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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Crystal,
    Just dont forget our thoughts will be with you on Monday....you will do fine......no one would dare mess with ya while we are all around .....
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  • Chrysalis
    Chrysalis Member Posts: 59
    edited March 2007
    Hi Positive Girls!!

    I've missed you guys! I was away last week, so I didn't post. But this week has been a good one, and I've got a great positive to share. I found out that I've been selected by the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LIVESTRONG) to be a one of their delegates for LIVESTRONG day on Capital Hill. I'm so psyched! We'll be lobbying our members of congress and the senate for more cancer funding. I've done work with the Lance Armstrong Foundation (I was a research grant reviewer for them during their last grant cycle), and they are an amazing organization.

    We'll be in DC on 5/15 and 5/16, which is a week short of my seventh anniversary of my dx. YEA!! Something good to celebrate!

    I've enjoyed reading everyone's positive posts - it's so good to see how everyone can find something good in what is otherwise a sucky situation!

    Happy Friday!

    Renee
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Welcome back Renee....we missed you....
    Wow what an amazing woman you are!!!!!
    With you in our club and on our side how can ANYONE say no......
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    I have had a rough week.... but one positive part of my week was my son visiting me two days in a row bringing me a giant Slurpee! I wasn't getting enough to drink and those are perfect!

    Miss S

    Renee... that is certainly exciting news! I know you'll have fun and do well!
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  • Made
    Made Member Posts: 157
    edited March 2007
    Jule - its great that you are dating again, even if this wasn't a connection. And congrats on being done with Rads.

    MissShapen - sorry you had a rough week but thumbs up to your son bringing you the perfect drink.

    Lisa - congrats on getting that first chemo under your belt - how are you feeling?

    Pam - great news on the no chemo!!

    CrystalCat - great idea on the sheets and new outfits - I'm sure you'll be recovering in luxury. What wonderful friends to get you house cleaning!! Good luck next week.

    Fireba - love the new wig - the even sounds wonderful - will be thinking of you on the 29th too!!

    Kative - great news on the drain removal and the path report.

    Sue - hope your trip to Mall of America was a great one. Did you shop?

    Lisa - Retail therapy on the horizon - lucky you!!

    Skeetur - what a wonderful sense of humor - I can just see the guys trying to figure out whether to laugh or not as that breast just grew and grew. Glad that they got it drained.

    Beth - Hope you have a great lunch. I'm frantically trying to find a support group just for BC in my area.

    My positives for the week - I work in Information systems and my server support person is on vacation - so during therapy today I get a call (I ignore) about my system - well guys, I'm not the server person (obnoxious high paid group of mostly men) so...Ends up I'm the one that mentioned maybe its a problem with our email and I was right!!

    Tuesday - my video for the radiation center was published. I hated it but got lots of compliments.

    Saw my therapist today and I'm normal!! (ok maybe...)She had some good ideas about dealing with the after treatment issues that I'm going to try and some I'll ignore.



    Renee - thank you for representing us in DC - will remember you in our prayers - that our representatives will hear and give more funding.
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  • 1stlite
    1stlite Member Posts: 23
    edited March 2007
    Well, since I have decided to go through with chemo, I am ready to get this show on the road.

    One of the things I am doing is a "Pizza and a Shave" party. Well, tiaras have been the banner of choice (with suckers). My girlfriend and I went shopping today and we were able to find fun party tiaras for everyone attending the party. Lord knows, I will have to duct tape mine on when we are through. But, everyone will get to play dress up! That's my positive this week.
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  • SoapMaker
    SoapMaker Member Posts: 157
    edited March 2007
    My appointment went well, thank you. Onc says I am doing very good. My positive for today...I am going to visit my children next week. Over four hour drive away. I have a kinda new grandbaby and I have only seen her 3 times (visits) since she was born. I work, so it's a time thing. Anyway, she's just started walking (10mos old) and she goo goos to "grandma" when they put me on speaker. My heart is swelled with love and anticipation of getting to my little dumplins'. Be well.

