Dancing in Limbo from summer rads 2014

Not sure what you mean by "Dancing in Limbo".

lyzzysmom...good to see you on here! I was missing my sisters from summer rads! Hoping sunshineinky pops in!

I ended rads august 13 after months of chemo...jumped right back into work routine teaching kindergarten and those kids are my joy! Also my distraction from thinking too much about the past year.

But as my "cancerversary" or whatever you call it gets closer, I am pretty weepy and out of sorts...I guess it's dealing with the aftermath of the storm. But then I get myself together and say just enjoy the moment and the present days!! Silly old bear....lol...

Had my mo follow up, tomorrow is my RO , dec 4 regular gyno...dec 23 diagnostic mammo and surgeon follow up (ouch!)...jan 6 new doctor visit with internist...geez... Busy!!!

Going back up to the mountains in Asheville nc for thanksgiving...closer to heaven in the mountains!!

Have a great day everyone! Rosie

My beach at Topsail Island NC...my happy place!!!

I love the picture Rosie! I am glad you are enjoying those kinders!

I do wonder how Sunshine is doing.

I was never happier than when I was adjusting my sail (windsurfing)! My happy place was a beach in the Greek islands in a little town called Vasiliki. Sounds exotic but from England it was like flying down the coast to Florida. It had perfect warm wind that would come down the mountain in the afternoons. We would run for our sailboards. There was an Irish couple that ran a bar and would do a full cooked breakfast and every Monday night there would be live music. He would do his version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody like clockwork LOL. There was no AC and no screens to keep the mosquitos out. If it was a cloudy day or you took a late shower the water would be cold as it was solar powered but it was just a great place and the ice creams were really good as were and the cocktails in the Zeus bar "downtown"!! I probably went there 10 times over a number of years and it was always the same. I expect things have changed a lot now. I am rambling but that pic and caption got me going!!

Have a good evening ladies!

Hi Ladies of Summer Rads 2014,

I have been lurking. The topic of this board is so perfect - limbo is exactly how I feel! I have had a set back in my road to recovery. 10 months after my tissue expander was placed, 2 months post radiation, i started to feel tightness in my right breast. Turns out it was a staph infection. Very, very nasty. Had to have emergency surgery to remove the right tissue expander. Spent two weeks on IV antibiotics - thank goodness I still have my port! Finally just getting back to normal - or as close to normal as I think I will get I now have a fully expanded tissue expander on the left and a very sad, deflated, flabby mess on the right. Plastic Surgeon told me to just breathe.... he won't even talk about the reconstruction on the right until January but he did mention that another implant may not be possible. My right side is my cancer side and the tissue from radiation is just not happy. BLAH!!! Does it every end???

Izzymom, your rambling of the Greek Island was wonderful. I could feel the breeze as you described it. Thank you!

I hope this finds you all well and starting to adjust back to your new normal. Thanksgiving this year is going to have a whole new meaning for me. So very thankful for the ladies on here and the support, the skill of my doctors and the nurses who have taken care of me, friends who I didn't realize I had that have supported me continuously for the past year thru this hell, and of course, my family who spent many nights watching over me at the hospital and home, worried about me, prayed for me, took care of me, helped me bath... the list goes on and on... So very, very grateful this year! I have never sent out Thanksgiving cards before, but this year, it just seems so appropriate to thank some of the people who have supported me thru this all.

If I don't pop back in for a while - I wish you all a very happy, healthy, and wonderful Thanksgiving!

<<<Hugs>>>

Janet

Hi ladies! Yes, it sure is a special thanksgiving for us and our families and friends who worried and went through all of this with us....

My RO 3 month follow up was quick...he did stress the importance of stretching the arm with exercises every day...in the shower, in the doorways, climbing fingers up the wall, ect...for the pec muscles...it's an ongoing thing...it all feels so tight in there!! Visit was fine...see him in 6 months!

Well, turned super cold here in southeastern NC! Good weekend for the firepit! I do love this season...just not the feelings it stirs...December will be rough as it gets closer to the time I was diagnosed...when the whirlwind began and I went into warrior mode without thinking too much, just getting it done....I think now is when it is all sinking in as we get back to our routines....

Well, that's enough of that and I am going to relax after a busy day with my kinders....who were OFF THE CHAIN today....oy...wait until Christmas rolls around! Well, seems like it's already here in most stores anyway! Have a blessed weekend and hope more friends see our new board!!!Rosie

I'm glad someone finally started a new forum. Nice to hear from everyone. Glad to see I'm not alone in things feeling a little weird. They took me off the Tamox and but me on Aromasin. I haven't started it yet. I had an "adjustment" surgery with my Plastic surgeon on Friday. Even me out a little, and just a little fixes. Nothing really major but yeah I'm sore. And wearing an ace bandage tube top. LOL. Because I had such a hormonal crash when I started the Tamox we thought it best to wait until after this surgery to start the new one. I'm really nervous about this one because of the bone issue. They scheduled me for a bone scan next month and I have my mammo also.

I love the name.

Hope more of our summer sisters join in. We went through so much, and still are, together.

sunshine, Have you in my thoughts all the time sweety. (((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))

hey aff! Glad your back! Also glad you are moving on and back to work...it's a good feeling but it's also strange..happy thanksgiving! Rosie

hope this board keeps on going! Love to hear from our old crew! Heading to the mountains for thanksgiving with one daughter and sisters family! We will leave our coastal region to enjoy a different view in Asheville NC.

Never left home for thanksgiving but changing it up this year...only one out of 3 children home...times change when the "kids" have significant others and move out of our bubble! Hopefully we will all be together for Christmas which will be a longer break from school!

So many wonderful blessings this year...adding the blessing of you all...cyber support sistas! Happy Thanksgiving friends...sharing one of my favorite cartoons...friends are there for each other always!!

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It's nice to see people slowly but surely finding this topic! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Last November I had my BMX, so this whole month of November I was giddy. Everything was a joy to do, since I couldn't do much one year ago. From raking leaves to carrying heavy shopping bags into the house, I was a smiling fool.

I'm seeing Vinnie this week. A bit apprehensive but happy to be at this point.

mripp....you sound like me!! I was back to teaching kindergarten a week after rads ended august 13 and my chemo ended June 2! I haven't stopped yet!! Lol....I was napping every day in the beginning of school but now I am trying to walk after school.

For me, I needed to stay busy to get thru this limbo stage of now what??? I had a hard time in October and kept thinking about this past year and just shake my head....I was diagnosed dec 17 2013 and now it's getting near...staying busy is best!! Rosie