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Thought I share this .. I certainly do live in 2009
==================== YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2009 when... 1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. 3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. 4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.. 5. Your reason for…
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Decisions to be made.
Hi, I'm a new member. I have been reading a few days and decided to jump in. I'm just at the begining of my cancer battle. I have stage 1 cancer ER/PR+ her-, no lymph nodes were positive. I had a lumpectomy. Today I was told that maybe I should consider Chemo and Radiation as a treatment. I thought I was on the road to…
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Nail Biter
To stop her 4-year old daughter from biting her nails, her mother tells her it'll make her fat. "I won't do it any more, Mom," says the daughter. Next day they are out walking when they meet a very fat man. "If I bite my fingernails, I'll be as fat as that, won't I Mom?" "You'll be fatter than that," says her mother. They…
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Need help ..sensitive subject .. private area is raw and inflamed from constipation (5 days with mo
First chemo on 9/8 .. 3 cocktail drugs .. constipated until 3:00 a.m. Saturday .. now my vjj area and buttocks are raw from discharging chemo .. Walking around without undies .. corn starch, ?? hard for me to pee .. painful.. .. Sorry for being so graphic .. however .. I am at my wits end.. Emergency room states that I…
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An elderly couple in a senior's rec room
An elderly couple in a senior's home used to visit the recreation room everyday. While there, the old lady would sit quite contently holding the old guys's penis. One day she goes down to the rec. room and is mortified to find her man with another women holding his penis. "What's she got that I don't have?" she says. He…
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a/c side effects
anyone have difficulty swallowing and pain on soles of feet while on Adriamycin and cytoxan? Does this go away? Also had some skin discoloration near genital / rectal area. Does this go away? Will see dr. Monday. Thanks
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Femara and Cymbalta?
Anyone on Femara who also takes Cymbalta? I have been experiencing insomnia with the Femara as well symptoms of depression. I note a side effect of Cymbalta--11% or so--is insomnia. I would love to hear y'all's experience with the two. Many thanks. Last time I was on effexor and after weaning myself off of that two years…
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New to the "club" and having surgery soon
So hoping you'll have some advice for me! I'm 41, was just diagnosed with invasive ductal and am having unilateral mast. on 9/30 with immediate reconstruction via latiss. flap. Any advice to get ready? Anything you found helpful to have ready when you got home? I appreciate any tips you can share!
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A Huge Thank You to All
Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my question about having a bi-lateral - it made me feel so positive for once that I am making the right decision. I know if I don't do this, I'll always wonder and regret it. It helps so much to know that so many have done this and are totally happy with their decision or at…
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Port coming up...
I'm going in tomorrow for a port insert. In a way, I am relieved it's finally here and I can move on with the next phase, chemo. On the other hand, I'm a little scared because I know what purpose it will serve. Can't dwell on that tidbit, have to move on. Will fill you in on chemo. Start up date for chemo is still pending.…
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peggy 10 and 11
doing great 18 more days left hopeev1 we sue hope you are well god bless luv peggy
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does anyone know how long it takes for your eyelashes to come back... Cause I really hate them being
I am totally over this whole eyelashes being gone... Hell I can live with the no hair on the top of my head, but really truely hate my eyelashes being gone. Does anyone know how long they take to come back? I was told six months.. I am taking biotin to see if that helps. Anyone else have any tips...
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No mass in my lower abdomen as indiciated by CI scan performed at Corona Regional... Spent 7 hours
It's me VickiSam .. I thought I was having a heart attack yesterday, rushed to local Community Hospital (in pain for over 4 hours, before deciding this was not normal) .. held captive for over 7 hours. EKG. Chest X-rays ...and CI scann performed - here I go again with the iodine .. At7:30 p.m. last night my hubby and I…
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"Shout Out" to Southern Cal - ACS sister in PINK .. 11th Annual ' Walk For Health - 9/26 - Promenade
I would like to invite all So. California sisters in PINK, to the 11th annual walk for HEALTH .. Sept. 26th - Promendade shops @ Dos Lagos - Corona, CA. It would be my honor and privilege to meet each of you women who has made such an impact in my life, and supported me thru my journey with breast cancer. I am humbled by…
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going away party for my right breast (and benefit)
If anyone lives in San Diego or surrounds - please join me Sunday evening at Jayne's Gastropub. I'm having my surgery (single mastectomy with immediate reconstruction - tissue expander - for DCIS) on the 24th so I figured...plan a party? The proactive, practical side of me uses this as a coping mechanism...it's working to…
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Help
I was 34 and 6 months pregnant when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was in my right breast. I did a lumpectomy and after having my baby I got 7 weeks of radiation. Everyhting went well until 10 years later there came a syst in the left breast. I did surgery again. Then in 2007 it was my left breast again. This time…
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New to site - need emotional support
I'm new to this site and am looking for support emotionally. I was diagnosed this past April with cancer in my right breast. Had a mastectomy in May, didn't need chemo but am now on Tamoxifen. The only side effect I have is moodiness. I'm beginning to feel so irritable that I'm becoming depressed. I'm typically a very…
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Radiation starts this week.. any advice on what to expect...
