Hope Everyone is Having a Great Summer!!

kitten0385
kitten0385 Member Posts: 248
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Hi!!

I post on the esophageal cancer board, but read your board as well as you always have tons of posts and everyone is so upbeat! I love it!! I just thought I'd send a quick note wishing everyone a happy summer!! With the 4th of July coming up, I hope all of you are feeling your best to enjoy yourselves as much as possible!! :0)


Cathy

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  • fedester
    fedester Member Posts: 753 Member
    #2
    thank you
    cathy,
    nice to meet you.
    you also have a great summer, and you are always welcome here.
    be well
    never,ever give up!!
    bruce
  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    #3
    Thanks
    So glad to have you here and you are always welcome on our board. It is better to have an active board than inactive. I hope you are doing well on your journey. Join us whenever you feel the need.

    Kim
  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    #4
    Hi
    Hi, Cathy.

    Looking forward to going on vacation with my hubby July 4th week!

    Come by any time.

    *hugs*
    Gail
  • kitten0385
    kitten0385 Member Posts: 248
    #5
    tootsie1 said:

    Hi
    Hi, Cathy.

    Looking forward to going on vacation with my hubby July 4th week!

    Come by any time.

    *hugs*
    Gail

    Thanks guys! I may just start replying to everyone more often! Kim, I am doing well, there is a spot of fluid they are watching that showed up on my CT that they don't know what it is at this point...could be from radiation, could be the tumor trying to start back up, but I won't worry about it until I have to!, but other than that my last treatment was in May, and I dont have to go back until August! yay! Gail...a vacation will be fun!! My husband and I are going to the river with the pups and doing some swimming/kayaking...should be a good time! I am also getting a new tattoo next week....a sea turtle (symbolizing long life in Japan, and I'm somewhat obsessed with them) carrying away the esophageal cancer ribbon, which is periwinkle blue and also looks like water...I'm pretty stoked for that!
    Again, thanks for the welcome here!

    Cathy
  • grandma2selena
    grandma2selena Member Posts: 199
    #6
    Summer
    Hi Cathy glad you stopped by. We had a lot of plans for the summer but with my husband getting cashed out on his vacation and the new company coming in we will lose our vacation time. Darn...we were planning on going to visit my brother's who I haven't seen in 5 years. They were there for my by phone while I was fighting my cancer, but due to it being in the winter, the passes were too horrible for them to actually come and see me. It was kind of tough especially emotionally to not have them here, but we got through it.

    I know though that we have so much around here to keep us busy through the summer so it won't be a total downer, we will have fun with our granddaughter no matter what we do!

    In fact next month I am actually going to get away by myself, (grandpa will be a weekend papa) and go catch up with a friend from H.S. that I haven't seen in 29 years. I am so excited for that time.

    Debbie
  • Shayenne
    Shayenne Member Posts: 2,342
    #7
    grandma2selena said:

    Summer
    Hi Cathy glad you stopped by. We had a lot of plans for the summer but with my husband getting cashed out on his vacation and the new company coming in we will lose our vacation time. Darn...we were planning on going to visit my brother's who I haven't seen in 5 years. They were there for my by phone while I was fighting my cancer, but due to it being in the winter, the passes were too horrible for them to actually come and see me. It was kind of tough especially emotionally to not have them here, but we got through it.

    I know though that we have so much around here to keep us busy through the summer so it won't be a total downer, we will have fun with our granddaughter no matter what we do!

    In fact next month I am actually going to get away by myself, (grandpa will be a weekend papa) and go catch up with a friend from H.S. that I haven't seen in 29 years. I am so excited for that time.

    Debbie

    Hi Cathy!!
    It's awesome that you stopped to say HI! Cancer is cancer no matter where it is, and we're all in this fight together :)

    Hopefully you'll stop by more often so you can tell us more about yourself :)

    Hugssss!
    ~Donna
  • kitten0385
    kitten0385 Member Posts: 248
    #8
    Shayenne said:

    Hi Cathy!!
    It's awesome that you stopped to say HI! Cancer is cancer no matter where it is, and we're all in this fight together :)

    Hopefully you'll stop by more often so you can tell us more about yourself :)

    Hugssss!
    ~Donna

    Debbie, I'm so glad you get to spend time with your granddaughter!! and...how fun to see a friend after so long!! That will definitely be exciting! I can't imagine not seeing my brother in over 5 years, my brother and I are very close, but he lives very close to me too.
    Donna, I will definitely have to stop by more often, this is a great bunch!! A little about me- I am a teacher, and just got married a year ago. This past October (I was 23, and married for 4 months) I was having trouble swallowing, so I went to the doctor and they sent me in for an endoscopy and dilation, said I most likely just needed my esophagus stretched, my grandpa use to always have to have it done...well turns out it was a tumor. 10 days later I was having surgery to remove my esophagus and a third of my stomach, and I was stage 3. I went through 6 months of chemo (Epirubicin, Oxilplatin), and Xeloda), with 5 weeks of radiation. I go to the Mayo Clinic for all my treatments, but I live in northwest Iowa. At the end of my my scan looked clear, besides a tiny sliver of fluid they're watching, which may be from radiation, they're not sure. I now don't go back until the end of August! I look forward to getting to know you too!

    Cathy
  • paulette S
    paulette S Member Posts: 42
    #9
    kitten0385 said:

    Debbie, I'm so glad you get to spend time with your granddaughter!! and...how fun to see a friend after so long!! That will definitely be exciting! I can't imagine not seeing my brother in over 5 years, my brother and I are very close, but he lives very close to me too.
    Donna, I will definitely have to stop by more often, this is a great bunch!! A little about me- I am a teacher, and just got married a year ago. This past October (I was 23, and married for 4 months) I was having trouble swallowing, so I went to the doctor and they sent me in for an endoscopy and dilation, said I most likely just needed my esophagus stretched, my grandpa use to always have to have it done...well turns out it was a tumor. 10 days later I was having surgery to remove my esophagus and a third of my stomach, and I was stage 3. I went through 6 months of chemo (Epirubicin, Oxilplatin), and Xeloda), with 5 weeks of radiation. I go to the Mayo Clinic for all my treatments, but I live in northwest Iowa. At the end of my my scan looked clear, besides a tiny sliver of fluid they're watching, which may be from radiation, they're not sure. I now don't go back until the end of August! I look forward to getting to know you too!

    Cathy

    hi
    so glad you stopped in to say hi- wishing you only the best and glad to hear you are on the road to recovery

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