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Breast Cancer

Archives for July 2010

I'm now 89.3 years old
Yup - I just aged from 64 to 89.3 years. At one of the horse sites, we were talking about a site called RealAge and they tell you based on answers they tell you rather you are 'actually' older than you years. I had been there quite some time ago (a couple of years and they siad then I was about 10 years 'younger' than age.…
PARP inhibitors and triple negative disease?
Have I missed the boards on these? The last snippet of information I have been able to locate on the internet is a year old. Oh and in case anyone cares...I drive less than 5 minutes for treatment, dislike Nicholas Cage but love Russell Crowe, and miss underwire. Just looking for something relevant and less than a year old…
MyTurnNow VS The Beast - Round 2
I have been struggling with exactly how to put my "new" information out here. I definately don't want to scare anyone because we seem to have had more than our fair share of recurrances in the past weeks. Well, here goes....... Some of you may recall that I posted a short time ago that I was having my "first" mammo after…
anniversary
Hi to you all! Today is the anniversary of my left breast mastectomy last year! I had a lumpectomy before that too. I also completed chemo, rads & am home recovering from a bilateral mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction on June 14th. I am so grateful to you all for your kind words during the past year from hell. As I…
There's a tool box in my chest
So I wake up this morning, need I say the painkillers had worn off, and to my surprise what do I find but a tool box in my chest!! Am a turning into the woman of a handy man's dream? Ladies, who just had their mastectomy take it from me keep taking those painkillers. And save yourself the above mentioned life changing…
My photo has been flagged!!!!
I cant believe this! I posted a photo on the expressions board yesterday of how my Tissue Expanders look now i have had my final fill. I am wearing a vest top so i am not naked!!!! And someone has gone and flagged it!! I am very upset that someone would do this. It was purely to show women who are going through the same…
Starting to eat right...again
I've been reading alot about Raw Foods Diet, I'm trying to stay away from meat, dairy, sugar, bread. Lost 6 pounds the last 3 days. Drinking alot of V8 until I get a juicer. Its very hard for me to eat right, especially when there's a Golden Corral a short drive away. Oh, their carrot cake and bread pudding is so good. I…
Recovery time from oopherectomy (sp??)
Now there's a word I didn't think I'd ever use . . . of course, I never thought I'd put the words "my" and "oncologist" together in a sentence either - but I'm way past that! Well, yesterday I asked my med onc about what she thought about getting my ovaries removed due to my risk factors (without having the BRCA test…
Resentment
I'm married to a big jerk. He's selfish, self-centered, insensitive, incapable of giving emotional support. I'm feeling resentment starting to grow.I don't want to feel this way, but I don't know how to stop it. How do you stop resentment? I have talked with him several times, but got nothing but attitude. Each time I try…
Swelling advice please
Had a double mastecomy last Thursday. I am now in a sports bra, still have a drain on each side. My problem is The muscle by my arm pits are so swollen they are causing the sports bra to "cut" into the skin any suggestions. This is not comfortable, help i am miserable. Ohhhhhh, I can't take the bra off I need the…
Radiation is done!
I am done with rads. 5 1/2 weeks is over. I did not use any creams or lotions. Now I am done. Meaning my skin is dark under my arm and surrounding areas where I was radiated. It looks like I'm cooked to a well done but no itching or any kind of irritation. I've been on tamoxifen for about a week and I go back to the PS in…
Home from Biopsy
I had to have biopsies done on my cervix and uterus today, due to an abnormal pap! The gyn didn't say anything other than there was scar tissue and a thickening of the linning. They took 4 biopsies of my cervix and 2 of my uterus. It is painful, still 4 hours later. Nothing I can't get through but it is not very…
Should I call the doctor??
I had my first Chemo On July 2nd, July 7th I started my regularly scheduled monthly period. Usually they last 7 days but I am still on it! Its not heavy but deffintly there. That only puts me at 10 days but didn't know if that is something to cause alarm or not?
Keeping the faith
Well last week was good news. All scans clear!!!!! Today was boob-a-gram day and looks like the good boob is behaving. Our hosp lets you know within minutes what the results are. Radiologist said no changes from last mammo. Will see my surgeon on the 23rd to back this up. I was wondering though. I had calcifications that…
How far do you drive for your treatments?
I've read quite a few posts where a long drive time to your cancer center is mentioned. I drive about 1 1/2 hrs to get to my treatments, appts, etc. (and, of course, 1 1/2 hrs. back home) - and it is totally worth it to be at the place that I am at! Plus - it's all country driving, so, actually, very relaxing (unless the…
