Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
Comments
-
gsg,
Praying for b9 results!! Why don't drs. realize that we are worried, so they give us our test results SOONER?
Hope all goes well with your cardio appt., too! I don't know about you, but I am really getting fed up with all these dr. appts!!Hanna,
YES, the nipple on my groin is really starting to get on my nerves!
I thought my ps had decided to do the nipple transfer... ...er...whatever it's called... TOMORROW, since I got a call yesterday to remind me of my ps appt... but no, I called and the girl said that I am supposed to go tomorrow & on May 22nd, which is the nipple surgery date... So, I guess I have to drive all the way up there, to WILMINGTON, NC just so my ps can ADMIRE HIS WORK!
Have a wonderful evening, ya'll!
Harley
0 -
{{{{{Diane}}}}} and people antagonizing you? That's sick! And the dog ate the cheeseburger...I'm sorry, but I had to laugh.
Dani, exchange surgery..you must be happy about that. I didn't have reconstrucition, but sometimes wish I had the nerve. Get's a little tiring having to wear a prosthetic boob. Somehow that sounds weird.
Lauren, losing your hair is awful! But it will come back. I hated looking at myself bald. I rarely did because I kept something on my head. The day of my mastectomy they put that cute little green cap on my head. The surgeon walks in and asked how I felt. I said I didn't feel to attractive...no makeup...you could see through my cap and see my bald head...he said at least your's will grow back...he was balding quite well. But men are supposed to go bald..not women!
And, Traci, your post brought tears to my eyes. Bless your heart. I would have broken the mirror!
Lauren, big hugs to you. Hang in there girl. Praying that your dh keeps his job. Hell, we're going to run out of money...dh retired a long time ago...stock market has screwed us...we'll probably have to find a good, strong, warm box to live in!
About Harley's nipples...I got to thinking today (which is hard to do). I've heard of heart transplants and other organ transplants, but not nipple transplants! I wonder if nipples can be harvested and saved like sperm and eggs. Or if someone can donate their nipples when they die. Nah, that wouldn't work. And, thinking of Harley's nipples...I heard of amputations..like boobs, legs, fingers, etc. BUT NOT NIPPLES! Oh well, they will soon be transplanted again where they belong.
Nice having lunch with you today, Harley. My dh ate the rest of my salad with my permission.
Patrice, YOU DO NOT HAVE LUNG METS! Hope you get your results ASAP. Darn, it shouldn't take that long to read a simple x-ray. Perhaps they outsourced it because it would be cheaper.
Geez, Deb. You've had to put up with enough! When I started chemo my onc warned me about all kinds of things and one was a blood transfusion. I about freaked. My husband has had it done and he even lived through it! His hemoglobin went down to 8! It took two units of blood to bring it up to 10.
I'm trying to think of a gripe. My gripe is I'm always so tired and can't think most of the time.
That's it. But I love reading this thread and having a big laugh!
Shirley
0 -
Shirley,
I enjoyed our lunch today, too! It is ALWAYS nice talking to you, but especially nice to see you!I guess I don't have any more gripes, except... you know, that nipple thing!!
Hope everyone has a gripe-free day!
Harley
0 -
(((((hugs to you, jerseymaria))))) That really, really sucks. I don't know what else to say, but keep coming here to let it out.
0 -
Jersey, I'm sure you have looked into this but.... is there respite care available to you so that you can get away occasionally?? That REALLY SUCKS ! Hang in there we're here for you.
0 -
.
0 -
My bitch today is that my dh walked into the room while I was watching the PBS special on cancer, as a patient is talking about funeral arrangements. He says, "that's depressing" and leaves to go out.
Now I'm watching Linda Ellerbee's special. She's talking about the ennobling aspect of cancer...hope some of you watch this and comment. I can't think of anything funny to say. I'm just a little sad tonight...they are talking about a positive attitude and survivorship.
At least they are saying we shouldn't feel guilty. Hope you all get to see this.
0 -
Isabella -
Did you say a PIG'S HEAD? We really do have the makings of a parade - your dogs with the pigs head, sausage dogs with dead kittens, and my daughter's dog with the baby squirrel.
Marsha
0 -
Well, badboobs67/Diane's entry came in pretty early this morning, but her list of complaints was so long and so awful that I think she should get today's award. What do y'all think?
