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I thought it would be great to see what your favorite color is, so, what is your favorite color?
I know we all have favorite colors and like them for various reasons, so pink sisters, what is your favorite color and why do you like it? ♠♣ Love, Susie ♠♣
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"The Pink Bus" History, sort of...
The “Pink Bus” is used by many online breast cancer support groups to help those who need buoying up in a virtual sense on their journey. I “google” the words “breast cancer “pink bus” and could not find any history. There were many busses painted pink for awareness. There are many groups I am certain that will claim the…
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My ornament came!!
Thank you Ayse for the lovely angel! She looks so joyful, and I love the hugs that she brings. Thank you! I'm still looking for the ornament that will be just right to send.... Hugs, Linda
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Ornament Exchange in full swing!
Looks like the ornaments are being received every day. Make sure to let us know when you receive yours. Either post a picture or tell us about it. This is part of the fun! xoxo, Jean
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short note on Hair...
after my last treatment on October 7th which is funny since that would have been my mom's 73 birthday if cancer had not beaten her some almost 21yrs ago... I noticed hair... short but coming back hair and I so need it getting cold here in Idaho...hang in there and never give up it does come back... HAIR... just a short…
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***My BEAUTIFUL Ornament ARRIVED!! :)***
My LOVELY Ornament arrived yesterday and I was so happy to see it's BABY JESUS on it!!!! And even the card has baby Jesus! I love it. You're so sweet Renee, thank you. God bless you, always. This is a fun and delightful experience because now I feel like we are really a family (not that I didn't before, but it's even more…
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I received a beautiful engraved angel from Ayse!
It came on a day when I was not feeling too good and it just made my heart smile. Thank you Ayse! Hopefully, my secret sister will receive hers today! I love this! Each year, my 4 sisters and I do the same, but it isn't secret, we rotate each year. How Ironic that I am doing this now with my 'Pink Sisters" as well. We…
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Xanax
Was taking Xanax, anti-anxiety, through Chemo and Radiation. Helped me with hot flashes, headaches and night sweats, sleeplessness as well as the anxiety. Tried to use only half of one and yikes, had terrible night sweats and am experiencing anxiety again. Has anyone had experience with Xanax? Are there withdrawal symptoms…
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Preventing Mouth Sores
Chemo can give mouth sores and my oncologist told me not to brush with my regular toothpaste. So my husband went to our local pharmacy and bought me Arm and Hammer Advanced White Baking Soda & Peroxide toothpaste. I never got one mouth sore. I can't guarantee it will work for you, but it did the trick for me.
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Cysts
Asking for thoughts/experiences I can pass on to Son's Lady. I have no experience with cysts - my IBC just appeared one day. About 5 - 6 weeks ago she had pain and found a lump. She saw a Dr and was given antibiotics. 2 weeks later it had shrunk some but still there and still painful. Dr refused a mammo as said she's to…
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OT - 'Col. Potter' died today.
Most of us know who 'Col. Potter' ( Harry Mor4gan - MASH) was. He passed today - the 70th Anniversary of the. "Day that will live in infamity" - Decmber 7 1941 , Pearl Harbor.
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Happy Neck News
I saw my trusted neurosurgeon yesterday. He is the one who worked a miracle on my lower back when my facet joints disintegrated and caused my vertebrae to slip out. This caused severe nerve pain. I went from being able to walk only short bursts without severe pain to walking as much as I want. That is a true medical…
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For the Record
I am not a victim, or suffering from, or a walking breast cancer and am not disfigured. I am a human being who has been diagnosed with breast cancer (three times) and I am flippin awesome!!!!! and so are all of YOU!
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Please make sure you are in control of your body!
I started having Mammograms and yearly check-ups when I was forty, just like I was suppose to. When I discovered my tumor it was already over 2cm. ( I was 50 yrs old) I didn’t really think it could be anything because I always did what I was suppose to right? I was scheduled for a monogram on the day I discovered the…
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My ornament "s"....Arrived
Oh my gosh!!!!! What a delight to open my mailbox today! Our pink sister, CalvertCrafters, is indeed quite the " crafter" Inside the box was a felt mitt..which held all sorts of goodies...each individually wrapped....one by one I opened one beautiful cross-stitched ornament after the other..3 in all..I did cross-stitch,…
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OT bra strap slippage :-)
I don't want this to sound like an advertisement ... but ... since my lumpectomy my bra strap on one side was always sliding down and I'd have to do the reach inside my top to keep pulling it up. A friend I know said she used tape to keep her straps up ... but then another friend showed me what she uses. It's the greatest…
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Remembering MaMaG today...
