Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 460
    edited April 2008

    ((((Linda))) Crap, that SUCKS  I want that shirt too!

    Deb, love your buttons! 

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 460
    edited April 2008

    Linda, Oh, if only the t-shirt said "my real ones tried to kill me" .. I like the harsher sound of that better.  It's still a Great message though but I'm thinking I'll order this one:

  • beergirl
    beergirl Member Posts: 83
    edited April 2008

    I don't post much here, but I read this thread almost every day/night. Ya'll are great! You give me a smile every time I read your posts. BTW, I am 5 days post op now!

  • WellWater
    WellWater Member Posts: 4,524
    edited April 2008

    Linda - WTF is soooo right!!!  To say I'm sorry to hear that just isn't big enough. 

    Were you on Tamoxifen? 

    Fuck this disease and what it puts all the magnificent women thru!

    (((((((((((Linda)))))))))))))   Trina

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 2,728
    edited April 2008

    No bitching for me today.  Although Im sending this to most of you - as it seems like many had a bad day and it really sucks!

    Pacifier Pink pacifier

    Nickster

  • smithlme
    smithlme Member Posts: 383
    edited April 2008

    Thanks for the hugs...I've been up since 2:30 with so much rambling through my mind. When is all this crap going to end? You'd think by now that somebody would come up with a cure. My youngest daughter is a senior in high school. This is her time to shine and enjoy all the celebrations of graduation. Now she has to watch me go through this crap all over again. April Fools my A$$. I want a do over! This SUCKS!!!

    Angel,

    I have a F&ck Cancer shirt and I borrowed the idea I found in here for the "Cancer is my bitch" one. I had a shirt made at a place where I live.

    Trina,

    I'm a triple neg so no Tamoxifen for me, unless this one comes back positive in my path report.

    Linda

  • kiki
    kiki Member Posts: 38
    edited April 2008

    Linda, I'm so sorry to hear your news.  That f'n sucks! 

  • smithlme
    smithlme Member Posts: 383
    edited April 2008

    And while I'm on a roll...my daughter-in-law pointed out that it's actually a good thing that my TRAM flap failed. Now that I'm having the right breast removed, both sides will now match. I told her that I can now be a double A some days and a double D on others, just to mess with peoples minds!

    Sleep..I need sleep...

    Linda

  • CurlyKatFL
    CurlyKatFL Member Posts: 7
    edited April 2008

    I actually have nothing to bitch about today( I am all bitched out ). Just stopped by to give hugs to the ladies who are having a real sucky day {{{{ Deb}}}} {{{Linda}}}}

    Unity is strength

    Kat

  • sam408
    sam408 Member Posts: 474
    edited April 2008

    (((((Linda))))) that worse than sucks

    Try to get some sleep

  • bluesky
    bluesky Member Posts: 144
    edited April 2008

    linda,

    this  is horrible, it f....g sucks big time!!! i would want to slap all those doctors to the moon!

    so sorry to hear this, this is a nightmare.

    where are you being treated, maybe you need to go somewhere else and get second opinion? 

    we are all there by your side and wishing you well and sending positive energy. try to get some sleep.

  • smithlme
    smithlme Member Posts: 383
    edited April 2008

    Thanks for the additional hugs.

    Bluesky,

    I trust my medical team completely. They are aggressive, no nonsense and personable. I went as aggressive as I thought I should go the first time - mast & dose dense chemo. If I knew then what I know now, I would have had a double. But, hindsight is bliss. My problem is genetics. My paternal Grandmother died of BC, my sister was diagnosed at 36 (an 18 year survivor!) and my dad (he's 82) is a Colon and Kidney Cancer survivor (Both were new primaries). I'm also a triple neg and that scares the bajeebees outta me!

    Linda

  • evilelf
    evilelf Member Posts: 274
    edited April 2008

    How about this?

  • Calypso
    Calypso Member Posts: 132
    edited April 2008

    LOL tears streaming down my face!  too funny where can i buy that?

