Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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Sessna!! Thanks for the great comeback line! I'm using it next time some numbnuts asks me that!! Love you!
Kathi
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Sessna....this is why you must not ever stop posting! "Baby, I'm too busy running from breast cancer myself" - LOL!
Thanks Isabella, It's nice to know I'm not alone in this. So many people think (and some even say) "but, it's your MOTHER" ugh, they just have no idea. I'm very fortunate that the people in my family whose opinions matter, understand and even support me.
I have so much on my "to do" list tomorrow that I can't seem to unwind and fall asleep. Hopefully, I will soon because I conned my bestest buddie into being at my house at 7:30am to help me
'night ladies...
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Hi Everyone!!!! I broke my foot. I'll tell you how later. But first, Barbe, I ROTFLMAO, when you bared your eeerrrrr, o.k., o.k., I'll keep it clean, lets just say soul, too us. I'm not sure if I can top that one, lol. But I'll give it a try. As a teen, I was a soccer fanatic. My baring it all, happened during the final and most consequential game of the season. The winner would be Canadian Champions. In the locker room, when I put my uniform on, you could tell I was wearing bright orange panties. Some of my team mates thought it feasibly could be bad luck, if I kept them on. It made sense at the time, lol. So, the panties came off, and we all joked about it. That is up till, I had the ball, was running down the field, lmao, I could feel this draft between my legs, and thought it was from not wearing panties, Lmao!!! After a few seconds, I realized that the other team wasn't trying to get the ball from me. People were looking at me in a funny way. I don't know when or how it happened, the zipper was broke, and the seam had let go from front to back on my shorts. The only thing holding them on was the waste band and front button. It was a very stupid uniform, mostly made out of spandex. Our coach had been a bike racing enthusiast, who believed that spandex would make us faster. I guess I was concentrating so firmly on the ball, I failed to notice I was giving everyone a free peek show. I flashed all of my family, friends and strangers. My idiot brother, took pictures!!! His nickname for me is Flash. aaawwww
I have to go now, but I'll be back later, the pain meds from broken foot are making me dizzy. Everything is being seen twice, bleary screen, it's a nice feeling, wish I had cake to go with it. I'd like also some ice cream and blizzard dairy queen. I like french fries. ccoookies stuff u know.
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Navy, sorry you have that picture in your head!
Kathleen LOVED the pound of flesh comment! I lost 6 pounds with my double mast..hehehehe.
Oh Angel, sweetie, you got me beat by a country mile!
But hey, you forgot to tell us how you broke your foot! 0 -
I tell this in good faith as it happened to a 'friend of a friend' of mine.
Out shopping one day, she was involved in a 'fender bender' with a teenage boy. As soon as it was quiet, the lad jumped out of his car to come running over to middle aged f-o-f to see if she was hurt. As he came to the drivers (right hand side here) window, his face blanched and he promptly slithered down the side of her car in a dead faint.
Very worried by this, the friend got out of her car to tend to the lads injuries. Finally, he revived and on rising to his feet, stepped over to the car and looked through the windscreen at the dashboard, only to cover his mouth trying not to throw up.
When the friend glanced at the spot where he had been looking, she was shocked to see her prosthetic boob, sunny side up, lying on the dash.
It seems that the boy thought that the accident had de-cupitated her. The lady was quite embarassed to tell the lad that it was actually a 'falsie.' Although, she does get the giggles when she tells the story these days.
Sheila.
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Good Morning Ladies, My sister did her BRCA test yesterday and she too is ready for double mast and hyster. Wnats to know why I still have my boobs after + BRCA results.
Have a marvie day!!!
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Mary22, please ask sister why she didn't, "Have your head removed the last time you had a headache?" That is, unless she usually doesn't think twice before speaking anyway... It doesn't sound like she's done her Internet homework or spoken with her onco (see below). She's reacting instead of acting on it by projecting her decision onto others. [Once again, I am not a doctor, er, psychologist, nor do I play one on TV. Thank you.]
Seriously, though, removing your ovaries and uterus does not eliminate your chances of developing ovarian cancer. The same holds for a double mastectomy.
Can I get ovarian cancer if I have my ovaries removed?
