For those starting chemo in June

Good morning, I am up cooking. Just wanted to say have a great day and eat hearty and enjoy. You all know how good we all are about exercising after the fact so cut loose. Happy Thanksgiving, Mary

Janie, hope you're doing OK with the patch!



Can you believe it? Tuesday it was 85, yesterday it was 75, tonight it's sleeting....

Good Lord Janie, that had to be scary! I am glad your fine. Good luck with all the apts. Let us know. I get my skin cancer off Fri, that is on my neck right by my artery. They numb you so you are awake for that. I hope he has calm hands! Hubby gets surgery Tue. and dog gets fixed Wed. so we are just surgery happy. I think I am going to have to get the spurs out of my shoulder because our weather went from 70 to snow flurries and 30! I am now in my winter pain. I think it is going to get in the 40's. Like thats warm! That Canadian air is bone chilling. Better get. Have a good Sunday.Hugs, Mary

Mary, that is hilarious about the dusting.  I hope he vacuumed AFTER he dusted. lol

Whatever that is in my breast is hard and sore.  I feel like it would feel so good to have it aspirated.  I hope that is the next step rather than bothering with the mammo etc.  It is there. It hurts and whatever the deal is, I think they need to alleviate the pain.  You probably do not remember that I probably have the longest record for draining after surgery.  Not the drains themselves, but I had a dipple in the nipple that consistently filled with fluid. Months after surgery, my onc in Valdosta (whom I started seeing while on Herceptin, after rads which means at least 8 months after surgery)  commented on how he had never seen anyone drain like that and continue to drain.  It finally got better after it drained a whole lot at once one night. So I think this is probably the same problem.  Dang.  My reconstruction is being affected too.  The nipple is sort of caving in.

Mary, what did they say about the skin cancer?  Did you catch it early?  I see about my lesions on my forehead Friday.  There is an ugly red thingee on my forearm.  The reg doc thinks it is a bruise.  I am watching to see if it stays or fades.  It is red and circular with black inside the red.  The edges are only slightly uneven and it is somewhat symmetrical.  Can you tell I have been researching?  Cancer is usually different colors, asymmetical, with uneven edges.

Did your doc think yours is bc related or a whole separate issue?  I know those bone spurs must be murder.

Hey everybody,

Janie

Man, Janie, those patches sound evil. That must have been terrifying. So glad you're doing better and hope the docs fine all's well this week. And Mary, out, out, damn spots!



Well, the heating guy is supposed to come this morning. We haven't had heat all weekend and it's pretty chilly here at home. You wouldn't think that'd be a big deal in Texas, but we've had 30s for lows and 40s for highs since Thursday night. Brrr..... Luckily, some online and real-life shopping have been able to keep me warm... I haven't done one productive thing since Friday.



Hope Nancy is OK. She must be taking a board break.

Hope the aspiration helps, Janie.

I got some wonderful news today and wanted to share it with all of you who have been so supportive.  My pre-op MRI shows "no residual evidence of disease" after chemo. I am sure your prayers and gool wishes helped as much as the AC and Taxol.  I'd love to back out of Monday's surgery but I guess I can't.

I wish you all some good news.  Heaven knows we could all use it.

Oh my goodness, Hubby can't even shave. I got half done and he couldn't take it anymore, he is half shaved. He didn't want the electric razor,now theres a good chance for an accident?, oh please someone just shoot me; shoot me now!!!! The hosp. is on the phone now asking how he is, he said pain is 10...10....10. He is driving me completely nuts! He is telling them every little pain and he just had surgery, what does he expect????? I have the gun loaded and ready, I will take care of his pain! Dog is getting her surg. done so we get her back tomorrow. Hubby is worried about her. I have to go explain the whole pain/surgery conection and hubby now knows he has to eat with the pain meds. to keep from getting heartburn. This is gonna be fun! In his defense it is the first big sorta speak surgery he has had outside of tonsils years ago.Hugs, Mary

Good news, Janie! And I'm with you on the LE. Boy, I wish they'd find something else to fix that!



Hey to Mary!



Not much up here today. Have to work tomorrow, tho. Which you'd think would get me to be a little more productive today, but....



Later, Paula

PJ,  I find LE the most aggravating of the residuals from BC.

A camper Mary!  Where are we going?

It is 45 here right now and supposed to get in the 20's with high winds. brrrrrrrrr

I have been working my buns off. Brought work home again tonight.  This could get old.

