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  • Nettie1964
    Nettie1964 Member Posts: 759
    edited February 2014

    Thanks Ramols for the reply!  Just don't know what is going on with me!  Most of my pain is in my back, but I do have bouts of indigestion and during that time, the back pain is worse!  I have appt with MO today, so we shall see what's next!  Geez, I hate the anxiety!

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  • Cher56
    Cher56 Member Posts: 187
    edited February 2014

    happy hump day everyone! In your pocket Ramols! And anyone who is in needd..I'm taking you all with me tomorrow...excited & a bit nervous...Dr.McFadden surgical oncologist at bc cancer agency..yea! Finally ACTION!!!

    I had 1 stone when I was 25 but had bad ulcer at same time so was a tad confusing as what to eat..finally it lodge itself near or the duct. Fur me they did exploratory surgery. This was 30 yes ago..cut me all the way up my front..my DGM had hers out & they found cancer on the fluid so they wanted to get a good look at me  in there...thankfully now they only do little tiny holes! 

    Getting a chance at being down on Broadway..so going to go take a look at Sharon's. Drats..they don't have a web site to browse their stock :(

    Have a great day

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  • Believe777
    Believe777 Member Posts: 576
    edited February 2014

    Good Morning Ladies! I've been reading but not posting. I've been on life's treadmill, it's all good!

    Ramols - your dancing with family made me grin all over!  Thanks for sharing your happy.  I don't have any gallbladder issues but everyone's advise seems perfect. Get rid of it!  

    Mom of 3 - yeah for all your good results, more to come ...

    Lostinmo - praying the new treatment is a blessing. Meeting you was a high light of our trip!  Goal accomplished. I hope you will answer my pm. Sending lots of positive thoughts and prayers your way. 

    So many weather challenges out there. Everyone stay safe and warm. CA is having a drought - go figure. 

    Aruba - enjoy that wonderful blue sky and warm sand in Aruba!  Such will power to not even walk into Diamonds International!  

    Karen, Scottie, Juneau, Cheryl, Nettie and all that I missed - I'm proud to be a part of our wonderful group!  I always look forward to your words of wisdom. Tazzy - you are the best at checking in. Your shoes are too big for me to follow in your footsteps. Maybe someday we will settle down. Home for a week and then off again!

    I'm in for all pocket parties with positive prayers, thoughts and of course cookies. 

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  • liefie
    liefie Member Posts: 2,440
    edited February 2014

    Nettie and Ramols, hoping for no attacks until your next appointments. Yes, it seems that there is always something. At the moment I have a sore arm/shoulder on the non-cancer side. It is tendonitis that I got from dragon boating 6 years ago, and it flares up every now and then. When it does, it takes months to go away, and there is very little you can do except grin and bear it. Had to quit the dragon boat team because of it, and still miss that cameraderie, and the beautiful summer afternoons on the water.

    Lostinmo, you are in my thoughts and prayers. 

    Cher, yay on the ACTION tomorrow - let us know how it went.

    Believe and Scottie, good to hear from the two of you!

    Everybody else, all the best to you all.

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  • Aruba
    Aruba Member Posts: 543
    edited February 2014

    Hi all!

    Back from paradise also known as Aruba!  You have to put this island on your bucket list for a view of heaven on earth!  Sun, surf and happy people with smiles on their faces....Crazy delays and flight cancellations due to the storm here in the states..  I'll catch up more later but wanted to share the view from our hotel room for those stuck in the storms out east.   Jump into this scene and feel the warm breeze!  Hope everyone is feeling ok..in your pockets if needed!

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  • Believe777
    Believe777 Member Posts: 576
    edited February 2014

    Aruba - glad you are home safe and sound. Been watching for your arrival. Your picture is perfect!

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  • Momof3GreatKids
    Momof3GreatKids Member Posts: 303
    edited February 2014

    Beautiful picture Aruba!!!!  Exactly what I need as I thaw out from clearing the driveway of 6 inches of snow and counting. Waiting patiently to hear all about your trip!

    Hugs to everyone!!!!!

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  • liefie
    liefie Member Posts: 2,440
    edited February 2014

    Looks stunning, Aruba! Would love to hear your report of your holiday.

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  • marianelizabeth
    marianelizabeth Member Posts: 1,735
    edited February 2014

    Aruba, looked great~~being in a warm beautiful place makes such a difference and having it with the same name is icing on the cake.

    Hi liefie! We should talk soon~~want to hear about your S. African trip and the wedding!

    I am feeling great though still always tired by evening. 3 weeks from today I will be in Hong Kong en route to Nepal. Not worrying about my fitness~~it will all be fine.

