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  • ashla
    ashla Member Posts: 1,581
    edited November 2013


    ChickaD


    How are you holding up?

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  • ChickaD
    ChickaD Member Posts: 1,025
    edited November 2013

    I am exhausted...had chemo today....and those every 2 hour drops for my hubby are hard.

    Tomorrow morning back to Clinic for further evaluation on John and possible surgery again...and we are having one bad snowstorm..ugh

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited November 2013


    Ashla they know what I do. They also know what I have done for the organization. Everyone I met with was between the ages of 31 and 24 including the hiring manager… and I have worked with the hiring manager and one of the team members. I'm sure the person they hired was in that age bracket. I kinda knew I didn't have a chance when I saw 2 team members I didn't know and noticed their age. At the end of the day I'm sure all 3 candidates (includes me) were qualified. They could go with diversity or sorority. They picked the later. Granted I don't know for sure but I also noticed in the restructuring, the young landed the jobs. Seriously what would people in their 40's and 50's know about health issues. Having an 100% young team makes more sense.

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited November 2013

    chickad - keeping you and DH in my thoughts, hope all goes smoothly for both of you.

    lago - sorry on the job, the ACS is missing out on an opportunity to have a dedicated person on their staff.

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  • Shasha10
    Shasha10 Member Posts: 297
    edited November 2013


    chickd. Sorry to hear about your husband. Hope all is ok. Big hugs.

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  • ChickaD
    ChickaD Member Posts: 1,025
    edited November 2013

    Thanks Miss Shasha and everyone else for your continued prayers...looking for a miracle!

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  • Eileenohio
    Eileenohio Member Posts: 460
    edited November 2013


    Lago- sorry about the job. It is hard to understand how a qualified mature dedicated person can be passed up for a younger person.It is their loss.


    Dana, Hope all goes well for John tomorrow. Looks like the snow is going to be heavy in your area. Be safe drive careful. Hugs

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  • Shasha10
    Shasha10 Member Posts: 297
    edited November 2013


    lago sorry about the job front. Hopefully you'll find find something better.

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  • momx2
    momx2 Member Posts: 109
    edited November 2013


    Lago sorry they didn't realize what an asset you would've been to ACS


    ChickD , still praying for you and DH

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  • flaviarose
    flaviarose Member Posts: 442
    edited November 2013


    sorry you didn't get the job, lago. Age discrimination is alive and well.

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited November 2013


    I don't think they even know they are discriminating. They just hire people like themselves. Too young to understand that having a diverse team with varied skills is an asset (not a threat).

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  • goutlaw
    goutlaw Member Posts: 283
    edited November 2013

    Ok so I got pet scan results! Everything came back good lungs, liver ,brain,femur except got something on adrenal gland that need a MRI sat now uggh! Now Should I ask for another bone scan? I had one in May? I feel like I need one b/c I got aches&pains in upper back!! So tomorrow is my surgeon appt...we are sceduling surgery!! omg This is too much crap

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  • goutlaw
    goutlaw Member Posts: 283
    edited November 2013

    O yea I started taking vitamins!!

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  • goutlaw
    goutlaw Member Posts: 283
    edited November 2013

    After tomorrow chemo Herceptin every 3 weeks! Im on lupron!! Anything else to help keep estrogen down? getting hysterectomy after radiation!! lose weight, i got weight lost pills...anything else pl?

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  • ang7894
    ang7894 Member Posts: 540
    edited November 2013


    Sorry lago I look at it this way it's there loss you are a very informative person and would have been a great asset..

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited November 2013


    ChickaD hang in there. Got my fingers crossed for tomorrow.


    Lago i am so sorry. You are not alone. Wonder why no one points out that a lot of those who have been laid off are older? The corporations hide it by "restructuring". Sigh. I will wish you luck in finding something better. Any chance you could look at corporations who helped finance things for ACS? You must have worked with them as well?

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  • ashla
    ashla Member Posts: 1,581
    edited November 2013


    Lago


    It all makes me think less of theACS. I volunteered locally here .... In what appears to me to be an under served area.. And I never heard a word from them.


    Perhaps a smaller , more personalized program @ a hospital or treatment center?

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  • ashla
    ashla Member Posts: 1,581
    edited November 2013


    Chicka D...


    Safe journey and lots of love!

