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Did anyone else
watch football yesterday??? Every football team had some kind of pink displayed. It was awesome to see so much support for breast cancer awareness. Players were wearing pink shoes, pink gloves, there were pink bc banners/posts/clothing, etc. Go pink warriors! Char
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Flu Shot?
Hi. This is my first flu shot season since diagnosis and have appt. with onc in a few weeks, but was wondering if flu shots are recommended. Thanks for any help.
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Headaches a year after chemo?
I'm new to this site, but I'm hoping to get some info about side effects from chemo. I finished chemo a year ago, radiation 10 months ago and my PET scan was clean last Fall after surgery and chemo. I started having headaches first thing in the morning a few months ago, but it went away after a couple of weeks. Now I'm…
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flying to NYC for Making Strides
My youngest daughter works in NYC and they have a team for Making Strides. I have been invited to go as a survivor!! I am SO excited to share this experience with her. Just booked my flight.
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I finished my Chemo!
I am so happy that today was my last chemo infusion. Hoooorrayyyy!!!! I have completed 4 x AC and 12x Taxol/Herceptin. I still have to go every 3 wks for Herceptin to complete a year. Has anyone experience any side effects with just the herceptin alone? I have been doing fine with the Taxol/Herceptin combo so far. Thank…
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Dancing with NED
I got my Ultrasound and mammogram reports this morning and I am very happy to be dancing with NED. They did find some scattered calcificatios and "post surgical changes" at the operative site that were deemed "benign" I wish they were not there at all but I was assured the changes were common and not unexpected. Anyone…
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Send me Good Wishes for Tomorrow
Well, I am off for another Brain MRI tomorrow to see if they can find why I am still having so much pain in the left side of my face. This is a new group, and I am going to see a Neurosurgeon this time after the MRI. Cross your fingers that they at least can find what is causing the pain, and we can fix it. I will post…
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Shortscake, how are you doing?
Hey Girl Power, you are missed around here and we all have been wondering how you are doing. If you do log on the site, please post to let us know. Praying for you, Sue :)
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Well ladies, looks like this is our month!!!!
How do you all feel about being reminded every commercial that we have Breast Cancer!!?? I'm so glad that they do this, but it's a double edged sword. If the $$$ made can help find a cure then GO FOR IT~ Are we getting closer? sometimes it seems like it and then I go on here and read how one of our pink sisters is back on…
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Moopy and NED... still sittin' in that tree!!!
We just heard back from Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis; the CT scans Moopy had done up there yesterday afternoon came back with No Evidence of Disease! Twenty-two months and eight days after surgery, and NED is still boarding at stately Moopy Manor! Thank you all so much for all the support! Moopy would thank you…
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BC and BC (Birth Control and Breast Cancer)
I was just at one of the horse sites I go to a lot. There were several young women writing about the birth control pills that pervent periods for several months at a time. I went through menopause in 1991 so haven't kept up with birth control methods since then. My questions have to do with rather or not there have been…
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hang in there
This was posted by a CSner(sorry I dont remember who) when I first joined, I put it on my FB because it spoke to our inner strength. with so many new people I thought it was worth posting again. If you read this and want to take credit feel free.....…
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cancer and positive thinking! HA!
I have been listening to Barbara Ehrenriech on the radio talking about how positive thinking undermines America. I love the part where she says (once a cancer patient herself) the pressure on cancer patients to be positive because their very survival depends on it is way too much that even oncology nurses are speaking out…
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2nd tx
Well last week I was supposed to have my 2nd round of chemo tx, but because my blood count was low they put it off until this week. Went in today and blood count is good. I will be having chemo tomorrow. Next few days will be rough. Pray for me!!! Shannon
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I have Tamoxifen side effects; what's your opinion?
Well, crap. A positive outlook only sets you up for being let down. I struggled with the decision to take Tamoxifen and gave in with the thought (and suggestion fro the onc) that if I didn't like it, I could stop taking it. Immediately after beginning it (Nov. '09) my normal menopause hot flashes ramped up their intesity…
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Anyone experienced this?
For the past several weeks I have had pain in my lower left abdomen, just about over the pelvic bone--not in the joint. It is approximately an area of 4 inches from my waist down. It is worse when I get up from sitting; sometimes very bad until I take several steps. I tried a heating pad, but it didn't make any difference.…
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Fallen Warrior Remembered
Today I lost a very dear friend to cancer. She died this morning at the hospital with family and friends at her bedside. Her name was ZENA and she was EXCEPTIONAL! She was loved by doctors, nurses, and patients alike! I met her at the chemo clinic and was automatically drawn to her unfaltering, sunny disposition. Back in…
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I Did It - Walked the Susan G. Komen 5K Today!
I've done this walk in Baltimore for the last 8 years. However, this was my first walk as a survivor!!!! It was kind of emotional. Usually, it is just my sister & I that walk every year. Two years, my son and daughter-in-law walked with us. This year my husband, my youngest son and his fiance, my two sisters, two…
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Tinabug, I see you are posting again -
unless I've missed some... How are you? Sue
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Herceptin
Hello, Its been a very long time since I have checked in. I am wondering if anybody on this board has received "LATE" Herceptin? I am 7 years out past treatment and my onc called me in to see if I was interested in starting a year of Herceptin. I seemed to have fallen through the cracks because at my time of chemo it was…
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new mom
I just found this site doing a google search as I was desperate to just blurt out my feelings to anyone who would listen... my mom died of breast cancer (which had metastacised into her brain and bones) in march of this year. She had cancer for just 13 months. She was my everything. Four days before she died my perfect son…
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HELP!!!!
My wife has been vomiting for the past 2 days and yet her pain has taken over her entire body, it seems that the increase in pain medication is not helping, yet it is like her body can't take that much medication. I called ONC and asked her if I should take my wife to ER, and she said "YES," but my wife does not want to go…
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exchange surgery date~finally!
just an update! I have finally got a date for my exchange surgery.its october 26th. im so excited! had my BMx on Feb 16th so i am more than ready for this next 'soft' step. Just hope i like them! lol Kay xxx
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If not for VickiSam
then going to Rite-Aid would have been the usual ordinary experience. But because VickSam is a lovely generous person, I set my purchases (tons of calcium) on the counter along with my pink ribbon key ring that VickSam gave each one of us at the Southern California RE Union. The woman said, "Are you a breast cancer…
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Tears at the gym
So today was my first day back at my gym. And I felt so overwhelmed when I was on my treadmill with a good book, ready to roll, that I cried. I would have never thought that I would cry for joy for being able to go to the gym. Go figure! Ayse
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Today is linpsu's birthday!
Best wishes for a wonderful day - filled with everything you love most! ...and to many, many more! love, Jenny
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Today is sparklewings' birthday!
Happy Birthday! Hope your day is filled with everything you love most! love, Jenny
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anyone have an ommaya reservoir
Anyone have an ommaya reservoir in their head for chemo? Just wondering, mine changes sizes sometimes very small other times rather large. Onc says shes not worried about it I just think its odd.
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How long does it take for the stiches to disolve?
I'm talking about the internal ones, (sp) suechers, sutchers?
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Because some things aren't suitable for Facebook...
I have a facebook account and that is usually where I post how I feel or what's going on inside me. Most times facebook is a very unsatisfactory place to vent so here goes... Tonight I am tired of this whole mess. I'm tired of fighting. I'm tired of hoping and waiting and I'm really tired of being disappointed. I'm tired…