I have just one itsy bitsy teeny gripe today. I am shedding. My fur is coming out in tufts.
otter
0 -
My bitch is at insensitive men. Today I took my 17 year old daughter to look for a dress for Senior Ball. She's been through a lot this past year with me having BC not once, but now again. She's drowned her stress in numerous bags of chips and many unhealthy food choices. Now is not the time to get on her back for her weight. She also wears a 36F bra. This did NOT come from me. Anyway...she picks out a dress she'd like to try on in a boutiquey-type shop. It's an extra large and she asks the man if she can try it on. He looks her up and down and asks her what size it is and she tells him an extra large. He had the nerve to tell her that it won't fit her and fits only up to a 32 inch waist. She tells him that her waist is only 30 inches. He again tells her that it won't fit her and that she can't try it on. She put it down and walked out of the store in tears. Talk about a self-esteem basher!
I proceeded to ask the man why he would say that to her and that he hurt her feelings. He ignored me. I then told him that I would report him to the Better Business Bureau. What an A$$! Rude men SUCK!
Linda
0 -
Awww Linda, your poor daughter. What a freakin' jerk! THAT really SUCKS!!!!!
Otter, sorry about your fur. Perhaps you have mange? I'll PM you my vets number... he's great!
Marshabel, it's so good to see you posting. I think about you all the time! How's the chemo going this time around?
I've been thinking about Harley's nipple lots, too. It's starting to feel weird. I KNOW I'm gonna have a dream about it, soon.
Jerseymaria.... you seriously do need to get some help and get out for a while. I took care of my Mom at home for six years (Alzheimer's) and I started to go stark raving mad. There is help... start looking in the phone book and calling around. I bet you could get people to come in and at least give you a couple of afternoons a week out.
Deb, sorry about the anemia. I stayed anemic during chemo. Of course I had to get every extra shot imaginable during that time. I don't blame you for being worried about a transfusion, but try not to be scared. My friend had to get one and he took his laptop and we played Scrabble while he got his. He probably beat me, too! I'll keep praying you don't need one, though. [I've heard if you get blood from a man, you'll end up with hairy nipples.]
Maire, here's a big kick for your DH.
Badboob, sorry to hear your bad news. I've been wondering how you were doing. Cancer sucks and sucks and just keeps on sucking.
Love
Miss S
0 -
Hanna......My report was good......no surprises, I am done. Mastectomy took care of it and no other treatment for me. Now I need to FOOB shop!!
Linda....that guy is a big JERK! Tell your daughter it was not worth spending the money in that idiots store and you'll tell everyone else not to patronize him!! Poor kid.......what a crappy experience.
Man....lots of big sucky stuff!
Badboob((HUGS))
Jersymaria.....that really really really sucks
Dani.....hope the exchange goes well
Otter.....
sucks to go bald 0 -
My bitch today is so minor compared to whats going on with the rest of you. I got a pedometer and walked my little heart out yesterday. Only to find out when I got home it wasnt working and only clocked me for 99 steps! Went to sports authority thinking I would get a good one - not!
0 -
Linda, that just s**ks about the way the man treated your daughter. Have you looked into a custom made dress? If I lived closer, my sister and I make dream formal gowns just for the specific person. One time we made a dress for a very large woman who was the maid of honor at a wedding. They could not find a dress that fit all parts of her anatomy
. I think we ended up using about 15 yds of fabric for the dress and the shoulder wrap.Nicki, I also got a pedometer and after about a week it quit working. I think it was all the times I dropped it when going to the restroom and I don't know if it was accurate at all.
Sheila
0 -
Linda I am soooo angry with that a$$ right now. What a complete jerk. I'd report him to someone. If he's not the manager report him to the manager. That kind of stuff sticks with you and really hurts. Can't believe he would do that. A big Fongool to him!!
0 -
Wow. There's a whole lot of sucky crap going on!!
Today's a little better for me; the rads onc gave me the rest of the week off. My pain meds are still making me extremely nauseous. It doesn't give me much hope that I'll be able to handle chemo-nausea very well if I can't even take pain meds without yacking!
It looks like we are getting ready to lose another one of our finches. ("daddy" finch died a few pages back) AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! They are really special to my dh because they belonged to his grandma before she passed. He's had enough stress and garbage lately. I sure hope that this bird is acting strange because it's getting ready to lay an egg or something! That sucks.
