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New to this site...MIL just dx with stage 1 BC
Hello Everyone Thank you for all being here for me. I am new to the BC site, but not the CSN site. I was a caregiver for my dad who lost his battle with EC in March 2010. My MIL was just dx with stage 1. She is told it is a small mass. This week she is having a scan done to see if the cancer has spread to any other organs.…
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Can we post/upload a video?
I recorded my radiation therapy and thought maybe it might be helpful to those just starting out to see what actually happens during a session. I know it sure would've been far less stressful for me if I could've seen a session beforehand. I guess I'm just one of those people that you could tell me all day long but until I…
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Palliative care, kill or cure?
I have a sad story to share with you from my family in England, but my concern is if the same practice may exist here in the US. My sister in law had both breast removed some 10 years ago and was give the "all clear" until about 9 months ago, when her symptoms returned. Despite trips to Germany for supposed "wonder…
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Blood Transfusion in the arm where lymph nodes were removed for masectomy
Hi, My mom is 9 1/2 years removed from a masectomy and last year was diagnosed with APL leukemia, she requires frequent transufions and she just recently got a transfusion for the first time in the arm where she had lymph nodes removed for her masectomy, which is her laeft arm; they could not find a usable vein in her…
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OT New school year
Daughter started new college (graduated last June community college)now con't her education grandson starting Kindergarten & his brother moving up to NEXT school ... exciting week! Denise
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Lumpectomy vs. Mastectomy
Hi. I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal breast cancer at the end of June. I had a lumpectomy about 4 weeks ago. My tumor was only .7 cm and the nodes that were removed were clean. I am Estrogen and Prog. positive, and HER-2 negative. BRCA test was negative. Oncotype was a 14. My onco said that I will not need chemo, but…
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rare breast cancer
im 29 I was told im the 28th person in the nation with my type of cancer I have a sarcoma with a little bit of breast cancer to be so young just making 29 and to have my breast removed going thru chemo and radiation is hard and scary im the first in my family to have cancer my parents are no longer here and I have no one…
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I'm new not to sure what to say?
I was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive lobular carcanoma may 2012 have had surgery in june double mastectomy and total hysterectomy I have been through 2 rounds of chemo starting to lose my hair so I really don't like gettig out anymore and could use a few friends that are going through the same thing.I am 52 years old.
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routine eye appointment today and sending me for more test to rule out cancer in the eye!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never heard of what he called it but it boiled down to sending me for farther testing on friday,the eye Dr. wants to make sure the breast cancer didn't metastasis to the eye (wow),remember i just had a full body pet scan the end of May2012,has anyone ever heard of this,I did goggle and find out that it's common to…
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CAROL (Camul), our beloved Sister in PINK ... How are you doing? /// Any updates from your SCAN on
I've been thinking about you, your circumstances -- and what the $#@$@# comments from your last post that have continued to keep me in stitches .. How are you? Did you travel to Sacramento ? Sleeping ? Praying, HOPING, and worried about you dear one. Gentle hugs, Vicki Sam
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Having a bad day.
Just having a rough day. I'm so restricted to doing just daily duties around the house. So frustrating. Can't even fold laundry well and I never thought that would be something I wanted to do. I have a lot of,pressure in my chest due to,the mastectomy and reconstruction and I know I'm only three weeks out but I am just so…
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Taking my turn on the pity pot
I am scheduled to have my exchange surgery done in two week! Yesterday I woke up feeling a tenderness next to my right underarm at the side of the expander and hubby said it looked to be a pocket of fluid starting. Si I said well we can wait an hour and see if that changes. It did, it got worse. The entire right side was…
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It Is Vacation Time - Would You Like To Share Where You Are Going
I know I want to know. LOL We ♥ Our Vacations
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First app. w/new onco..Good and not so good
Stressful afternoon, I always get soooo anxious and nervous...luckily my husband was there.I was having some doubts about my oncologist so I went back to the cancer center where I was originally treated, but saw a different onco... He was very direct and almost short and curt, basically admonishing me for leaving the…
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Be safe all of you pinkies that are in the way of Hurricane Isaac!