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    Where is the cure
    www.truefacesofbreastcancer.org
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    What a great party, Charlie! If I lived closer, I would crash your party and get my head shaved with you! Good luck!

    Miss S
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    I'm so glad you get to visit your sweet grandbaby! I have a grandbaby that was born on May 22 and I have never seen him! He lives on the right coast and I live on the left and it just hasn't happened and now I'm stuck.

    Kiss your little sweetie an extra time for me!

    Miss S
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Miss Shapen....glad to you see post again....and YES you need to keep drinking plenty of liquids...one of the ladies I went through treatment with had huge issues with dehydration and actually ended up in the hospital from it....so Please try to drink lots.
    I understand what you all mean about grandkids...I have 6, but the live close so I get to see them pretty much weekly....Im not sure how I would handle them being away and not being able to see them grow .....

    Made, feels good to be right in a mans world doesnt it:)....our computer "guy" at work thinks he knows it all, but low and behold he might have before I got there....the others in my office are technically challenged on computers and he use to tell them all kinds of crap about why things didnt work right just because he didnt want to come fix it....Once I got there things changed....He didnt like me very well for a long time and would argue that "No, that isnt whats wrong"....I use to love to prove him wrong ....guess I have an ornery streak sometimes

    Charlie, I wanna come to your party too …I love your tiara and sucker theme…..

    Cin54……Im sure you have more than enough hugs saved up for that baby, but I believe you cant hug or kiss them enough so be sure to get an extra one in for me too


    I was just thinking since Made told us her job profession in her positive post this week that it would be nice if we all posted a little more about ourselves….kids?, pets? Job? Hobbies?

    I am single…two kids: daughter 28- son 26, two squalling cocktiels. I work as an office manager for a state office dealing with salmon & steelhead recovery for the Fish & Wildlife Department. I love my rose gardens, crocheting, reading, camping, fishing, hunting and riding 4-wheelers in the mud

    Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

    Hugs
    Jule
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  • Made
    Made Member Posts: 157
    edited March 2007
    I'm married - 17 years, 3 children 15, 13 and 6. Work in information systems for a large hospital network, I've been a girl scout leader for 10 years, love gardening, camping, reading, working(most days), crocheting or knitting.

    Charlie - you'll have to post pictures of the party - its sounds like a blast.

    Cin - have a great visit with your grandbaby and I'm glad your onc visit went well.

    Jule - Are rose gardens hard? I can grow stuff in 100% shade but roses intimidate me.
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  • SoapMaker
    SoapMaker Member Posts: 157
    edited March 2007
    Miss S, what a coincidence. That is my grandbaby's birthdate, too. She will be a year old on 5/22. Aren't they precious? Just be sure that when you call, they put you on speaker so you can talk to her. That way she will know your voice. I will be sure to give her the extra kisses from you and Jule.

    A little about me...I have 6 years until I can retire. I work in local government. I love crafting, but haven't done it too much, since diagnosis. Use to sell my stuff in craft stores around the country. I love designing and cutting out wood pieces on my band saw and then painting them...or just painting things on wood. Being that I love creating things, I'm going to remodel my house, one of these days, and do some of the work myself, with the extra crafty touches. I love to read and I love to think. Sometimes I think so much, I can't sleep. I'm a night person. I may go to bed at 2:00am and get up for work at 6:30. My children are my best friends. Jule, that wheeling in the mud sounds like an awful lot of fun. I would LOVE that. I use to be athletic, but my body is a "stiff ball" since chemo. I use to go rollerblading at Venice Beach, with my two kids, at 48 and up...but those days are long gone.

