Illinois ladies facing bc
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Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous0 -
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
Audrey Hepburn0 -
Spirituality is a flower with a
thousand petals: every act, every
thought, every talk, every movement
of our heart is a part of it.
Robert Muller0 -
Had 5/6 yesterday. My counts were even lower than the other time they were low so MO had to be consulted and he agreed to go ahead. I did have to have a couple is shots like last time. My nurse Sabrina cracked up when I said YAY when Dr. Migas agreed with the go-ahead. She said they don't hear that often! CMF just isn't that bad and side effects are manageable and I'm almost done so I didn't want to mess up the timeline now!
Laura
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Yay from me too. Glad you can keep on track with your chemo Laura. Even if it is not too difficult --- it is good to get it behind you and move onto the next plateau. Here's hoping the rest go easily.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Yay Laura---you go girl! With all this rainy weather, you might as well get infused....nothing else you can do, right????
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In a noisy world, seek the silence in your heart. And through the power of silence, the energies of chaos will be brought back to harmony--not by you, but through you, as all miracles are. When we visit this silence regularly, particularly in the morning, then the days of our lives become lit from above. Darkness and fear are cast from our midst, slowly at first, one moment at a time. Ultimately, all darkness will be gone from every heart.
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Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 19830 -
Beautiful quote. Thanks Jackie
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The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we’re going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we’re going to be happy or whether we’re going to be sad. -Lou Holtz
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I'm playing the lottery today. 5 years ago I was officially diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm still here, healthy cancer free. I now consider this one of my lucky days.
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yay, Lago !! I hope you win big 🎉🎉🎉congrats on this milestone
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Seven Wonders of Life -
1. Your mother - who is the first person to welcome you in this world.
2. Your Father – who is the first person to go through all the hardships just to see you smile!
3. Your sibling – the first person to teach you the art of ‘sharing and caring’.
4. Your friend - the first person to teach you how to respect people with different opinions and viewpoints!
5. Your love - the first person to make you realize the value of sacrifice and compromise and the first one for whom you’ve to fight the world to be together
6. Your children – the first little person to teach you how to be selfless and think about others before yourself
7. Your grandchildren – the only creatures who make you want to live the life, all over again…0 -
Yay Lago! Hope you win - you're already a winner
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Yay Lago------Hope you win----You already have, th ough! Loved your post on the Arimidex board.
I need to meet a man who'd like my company that much.....HA
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lago has a honey. I've met him. I bet he's also glad she's passed the 5 year mark.
I'm a month out from 4 years and it seems impossible that much time has passed.
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Thanks Redheaded1. There are good people out there. Just hard to see since the rotten ones seem to stand out more.
Doxie doesn't it feel good!
Thanks everyone else. Need to check my lottery ticket to see if I won last night. If not there's always tonight. I bought 2.
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The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and
not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even
the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous,
and prosperous when it is filled with love.Charles Fillmore
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lago,
Yes it does feel good to get this far along. I see the happiness in my Onco doctors when they see I've passed another 6 months w/o a recurrence. It's a new world when I'm more concerned about the deer tick I found latched to me than cancer.
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When you are interested in other perspectives, it doesn’t imply, even
slightly, that you’re advocating them. I
certainly wouldn’t choose a punk rock lifestyle or suggest it to anyone
else. At the same time, however, it’s
really not my place to judge it either.
One of the cardinal rules of joyful living is that judging others takes
a great deal of energy and, without exception, pulls you away from where you
want to be. -Richard Carlson0 -
Doxie, hope you got or will get tested from the deer tick. I would have to read up, but they carry Lyme and other things which would have lots of issues even if we did not have immune type challenges with chemo etc. I do think there is a test and pre-emptive meds if needed. Otherwise, yes, it is wonderful to reach those first joyful moments when you realize your life is about almost all of the things it was about in pre-cancer dx. days. Count me in as celebrating being able to feel much concern about life in general and NOT a cancer dx. and tx. in particular.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Congrats Lago!