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  • KarenZ0305
    KarenZ0305 Member Posts: 487
    edited February 2014

    Aruba what hotel did you stay at? We are staying at Marriott surf club in July and seeing your pic makes me so excited. Never been and going with friends that have and I know we're going to have a blast. 

    Marianelizabeth - Nepal? Really? Wow!

    I guess this disease isn't slowing us down!

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  • Believe777
    Believe777 Member Posts: 576
    edited February 2014

    wow - you ladies go to exotic places!  

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  • liefie
    liefie Member Posts: 2,440
    edited February 2014

    Marian, yes, we will connect before you go to Nepal. Are you leading the trek again this time? Anna Purna? You sure are one feisty woman who does not allow anything to put you off, and who has earned my respect and admiration. High five!

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2014

    Beautiful place Aruba... added to bucket list.

    Marian - you go girl - Nepal is on my bucket list too.

    Bucket list seems to grow and grow.

    Love the fact that this disease will not stop us - KCA !!!

    Hugs everyone xxxxxxxxxxxx

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  • liefie
    liefie Member Posts: 2,440
    edited February 2014

    My bucket list:

    Kenya's game parks

    Victoria Falls

    Okavango delta

    Panama canal

    Oregon coast

    I think I'm way too ambitious - LOL. But one can dream, right?

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  • Joanne_53
    Joanne_53 Member Posts: 1,477
    edited February 2014

    liefie .. Great list.  I would add Belize, Bali and Fiji.

    I have such a "bum" knee that my bucket list will have to wait a couple of years until I get a knee replacement.

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  • KarenZ0305
    KarenZ0305 Member Posts: 487
    edited February 2014

    Greek Islands

    Castle in Ireland

    Villa in Tuscany

    Pub crawl in England

    Wandering in the Highlands

    And after each trip a few days on a beach (think Bermuda, Fiji, Belize)

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  • marianelizabeth
    marianelizabeth Member Posts: 1,735
    edited February 2014

    Karen, no this disease is and should not slow us down! Believe, I am not sure I would call Nepal exotic but it is amazing. Tazzy I know about the bucket list and I have some on it but somehow Nepal keeps calling me back. I guess as long as people want to go on my trips I will continue. In fact I have a wait-list for March so am doing the same trek/tour in October again. And yes, liefie  the trek is to Annapurna Base Camp. 

    Liefie and Karen those are great bucket lists! Joanne, hope you get that new knee sooner than later but no harm in starting the bucket list now.

    I am trying not to let the Olympics keep me on the couch and am so glad I have PVR. 

    Cher, I am waiting to hear how the appointment at BCCA today went?

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  • Aruba
    Aruba Member Posts: 543
    edited February 2014

    Getting things squared away and just back from PT for wrist.  Still a ways to go...on that ...

    As for Aruba, I am lucky gal.  FIrst stopped here on a Panama Canal cruise years ago that same month found that DH's boss takes him as management along with top producers/spouses to Aruba every year and switches it up every 3-4 years with another destination (we went to London two years ago) so I have been to Aruba about 6-7 times and know they going back again next year.  

    Karen, you will be right next door to where I stayed at the Marriott resort.    A visit to this 19  mile long island gives you all options.  There is all the beach activities like parasailing, tubing, sailing, snorkling or just getting on a raft and floating around. Beaches are gorgeous with white sand and immaculate.  Their main industry is tourism and marketing aloe from Aruba.  Each hotel on the hotel row has shops and many have mini casinos.  Dining is casual to fancy.  So you can do as much or as little as you would like.   

    We spent our days either by the pool or reserving a hut right on the sand.  We walked the beach to one of the piers for a mango or rasberry smoothie.  Nights we went out to nice restaurants twice and casual a few times.  Weather is almost always guaranteed good with perhaps some very scattered showers. Shopping downtown was a fun day too with a quaint lunch by the water.  There are deals to be had, but we stuck with the flea market downtown and did not even venture in all the jewelry stores that show all their bling in their windows.  

    The pure beauty of the teal waters, the lush green everywhere and the azure sky is the picture I keep in my head when I was faced with all the procedures of BC.  I wanted a place to mentally escape and could not think of a better one than Aruba, hence the name I chose way back when I started on BCO.  

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  • liefie
    liefie Member Posts: 2,440
    edited February 2014

    I think I just added Aruba to my bucket list. Have some Dutch blood in my veins too . . . sounds heavenly, Aruba, you lucky girl!

