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  • PHOTOGIRL-62
    PHOTOGIRL-62 Member Posts: 285
    edited September 2017

    Two beautiful people. Friends for that long is rare. You look great Lita. Enjoy your reunion and stay strong!!

    Hugs, Ani

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  • babs6287
    babs6287 Member Posts: 2,021
    edited September 2017

    Lita. You really rock hats!!! Enjoy your time with your friend!

    Bab

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  • Kandy
    Kandy Member Posts: 1,461
    edited September 2017

    What a special lunch that must have been. I have known my oldest friend for 30 years, she is so dear to me and does anything for me. Don't know what I would have done through the years without her, so I truly understand the bond between the 2 of you. Enjoy your reunion.

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  • Mominator
    Mominator Member Posts: 1,575
    edited September 2017

    I hear your bell at the Jersey Shore!

    You look lovely in all the wigs. It is truly your smile that shines through all of them.

    So happy you had lunch with your dear friend. Enjoy your reunion next weekend. 

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  • momallthetime
    momallthetime Member Posts: 1,575
    edited September 2017

    Lita truly one of the most precious things in the world, to have such a friend. You musta've not been so bad if she stuck by you all this time. Oh and that bell, fuhgeddabouit, we all heard it!! enjoy the new look, very classy!

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    image

    Embracing my new look. My hair was falling out in handfuls. Thanks to my DH for buzz clipping and hand shaving my head.

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  • GracieM2007
    GracieM2007 Member Posts: 1,564
    edited September 2017

    You know, very few people look good without hair, but you look great! I looked awful without hair! My skull is shaped really weird! You really can rock that look!!!!!

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  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,710
    edited September 2017

    Looking good Lita. Solidarity!

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  • Legomaster225
    Legomaster225 Member Posts: 672
    edited September 2017

    Beautiful faces, beautiful women.

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  • mistyeyes
    mistyeyes Member Posts: 584
    edited September 2017

    You both look good! I looked like Uncle Fester from the Adams Family when I clipped my hair off.

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  • AnimalCrackers
    AnimalCrackers Member Posts: 701
    edited September 2017

    Lita - you rock every look!  

    I keep meaning to ask you what the white button on your shirt says.  

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  • GracieM2007
    GracieM2007 Member Posts: 1,564
    edited September 2017

    You ladies are Warriors!!!!!

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    My button says, "Stupid Cancer."


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  • blainejennifer
    blainejennifer Member Posts: 1,848
    edited September 2017

    I have a button that reads "With a body like this, who needs hair?".

    Lita, Illimae, you guys look great. I am fat, and have a large jaw, so I look like a bull walrus when I'm bald.

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    Radiation fatigue REALLY starting to kick in today. And my back is hurting...muscles, bones, etc. I haven't been on any chemo since August 20. Will start back up on Taxol Tuesday, Oct. 3.

    Also felt a little woozy on my feet, too. RO warned me that the rads would still bore down, weeks after the sessions end.

    Taking 15 mg of Nameda/Memantine (Alzheimer's meds) a day now. We'll see how I continue to do.

    Finished up ALL final notes to my "Death Binder" this afternoon while I still have the mental capacity to do so.

    Last night was a very SOMBER Stage IV metastatic live group. We lit a candle for a woman who just passed less than a week ago. She had brain mets, too, and went very fast. We were all shocked. The social worker/moderator said that these "transitions" often come in waves. We just lost two other ladies from the group last month. One of them was quite young, and she, too, had brain mets.

    Not in a very good mind-set today.

    L


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  • Jumpship
    Jumpship Member Posts: 305
    edited March 2019

    Lita-are you getting treatment at UCSF or elsewhere? I loved your positivity rant

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    I am thinking of getting a second opinion at UCSF. They have a dept that does just that.

    Gotta get thru Taxol first.


