Illinois ladies facing bc
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Hi everyone,
The Botanical Gardens are beautiful. It is so peaceful, and amazing, how many different flowers there are.
Jackie- Almost done with your chemo. That's great. What is next for you, do you have more tx? What kind of dog is your Buddy?
Leesa-Hope you are feeling better today. Take care of yourself and rest. Is Vegas this weekend?
Susan-I too am a former smoker. (Is there a correlation b/t smoking and b/c?) What is the test/xray you mentioned?
Kater-Where are you?
Blackjack-Again, I'm sorry your mom is not doing well. Your being there for her is the most important thing, and will comfort her.
Laura, Jan, Rita, Nancy and anyone I missed,
Hugs to you all
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I will answer a couple of quick questions before I close up shop for the night. Yep, just one more chemo....thank goodness. The last two Taxotere have been fairly easy for the most part. Bad tastes for a short while, but only pain was minor in my fingernails and toenails. Else wise not too bad.
Once the chemo is done I will get my 6 weeks of rads, and then after that I will start on a 5 yr. pill. So far, it seems I'm getting all the things that were used a few years back. Doesn't matter to me as long as it works.
My dog Buddy is a medium sized dog.....probably about 65 or 75 lbs. He is not well trained so have not been able to get him into the vet. He hates leashes. He has the ears and coloring of a New Zealand Australian Sheppard--so that means he is mainly black with white on his chest and some on his paws. He has twinkling brown eyes. Very smart, but also fairly gentle for his size. I don't know what else for sure he has in him but he has a somewhat bushy tail that he often carries high over his back. Pretty muscular and boy can he run. Course, the Australian and New Zealand dogs are herding dogs.....so the running is a very natural thing for him.
We also have a Puggle named Chico and a Bishon-Poo named Poncho along of course, with Baby Boss. Sure got enough dogs here. My neighbors could cause a fuss if they so chose.....I'm sure we have more than animal regulations say and I know darn well we have a lot more cats than they say. Only one person has ever said anything....and she was not paid much attention too. Fortunate for me.
Talk to ya'll tomorrow.
Have a restful night all.
Jackie
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Morning girls...Happy Monday! I keep hearing that word snow....I'M NOT HAPPY!!!!
Blackjack...thinking about you. Hugs.
Leesa....feeling better today? Hope so...
Jackie....jeepers. It seems like you have been in treatment for 2 years now! When do you get to go to CA? Between chemo and rads? I sure hope so...you need a break, girl.
Mich101...never been to the Gardens. I need to add that to my list of things to do, along with gambling and a cosmo (Blackjack said she would be MORE than happy to help me with that last one!).
Kater...are you OK? Please check in....
Off to move this lazy butt...have a great day!
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Wendy...SNOW????????? Oh no! This is the end of April. What's with this weather?
Michele, so glad that you enjoyed the "gardens." I went to a botanical garden in Florida several years ago. I think your word "peaceful" is a very good description. I felt as if I was just lost in another world.
Hey ladies, I stumbled upon a book at the library yesterday that put everything into prospective for me. I thought that some of you might want to read it as it certainly hits on all the emotions, problems, and fears that come with bc and the transition between treatments and "real life," hormonal therapy, as well as coping with MANY of the issues we face as we try to relocate the NORMAL in our lives. The book is After Breast Cancer A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment. On the cover of the book is an endorsement by Dr. Susan Love, who wrote The Breast Book. She writes "If my book is the one you buy when you are diagnosed with breast cancer, this should be the one you purchasse as you finish treatment. Hester Hill Schnipper (the author) is a terrific guide on the rocky road to recovery. This book will help you transition from the last chemotherapy/radiation treatment and help you to reclaim your life!" I related so well to most of the topics that she covered in her book and she offered wonderful suggestions for coping with them. It will a year in August since I finished my treatments and I still have issues that I need to resolve. It's funny how most of my friends think that I am "finished and over it!" If they only knew, eh? Anyway, I just thought I'd share that resource with you.
It's cool and dreary here this morning. I wouldn't be surprised if it just pours before too long, but rain is lots better than SNOW!!! I have most of the day to myself. Later this afternoon I'm moderating a sectional scholastic bowl match in Clinton, Illinois so I still have to go over the questions again and be sure I have all the proper pronunciations and can at least appear "as smart as an eighth grader!" LOL It's always fun to get back around the young kids!
O.K. Kater, I'm beginning to get worried about you........and you know how persistent I am when I worry. Please check in!
