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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited May 2015


    Welcome: Odds and Sizzle!  Odds-- yes, boobs are overrated! LOL!  Love your sense of humor.   Sizzle-- good to see you over here!

    Will be thinking of those who have passed on this Memorial Day weekend.

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited May 2015


    oh,, just saw the new picture!   Lovely !!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2015

    You know, I never see Cheeto's comments anymore so I thought I'd share my morning. Woke up at 4am for absolutely no reason. Finally turned on the light & started reading at 4:30. I'm sure not getting up at that hour. By 6:30 I couldn't go back to sleep since I had a commitment at 8am to register neighbors for the community pool. So I opened a bag of Cheetos and had breakfast in bed. True story - and I ate 1/4 of the bag before i managed to stop myself.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited May 2015

    Breakfast of Champions, MinusTwo!!!!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

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  • SizzleStitch
    SizzleStitch Member Posts: 47
    edited May 2015

    Cheetos!!! One of my all time favorites. I love the fried nubby type❤️

    I am diabetic (type 2) but can still sneak in some now and then.... Two more days of the steroids after my last treatment... When that sugar number gets down... I am grabbing me a bag...may wash it down with a glass of wine :-). I am so ready to celebrate.

    Thanks for the welcome here.

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  • Oddswinner
    Oddswinner Member Posts: 21
    edited May 2015

    Thank you all for the fine welcome! I love to laugh, it's good for you and besides I think a good belly laugh is exercise, all that moving & jiggling around!

    But, seriously, right now I do a Trial that includes a large dose of Chemo (ugly juice) every three weeks, and that is this Friday, so although it's my best week (feeling good), it's also my scary week (subconscious takes over).

    On a lighter note, it's finally summer in New England and my gardens are starting to bloom! So enjoy and don't forget to smell those flowers, just keep your noses away from the bees.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited May 2015

    Good advice about noses and bees!


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  • Deborah2012
    Deborah2012 Member Posts: 234
    edited June 2015

    Hi middies,

    I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago and a small vacation with DH. I remember wondering a few years ago if I'd make it to 59. Now, over 3 yrs. later, I find myself wondering if I'll make the magical 5 yr. time period recurrence free?

    ASCO was in the news tonight due to its annual convention- in Chicago this year. If anyone else likes reading medical breast cancer (or any other cancer for that matter) 2015 latest research abstracts. Here it is. Just enter in the search box whatever type of cancer you're interested in.

    http://abstracts.asco.org/156/IndexView_156.html

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited June 2015
    • Hi ladies. Have been MIA as I was finishing up the chore of moving out of my home for 18.5 Yrs, seeing Robert Plant, if Led Zepplin fame, up close & personal in concert & trying to locate a rental (currently couch surfing). Ugh!! And wowza and ugh again. Am typing this 1 finger on phone. Can't wait to get into rental around the 15th & have PC back up.
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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited June 2015

    Enjoyed reading about the Cheetos and wine pairing. Little does Sizzle realize, but that is how all the Cheetos talk began. They went so well with that red wine that we were drinking because the red wine was supposed to be protective whilst going thru' rads.

    Oddswinner, Yes, it sure is "ugly juice!" How was it this time around?

    Deb2012, Thanks for the link about the ASCO Convention. I DO try to pay attention to what gets presented there.

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    I can second the loveliness of New England right now because I was just out there on a road trip to retrieve eldest son (and meet his new fiance!!!!!) We will have him back for a month or so before he heads off to a conference/research/study in Europe for about a year. I thought of you ladies throughout the Northeast, and I was very close to some of you too, but time constraints were tight and we were lucky to squeeze in the relatives.

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited June 2015

    Hi Eph,, UGH on the couch surfing, but Woo-hoo on seeing Robert Plant!!  The 15th will be here soon!

    Lovely flowers Elimar.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited June 2015

    Eph--sofa surfing, yikes, praying the rental process goes smoothly!

    Elimar--Must be nice having the son home before his European trip. Great pics!

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited June 2015

    oh, eph, couch surfing!? So many memories to go thru with the packing up a house lived in fro many years. So is all your stuff in storage? Counting down the days with you. Find more distractions like good ol" Robert. Is his hair still long?

    My cousin who wanted to come live with me decided she didn't like it here and turned tail and ran back to Hawaii. (thank you, cold front) She has gotten very timid and anxious. I hate to say it, but she made me feel better about my life. It was good to see her and reconnect, but she needs more than I can give. She was concerned about my upcoming procedure and would I have to be gone overnight. Sheesh, really? Anyway she was a good distraction for me for about a week.

    It is pretty here in the spring with all the flowers, eli. Enjoy your boy!

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  • Freygea
    Freygea Member Posts: 300
    edited June 2015

    Hello everyone! I just knew I would find this group eventually.

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited June 2015

    welcome, frey (to the fray) (couldn't resist.) We were all just waiting for you to show up.

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  • MizMimi
    MizMimi Member Posts: 98
    edited June 2015

    I guess this is me. I'm 44 with a diagnosis of DCIS and aggressive surgery planned for July. Nice to meet all of you!!!!

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  • Oddswinner
    Oddswinner Member Posts: 21
    edited June 2015

    Hey Everyone, hope you all are enjoying your Spring/almost summer. I just finished planting all the plants I have, since we moved in last 2014, it's been a slow progression. But now I have no room for anymore, nor do I want to. I thought wow I'm handing around the gardens too much, I'm hearing lots of buzzing, then I realized it's me, I now have a permanent ringing in my ears, it's a PIA, but a good excuse too if I don't want to listen to someone, I can blame it on the ringing . . I have some good news I'd like to share. Back in March when I started this journey my tumor was the size of a golf ball, after three horrible infusions of my "ugly juice" they couldn't measure it last time! Happy Dance!! I know that may not mean it's gone, but it's better. One more to go in the Trial, then we talk surgery.

