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  • Peachy2
    Peachy2 Member Posts: 350
    edited March 2016

    Molly, prayers for your DS and a hug for you. :)

    Jan, that's exactly what my radiation looked like: the worst spot on the clavicle, and pink on my back. I used the pain relief Neosporin on my clavicle, which sounds like what you're doing, and it was fine a week after they stopped.

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  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 896
    edited March 2016

    I have you all in my pocket as I get ready to head to my biopsy. I envisioned all of you as stick people in my pocket. So, sitting here I Googled images for pocket people, and there are actually businesses that make miniatures so you can literally keep someone in your pocket! Haha. Cute idea for a little kid living long distance from a parent or grandparent. Adults probably buy them as voodoo dolls! Lol

    The realistic ones were creepy looking. This one is little too cutsey, but I laughed because it looks like some of the little faces are going through chemo and have no hair! I recognized you all immediately in my pocket!


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  • MLP3
    MLP3 Member Posts: 534
    edited March 2016

    So cute Sloan! LTF is front and center with her fun wigs;

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  • PontiacPeggy
    PontiacPeggy Member Posts: 6,778
    edited March 2016

    Sloan, those ARE cute! LTF is definitely in front. If we're stick pocket people then a whole lot of us fit in your pocket. When you notice a herky-jerky motion in your pocket, that's me attempting to dance! Good luck with the biopsy and better results - I think you made the right choice.

    HUGS!!!

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  • KarenR0618
    KarenR0618 Member Posts: 78
    edited March 2016

    Prayers for you son Molly.

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  • Peachy2
    Peachy2 Member Posts: 350
    edited March 2016

    With you Sloan! I am the pink one on the bottom left. :)

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  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,773
    edited March 2016

    How adorable Sloan! I truly appreciate all the prayers for my son. He's had a tough go of things the past year and these illnesses take a toll on all of us. Brit, I hope your rads goes well today. It is a good sign if they repeated xrays. That means they are being super careful.

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  • KarenR0618
    KarenR0618 Member Posts: 78
    edited March 2016

    Such a cute picture Sloan. Jumping in your pocket too.

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  • LovesToFly
    LovesToFly Member Posts: 1,133
    edited March 2016

    too cute sloan!!

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  • mustlovepoodles
    mustlovepoodles Member Posts: 2,825
    edited March 2016

    Blessings on your household and especially your son, Molly.

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  • HappyHammer
    HappyHammer Member Posts: 1,247
    edited March 2016

    Brit and MLP glad to see you both back! Love the "boob light" comment- haha!

    Molly- hope the abx help your son!

    Sloan- those ARE cute!

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  • MLP3
    MLP3 Member Posts: 534
    edited March 2016

    need advice... Long story short.... Best friend getting married(second for both) tomorrow night in a very intimate setting in the grooms antique home in Salem, MA... Charming but we will be in two very small rooms with no open windows for ventilation. 30 people in attendance and I now know that the grooms son has whooping cough and has not been taking his antibiotics. He's 18.

    My WBC's are just below the low end of the normal range. But more importantly, my neutrophils are 1.8... Under the low end of normal that is 2.2. And those numbers were done the day of my second chemo last Tuesday. I am now in the low immunity phase of this in between treatments.

    What to do? Go and watch the ceremony by the door with a mask on and leave directly after? Don't go and hope they understand? Go and stay with mask and gloves on and stay away from the whooping cough kid...?

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  • Peachy2
    Peachy2 Member Posts: 350
    edited March 2016

    Hmm... ask your MO, who will likely say you shouldn't get within 20 feet of the place. Then you can then say "My oncologist says that I shouldn't"?

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  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,773
    edited March 2016

    Whooping cough? That kid should not be out spreading that around. I would not go but I love Peachy's advice.

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  • PontiacPeggy
    PontiacPeggy Member Posts: 6,778
    edited March 2016

    MLP3, Definitely go with Peachy's advice and DO NOT GO TO THE WEDDING! If they don't understand you are immuno-compromised, I'm sorry. My first thought is WTF is that kid doing out in public? Irresponsible people all around.

    HUGS!

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  • fightergirl711
    fightergirl711 Member Posts: 300
    edited March 2016

    MLP3 I like Peachy's suggestion, ask the oncologist. And I agree Peggy - why is the poor kid not taking anything?

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  • MLP3
    MLP3 Member Posts: 534
    edited March 2016

    I know! And he works at a small food store! Lovely people, but not the most responsible. And I'm supposed to have the bride and daughters here to get ready for the wedding and they have all been around this kid. Bride included!