Well, I'm making whole wheat goulash for supper tonight and just "bumming" this morning. Hey Wendy, is this what you call "just relaxing?" LOL
Oh, I have a question for those of you who were diagnosed by a core biopsy. (I was diagonosed by an incisional biopsy.) Besides knowing the type of cancer, what other type of information did you get from the path report on this? Were they able to stage and grade it or is that done only AFTER the lump is removed? I'm asking because a dear friend of mine (and a relatively close neighbor) was just diagnosed by a core biopsy. When she called, they told her it was IDC but little else that she remembers. She will be going back to talk with the surgeon this week and I wanted to help her organize her thoughts a bit so she could put together some questions. I gave her our website and thread and maybe she will choose to join us after she really knows where she stands. She's young and might be interested in talking to Michele, Connie, or any of the rest of you who have opted for reconstruction.
I hope you all have a great week.
Rita
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A lovely morning here but brrr.....so chilly. Denny says when the sun burns off the dew he can get out and really mow. I thought he was going to do that yesterday. Well, he worked for a good part of the day getting the lawn tractor ready. I used my new mower--in between picking up sticks and twigs, raking nuts and dumping them in carts for removal ( that happens when lots of your trees produce nuts ) running the dogs, feeding feral cats, and a few other assorted things.
Yep !!! Does sound like I have been at this for a long time doesn't it???? Guess cause I have only gotten chemo once every three weeks. I presume you get a strong dose then---why else put so much time in-between? I shudder to think what it would be like to get it sooner then that---no recovery time. Probably the way they did it years ago.
I'm going to California after rads are done. Wanted to go after chemo but the Doc wouldn't approve. His reasoning I think was that you don't know if you may have to skip a treatment if your blood tests are not good and he felt that the less breaks you have in tx the better. Meaning I guess...if blood tests are down on my third week he would have me turn around and come in the next wk. to check if they were up and I could then have the tx. So, I thought might as well just do the rads and go then.
I think probably all Botanical Gardens are pretty. When I was stationed in San Antonio, Texas the base abutted to Breckenridge Botanical Gardens.....you can just walk into them and we often did. They probably have some sort of fence now, but some of the fellows would take their guitars....we'd have soft drinks and sandwiches and would just play and sing....pretty tame altogether.
Then when Denny and I lived in Santa Barbara, Calif. we use to go to the Botanical Gardens there...didn't cost much and just wander around the pathways. They had a couple of sort of steep rocky paths and nice mesa's after the path with lots of interesting dessert plantings. My mom who loved the dessert use to drive up of a Sunday just to go with us. She loved it too.
Blackjack...hope you can relax a little. When I really want to leave the world behind for a bit I play Zanfir. He does pan flute music. Pan flutes are generally the kind that are short and made out of wood. Zanfir is a real master as he makes his own and therefore has a couple of extra sounds. His music always sounds so pure to me. And the rest of the time I'm usually playing country music....thought I do like some of the old Rock & Roll.
Well, onward to my day...who knows what I will get into for sure. Have to get back to my closet for one thing....my project before Denny insisted that I pick up outside for him so he could mow. I'm going to denude my house and out goes all the things I have been warehousing and not using for some time. I'm up to my ears in clutter and it simply has to go.
Talk at ya'll later.
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Here's your quote for today...
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him
who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is
over self."
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another hope quote:
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope, not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under it's roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I got my results today and it was just fat necrosis and scar tissue. So, I will truly enjoy my vacation to Destin...
Just wanted to let you all now...Talk to you all later...
ginny
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Hi
Yeah Ginny!!!!!! gotta love that fat necrosis.
Ok, I am the biggest chemo loser of all, I have had every side effect there is and a few they didn't mention. I have not stopped burping since Friday, I had to call the doctor last night because I had heart burn so bad I thought it would burn through my throat. AND........................................................................
I HAVE A YEAST INFECTION IN MY MOUTH and EVERYWHERE else... and I mean everywhere, talk about fire in the hole!!!!!!!!
Well If I don't laugh...
love
leesa
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My goodness gracious Leesa. Do you think all of this is coming because you had a reactionright from the get-go? Well, all those other things do happen I think......but not I think necessarily all at once the first time. That does seem possible, but unusual. I sure hope all of this settles down for you. Fortunately, they do have lots of meds for it all.
