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  • Positive_spirit
    Positive_spirit Member Posts: 218
    edited September 2015

    good luck Steph and littleblue for tomorrow's surgeries.

    Face fuzz - I just went to the salon yesterday and got my face threaded...so threading is what I did with my eyebrows in the past.

    Addie - heal well.

    Dizzpark - may the SE become minimal with each day.

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  • Alibeths
    Alibeths Member Posts: 656
    edited September 2015

    Did you have your port out at an office?

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Good luck tomorrow!

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  • KBeee
    KBeee Member Posts: 5,109
    edited September 2015

    Jen, good luck tomorrow!

    Steph, hope all goes great with the surgery. Update when you can.

    Kniterly, The port removal will be a relief! Glad to hear Femera is going well. I start it next month.

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  • Positive_spirit
    Positive_spirit Member Posts: 218
    edited September 2015

    thinking of you two this morning. Safe surgeries with optimal outcomes

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  • GingerChi
    GingerChi Member Posts: 252
    edited September 2015

    Sending best wishes to Steph, Jen and Knitterly today!

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  • ankledolphin
    ankledolphin Member Posts: 99
    edited September 2015

    good morning everyone!

    Hope it was a good weekend for all and hugs for those in surgery/treatment today.

    I am in waiting room for my first official radiation treatment.. Or as it written on my calendar, its zap time!

    😜

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  • ThePrincess
    ThePrincess Member Posts: 424
    edited September 2015

    Steph, Jen and Knitterly - I Hope you're done already!

    Who goes next week? I get lumpectomy and SNB Monday - MRI and ultrasound were both clear except for the clips- I don't know what to expect?

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  • gkodad
    gkodad Member Posts: 188
    edited September 2015

    Gentle hugs to Steph, Jen and Knitterly and any other surgery ladies today. I hope it's uneventful. I did my big surgery before chemo, but still need my port out, so just a little more fo rme.

    Princess, lumpectomy and SNB - you'll usually go home the same day with drains and painkillers - one or two drains depending on the size of the incisions. You'll feel rotten after surgery but mostly because of anesthesia, and sore, especially around the drains. You'll start feeling pretty good pretty quickly once the drains are out.

    My second post-chemo blood work today - RBC and hemoglobin solidly back in normal range. WBCs have been normal last last two checks...dropped this time to 3.8. Oncology doctor says radiation is the culprit - he doesn't seem especially concerned. Said he won't check again for 2 months unless metabolic panel turns up weird.

    I start Aromasin three weeks after I finish radiation, so about Nov 1. Week 5 rads begin today. I have an itchy chest rash but otherwise, things are fine [except for WBCs, I guess}.

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  • DizzParkMom
    DizzParkMom Member Posts: 316
    edited September 2015

    ACK! With the recent talk about facial hair, I was checking in the mirror how bad it was and deciding if I had the energy to do anything about it today. Nope. Maybe tomorrow. So while I was there, I starred (disappointedly) at my lack of hair on my head. I used a hand mirror to check out the back of my head. Cool! The vanity light makes what little patchy fuzz I have look like much more. WAIT! What's that? Any guesses?

    My head can't manage to start regrowing hair, but the ridges of both my ears are covered in lengthy, fuzzy hair. Covered! WTH! Why didn't anybody tell me I've got hair growing all over my ears. It's so long and plentiful I will be able to creatively wrap it around my bad head!!! Must hair come back everywhere except where I want it??? I can't help but picture how pathetic I must look to the outside world. I've lost 20 pounds and my clothes hang off me, I have horrible sunken bags under my eyes, I am bald, I have no eyelashes, no eyebrows, my eyes water 24/7, and now my ears are covered in fur.

    Check your ears ladies!

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  • GingerChi
    GingerChi Member Posts: 252
    edited September 2015

    Oh Dizzpark! I dont have ear hair thank heaven, but I have white fuzz on my face. I had a similar experience the day I pulled out my magnified mirror and saw alot of long white hair under my chin....I felt like Santa or something, oh gah! I had just been out to dinner with friends too. I whipped out the tweezers out and went to work.

    I've used a facial hair remover on the fuzz on my cheeks. I really hated using it, but at the same time didn't want to shave either.

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Oh Dizz you are turning into an elf! I have wookies face too...hair everywhere but my head.

    Well surgery today said fat necrosis..he even showed me. Ewwwww! Of course, it all goes to the path lab but he felt confident and so I feel better. Emotionally whipped out, but better. How's the other surgery ladies doing???

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  • KBeee
    KBeee Member Posts: 5,109
    edited September 2015

    Jen, great news!


    Dizzpatk, it is very hard to not recognize the person in the mirror staring back. I promise, you will recognize her soon!


    Gko, sounds like your skin is holding up well. I hope it continues to!

    Princess, hope all goes well on Monday!

    Ankle dolphin, I hope rads was uneventful today. How many do you have scheduled?

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Glad to hear it, Jen!

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  • Positive_spirit
    Positive_spirit Member Posts: 218
    edited September 2015

    littleblue - lump banished!