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    Where is the cure
    www.truefacesofbreastcancer.org
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Made: I have always loved roses but had never really grown them until a few years ago….My brothers bosses mother loved them and had about 300 of them on the farm, but when she died the boss decided it was too much for a renter or the hired men to take care of so took them out…I dug up about 60 of them and made a rose hedge around my front yard….that first year they looked awful, but mind you I dug them in August, a VERY hot month for us here. They looked like little sticks poking out of the ground…I babied them like you wouldn’t believe….My work paid off the following spring….there were only 8 of them that didn’t grow. I don’t do anything special with them other than prune them and water them……But DANG I enjoy walking in the yard or sitting on the front deck in the evenings after watering….the smell is un-explainable……so I would have to say, No they aren’t hard to grow, or at least not here…..I think you should give it a try, just go pick up a couple of plants, throw them in the ground and see what happens.

    Cin54: I grew up in a mans family…I am the only girl out of 5 kids and was a daddy’s girl, so I learned to enjoy a lot of things that some women don’t….I would do anything to spend time with Dad…..hence some of the things I enjoy, like the 4-wheel mudding, hunting, fishing, camping…I can even change a flat tire on my truck or the oil in it if I HAVE to, but normally have one of my brothers or son do it….I do love to ice skate but I have never tried roller blading…I can roller skate.

    I have another positive to add for this past week too….I went to my grand daughters 2nd b-day party yesterday, what a doll….I decided to bring home my 4 yr old grandson for the night and take him fishing…..we went in the evening last night….there is a limit of 5 trout at the pond I took him too…He had his 5 in about an hour but what an hour it was!!!! Everytime I would get a fish on and hand the pole to him he would reel until he could see the fish the he would drop the pole and run….it was hilarious, but the little guy loves to fish…he doesn’t appear to be afraid of the fish because he held them and talked to them once they were out of the water…..wanted to take him again this morning but it is raining so hopefully a little later we will get to go again….

    Have a wonderful day ladies.

    Jule
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  • Darcy45
    Darcy45 Member Posts: 55
    edited March 2007
    Hey ladies! It's great to see everyone doing so well.

    Jule, your little grandson sounds precious. I look forward to the day that I have little grandchildren. It will probably be awhile though, my babies are only 20 and 17.

    This week will be a very exciting one. I am involved in the drama ministry at our chuch and next week we will be performing our Easter musical. It has been a wonderful experience meeting so many talented and gifted people. Last Easter I could barely get out of bed, I was thin, pale and bald. One year later I have the privilege to serve our church community.

    You lovely ladies going through treatment, HANG IN THERE.
    Have a great week everyone.
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  • SoapMaker
    SoapMaker Member Posts: 157
    edited March 2007
    Sounds like you and your grandson had so much fun. I remember when my grandson was about three or four and I had him for the day. I was doing yardwork and I found an earthworm. I put it in my hand and showed it to my grandson and told him it was one of God's creatures. I was trying to explain to him that you don't kill things, unless you are going to eat them. I didn't want him growing up and being one of those boys who love stomping on things...for fun. Anyway, I continued my yardwork and he came up to me and showed me a roly poly bug. It is a little beetle that if you touch it, it rolls into a ball. Some call them "button" bugs. He showed it to me and went on his way playing with it. A very short time later, he had a really wierd look on his face. I asked him what was wrong. He just looked at me really wierd. I knew something was wrong. I said, "You killed that bug, didn't you?" He just looked at me. Then he took me over to the bug. A wood block had fallen over onto it and killed it. My grandson looked so wierd because he thought that since he had accidentally killed the bug, he was going to have to eat it He said, "Grandma? Do I have to eat it?". I about died with laughter. I just hugged him up and told him that he wasn't going to have to eat that bug. I'll never forget that moment.

    I, too, was rough and tumble when I grew up. I never wheeled, but it would have been something I would have loved doing. I ice skated and roller skated, too, but nothing fancy.