Middle son has poison ivy that I didn't even know about for a week! He is an itchy mess. That sucks.
0 -
Gee, when I come here and read the posts, I feel lousy for complaining about anything! But, I still do, sometimes!....
I have been whining & complaining because last week & this week have been the weeks from HELL, with all these tests & dr. appts., and I am really getting fed up!! Last week, of course, I had the ... ahem... colonoscopy on Wed., so Tuesday wasn't very much fun either... Thurs., I had an MRI of my back for lower back pain I have been having intermittently. Then, this week, I went on Monday for a breast MRI and they cancelled AT THE LAST MINUTE... then they rescheduled it for yesterday, and I actually DID get the MRI... only it hurt SO BAD when they tried to put the IV in!!! OUCH!
GEEZ, where do these people learn how to do IVs and blood draws... anyway, so today, I have to go see my ps again... just found out about that appt. on Tuesday evening! I got the recorded appt. reminder from my ps office... and tomorrow, I have an appt. with my general surgeon to go over all thest D*MN tests he's been ordering!! But, I keep reminding myself, that these tests are just because it's been OVER A YEAR since my BC DX!! And hopefully, I won't need any more of these Freakin' tests for at least another year!
Still, after reading all ya'lls posts, I feel pretty crumby!
Shirley, the nipple transplant sounds so much better than this 'thing' that has been just sitting here, for almost an entire year! !
Deb, I think that really sucks, that you may need a blood transfusion! MisShapen, that is too funny, about getting blood from a MAN, and getting HAIRY NIPPLES!
You made me laugh! I also hear that if you get blood from a MAN, you lose about 50% of your brain!!Hope everyone has a better day than yesterday...
Harley... the nipple-less one!!
0 -
Damn.....I don't girls....I wouldn't know who to vote for for winning the bitch of the day. Jersey's D(not)H sounds like it sucks pretty freaking bad....really bad....really, really bad. But, you all know how I feel about the hair thing... (((((((((((((((otter)))))))))))))))))
I already have a bitch for today...I sent a sales email to a girl at Tiffany's and she replied "Go away. Please." What a bitch!!!!!! What ever happened to "I'm not interested."
" 0 -
Traci,
That was SO RUDE!!! I think the Tiffany Sales girl deserves the bitch slap!!
Hugs
Harley
0 -
I don't have time right now to read everybody's bitches...I have to get ready for work. So let me offer a blanket THAT SUCKS to all..and then I'll read them when I get to work.
Also, want to post that I got the results of my lung x-ray a few minutes ago. "LUNGS = NORMAL"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to everybody who waited with me. It truly is the worst part. Don't know what I'd do without each and every one of you. I want to e-smooch each of you right now.
0 -
OH....I just read g's post so I'm editing in here - MAJOR CONGRATS and a huge sigh of relief g! YAYAYAY!
Now, back to Linda - Yeah! What kind of dumbass says that to your daughter Linda?! OMG. You were a true lady not to take him down right there on the spot. I wonder if there is some kind of law he broke? When you call the BBB, ask if he broke a law, like a discrimination law. I really feel the mother bear thing kicking in here -
Viv - Congrats on the report! I think we are learning patience and persistence. Good job getting it done!! Woo hoo!
DebC - About the transfusion thing, do you have any family members with your same blood type? I am a universal donor so I could send you some of mine! Do they let people who are in the 'grey zone' donate? I don't know.
Anyway, if you do have anyone with your blood type, they could donate and it takes awhile to get processed, but if you don't need it immediately, it probably wouldn't creep you out as much if you knew whose blood you were getting. I have a cousin who has to get transfusions about once a month and he always feels so much better after. He usually gets his sister's blood but sometimes her blood pressure is too low and they won't let her donate so he gets someone else's.
I have alloderm in my boob and it is cadaver skin. I didn't know about it till after the surgery!! Boy that was a surprise! At first, I was a wee bit....apprehensive about it. I was imagining I would take on the personality of this person who donated their tissue. If so, then they hated to cook because I've gone from loving to cook to where I could care less and now it's bring on the carryout! But then I actually began to bond with it - the alloderm. I started thinking wow, an amazingly giving person donated some of themselves to me and it is helping me. If I didn't have it, an implant would probably just fall through my skin and land on my foot! All I know the person by is the Lot number on the sheet of Alloderm, but I am grateful they were an organ donor. I admit I do think about this from time to time. I haven't forgotten them.