Laura...I'm so glad you got to have your treatment and hope that you have been doing O.K. since your counts were down a bit. Don't you just love Sabrina? I didn't have a port so I had to be stuck each time. There were a few nurses that weren't so good getting the IV in and I'd let them have one try and then I'd tell them to get Sabrina. She got it everytime!
I am enjoyinig a "child-free" week. On Sunday I get my middle grandson for his week with Grandma and then I have had them all this summer! So much fun but pretty tiring for this ol' gal!
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Had my appointment with Dr. Migas this morning. I have a double ear infection and a throat infection, my voice is very raspy and comes and goes. Good news is my lungs are clear! My blood counts are coming up but still a little low. I've been feeling lousy this week.
He ordered a Zpack but what I got was a packet of powder. Just got off the phone with the nurse and they have called in the Zpack but I don't live in town and I'm not going back today. I'll pick it up in the morning and we'll start kicking this crap!
He sent me home for the day, so as of now, I think I have worked the equivalent of 8 hrs over two days!
Otherwise, my side effects have been manageable this time. I could do without the added infections, though!
ONE MORE CHEMO!
Laura
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Laura -- hoping once you get your meds they kick in quickly. So glad to hear you only have one chemo left. Sending lots of vibes for healing strength and energies.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Vanmamma,
I'm sure you will be relieved to finish chemo and start healing.
Jackie- I was put on a large one day dose of antibiotic because it seemed very likely I was infected with Lyme. Because I got the tick off in less than two days, that dose should be enough. I'm still watching the bite site to see if it flairs up or if i have other symptoms. My hiking buddy found her tick even later and it looks like the one time dose is not enough. Her rash is slowly growing, so she'll need a full course of meds.
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Doxie, fingers crossed for both of you. Although we are in deer country here ---- the ones I get on me ( and they are usually off about as fast as they are seen ) are dog ticks. Usually found on entering one of the feral spots where I feed. I've walked in, put the food down as quickly as I could and still found 15 or 16 "fresh" ticks on me as I walked back out. This yr. so far -- not so bad. Most I've had is five.
Jackie
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Hi everybody! Have had a great week in Illinois land. All my guys (3 sons and my husband) were in the house for over a week - with my Colorado son home. This included a weekend with my some of my sons from the neighborhood (who call me Mom) who also came into town to be together!
The 11th - which was 7/11 Free Slurpee day is also the anniversary of my last chemo. This year marked 3 years since I finished my 16th chemo (4 AC & 12 Taxol).
A friend from our time in Northern Virginia (90's) came through Chicago with two of her adult children. They are on a whirlwind "see the United States in 30 days" road trip. I was so thankful to break bread - eat Giordano's - with them in Chi Town Rush Street! It's been over 16 years since we've been together!
I had my 6 month appointment with my oncologist this morning and everything looks good - all labs where they're supposed to be! So ...good to go for another 6 months.
Also had my 3-D mammogram while I was down there and it was negative - which as you know is actually a positive thing! A super thing!
I have no delusions about my diagnosis or the probabilities that exist ... but I choose to love this day today and rejoice that for now there is no sign of cancer in my body!
Hugs to all of you wherever you are in the diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or "rearview mirror" stage.
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dltnhm , Hooray for great test results and happy times spend with close to heart friends and family. Those kinds of things make for wonderful weeks. Being grateful is a wonderful thing too since it usually ends up perpetuating itself. We never know what tomorrow might bring -- so enjoying every bounty that comes along today is the thing to do any time you can. Attitude so much of the time is everything. Yours is peachy keen. Wonderful picture of you too.
Blessings
Jackie
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world,
to aim at doing something which shall really increase the
happiness and welfare and virtue of humankind--this
is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely
it is a good haven to sail for.
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Do we spread loving kindness? There are many who say that this is our ultimate goal on this planet--to spread loving kindness to our fellow human beings. And when we are able to accomplish this goal, we find that our lives are transformed in the process. We're no longer so strongly focused on things and negative thoughts and feelings, but we've become truly happy, content human beings who love life and living.
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