Starting Chemo in May 07

Good luck Liz!

Don't worry....it's a breeze! No problemo! : )

Hugs, girl. Really. You'll be okie dokie. I drove to my ps's office the next morning.

Love ya girl.

Traci

yay Leeanne!  way to go on loving life and moving beyond cancerland. 

Traci - the car story, I think what I didn't explain clearly was that I was tryign to put something away in a car that wasn't there - it was being driven elsewhere :0....sigh.....

Everyone - I need prayers for my mom on Thursday! She had DCIS 8 years ago, took tamoxifen in a trial previous to the DCIS, and last week had an endometrial biopsy that showed precancerous hyperplasia, and so is having a hysterectomy on Thursday.  I asked her how long she'd "known" (felt) like something was wrong....and she said 1.5 years!!!  AARGH.  That doesn't sound good to me.  There will be an oncologist there for the surgery and they'll take slides etc. as they go, but I am praying like crazy that they don't find actual cancer inside!!  Not to cross that worry bridge until it comes, but I'm seeing the bridge in the horizon and hoping it's not for us.  Pls send her healing good wishes and "let it not be cancer" prayers on Thursday!  Thank you, so much, from the bottom of my heart. 

Amanda, good energy coming your mom's way!

Amanda--best wishes for your Mom.  I'll be thinking good thoughts for both of you tomorrow.

Mandy,  I'm with you on the Christmas thing.  And I hope to be out on the trails--mine aren't so snowy though they may be rainy and cold this time of year--maybe by January I can start running again.  That's how long the PS wants me to wait.

Everyone, I feel great today and in fact didn't feel bad yesterday.  I was home by 10:30AM and took a few vicodin but the pain was minimal and today I don't feel anything.  I can't wait to see what they look like and will take pics when they're "presentable."

Hope everyone's having a good day and a good week! 

crap.....it's funky...it didn't look that way in my white box!!!

lol!! The pic was before chemo! Your chemo brain is forgiven!

Did you notice the sign on my wall??

hi everyone,

Haven't post for a long time, I'm doing fine, finally my hair is growing not that fast but a little at a time.Can't wait to do a ponytail.... Does anyone has pain in your arm I had 19 nodes out and I still have that football underneath my arm.I started to work last week and I feel great.

Wishing happy holidays to everyone and we did it we kick some cancerbutt....     Merry Christmas !!!!!!!!! 

Hey guys...

I had my bi-mast in March. : ) Hysterectomy 10/31.

I'm driving to Atlanta in the am to be with my sister. I'll check in with you guys asap.

Welcome back Bernadine!!

Love everbody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Traci

Hey Mandy, Thanks...I'm feeling good.  They presented me today and I talked to my oncologist afterwards and had a message from surgeon on phone.  They don't agree so I'm going with the more aggressive option (at least that's what I want to do at this moment, I may change my mind in five minutes).  I'm mostly afraid that it will mess up my implants but I have to go with what is going to potentially save my life.  Kicking cancer butt all over the playground...

Amanda:  Yes, radiation is what i'm talking about.  Not happy but I feel that it is better to do it than not and then regret it later  if I have a recurrence.

I'm so sorry to hear about your Mom.  I wish her the best--let us know. 

Thanks for the encouragement Virginia, and back atcha!  Go get those tests done :-) 

Amanda, my step-mom had uterine cancer 11 years ago, she had a hysterectomy and has had absolutely no problems since.  Whenever I mention the risk of uterine cancer to my onc (with respect to Tamox) she waves it off and says that because it's almost always caught early, it is rarely life threatening.  I'm hoping your mom falls right in line with all that and that she gets her life back pronto.

Traci, good luck to your sis!

Nice to meet you Bernadine!

Mandy, thanks for the well wishes.  I'm feeling a lot better today mentally.  I spoke with my mammo radiologist nephew (I never realized how handy his profession was going to be to me!) last evening, and he says that based on the radiologist report it doesn't rule out a lypoma (collection of fat cells).  Maybe it's been collecting over time and I just didn't notice it?  It's just so coincidental that it would be noticed the same year I was diagnosed with grade 3 cancer.  But I am feeling a lot more optimistic today.  I don't usually spend a long time in the depths ... I was much better by last evening.

Thanks for the good thoughts all!

Hello everyone,

Amanda - I am so very sorry about your Mom.  I know very little about uterine/endometrial cancer but the little bit that I do know is that, (I think) there is a high survival rate...keeping you and your family in my thoughts.

Lar - how are you doing?  I hope you are able to not dwell on your hip - I like the sound of a lypoma!  We think we are doing so well (emotionally) but it takes very little to tip the scale towards panic or fear (at least for me)  Wehn I feel like that I  always just get moving - distractions are good!  Keep us posted.

Liz - good luck with rads.  I would do the same if I were you.  I sometimes feel like my treatment hasn't been agressive enough (especially when I hear of others with a similar diagnosis who have gotten much different tx.)  I just read that women who get taxols have a 31% higher survival rate over those of us who didn't get it (remember the adriamyacin is apparently useless?)  31%!!!!!!  Great - I had FEC (no taxols)  When I asked my onc. before I started tx, he said that was for node positive bc. but the study said for all women - regardless of nodes!  The whole thing seems like such a crapshoot sometimes!