My oncology Dr. somewhat late ordered pharmaceutical Prevacid that I take every morning. Takes a while to kick in I was told but I don't have the hot throat anymore. I also burped a lot, but only a few days, then it quit. That too hasn't been an issue since the Prevacid kicked in. I also got the yeast infection after my first five chemo's but it wasn't all over....just in my esophagus.
I have to say---you are maintaining your sense of humor which will bode well for you. Although there were a couple of times when I was really down ( a little less than suicidal --- just kidding ) most of the time I could keep enough humor going to be generally ok with it all. Hang in there....there is life ( a good one ) after chemo.
Jackie
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Ginny that is great news.
So easy to get worried over things and then they turn out to be virtually nothing. You can enjoy your vacation like never before.
Way to go.
Jackie
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I agree with Wendy, Jackie. It does seem like you have been on chemo forever. Glad you only have one more!
Leesa - wow - so sorry you are having such a hard time. I too had terrible heartburn. Doc prescribed Protonix and it worked like a charm.
Rita - I had a core biopsy. They don't stage it because they don't know how big the tumor is, but I did receive a grade (which actually changed when they did the mastectomy). Sorry about your friend. I am happy to talk to her about recon (or anything else) if she needs it.
Glad to hear that news, Ginny! Enjoy your vacation!
Ok - here's a question for all you teachers. My son is in 5th grade but is doing 6th grade math. He brings home his recent test today and he got a C-. Each problem was worth 3 points - 1 point for the right answer and 2 points for showing the work. He does most of the work in his head so he would have gotten an A had he shown all his work. Is this the norm? There were questions where the work would have been 36/12. If a 5th grader doing 6th grade math can't divide 36 by 12 in their head, they shouldn't be in 6th grade math. I feel like this is an injustice to a child - he now feels defeated as he had the right answers but got a C-! You should have seen his face when I told him I was ok with his grade. He was so happy because he thought I was going to be mad. I am mad - but not at him. He's a super smart kid and I know he understands the problems and concepts. So, that is ok with me! Just wondering what you guys thought of this.
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Connie, thanks for the info on the core biopsy. I wasn't really aware of what it actually showed besides the cancer type so I will tell her about the grading of the tumor, too.
As for your son's math paper, I tend to agree with you. A child doing 6th grade math should be able to compute simple computation in his head. The teacher probably had a reason for this. Would this lesson be a stepping stone to a harder process, where she wants to be sure each child properly understands all the sequence and event before progressing to something harder? Could it have been that some of the students have been using calculators and she wants to avoid that? I really think I would talk with her about this. She might have a specific reason for requiring that work be shown. If she doesn't, I do feel that you are right and have a valid complaint. A "C" grade is degrading to an intelligent student who should be getting an "A." The idea behind the accelerated programs is to provide a challenge to the faster students WIHTOUT chipping away their confidence. I'm so glad that you're a concerned parent. The concerned parents tend to be disappearing in the hectic life styles that we lead.
Well, I just got home from moderating the secional scholastic bowl tournament. Dunlap won the secitional and will be heading to the state tournament on Friday. It was good to work with the kids again but I'm tired. Guess where I'm heading?????
Rita
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Morning! I tried to get this bigger...but it wouldn't work so...get out your BIG glasses, or have a youngster read it to you!Ginny....YAY!!!!!!!! Fat is GOOD!!!!!!!! Destin, here you come!
Leesa....OMG! What next! But Jackie's right...so many drugs out there to fix what goes wrong. Hang in there,kiddo. Your frame of mind will help you...can't believe you are cracking jokes over this. I would be in the fort for sure.
Blackjack....know that you are busy and super-stressed. Hugs to you and your Mom.
Connie....I asked DH re: the math situation. He said....go to the teacher first and ask him/her to explain the rationale behind the whole thing. When you understand how it works and if you don't like it....ask for a meeting with the teacher and the principal. But he did say that 6th graders should be able to do simple division in their heads...but some kids just memorize and have no actual idea how they arrive at their answers (like Rita said)...so if your son shows his work, it shows that he knows how to get to the answer...the answer might be off, true, but he knows how to get there. Does that make sense?
6 month check-up with the surgeon this am...and I think I may be headed for another little surgery. When the port came out, everything settled down BUT I was left with a lump which is always pulling, sticking. Onc took a look at it for me and he thinks it is a granuloma, formed around an unabsorbed suture. I hate to think about being sliced and diced again, but it's bugging me. It's been 3 months now so I don't think it's going away. If it's local anesth and he can use the same incision I guess maybe I will do it now. Otherwise I'll wait until the fall...we'll see what he says.
