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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited November 2007
    Ah yes..two of THE most important things in life Health and Wealth...Laughing
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  • Graycie
    Graycie Member Posts: 839
    edited November 2007

    I guess I will have to hope for the health because unfortunately I don't have the wealth....lol

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    Ahhhhhh Graycie Gail, you have Wealth ... I've seen the family!!  We all just need enough money to have food, house and a few nice things!  I wish for an abundance but am happy with what I've got cuz I have the best thing in the whole world: MY DAUGHTER AND TIME RIGHT NOW.

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  • laurenbutcher
    laurenbutcher Member Posts: 2
    edited December 2007

    I want to have a wig made out of my hair for my mother in-law and dont know where to find out how.  She is going through radiation and has lost her hair.  I want to help.

                     Please help,

                  Lauren Butcher

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Ahh, Lauren, you can call a wig maker I suppose. I would think you could go and get your hair cut and save it and then take your hair in but truly, I wore wigs. They have good quality wigs now.  They just cost a lot if you want a really good one. And I had 8 ... so they can be fun, this trip is not all bad, it's just scary. 

    I guess I can say, the road is scary but all stops are not... some are even fun and the wig part was fun (except when it was hot!) 

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  • laurenbutcher
    laurenbutcher Member Posts: 2
    edited December 2007

    thankyou so much for the reply. I want to do something for my mother in-law.  I know she is scared and she tries to hide it. I dont know what to do for her. I am one of those people that if I lost my hair I really think I would crawl under a rock and hide until it came back.  I know she is worried about losing her hair and I want to help somehow. I just dont know how to help her let it out.

                    Lauren

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Lauren, you can make sure that someone goes to her dr appts with her, you can go with her to chemo or at least make sure she has rides to and from. You can offer to clean her house while she is resting after chemo and offer her some cantaloupe while she tries to settle down after her treatments.

    Mostly, it's being there, helping her get thru it and helping her to not fall behind in her everyday life.   

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Hi Girls...

    I love being here...sniff, sniff, I miss this place...our place...our thread!

    Kelly - that photo is toooooooooooooo cute!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    I miss coming here too but with emails it's so much easier to search and separate different things we are talking about.  Just yesterday, I plugged in "tracy's address" and that email came up!  The search feature is great on the email set up.

    But I do miss our rolling conversation. 

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  • maryannecb
    maryannecb Member Posts: 1,453
    edited December 2007

    Me too. I don't like opening and closing the emails....sniff!

    Fists up!

    Mary-Anne

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  • Missjaq
    Missjaq Member Posts: 69
    edited December 2007

    Happy Holidays Rocktober Girls..

    I don't know if my message will find you, but if someone sees it they can pass it on in the email or gmail group. I just want to end the year telling you how much you inspired me to push my self farther than I dreamt of going. I am the one that did the marathon for AVON. Your great friendship and support of each other was so inspirational. I figured if you could hold each other up with BC I could keep my body up with arthritis. I enjoyed your plans and eventual get together, your pictures, vacations, and general bonds with each other. Who would ever consider such a disease could bring people together from around the world in a common goal of health, physically and mentally. I hope your friendship, your sharing, your inspirations continue to flourish. Wishing you each comfort, joy, and healthy New year. I too will keep my fist up for each of you..Sincerely, jacqui

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  • Curlylocks
    Curlylocks Member Posts: 1,060
    edited December 2007

    Hi Jacqui

    Thanks for your warm thoughts.  We have been on gmail for about three months.  I do check back into this board quite often to offer support to the new ladies facing this beast.

    Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and great New Years!

    <>Michele 
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Jacqui,

    Your post brought tears to my eyes.  Thank you so much for your kind words. Me and my little one are doing great .... she is waiting so expectantly for Santa and her grandma has come down to visit us and spend some time.  

    Not much going on today, just some last minute things to put in the mail for post-Christmas presents to my nephews whose birthdays and Christmas run together for both of them!!

    Tonight, grandma and I will play Santa ... I got some fake snow .... mix a powder with water and voila! snow ... will have the dog walk thru it with me in some big boots to make it look Santa was in our backyard! 

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  • Missjaq
    Missjaq Member Posts: 69
    edited December 2007

    Hi All,

    Rocktobermom..Thanks for your kind comments..It is all you that brings tears to my eyes with your knowledge, support, battles,and joys, and a bunch of fun too.

    This is one of those threads if you don't like the mood just wait, a new one can pop up. I mean that kindly and in a humorous way..

    Loved your fake snow..Hope it was just as much fun "melting". Like those C'mas needles from trees and Garland..they appear all year.

