April 2015 Chemo Crew... Starting in April? Please join us!

ksusan I've done the sunglasses in the toilet but not my purse, yet. Oh yuck hope you were able to salvage everything.

I'm now freaking about diabetes after reading the posts. Both my parents have it and other family members too. I've always been proactive about trying to avoid or postpone this in my life for as long as I can knowing with my genes I probably don't have much chance. Never thought about the steroids and chemical induced diabetes. Yuck! Like we all need another disease to manage. I see my internist the end of Oct and I know she will be checking the A1c. I guess best I can do is eat carefully and keep moving with exercise.

Kbeee I'm as red, maybe redder than you. Especially under my arm and side where they are doing the boosts. It's draining me. Went to the grocery store today and every brush of my arm to reach or touch to that area is painful. Using plenty of aloe, aquaphor, and miaderm.

For my work attire I wish the weather would turn cooler so I could hide my braless self under sweaters and sweatshirts. Very uncomfortable just with a Cami and top, so much shows thru. Luckily the office is fairly cool and a sweater wrap and scarf are my hide behinds.

After keeping a good part of my eye lashes and eyebrows I now find them thinning with bare spots! Wtf is that when I'm 8 weeks post. Geeessshhh. And yep hair on my legs and arms that I would love to be able to transplant on my head. That is coming in very slow, thin, fine and very gray. And bald spots back of my head so uneven too. So much for my hopes for thicker luxurious hair. The post cancer perks stink! LOL

Rads has also brought on more hot flashes. I was told it would. And I cant wait for even more when I start Tamoxifen later in Oct.

KSusan I don't get dizzy but that warm feeling that starts top of my head and moves down. And still nuropathy bottom of my feet. MO promises me it will go away may take months though. Fun times.

Hope you are all having gorgeous fall weekend weather! It is truly beautiful here in N IL today.

LittleBlue and KBeee, my mother also got fat necrosis at the surgical site.

My purse is a Baggallini and I pulled it out after just a few seconds. Water didn't penetrate through it, but some did get in through the open zipper. I dried everything with paper towels, and when I got home I sprayed it and its contents with Lysol. Fortunately I was the first of the day to use that rest room so the bowl had been cleaned.

I have type 2 diabetes that's under great control, but am also getting up several times a night. I figure my mucous membranes and bladder are still recovering from chemo. Also, the urinary catheter from surgery changed where my flow goes, so I'm having to learn a new "toilet posture."

"Chemo flushes" can continue for quite awhile, especially when we exercise or lose weight because some of the chemicals are sequestered in fat cells.

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LittleBlue, mine was frosty grey to start, but after a haircut it's back to brown with some grey, which is what it was before. Meanwhile, look at that fuzz on you!

Renee, I was already having hot flashes, then got chemo- and radiation-induced hot flashes. With Tamoxifen, they're actually getting milder (or maybe it's the time that's passed since chemo and radiation, but in any event, they're milder.) Eyebrow/lash hairs drop later because they're slower growing. They'll be back, but it's an annoyance.

Tutti the mighty hunter:

Round about 16 weeks PFC.

Agree about Tutti!

This shirt isn't glow-in-the-dark, but Amazon has many that are.

It looked like this 4 weeks ago:

I had it trimmed between this photo and the one above, which got rid of Einstein hairs.

Hey, good lookin'! That's some nice hair growth!

Kbeee, thanks. The shirt is a men's pima cotton from Crazy Shirt in Hawaii. They're the only shirts I've been able to tolerate until recently.

Big silver or gold earrings, necklace, bracelets. Shawl/scarf.

>>Or a coconut bra top and a grass skirt. Now that would give them something to talk about!

Hey! That's my look!

Goat testicles? Is that to increase your progesterone?

One of my high school classmates just went to a testicle festival, can you imagine? I'm sure a lot of men didn't have that festival high on their to do list haha

Illinois I think, kind of shocking

But... But... European Swallows are non- mi gra- ory

Ewwww! I never even considered that turkeys might have testicles lol. The one here is cow based.

Oh yes. We are snuggled right up to them. The mountains, not the testicles...