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    Where is the cure
    www.truefacesofbreastcancer.org
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  • Made
    Made Member Posts: 157
    edited March 2007

    Quick mini positive (I'm sure she's thinking its not) but my Dear Daughter who is 13 1/2 started her menstral cycle this weekend. I'm thrilled cause the psycho teen from .... should be working it way out and that she is 3 years later in starting than her mom who got bc. Anyway - she'd die if she knew all I'd told but...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    I love seeing all these positives!!!!!!
    Cin54, I love my grand children more than anything...Im a so lucky the live local so I can have those special moments with them....
    Made...YEP your right, she wouldnt think it is such a positive if she knew you told us that, but I agree it is a huge mile stone for any young girl...

    Darcy, your play sounds so wonderful.....It will be a very special Easter this year for sure...

    I am having a hard time believing it is almost Easter...Ive been so busy with this BC crap that time seems to have moved on without me....but I have decided that its time to get back into life and only deal with the other when I have to...:)

    Have a wonderful week!!!!!
    Jule
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  • jonimb
    jonimb Member Posts: 900
    edited March 2007
    I'm joining this club.

    I have a couple of really nice positives..I saw a moose while I was out walking my dog along the irrigation canal last week. Also the coyote that lives near us has little ones, so she's being a very protective Mom, so I swing way around her area.

    Also, on top of that I had my 5th Chemo of FEC today, and I feel pretty good. The sun is shining, the mountains are very visible today as there is an inversion...and Life if feeling very good.

    Count me in, as a new PGC rookie!!

    Joni....from Canada
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  • PJF42
    PJF42 Member Posts: 24
    edited March 2007
    Hey Jule,
    That's a good idea about sharing some of personal interests! I would also like to congratulate you all on your positives!! It makes me feel good just to read that other people are enjoying the "little" things in life, like myself!
    Now about myself -- I am 42 (going to be 43 in April), I have 2 sons, 11 and soon to be 14 (puberty is so fun -- I am a pharmacist for Target and right now I work part time so I can be home more with the boys. They keep me very busy with sports! My oldest loves baseball and my youngest loves football so I am very busy during spring and fall! My husband and I love to go motorcycle riding, especially in the spring and fall! I enjoy just about everything but am usually afraid to try anything that is too daring or thrilling, like rollercoasters! I enjoy watching my kids and husband go on the rollercoasters!!!

    You all are a great group of women!! We all come from different parts of the country, even other countries, yet we all seem to find happiness in everything! I like to think of the movie, Pay It Forward, because I truely believe that if you keep moving your kindness and goodwill forward then somehow, someway, it will come back to you. You never know how an act of kindness that you give to someone is going to affect them! It may make their day and then hopefully they will pass that feeling onto someone else!!

    I am planning on going back to work on April 20th! I have my 1st appt with my plastic surgeon for reconstruction on April 18th! I am curious about what the plan will be.

    Well, I've got to go, the family is calling!
    Can't wait to read everyone's positives this week!
    Pam
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Joni, welcome to our club .....I love your positives, I too am an outdoor girl and love to see the wildlife. We dont have moose here, but saw my first one out in the wild last fall when I was in Idaho for a few days with a friend...what an awesome animal....
    Congrads on your 5th treatment, how many more do you have?

    Pam, I TOTALLY agree with you about giving....there is no better feeling for me than to know that I have helped someone who is having a hard time...we would ALL be in a pretty rotten place if we couldnt be there for each other...I have always been a giving person but when I first learned of my bc dx back in Nov. and I found this board I was hoping that I would be able to give back to those who are here and so scared....that is a feeling that I NEVER want to experience again in my life time and feel aweful that others have to go through this process too .....hopefully by being involved in this PGC at least my words might help someone...Your family sounds sooooo wonderful...I bet your proud of those boys

    The other idea I just came up with for our group is maybe posting pics....I would love to see more of the country but since I work full time and am single I dont get to travel much so thought maybe those of us that would like to could post some pics of our area so that others can enjoy them too...What do you think girls????

