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  • Pat51
    Pat51 Member Posts: 130
    #22
    Ro

    I am so sorry to hear about RO.  I knew that she had been having some problems with lungs and treachea.  She was always such an upbeat person and a true warrior of this cancer.  We have lost a great warrior.  So Sad!!

  • Pat51
    Pat51 Member Posts: 130
    #23
    Abbycat2 said:

    Thank you for voicing my thoughts so well, MM and Hellie

    I, too, have my ups and downs. I think about my cancer everyday and I wish this "cancer worm" would disappear. Cancer worm is a perfect description, Hellie. Should I give my jewelry to my sisters and nieces? Should I plan a Rhine River cruise a year from now because "what if" I won't be able to do it? Should I quit my full-time job so that I get a chance to experience a good quality retirement before my health deteriorates? Should I wait until I am 63.5-years-old when I retire so that I can pay close to $700.00 monthly for Cobra insurance? Cobra insurance can be purchased up to 18 months and that would take me to age 65 and Medicare eligibility age.   Is my Will up-to-date?

     It saddens me to think about the many fine women who posted on this Board and are now gone. I miss the posts from Ro, Linda and Maryann to mention only a few.

    Living with cancer

    I know EXACTLY how you ladies feel.  The cancer worm visits me daily too!!  I have been contemplating retiring.  Telling myself to do it before I am sick again and will not be able to enjoy anything.  As I, too, feel that it is only a matter of when that will happen.  Cancer takes away your vision of the future and puts a great big ?? mark there!!  Like you Abbycat.... can I plan a vacation or will something happen that I cannot go??   Should I retire??  Will I just sit in the house and think about cancer if I am not working??  I hate this cancer and the sword that is always hanging over your head(Hellie)!!  I have been doing everything that I did before I was diagnosed...no change in excercise or diet....if I recurr ....have I caused this myself???  Ups and downs......I hate CANCER...it really SUCKS!!!  When I read of losing another wonderful lady to USPC it saddens me.  I wish that there was as much research for a cure done for this cancer as some others out there.  I am so glad to know that there are other ladies in the same emotional place that I am...now I don't feel so alone or as if I am too dramatic about this whole cancer thing.  It helps just to vent sometimes!

  • SettledSue
    SettledSue Member Posts: 55 Member
    #24
    Abbycat2 said:

    Thank you for voicing my thoughts so well, MM and Hellie

    I, too, have my ups and downs. I think about my cancer everyday and I wish this "cancer worm" would disappear. Cancer worm is a perfect description, Hellie. Should I give my jewelry to my sisters and nieces? Should I plan a Rhine River cruise a year from now because "what if" I won't be able to do it? Should I quit my full-time job so that I get a chance to experience a good quality retirement before my health deteriorates? Should I wait until I am 63.5-years-old when I retire so that I can pay close to $700.00 monthly for Cobra insurance? Cobra insurance can be purchased up to 18 months and that would take me to age 65 and Medicare eligibility age.   Is my Will up-to-date?

     It saddens me to think about the many fine women who posted on this Board and are now gone. I miss the posts from Ro, Linda and Maryann to mention only a few.

    Early Retirement?

    Abby, I agree it is so hard to make plans not knowing if or when cancer will recur. I retired 7 months before age 63.5 to experience a good quality retirement. So far I am happy I did, even though it is expensive. My Cobra insurance for my husband and me is over $1400 a month and our 18 months are up in December. Then I will have to go on an Obamacare plan which will cost even more for seven months until I turn 65.  Sue

  • NoTimeForCancer
    NoTimeForCancer Member Posts: 3,488 Member
    #25
    Ladies!  With the great help

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    Ladies!  With the great help of the ACS staff (thank you, thank you, thank you) I have finally been able to post the picture of the sign I made at the Race to End Women's Cancer in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, November 8.  

    I hate having to add names to this wall but I will never forget the wonderful ladies I have gotten to know.  

    May God guide the researchers to cure this disease. 

     

     

  • debrajo
    debrajo Member Posts: 1,095 Member
    #26
    NoTimeForCancer said:

    Ladies!  With the great help

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    Ladies!  With the great help of the ACS staff (thank you, thank you, thank you) I have finally been able to post the picture of the sign I made at the Race to End Women's Cancer in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, November 8.  

    I hate having to add names to this wall but I will never forget the wonderful ladies I have gotten to know.  

    May God guide the researchers to cure this disease. 

     

     

    Ro

    Thank you so much for this No time!  I know Ro would get a kick out of being remembered!  I often think, when the seasons change, that for winter would be in Florida and then in Spring,Well Ro would  be back in Ill. in her garden....her therapy.  Thank you again!

     

     

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