jdash

cazza  yipeeeeeee  thats fantastic news   you must be so happy and so relieved   go and celebrate the great news

BIG HUG

j

jacqueline  here i am  you found another person  - dont know how large your tumor was - not even sure how large mine was but here i am   NED  2 1/2 yrs later  -  had the chemo first  then dbl mast and node removal  and NO EVIDNECE of disease in any tissue anywhere

well at least for now i am NED and I totally understand Wallan how you feel   -  i think you should understand why you feel like that -  you put yourself in a situation that scared you - or gave you a dose of the reality of bc  - but i think you should be so proud of yourself for all the good you did for those women!!! i am so proud of you !!!  thats why we all come here to this site, because really no one else can understand how we feel and the anxiety and uncertainity of good health we live with-    i know during checkup times I do start to stress and freak out quite a bit- its normal  hang in there   lots of love and hugs to all my sisters here

couldnt of done it this far without you

julia

well here i am 2 1/2 yrs from being bald and i have all my hair back !  hang in there  it does come back and sometimes nicer   my hair came back sooo curly - at first i felt like a poodle and just used tons of gel and slicked it back   now i got a keroten treatment and it helps to relax the curls a bit - keeps away the frizzies and is good for the hair

it is 2 1/2 yrs for me and i have met wonderful women as well  it was difficult right after i finished up everything  - it was just like my safety net was pulled from under me   i discussed it with my therapist and she said it is so common for bc survivors to feel like that   time has helped it has gotten easier but of course right before a checkup or tests that panic feeling returns   life is good though and i am happy again

i had skin sparing nipple sparing surgery  i have minimal scaring from the side of the breast almost to the nipple on one side and to the nipple on the other  (one side is almost invisible the other much more noticeable-  i did not have the surgeon draw on me when i was up and i wish i did  - i think that is really important  -   the bs is really important to the outcome of the scars too! i think equally as the ps    i think some surgeons do the incisions differently then others   it also has to do with the location of the cancer 

wishiwere  you are so right!  i reread my post and yes it turns them on and yeah anything probably does turn them on   hahaha and i do love your idea of dressing them up  but i do have to confess that dressing up sexy turns me on as much as him!  try it-  it does make you feel sexy and that is a turn on to me

annie

this doctor is definetly trying to cover his ass and his nurse knows it too which is why she was panicking-  he must think you have filed a malpractice suit against him  just ignore him

dont even take the calls anymore  there is no reason you should be harrassed by his office

you need to just think about yourself and getting well-  i am so angry that they are doing this to you  its just not fair    i would tell his office that if they continue with this harrassment then you will have an attorney contact them    that will shut them up

BIG HUGS AND WISHING YOU A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING 

praying for angela and hoping she will be feeling better and be able to enjoy the holiday with her family   deb  -- always thinking of you  BIG HUGS  to you both   xoxoxo j

praying for that beth! zar is always in my thoughts

12 years ago i chose to have a lumpectomy and rads   (i had dense breast tissue and the mammo did not pick it up- i felt it on my own and it was very small)  for 10 years i had mammo/sono  (well what i should have had the last few of those years was MRI)  on the 10yr checkup i felt a lump and went for the mammo /sono   MAMMO picked up nothing / sono picked it up but it saw it as smaller than it really turned out to be-  and  this sucker was over 7 cm and very clearly seen in an MRI - so I could not believe a mammo did not read it    i must have had really DENSE breast tissue   had to obviously this time have the mastectomy and of course i chose a double mast never wanting to ever deal with this again   i responded incredibly to the chemo i had before the surgery which thank god was a miracle because when they operated all the cancer cells were gone 100% response   everybodys choice is so personal and every situation is different but looking back on my choice 12 years ago with the history of my dense breast tissue i wish i would have done dbl mast back then  by the way my reconstruction which is gummie bear high profile silicone look amazing

The part that was not explained as I have been hearing in other posts is that while survival rate is the same recurrance rate is a whole other story   whatever you choose - speak to your doctors  get their opinions and then use that information to form your own decision   in the end its you who has to live with it  xoxoxox