DIEP 2013

gosh.....thanks goldie.....and isn't it bailey's birthday too???

HAAAAAAPPPPPYYYYYY BIIIIRRRRRRRRRTHHHHHDAAAAYYYY TTTTTOOOOOO YYYYOOUUU.....(can't sing worth a darn)

I found this interesting, and this is something we should all do for our hearts anyway. This is part of an article somebody sent me:

• Low dose aspirin
  
  
  
  Research carried out on laboratory mice and test tubes suggests that regular low-dose aspirin may halt the growth and spread of breast cancer.
  
  
  
  Scientists from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center explained that their tests on cancer lines and in mice showed that aspirin not only slowed the growth of cancer cells and shrank tumors considerably, but also stopped metastasis (cancer spreading to new sites).
  
  
  
  Their research involved assessing aspirin's effects on two types of cancer, including the aggressive "triple-negative" breast cancer which is resistant to most current treatments.
  
  
  
  Cancer campaigners cautioned that although the current results show great promise, this research is at a very early stage and has yet to be shown to be effective on humans.

Thank you for the birthday wishes everybody! Been doing DEEP house cleaning ALL DAY… gotta admit it's been a good LOOOOONNNNGGGG time since its all been clean at once lol. DH and boys pitched in for one of my birthday presents. Always amazed at how much the four of us can knock out in a couple of hours. I ways tell them that's why DH and I had them....we were tired of keeping house. Lol....they love that.

Headed out to dinner later....Bonefish Grill for my favorite scallops!!!

Love to all!

Happy Birthday Deb & Bailey!

Thanks for the answers re the side boob and bra - I'm going to call them in morn & cancel the appt. That's just way too long of a day..

My doctor gave me absolutely no information on anything so I really do depend on these posts for info so thanks everybody.

Freeeeezing here in CT - not ready for this yet!!

Rhg - so glad to hear surgery went well for you. Sorry to hear about the nodes. Looking forward to hearing another update when you have been sprung from the hospital and are feeling up to it.

Bailey and Deb - Happy Birthday!!

Thanks, Marty. I meant to come back and say, only if it's okay with your doc, but I got caught up in some phone calls, and then a nap!!! Yeah nap!!!

Deb, never hear anything about Vit D and cancer. Just heard about it for bone health, and now sleep cycling. If you have an article on it I would love to see it. THC oil, isn't that a derivitive of weed? heheheeheh

Bailey, now I might be weird for liking to scrub my bathroom, but I think I would take my bday off...lmaoooo. Have a great dinner.

Absolutely, Kat. Prayers are with both of you. I hate to see a young girl scared like that. Keep us posted.

Kat......prayers on their way from Canada.....may all be well.

Goldie. There is a researcher in Toronto, Pamela Goodwin, who has done work on vit d and breast cancer. If you google Goodwin vit d and breast cancer you will find a number of hits. She is also looking at the impact of metformin on breast cancer.

Ridley

Dear Hairstylist, I am so sorry you, too, are dealing with the bc beast and at such a young age, but I'm glad you found this thread. Hopefully someone will start one for 2014, too. There is one ton of great info here if you read through the pages and wonderful ladies to encourage you along the way! I can tell you that I am very happy to have soft warm boobs again and DIEP was a good decision for me.

Hairless, sorry about your dx, but you will look fabulous, and you will be cured. One of the mistakes I feel I made at the very beginning was not coordinating all my docs, but I was scared and I didn't know any better. Just a little advice from somebody that's been there, make sure all you docs are on the same page, and you are too. Everybody knows what everybody else wants to do, and you should have the best possible outcome. Stick around. You will get lot's of good advice around here, and on the other threads too.

Good luck this week, jbloom and milkyway2 ... I hope everything goes smoothly and you heal quickly and comfortably.

I did a bottle of biotin this fall in the hopes of it growing my hair faster. Did not notice one bit of difference. Ah well, at least it was cheap. Aspirin - my onc has me taking a baby aspirin every day based on a different study, but glad to see there is more research coming out supporting this. Vitamin D - mine tends to run low, especially in winter, but I have read that is normal for Caucasian women. My onc checks it a few times a year and prescribes a prescription strength supplement when I need it. I've done well taking Oscal + D for the past few months though, so I'm hoping when my levels are checked in January they'll be good and I won't need the prescription supplement.

Happy birthday Bailey and Deb!

RHGSR - thanks for checking in, we have been thinking of you. Hate to hear about the positive nodes, and that you are still in the hospital. I hope you are healing well, and that you are comfortable. Keep us posted when you can!

Kat-ski, hoping and praying your daughter's next mammo comes back totally boring... gosh that is scary. I worry about my little sister all the time...

Welcome hairlesshairstylist!!! You'll do great!!! I love my DIEP results and I bet you will too. I also had delayed reconstruction, by a year. It was hard, but it did make going through reconstructive surgery a little easier, emotionally, since I had time to grieve the loss and then look at recon as something positive.

bailey....I'll be the first to admit....I have no idea what a froyo is....all that comes to mind is a little hobbit with furry feet....surely you didn't...

I take Vit D for a couple reasons, totally unrelated to bc, but am aware of the "apparent benefits". Vit D is supposed to help with bone strengthening/calcium uptake....hence why you often see calcium supplements that also have D in them. Here, if you have a bad fracture, they automatically put you on Vit D in hospital.

Because its cold and dark here, we get little natural D in the long winter months. I have had 2 kinds of skin cancer, so ALWAYS have a high full spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen on, which of course, blocks the D too.

Thirdly, it supposedly has a strong connection to sleep issues. The sleep clinic I worked at for a short time, always tested their insomnia patients, and almost always found really low Vit D levels, and put them on heavy duty Vit D supplements.

hahahaha......phew.....ok, got it I'm really not very sophisticated!!!! You'll have to come visit sometime....we have hawks all over the place out here!

I had a typo with my daughter's age. She is 34 and she finally decided to get a baseline. She said she wasn't ready when I had my first round of BC in 2005 in Canada. My youngest daughter had a mammogram at 18 but all it was cysts and that was 12 years ago. The middle one is nursing her last baby and she will probably have a baseline when that is finished. I have three girls over 30 now and I want them to be proactive in all of this. But there wasn't any history of BC until I was diagnosed in 2005. This is all good news for me b/c I know they are on the lookout. And we all know, it is the bad-luck of the draw. I have always said I should go to Las Vegas and maybe I could win big since it was just a 3% chance of getting any breast cancer!!!