    Steph and knitterly - hoping all went today!!!

    dizzpark - I laughed so hard at the hair story. OMG

    I was telling littleblue that I am nervous about my check up for tomorrow - 3 months post chemo. I have a small lump under my scar under my breast (ugh), slight cording, and now a bump on my head but I am sure I did not bump my head. And it hurts. Of course, it all merged into one crazy thought .... Ativan

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Got your back, positive! You need bad jokes at 3 am? I'm your woman. You need prayres? Got those too. You said I'd be just fine and I was, so now I say the same to you. Deep breaths and ativan!!!

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  • DizzParkMom
    DizzParkMom Member Posts: 316
    edited September 2015

    Great news Jen. I am sure that fat necrosis is much less likely to rear it's ugliness again now that you showed it how it will be dealt with. Glad the exision was able to make you more at ease.

    Positive Spirit...Good luck tomorrow. I am sure it will be nerve wracking and will probably never get any easier. We should all invest in the company that makes Ativan. P.S. It will be all good tomorrow!!! But tell your family to stop wacking your head while you sleep.

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  • SpriteB
    SpriteB Member Posts: 49
    edited September 2015

    Hi everyone. I last posted on 8/1 when I updated about my sepsis and hospitalizations. I just spent the last few days reading the thread to get caught up.  Thank you for all your responses! It was quite an ordeal. 

    I'm 7 weeks PFC chemo and I've been feeling more myself. My hair is slowly coming in, although it's mostly grey. Ugh. My eyebrows and lashes are coming back and I'm hoping they won't fall out. 

    Littleblue- I'm happy your lump turned out to be fat necrosis!!

     Hoping those who had surgery today are doing well. 

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  • Alibeths
    Alibeths Member Posts: 656
    edited September 2015

    so happy for you Jen!

    Today was my last day of rads. They sucked.

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  • DizzParkMom
    DizzParkMom Member Posts: 316
    edited September 2015

    Congrats on finishing rads Alibeths!!!

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  • Scarlett152
    Scarlett152 Member Posts: 175
    edited September 2015

    Great news LittleBlue

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    Jen - so glad you are through that gauntlet. A fresh new hell if a world when necrosis and anything to do with our body in the same sentence is regarded as good news. But good all the same. Camping out in your pocket till results just in case you need me. 3 am is fine.

    Positive- my blood pressure went way up on my first MO follow up. It is sonerve wracking and there doesn't seem to be an appropriate place to file our fears. So they just hang out like a price tag, telling way more about ourselves than we'd like to reveal.

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  • Stephmoen
    Stephmoen Member Posts: 563
    edited September 2015

    hey ladies surgery went well had a little scare with low bp felt very dizzy almost passed out doing better now just in pain I'm on toradol due to the fact I've read studies opioids can actually cause cancer to spread but I think I'm throwing In The towel and gonna get a small dose also had a paraverterbral block damn that hurt going in nurse told me I handledit the best she's ever seen told me I'm one tough cookie I'm like hell yah I am :)

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  • GingerChi
    GingerChi Member Posts: 252
    edited September 2015

    Steph, glad all went well...here's to a smooth recovery!

    Jen: Great news!!!!!!

    Positive: Good wishes and big hugs to you today.....hope all goes well!! :)

    Princess: Hoping all goes well for you on Monday!!!

    Congrats on being done with rads Alibeth!! YAY!

    Sprite: Glad you checked in and that you're feeling good!! I'm with you on the grey hair, I still cant believe it when I see all the white stuff on my head. lol

    Today I go for Taxol #10. I've been telling myself for days "...after Tuesday, only TWO more!" That sounds so much better than 3. lol

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  • Stephmoen
    Stephmoen Member Posts: 563
    edited September 2015

    I forgot to add I had 5 lymoh nodes taken out that were all clear yay!!!

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  • Stephmoen
    Stephmoen Member Posts: 563
    edited September 2015

    well not good news I have a hematoma so I mah need to go back into surgery damn

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  • Rpayton
    Rpayton Member Posts: 235
    edited September 2015

    Steph good luck and hang in there.

    Alibeths congrats on done with rads!

    Jen glad to hear good news and you can rest.

    Sprite good to hear you are on the road to recovery! Yep mine is all gray fuzz what little is there.

    Dizzpark good ear hair story. Lmao Yep grows everywhere except where we want it!

    I'm sure I'm missing those of you having surgery or tests this week. Good luck!!! Thinking of all of you!!!

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  • ankledolphin
    ankledolphin Member Posts: 99
    edited September 2015

    kbeee - i have rads every day until the first week of november i believe. Its an hour drive for less then 30 minutes of being at the hospital and then an hour drive into work! Day 2 and it already sucks!! The way I have to have my arms above my head, my port area is killing me at the moment. On Wednesdays I meet with the RO, so I am going to mention it to her to see what else can we do....or do i suck it up like everything else and take Tylenol

    as for hair on the face...would like to know why my body things its okay to have dark black hairs in the middle of my chin? not underneth...but on my face..really, you didn't exist before!

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  • Stephmoen
    Stephmoen Member Posts: 563
    edited September 2015

    apparently nothing goes easy for me had another surgert today for my hematoma going to get another CBC to be sure my hemoglobin isn't too low may need a blood transfusion uggggh

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  • ThePrincess
    ThePrincess Member Posts: 424
    edited September 2015

    oh no, good luck I hope you get that straightened out!

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