Today was MaMaG's Birthday - for those of you who 'knew' her here - sadly, she passed on Feb 7 of this year - keep a special thought of her today and say a prayer or send all your positive energy to her loved ones - who are surely missing her, especially today. Much love to her family - Jenny
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im new,sadly. has anyone started their treatment with hormone theapy?
I actually have a small spot on my shoulder as well. Hormones and bone strenghting meds, then maybe radiation. Im 56.
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Great Pink Bus ride!
This was a great ride today for me. Jan thinks that the small lump I feel along arm is a small tear in the muscle where it attaches to to bone. Don't remember the exact term but the 'pink areas' are superficial blood vessels reacting to the rads and showing up. She did go ahead and freeze 2 skin tags, a mole that I've had…
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O.T. Cookie night tomorrow (Fri)
I have GNO (girls night out monthly with 3 friends) each month...this week we are doing our annual Christmas cookies...fun times and good treats! We have all known each other since Kindergarten-graduated together. We got back in contact after 30 yrs and now never miss a month of GNO Anyone else have cookie bake with…
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I am newly diagnosed
I was diagnosed last week and my doctor ordered an MRI to rule out the left breast and lymph nodes. Left is clear but lymph node is suspicious. Dr. called me yesterday to do a nother biopsy on Monday. If lymphs are involved he wants to do chemo first. if not surgury Dec. 30, 2011. I feel like I woke up in a dream and…
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Started new chemo and he added herceptin???
This was a surprise yesterday. He said I was on the cusp of her neg/pos and nothing else was working so he was able to get approval from insurance so I started on it yesterday with the loading dose. It can't hurt at this point? Asked him what the chances were of losing my new eyebrows, eyelashes and hair, as it is coming…
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ohmygosh - missed out on ornament exchange!
--didn't realize I'd been away for that long...! The pain in my upper arm still hasn't gone away but the oncologist's np did finally order an x-ray. They say it's perfectly fine and that there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever. Since they see nothing wrong with it they refuse to do anything for the pain. Some days (lots)…
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(OT) Police raided my next-door neighbor the day of my biopsy...
March 26, 2010.. about a 1/2 hour after I got home from biopsy, police raided the townhouse next door. Here's what became of it. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/clay_man_gets_20_years_for_mas.html I had no idea this was going on. It made me sick to hear. And I had felt bad for thinking he looked like the…
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Got mine today
WOW! Whoever got me my ornaments knew me quiet well. I LOVE,LOVE, love my teapot ornament and also the cat hugging the dog one. How did you know that I am crazy about tea? And now I actually got cats AND a puppy. Yep, I just got her 4 days ago and it feels like she has always been here. She is JUST amazing!! I named her…
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Secret Santa
How about some clues here as to the identity of my Secret Santa??? The only thing I know is that she is from Kansas and works in Missouri. I'd like to thank her for the box of goodies that included a snowflake trimmed with pink sparkles, and a dangling glitzy pink ornament. Then, you are not going to believe this, but it…
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First Zometa Infusion...
Had my first infusion of Zometa this morning...went off with out a hitch! Chemo nurses at my cancer center are awesome! Now for the interesting part....one of the side effects is flu like symptoms...seems there's a "miracle drug" they've found to combat this....drum roll.........it's TUMS!!! She went into a long discussion…
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Silicone Implants before Radiation?
Hi everyone, First I want to thank everyone for the advice and support.Your kind words have ment so much and today has been a much better day.I know that I will walk into my first chemo treatment with the same faith that I have had since being diagnosed and walk out of my last faith still intact. I had an appointment with…
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New to Zometa? Here is some info that may help...
Many here are on zometa and wonder about side effects. I am posting this in hopes it will help. Zometa is a bone strengthening drug that is used to help in the treatment of bone metastasis. It hardens the bone so there are less skeletal related events (SRE's) like fractures. Some believe it may slow the spread of bone…
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O.T.
who else has already mailed their Christmas cards? Denise...