TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS GIRLS

Just talked to Madison on the phone. We're meeting tomorrow and I can't wait. She is so sweet. She's having bad board withdrawal. She tried to get on earlier while the site was down.

Now back to the bathroom so I can have tomorrow off! LOL

Just came home from tennis and our little museum where I am a volunteer docent and photographer..it is a beehive of activity..they are setting up a New Exhibit called
"Home Grown:Japanese Americans in the San Diego South Bay"
looks interesting. They are having an opening reception on Saturday and I am to take pictures. They even have a replica of a room from the internment camps they were forced to live in during WWII.
I have to run again..just wanted to say a quick " hola"
SoCal

Afternoon all...only got a sec...noticed that the last post was at 4:58 and thought I was late going home!! Strange happenings on the boards today LOL.
Beth...I was wondering where you had gone! Figured we were going to have to send out a posse.
Shirley...did I hear you say summer is half over...no...I didn't hear that.
heeeheee...one toxic sister has disowned me LOL! Little does she know, I ditched her yesterday...I feel great too!

Catch up with you all later...
Vickie

BTW, Shokk, so many congrats for your daughter. You must be bursting with pride right about now!

Beth thanks so much for the congrats for the daughter but I think you are right on target when responding to this woman......there are no guarantees that you won't get bc or any other kind of cancer.......you have greatly reduced you risks but lets face it kiddo you have been to hell and back from your surgery......I think you deserve to whine....oh and good luck on the short trip.....things will work out.....if things can't be accomplished one way there are always other ways to reach that ultimate goal......

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HaHaHaHA Peter: That made me laugh.



I have no time. Just checking in and will see ya in the morning.

Nicki

Beth - too bad you had to intereact with that mean spirited woman - and too bad she has not learned that it is not a competition. WE all have our own journeys, be it whatever they are. Enjoy your time alone with your DH.
More quilt from my darling mother. I told her the dates I could come and she said it sounds like it is too difficult for me, so maybe another time. I was going to fly in on a wednesday and home on friday. REally don't want to spend anymore time.
I was trying to schedule a colonoscopy and my insurance considers it under "wealness" which only covers 500/year, so unless I have a diagnosis, no colonoscopy for me. Also trying to schedule my physical with my pcp before I go back to work, but it doesn't look like I can do it. My PCP says I still need to see her even though I see these other docs and that I need a fasting blood draw, EKG, colonoscopy and shots. What shots? and why EKG - I had one last year before I started chemo? Onc does blood work every 3 months, so I wonder if I can just go in for my cholesteral. don't even know if insurance will cover a physical. Need to call my pcp and chat with her - I had left a message when she was on vacation and she called while I was at work and left a voice mail. Need to try her again and leave my cell phone so I'm not tied to the house - that makes me crazy!!!
Peter - loved the "flasher". Hope you get some answers soon.
Vickie - you go girl -
Nicki - sweet dreams
BBL - Karen in Denver

Good evening boy & girls. I slept most of the day as I stayed up very late last night. I put little Kevin in my bed but he puckered up his little face and i let him up. He's not used to sleeping in my bed or anywhere but his bed at his dads and here. Luckily, Amber got home before it was too late and she put him to bed. She has a date tonight but Ethan's home too so he can help me at bedtime with Kevin. He just walks him in there and covers him up and shuts the door and Kevin goes to sleep. She's already made dinner so I don't have them but just a couple of hours before bed. That little dickens kevin won't have a thing to do with me when she's here. lol Plus, he smacked me and I smacked him back on his diaper. He hasn't done that in a long time. It was a mild exchange but he got the point. haha

Amy, I am just so sorry about your daddy and there's nothing i can do but tell you that and it isn't any help.

Charlene, it's too bad your Mother doesn't live closer. She and your girls are missing so much. I love my grandsons unconditionally. Now that doesn't mean I'm blind to their faults...I simply choose to ignore them if possible. I may say Kevin is spoiled rotten and a little on the bratty side, but nobody else better say it. haha I hope Audrey stays close...good luck. My dh always drove a truck and gone so much of the time that it was just Amber & I while she was growing up. We were so close and she just told me everything...sometimes too much info. Until she hit about 14 yrs....our lives changed. Our relationship changed. I looked at her one day and asked her who she was & where was my daughter!But we made it through and we're very close again, probably closer. It snuck up on me so keep yo eyes wide open!! lol

Shirley, i read about the cruise. I'd love to go but I think it's too expensive. Maybe they'll lower the price if there's alot of interest. Wouldn't that just be the most fun? wow.

Nicki, you'll see us in the morning? OK. So what's up, you were working two jobs and don't want to say or what? You know I worry. Aside from the fact that i'm also...nosy. hahaha

Wishing Mena, Puppy, Gina and CherylCy good health.

