem when I was right in town. Oh boy, if there is snakes out here I am outta here. Well I wrote a bunch yesterday and it expired me. No one from the board ever wrote back about the expiring time thing or I haven't checked my P.M's. Maybe I should check that. Well better go before I run out of time. Hugs, Mary

NancyLee,

Do you know anything yet?

Hey all, Onkie apt. went well. Got mammo done today and it was so easy!!!!Not like the old ones. Not much pinching at all. I have had a really bad flu....The diarrhea severe cramping flu. I got it Wed. night and was getting an I.V. Thursday at 6 a.m. I was sick and my intestines got very irritated and that scared the heck outta me! All is better but I am not going to Chicago for my sons surgery now. I still feel like my intestines are scrambeled up and it bothers me to ride in a car. The drive to Chi. is 3 hours then another 45 mins. to the hotel. I feel pretty bad about that. I have thought of flying up Sun. I will see how I feel tomorrow. I didn't want to ride with my son and give this to him right before surgery. I am waiting on good news from Nancy Lee. It is so sticky here with the 90's and humidity you can hardly breath. Good luck staying cool P.J. Later girls, Mary

Hey All. Mary I hope your son's surgery is smooth sailing and you get back to snuff soon. Your weather sounds like GA weather, hot and humid. Your mammo's are better? I remember the good ol days when I just plopped those suckers on the slab, got em mashed flat and end of story. Now the scar tissue and smaller boobs make the whole process pinch like crazy. However, it was some better without the machine sliding over the port.
PJ, I am supposed to call the neurologist. They gave me his card. I have put it off, I guess because I feel so much better. I do need to go see about his dang tremor though. I am on double dose of Inderol to no avail. I see my general physician Tuesday. See is keeping an eye on the blood pressure while I am doing the Inderol, but I may as well go off of it for all the good it does me. It is a good anti-anxiety drug though. Comes in handy if I am makig a speech or something. Maybe I will still have some when we all get up and sing in Chicago, the toddlin' town.

Hey Mary,

I do hope you feel better soon. The Cardinals will be playing my Braves the next 3 nights. The Braves are FINALLY winning a few games -- may be too little too late since they were in last place not that long ago.

Talk about being uncomfortable at funerals... when my ex died, I couldn't let the kids deal with the in-laws by themselves so I went with them. Since the ex had never remarried, I was escorted to the widow's seat where everyone could get a good look at me all the way through the ceremony. The funeral home people said that was the correct protocol.

Gosh, Mary, I just had your speed typing problem. It said that my post was no longer valid and wiped it away. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Maybe it's because the power was apparently off when I was gone and all my surge protect devices had to be restarted. Maybe it's because I haven't touched a computer since I left on the 10th and I forgot how to work it. Who knows???? Well, I got back home about 2 hours ago. I've been unloading my jeep. I got a ton of cute stuff for my preschool. There is SUCH cute stuff out there for teachers these days. Anyway, test-wise, here's how I came out--The MRI brain scan was good. I have no mets to the brain. I'm surprised they even found a brain in there because I'm pretty sure I lost mine last year sometime, but that's another story. The biopsy showed that I have a large lesion, a smaller lesion and a cluster of little "somethings" near the smaller one. HMMMMM!! The big one was what we knew was there. The smaller one and the clusters were a surprise. The doctor took 8 core samples from the big one and 4 from the littler one. The clusters are too scattered to pinpoint for biopsy. I got the MRI results on the 12th and the pathology for the biopsies, I got on Friday the 14th from my oncologist in Billings. What I have are benign fibroadenomas "at this time". I have the choice of going back in 3 months and having another ultrasound and possible biopsy or just having another mastectomy now and "being done with it". So I've given it a lot of thought and I don't want to spend the next 3 months worrying that things are changing in there, and then the next 3 months and etc......It just doesn't make sense to me and I have an appointment with my oncologist on Monday the 24th and we're going to schedule the surgery. I'd like to get it taken care of so that I can be all recovered before school starts in September. That should be doable because I was out feeding cows and sheep in a few weeks the last time. SO--my doctor's office in Glendive didn't call me until THIS afternoon. I found out the results in 3 days because I stayed in Billings and haunted the offices until I got the report, but it took from the 11th til today for the report to get to Glendive. I find that interesting because two years ago I waited 6 days to find out the results too. If I had only known then, what I know now, oh, well, water under the bridge. So before this turns into "War & Peace" in length and I get told my page is expired again--I'll quit with a Thanks again for all your good wishes. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

Nancy, so glad they found a brain....

Not so glad about the mastectomy, but, hey, it's not so bad. I mean, except for getting a breast lopped off and all that. And given your track record, you'll probably be out taking care of the animals a WEEK after you have surgery this time. You're so tough.

Hope Mary's feeling better. And Janie, I don't blame you for sort of "forgetting" about the other doc appts. Blech.

Nothing up here except the temperatures. Day 7 of over 100. But, hey, my AC is fixed at home, so I'm happy.

Take care you guys,
Paula

Bravo, Janie. Good to hear, huh?
I'm so bad. I hardly ever wear my sleeve except for at work. Most days. Most folks can't tell my arm is swollen, so I figure if they can live with it, I can.....

Hot, hot. hot.

Hope you all are good.
Paula

I'm all spiffed up and heading over to Bowman, N.D. to see my dentist. I've been taking an antibiotic for a couple of weeks to prepare for her to work on that same darn tooth she's been doing stuff to ever since my first appointment a couple of months ago. I'm beginning to think that since that's the only tooth she found something wrong with (a crack) she has only been half fixing it all along so that she has something to do. Maybe not, but I'm getting tired of going over there so I'm gonna tell her to just pull it out and see what kind of reaction I get!!! It's the farthest back tooth on the right bottom so I don't figure I really need it anyways!! I'll let you know. Hope everyone has a great middle of the week day. Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

I wrote, it expired so I will write later. Glad you got good news Nancy except for the surgery but that is better than what may be down the road and all the worring you would do. Later girls, Mary

Sweet dreams, Nancy. Man, you're so busy. An 11-month baby? Man, that's hilarious.

Have a good one all. Was supposed to go out and have fun tonight, but I've got a damn cold, so I probably won't. Oh well.

Paula