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Has Anyone Ever Had Their Port Flip????
I had chemo on the 15th of Jan and they accessed my port with out a problem I went to get fluids on Thursday and they could not access my port. Chemo nurse said it must be flipped and I have to contact my surgeon to get it straightened out. Not sure what it will involve but hope it is not another surgery. I know I will…
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Myshell
I hope all went well for you yesterday. I was thinking about you as I was laying waiting to be taken away for surgery. I am doing ok with the exception of the waiting anxiously for the path report expected Tues. I pray for clean margins so I can move on with treatment. Let me know how things went for you. Hugs, Terri
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2nd surgery over
Hi all, I made it through the second surgery yesterday. Somehow I seem sorer this time than the first and the breathing tube this time caused me lots of discomfort to where I couldn't hardly talk (teenagers where prob happy lol). I can talk ok today with only mild annoyance. The surgeon said he removed about 1 cm more of…
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More Stupid Things People Say…“pull myself together”
Many of you know I completed active treatment (chemo & rads) a few weeks ago, and am still struggling with fatigue. I’m back at work full-time, but work and doctors’ appointments and making sure I have food in the house and clean clothes are about all I have the energy for right now. I understand that no one who hasn’t…
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Happy Birthday to me.
Hi everyone.I turned 53 today.I used to be all down about turning another year older.But not any more since Cancer.I thank God for another birthday.I am also happy getting away from 52 being the hardest year of my life,fighting Cancer.A better year to come I beleive.My mother died at 52 with Cancer.So when I turned 52 I…
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Post-op visit update
Hi everybody, Thanks for all the support! I had my one week post-op visit yesterday. Didn't get the drains out and I have a lot of swelling. Seems like the drain stops draining and I fill up with fluid which creates a lot of pressure. I tried laying totally flat this morning and that seemed to get the drain working better.…
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rads, is it a normal side effect to
My breat feels like a big, hard, hot ball. It's red, too. I've only had 4 zaps and 28 more to go. Ouch! My headlight looks more like a taillight. Sue
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Looking for some legal help
I just got fired from my job after almost 10 yrs. I know it was because I was missing so much work. Does anyone know of a good female attny in the St. Louis area?
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First day without my breast
Wow - surgery yesterday and I am happy to say, I'm ok!! I have had 3 surgerys since Dec. 11th. and hope this is the last one! I know I am happy to have the cancer gone, but it was so disappointing that we were NOT able to be successful with lumpectomy. We tried twice to remove the area effected, but no luck. I have been…
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Not bc related.... just looking for some input
Good Morning ... Okay so, here is my delema... My daughter, her boyfriend, and my little grandson moved into an apartment with a high school friend of my daughters. She (my daughter Katrina) is going to school and her boyfriend works a job making not quite $10 an hour... I knew when they moved out of the basement last…
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No more periods?
I haven't had a period since August and I'm not complaining. Will I start again since I'm finished with chemo or is it history? I was very regular and pre-menopausal. I wonder how chemo affects the ovaries to make it stop like that.
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Today is PPurdin's Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PAT HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! AND MANY MORE...!!! HOPE YOU HAVE A DAY FILLED WITH SPECIAL BLESSINGS! ♥ Cathy
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Fortune cookie of the day
In the end there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love. We have a lot of love on this site and I love all of you. XOXO, Margo
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Pain where lump used to be
I just finished chemo and the lump is gone under my right arm, but I sometimes feel the pain like when it was there. It comes and goes but makes me worried that something is still there. I can't feel the lump at all anymore and thats encouraging. But feeling the same throbbing pain at times scares me. Has anyone else had…
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22 LYMPH NODES REMOVED - question about exercising
On October 14th, I opted to have a bilateral mastectomy and 22 lymph nodes were removed. I am glad to say that I am doing well and I am taking it up a notch with my exercise. However I am noticing that when I sweat, I don't sweat from the side that my lymph nodes were removed. Has anyone experience this before?