Off to shower and do a few things before heading out to the doc's. Everyone...have a great day. Sunny today but chilly. Would love to mow but the ground is actually squishy and I think the mower would sink!
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Good morning everyone!
Wendy...good luck today at your check-up. Doesn't it seem like we're in some doctor's office every time that we turn around?
Ginny...I'm so glad that things worked out well for you. Isn't it strange that we can be thankful for fat???? I'll talk with you later.
Mary Jane, you're the math lady. Pop on and talk to Connie about her son's math paper. You were the best math teacher that I've ever seen!
I'm actually working around the house and writing questions today. It's too cool to golf. Later I hope to meet a couple of friends at Starbucks for coffee. It's going to be a rough day here! LOL
I hope everybody is doing well. Several of you have been MIA and we need you to check in!
I'm off to begin the day.........
Rita
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Leesa - OMG - you poor dear! Darn...I hope you get some relief soom...you certainly deserve it!
GIRLZ -
Hi...I've been reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally busy...but wanted to pop in and say HEY!
Hope you all have a good day...will check back later.
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Wendy....good luck at the surgeon's office today---hope whatever it is can be taken care of quickly and no real dis-comfort.
Sunny here today as well, but on the really cool side. I'm so spoiled already to wanting the warmer weather while knowing we always have some of this, this time of year.
Busy day today...to Barb's to clean, to town for check, and then to the bank. Then feeding ferals, then to Wal-Marts for a ton of animal food/supplies.
Back home to get ready for Wednesday. Hooray--last chemo. Seemed like I would never get here....and I probably don't even need to say how envious I was hearing/reading about so many of the rest of you finishing or being finished. It will be so great to quit living my life in three week segments like I have been doing since Dec-07. What will all my cells think in 3 weeks when I don't 'murder' them again. It is nice to think my body gets to start over with 'new stuff'-----healthy. I think I will be very glad to get taste back for good and hopefully....a whole lot less of the mouth liquids though that is down very considerably from what it was.
Well, best get started on my day.
Talk to ya'll tonight.
Jackie
p.s. Interesting, my computer must have been made in the deep South somewhere. When I hit the spell checker, it never puts a red line under ya'll.
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Thanks for the responses on the Math test. I emailed the teacher last night, but I just have this gut feeling that I will get the response that the students are told to show their work, etc. I found out last night that one of his good friends who is actually being moved to 8th grade math next year, got the same exact grade for the same reason. He has gotten points taken off in the past for not showing his work, but it has always made sense and it was never enough to bring his grade down that low.
Wendy - no rain today - wonder if the elves will come back out tonight for more yard work?
We are firming up our counts for our party Friday. JanClare, Laura, Wendy - you guys still planning on coming? Anyone else?
Laura - when are you going to Vegas? I thought it was coming up. Did Blackjack get you a better place to stay?
Have a great day everyone! Hope you chemo girls feel better today!
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Hello Ladies! I had my first "boost" yesterday, 7 more to go. The skin finally gave in and has started to melt off in two spots - hurts pretty bad. But I'm almost done!
I tried to catch up with all the news over the past 2 weeks, but you all have such great lengthy conversations, I couldn't keep up! Just want to say hi and luv ya to all of the awesome Illinois Ladies. I'll keep checking in from time to time.
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hi all:
Connie, I do not teach math but I just asked the math teacher your question. She said that it is very important to show your work as then you can show or prove how how you logically arrived at your answer and that the reasoning process is as important as the answer. She then said that showing your work is in preparation for algebra when you are using letters of the alphabet and not numbers and you cannot use the calculator strictly for letters of the alphabet. Even if you use a calculator, according to her, the student needs to show the math sentence used in the process to show that he/she undertsands the process. So you have to show 5 x 7 = 35 on the paper and not just do it in your head. I may not have this perfectly stated, but this was the jist of it. I know that at my school kids and parents get upset when they need to show their work in order to get full credit, but that is the way it is here (whether rightly or wrongly).
Susan
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Leesa, sorry you are having such a rough time.
Blackjack, I hope things are going well with your mom.
Calypso....Yeah, you are almost done.
I had good news today... my uterine biopsy came back B9...I thank god for his blessings.
For all the Illinois girls.... wishing you all the best.... I too am having a busy week.
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Congrats, Nancy! That's great news!!
Thanks for asking about the math stuff, Susan. You really explain it well and it does make perfect sense when you put it that way. However, I still don't think it should count for that much of a grade for a 5th grader.