I will be starting my 30 rounds of radiation on Tues and was wondering what to expect. From you ladies currently in treatment or have completed. Would be nice to know what to really expect.. And does anyone have advice on how to prevent serious skin damage while getting the radiation... I'm worried about bad burns that…
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Any therapy after Tamoxifen?
I am in the FINAL few weeks of the 5-year tamoxifen regimen. I meet with my oncologist next week and will have the discussion regarding what's next.(?) Is anyone out there who has finished with tamoxifen and was given other options as to what's next (if anything)? Thanks in advance...great discussion board!
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Need input
I posted a blog last week regarding my sister she is only 46 and has been fighting breast cancer (she is in stage 4) for 3 years and 4 months. My family has just been told that it has spread to her brain. At this point what is the survival rate I know everyone is different with a different life. But any reassurance is…
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callee
is onco test back just thinking about you hope all is well god bless luv peggy
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Question about number of chemos
I just got home from my fifth chemo treatment of cytoxin/Taxotere. At the first meeting with my oncologist, he had told me that I had to have at least four treatments but he would like me to have six if I could take them. I am stage IIb - tumor size was 4 cent. and I had one lymph node involved. I had a mastectomy in May…
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mamo neg but ultrasoud positive w/ nodes
Anyone out there that are in the 20% group that it didn't appear on mamo but ultrsound showed it plus nodes? I feel like I wasted 18 years getting mamos that said my calcifications show no cancer but suprise the ultrasound showed I did. Stage 3
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Port in place
Had port placed this morning,was scared but doing ok. Surgeon prayed with me prior to procedure. Arm is very sore but pain med is working. Now Im ready for my chemo on Wednesday. Keep me in your prayers that all goes well. Deb
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The coldest igloo
There were three Eskimos in Alaska, and one time while they were at their local bar, they got to talking about how cold it was outside, and how cold their igloos were. They could agree on everything but whose igloo was the coldest, so they decided to determine who, indeed, had the coldest igloo. They went to the first…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
Well, today I reached the ripe old age of 65, and don't feel a day over 90. No, really, today is a celebration day, as I truly didn't think I would live to have this day come. As most survivors will say, when you receive the diagnosis of breast cancer, you feel like your life is going to come to an abrupt end, but as you…
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My heart goes out to all of you touch in one way or another!
Hi- I am Liz, my sister was diagnosed in May 06 (she is only 46) with Breast Cancer I know it is Stage III or at this point Stage IV. It has not affected her organs as of yet, however it has broken ribs and she has brittle bones. In the last 2 months it seems she is going in and out of hospital more frequently then in the…
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LYMPHEDEMA SLEEVES AND GLOVES
Hello All, just a heads up I posted a new blog last night that has photo's of the type of sleeves and gloves I wear for my lymphedema problems. It also lists a web site I thought would be helpful. RE
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Kind of worried
I wasn't going to say anything til I knew more but I'm going to. Last Wed. I started chemo, Thurs. I got a call from Dr. T's nurse that the PET scan showed a mass along my right jaw bone (hadn't shown on bone scan). I haven't talked to Dr. T but have an appt with him next Wed. before chemo. They made an appt. with an ENT…
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Pathology reports back
It's a great day. I feel like Dorothy tapping her red shoes together. To all the BC sisters who provided me support and all I know that are out there supporting others - THANK YOU! It's 4 days out from surgery and the results from pathology are back. I feel like Rose must have felt on the bow of the Titanic as she "flew in…