Hey to Janny, Jazz, Marsha, Iris, Gus, Boo, Susan, Vickie, Neesie, Sheri and everyone from Amy to Z. Hoping you all have a nice evening. I'll be back.

pals
cheri

Hi, just checking in. Only 3 full days to go. I could sit here and whine, but I only have a minute.

I did want to share some good news. I had my 4 week follow up with my onc about my blood. I do not have a blood cancer. I do have a chronic anemia which will have to be checked and treated the rest of my life. Thankfully, it responds well to aranesp. I will have my blood checked once a month and if the hemoglobin falls below 11.5, then I get the shot. That's where I am at this point.

Just out of curiosity, why has Miscizzy (sp) deleted all her posts? Did I miss something?

Jan, I'm almost afraid to respond, but I will not back down. I think in some ways you have said something that many of us have thought and don't really want to say because we don't want any discord here. This is a very sensitive issue, I think, but I guess it struck a chord with me and I'll share why, but may delete this later because I'm really a big chicken.

I guess in a way I understand how you feel, Beth, because I have a ticking time bomb, myself. I chose to keep my "good" breast. I guess I didn't want BC to take any more than it had to. I have respect for you in taking such a drastic measure, I couldn't do it. That may be why it's hard for us to relate to you sometimes. We not only have the fear of it returning or coming back in our "good" breast or someplace else, but we've had to face this beast. He's ugly and terrifying, but we looked at him and threw our best at him and it changes you inside. They say that your life passes before your eyes when you face death, well, not only did we face death, but we are here to tell about it. Our scars are reminders of this and in a perverse way, I'm proud of my mastectomy scar, more so than my hysterectomy, which was more prophylactic in my case.

I don't have a way with words like some of you have, but I want Jan to feel like she wasn't ignored and Beth to maybe see where we are coming from. Jan, I'm not trying to speak for you or anyone else. I'm just sharing my thoughts on the subject.

Please, I love all of you, I don't want to see any "in-fighting". I just hope I didn't make it worse.

I agree with Jan. I resent the fact that you have always compared your experience with those of us that have survived breast cancer. I understand that you lost your father to cancer and you seem to consider that to be the same experience as having it yourself. I assure you, it is not. I lost my father to cancer, too. But the experiences, though both traumatic, were far from the same.

I have chose simply to ignore you because we do not argue or fuss here. I do believe the Circle as well as the whole bco is also here for people who have issues like yours but I've never liked the fact that you've put yourself in the same category as those of us who've actually lived through this horrible disease. Perhaps you should think your posts through before making them. As Sheri said quite well, this is a sensitive issue among us.

I stand by Jan.

Cheri

Shirley - Lucky you! I always wanted to be one of those girls with hair that long! The longest I managed was to my waist. When I was about 16 I let my sister "trim" it for me and she cut it to my shoulders. She was trying to get it even. lol

Cheri - Eyes Wide Open .. got it! lol Already Audrey and I butt heads a bit. We are so much alike and she's a daddy's little girl. It's either going to make the teenage years easier or I'm in for one helluva time! Steering myself!

Sheri - that is Great news regarding no blood cancer. Sorry you have to deal with the chronic anemia but happy to hear it's treatable! I was also wondering about MizSissy and why her posts are all deleted...

Beth - wow, you did bring up a touchy subject. I'm not sure I should even touch it. I am so early in this journey but I must say that I can't imagine dealing with the possibility of getting cancer to be anything close to being like the hell of getting it. After all Anybody can get cancer and some, like you, are higher risk. However many higher risk women never get it and many with no risk factors do. I never thought I was at risk myself (small family history with one Aunt and cousin out of a lot of women) and it hit me like a mack truck when I got it. Actually that doesn't do justice what it did to me. Turned out later I found out I did have a risk factor..having children later in life. Still had I known that, I wouldn't have lived my life fearing it because I still wouldn't have ever expected it to happen to me, at least not as young as I was. Now I know that one in eight women will get BC in their lifetime. So again, just being female puts one at risk. That being said, I can't imagine the courage it took for you to have your breasts removed when you didn't even have cancer and you can relate to what it's like to deal with not having breasts and going through reconstruction. Still I guess most of us didn't have a choice so again there's some difficulty relating. But I'm surprised a perfect stranger would ask you what you had done at a PS office .. maybe a myob is in order there.

Well that just about did me in and I hope I didn't alienate anyone. I'm going to go have a drink now.

Sjeri-

Glad to hear it is "only" chronic anemia. It is kind of sick how excited we get to have other types of illnesses....at least it's not cancer.

I had anemia for several years before cancer. Do you like beets? They are high in iron which I never knew. Red meat, and spinach are also good. If you cook foods, especially acid based food in cast iron pots, you will also get iron that way....

Good luck and I happy for you "good" news.

Hugs
Deb C

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