    I'm waiting for the call back from my mo and I'll let you all know. My gut is to not have the pre-wedding party here and not attend the wedding. And not putting my own family at risk of getting it. My mo's secretary was like ...."ohhhhhhh noooooo"

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  • MLP3
    MLP3 Member Posts: 534
    edited March 2016

    FYI... The kid is 18, was supposed to pick up the meds and never did. Just moved in with the dad because his mom is an absolute psycho. New and ugly divorce.

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  • PontiacPeggy
    PontiacPeggy Member Posts: 6,778
    edited March 2016

    MLP3, Do NOT get near any of them. Your health is more important than anything else. Period.

    HUGS!

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  • LovesToFly
    LovesToFly Member Posts: 1,133
    edited March 2016

    i'm so sorry this is happening but I really agree with everyone else I think you should stay far far away. When you're feeling well and you know your blood counts are good, maybe you can have your own celebration with your friend her husband and their family.

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  • ayr1016
    ayr1016 Member Posts: 228
    edited March 2016

    MLP: I agree with everyone else (and your MO's secretary ;) I would not host and I would not go. You health is more important.

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  • ChiSandy
    ChiSandy Member Posts: 12,133
    edited March 2016

    Don’t host the party. Attend the wedding only via Skype or FaceTime. You aren’t even supposed to be around people with colds, much less whooping cough. (Is the kid or his dad an anti-vaxer)? What were they thinking? If your friend doesn’t understand (after you explain) that being around them could be life-threatening, then I would re-evaluate the friendship.

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  • Melclarity
    Melclarity Member Posts: 388
    edited March 2016

    MLP - Its not just a cold, its Whooping Cough...how the hell that even still errupts is beyond me with immunization!! i WOULD NOT go near, whilst you are in chemo, this is a serious illness. My immune system was absolutely fine through Chemo..and I was amongst very sick children all the time, MO said no problem. That is very different to this...I wouldnt even think twice. :)


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  • mustlovepoodles
    mustlovepoodles Member Posts: 2,825
    edited March 2016

    MLP, as your resident nurse I implore you, do NOT go to this wedding. Whooping cough is spread by droplet form--there IS no safe room in that house. He'll be hacking up his germs absolutely everywhere. There will be not one surface that won't be contaminated. And those masks? Yeah, about them. They do very little to screen out germs. I know, I know. Hospitals and doctors offices use them all the time and they do work, in short bursts. Not for the 2-3 hours that you'd be at the wedding, being inundated with whooping cough germs.

    Nope. Call off. I wouldn't go within 2 blocks of this boy.

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  • HappyHammer
    HappyHammer Member Posts: 1,247
    edited March 2016

    MLP- I am with Poodles, Molly, Sandy, Mel, Peggy and the whole damn world- NO!, not even attending ceremony at the door- much less have the wedding party to your home. Your MO is going to say, "Ab-so-lute-ly-dammit-NO, but seriously- Whooping Cough??? It took my friends son almost a YEAR to get over it- he has a heart condition and WAS vaccinated and got it when he was 19- SO...he suffered with it for almost a YEAR.....no, no, no!!!!!!!!!!

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  • HappyHammer
    HappyHammer Member Posts: 1,247
    edited March 2016

    Sloan? Please check in when you can....thinking and praying hard here in SC for you and the biopsy news!

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  • Sloan15
    Sloan15 Member Posts: 896
    edited March 2016

    Hi there HH. I'm mentally exhausted, but the radiologist said she took three good core samples out to biopsy. SHE thinks it looks like scar tissue, but agreed that a biopsy of the area is the only way to tell for sure. Maybe I'll sleep a little better tonight. Maybe. I'll know pathology early next week. She also read my DEXA bone scan and told me I had a little osteopenia in my femur (-1.1) but barely under the normal limit of -1. I get my platelets and that high CEA marker checked at the end of the month. I told my husband when I say I want to go on vacation with NED, it's something he needs to be happy about. Haha

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  • LovesToFly
    LovesToFly Member Posts: 1,133
    edited March 2016

    i'm running a fever, at the ER


    Fingers crossed sloan!

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  • Melclarity
    Melclarity Member Posts: 388
    edited March 2016

    Sloan - Glad youve got it done! I think its scar tissue too!!!

    LTF - Hope youre ok!!??

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  • mustlovepoodles
    mustlovepoodles Member Posts: 2,825
    edited March 2016

    Oh goodness, LTF. That's sucks. When was your last chemo, again? I ran fever with 3 of my 4 chemos, ended up in the ER twice, hospitalized once (I was septic.) Here's hoping your counts will be okay and they can let you go before midnight.

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