Calypso - you should be surprised at how quickly your skin perks up after you finish. I couldn't believe that it was looking pretty normal after a couple of weeks. Glad you are almost done!
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Hey there....just a quick note....
I got a fax from Kater...she's been having a few problems posting and she saw that Rita was worried...
Kater fell on her "bad" arm, but no swelling. And she's had a sinus infection. And she's out of town. But she is OK!!!
Calypso....almost there!
NancyLa....YaY!
Jackie...last chemo! Yay!
Connie...not funny about the elves. All had been quiet since they dug all these holes and trenches around the patio. They did plant flowers out in the front, but of course they all died last night. Funny thing this afternoon tho...one of the girls bought a new lawnmower and she made one pass, and it quit. She was trying and trying to get it going, so I thought I would go ahead and cut ours..and maybe give her a hand. Then she climbed on top of it and started jumping up and down on the poor mower, and kicking it and I guess swearing at it. I stayed inside...safer that way.
I think I am still coming Friday night...I will know for sure tomorrow. DH's nephew might be coming in for a speech at some conference on Sunday and he might come in early to stay with us for a few.
My lump surgeon said is a blood clot (???) and should dissolve over the next 6 months....or he will just slice it out. Gotta love the terminology. I see him in October for this and then I get to go to once a year. So that means, except for having labs for my thyroid drawn in July....I DON'T HAVE TO SEE ANY DOCTOR OR HAVE ANY TESTS UNTIL AFTER LABOR DAY!!!!!!!!!!! omg
Blackjack....hugs!
Leesa....how ya' doin?
Everybody else....have a wonderful, peaceful night!
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OK...too funny to edit....my "lump surgeon"???? I have a special surgeon for lumps???? Should read "My lump, the surgeon said, is a blood clot".
I need to go back to school. Duh.
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Connie,
This was from an 8th grade math teacher. Yet, as a teacher, I would also want to build up math confidence in a fifth grader. Please let me know what he/she says. As an educator, I care about how grades affect kids and their self-esteem. It is an interestng situation.
So ready for summer here!
Susan
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Hi Girlz...
I feel like such an Illinois Lady Loser...I barely have time to read posts...I miss my old life...I must reconsider the new one...I hate to be a quitter because quitters never win and winners never quit...don't know...I'm just sad...my life is a whirlwind...I can hardly keep up...enough of my moaning...I just had to let it all out...
I don't have time to read through all the posts...just got home from W O R K! But wanted to say hi and let you all know that I'm thinking about you.
Jackie - You are almost a chemo grad...you deserve an MCT - Master of Chemo Treatment...you go girl. Let's avoid, at all costs, the PHD - Doctor of Chemo-Philosophy.
Calypso - Hey...you are almost there...you did good. Keep slathering on the Aquafor or whatever you are using.
Leesa - You hang in there, little one! I think about you every day...knowing what you're going through.
Ginny - So glad you're b frickin' 9!
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Love ya all...I need to do some soul searching...Laura has been put on the back burner...and Laura...is suffering from it. Stretched too thinly...
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Good Evening Ladies,
I see everyone has been busy posting. You are a very chatted group lol
Laura...honey, take one day at a time and savory the day. You are very creative, talented, funny so don't try to make rational decision when stressed out..not good for the soul..here is a big hug to you.
Wendy..I am sooo happy that your md appt. went well and no more until Labor Day yeah!!!! How are the new neighbor's doing..behaving themselves.
Kater..hope you are feeling better soon..those sinuses can be nasty to cure. hot drinks makes you feel better...enjoy and rest.
Calypso..almost done with rads..and then you will be a rads grad too. Just remember to keep it moist with aquaphor and it will be good as new.
Nancyla..are you ready for your walk
Jackie..last chemo yeah for you..are rads next and when do you start them.
smerf.. I feel better after our talk
Leesa..hope you are feeling better. Are you packed for your big trip this week..it is very warm out there and sunny.
Connie..ready for your party..I am trying to rearrange my schedule to come. will let you know tomorrow if I can.
tdbear...where are you..do you have snow or sun by you.
As for me, I am trying to de-stress. I just had the best mango Cosmo in my fancy Cosmo glass ( Wendy). It was soo good. My mom is in a rehab place now for her lungs. She is in a pulmonary rehab program. I just hope this helps her. It is so hard to be the parent and make all these medical care decisions for her. I am taking one day at a time.
