Here's what cheezed me off today

Spookie, LOL we have an epidemic of low VitaD all over the USA. Low Vita D in Florida is very high. The conclusion is that we have been trained to stay out of the sun during the high uv and______(forget)--time of 10-5 pm. Plus, we wear sunscreen. It's not surprising were low at all when you think of it in those terms. 

When I was dx'd, I was working 12 hour shifts. Went to work in the dark, came home in the dark. A couple of bed days b/c of pain. Then no outdoors between 10-5. Wasn't surprised when I came in low.

Hi Jazz.   Waving!!!

Spookie---Thyroidectomy  scheduled for FEB 28th.. Lovely exchange of thoughts with ENT doc today. BTW he has last count 25,000 patients. The other guy in town ---everyone went out of town. Major referrals to my doc from all over central florida and beyond. Got home and the voicemail from the endocrinoligist reporter of tests, suggested I should contact ENT  re: Throgloblulin and thyroid removal based on hx. Said it was done------------Feb28th

Okay - I'm a bitch- ---In all of my scnenarios........I had BC, brain tumor, Colin resection, Hyster /bso/ If i hadn't been my own advocate, things would have turned out differently. Bc was a prohy approach b/c of family hx---BC was found on the 2nd stage of prohy evaluation

I"ve had a craiontomy-brain sx b/c the tumor was growing, What pisses me off great time, is  whether or not Apple was offered the same sx. She told me that they couldn't reach her tumor. I found the sx for mine after it was supposedly to far along for Apple.

I have no idea if Apple received good info. 

We both had base of the brain tumors.

Have no idea if she knew there was something.................different

as we miss Veggy, I miss Apple

I wonder

Hi Spookie! Hi Sas!

I wish I could go to the cheesecake factory with you!

Jazzy, welcome again, Had busy two days---exhausted. too much to worry about

Spookie I'll try, sounds good in timing though.

Jazzygirl, I'm with you.  Although I'm not happy about everything I had to go though and the various treatments, every decision was an informed one.  Heck, I had the BS, RO and MO, but knew that when all was said and done I had to live with each treatment choice.  I can't tell you how many times (after all the dust settled) that I feel very good and fortunate with my choices.  There is "standard care," but we have to go with our gut sometimes to know what is best for us.  I've never been a sheep and hope that more women will inform themselves.

Lovewins- glad to hear you are going to work PT while you got through rad treatments. I did too (30 hours a week) and it really helped me to have some normalcy in my life (with working) but time to rest too. You will find you will be tired.

Lovewins, Did you mean 24 to go? 50 would be an awful lot of zaps. I worked for Pan Am and our cargo dept supervisor got all those escalated calls. She would speak softer and softer until the person on the other end had to listen so hard it distracted them. I love hearing about understanding bosses. Someone here has a lawsuit against her boss for firing her as soon as he learned she had stage 3 cancer. I hope she wins.

Lovewins- I had internal radiation which is shorter in duration, but still was very tired from the whole thing. I had to go out of town for it too, so I worked remote and my client never knew anything about it (still don't). Your work sounds like they have been understanding and that is good to hear. Some ladies here have had the opposite experience. As I am a self employed consultant, I chose to keep my diagnosis private because I did not want to give people a reason not to select me for projects. 

Yes, that was me doing the go live. I work on a very demanding project with a very demanding client. I have to keep up boundaries with them as they tend to have a sweatshop mentality. My contract with them says "30 hours a week" or more if agreed to. I had someone trying to get me to work 80 hours a week during go live and JUST SAID NO! I am done with this contract in June and will not do any more work with them. They just need to much. Going to find better work with better people next!

rohanna, sorry to hear the Femera is causing SEs :-(.  Quality of life is important.  I'd rather have 10 years of feeling good as opposed to 10 years of feeling like crap, but thinking that I'm protecting myself.  That's just me.  I did the surgery, chemo and rads, but the Tamoxifen was just too much.  I didn't even try another Al, but for whatever reason my fear of cancer is kinda minimal.  Heck, I even had the positive nodes, but if chemo didn't wipe it out...

I can say that I know someone who takes 1/2 the dosage of her Al and also someone who takes it every other day.  Perhaps you could try to decrease the dose and see what happens.  I hope you're feeling better soon!

Lovewins, Hi dropping in late. RE: your Xanax and your doc suggesting getting off that first. I would say last b/c xanax takes along time to get off of, I've written elsewhere, that of all the benzos Xanax is the most problematic. I cringe whenever I read or hear that someone's on it. So, understand changing the plan. When in the future you think about getting off of Xanax, let's have a talk.

Jazzy, thanks, I just wish things would stop, I near the end of something and before it's even done, something new happens. Now it's polyurethane, but at least I've made the reports. I've directed that the Risk Manager take the lead on creating a poylurethane free equipment box for my thyroid sx. Not going to be easy.

RO, oodles of drugs create a problem with gastric reflux. Talk with doc. Please try the least problem family of drugs first if prescribed. If a drug in the Proton Pump Blocker(PPB)family is prescribed, it can cause calcium loss in the bones---osteopenia/porosis----you are already subject to that with the AI's. For completeness if someone else is reading this and decides they shouldn't be on a PPB. A little known fact about these drugs is they need to be weaned over several weeks. Of course no where will you locate a weaning schedule. Drugs in the PPB family include protonix,  prevacid, acidfex, --not a complete list.

If you are talking drugs with your doc----seriously look at calcium. It is the primary component in many acid controlling drugs. Then you get a two for one. Good for your bones and helps with acid.

Our Dear Spookie is right on about looking at diet.  A huge culprit for all is coffee. But a big study that recently came out found that coffee was good for us. They forgot to mention though how much. LOL b/c it was a huge retrospective study. Small detail.

In case you don't have this link. It's a drug site that is great even though it was done by the government. Why is it GREAT! 1. after putting the drug name in the search box and the list is pulled up the first drug manufacturer is the one that originated the drug. 2. importance---all the pre-approval clinical trial documentation is there 3. all post marketing data is there 4. hyperlinks throughout to connect within the report for easy referencing between topics.

http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm?CFI...

Spookie, still thinking about the 22nd. I'm in the mode of making myself crazy about the thyroid sx on the 28th. But I'm  supposing I can make last minute decision about coming and it will be okay. One more reservation wouldn't be a big deal would it?