Well I'll be darned look who stopped by! Wish it was good news

lynn1950 said:

TJ...I'm writing to let you
TJ...I'm writing to let you know that I'm throwing a tantrum over your news - not that I can rival you. I'm with all your friends here, hoping and praying that everything is fine and not metastases. xoxoxo Lynn

wishing you the best news
wishing you the best news possible!

Aortus said:

No kidding
Moopy and I were up in St. Louis the day after New Year's 2009, so she could get a second opinion from Dr. Barbra Horn at Siteman Cancer Center. We thought it would be a simple in-and-out thing. Ha.

Dr. Horn was doing the routine stethoscope thing when she decided she didn't like the sound of Moopy's breathing on the side where her port had just been put in. CT scan... STAT! Chest X-ray... STAT! MRI... STAT! Neither of us had even a second to figure out what was going on. But you can all imagine the fun things that go through one's mind when an oncologist at a National Cancer Institute hospital starts ordering tests and barking STAT!

Turns out that the Mooper had a collapsed lung from her port installation surgery, and had to spend the weekend in the hospital getting it pumped back up. An interventional radiologist stuck a needle in through poor Moopy's side and hooked her up to an air pump. That was about as much fun as you would expect, but Moopy was incredibly brave and we even got to have a free second meeting with the awesome Dr. Horn the next day.

With all that, though, our reaction was HURRAY! COLLAPSED LUNG! To this day, we still look at each other sometimes and say it. What a life, huh? Here's wishing you and Wendy years and years and years of reminiscing about the "bone infection" that turned out to be nothing.

This is funny, people must
This is funny, people must think we have some kind of brain damage when we cheer for a collapsed lung, bone infections. You have to live it to know it.

tjhay said:

This is so stinking funny!!!!
Who would of thought that a board full of cancer survivors would be hoping for an infection, much less a bone infection. It makes Wendy and I laugh. What a world we live in. Well I am all for a bone infection, even if it means the have me walking around for weeks with an IV in my port. Yes I started with many of you and I still have my damn port. Maybe having it still is a good thing. Dont worry to much Wendy keeps me very busy with a very long honey do list so I dont have time to worry much. No she is not a slave driver! Its just that the garden always needs work. lol It looks great if I must say so myself.
Thanks for all the support, it is much appreciated
tj tantrum
your southern sister

Hold on just a minute...
I have a honey-do list, and my honey isn't do-ing it very fast....You got any skills beyond gardening -- say, plumbing and/or electronics? I'd be glad to "help" you have even less time to worry, TJ -- yep, I'm a giver, that's me....

:-) Traci

Traci...
How much bullying did Wendy and I have to go through before you caved? You see sweet sister? We know best, so just deal with that! Haha
We are here for you (yes, I know, it took me awhile to get here), and regardless of the information, we want to be able to encourage, pray, send good vibes, etc. to help you on this, another different step, in your journey. I know one of your main motives for being silent, and I wanted to let our sisters know too, it was because you did not wish to add another worry on the newbies about their own diagnoses and treatments, and that is just one of the many reasons we all love you.
So, I tattled, hope you don’t mind!
Your SoCal tattler!
Cat