Topic: Who here is from Ontario??

hi viv,

not from ontario but did visit that area last spring and it was gorgeous. Hope to come again this summer but all depends//

Hi Pearl, it's snowing here too, was surprised by it when I woke up. My hubby has relatives in the London area, Ingersol to be exact. Port Perry is about 1 hour north east of Toronto, on Lake Scugog. Nice small town and freindy people. I grew up in Oshawa, hubby in T.O. I have 1 daughter who goes to Brock University. Hey, I love the water too. We bought a dumpy old cottage up north a couple years ago.........can't wait till winter is over to get back there. Have you met any other good old ontarions?

Hi Sierra. Metro huh. Not to far away. So you used to come to the Port Perry Fairs??? LOL They're still running! If you ever want to spend a day in Port, let me know........real tourist town in the summer. Message me sometime.

Hi Viv!

I hail from Sudbury (a little more north).  I have been down your way when going to Kingston.  Very nice and will likely be passing thru again this summer on motorcycles.  When is this fair and what type of fair is it?

Nicky

Hi Nicky, Sudbury eh? My husbands mothers side id from there. We are often there from may to end of october. Ever heard of Panage Lake? Thats where we go, have an old fixer upper "camp" there. Kills 2 birds with one stone, we get to cottage and see the relatives at the same time. They are spread from webbwood to espanola and sudbury. Long drive but once we're there it's worth it. The Port Perry main fair is called festival days and usually runs around the 10-13 of july....on that clostest weekend. It's a bit of everything.....all weekend long. Where in sudbury area are you?

Hello Everybody!

I am from a very small town in Eastern Ontario south of Ottawa where literally everyone is a relative.  We live in 'CowTown' as my daughter calls it on a dairy farm - actually we sold our cows a few years ago and are semi-retired, just cropping and 'horseing around' now.  Cancer treatment centre is about an hour and a half away so radiation for 6 weeks was a bit of a bummer.

Nan

Hi Nan...so do you go to Ottawa for treatments??? How small town are you? I have a sister in Perth and sister in law in Kanata. I love perth. Ever heard of Tichbourne??? My husband was born there.....talk about "cowtown"?? LOL

I live in the Muskoka area and we travel to Manitoulin to get away from it all in the summer and Texas in the winter.  We are leaving in a couple of weeks.  I'm so tired of all the snow days and no sunlight.  Sorry, I'm whining!  I go to Sudbury for my treatments and I love it up there. 

Hi Diana, hmmm, I hear ya, this strech of winter always is the longest, I get SAD when there isn't enough sun. Nov. and Feb are the worst months I find. God, I LUUUUUUV the muskokas, especially between Gravenhurst and Bala. We usually take the scenic route from here to Sudbury, 169hwy to 69hwy. I never get tired of that part of the drive. Manitoulin is beautiful too. That's so funny that you leave everyone else's prime destination to get away to manitoulin. Muskokas gets real busy in summer tho. Ever taken a side trip to Britt or Killarny??? Killarny is breathtaking!

hi babsb,

i'm not from ontario but am triple neg. I am waiting to see oncologist to proceed with the next part of the game plan. Should be next week. Care to share your particulars of stage, grade  etc. I am eager to get on with the game as the waiting drives you nuts. I didn't have far to go....

Hi Viv,

I am a long way from Ontario but I was there last month for 3 weeks. My niece married a Canadian the year before last and she now lives in Burlington, just south of Oakville and Mississauga. I know you guys are sick of the snow but I did find it so exciting! I loved walking in it and seeing it frosting the trees. Niagara Falls was awesome, with huge icicles hanging off the cliffs. We spent one weekend up in the Blue Mountains - just near Collingwood, north of Barrie. It snowed really heavily. I love the black squirrels and the opossums and the beautiful trees.  Sorry - raving a bit but I do love your country. Would so like to come back sometime. My sister is flying back there in early February to be with her daughter who is due to give birth to her first baby. Wish she would put me in her suitcase!

gb 

I've got tickets to that same game!!!

Oh crazydaisy, I miss snowmobiling, I remember the first time on one back then it was light yamaha, a nice dark red and I drove into my friends driveway and went into the house and said where the hell is reverse on this thing. Well reverse back then were my arms. So I learned to heave hough that puppy around, we were a bunch of young moms up in Madsen that's NW Ontario about 10klms north of Red Lake and we would get the men to babysit and then about 10 of us would go out and snowmobile the lakes and then sit and have drinks and laugh about all the wipe outs, but I can never forget that feeling of fresh unbroken snow on the lakes and just driving as fast as I could over them. Oh I miss that so much now, funny I had forgotten how much I used to love to snowmobile up north.  Thanks for reminding me, something else to day dream about. Pearl49

Crazydaisy et al:

I live in Saint Clair Shores and have relatives in Windsor. We are neighbors and don't even think of Canada as another country.

Not many women are triple negative. I want to say maybe 20%. Anyway, it sure scares the hell out of me. I was in Austin, TX when diagnosed on 12/14/07. Got an oncologist and surgeon there. Had a lumpectomy 4.5 cm total, there were 2, one was invasive, good margins and nothing in lymph nodes.

We had planned on our usual trip with friends to AZ and I didn't need to be crying around my daughter, her husband and my beloved granddaughter, so although I hated to leave them, it was better for all of us. So, in AZ (Coolidge, Arizona) I found an oncologist and radiologist, actually they are in Casa Grande and we are at an RV park in Coolidge.

They both are very positive. It is a very aggressive cancer but cureable. The oncologist was to call the oncologist in TX to discuss my plan with her, but the research I have done since being in AZ, I want his treatment. He said we're going to treat this aggressively and kick butt.

My TX doctor said 3-6 months of chemo, every 3 weeks, AC with Taxol and 35 rounds of radiation.  The AZ doctor wants to to do the chemo every 2 weeks, AC with Taxotere, 35 rounds of radiation with the last several sessions localized only to the tumor site, then more chemo every 2 weeks. He said the number of chemo sessions will be the same as the TX dr. but only they'll be closer together.

I have read that dense dose is good. Have the chemo closer together and I have also read a lot about Cisplatin. I am going to ask him about Cisplatin when I see him this week. The TX dr. said no to Cisplatin but didn't say why, just that it isn't used for "this."

I get my port in Tues a.m. then I presume I'll start chemo this week or next. I had my lumpectomy 2 weeks ago tomorrow 1/26/08.

You know, from what I have read, Canada has some real good standards on triple negative bc.

Take care all

Cookie

Hows all the ontario girls doing? Long old winter huh.How do you keep the winter blahs away?