EYE CANDY .. I will go out and pay money to watch a movie starring
Nicholas Cage or John Trovalta -- I don't know what it is about these 2 wonderful and talented actors .. I enjoy the roles they've acted in .. and continue to see their wild, or wackie movies.
Good books
When my journey started a friend, whose mom had bc 35 years ago, gave me a book called "why I wore lipstick to my mastecomy". I have sumce donated it to the local library. The author is the same woman who wrote "sex on the city". I recommend it. As you read, you laugh, you cry, and remember feeling spacific ways. I really…
I'm up
Well, in about an hour I go to the hospital and get checked in. I'm having a bilateral mastectomy with immediate reconstruction. The insurance gave in at the last minute!!!!! my surgeon is a fighter. Just as I was going in to get the radioactive dye injected for the sentinel nodes last evening, my cell phone rang and it…
So, not cancer related. Just what do you think? I cant believe it
Ok, two different stories here. First one is this past weekend we went to the community pool and its huge. They closed it down once for 30 min because a baby got sick. Then about an hour 1/2 later, another shut down, poop in pool. They actually reopened about 40 min later and it was probably an hour later, yep, poop again!…
Wierdest movie I've seen...but it speaks to my fears....
'Meet Joe Black'. BIG names in it....Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie.... Brad plays death. But in an interesting way...coming to collect Anthony Hopkins, but taking a 'vacation' in a mortal body... It spoke to me about my fears of reoccurance, and passing, walking with me everyday... Twisted movie, but well…
arimidex... so far so good.
The only side effects I'm having is sleeplessness. Anyone else have that and what did you do about it? I try pm pills, but then I'm so groggy in the daytime... How about the rest of you gals who started with me? How are you holding up? P>S> I'm in Costa Rica!!! Wait til you see my next picture...
Horoscopes! Entertaining, but rarely accurate, until today...
I am not a believer in psychic things, including horoscopes. If you are a believer, I am also fine with that! Today, however, the horoscope called my name, and I was urged ( by Siobhan!) to share it here on the boards! So I am . Many of you know that I am a long time member of this CSN family~ since April of 2003 and that…
Hair by chemo
I will be starting chemo next week. So I have been looking for scarves and other head coverings. Any suggestions of where to find stylish head coverings?
I'm investing in Drano
Today is 14 days after my first chemo and my hair has really started abandoning ship. It started about two days ago and this morning I could stuff a pillow! I'm pretty ok with it and wondering how soon before I need to break out the red-red-fire-engine-red wig? Any stories?
3rd expansion - beginning to see some results
Well, I had my 3rd expansion done today. I was starting at nothing because they had to take out what was put in during 1st surgery because I had to have two more surgeries for skin that was not healing. I had to wait over 8 weeks before we could do the 1st expansion. My first two expansions were only 60 cc's each. Could…
Stupid Seroma!
I am 7 months post lumpectomy and axillary node dissection, ended 6 chemo treatments on May 9 and now half way into radiation therapy (Stage 3 IDC, 10+ lymphs). I still have some swelling and pain in the breast as well as along the ribs (trunk). However, the main problem is this crazy seroma--it's larger than a golf ball…
chemo induced menopause
I'm 50, no period since chemo started in October. Chemo ended in January. Do you think I'll ever have one again? I'm having no hot flashes, thank God. Really no menopausal symptoms. I should be glad, but just wondering if I'm done or not.
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
My in-laws came for a visit yesterday; the second visit since Donna's diagnosis in April. They got to my house in the afternoon while I was at work, and I didn't hear this story until about 11:00 last night after they left, but here it goes: My mother-in-law walks up to the door, looks at Donna in her wig and says "Oh no,…
I Crashed Again, But Still Hanging In There
Haven't been here for a couple of weeks since I got another infection, this time my sinuses became so clogged I had to temporarily stop my chemo and am on antibiotics for the time being. I ran fever, chills, lightheadness, extreme fatigue and couldn't get out of bed for about a week. Sinus problems was caused by the…
The LUMPS
Well I have had a week to consider what I would write on the board. Well I am not happy to still have lumps in me and only one has been biopsied because they could see it on MRI. Thank goodness, benign and that is great news. Still I have a lump that is growing and still I am the only one concerned about it because it is…

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