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Hi all,  looking forward to meeting everyone Monday eve.  Hope to meet those not feeling so well in the future.  I had my expanders removed Monday due to infection, so I'll be toting my drains along with me...ughhh   I feel pretty good although I still get tired quickly.  Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and enjoyed the rain

Hugs, Karen

Thanks for all your hard work Elizabeth....I cant wait to meet everyone.  I am having a rough time this week fighting a skin infection.  I am 6 wks post op.  Saw my ps today for f/u...she said if it doesnt look better by Wed she will have to remove the expanders.    Aaaarrrggghhh

Pamela, I live in Chandler...I will send you a PM.

Hugs to all, Karen

Hi everyone,  This is so exciting and just what I need....I have been fighting the bc blues.  I am 3 weeks post bilat mast, with expanders.  I am not a social coordinator but if no one else has a knack for it, I will try, although Shelle, you sounded great!!!!!  Sometimes a restaurant can be hard to talk to everyone, so lets make sure the setting is open for that kind of communication.  I am happy to open my home up first....I live in Chandler tho and everyone may not want to go that far. I am open to anything, I just dont want to see this dwindle away.  Lets get some ideas rolling!!!!!

Hugs, Karen

Deemarie, how did they find it in your lungs?  I hate this for all of us, and will keep you all in my prayers

Karen

Hi Diane,  I am on my 3rd of 4 Taxol.....Started with paclitaxol and had excruciating leg pain that could not be controlled with percocet.  Dr considered that to be an allergic reaction and switched me to duclitaxol weekly at a lower dose.  I did great, very very mild SE.  So for tx #3 I thought I would be okay to do the 1 big dose to cover 3 weeks, rather than 3 smaller  weekly doses.   Big mistake, I did not get the bad leg pains, but I got everything else.  Thrush, swollen tongue and throat, cant taste, upset stomach, diarhea, headache....I find it harder than the red devil.  On day 8 after tx I ended up in the hospital with a bladder infection.  That was 3 days ago.  I still do not feel good, but I do feel better.  So my last chemo will be back to the weekly....Physcologically it sounds so much better to say only 1 more, instead of 3 more...but I have learned my lesson.  At least the docs can make adjustments.   And remember we all respond differently.  You might do just fine.  Best of luck with it!

Karen

Helen, I am sorry I do not understand your post.  Could you please try again.

Sandy, dont beat yourself up while in Vegas.  I agree with Sharon, You should enjoy the good times with your family and battle the battles later.  You have earned it!

I will be having bilat mast in Oct..with immediate DIEP reconstruction.  Im just wondering if anyone has lost weight after reconstruction and how it affected the new foobs....My ps says yes they can become smaller.  I am a D and would like to stay a D....so I thought I would ask my sisters out there who may have been there and done that.

Hugs all, Karen

Thank you ladies for all you suggestion and encouragement.  I am not normally whiny.  I just felt like I was kicked in the teeth again!!!  I feel more optimistic today.  I know there are many other options out there.

Estepp...if I lived near you, I would be in your shop right now!!!

BadBoob...you are sooooo right, I may find something I like better.  By the way I must tell you a funny story.  Shortly after I was dx, I was in the shower and looked down at my breasts.  I began signing that song..Bad boy bad boy whatchya gonna do.......only I changed it to bad boob - bad boob, whatchya gonna do whatchya gonna do when they come for you!!!!   I laughed so loud my dh came in to see what was going on!

Thanks again ladies, it helps knowing I can come here and be understood

Hugs, Karen

Hi to All,

I will be starting chemo May 22nd....I am just glad to get going.  Was dx in Mar and wont have surgery till after chemo....Surgery was rescheduled for July but I dont want to wait any longer....so we are doing chemo first.

Sounds like a long hot summer ahead.  Dont know if I want a wig or not.... maybe better to get it and not use it, than to want it and not have it.  Nothing is easy about any of this. I am glad to have all of you here, altho I wish none of use were here!  Have a good weekend

Karen

I just went through that in Feb.  My gyn oncol  told me I could drive as soon as I was off pain meds, which was only about 5 days.  I went home the day after surgery and returned to work the 3rd week on a part time basis as I was still tired.  I hope your procedure goes smoothly and quickly!!!!

Karen