    Hugs to all
    Jule
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited March 2007
    I keep forgetting to get on here and post my personal intersts! I am married for the second time to great guy, Larry. I have one son, 13 1/2, form my 1st marriage and Larry has 2 from his first and 1 from his 2nd. We have 4 grandchildren so far and yes, with one 13 and the other 11 it will be a while before we get more! I love to do almost any craft especailly knitting, crocheting and needlepoint. I am an avid reader and Larry and I get out to go dancing once in a while.
    I wish I could garden but I have not just a brown thumb but I think it is black. LOL
    I have lots of pcis I can post and I can start with our vacation at CApe May lst April!
    This is the concrete ship from WW2 that is still slowly sinking. We are on the rocks at Sunset Beach, it really is sunny later in the year!
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  • jonimb
    jonimb Member Posts: 900
    edited March 2007
    I thought I had posted...but it just went blip I guess.

    Love your pic Beth. I have been to Cape May, took the ferry from Delaware...bit rough compared to the Pacific, and Vancouver to Vancouver Island, but I loved it. Saw some whales, so that was very interesting.

    Things about me: I'm married to a wonderful guy by the name of Dan, have a 115 pound lab named Thor, and a 15 year old cat RC (rotten cat), who might I say rules the house.

    I live just outside of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, about 1 hour drive to Banff National Park. I love nature, little kids, seniors, gardening, curling, biking, and golfing. My husband and I love to travel, we've been to Europe, Japan, Singapore, all through the US, Mexico and Australia a couple of times. We have no children, tried all the drugs, but didn't work out. Oh well I have 3 nieces and 3 nephews whom I love to spoil...even if they are getting older now.

    I love this Positive club....it's a breath of fresh air.

    Cheers to all!!!


    Joni
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Ok Joni......what the heck is curling????? for some reason I dont think it is your hair ......someone told me what it was awhile back but it was amidst the head spinning days of being dx'd and I dont remember what it was....

    Jule
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  • jonimb
    jonimb Member Posts: 900
    edited March 2007
    Curling is a game played on ice...almost like a giant shuffleboard game. You have 4 players, the Lead, the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 4th player (called the Skip). Each player throws 2 rocks (granite stones, that are between 25 to 40 lbs). The skip calls the line...the thrower then has two people that sweep. Sweeping keeps the rock on line, and also helps take it further. It has been for the last few winter olympics one of the sports. I love it.

    Good to meet people, and good for exercise...lots of work sweeping.

    Hope this helps.

    PS: Canadian Women just won the World Championship in Japan on the weekend.

    Cheers...Joni
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited March 2007

    Joni, when I went down to Cape May in June with the kids, we saw dolphins no whales. But the dolphins were swimming so close to the kids it was thrilling. This summer, we are going to go on a whale watching cruise when we go. My best friend has a house down there and we get to go the week after school lets out and before the rental season starts. I have great pics of the houses and they are in my Yahoo albums. I will pm you and any of you guys if you want to see them. Too many to post!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Joni,
    That sounds like alot of fun....but I dont think Ive ever heard of it being played here ....
    Thank you for the explanation....
    Jule
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Beth looking at your pics now What an awesome place to go!!!!!
    Thank you
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2007
    Ok, Please tell me how to post pics....I cant get it to work right
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  • jonimb
    jonimb Member Posts: 900
    edited March 2007
    Beth, I'd love to see your pics.

    Joni...and please tell us how to post pics.
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  • QueenSansaStark
    QueenSansaStark Member Posts: 207
    edited March 2007
    Love the pic, Beth!

    I don't have a pic to post, but a little about me: My name is Crystal and I love cats, hence my user name. I'm 43, and a Sagittarius (December birthday).

    I'm a full-time grad student in organizational psychology, getting my MA. I have two cats, one named Stella who will turn 18 next month, and another named Madeleine who is 11. I love history, anthropology, writing, reading, cats, houseplants, cooking, bath and beauty products, astrology, tarot, and spirituality.
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