Women at a very high risk of developing ovarian cancer can consider removal of the ovaries. This appears to lower the risk of developing ovarian cancer, but does not eliminate the risk. In general, women found to be carriers of an ovarian or breast cancer gene or who have a strong family history may be appropriate candidates for removal of the ovaries.
MYTH: Breast cancer is preventable, especially if you know you have the BRACA1 breast cancer gene.
TRUTH: There is ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWN WAY TO PREVENT ALL BREAST CANCER AT THIS TIME. Nearly 85% of women with the breast cancer gene will develop the disease during their lifetime. Even removing the breasts in these women will not prevent it because some breast tissue remains.See post on these boards, "Topic: Let's conduct our own study on how we all got breast cancer." It's currently active. [It's not serious, it's tumor humor, ladies.]
-sessna1
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Sheila.
You just made me pee myself....'de-cupitated' ..... that's the best I have heard in ages.
I shall laugh my way to sleep tonight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isabella.
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Dear Traci; You and your sister are in my prayers.
Dear Kathleen; While sprawling face down, in the dirt, with a broken foot & toes, my first thoughts were of you, and your shattered shoulder. At that very moment, my neighbor tried to lift me, I had a very clear understanding of your logic, sound reason, & profound wisdom, in wanting to stay there, until healed. We had a deep and meaningful bonding experience, and you weren't even there!!!
Dear Nancy; That SUX & OUCH!!! heres to prayers that they are B9!
Dear Kathi; Heres to more days of feeling the new normal! And the next bubblie in my face, non cancer person who bla bla blaaaaaassssss about pink, is getting knocked over the head, with my new weapon of choice, my crutch!!!
Does anyone else notice, that everyone, including strangers, seem to think they have the right to question you about participation in pink events?
Dear Navy Girl & Isabella; I'm so sorry your mothers treated you that way. Just remember, we are here for you.
Dear Sessna; I love your posts!!!!
Dear Sheila; I can just see that kid sliding down the car and fainting, lmao !!!!
Dear Barbe; By a country mile??? Now that's a lot. Does it mean I get the booby prize? O excuse me, I meant fooby prize!!!!
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Oh yes, I meant to tell you all, how I broke my foot. I was trying to avoid my neighbor. I was still too embarrassed, to face him. ( He was the one who peeled my panties off the back of my skirt. I had worn them the day after my ooph, so they got badly stained. Washing didn't get the stains out. So, I had tossed them on my bed with the intention of putting them in the garbage. He probable thought the panties were very dirty. When I sat on my bed while trying on shoes. I must have sat on the panties.) I was outside trying to find my dog, when I spotted my neighbor, I tried to jump over a bush/hedge, so he wouldn't see me. What I didn't know, was on the other side of the hedge, was a little irrigation ditch. I tripped in it and broke my foot & a couple of toes. I had to yell at him to come over and help me 0
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YMB - boy, did we ever have a bonding experience! I am so sorry you fell and broke your foot - ouch. I wish I had been there - of course on the other hand I could not have helped you. I can't even help myself. Did you read that I fell again yesterday in the driveway - on my way to PT! Fortunately, I fell on the "good side" which is not so good anymore. I have a huge skinned spot on my elbow and a sore hip. When you told the story of your panties stuck to your dress I was thinking the panties were under the dress. Now that I understand, it is funny.
I don't know how old you are but I am now of an age that very little embarreses me. There was a time in my youth that I would die before attracting attention. Now, if I am in one of those giant warehouse stores (you know, like Costco) and I have lost the person I came with I consider walking all over to find them or just screaming their name. Not a difficult decision - I scream their name.
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Ladies I'm sorry about the way I ended my post last night. I had taken some pain meds for my foot. I was fried, baked, drugged out of my mind. I had also taken a few gravol for nausea and muscle relaxers for back muscles. All I remember was getting the munchies. On a happy note. Apparently, before passing out, in my brand new comfie lazy boy, I ordered take out food for delivery. I didn't tell my husband, I don't even remember ordering it. When I woke up today, still in the lazy boy, my DH said he hoped I was hungry. The list of food delivered, after I passed out. 2 extra large pizza's, garlic bread, 20 wings, 3 donairs,2 large pop. Chinese deluxe dinner for 4. Mega meal from KFC. And a family size spinach salad from the local pub. My husband said he was afraid to go to sleep, for fear he would miss some else knocking on the door to deliver food.
