Illinois ladies facing bc
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I like sleeping and waking up to the rain too, but enough already!!!!
I was going to a cook out, but instead it will be a cook in tonight.
Lovely Quote for the day!
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Dear Ladies:
It has been so long that I forgot how to log in to post here! Seven plus years out and yesterday the doctor told me to visit with her nurse once a year in the future, get a mammo and keep moving on! I see her only if her nurse practitioner suspects something. I was stage 3 (was stage 2 but upstaged when the Cancer Society decided to turn my world dizzy with a new criteria for staging). I had Pagets and that involved skin and that moved me to Stage III).
To those new here. I once thought about breast cancer on a daily basis. I now think about it perhaps monthly and then the thoughts are fleeting. I wish you well. Keep very busy doing mostly the things you love to do as that alone will keep you in sync with good healthy vibes.
Susan
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Yay, zap! Thanks for the inspiration.
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Susan,
Great to hear from you. I look forward to getting where you are in forgetting about BC. I suspect it will come easier when I no longer take an AI everyday which is a daily reminder. And when all the aches and pains that are blamed on the AI can then only be blamed on living. Not a bad thing in and of itself.
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Hi Susan. Good to see you here. I have one more year before I go to one a year. I'm excited about that.
Doxie I'm still hoping the final studies will say only 5 years on AI but so far it doesn't look that way.
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Often, we are harder on ourselves than others are. If we cannot
forgive ourselves, how can we forgive other people? Everyone's lesson is to forgive ourselves for our mistakes, even those things we feel ashamed about, and learn to accept ourselves for who we are, knowing that we can always gently work on making improvements. For me, the true experience of inner peace began only once I was able to forgive those around me, my parents, and myself.
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Susan it is great to see you. Chuckling a little about the log in. As you say, we all start out with so many thoughts in our heads ( and they just won't leave us along ) and feel the challenge of getting on with life will never be free and easy again. So glad we were all wrong.
It is not always easy and takes as long as it takes to start deriving the fine art of gentle forgetfulness, but we are meant for happiness and sometimes even exquisite pure joy. You have to move forward at some point and that does tend to dull the DAILY thoughts that were so pervasive since you have to build up that time where things are going right and life is lifted to a much more comfortable point. Test time maybe still a bit of agony --- but we have to put as much life as we can into our every day experiences....and here's to everyday, NED with lots of love and happiness and serene and enduring joy.
Blessings
Jackie
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It costs you nothing to make another happy - and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
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MRI is history. Did it without any problems. Valium on an empty tummy does the trick. Hightly recommend Advanced MRI in Bloomington. Not an "open" machine, but I stuck out from the waist down, so I didn't get that casket feeling like in the full body tube. Now to wait for the results.
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Redhead-glad MRI is over and you sailed through it...I must have missed why you were having it done, hopefully no big issues going on.
I will be absent for a while ladies. My hip replacment is happening on Monday, and I usually post from work -shhhh-don't tell anyone
my home computer is way slow. But I will be reading and thinking of you all.Enjoy the cooler weather-perfect for us hot flash hotties
Wishing you all a peaceful, pain free, stress free weekend!
Mimi
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Good luck, Mimi! I wish you a speedy recovery and many pain free days in the future
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Mimi- I will be in your pockets on Monday so you know. Soon as you can let someone know, let us hear from you. Will pray for you and your surgical team, for peace, tranquilty fast healing and super knowledge and expertise and focus for those performing your surgery and providing your aftercare.
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Mimi -- Redheaded has you covered well. I'll be standing right beside her.
Blessings
Jackie
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MimiL55 I'll be thinking about you Monday. Hope the healing and PT goes fast.
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I think so many of us are too hard on ourselves for what we didn’t accomplish or what we should have done. The first step is to forgive yourself for all the things you didn’t do that you should have and all the things that you did do that you shouldn’t have. Get rid of the guilt. Negative feelings don’t do you much good. The way to deal with them is to forgive yourself and forgive others.
Forgiveness helps you come to terms with the past. I've learned how to forgive myself, and this has helped me no longer feel deep regrets or sadness about my past.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providences moves too. All sort of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred.
A stream of events issues from the decision, raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no person would have dreamt would have come his or her way.
W.H. Murray
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To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.
David Whyte
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Hi, I'm an Illinois lady wondering if anyone is in the St. Louis Metro Area. Would love to find supporters in this area. I live in Fairview Heights in Illinois about 5 miles from downtown St. Louis. A few of the surrounding cities are St. Louis Mo, and in Illinois: O'Fallon, Belleville, Mascoutah, ESL, Collinsville, Edwardsville.
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dwill, I'm about an hour or slightly less east of you -- from Centralia. We go a lot ( when we have the time or money ) to Fairview Hts. for the great shopping and Sam's Club -- sure wish there was a Costco there too ). Haven't been up that way in a bit as my medical appts. are in Marion, Illinois and there is a Sam's there as well.
Jackie
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Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
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An oldie, but a goodie:
Anxiety does not
empty tomorrow of its sorrow...but only empties today of its strength.
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Hi All!
Jackie....I hope you had a lovely birthday!
Susan.....so good to hear from you. You have finally graduated to the once a year deal! SUPER! I still go twice a year. I go to the oncologist for a check-up and for blood work and then 6 months later I go to Susan G. Komen in Peoria for my mamo and then see my surgeon right after the mammo. When we look back, the last seven years, complete with all the trauma, have gone relatively fast. Life is good! :-) Congrats on the good check-up and the great results!
I haven't spent much time on the computer this summer. I have traded it in for a golf club or a weed eater! Most of my days have been enjoyed outside. I hated to see the summer come to an end. Although I like the Fall colors and the many Fall festivals, I sure don't enjoy the cold weather that comes right after it. Whine,,,,,,,whine......whine! :-)
I hope everyone is having a good day! I need to whip up a meatloaf for dinner so I'd better get moving! Hugs to all of you!
Rita
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"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about
it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."Dalai Lama
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We all have a beautiful light within, we just sometimes forget it is there. Good morning all beautiful souls.
John Holland
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Thought about this one for a bit, but then decided that from the entries I have seen so many of you make that you would be able to recognize yourself in here.
At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved; but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
Nathan C. Schaeffer
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Lovely quotes, Jackie!
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Sorry to be so late with the quote. I'm working all this week and though the work is as easy as it comes...I start early and get home late. So, will seem like a long week. Incredible pay check though.
It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears--has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
Helen KellerJackie
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Every human has four endowments: self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom...The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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No bird soars too high, if it soars with its own wings.
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