OMG They Found the Cure for Stupid

hahahahahahahaha!!

OMG We need to add to the cancer cure recipe. My volunteer driver informed me (on the way to radiation) that if I ate flax oil mixed with cottage cheese my cancer would be cured in weeks. I'm also supposed to put magnets under my mattress to make the cure even faster.

There just is no cure for stupid!

Oh MoreShoes - I'm so sorry you had to have that experience. Many people just don't think before they speak. But, the old saying is true that no one can know what we face unless they've walked in the same shoes. That is why these threads are so helpful.

MoreShoes - Yup I had that same thing come up and I blew up too.

Just an FYI I waited 4 years after radiation - but had a reconstruction/reduction on both sides - Amazingly, the radiated side was the side that didn't give me any trouble healing.. The non-radiated side had open wounds and bad scars.. Have had 2 revisions. After the first revision, found out the reason for the bad scarring was the dissolvable stitches. Everything looks great now.

>Angelina also had the best doctors and plastic surgeons money could buy

Not only that, Marijen. She didn't have to deal with the sickness before that. She didn't go through chemo and radiation. Anyhow, I've developed thicker skin when it comes to statements like this from friends. I reply to them depending on my mood. sometimes I ignore them, sometimes I explode. And frankly, it's liberating.

hard to get brush offs from family but it sure points out who you can depend on

mommy, my sister was going through her own shit during my treatment so was not helpful to me

But she got rid of her a hole of a husband and now we are close againc

I'm so sick of stupid I could scream!!! Between Stupid questions and stupid statements.... It seems when I finally let down my guard stupid appears again. Oh Breast Cancer!!! This being stated to me at least 2 times a week, you will be fine my sister had that and took a pill for 5 years or sheesh I was worried I thought you had real cancer my mother had that and is fine. NO NO NO NO NO there are different kinds of breast cancer there is no pill or injection or whatever for what I have. Or the other common weekly is some potion I have to try "flaxseed and olive oil.... that always works" works on what? I must not be drinking enough Green Tea... And Gina4 I to was told to put the magnets under my bed. Don't forget to add the crystals, dance nakie in the moonlight, click my heels 3 times there's no body like a cancer free body.... sorry it's been a crap day...

Thanks for the laughs ladies. I am still around and still here. Sorry but the stupid never stops. No wonder I have hot to nine years I of course had the good sort of cancer. Funny I thought as I have gone seven years beyond what was expected. Good to know. 

Hugs to all

Oh Alyson, thanks. I love the owl. Needed that giggle this morning. Love, Jean

My dear colleage was just was diagnosed with Stage IIA at age 40, she has a teen daughter and a 9 yr old. All of us hospice admission nurses have been checking in with her, and no one says anything stupid. We're just present with her, no stories about people we know yada yada, She just had a bilateral mastectomy and starts chemo this week. She's such a positive person and we intend to be there for her. I did tell her when she's ready for her reconstruction I'll wait for her and we can get our nipple tattoos together in New Orleans and she had a good laugh. Sisterhood is powerful!

(Angelina). I like her by the way.

HaHa.. :-)

Alyson.. We've missed you.!!

I love all the pictures.

My "baby" turns 18 tomorrow...I'm so excited for her...such a milestone birthday.