    My dear friend is really having some problems with her BC. I wish she would use the forums and get advice, but for some they just won't consider this option. I can't help but think some roads and disease process could have been avoided with the knowledge available here. I am a RN (ER) (not practicing now) and I have learned so much from this forum and listening. It has actually helped me get a couple of people to look at more options and get more opinions. We trust our doctors with our treatment plans, sometimes to the occlusion of better choices. I know we can't look back,but I wish I had been more persistent in her getting treatment 8 years ago. I let her close the door. I should have kicked it open and waited for a slam.

    I know, I know..can't beat myself up or go back and it was her choice and maybe it would not change the course of her disease....I know..

    BUT..it has made me tell others I am involved with to get answers, look at options, and stay involved..even when they closed the door, I waited until cooler and kicked it in..

    Praying for reception can be good..One lady went out of town because doctors here decided they would "wait" and see...She went to Duke and they treated her with Chemo and Rad..

    Another family was leaving the docs in charge of their retarded sisters treatment, because...well she is retarded..this is one I kicked the door on. She now has a port, herceptin, and will take chemoin Jan..

    So, in my journey with you, I have learned you have to Rant sometimes, you have to kick sometimes, and then when you walk away you know you went armed with love.

    Again Thanks, and hope I didn't ramble too much..HAHAHA

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited December 2007

    Thanks Jacqui for all the kind comments. Have a happy and healthy New Year! 2008 will be GREAT!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Well, my mom went home.  She took her "perfect" dog, LOL, with her.  Even my dd, who was sad to see her g-ma go, was happy "that wild dog" left!!!

    Work is crazy busy and New Year's is coming up but will be working anyway.

    Thank you Jacqui for fighting for your friends! We learned that we needed to support each other and sometimes the information we got from each other was info we could take back to our dr ... for me, my onc thought losing a toe-nail to Taxol was strange.  Turns out many girls on the bc boards lost toe-nails, I am not unique in that arena!!

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  • scottishlass
    scottishlass Member Posts: 58
    edited December 2007

    Hello everyone

    I just popped in to say that I hope you all had a great christmas and to wish all the very best for 2008.

    I know I have not been that great in keeping in touch but I suppose a periodic post is better than none.

    Things are fine here just now. I find the year end is a time for reflection and to be happy about all the good things that have happened or probably more importantly all the bad things that have not. Does that make sense?

    Anyway I hope someone who visits this site can pass on my good wishes to those who do not now.

    Best wishes

    Jill 

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited December 2007

    Hey Jill...great to see you here and glad to know that all is well with you.

    Have a wonderful, happy and healthy New Year!

    Kelly..glad "that wild dog" is outa there!!! LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Jacqui & Jill -

    Hi! Hope you have a wonderful New Year!

    mary-anne - I, sniff, sniff, miss it too! g-mail keeps locking up on me. It stinks! LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Laura, Ok, I checked on the racing thing that she wants to do.  It's very expensive and only 10 kids can go due to the size of the track.  I still can't believe that she wants to race.  So, we are going to try it on our own to see if we really want to do her party there!!  LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    kelly -

    GO, GO, GO...vroom! LOL I love it!

    Hey, btw...when we were in CA last Feb., I remember seeing a gondola type car going through the mountains while we were driving north from LAX to our hotel. The mountains were along the highway (was it highway 10?) What was that? No, I wasn't doing drugs...LOL dh didn't know what it was.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    She would also get to wear the special helmut ... white with a mohawk on top so everyone would recognize her the whole time!! LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    OH CRIPE! How funny! I just may need one of those helmets when I race...that would be so funny! But my mohawk would have to be pink of course!

    So what was the thing in the mountains that I saw?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    I don't know are you sure it was not Magic Mountain??

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Is Magic Mountain right next to the freeway near LA?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Oh I know what it was!!! That was at the Getty Center tram going up the side of the hill.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    OH CRAP!Thanks Kelly...It was quite unusual to a girl who grew up without mountains...dh said Magic Mountian is south of that area. So, what is Getty?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    The Getty Center is right off the 10 freeway, near UCLA/Brentwood/Santa Monica. In the picture below you can see the rails for the tram that takes you up to the Getty.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.

    Outer Peristyle, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa
       
    The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu opened on January 28, 2006, after the completion of a major renovation project. As a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria, the Getty Villa serves a varied audience through exhibitions, conservation, scholarship, research, and public programs. The Villa houses approximately 44,000 works of art from the Museum's extensive collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, of which over 1,200 are on view.

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    that was from their website.  The Villa at Malibu is gorgeous.  I will take my daughter to both soon since they are fun, interesting and just beautiful buildings in themselves.

    Here's another of the villa in Malibu.  It is the original J Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Center was 2nd.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Thanks Kelly! That's got to be it! Wow...quite a place, huh? I just read about them...that family endured so many personal tragedies. From kidnapping to aids to overdoses! 

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