Let's see, what thread is this, oh moan and groan. Well, I guess I will moan. I think some things suck right now - especially with the trials of some of the sisters in the forum recently. I'm praying and I don't know what else I can do for them. Just keep on praying.
Then there's something going on in my life that made me mad.
I take my son into an emminently famous University Hospital That Shall Not Be Named where the docs are supposedly the greatest and best in the US etc.. BUT they have none other than pure, unadulterated dumkoffs doing everything else - particularly assigned to drawing blood. A vampire would do a better job. My cat could do a better job. My kid is a world class trooper when it comes to getting blood draws, IV's, you name it. But in this Most High Potentatious place, my kid gets Madame Hostile with a capital H phlebotomist in the pediatric center who they must have just plucked off the street corner and said, Hey you, come in and work here today. I'm gonna spare you all and will not revisit the scene, but I will say my kid was as compliant, calm and stoic as a saint through all this idiot's attempts to find a vein. He's even holding her supplies cause she only had two hands and apparently she left her other 2 at home. My kid's got great veins!! For years I've known this from hearing it so many times. Plus he had been drinking fluids and even I could feel them! This idiot hostile woman was a supreme DUMB FONGOOL!!!
She finally gives up on the one arm and decides to wrap the rubber strap around his other arm when I suddenly have an out of body experience! I rise up from my chair, fly over to my son - fling the armrest to the side, and get him up out of the chair and haul him out! One of the lab people comes after me and says they'll get someone else and for us to stay there but I calmly replied - No thank you, I love and respect my son and I am taking him now. Thank you very much anyway. They said it again and I just repeated my thing cool as a cucumber and away we went leaving them with mouths agape and available to catch flies!
SO, FONGOOL Blankety Blankety University Hospital Center - You may have the super docs - so we're all led to believe - but next time - don't put out of work carnival workers in your blood labs to torture kids and babies anymore!!!!!! Yea, it's me here...you know who I am and who you are if you're reading this!!! Dumba$$ Maximum FONGOOL'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!to the 10th power!!!
Just because you hear babies crying doesn't mean it's because babies always cry when they get blood drawn. Maybe they had that inept FONGOOL digging around in that babies arm with a needle too!!
There. That has been on my chest for a few days now and I just had to get it off. Whew! Thanks for the vent release ladies!
Have a truly non-sucky day you all ~
Hanna
0 -
OMG! I haven't been on the boards much lately...so much to catch up on...so many THAT SUCKS since I've read last.
My bitch is that I haven't been able to keep up with all the SUCKINESS going on here.
Here's hoping we all have a SUCK FREE day, but if we don't, we know where to come, don't we?
Donna
0 -
g- WooHoo....I love good news
Hanna - I am sending the fleas of a thousand camels to nest in the pubic hair of that nasty Madame Hostile. You get brownie points for not punching her! BIG hugs to your son.
When i read here i want a magic wand, even one with just a tiny bit of magic to smooth the bumps out of our roads. Instead, you all get a big THAT SUCKS!!!! Where is that voodoo doll????
OK, I only have a little bitch today.....why the hell can't they find a way to keep my chemo from giving me a bloody nose every damn morning???? I have tried saline spray, vaseline, saline gel, even fricking olive oil rubbed up my nose and I STILL wake up and my nose bleeds. Now I am anemic.....think maybe becasue I BLEED every day? Grrrrrr......
Deb C
0 -
- Oh Hanna I was furious when I read about your son and how badly they screwed up. Legally they can only try three times after that they should not try again. Also they should have gotten a warm towel right away to raise they viens. My son went through the same thing when they removed a tumour the size of a football when he was ten. For years I kept taking him in to our clinic saying somethings is wrong and they could never find a thing. The tumour was so rare it ended up in Betheseda at a radiology conference. But there was a young intern that thought she was the cats ass and I noticed phlebitis starting in his arm so they had to move the IV so this young ass of a Dr. kept poking my son to point where his little hand was swelling right in front of me. and i was losing it. Lucky for me there was a really great nurse there and she shushed me out of the room and told me that they only where aloud three attempts. The nurses were all saying to this you ass doc, let us put some warm towels on and she just ignored them and kept saying no I can get it. I finally lost it totally lost it on this Dr. , so they called a Dr that was once a nurse up from emergency and the first thing she said was do you have the warm towels on and they did, so this new Dr. just slid the IV no problem and the young ass just sat there looking stupid. Then she said to me well I could have done it. Well I lost it again and kicked her out of the room and raised so much hell she wasn't allowed near Jason again. Then I also wrote the hospital board it was her snotty additude, I just couldn't take it and then the Dr called me from Winnipeg about three weeks after we got home and started to defend herself again so I called the hospital and reported her again she was supposed to call and just apologize. So thank God for the nurses they are a wealth of information and I loved them for the way they took care of my son.