I know we have several pinkies that have and will be suffering thru the effects of Hurricane Isaac, so, be safe, and, keep us updated on how you are doing when you can. Sue :)
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Sorry girls...one week out from last chemo and
in a stinkin' bad mood. My mouth is better but still hurts and can't taste food. I am SICK SICK SICK of chemo! I am tired of being sick and fatigued and boring. I don't go anywhere because I CAN"T. I can't plan any vacation to get relief because it is impossible to plan even an hour ahead. I am broke from the hospital…
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OT Just back from Idaho; home in time for a hurricane
OK, first few days in Idaho, we couldn't go outdoors because of smoke from the southern fires. Finally, a nice rain, a cooling and beautiful clear weather. I really relaxed and enjoyed myself and the mountains were so lovely. I felt my spirit renewed. But now I'm heading home and to work just in time for Isaac. My relief…
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tram flap reconstruction
ok i had a tram flap march 1st 2012. i had a few complications but am working thru it. my questions for anyone with this surgery is when to the bulges under your breast go down and why on occasion do they feel like they are having spasms. i have a relatively small bugle over my stomach incision that hurts unless i wear a…
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Pink Bus
I would love your company on Wednesday for my 6 month onc checkup. xoxoxo Lynn
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Tram Flap surgery
I am considering trans flap surgery in the summer when I have recovered from radiation. I can't have implants due to radiation issues. I had a left breast mastectomy and I want to have the other breast removed. Anyone had trans flap surgery? I am really scared about t.
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Sister's Appt
My sister saw the surgeon Monday.After some discussion she is having reconstruction.So the surgeon is sending her to a plastic surgeon and he will go over things and see what can or should be done. The general surgeon does the masctomies and the platic surgeon does the reconstruction????? She said both would be done the…
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Weight gain causes breast cancer?
I was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and am finishing up 33 days of radiation and will then go on an estrogen blocker drug. Not sure which one yet. I quit smoking three years ago and went from a size 8 to a size 14 in no time. I asked my radiation oncologist if this is why I got breast cancer.…
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Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
I am new to cancer - I am 43 years old. I have yet to meet with a surgeon and it is inconclusive whether or not the cancer is in my lymphnodes. What sort of experiences have people had with this type of cancer? Is it treatable? Will I live? They are guessing stage 2 but will know for sure until they are able to verify the…
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Today is ShirleyCurl's Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ELLEN HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! AND MANY MORE...!!! May all the candles on your cake become wishes that come true! Have a great day! ♥ Cat
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We lost a beloved pink sister today...
With a heavy heart I am passing along a message posted on my Facebook wall. Our beloved sister Jennifer (grams2jc) passed away earlier today. Her daughter posted yesterday that her brain tumors spread to the brain lining. They thought they had a few weeks and were just trying to keep her comfortable. God took her today...…
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OT --- how do I change my avatar
I did try and try and try ... but I can't change the picture I am using at the moment. When I delete the current photo .. I save that option then I upload a new photo...SAVE... and it comes back with the old avatar. I did make sure to keep the size limits (as noted on the page)..any suggestions?
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newly diagnosed and recovering from double mastectomy 36 years old
So I am 36 and felt a bump. IDC they tell me. I had a breast augmentation in nov 2011 and now this. They said it may have pushed my tissue forward and made it easier to feel. so I just filled out my profile and it felt good to actually write for awhile about all this. It has been very scary and I'm so very angry,…
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BRCA2
I have not been diagnosed with cancer but the rep at the ACS number encouraged me to post here. My mother died of breast cancer (diagnosed at 32, died at 45) and several women in her family had it. I am 33 and got myself tested for the gene this summer. On Tuesday I found out that I am positive for BRCA2. I was expecting…
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Long Time No Post
Hello Pink Warriors. Its been a while since I last posted. I have not had such good luck. I don't even remember if I posted that I had an aortic valve replacement and spent a month in Johns Hopkins, then 3 weeks in a nursing home rehab facility, only to have kidney failure. I am now on dialysis three times a week and am…
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I am asking for the pink bus ladies
I have a new onco appt. on the 28th early at 7am I hope he listens to me and helps with the side effects that I have been having, Saw my new pcp yesterday he found two lumps on my thyroid going for an unltrasound and mammogram on the 30th of august. The unltrasound scares me abit. Forgive the spelling I think its off. I…