Roll Call November 2007

Hi Sabrina - I am doing pretty good.  Getting ready for tx#3 on Monday!

Yes, we do need each other!  Prayers up for everyone!

Hey everyone.  Where are you guys at?  Tired of talking about bc or what?  This room is not just about bc I hope.  We are sisters and hopefully we have more in common with one another than bc.  Please keep posting.  I love the encouragment and inspiration we give each other.  And to know that you are doing alright.  Hope to here from you guys soon.

Love you all

Sabrina

Hi everybody (Felicia, Sabrina, Linda, Benita, and all I've missed)!  Continued prayers for us all!!

Idol Fans:  As soon as Syesha started to sing, I just knew there were going to compare her to fantasia!  I thought she did a great job!!!  The 'rainbow' guy has a different style; he is OK, but I don't think he will go much further.  I think it will boil down to the young kid, the rocker guy with the large forehead (I am terrible at names) and maybe the tattoo chick.  I am voting away for Syesha and she should make it to the top 4 or 3 at a minimum!!!!

Hey ladies, sorry I've been MIA for a while. I haven't been well lately. Really bad headaches and swelling in my surgery arm. I'm getting tx number 7th of Taxol this friday. I had my muga Tuesday...waiting to hear how that went. I'm so tired of this I don't know what to do. Taxol has made me put on so much weight. My poor body! I hardly recognize myself anymore. My dh keeps telling me how beautiful I look...I just roll my eyes at him and tell him to be quiet. I know he's just being supportive but sometimes I just don't want to hear it! Sorry ladies, I'm just getting really tired of this and it's not like I can just stop, you know. Hopefully, next time I post, I'll be in a better mood.

I hope everyone is having a better time of this than me. It is supposed to be nice this weekend, maybe my mood will get better. Love you guys! 

Thanks Yogi, I know there is an end to all this madness, but I just can't seem to see it right now. I don't think I really dealt with having breast cancer. When I was told, I just absorbed it an did whatever I needed to do to get to the next step. I think that is one reason why I'm having a hard time with this now.

I just moved from San Antonio to North Carolina and I've only met my new oncologist once. I quess he'll let me know how the muga went. One of the nurses in the clinic saw the swelling and put in a referral for a sleeve.

I hope everyone else is doing fine with your treatments! God bless all of you.

Hi Ladies,

I am back and I missed everyone!!!

My daughter is doing great, I hated to leave her, but I knew she was stabilized enough for us to leave. My daughters live across the street from each other, and they have a host of friends, we had some good times in all of this, and the 4 grands are all there too, it is good for the ole folks to get back home, quiet here in our lil city of 120,000.  That Texas traffic is something else.  We dealt with it OK.

Back to life and reality here---went to chemo yesterday--time for my navelbine---I sure did not miss it for the past 2 weeks, but know I gotta have it.  My energy level was good--had to be---the sick taking care of the sick.  Dad and Mom playing Nurses, he took care of her dog--I am thankful we could go.

Been catching up and reading everyones posts.  Good to hear from all ya!!!  Everyone keep on keeping on!!!

Linda C

Hi everyone! I have been MIA for a bit; tx3 really really hit me hard.  I have been in the hospital now for over a week and a half.  I was rock bottom wbc, high temp, high heart rate, and they found bacteria in my blood.  By the grace of God, I am still here and getting better each day!  Hopefully I will still be able to have my last tx on Monday; but I will be starting out a bit behind the strength power curve.  But I know God will see me through!!

Praying for everyone!!! God Bless!!!!

Hi Trumpet,

Hope all goes well for you, and you feel better real soon, keeping you, and all in prayer.

Linda C.

Hey Ladies!!!!

Linda, I'm glad your daughter is better and that you got a chance to spend time with your family.   

I just had the last of A/C and I think I did pretty well but I must admit this last tx has knocked me for a loop.  I am more tired than I usually am but I'm taking care and hoping it will pass.  I have a MUGA scheduled for May 8 and should start tx (herceptin and taxol) May 13.

How is every one else out there?

Yogi

Welcome home Trumpet! Glad to hear that you are doing better. I hope everyone else is hanging in there. I just had my 9th tx of taxol. My onc prescribed something for my headaches and put in for a catscan that I will have tomorrow morning. Hopefully everything will work out. Last week was just a blurr with the headaches. I felt like I was going mad/insane. I was in pain all day and nothing was helping. It hurt to even hear people talking! Today was a good day though.

Now to a different subject, have you ladies decided what type of recontruction you are going to have or if you are going to go that route? I've been switching back and forth with it. I met with a plastic surgeon and he thought that the tram proceedure would be best for me. I just don't know if I want to go through another surgery again. If I decide to do the tram thing, it won't be any time soon. I think

 I may just keep wearing the breast prothesis. I see that they have the kind that sticks to you and have real looking nipples. If you had reconstruction surgery already, what kind of surgery did you have, how was the healing process and are you pleased with your results?

Well, untill next time, you beautiful ladies have a blessed weekend! 

Hey everybody!!!!   Just sitting here reading post and was happy see how everyone is doing.  Good for you TRUMPET!!!!  SHARON, I'm glad your headaches are better.I hope everything works out. I start Taxol on May 13.  Oh, I was also told I was a good candidate for the TRAM FLAP  but that's next year sometime. I've seen a few pictures of some and they actually looked good.  FELECIA, girl you kick a$$!!!  I took TAE KWONDO for about a minute then my reserve unit was activated for Iraq back in 2003. When I got back home I just never got back in that groove, but you got me thinkin' about it again.  Hey LINDA!!!

Everybody take care and God Bless.

Yogi

I just participated in my first RELAY FOR LIFE and it was a very moving experience for me. Last year as

 I drove home from work past my high school stadium where RELAY is held, I vowed to myself: "Next year I'm going to participate in RELAY FOR LIFE."  I never thought that 2008 would bring me face to face with cancer or that I would find myself wearing a survivor's t-shirt.

This week has been very emotional for me.  It all started when a co-worker and fellow breast cancer survivor sent me an e-mail.  The e-mail showed a picture of a woman walking for ovarian cancer.  It instructed me to forward the e-mail and change the subject to "she just left Yogi's house" to help her continue her journey.  Well, I sent the e-mail to everyone in my contact list.  This morning I received an e-mail from a fellow reservist who served in Kuwait with me during Iraqi Freedom, informing me that on Tueday, May 6 she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.  It was found early so she believes it can be treated with laser surgery.

Well, today when I entered the stadium of my alma mater who did I see but another fellow reservist (we served in Operation Desert Shield/Storm together) wearing a Survivor's t-shirt!!  She was diagnosed with breast cancer in Feb of this year.  

I HATE CANCER!!!  It takes so much away from us!!!  But, ironically because of cancer I have renewed two wonderful friendships that had fallen by the wayside in the journey of life and for that I am grateful.