Time to chill and relax...jammie time.. no tea to noc for me lol
I think I need the beach, ocean and sand right now...Wendy any beach pics for me..
Hugs to all I missed..Remember be healthy..be happy
Blackjack
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Hi all,
It's nearly 10 O'clock so I'm going to make this short. Loved all the posts and want you to know everyone because I probably won't call anyone by name.
Did whomever wanted all the HOPE posts get them. Hope so !!!! Little spot of humor there.
Rads will be next. I think they might schedule me in for the first Wed. in May to get tested and make sure all my organs did fine during the Taxotere. I would then hopefully see Dr. Lingamurthy the same day.....and find out what I need to know about the rads and hopefully how soon I could start. Even though I am having to do the 5 yr. pill..............I take pills all the time so once the rads are done I will pretty much feel I am through with my cancer txs.
Also, I will be able to call my daughter Kate in California and firm up the vacation ( 2 weeks ) plans. We are hoping for mid-July.
My son Jeff was born on July 29th. My daugher Kate 2 years later on July 12th. My wedding anniversary is July 19th. I lost a baby and that one would have been born in July as well. It's a happening month for me. I finally learned to leave home in the month of October if I didn't want to get pregnant----but hey. I'm safe now.
For all of you.........just try to chill and not let stress get too much of an upper hand. Que Sera Sera. Make the best decision you can and then let it go...........give it to God or the four winds.........or Wendy's neighbors....they are all messed up anyhow.
Oops, I said I wasn't going to name anyone, but I just couldn't resist that cheap shot. Forgive me.
Talk to you late tomorrow, probably.
Your all very special and make my heart swell in such a good way.
Jackie
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Morning! Blackjack...this one's for you! Wouldn't it be nice if we all were sitting on this beach, watching the sunrise? Hmmmmmm.....girl's weekend!!!!Hope everyone is doing well, and Calypso....you are almost there so hang in with your skin! Can you get a script for something from the rad onc?
OK...now to Laura...and these are just my thoughts...
Honey....telling your boss that your new position is not for you is NOT quitting. You tried something...and it didn't work. Remember when we were at lunch last Friday and what JanClare was telling you. You are very creative, very talented. You must be frickin" (I love your word!) kidding when you think they wouldn't understand and let you go back to how you worked before. They would be crazy to not keep you! And if they don't like it...well, tuff. You will be snapped up...or heck, start your own little design firm!. You are clearly unhappy and it is now spreading out into all facets of your life. If bc has taught us one thing, it is that life is fleeting. Do you really want to be sitting around, unhappy, years from now....wishing that you had made a change? Do some soul searching, and I hope you choose for YOU, not what you think other people want from you. Life is short....that's one thing we all realize now. I hope you don't think I am telling you what to do...but maybe I am. You are a great gal and deserve to be happy and you clearly are so NOT! DH said "Walk".
So from me to you......"Walk".
Love you guys....
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Good morning!
Hey Jackie, my son was born on July 12th of '73! Looks like we'll both be celebrating birthdays on that day this summer!
Laura, I was always a very visual person, so when I had dilemmas or was unhappy with something, I always grabbed a piece of paper of paper, a pencil, a beverage of choice, and made two columns on the paper for the pros and cons. Then I really thought about the good things in the situation and the unpleasant things. When I had them down where I could really see them, it helped me make my decision. Maybe that will help you. You don't want to make a hasty decision that affects your career in a moment of stress, but you do want to enjoy your life. (and should enjoy your life!!!) Luckily teaching was never an issue for me. Despite the fact that I made little money compared to others and have a retirement check based on a rural school salary, (which really sucks) I never considered teaching WORK. I just went to school each day. Now my business that I created was WORK and I'm glad I sold it and now dabble in writing study guides, questions and books on my time schedule. LOL
The sun is coming out and today is golf day so I need to get moving.
Thanks for the info on Kater, Wendy. I WAS worried about her.
Glad your biopsy was b-9, Nancy! Now you can breathe again.
Almost done, Calypso.....hang in there and keep using the cream!
Take time for yourself, Blackjack. You need that now, too.
Let us know the teacher's response, Connie!
Susan, I'm sure you are a fantastic, concerned teacher!
I'd love to be on that beach this morning, Wendy. I'm sure there's a golf course somewhere near there for a late afternoon round!!!!
Hope you're having a good day, Leesa!
Have a great day.............each and every one of you! Hi Michele and Pat!
Our new Julie....what's developed for you? Please come back!
Rita
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