- Todays bitch, I've had a headache bad for crickey maybe I should read my old posts and see how long I've been bitching about a headache, morphine and 800 mg of ibuprofen and it finally settles to a normal pain I can tolerate. Sick of being sick girls. Oh yeah tried to BBQ with my son two nights ago and stuck the burger in mic to defrost it and ended up not hitting defrost somehow, so cooked the burger solid in the plastic, not healthy. Worst part is I love using charcoal I just think it tastes better than propane so there we were with beautiful gray hot charcoal and already cooked burger.
- What a mess, so I mixed it up with a bunch of spices and wrapped it in tinfoil tasted like crap, so much for my first bbq of the year. But maybe I will try again tonight, got to get it right. I have to go back and read everyones gripes, mine aren't to bad. Still living on the capsules but can eat a bit if I'm careful just six days until I see the Gastro, my sister is coming she wants to choke him I think I'll let her. I watched PBS last night posted already about it, I liked it it was honest. Oday by for now everyone have a good day.
0 -
I can so relate to the IV idiots. Glad to hear about the warm towel method. The moron putting mine in before my surgery 2 weeks ago took 4 times before she got it in. At one point she fussed at me for holding my breath because she said that closes the veins. . .excuse me, let me dig around in your arm with a needle and see if you don't hold your breath! Then to top it off they had to move it when I came out of surgery because it wasn't working. There was not an unbruised spot on my arm from the elbow to my fingers.
gsg - glad to hear the B9 results
debC - man, it just all sucks, hugs
linda - I'm not sure how you kept your control. What a jerk. I've got a daughter that's hard to fit due to bigger than average boobs (also not inherited from me) and people can just be clueless about these young girls feelings.
The nipple comments are cracking me up.
Off to see the PS today to see how she thinks things are progressing. I'll be so glad when the swelling goes down and I can see what frankenboob is actually going to look like.
Here's to a unsucky day for everyone
0 -
For all of you who are having a sucky day.
0 -
All I'm going to complain about for now IS once again my dh says, what are we eating tonight? I say, I don't know. What do you want? He replies, Cubed steak? Pork chops? I reply, Okay.
I really want to say, STOP ASKING ME THAT QUESTION EVERY NIGHT! I DON'T WANT TO COOK! I DETEST COOKING (MOST OF THE TIME)! YOU COOK!
I'm ashamed, but that's what sucks everyday!
Shirley
0 -
oh shirley i agree with you totally. 99% of the time that's the only thing hub says to me all day (i refuse to call him dh...he's not).
and of course sometimes he forgets he had lunch so wants dinner soon after lunch...not going to happen. hell, doesn't his stomach tell him it's not time yet. then again today i was reminded that i'm an "old" lady (i'm 63). i posted earlier on another thread asking what something in my mamo report meant but i found the answer by searching the web. it said "the breast parenchyma is almost completely replaced by fat". well thank you so much...i know i'm fricking fat. well anyway this is a normal process of aging. thank you very much.
0 -
maria: DH can also stand for damn husband.
Shirley, you ALWAYS make me laugh. I wish you lived near me...I'd want to hang out with you.
Once again major thank you to all who have celebrated with me over my "normal" lungs.
A heads up to anyone who hasn't visited my "I can't get my act together thread" in this forum. Hanna posted in there today and her post is honestly one of the most amazing things I've EVER read regarding breast cancer and its impact on our psyche. It's...well, it's just indescribable. Actually, there were several posts in there today that gave me a lump in my throat. We have some pretty amazing writers on this board.
I haven't had a chance to catch up in this thread today..but here is a superduper THAT SUCKS!!!!! Pass it on.
0 -
gsg, sorry i forgot to say congrats to your news. you go girl! that's what we like to hear.
and dam hub works for me although i'd like to use stronger, but i don't want to get banned from this site.
0