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scared and anxious
I'm new here. Microcalcifications were found upon routine annual mammo on 10/28/09. Biopsy 11/12, lumpectomy 12/7. Tiny, but sentinal node positive. Also, ER PR pos and (mildly) HER2 pos. Chemo onc ran Onco Dx test and felt that results (very low risk of reoccurance) didn't warrant chemo. I was both releived and terrified.…
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skin problems with reconstruction
I had bilateral mastectomy with expanders put in on Dec. 18th 2009. My plastic surgeon says that I need to have surgery again to remove the dead skin at the incision site. He will also have to remove some of the fluid in my expanders to give him extra skin to use to reclose the opening. I read where dot was going to have…
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Liquid hope... First chemo
I just got back from my first chemo treatment. It took from 9.30 till 4 pm.... WOW. Taxo, Carbo and Herceptin, took longer than I thought, I did not go back to work. But instead I had something to eat with my friend. She insisted since I hadn't eaten all day. I was so terrified at first but then I did what I do when I get…
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dumping again...
I don't know what's wrong with me this week...but it's been a rough one...I feel so isolated.. tired... frustrated...and alone... I don't know why... nothing has changed... I am just all of a sudden really down... I can usually talk myself out of a funk, but for some reason I just can't seem to shake it. I tell myself that…
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Ejection fraction of heart
I have had an echocardiogram at least every three months and for a period every week because the ejection fraction-which tells the doctors how your heart is pumping went low from the chemo treatments but never low enough to stop my treatments. I went for one on Tuesday and my EF(ejection fraction) is at 62%--the norm they…
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BC and COPD
I will be having surgery in the next few weeks and am really scared because I also have COPD. I am not on oxygen, but I am on Sprivia and Albutesol. Has anyone else had surgery and COPD? What should I tell the anesthesiologist?
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Chemo! OMG!!!
Hi. I started my chemo cocktail 'TAC' this past Monday and OMG! I am feeling every side effect except for the Big "C" and Big "D". I was okay during the infusion, but with the last infusion which I believe was Zofran, I got a bad headache before I even left the center. Then, once I got home the nausea kicked in and I am…
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Recurrence Very Rare for Initial Cancer 0 Stage DCIS
At 65 years old breast mammogram revealed a calcification. Calcification ended up being 0 Stage, DCIS. Two surgical biopsies yield margins that were not clear. An infection developed 4 days after the second surgical biopsy. That was the best thing that happened to me because then I researched for the next 2-1/2 months and…
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case management FYI
I am very new here and newly diagnosed as well. I have already received a lot of support and info on this site. Thank you Thank you! Through the hospital where I am receiving treatment, it was suggested that I get set up with a case manager through my insurance company. I took that suggestion and she (a nurse) has been of…
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More of my HA HA HA's
ADVANTAGES OF BEING A WOMAN Why it's better to be a Woman! 1. We got off the Titanic first. 2. We get to flirt with systems support men who always return our calls, and are nice to us when we blow up our computers. 3. Our boyfriend's clothes make us look elfin & gorgeous. Guys look like complete idiots in ours. 4. We can…
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Had mastectomy 2 weeks ago; more cancer found; wondering if I'll need chemo now
I had bilateral mastectomies 2 weeks ago, along with immediate free TRAM reconstruction; doc called the next week and said there was no cancer found in the other breast. HOWEVER, there WAS more cancer found in the original breast (Paget's disease of the nipple, DCIS of the nipple). Original diagnosis was invasive lobular…
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Today is BellaLuna's Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BELLA HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! AND MANY MORE...!!! HOPE YOUR DAY IS FILLED WITH LOVE AND HAPPINESS! Cathy
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Welcome to Hogwarts~ A Primer for the New Ones not finding much emotional support at work and with "
So many new ones have joined our family of Kindred Spirits lately~we sigh that you have had to find us, but of course welcome you with open ♥ You may have noticed, or even posted about the fact that many of our friends, family members, co-workers and neighbors just don't "get it" and make what seem to be ( and sometimes…
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Saw Radiologist yesterday!
Wed. afternoon I found out that I had a Thurs. morning appt. with the radiologist before my Chemo that afternoon. It wasn't a surprise, just sooner than I expected. Last week, the Onco Dr had said that he was sending a consult as next week will be last weekly Taxol, so my mind just thought that it would be week or shortly…
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So far, so good.....
Finished Herceptin in October, thereby finishing all active treatment. Found a "shadow" in my lung, which was later determined to be a radiation pneumonitis, and not a malignancy. PET scan looked fine. Checked out fine with medical onc, although I will have a final CT scan in February to see if the scarring & damage from…