Virginia - you have had your share of car trouble this year!  I have an old 1990 Honda Accord (which I still love and has 358,000kms on it and still going strong!) but everytime I take it in to the mechanic for something, they find more wrong with it and we just dished out $1000 on Wednesday...oh well, still cheaper than a new vehicle...and I really love my little Honda!  (Our other vehicle is a minivan - not cool but very useful!)

We have a new WalMart Supercentre that opened up close to my place - the first one in our city!  Well, the place is open 24 hours a day (I assume just for Christmas- I hope anyways!)  I was wondering who the hell would shop at Wal Mart at 4 in the morning - so I said 'let's find out!' My husband and I set our clock last night (or rather this morning) and we went shopping!  I was surprised at how many people were actually there - maybe 50 or so and how many people were doing some major shopping.  I'm talking carts full of groceries!  It was fun!  We came back home and went to back to bed!

Well, it's snowing beautiful, soft, fluffy flakes - there is absolutely no wind so it's just floating down...in my world this means it's perfect conditions to go for a run!  I am a little sore though because last night we went toboganning and today I have some bruised areas!  I had one wipe-out that was bad enough that some teenagers at the top of the hill yelled down at me to see if I was alright!  That bouncing when I run is gonna hurt my butt/hips and ribs!  I'm 42 - what was I thinking???  Oh well, we had a blast!  (My hubby, who is 10 years older than me) was going over jumps - I said 'you're 52 years old you know!!'  We had so much fun.

I hope everyone is having a good evening.  Keep well.

Mandy

Mandy....this is why we miss you when you do not post.

I've got $50 that says there is not another girl on this thread that would set their alarm 4:00 to get up and go shopping at WalMart. (Except maybe the day after Turkey Day....people get weird then!) Girl, you are nuts!!!!!!!

Liz....I'm sorry girl. Some girl started a thread on here about "starting rads in Dec"...there are girls on that thread who are doing rads with implants. I think....it's getting kind of common these days (that sucks) but...I think they really pinpoint it. Please keep us posted.

Amanda....I'm sorry about your mom to but....if you're going to get cancer...uterine is a good one to get. My other sister Denise had uterine cancer two years ago. Oh and if you want to know about hysterectomies...you've come to the right place!! My sis Denise had one in June of 2005. My sister Debbi had one in August of 2006 and I just had one on Halloween!!! All of us, under the age of 45.

We all had different kinds too by the way. Different recoveries as well. I'll try your blog. Love ya girl.

I'm at my sister's now. She came home from the hospital today. She was suppose to stay until Monday but...the dr said her surgery "could not have gone better". What is normally a 8-10 hour procedure took less than 5.

Debbi is in some pain tonight. She's got 4 drains (God, those brought back memories...yuck!!) but, she just took an Ambien and is trying to sleep on the sofa sort of reclined.

If y'all stop hearing from me all of the sudden, it's because I've gone to prison for killing her spoiled rotten kids!!! GAWD...................... They were just upstairs playing and jumping and screaming and just as I had had enough and was on my way upstairs to put muzzles on them and tie them to their beds...I heard Dad. They have no idea how lucky they are that Dad shut them up! Good grief! They are 9 and 11 and just spoiled stinking rotten!! Although...they are cute. I saw my niece MacKenna be a cheerleader at a basketball game today and I could not wipe the smile off my face. She is just too cute. (When she's not around her brother!)

Hugs everybody. I gotta crash. I didn't get much sleep last night. I stayed with Debbi in the hospital and of course they were in there every 30 minutes.

Love y'all.

Hugs, Traci

Liz - you're right - there is no specific right treatment for everyone - it is individual and based on the kind of cancer and the oncologist's opinion/experience....good thing I love my oncologist and trust him...I just want everything I read/hear to confirm that I am going to live a long and healthy life - no more cancer, no plane crashes, no car crashes, no heart attack, no choking on a piece of cantaloupe, no spontaneous human combustion - just a peaceful, painless passing in my sleep after a lovemaking session and one helluva orgasm with my hubby at the age of 85 - I mean really, is that too much to ask???

Traci - I normally hate Wal Mart (how can I like a company who has publicly stated their goal is "world retail domination") and this whole outing was done in the name of "science and research".  So, aren't you glad to know that there are, in fact, people grocery and Christmas shopping at 4am?  I made the sacrifice of going and giving up sleep in order to share my findings with everyone so now you can have a good sleep and not have to go see for yourself.  You're very welcome! 

I'm glad to hear that your sister is doing so well - she is lucky to have you there.  It's so nice that you are so close with your family!  The self centeredness of children can be really hard to take soemtimes hey?  I remember after a chemo session (about 3 days after when I felt my worst) my son was begging me to play soccer with him - I was like, Hello?  Just got poisoned here!  (I did end up playing and felt better off after the activity, but that's not the point!)

Well, I went for my run in the snow this afternoon.  Except about 1/3 of the way into my run, the wind picked up and the snow really started to dump!  So much for soft feathery flakes!  My eyes were getting frozen open as snow accumulated in my eyelashes (didn't mind though - happy to have them back!)  Also, the peach fuzz on my face collected frost and flakes and by time I got home, I looked like one of those Japanese snow monkeys!!!  It was still a great run though!

Well, I'm bushed.  We had company last night until midnight, then of course my sleep was interrupted by the WalMart science project and so now, I'm thinking the bed is sounding pretty good!

Have a wonderful night everyone,

Take care,

Mandy