Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2014
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    2. My "new" wheels! 2011 Chevy Cruz.... A "little" different than my 1999 Chevy Prizm with that CLUTCH.... Ha!
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  • Puffin2014
    Puffin2014 Member Posts: 961
    edited December 2014

    Chevy: love the car! I don't know yet if my friend's cancer is a reoccurence or a new incidence. She was such a rock and a role model for me, it's hard to think about her going through this again, though so far Dr is only saying surgery and radiation, sure hope she can skip the chemo this time.

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited December 2014

    Ditto to the expressions of regret concerning your good friend, Puffin. 

    Hoping for good results from your mammo, Jackie.

    Another relaxed day here.  Got up earlier than I would have liked to go to the gym with dh.  Have spent the remainder of the day mostly in the kitchen doing some seldom-done chores like cleaning out drawers and rearranging the contents. 

    It was foggy this morning but sunny out now and in the 70's.  This is warmer than our normal early Dec. temperatures.  This same weather is supposed to continue through the entire week, so I should be able to play golf tomorrow and Friday. 

    Happy Tues. to all.

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    Whew !!!!I  I'm back from Carbondale and someone ( probably a mistake, but it works for me )  made this appt. for me as a "diagnostic" mammogram.  So, they were able to give me the results before I left.  Good news !!!!  I was pretty cool about it --- I think because my Avon Navigator from 7 yrs. ago came in and we chatted away like we the old friends I feel like we are.  Anyway, even the tech said -- hmmm, that's weird, but since they used that word, we can give you the results right away. 

    Anyway, Donna, the patient Navigator and her husband had just adopted a brand new baby girl ( they had two grown sons ) 7 yrs. ago so my visits with her were immersed with the joy and enthusiasm Donna was feeling at not only being a 'mommy' again, but of a little girl as well.  So, I was a bit more relaxed but still found that I was holding my breath just a little bit. 

    I think if you go 15 years for the most part ( I'd have to read up though ) you would have a new primary wouldn't you ?  I feel like I had some of these answers at some point but have forgotten it all.  I can forget so much easier these days.  I do think though that is sort of an age related kind of thing.  Also -- I think after years I'm just tired of trying to hold all sorts of facts in my head.

    Didn't someone mention at one time that you only have so much room up there for information and when your brain is full....that's it.  Nothing else can stick for long.  Hmm, or is that my wistful thinking !!!

    Puffin not sure I said, but I sure like your avatar picture.  I do hope your friend has and is very successful ( it sounds like she and here Dr. have a good handle on things ) with her txs. this time around. 

    70 degrees sounds so delightful Carole -- which is what we just had before our ice storm.  It is still hard for me to believe we did over a 4o degree drop in temperatures overnight to get our ice storm.  Incredible ??? 

    Chevy, if we could all charter a bus we would come to Colorado and demand rides in your new car.  I didn't realize  that a Prism was a Chevrolet ----  you actually might feel some comfort then maybe --- of course the Cruise is a much newer model, but I noticed only slight differences in Denny's truck ( Chevy ) and my Blazer.  His was a 94' and mine is an 04'.  Just glad you have an automatic transmission.  Oh how nice that is going to be for you. 

    Anyway, I'll see you all later.

    Jackie

     


     

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited December 2014

    Jackie, doing the "happy dance" for your good news on your mammogram! 

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2014

    Yes Jackie.... I'm so relieved for you.... You are my little Sister, and I just worry...

    Yes... I think after 15 years, it would be a "new" one.... not mets.... Is it the same breast? I can't remember what you said....

    My "new" car is a dream... I am just too happy... I keep going out to the garage to check on it.... Ha, ha! Janie drove it around a few blocks... I was like a Mother hen... ! Thought she should have driven slower! But she loves it too. Tomorrow night it will be mine.... free and clear.... what a relief!

    I wouldn't even make you take your shoes off if I gave you a ride...:) I remember when I was about 15, and this guy picked me up from home, and asked me to take off my shoes.... I thought ...."well, okay...whatever".... But NOW if that happened? I would say "ARE you Flipping NUTS?"

    But you girls could keep your shoes on.... maybe.... if you scrubbed the bottoms first.

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  • Miminiemi
    Miminiemi Member Posts: 340
    edited December 2014

    sorry puffin. It makes us all sad and a little scared I bet. Chevy your car is awedomr. Nothing beats the feeling of a new car! I'm in Muskogee tonight on my way to San Antonio for a couple days. It's a long bus ride, but stops along the way have been nicr. Don't worry about me Chevy. I'm with other ladies over 60. But later this month I make no promises! Construction on the repair of my flooded basement is beginning while I'm gone. I'm so lucky to have an honest reliable contractor. He's done work on every room in my house, now. Night all.

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.  Let me learn from you, love, you, bless you before you depart.

    Mary Jean Irion


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  • MomMom
    MomMom Member Posts: 523
    edited December 2014

    Jackie, Wonderful news on your mammo

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  • ritajean
    ritajean Member Posts: 4,223
    edited December 2014

    YEA Jackie! So glad to hear that all went well with your mammo!

    Welcome Sophie and Chloesmom. Come and visit us often.

