Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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My bitch today is simple. Woke up to the birds singing and daylight coming through my bedroom windows. That means Im up late and dont have enough time to say a big "that sucks" to everyone.
Harley: Glad you went to the dentist. Its amazing what they are charging nowadays!
Gotta go hit the showers.
Nicki
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Nicki
Well, it hasn't been THAT long since I went to the dentist! But, it IS the first time I didn't have insurance. AND, my dentist in Maryland only charges about $58 for a cleaning, so I guess it'll be another $200 just for a cleaning! GEEZ!
Now I have to go get dressed and get ready for work, but I don't really want to go back to work.
Harley
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Nicki, hope you made it in on time...
Harley, hoping your first day on the new job isn't too terrible...
Shirley,
! Too funny...Edited to add:
I forgot my b*tch! On Mommie's Day, when I foolishly got sucked into a store to buy a card for a friend bedridden due to a difficult pregnancy, I actually say a sign that said:
May is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Buy an Awareness Bouquet Today!"
Guess where it was? Right above a GIANT vat of wrapped bouquets - all with little pink ribbons on the wrapper! WTF?!? I was so angry, I could've spit. Thought about going to customer service to complain, but the line was literally almost out the door. Can you believe that crap?!?
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At last. I have found a home for this piece of shittiness that I have been carting around for 2 months.
My older sister. I tell her I have breast cancer. She says (I am NOT making this up):
Sister (all breathy and earnest): "Wow, I knew with Mom's history that one of us girls might get it. I'm just glad it's you."
[Long pause as I let her words hang in the ether.]
She continues, "You know, because I have children!"
And because I am an evil, childless, soulless bitch, I replied: "Well, K___n, that doesn't mean anything. You could still get it!"
Jeez Louise, K. It's okay to think it. It's even okay to say it to someone else (like my other sister). But did you have to say it to ME? Right THEN? Grrr.
Re: Dentist woes. I was trying to eat healthy so I ate some almonds and chipped a tooth. Made an appointment for the next week (right before chemo). Couple days later, bit into a walnut and a little piece of shell broke the chipped tooth OFF. This never happened when I was living on Cheese Doodles and Little Debbies.
(Boy, i'm happy to have found you guys.)
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Rockthebald,
Boy. I have heard and read about many shitty things family has said about the dx but your sister's comments are defintely in the top 3. What does she mean--because she has children!!! I do love your response. You are right..she can think it, even say it (although how could she say it to anyone?) but to tell you.
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Rockthebald,
OMG! Of all things to say, and she's your sister. Good snap back to put her in her place. As if she's "safe" because she's had kids. Gotta love the clueless.
Yesterday, my older sister sent me a long-line bra. WTF? Ummmm...I have no breasts. When she was visiting, I mentioned that I have nothing to hold a bra down. Meaning NO BOOBS. She figured a padded long-line bra would do the trick. You know, because it will be tight around my torso. Did I mention I have NO BOOBS? I sent her an email, thanking her, but explaining that until I go get fitted for two prosthesis, I still have nothing to hold the bra down. Swoosh...over her head. She emailed back that she knew it would work well. I feel like sending her pics of my chest!
I have a question. Do you all take notes as you read everyone's posts? Either you do, have great memories or I have an extreme case of chemo brain. I can't remember jack I read two minutes ago. I did remember Harley's pearly white tooth. And dentists suck, too.
Linda
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Rockthebald, I think I would have committed some major mayhem in that situation. It SUCKS! My suckiness for today is I just got out of the shower having waited the 24 hours since my port insertion yesterday, and I have HUGE wide drips of lidocaine all around my neck and up into my hairline. I called the doc's office to ask about something to remove it but of course no one is available right now. You'd think they could include some directions about removing that stuff in their packet of info when you're discharged.
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RocktheBald, that is just the most unbelievable, insensitive thing I've ever heard coming from someone's relative. OMG, I can't even imagine. If anyone ever says to me "your sister should have gotten cancer instead of you because you have a child and she doesn't" I will smack them, I promise.
Linda, that is beyond clueless. Geez.
Yesterday I managed to have constipation, diarrhea, bleeding hemorrhoids and acid reflux - all in one day. Gotta love chemo! Today I've got three out of four (no c) so things are looking up, I guess. And my feet are a bit better too.
Have a good night if you can, chicas!
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Rockthebald,
Obviously your sister also missed out on inheriting manners and couth, too! Maybe you could start up a collection so you could send her to charm school. Good grief. THAT SUCKS!!
My "suck" for the day is sort of a good news/bad news. Good news is that the onc was set up to give me my first AVASTIN today (before I won't be able to afford it). Bad news is I wasn't planning for it and missed my son's band concert. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
To a less sucky tomorrow,
Diane
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Harley, can't wait to hear what your first day at work was like. Did it SUCK?
Felicia, you've GOT to be kidding! May is breast cancer awareness month? And, over dead flowers? Is my chemo brain in overtime? I thought it was October. I'll ask Mr. Google.