  • CurlyKatFL
    CurlyKatFL Member Posts: 7
    edited April 2008

    that shirt is awesome

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 460
    edited April 2008

    Yes Vera, I want that shirt!  Where can I get it??

  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 1,700
    edited April 2008

    There's some major suckiness happening in this thread today.  I'm very sorry, Linda. 

    Deb, do you have a scarf you can tie on your head to try to keep your hair in place?  My hair started falling out at work too.  I remember moving very gingerly that day. 

  • evilelf
    evilelf Member Posts: 274
    edited April 2008
  • Hanna
    Hanna Member Posts: 228
    edited April 2008

    Here's something that doesn't suck - This thread, Traci's moaner and groaner thread - has been up only since March 10 and has 588 posts in just that little bit of time and practically everytime I logon, this thread is almost always on page 1 of Active Conversations!

    This must be some kind a record around here!

    Gotta hand it to her...Traci saw a need that needed filling !!Kiss

    OK, back to what sucks...Yell

  • danix5
    danix5 Member Posts: 141
    edited April 2008

    Hi Traci and all,

    I was out of town for spring break and boy did I miss some classic postings on this thread!!!

    Linda that soooo sucks!!!  I am really sorry that you have to go through all this s*&t..... try to scream and punch pillows.  I hear it can help!!LOL!

    I do not have any good bitches to share today, sorry! 

    I will be going for exchange surgery the 17th and then 2/3 weeks later the total hyster/w ovaries out!  Here comes MENOPAUSE!!!Yikes!!!  Love to hear any good advice from those who have traveled that road before me.  Or any funny stories about hot flashes!!!!!LOL!!!

    Gotta love this thread.

    Thanks Traci,

    Dani

  • Traci-----TripNeg
    Traci-----TripNeg Member Posts: 567
    edited April 2008

    I can't wait to get that t-shirt!!!!!! I gotta check out the other site too!

    It is cool knowing you get to bitch about something without ramifications!!!!! Hanna, I have a notice going to my email so I did not notice that but I would imagine most women on this whole site have something to bitch about!!! lol!!!!!

    Dani, here's a link to a video of my 'lil sis I put on you tube having a hot flash. I think it's pretty funny. Two words of advise:

    BUY FANS!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huW9-n_nqck

    : - ) Traci

  • bluesky
    bluesky Member Posts: 144
    edited April 2008

    linda,

    i'm glad to hear you have a great medical team, still it SUCKS big time. hang in there, there will be light at the end of this dark tunnel the sun will shine again.  let everything out and, you should be screaming in pillows and punching them. take care.

    i have nothing to bitch about today.

    i hope everyone is well and i'm so happy i found this community and this thread, it's really helping me.

