MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

oh d-rose, sorry about that bag. It sucks big time!!!! That's the attitude: clear purse to match! Watch next you'll come out with a line of accessories to go along with treatment issues.

chemokaze, love the name too and the scan of your jelly belly. let us know, ok?

We gotta keep our sense of humor, sometimes it feels like it's all we got!

Diana--praying for you.

Hmmm - you're right Eli, I don't recall any dental talk. I'm on Prolia (thank you chemo), so I sure hope I don't have to have an extraction or another implant for the next few years. ONJ is scary.

I'm trying to limit my "health releases" to my grown son since he is clearly not interested in "all that s$$t". He has reminded me that when I was his age I complained about how my MIL never talked about anything except health issues, and her friend's health issues, and her cousin's health issues. Who were these people and WTH was so interesting about their ailments? I DO understand and now I'm getting paid back in spades.

I walked to a garage sale around the corner today. This is the 2nd garage sale the grown daughters have had since their Mother died a month ago. Whew. Makes me even more determined to purge some of this stuff in my house. I really believe that papers mate in the drawers at night. Sort of like coffee cups in the cupboards. And what about those darn pens?

OK Eli, new topics? More? I could tell you what I'm reading or cooking, but those are other threads. I know we are all aging, and I do appreciate you putting up with me since I've technically aged out of this thread.

DianaRose - you are in my thoughts.

d-rose, do you get a short break between the old and new treatment? I'm sorry you are feeling scared. I don't blame you one bit! I'm praying the new will be the tumor buster! Let's see, how's the cookbook coming?

I'm hanging out on my sunporch while my grown DS has a friend over for some beers. He has come down for the weekend to help his ol' mom out. He took me out to run errands and do some grocery shopping. Then he took the dog for their favorite walk. Anyway, it is fun to listen to them talk and laugh like they used to in high school. They are in the living room, it's kinda like when I used to drive them around and get to listen to them talk in the back seat. I sure miss having kids around. His friend is a husband, father and police officer now, but they are chatting and laughing about all sorts of stuff. I don't miss doing his laundry and all the cooking, though, they were always hungry.

Did anyone else take the survey on the welcome page for BC.org? I did and then it sent me to some monkey survey site. I hope I'm not going to regret giving out my email address.

I am so glad to find a group like this. I am on the 60ish end of the spectrum. I am a year out of my surgery and 9 months out of radiation. I have been taking letrozole for 7 months. I was working when I was diagnosed and had to take 14 weeks off for surgery, treatment and recovery. I went back to work a week after finishing radiation, but I was so tired and sore I could barely function. I ended up taking retirement 14 weeks after going back to work. I have been retired for 3 months and still have episodes of exhaustion where I have to lay down for at least an hour and breast pain everyday!

Eli - yes the de-cluttering thread is sputtering along. I finished tossing 40 years of business cards & moved along to the kitchen "junk" drawer and now I have the counter tops covered with tons of of little things (like a few polished rocks from Colorado in 1978). So I moved to my desk drawers, and now have the desk top covered too. And all of this started just because the address book by my land line old style kitchen wall phone has overflowed & is no longer legible. I bought a new book two years ago, and finally settled down to transfer addresses. Whew.

velvet, I am 66 (67 in May), and still working. I am 9 months out from mx and DIEP. I started letrozole 12/15/2015, and I am so tired all the time. It is all I can do to drag myself through the day. I still work cause I had to start over with nothing at age 52 due to a very bad choice in relationship. I figure if I can make it to 68, I will retire with a decent pension. Not sure I am going to make it, but giving it my best shot. The fatigue is awful. I feel like I could sleep all day, every at. Hugs

Hi Redcoke6-

You might try our Waiting for Results forum: https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/62

The Mods

Stellamaris-when I took Letrozole I took it a bedtime and it seemed to help.

thanks Diana. I started taking it in the morning, and switched to dinner time because the hot flashes were waking me up. I thought dinner time would help me sleep thru better. I will push it to bedtime and see if that helps . Hope you're feeling better. You have been thru so much. Sending healing hugs

Stella, I will be 63 in May and 2 1/2 years post BMX, 2 years since EX and 2 years on Letrozole. I took Arimidex for a month or so, but had horrible side effects of painful joints and muscles. Changed to Aromasin for a couple of months and it was worse! finally got on Letrozole and it is a winner! The muscle aches and joint pain are not a problem with this one. I take it in the AM and have no problems with fatigue. The only side effect that I have is dryness everywhere. But that is an easy one to remedy. I use lots of lotions, oils and personal lubricant and can get by very well. Everyone of us is so different. What works for one person will not work for another. We just have to try and find what is best for us.

I am going to retire in 2 years. I enjoy my job and have a great office with very supportive people. Not to mention a dh of 41 years that is the best of the best.

Hugs to all and hopefully we can all get through this as best we can.

Robin

I had planned on working until 67, but Mr. Cancer had other plans for me. I can't sit or stand for very long because of extensive spinal mets and five compression fractures in my vertebrae and four fractures in my rib cage.

I miss my coworkers. It was a family environment and I worked there for 21 years. I still meet some of the gang for lunch from time to time.

thank you all for your support. Diana, have a wonderful getaway! Eph - never under estimate the value of a monarchy lol. Sometimes the democracy can be quite challenging.