    Enjoy the sunshine Peeps, get those hands dirty.

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  • glennie19
    glennie19 Member Posts: 6,398
    edited June 2015


    YAY for shrinkage !!!ThumbsUp

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited June 2015

    Oddswinner, That is great news (except for the ringing in the ear...be sure to mention that to the docs.)

    Hello Newbies!

    MizMimi, Are you positive on the BRCA gene?

    Freygea, That's a new one...what is the TC on your Dx of IDC_TC?

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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited June 2015

    Lovely petrified wood, elimar. I have a couple of nice peices, and i always think: Time & experience. But I will take your strength and healing, and add to that.

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  • Freygea
    Freygea Member Posts: 300
    edited June 2015

    Eli- I think it is picking up the tubular. That or I just hit the lottery..lol. Right now I am kind of scattered and may have hit the wrong button.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited June 2015

    Tomboy, I'm not too New Age, so I only know what I read in a National Enquirer (and who even admits that?) some years ago. It was when my mom was on a ventilator in the long term care hospital, so I took her a nice palm sized chunk. All I know is that the drugs were making her have fidgety hand movements and she was bunching up the sheets, so when she got to touch the rock, it gave her something else to do with her hands.

    Oh, and she was a Stage IV LC patient with pneumonia who managed to get off the ventilator after 2 mos....

    Must have been the petrified wood.

    Please know that I am joking.

    (Apologies to my Sedona-based sistahs.)


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  • MizMimi
    MizMimi Member Posts: 98
    edited June 2015

    Oddswinner-- I"m still waiting on my BRCA results. Two more weeks. But I know I don't want radiation, so this is the only other option. :(

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  • Dianarose
    Dianarose Member Posts: 2,407
    edited June 2015

    Hi ladies, haven't been here in a bit. Now that we have the horses home in our own barn we are very busy. I don't mind the work at all. It is good for me.

    Been dealing with the whole bone loss in my jaw from Zometa. Had my first teeth scaling last week. The worst part was the 6 shots prior too. Three more rounds to go. Had to have one tooth cut off up in the gum because they were afraid I wouldn't heal if they pulled it. Got 2 new crowns and some bridge work. Two more rounds of that coming. Thank The Lord for Xanax.

    We kept the grand kids over night and they shared their germs. Ended up with a bad sinus infection. Way too much fun for me.

    Hubby is taking me to see Toby Kieth on Saturday. Looking forward to it. Taking the 16 year old to Pennslvania in July. So things are looking up!

    Had a few bad days when I realized this month makes 2 years of stage four. Scares the hell out of me. Hope everyone is having a great summer!


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  • Oddswinner
    Oddswinner Member Posts: 21
    edited June 2015

    Good luck to you, I don't blame you for not wanting radiation. For me chemo before (my last on the 19th of June) and after surgery it seems like enough, one day at a time. I can't think that far ahead, I'm wasting life now if I do. And there's just too much living to be done!

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  • MizMimi
    MizMimi Member Posts: 98
    edited June 2015

    Oddswinner-- thank you! I agree there is too much living to be done! One day at a time!

    Btw.. just found out I am BRCA negative! Yay! I'm very happy about that! I get to keep my ovary!

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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited June 2015

    Yay for the lone ovary!!

    Dianarose, I sympathize with you for the bone loss in your jaw. I am afraid thats what they are going to have to with me, too. I lost a bunch of teeth over the years due to no dental insurance and underemployment for many years. Then the clincher was i got mugged and kicked in the teeth, not in NY! Sacramento. Anyway, I have done three prolia shots since treatment because a year and a half of treatment caused rapid bone loss. And so, when I started to notice that one of my few remaining teeth is seeming to need attention, I am not doing my next shot, which i think was due in a couple of months. I am sure, because I can feel it, how thin my jawbone is there. but I have been deathly afraid of osteonecrosis of the jaw! That's the last thing I need! But then, I think I read here somewhere the other day, that ONJ is not as prevalent with prolia as they had originally thought.

    but i don't know if that tooth of mine can be saved, and I am thinking they will do a similar thing to me as they did to you. I wish I could have a do-over with my whole life, knowing what I know know. Have fun with your summer plans,they sound great! And even tho i am only stage3c, i think I get what you say. I feel a little frisson of terror sometimes when i think it's been three years for me now.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited June 2015

    Dianarose--I can imagine how busy horses keep you.But I bet it's a happy busy!2 years of stage 4, I can see where that would make for mixed feelings.

    MizMimi--HOORAY for BRCA negative!

    Tomboy--congrats no 3 years, and again I can see the mixed feelings.

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited June 2015

    Tomboy, Happy 3-year Cancerversary! Keep those cancer-free years comin'.

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    I am in the same boat as many of you Middies as far as dental woes. Only mine troubles are not from BC drugs, they have plagued me my whole life. For having so much work done, it is kind of amazing that I am only now facing the prospect of getting my first dental implant. Before, I never liked the sound of having a chunk of titanium in there but, now, seeing as how I have some titanium surgical clips courtesy of my lumpectomy and who knows how many little surgical staples in my Franken-colon...it does not seem like a big deal. Ditto on getting a procedure while unconscious...been there, slept through that. Not that I am looking forward to oral surgery, but in light of everything else it does not sound nearly as daunting anymore.

    MixMimi, Congrats on passing your BRCA test. Is your ovary planning to celebrate?




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