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Oh Kathleen, again, crap! On your way to your PT. What did your PT say? I hope you like sleeping on your back. I'm with you, I don't have a problem calling out to someone in a store. But, my neighbor is drop dead gorgeous. I can't even form a complete sentence, when I'm in his presence, lol. My husband knows, and thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. DH & DD tease me about it, in front of my neighbor 0
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Any more tripping and falling stories, ladies ??
My sides are seriously splitting, but am sorry about your accidents.
I have just been online ordering 24 pairs of passion killer knickers, and 10 old lady vests for my Aunt. I am still in my itsy bitsy teeny weenys
even with my large derriere....I DO hope I never have to get myself into these massive old lady knickers. I tell you I shall be more embarassed to be picked up and taken to ER in the bloomers than my little favorites. My DD keeps having a dig at me, as she wears the same things and thinks I am wayyyyy to old to wear them. Isabella.
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Holy **** this is the funniest run of stories we've had in a while...I am Dying and Crying! Ymb...I can't believe the irony in you breaking your foot out of embarrassment at seeing the same neighbor again (even funnier to hear the full story as I didn't get the first time around that the panties were on the OUTSIDE of the skirt...). Thank YOU Jesus my skeleton in the closet stories to involve anything even close to these stories....ah, it just proves my theory; when you are in a deeply embarrassing situation, just imagine how funny the story will be in a few years when you retell it.
I am now going to get ready to face the world and take myself out for a banana pancake breakfast treat.
Happy Sunday ladies...
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Angel - you are too funny ordering all that food. My PT couldn't believe I had fallen again - of course, neither could I believe it.
I have a drop dead gorgeous neighbor story. He was so sweet, single and way way too young for me but I did enjoy looking at him! We lived on a "snow emergency route" which when I bought the house I thought I will always be able to get on the road. No, it means your driveway has a ton of packed snow across the bottom of your driveway! He usually worked at home but had to fly out to the home office very early the next morning. He and his room mate cleaned out their long driveway and all the packed snow in front of it. Around midnight he heard the snow plows coming through again. By this time his buddy was asleep so he went out and by himself cleared out the packed snow across his driveway. When he finished he stripped down to his briefs and was enjoying a glass of wine in front of the fire. Again, he heard the plow trucks. Without thinking, and I wish I had seen this, he ran out in nothing but his briefs and would not budge until the plow trucks passed his driveway. He said he just couldn't clear that driveway again!
Navy - I can't remember the name of the pancake house in Bethesda but I remember their pancakes - is that where you go? It has been years since I went there, primarily because of the parking situation in downtown Bethesda!
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Angel, that is hilarious. But sorry you broke your foot. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get cookies, cake and ice cream for delivery? I'd never leave the house!
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Sessna. I already post on "how we got BC", it is a hilarious site. My sister's DH is in the military and her genetice counselor is recommending that course of action. She is also motivated be fear. She was only 6 when our mom died of ovariian cancer at the very youg age of 29. My strategy is to take it one mammo and MRI at a time. If I start to have too many biopsies or a recurrence then I will take action and go with the double mast. I try not to live my life in fear of this disease, but find it hard. It is taking all my faith in God to get me through this, knowing His will is the greater will and when it is "my time" I can not cheat death.
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I need some massive prayers. My 21 year old daughter is going in for an MRI tomorrow due to numbness in the hands and feet and transient difficulties with her speech. Dr. said it may be a tumor but doesn't think it's a bleed or an aneurysm. I begged them to do it on Friday but they said since her symptoms went away it could wait until Monday. The waiting is F%$#ing killing me. Why do they do this?
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Thanks for starting this thread Traci. I'm angry that my BC wasn't picked up earlier, but then I console myself that I enjoyed many years of blissful ingorance before winning the BC lottery (I challenged my latest mammo result and now I have to deal with something that has no cure, it's just a chronic disease that needs constant management with treatment that in years to come will be seen for what it is, pure and simple torture).
