CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.

Hope all went well, LW! Let us know how you are doing.

M0mmy, I am so sorry for your loss. I hope your heart feels lighter with memories of your cousin.

Lucy, I have finally resigned myself to the truth that Australia won't let me travel there in the fall. Maybe next year?

Virtual hugs to all;

Octogirl

In your pocket, LW!

Mommy...glad all went well with your surgery !

LW....hope all goes well for you !

Octo ..Yes ..overseas travellers definately won't be allowed in this year ...hopefully next year .!!!! 🤞..but who knows....Because we have been very lucky Covid wise ( thankfully only 6 Queensland deaths ) Australians aren't keen to get the vaccine ...and borders won't open until everyone is fully vaccinated...We have had our first vaccine ( three months between vaccines for us ) ...but the vast majority of people don't want it ...or don't want it until "they know more "...or it sneaks in and starts raging through the country ..that's always the fear ..people not vaccinated , and no herd immunity...

Hugs to all

Thanks everyone. My scan results were good news; tumor shrunk and so did the lymph node, so woohoo!

In other news, I started AC on Tuesday and yesterday was pure hell. That stuff is harsh! Thank goodness there are only 3 more of those.

Awesome LW!

Saw my plastic surgeon today and everything is healing well. I’m a bit sad because if I need to see a plastic surgeon again in the near future it won’t be her anymore. She gave me a name for another plastic surgeon as she told me she is retiring.

I pray I won’t have to see one anymore

I'm circling the outskirts of Crazy Town myself right now. First, at my ocular-onc followup yesterday, he looked at the latest ultrasound scan and said that the melanoma grew by 0.2 mm (about the size of the period at the end of this sentence). He's not concerned because he said it's not unusual for these tumors to wax & wane during the year after being irradiated, but if it makes me feel any better he'll see me in July (a year after dx) rather than Aug. (a year after treatment). He also said it's not a true "ciliary body" melanoma but more of an "iris" melanoma--it's behind the lower edge of the iris near but not in the ciliary body--so it's a better prognosis. He admonished me for consulting Dr. Google (I failed to follow my own advice) because websites tend to generalize and my tumor is highly unique.

The other reason I'm freaking out a bit is that while I sat outside on the deck after dinner, I felt a sharp slight sting on my upper back...followed w/in 5 min. with sharp pain (like a very localized Charley-horse) radiating above & below. Bob looked at it and saw a bright red streak! He applied some Benadryl cream, and shortly afterward the redness had faded, the streak had gotten shorter but broader, with a pale raised welt in the center (with a lighted magnifier, he could see the tiny hole where the stinger--or skeeter's proboscis--had gone in). He took a photo, which I sent to my PCP, and then popped a couple of generic Benadryl. (No Xanax for me tonight unless I wanna stop breathing). But for the definite evidence of some sort of sting ot bite, and having gotten my Shingrix shots a couple of years ago, it sort of resembles a mild shingles rash. We'll see what happens in the a.m. when my PCP gets back to me.

The evidence of the sting--welt & red patch--were totally gone by morning. Our neighborhood blog is full of posts about a plethora of biting flies. So I'm not slone.

Hi Ladies, I have been off here for a bit....BUT have been living in crazytown for a bit and finally getting my crazy thoughts and multiple lumps in my cancer side checked out with biopsies.......my breast were removed long ago and so were my implants.....I had a plastic surgeon doc at UW create bumps on my chest fill with fat from my inner thighs......I only have the lumps on BC side........so on Wed. I will have needle aspiration biopsies

Yikes!!!!

Di

Been in pain all day from sciatica. Nothing I did helped until hubby went out and got some Icy Hot. Finally able to sit with a little bit of pain.

Did some stretches and applied more Icy Hot and I started feeling more like myself yesterday. Planning on doing more stretches today to see if it will help more.

Epsom salt soak in tub. Nuked rice bags are good in bed, as they only get cooler--safety feature.

Ducky, you don’t know me, but I want you back. I am amazed at all your grandchildren and great children. How absolutely wonderful to see them grow up.You are almost exactly one year younger than I am. Was 87 on April 9 with one 12.5 year old grandson, with the insane name of Treat. He told me, “Granny, I ‘m in puberty, but still a virgin.” We live in Evanston, five minutes from the northern end of Chicago, home of Northwestern U where Gil, my husband, is a prof. Moved from Glencoe, a suburb a little further north. Last night we flew from Denver after visiting Gil’s brother to Santa Fe. If one can make it out of the horrid Denver airport without getting Covid, even vaccinated, it is a feat. Zillions of people, all masked, all crowded together en masse, but many masks below noses. Our flight to Santa Fe was delayed and no taxis, ubers, etc. Some man, this is about 1 am, gave us a ride from the airport along with another couple. The man I sat next too was chatty and told me he was from New York, but had just been to Evanston for his son’s graduation from Northwestern, that his son lived on Davis and Hinman Street where we live and that he had grown up in Glencoe on a street 2 blocks away from where I’d lived for 45 years. Six degrees of separation indeed!

WB Ducky!

Well it turns out the pain I was having in my right leg wasn’t sciatica after all. More like tendonitis. Took two weeks for the pain to go away. Between the Icy Hot, a cane my Mom had left here, Tylenol and numerous bouts of stretching it finally has disappeared.