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Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@mkestrel You’ve been on my mind.I’m thinking of you. How are you doing🌷
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@shanagirl - That's a good CT report - congratulations! Fingers crossed🤞 that the bone scan comes back good too.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Thank you all for the well wishes and pocket duty for my scans yesterday. The CT came back today on my chart. All organs are normal, even my lungs are clear. Liver kidneys, spleen pancreas all normal. The only Impression was scattered stable scattered osseous metastases all stable.
So got through another scan without issue on the CT. Just waiting for the nuclear Medicine Bone Scan to show up on MY CHART.😉
went to PT and mentiond to them that my first day back on Friday, I must have done too much, So he lowered the amounts and reps and told me to stop if I was starting to hurt, which I did. the I got some good traction and massage with heat therapy and tenns electro therapy and so fari. I ‘ve been ok. 😌
shanagirl
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@shanagirl Squeezing in your pocket today hope I'm not too late! Hope it's been a smooth process so far. Hugs💕
@mara51506 Glad to hear steroids are almost finished and haven't been too disruptive. It's bitter cold here today but beautiful sunshine! Just been laying low doing some straightening up and organizing drawers. DH and I are going to brave the cold and go out to dinner tonight. I;ll got out for that to get a break from cooking lol.
Hope everyone is having a good day so far😊
cookie54
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
betrayal
Re: how about drinking?
Jazzy, your trip to the bird refuge sounds like an outing I would definitely enjoy. Mississippi has a sandhill crane refuge that dh and I visited one year when RV friends were working there. I love birds as much I love flowers.
Misty, one of my sisters and I collaborated to look after my mother. The other siblings did their part in different ways, one way by calling her frequently and making her feel a part of their lives. When my mother moved to a nursing home, my sister and I visited on alternate days through Saturday, and a brother went on Sunday to attend a church service with her. When she passed, it was a good feeling to know she had felt loved.
Re: COVID and Flu May Activate Breast Cancer Cells in Lungs
I think there might be something to it, but I agree that more solid evidence and support for this idea is definitely warranted before official acceptance.
I did read some kind of research study that was done a couple of years into the Covid thing (a university study, but I have no citation), that suggested "long Covid" at least, could "alter the tumor microenvironment" in such a way that it created more favorable conditions for breast cancer cells to do their thing. I consider this much different from saying that Covid or the vaccine "causes cancer"
I'm especially interested in this subject because I had Covid in May of '22, then lingered over the summer (long Covid?), and then progressed the following November, being diagnosed with now stage 4, the following January of '23.
Similarly, I had shingles last May, again lingered over the summer, and began to show progression (after 2.5 years of stability) last November. That progression has led to my having to start a new drug ( 2nd line of treatment) this month, i.e. in January.
I can't help note the similar patterns that occurred with these two viral infections. Again, I don't believe that the viruses, vaccines, or anti-virals cause cancer, but I am very open to the idea that when we get certain viruses, having to deal with them may well create more favorable conditions for tumors to grow and progress. Maybe it's just from a weakened immune system, but maybe something else? I think this issue is really worth studying.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@shanagirl in your pocket for your scans today. Hope everything goes as planned and that you get nice technicians who are gentle with you.
sf-cakes
Hematoma
So……. Had my follow up with my breast surgeon today 2 weeks post lumpectomy. I’ve been having increased pain and swelling and generally feeling like crap. I can feel quite a large lump that starts over the incision going all the way down to my stomach quite painful! My lump was near my cleavage at the 8 o’clock position left breast. The lump was 18mm so not too awfully big. The incision was almost all the way across the breast about 3/4 the way down near my stomach. Anyway this large lump is very uncomfortable! My entire breast is swollen and red. No fever. The surgeon sort of “blows” me off says it’s a hematoma and it will absorb and will be fine. I’m a little put off by that. I’m pretty concerned and not quite sure what to do. I’m worried about infection and necrosis. The nurse seemed more concerned than the surgeon. I was hurried through the visit and sent out the door with instructions to take Tylenol. Yeah right Tylenol 🙄and to use a heating pad. Call if I run fever or if the hematoma gets bigger etc. Any advice? Am I just overthinking this? Am I being a big baby?