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  • camillegal
    camillegal Member Posts: 16,882
    edited November 2013

    Lago that doesn't even make sense anymore to me age should never be a factor, but it gets in there all the time.

    Chickie I know this is a lot for u, I'm so sorry for u and DH =, what a mess I hope there's some good news tomorrow for u 2.

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  • LizA17
    LizA17 Member Posts: 159
    edited November 2013


    Their loss Lago!!

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  • NickyJ
    NickyJ Member Posts: 722
    edited November 2013


    Iago, so sorry about the job. It's definitely their loss


    ChickaD, I'm praying for you and your dh.


    Goutlaw, congrats on good results! I don't think you need another bone scan; pet scans are particularly good at picking up any bone activity. If there was anything there, it would have been seen.


    Nicky

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  • ashla
    ashla Member Posts: 1,581
    edited November 2013


    wow Goutlaw! Sounds like you've got THE PLAN! Covering all your bases... You go girl!

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited November 2013


    kayb I am not just looking at cancer orgs. There are many causes I would fight for. I don't want to go into a smaller organization. They tend not to be stable and I can't afford to be losing job after job.

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  • Girlstrong
    Girlstrong Member Posts: 438
    edited November 2013

    HI Lago...thanks for being so honest with all of us about your job searches.  Many kudos to you for your continued perseverence.  Just knowing you through your posts on this board, you seem to be a very iintelligent, well spoken, dedicated, and courageous person.  ANY company would be lucky to have an employee like you.  Good luck in your continued search and Gods blessings :)

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  • ashla
    ashla Member Posts: 1,581
    edited November 2013


    Happy Thanksgiving ! I am thankful to all of you ladies for your wisdom, grace and kindness each day since I found my way here!


    For all who are in the midst of treatment facing the holidays through fears and maybe tears... You will get through this just as we did..... and thankfully with a lot of help from our friends here!


    :)))

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  • momx2
    momx2 Member Posts: 109
    edited November 2013


    Ashla , thank you today was tx # 11 and I dont know how I'll get through tomorrow, I feel like crap . I refused all invites staying home and dh and children will cook under my guidance . It'll be a family a fair hopefully no food poisoning, lol.


    Happy Thanksgiving to all of you lovely ladies !


    I will tell you now that I am thankful to be amongst such great women . Thank you all for great advice, information, and words of encouragement . You've all been a great help during this difficult time . Bless you all

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  • goutlaw
    goutlaw Member Posts: 283
    edited November 2013

    Can someone Tell me chances of breastcancer spreading to adrenal glands? Pet scan showed tumor there? same side as breast cancer? but everything else clear dont make sense please help?

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  • SusanHG123
    SusanHG123 Member Posts: 414
    edited November 2013


    Their loss Lago. So many small to medium non-profits-but they have to work so hard to stay open.


    Dana-best luck with the doc appointments and drive and more eye drops. Maybe if you take your antinausea meds...


    Had a PET yesterday. Have announced-not in a rude manner- needs to be the end of the scans. If clean and going to skip along taking what ever oral I can tolerate and not keep looking for the black spots. Anyone else feel that way?


    Have a medium pumpkin roasting in the oven to make pumpkin soup for my vegan daughter with stuffing in acorn squash. She is veering from vegan to vegeterian for Grandmas fruit salad (the old mandrian oranges, pineapple, coconut, sour cream mixture), and pie. With rolls of some sort from my way way way old sour cream starter.


    A happy day of thanks-as is every day to each.

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited November 2013


    goutlaw it can happen but I don't know what the chances are. Also, until they biopsy it they can't tell if it's cancer. I do believe even if it's cancer, if this is the only place they will surgically remove it. Keep us posted. I know lots of folks that had scars like this and ended up not having mets.


    SusanHG123 my onc doesn't do scans regularly even for stage III unless there is a symptom. From what I have read an what my onc has told me that mets tend to occur more often in the first 2 years. Seems like you are getting close to that 2 year mark. Maybe they will cut you lose then. I know my liver was scanned for 2 years. I was real happen when my onc said "Yeah they're cysts. No more scans."

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  • McKatherine
    McKatherine Member Posts: 300
    edited November 2013


    my mo /so don't order scans or do blood markers either. They both said we wouldn't worry about it unless my body gave us some reason to worry. Guess we get an excuse to be hypochondriacs. ;)

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