Have a good one ladies.  Janie

Crap N.L. that sucks! I had itches with the levaquin and I felt like a monkey scratching all the time. Keflex makes my face turn red and burn. I never had a reaction to anything when I was young. Hope you get better real quick. It is cold here and I don't like it. Hubby still can't use his arm and is in pain. Dog is doing well though, it is a girl so it can take it! I guess it is a good thing(as Martha Stewart would say) that I don't like guns in the house because I would be a widow. I better go thaw something to eat tonight. Later girls. Can you see my hot chocolate mustach?(it hides my real one yikes) Mary

Hey girls, N.L. I logged onto the site Janie gave us and put it in my favorites and when I hit it in favorites I go right to our board. Thank God for Janies puter smarts. I spent hours finding us. Janie, thats a life saver. I would give up sometimes and just back out. Well rain and snow tomorrow just when we have to pick up our camper. It shouldn't be too bad after noon. Fri. is going to be rain and snow too for my 28 mile drive to Dermatologist. My Onky cancelled me Thurs. so I get my throat test and eye Dr. and Onky next wk. I am going to get my blood work Thurs. so I can see what the tumor markers are doing.  Well I better get. Janie, P.J. and N.L. stay warm. Oh...Oh...Janie I got a Cooks convection oven on sale at J.C.P. and I totally love it. My cupcakes looked like thay came off the Food network. They were so moist. I got it on sale for $128.00 reg. $179. 00. The best purchase I ever made. I have to turn the pan around when there is like 10 mins. left when I use a cupcake pan with 12 slots because the back soaks up the heat but not a problem. Cookies are perfect. Cooked ribeyes tonight, fried them just brown and baked them 30 mins. and they were very tender. I would have had to bake them 1 hr. in the reg. oven. Hugs, Mary

All that "evidence" talk reminds me of an old Hitchcock show.  The police were talking to the widow trying to figure out what the weapon had been, while enjoying the roasted lamb she had obviously been cooking when the murder took place.  Ends up, they were eating the evidence because she had clobbered him with the leg of lamb.  Another one of those weekly shows had an icicle as the stabbing weapon ...... it melted.   Don't make shows like they used to.

That oven sounds wonderful.  I must get one!

Hey Girls, first it is a counter top convection oven. I was wrong about the original price as I saw it was $278.00 or about and I got it for $128.00 so I feel even better than when I thought the original price was $179.00. Well I got my esophagram done today and I was worried about my chest hurting like I had bronchitis all the time and how it hurt my chest sometimes to drink and how I would feel like I couldn't breath some times, hubby was on me about the deep cough that had come on me. Thanks to radiation I am aspirating. When I swallow food every things fine but when I drink 20% of the liquid goes down my windpipe. They were surprised I hadn't had chronic ppneumonia. Wow I feel better knowing I don't have lung cancer because I was kinda worried about that. I don't have bad pain but just feels like I have a chest cold a little. I have never had a chest cold so I thought it was something new. They couldn't tell if the thyroid was big or causing any problems. I have to hold my chin down toward my chest when I drink and it keeps the windpipe closed. Now thats real convenient. Well N.L. I have no clue as to how to cut and paste. Hubby and I was trying to figure that out recently. He got a chip to transfer our phone pics. to our computer and the guy at Verizon made it look so easy with his on the spot tutorial. Hubby and I got home and neither of us knew what the guy did so needless to say we haven't used our $30.00 card to transfer pics. yet. Frankly I don't know why we got it in the first place. Hubby's stupid idea. Well I better go. My puter was down all day. They came and put in a new modem and then they had line trouble so now it is back. I am running faster so I think that modem was bad for a while. I guess the blizzard that is going through Mo. is headed this way tonight and all wk. end. I have a Dr. apt. in Springfield tomorrow but I won't go if it is bad. Better get some work done. Later Girls. Warm hugs, Mary

Girls, so far it is just a little snow and rain. They have predicted freezing rain but hasn't come yet. Now they say this afternoon. Hubby wanted to go to Spring. and do a little x-mas shopping but I said no. We will wait until good weather(besides he is not a good shopper and never wants to go). He needs jeans, bigger, so we have to go to Springfield because there are no clothing stores here or much of anything. Janie, I will be so pulling for a good report for you. The wait just plain sucks! Hugs, Mary