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Dear Renee S; Sending massive prayers too you and your daughter. It's horrible that you had to wait till Monday. ((((Hugs))))0
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ReneeS, please try not to worry so much. My 32 yr old daughter had a brain tumour at 10, tx left her as if she had had a stroke. She ended up with a smile like Sly Stallone when the left side of her face dropped. She recovered and survived and is still with us today. At the time she was treated, there wasn't a very good survival rate, so they don't have a lot of knowledge of the long- term consequences of her particular tumour/treatment. She is an anomaly to the Nuero experts who treat her more like a specimen under a microscope these days.
Anyway, she has been having numbness and speech problem attacks for the last 4-5 yrs and has had them investigated with scans, MRI's etc., and they can find no reason for them. There is no physical cause, such as epilepsy that they can find so we just wait and watch out for her. These 'fits,' as she calls them, only last about 5mins, not long enough to get her to the local hospital, which is two blocks away, to have all the symptoms recorded. It doesn't help that she has the worst ones at 2 am, usually when DH is away at work, and I can't carry her down to the car to take her to the hospital.
These events frighten her, so we have tried to teach her not to panic while she is enduring them, but the worst effect is the fact that she can't even say the words that would warn us of what is happening. The first we know of them is when she makes this terrible keening scream/squeal which frightens the life out of me.
I hope it is something simple that is causing your DD's problem because they can do marvelous things in medicine these days.
Sending reams of empathy from our hearts to yours,
Sheila.
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Oh Renee, my heart and soul are sent your way!!!
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Oh Renee -- this is terrible! I hope the MRI shows something that can be easily remedied! Hugs, hugs, and more hugs are heading your and your daughter's way!
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Thank you Ymb, Barbe and Konakat. Welcome Allalone. I promise you won't feel all alone here. Assie, I completely forgot about your daughter having a brain tumor. I remember reading that in your auto.
I have scoured the internet for information on her symptoms and it keeps coming back to a brain tumor. (Where is Rachel's research skills when you need them?) Her symptoms also lasted for 5 minutes. Someone suggested that It might be a blood clot from birth control pills but symptoms don't match up. We haven't had her BRCA testing done yet but it has crossed my mind that it might be BC mets. (Oddly enough I'm not a carrier but my husbands 4 sister are BRCA 2+. He's being tested next week.)
Here's another thing that really bothers me about some Doctors.....I'm so offended when Doctors don't tell you what it might be. I had to pry it out of her. I understand that they don't want to alarm you unnecessarily but I want to know. I can process things so much easier if I have time to work with it. When I had my ultra sound biopsy for my tumor I couldn't get the tek or the radiologist to even tell me it was suspicious. I had to wait until my Doctor blind sided me.
So please ladies don't hold back with me. I would appreciate hearing from the brain mets girls about your symptoms. I promise I won't freak out. Thank you Aussie for being frank with me. I wish this site had a survey tool. I would love to see how many of us want the strait talk and how many prefer to be in the dark as long as possible.
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This is Ashley and her boyfriend.
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Renee, I'm sorry you have to deal with this worry. Have they tested her for Multiple Sclerosis? It's often a diagnosis of elimination ("Well, we know its not 'x'or 'y' maybe it's MS"). The disease presents in a multitude of ways including many of her symptoms. Just an idea rather than a tumor.
xxxooo
Lisa
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I came to this forum a long time ago and it felt so good to release stuff!
So, my dad died in June, and now my older sister and older brother are fighting all the time about what's "right for Mom" and if she should move out of her house or not. And I CAN"T STAND IT!!! Isn't bad enough that Dad is DEAD! WHY do they have to fight all the fricken' time! Why do they have to have such a stupid POWER STRUGGLE over the life of an 81 year old woman! I'm always shaking off their negative energy like it's tar stuck to me, or something. groan.
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Thanks Lisa. MS did come up in my research but I disregarded it. I'll add that to my list to ask the Doctor. Thank you.
Calypso...We had the same situation 2 years ago. Don't get in the middle of the dog fight. Be the level headed one. If I had it to do over again I would have hired a counselor to mediate.
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Renee, Sheila & Calypso, big hugs to you.
Just a drive by. Love to all of you. This disease SUCKS! I'm sorry to see any new women here, but we welcome youto the club you never wanted to join. Vent all you want!
More soon.
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