    Well Thanksgiving is over and the excitement is building toward Christmas. There seems like so much to do to be ready for it. I need to start on my Christmas cards tomorrow and finish up my shopping. Although I'm always running around like crazy during this time of year, I really do love the season. My grandsons help me put up my tree, too when they were here over Thanksgiving. It is certainly not a precisely decorated tree but they thought it was beautiful when they finished and I won't change a thing about it! :-)

    Congrats on the new car, Chevy! So glad you found one you really like! :-)

    Carole, so glad you made it home safely! It sounds like you had plenty to eat once you got served! I'm like you. I have to eat something every few hours. I seem to get headaches if I go too long without food.

    Hugs to all of you!


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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited December 2014

    Rita, did your grandsons enjoy the snow?  I'm assuming you had snow, too, as we had in Decatur. 

    Tonight I made tortillas for the first time.  They were delicious.  DH helped with cooking fajita fixings--skirt steak cut in narrow strips, sliced onions and sliced colored bell peppers.  We also had guacamole, sour cream, salsa, and black beans.  Yum, yum.  Much better than anything we could have eaten in Tex-Mex restaurants in our area. 

    Today was another very nice day.  Partly cloudy and high in the mid 70's.  This weather is the forecast for the entire week.  I really don't mind. 

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  • Teacher64
    Teacher64 Member Posts: 840
    edited December 2014

    Puffin, now you can be strong for your friend.

    Yesterday was a difficult day because the vet told me my miniature schnauzer, Penny, has lymphoma. She has been with me through everything, so I will be here for my furry faced girl

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2014

    Teacher, Sorry for such a dreadful diagnosis. I'm sure you will make the rest of her life just as wonderful as it's been up to now. Hugs.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited December 2014

    Teacher,

    Penny is blessed with your care. *Hugs*

    Jackie,

    OK mammogram is a good stocking stuffer!

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  • carolehalston
    carolehalston Member Posts: 6,887
    edited December 2014

    Teacher, sorry about the bad news concerning your pet friend. 

    It's foggy here this morning.  DH is off to a dermatologist apptment where he will undergo the MOSE (sp?) surgery to remove a cancer on his ear.  I have a busy schedule playing chauffeur for my mother.  Her hair apptment is at 11 am.  Then she has an apptment at a local hospital to have an injection for osteopenia.  That's at 1 pm. 

    Once the fog burns off, it will warm up to the 70's again today.  We're usually in the 60's this time of year. 

    I should be at the gym this morning but I'm being lazy.

    Chevy, enjoy that snazzy new car! 

    Happy Thurs. to all.

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded upon our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.  If one speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows that person, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.  If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows that person, like a shadow that never leaves.
     
    Gautama Buddha

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    I am sorry to hear your news Teacher of Precious Penny.   If there is anything that is ok I think it is the wonderful stoicism that our furry loved ones possess.  They do not ( or so it has always seemed to me ) make judgments about what happens to them --- they just accept the circle of life so much easier than we do.  We grieve so much for them because we feel that they may have been cheated -- that they deserve more than the end that is coming.  But they just remain mostly calm ---   I have felt for a long, long time as animals are without guile, live by their code always -- that they are returned to us at a later time -- when we embark into our eternity.  It is what in the end makes it ok for me to have to lose the wonder that they are and have been to me.  A lot of pain, but also a quiet sustaining joy that will be a comfort much later on.  What looks like an ending will much later be another beginning -- for all time. 

    Blessings

    Jackie


     

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  • Anneb1149
    Anneb1149 Member Posts: 960
    edited December 2014

    Happy Birthday Sandra4611- hope you have a thrilling Thursday! -Anneimage

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  • Anneb1149
    Anneb1149 Member Posts: 960
    edited December 2014

    Happy Birthday Val- hope you have a great day. Anneimage

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited December 2014

    Sandra, HB!!

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited December 2014

    Val, HB!!

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  • Teacher64
    Teacher64 Member Posts: 840
    edited December 2014

    Happy Birthday, Sandra and Val. Have loads of fun

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  • Puffin2014
    Puffin2014 Member Posts: 961
    edited December 2014

    Happy Birthday Sandra and Val!

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  • mommarch
    mommarch Member Posts: 584
    edited December 2014

    Well I have been hanging back with this. Our DD is going through testing, they believe her Hodgkins

    has returned. She will have bone morrow extraction on Monday. Very concerned. If it is back they will probably do a bone morrow transplant. Her brother is a match, he had the testing 16 years ago when

    it first showed up.

    Happy Birthday to the BD girls.


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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited December 2014

    Mommarch, Hope she gets good news. What a relief to know there is a match for her if she needs the marrow transplant. Sending you hugs.

    Happy birthday to Sandra and Val.

    Anne, Thank you for keeping track of things.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2014

    I'm sorry Teacher.... We went through that in February.... it still hurts... but we had to help her, someway.... And now she is an angel....

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    Happy Birthday Sandra -- hope it is a very delicious one:

     

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    and many, many more.

    Blessings

    Jackie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    Happy Birthday VAL.  I hope you have a wonderful birthday and every one from now on just gets better.

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    Blessings

    Jackie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2014

    mommarch,

    That is quite a burden you  have been carrying around.  I am so glad there is already a donor if it is needed.  I am also extremely happy that GD is with you and in a stable environment if this is to be.  You will all be in my thoughts and prayers. 

    Blessings

    Jackie

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited December 2014

    Sorry I forgot.... Mommarch, I'm thinking of you.... xoxoxo

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