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  • artistatheart
    artistatheart Member Posts: 2,176
    edited September 2017

    Lita, It is so very difficult to hear of other sisters passing when we are in the midst of this hell. I too was in a "bent" mood yesterday after being ambushed by a woman at my nieces wedding who thought I might like to hear about her sons current "horrific suffering" from his cancer. My DH had to intervene and rescue me and she still did not get it....Hope you are feeling better, thinking of you. And I like both wigs too. It's fun to have a blonder version for when I go out among strangers!

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    Oh, gees, Artist!

    These people just don't know when to quit!

    The steroids I'm on make me very irritable, and anything can set me off. If I had an encounter with that woman, I would have gone off on a major 'roid rage and given her a piece of my mind.

    What was she trying to prove by doing that to you? Thank God your husband intervened.

    The utter insensitivity.

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    Met with the Palliative Care doctor this afternoon. VERY productive meeting. He's a sweetheart, too. Very personable, nice bed side manner, and he didn't rush the meeting. We met for over an hour, and covered a lot of bases.

    It turns out, I have probably been UNDER medicating for my pain. I just told him that I really don't like to take a lot of stuff. My poor liver has enough work to do, just dealing with the tumors.

    He suggested Gabapentine for back nerve pain. This drug also has a sedating effect, so it will help me sleep at night, too. It won't interfere with the Namenda/Memantine Alzheimer's meds either. Gonna try it tonight for sure. I have tapered off the Dexamethasone steroid, but the dr said it has a half life, and it will stay in the system for a while. He says I don't have to use the Ambien for sleep if I feel uncomfortable about it (we've all heard the horrible stories about this sleep aid....) I still have some Valium and some Methocarbamol, and he said I could use those to help every now and then. I could even try Melatonin, but I may need something stronger than that while there are still residual steroids in my system.

    He's prescribing me some strong stuff for up-coming diarrhea (I KNOW I will get it while I'm on Taxol). We also have plenty of options for nausea and vomiting.

    I'm so glad my MO set this appt up. He will also help me transition over to Hospice when the time comes.

    L


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  • cive
    cive Member Posts: 709
    edited September 2017

    So glad you've found a palliative care doctor that you like.  You deserve it!

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  • Midwest_Laura
    Midwest_Laura Member Posts: 168
    edited September 2017

    A very productive meeting indeed, Lita.  I'm so glad to hear that you continue to refine your plan of attack.  Having a plan always make things more manageable, doesn't it?  And this new doctor... how wonderful to have another care partner on your team, particularly someone who truly listens and responds to all the nasty SE's.  So often we hear the stories of MO's and RO's who ignore our concerns.  Its great to hear that you have the proactive support that you deserve.  Take care.

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  • Lita57
    Lita57 Member Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2017

    Celebrating the warm autumn weather at lunch with one of my closest and dearest friends.

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  • babs6287
    babs6287 Member Posts: 2,021
    edited September 2017

    Lita- you always look great!!!!

    Babs

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  • AnimalCrackers
    AnimalCrackers Member Posts: 701
    edited September 2017

    Wow that wig looks so natural! You look great! Keep flashing that amazing smile. Love it

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  • GracieM2007
    GracieM2007 Member Posts: 1,564
    edited September 2017

    Lita, you look wonderful!! That wig looks very natural on you

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  • momallthetime
    momallthetime Member Posts: 1,575
    edited September 2017

    Lita excellent choice. What a great picture.

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  • annoyingboob
    annoyingboob Member Posts: 558
    edited September 2017

    looking radiant, as always, lita (get it? - radiation - a little dad humor, just so you can flash your gorgeous smile!!).xxxooo

    x


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  • marylark
    marylark Member Posts: 178
    edited September 2017

    Lita you are BEAUTIFUL!!!


    Mary

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  • Wendy3
    Wendy3 Member Posts: 1,012
    edited September 2017

    So Lita I've finally managed to catch up on this thread. You are one popular lady. You rock the bald look and the hats and the wig is adorable . With that radiant smile you look great all the time. Crossing all my fingers and toes that the Taxol will be kind to,you. 😊

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