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Hi Sue! Thought about you today and wondering how it went. Hope you're not to down. Like everyone is saying , its one more down and May is just around the corner! Take care.xxxx

Auntie Em you too are in my thoughts and prayers. Hope the biopsy went as well as it can. When does Bill get to come home? Let him know we are all fighting with him against old ugly bootface!xxxx

gb , how did your job apps go? Good luck to you. Are the jobs in the teaching field? I hope you find something soon.xxxx

Hi Lisa! Glad you were out and about yesterday. Yes , a full day after surgery kinda wipes you out. Glad you had a good visit with Bugaboo! Little sweetie... Have a restful evening. Hi to Olivia!xxxx

Ulla! You're a dentist?! I'm scared of dentist! But I love you!xxxx

Karen will be praying for you honey. Hope all goes well tomorrow and it is sucessful. Love you xxxx

Hi to everyone else and hope you're all having a good evening.xxxx Melody

Triple kisses and hugs to you Sue. You are probably right about the shingles making you feel down for an extended period. I'm so glad you are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Big hugs

Jane oxoxo 

I really am going to apply for those jobs right now! Mel - just wanted to say that I am still waiting for my re-registration to come through. It can take quite a while at this time of year as all the new teaching graduates are applying for their permission to teach. So I am applying for lots of different jobs. Mystery shoppers, blood collection traineeships, clerical and the other day I saw one for a trainee journalist - I would love to get that but my age (51) will probably be against me. They probably want a young person barely out of their teens. Still, no harm in trying.

Right - this time I'm really going!

jane 

Sue , a "mouth mauling!lololol I can't stop laughing , cause thats just how I feel.lol I can't stand the thought of someone in my mouth , and I am at their mercy , one wrong touch and  OUCH! I bet you really want to go to the dentist now! Glad the onky gave you the go ahead though. I don't want you to be in pain from a toothache.xxxx

Hi all,

This past weekend my hubby and I were driving and this song came on the radio and made me think of all of you.  It is called Stand by Rascal Flatts:

You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless
Like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright, you'll be alright

[Chorus:]
Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand, Then you stand
Life's like a novel
With the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon
With only one way down
Take what you're given before its gone
Start holding on, keep holding on

[Repeat Chorus]

Everytime you get up
And get back in the race
One more small piece of you
Starts to fall into place

You all are so strong.  Even when you get down you get yourself up and Stand so this is for all of you brave, strong ladies.

Dawn

Oh, almost forgot.  I heard from Valsul - I was hoping she would post but since she didn't I will - her treatment is going very well.  The Xeloda (sp) is doing its job!!!!  She is tired and the Onky couldn't understand why but her DD ratted her out and told him she has been working full time.   So that seems to be the reason. 

Just thought I would share..............

AE 

Hi everyone. Feb. 20th 2007 I was diagnosed with bootface.

Feb. 20th 2008 I am still here!!!!!!

Hi everyone.  Sorry that I didn't check in sooner, but it's been a busy day.  I went for my radiation simulation appt this morning.  I'm all ready for my treatments--tattoos and all.  It was a very short and painless experience.  I spent more time chatting with the technician than having my scan and all.  Looks like I'll be starting rads in about two weeks.

Valerie, my thoughts and prayers continue to be with you and "Uncle" Bill.  I hate it that bootface has darkened your doorstep once again.  You hang in there, Aunty Em! Thank you for sharing news of Valsul.   

It's funny how you all have confessed your fear of dentists.  I used to be terrified of the dentist!  I didn't see the dentist for close to TEN years because of my irrational fear.  I've overcome the fear, but I still don't enjoy having work done.

Yipee, Mel!!  One year out!  Good for you!

Sue, I'm so glad you're feeling better than you did after your first cmf.  I'm sure those darn shingles had a lot to do with how poorly you were feeling last week.  Don't you overdo it at work tomorrow!  That's an order!  Love you!

Lisa, it sounds like you had a great day yesterday.  So sorry that you were feeling wiped today.  I hope you get a good night's sleep tonight and wake feeling refreshed.

Dawn, I don't think I've heard that song, but I love the lyrics!  Thanks for sharing.

Jane, good luck with the job applications.  I just know that you're going to find the perfect job.  Any employer would be very lucky to have you!

Thanks to everyone for your well wishes regarding my surgery.  I'm not overly anxious about it, but I'll be glad to have it over with.  I'm sure I'll feel well enough to post tomorrow night. 

Love to everyone!

Hugs,

Karen

I'm keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers... all of you.

You each have so much going on--surgeries, treatments, caretaking of spouses, children, and yourselves...  And then there are those of you who are working jobs outside the home and plugging away at life even while facing all these challenges.

Thank you for sharing your journeys.

I had a fill today and boy does it hurt.  I didn't feel it right away, but now it is amazing how much it is hurting. I am on so many kinds of meds to help which would, under typical circumstances, make me loopy and sleepy and I'm just wide awake and still feel some pain.

Ladies, you all have my respect at what you endure, but still manage to be so positive and supportive.

Hugs to you all,

~Wren

Sue, I have a comment about what you said

I went for treatment...didnt really break down today..did protest in anger...but didnt flood the place with outrage.... something has changed in me mentally since last Weds night when I completely bottomed out...I am not sure what it is...but I have been feeling different in this journey....seeing a little light in a dark tunnel I think xxx

I am glad that you are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and it is not a train! I knew that the darkness you were feeling was the medicines and you just had to walk through the darkness until you could see the light. I am glad that I have been able to help you through this terrifing trip of bootface.

Jane, my mom did not opt for recon. She felt that at 60 she did not need her boob to identify who she is. Sometimes she goes on about why I chose recon and went through to the final stage (tattoo). At 46, I could not see myself flat, my husband said all along that what ever I decided to do he would honor my decision. He did not pressure me into the recon. We discussed the decision for bilat since September 06 after my 2nd abnormal mammo that resulted in biopsy and lumpectomy for ADH. I was not a good candidate for tram flap but I have had great results with the implants.

I had an anniversary last week, Feb 14 2005 was my first biopsy that showed ADH and started me on this rollercoaster ride of BC.

Love

Sheila

Hi all



Well I am a bit sad today. One of my staff's dad has been in a lot of pain in his lower back in the last 3 weeks (fit as a fiddle before) today he has been given 2-3 weeks to live. Cancer of the spine too late for chemo or anything!!



They are the nicest family and I just cried and cried on the phone to my mum today. Its such a bastard disease!!!



Sorry its just all so unfair...

Well, it did it again!  I never know, the little cursor just disappears and I am sitting here swearing and pounding and nothing happens.  So forgive me, all my dear sisters, I will say goodbye and I love each and every one of you so much.  I am saying goodbye now so when the cursor won't work anymore, you will know why.

It is finally raining a little in San Diego.  Which is really a desert.  Yesterday it was 70.  I would like a little more rain than we get, but what the heck.

I am so glad to hear from Valsul and Ulla too.  I did not have any trouble with rads mentally.  I did wonder a few times what I was doing under this rad machine when we all know radiation causes cancer!  Ah well!  other than that, I did okay.  And I was OLD, 63, you guys are all pretty little chickens.  I am an old hen.  hahaha

Love you, Shirlann