    franca

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 2,728
    edited April 2008
    This is a day of reflection for me.  No bitch today.  This is my story and I felt a need to share.Three years ago today, I had the mammogram that changed my life.  I found a lump accidently in February 2005.  Guess it was 3 days after I started a new job.  I recall myselft being at the peak of my career.  So strong, I believed there wasnt anything that I couldnt do.  Insurance didnt kick in until April - so I thought to myself, this couldnt be anything to worry about.  But it was different than anything I ever felt before - even as a nurse.  I knew from the moment they started taking pictures - something was very wrong.  Extra pictures here, compression films there.  The tech came back 4 times to take more pictures.  As a nurse I knew this wasnt good.   I paged my doctor at the hospital and said I wanted a wet reading.  I wasnt going to wait, not more than 24 hours.I blew off work that day.  Never did tell my husband about the lump, but I knew after 2 months it had changed.  I've shared my special place with you all many times before.  So on April 1, 2005 I went to Gillison Park alone and scared.  There was a wonderful bench that I sat on looking over Lake Michigan.  For April it was warm but a cold front was coming in and the Lake had beautiful waves - this is rare, we dont see waves like you do at the Oceans. When they say you can see your life go before you, it did for me that day.  As the wind blew my hair, I could see myself as a little girl.  Yes, my parents took me to the same beach I still adore today.  I saw myself running along the shore, not older than 5 - making sandcastles, looking for shells, and munching on a hot dog. As the years passed before my eyes, I saw myself walking with my boyfriend - yes my husband.  We were young and in love.  It was a great hangout for the young - especially after dark.I saw my grandchildren, so young running freely.I saw so many things.  But that day I saw desperation for the first time in my life.  I realized I was facing life and death.  Me who was going to live forever. There is a water breaker that is made up of many different size large rocks.  Goes way out over the lake.  I climbed those rocks, so easy to do then, walked to the end and dangled my feet over the edge.  I never did say why me?  I said "what the hell am I going to do?"That was the beginning of my long journey.  I came home and started looking up things on the internet.  Somehow, I accidently found bco.org!  Of course in the beginning, one isnt aware there are chat or discussion boards.  Instead you start looking up things.  In the beginning you look at lumps. What do they mean.  What are microcalcifications as my mammogram had alot of them in 3 diferent areas of my breast.My doctor called me around 8pm.  Boldly honest!  Incredibly honest.  I was scheduled for a sterotatic mammogram the following day at 10:00 am.  I knew this was serious.  I got off the phone and thought to myself, how do I tell my husband.  I never did.  Not until the biopsy came back breast cancer.   I went to sleep with a heaviness in my heart.  I woke up with that same heaviness.  As a matter of fact, that heaviness has never gone away.  My life was changed forever.     
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 183
    edited April 2008

    Hugs to you Nicki, Deb and Linda - and a hearty "THAT SUCKS!!" bigtime...

    Nicki, thanks for sharing your journey. I'm always amazed at the number of women who just KNOW that something is off/different when they find that lump. Same happened to me...

    But my bitch for the day is...DRUMROLL, PLEASE...clients who don't pay their bills. I publish a regional women's magazine and never once had problems with advertisers who didn't pay their bills - until now. As of today, I have six that will be in collections by the end of the week. One owed close to $500 (ad ran last JUNE); when we sent the "we give up; it's going to collections by 4/1/08" letter, they responded by sending $100. I laughed REALLY hard then turned their hineys over to the same collections agency that used to hound me when I owe years back for some asthma-related medical bills. They wouldn't leave me alone, so I figure they must be good Laughing...

    It sucks that the economy is bad, but I've got to pay my creditors, too - and I can't do that unless people pay their daggone bills!!

    Rant over... 

  • honeygirl
    honeygirl Member Posts: 136
    edited April 2008

    Nicki , thanks for sharing your story. It sounds oh so familiar. You're last sentence says it all.

    Deb , Linda BIG HUGS to you. I HATE THIS SUCKING DISEASE!!!!!

  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 418
    edited July 2010

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  • kiki
    kiki Member Posts: 38
    edited April 2008

    Niki, wow, that's all I can say.

    OK my bitch is about something that happened on the weekend.  Went to my nephews' first bday party.  I only have one brother and this is his only child.  His girlfriends' family was all there and lets just say it was a meeting of the Cleavers and the Bundys. (we are the cleavers).  Her stupid brother was wearing a shirt that said "Boobies make me smile".  Umm.. hello idiot, my mother and I are both bc survivors with no "boobies" of our own.  What class.

  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 1,159
    edited April 2008

    Wow Kiki...that just screams class.....what a ass!  He sucks.....

    Deb C

  • sam408
    sam408 Member Posts: 474
    edited April 2008

    (((Nicki))) thanks for sharing, your words really touched me

    OMG Kiki. . .what a JERK!

  • Diana63
    Diana63 Member Posts: 57
    edited April 2008

    Linda, I am so sorry to hear about your dx., I can't imagine how you feel right now.   (((Linda)))