Illinois ladies facing bc

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. -Henrik Ibsen

Forever is composed of nows.
--Emily Dickinson

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and the happy, normal person is the difference between get and give. The unhappy person is concerned with: the world is against me, what's in it for me, what are people doing to me, and so forth. When your central theme in life is getting, you usually do get headaches. But the happy person is looking toward what he or she can do, what they can give, what they can accomplish.

Joe D. Batten and Leonard C. Hudson

A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

Hi all,

Five years out and another clear mammogram, both breasts. They keep taking extra shots of my good breast though. Keeping tabs on something there? For the first time my results letter noted I had dense breasts. Interesting. This must be something new for the breast imaging center, or has Illinois law changed? It's never been noted before, though I've been told that by my cancer doctors. Frankly I was hoping the AI treatment and age would lower their density. I see my SO on Monday, so will ask.

Thanks for all your postings, Jackie. Keeping this going for us veterans.

Congrats on your five yrs. Doxie. You never quit worrying --- but the milestones sure feel good and help sooth those treacherous worries just before time for the yearly mammograms. May you always have what you got this time.

Hugs and Blessings,

Jackie

They are now using ABUS (whole breast ultrasound) to image dense breasts at my hospital.

They are using ABUS at my center also. Doxie, I am so glad you found yours when you did. Mine was caught on a mammogram. I was quite relieved when none of my doctors were able to find it on exam either.....I do my best with self exams but always wonder if I am missing something. I think we all become more tentative about everything after a BC diagnosis.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
Erma Bombeck

One of my all time favorites.

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

-- John F. Kennedy

Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not
because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the
reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over
their fate but take whatever has been given to them and
go on to make the most of their best.

Sidney Greenberg

A person's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein,
and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as gardeners cultivate their plots, keeping them free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which they require, so may a person tend the garden of his or her mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a person sooner or later discovers that he or she is the master-gardener of his or her soul, the director of his or her life. -James Allen

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a
kind of optical illusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a
kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must
be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of
the liberation and foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein