Best Of
Re: thread for middle age to older Christian women.
Teka, that deer looks like it would love to have a free buffet of your yard. I can see why you have protection around your raised beds. I bet you will get that pic of a doe and fawn soon. My neighbors have complained that the hawk moth as they called it was trying to destroy their tomatoes. I am going to share a couple of pics of a hummingbird clear wing moth I took quite a few years ago. They are very hard to get a good pic as they are so fast. They need a very fast shutter speed if you are using a regular camera. When I took these I was pretty new to photography and really didn't know much at that time. Mostly luck when photographing these pics.
My bite is no better so I started the antibiotic and prednisone today. The PA I saw mentioned making an apt for me on Friday. I didn't do that but I am wondering now why she mentioned it. The redness is more and still itching. I have had a lot of unexplained arm pain lately and I hope it is totally unrelated to this bite. I did not mention that to her as I didn't think it was related.
Enjoy your potato salad and hot dogs. Sounds like a perfect meal for July 4th.
My bucket list is getting a pic of an owl in the wild. Maybe we will both get our wish list of pics in the future.
Happy 4th.
Love,
Nancy
Re: thread for middle age to older Christian women.
I visited the Butterfly House a few days ago. I thought I got some good pics but after having my camera to the camera store to update the firmware something went haywire. One of the main settings that regulates the amount of light in (aperture) was set when I got there and I didn't realize most of my time there the aperture was automatically changing to these crazy numbers I would never use for this type of photography and hence many of my pics were out of focus which I couldn't see on my camera at the time even though I did check my settings after things got a bit goofy. I haven't checked my camera to fix whatever may have happened. With that said I have just a few shots and only one of them I was happy with but I did pick butterflies I haven't posted this year. So here goes.
This first pic is the butterfly version of the water cooler. However their water has fruit and sugar in theirs.
This second pic is an Eggfly. I am not sure who comes up with these names.
This last one is a Citrus Swallowail
Have a good evening dear sisters.
Love,
Nancy
Re: After first shot of Lupron
Day 5 (yesterday) period has left me. So that was normal in a way. Physical items like hot flashes/headache are almost gone. Sleep has been better, no more waking up every 3 hours or so or few times throughout the night. Mood still has anxiety (less) but now I am in grief and gloom. Think these were always in me, but other mood took precedence or it was suppressed really good (which I am good at). Now they are all on the surface and I am facing them now, whereas I most likely would have faced them at the beginning of all this. I am waiting on my next meet with my therapist and social worker to work thru this. I think once I get more menstruating cycles in and therapy, these could also subside.
I consider these as my side effects from this 3.75 mg 3 month slow release lupron shoot. Many other boards say that it could be months or years for them to work itself out. But this 6.5 months have been a roller coaster of a ride. I dont consider this as the end of this journey until I am back to 95% of the old me. Right now, I think I am at 73%, still got some ways to go.
zen1028
Re: After first shot of Lupron
I am 47 and not too sure if I was in perimenopause when I was diagnosed. But this is something I will need to discuss with my new oncologist when I see her in September. However, the few times that I did take tamoxifen while on lupron, was BAD. It is hard to describe but anxiety 1000 fold, panicky feelings, just bad. The oncologist I had just wanted me to take anxiety pills and then when depression set in back in March, he just wanted me to take on depression pills. I just dont like this pill on top of pill on top of pill to mask one issue on top of another. I want to LIVE but I also want a good quality of life where my mind is at least as normal as it ever was.
Lupron was not giving me that and still am not even with this period. My body right now is almost reacting like post trauma type of feel. Not sure how long that would go away, maybe after a few more menstruating cycles?
I am not against nor am I saying absolute NO to tamoxifen. But I am just not ready to take it on now with my body in the state it is in. My body right now has estrogen and it is like a "shock" to it after these 6.5 months on lupron.
zen1028
Re: After first shot of Lupron
From 12/14/23 to today, 6/30/24, almost 6.5 months, I FINALLY have my period. I am SOOOO HAPPY that I am on my way to ground zero. Reason I am not there is the side effects from lupron, like anxiety and brain fog, have not disappear with the appearance of the period. Base on other online forums, it will not until possible months later. I just hope I have NO permanent SE left over as there were mention of some of those. This has been one hell of a journey that I will not want to ever go thru again. I think I would like menopause to come naturally or someway would have been discovered to not have it and reduce/eliminate our risk by then. Yes wishful thinking, but maybe the preventative vaccine is right around the corner😁. One can hope.
The next step now is debating on tamoxifen. That has a slew of its own SE. It may be less than what I encountered when I took them while still having Lupron in me. That is a debate/decision that I will need to evaluate carefully. On the good side, unlike this Lupron shoot, it will take 2 wks of stopping tamoxifen for it to clear out of my body vs this 6.5 months or 3.5 month from March (when the orig lupron should have stopped working).
The prior posts here could see when my estrogen did start to come back (June 10 post), the dip in the luteal phase (june 20 post) and the end on Friday's (post on 6/28). So it took from April 11 to beginning of June to move from menopause to follicular phase.
Hot flash have been almost none noticeable. Anxiety still somewhere in the back. Emotions are a little more in check today. These period symptoms, I never had them before this shoot. I have had no periods symptoms prior to this shoot. No cramps, no "down sides" this sever, no anxiety whatsoever. Only way I know I was about to have my period was from the tracking apps. Lets see how the flow is on this first period post lupron and the upcoming weeks/month will be.
zen1028
Re: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
I love the pictures,Camille. So appropriate. I'm sending it to all my family and friends.
Re: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
Btw, my hope is for Shapiro as VP pick. Since ds lives in PA, I’ve loosely followed Shapiro and have been impressed with his governing of the state. I think he brings a lot to the table. Including the sizzle Trishyla mentioned.
Re: Calling all TNs
I agree with Cookie54. The tumor board can be such a great help in figuring out the right treatment. When I was initially diagnosed, the MO recommended a neoadjuvent chemo treatment that did not include AC. After a tumor board meeting, which included my surgeon, the recommendation changed to AC-T. The tumor board was involved in every aspect of my treatment and I think it really helped, especially since my MO was relatively newer.
norcals
