A very bad headache tonight....

kathec, thanks for your hugs.....

kathec, green tea sounds good right about now...

kathec, when I was going through chemo in 2009, I thought that drinking coffee would be bad for me (I don't remember at all why I thought that) so I asked the chemo nurse and she said it was ok to drink coffee and so I did and I still do to this day. I don't drink coffee every single day and when I do, I usually only have one cup (max of two cups on occasion) and usually try to make it first thing in the morning and the rest of the day I drink as much water as possible. I used to love drinking green tea but hadn't had any in a long while... recently I started drinking it again and one thing I love to add to green tea is pomegranate juice that I make myself with a juicer... it tastes much better to me. I hope that I stick to my plan of drinking green tea often (not sure why I ever stopped).

bcisnofun, yes I will keep you posted definitely. I can't believe sometimes the things that people will say. Mine doesn't make me laugh at all. It was actually quite stupid and I didn't even realize it at the time. A woman that I worked with who had heard it through the grapevine said this to me after I returned to work after I had my biopsy results: "Oh, breast cancer? No problem!" And when she said it, I knew that she wasn't trying to be insensitive but still. It wasn't until months later that I thought to myself: "Oh, no !@#$ way that it's no problem!" From that first ultrasound to the mammogram to the doctor who told me the mammogram looked "quite suspicious" to the ultrasound-guided biopsy that followed to the breast MRI to the surgery to seeing myself disfigured by this disease to walking into the cancer centre building to hearing the oncologist tell me that I had to do this and this and that to being told that I wouldn't be able to have children after chemo to seeing that drug go into a vein of my right arm to losing my hair to feeling sickish to losing my appetite to losing my sense of taste to staying up nights not being able to sleep because of the aches and pains in my legs to losing so much of the person I used to be and to end up where I am today worrying and wondering about an MRI. Was all that really "no problem"? I think not. And it makes me !@#$ mad! (Excuse my language please) Maybe I should post this on that thread because it is true that someone ought to look for a cure for stupid! Really, they should! Then maybe no one would have to be told that the disease that's gonna change their life is: "no problem"!

aaoaao, sometimes I think that I must be so naive (or something) that I would believe and take so literally what someone else has said. I know that woman had good intentions. I know that her comment was intended to be supportive. She and I were friends so she would in no way try to say something to hurt me. And she didn't hurt me when she said it but after I experienced Breast Cancer first hand, I knew she was SO wrong! If she really thought breast cancer is no problem then she had no idea what she was talking about. It wasn't until probably near the end of my chemo treatments that I realized that her comment was probably the stupidest stupidest thing that anyone could ever say to someone with breast cancer. If I knew then what I know now, yes, I would have responded with such a response as you suggested and I'm sure that she would NOT want to trade places with me! Oh wow... I hadn't thought about this woman and her comment in so long and it feels good actually to let that out.... cure for stupid, where can I donate to or raise awareness for that?

The support on here is so amazing! Thank you ladies for listening and understanding! Because only you know exactly what I'm talking about and...

Beesie, thank you for saying what you said... it is so true!