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  • Jennie93
    Jennie93 Member Posts: 1,018
    edited February 2014

    Just curious - those of you who travel - what precautions do you take when flying?  Presume you wear a sleeve and glove/gauntlet but do you still worry about it triggering lymphedema?  I'm afraid to fly, or do anything that might bring it on.  

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  • Believe777
    Believe777 Member Posts: 576
    edited February 2014

    Jennie - I don't have lympedema, guess I can't spell it either hopefully one of our sisters can give you advise on that front. 

    So much security at the airports now, getting there so early , delays, searches, no tooth paste - kind of took the fun out of it. Can our Canadians comment on these items. I wonder if it's the same everywhere? 

    Wishing everyone a great week end! 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2014

    Jennie - even though 6 nodes removed doesn't sound like a lot, I think it's enough to recommend wearing a sleeve/gauntlet preventatively on the plane. That said - now that I have lymphedema and have been learning more about it from the therapists - I'm fairly convinced that you're either going to get lymphedema or your not. You're not going to do anything to cause it. It just happens. They even think there can be a genetic tie. So don't avoid things for fear of lymphedema. Do what feels right and listen to your body. And take precaution when you can - like a sleeve for flying. When I asked all kinds of questions about what things I should and shouldn't be doing now - both therapists I've been working with said the same thing. There is lymphedema, and there is life; you still have to live your life. So grab your happy and don't let lymphedema fears drag you down! Hugs!

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  • marianelizabeth
    marianelizabeth Member Posts: 1,735
    edited February 2014

    I wore my sleeve on my recent flights, both about 5 hours. I am flying 13 or 14 hours though to Hong Kong and hope that the sleeve does its thing. I got compression stockings given to me for my mx and I took them to the hospital when I had my recon in December and they had been ordered so I felt good about saving the taxpayers a few $. The nurse did tell me before the mx to keep them as they are expensive. Anyway, I plan to wear them too on the long flights just in case. Lots of water too before and during the flights.

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2014

    I don't have lymphedema but always wear a sleeve on the plane,  recommended by RO.

    Bucket list:

    Nepal
    Belize (cancelled for the May when dx'd in January 2012)
    South America
    Victoria Falls
    Namibia
    See the Polar Bears
    All of Canada
    all of US

    I could go on and one... love adding to the list - now Aruba added.

    Wonderful w/e with love and hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  • lostinmo
    lostinmo Member Posts: 922
    edited February 2014

    Dropped in to check on everyone and got sidetracked by Aruba's picture. I think I'm in love. LOL 

    Wishing everyone a great weekend. I suck at being specific sorry.

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  • Joanne_53
    Joanne_53 Member Posts: 1,477
    edited February 2014

    bucket list ... I am so fortunate that I have seen most of Canada ... Have been to all the provinces and the Yukon ... Panned gold in Dawson City.

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  • Joanne_53
    Joanne_53 Member Posts: 1,477
    edited February 2014

    The view from my cottage window .. Lake Erie .. Arranged to have the driveway pillowed before I came .. Good thing ... Nice and sunny with all the snow.  The lake is frozen over which gives us more lake effect snow.

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  • Believe777
    Believe777 Member Posts: 576
    edited February 2014

    JoAnne - beautiful photo!  How can snow look so soft and fluffy? 

    I love visiting Aruba too but they have a great big Diamonds International Store, I spend way too much time inside of it :-)

    OK - I have spent the better part of this afternoon working on my Mom's web site.  She so deserves a better web master!  I'm telling you all because Aruba sent me an adorable photo earlier of her and her daughters beautiful hands wearing their Angel Bracelets!  I decided to put it on the site (after she gave me permission) and if anyone else wants to send photos - I am thinking about starting a photo gallery.  I also added some of the new beads I picked up in Tucson.  The whole site is always a work in progress.  You all derserve a family and friends discount so if you have any questions or wants - just email me and I will see that you get what ever you want  I think that if I have your address, I probably have you pretty well decorated.  If you have a moment - please peek:  www.NotAllAngelsAreInHeaven.com

    It's pretty quiet here today.  I hope you are all having a great warm week end. 

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  • KarenZ0305
    KarenZ0305 Member Posts: 487
    edited February 2014

    Believe love the avatar. You are gorgeous! I checked out the site and it's awesome! I love the Mardi gras bracelet!

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  • Tazzy
    Tazzy Member Posts: 2,546
    edited February 2014

    Beautiful shot Jo.  Snowing here at the mo as well.  Not much, rained earlier.

    Believe - you are gorgeous, great new avatar.   Love the bracelets too.  So talented.

    Hugs to everyone - stay warm and have a lovely weekend.

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