Rockthebald, (love your name..I need to be more creative) now that really SUCKS! Tell your sis to stay away from you or she catch IT! (Gotta cat walking in front of the screen and can't see a darn thing I'm typing..now she's gone). Also, if you want to eat nuts without chipping a tooth get crowns. They may crack or fall out of your mouth, but you just get a new one.
Linda, you're story about the long lined bra is just too funny! Geez, goes to show you that if you don't have this disease ya just don't get it. You could try stuffing the bra with socks.
Wow, Lorena, what an accomplishment! Hope tomorrow you'll have none of those ailments.
Girls, glad you got a laugh about the parrot. I'll never buy one.
Shirley
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OK...I gotta bitch one last time before I melt. It hit 100 here today. The air conditioning is blowing and the only cool spot is right in front of it. So...I pulled a frozen Capri Sun out of the freezer, grabbed a spoon and plopped myself in front of the air conditioner...life is good!
Linda
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Linda, thanks for remembering me and my newly whitened tooth! Funny, I was looking in the mirror, and my teeth are yellow, but I think that is their natural color...
Shirley, my first day didn't SUCK too bad! My previous jobs have been part time, and I only worked 4 or 5 hours a day, five days a week. Even though I was working EVERY day, it was STILL alot easier than having to stick it out there for the entire EIGHT hours! They seem to like me, and I guess I'll go back and try it again next week. Maybe in a couple of weeks, if things continue to go ok, I may ask if I could work just five hours a day, four days a week. She can only say NO.
Thanks for that joke! It made me laugh!!
Hope everyone has a non sucky weekend!!
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Harley, so glad the first day didn't do you in! Hopefully, it will grow on you.... and of course they LIKE you!! Who wouldn't??
Diane, I'm sorry you had to miss your son's band concert. That's disappointing and totally sucks!
Rockthebald, that was a terrible thing for your sis to say. She should hang out with my sister. Herceptin messed up my heart and the doc was talking about me possibly needing a transplant. My sister (who used to work in the medical field) just had to let me know that they wouldn't 'waste' a heart on me because of my cancer dx. I mean, I already knew that, but did she have to say it? We have someone who can punch your sister if you'd like. Just ask Traci.
Linda, tell your sister you're gonna need a bra with legs in it to hold it down. I have a bra with sleeves to help my lymphedema. :-) I filled socks with rice to stuff my bra before I got something inedible to put in there. Then I ate my old boobs with chicken and broccoli.
I'm with Shirley, May is most definitely not breast cancer month. October is..... that's when I got the mammogram that changed my life forever!
I'm gonna bitch here real soon. I just have to wait til I have time to write a LOT!
Love you,
Miss S
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Nicki - love the new Avatar!
Felicia - I have no idea which month is breast cancer awareness, but I saw pink ribbon toothbrushes today in the drug store. Yikes!!
Linda - I'm with ya, it was close to 100 also down here on the Central Coast.
Lorena - I hope your down another SE tomorrow.
Rock - I'd have pointed you here (to this thread) sooner if I'd have know you needed it so bad - and that was BAD!! I'm speechless at the lack of thinking people do when speaking to us. Tell her SHUT UP!!
I was better today and did not need to run down the hallway urgently at work. So no bitch - we'll see about tomorrow...
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Rockthebald - Your sister must be taking too many "Dumberols" or "Peptobimbos".
Marsha
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Popping in to say a hearty "that sucks" to everyone. Thank goodness its Friday. Maybe I will be able to catch up with ya all when I get home from work.
My gripe today is my hair. Got my hair cut, it looks awful. I have come to the realization my hair will never be like it was before chemo. Still very thin and baby soft!
Gotta run - overslept and its time to get ready for work. Will ya all later.
Nicki
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Rockthebald - Wow, your sister must learn to think before speaking. . .good thing we love our sisters or they could be our worst enemies (I've got 3 of them)
MissShapen - Your comment about eating your old boobs with chicken and broccoli cracked me up!
Off to see the PS this morning for a follow up. I think my wound is looking better, hopefully she will think so too. Just wish this foob would start feeling more like a boob and less like a bowling ball.
Not that I want 100 degree weather, but it's cooled off here and is raining everyday (ugh). The tree pollen is through the roof and sneezing is a killer on my tram recovery. Hopefully that's my only bitch for the day, hope everyone has a less than sucky day.
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WARNING: PENT UP RANT ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED. You do not need to read or even respond. I just need to get a couple things out.
In keeping with the core philosophy of this thread (i.e., "Rather than trying to cheer everybody up ....everytime everbody posts some CRAP going on in their lives, the replies will be "that sucks.....listen to my crap!").
PART 1. THAT SUCKS:
So Nicki -- sucky hair SUCKS. And so do people who tell us how cute/perky/stylish/hip etc. we look when we frigging do not. (I'm gonna follow the lead of the woman who would respond by whipping a scissors out of her backpack and saying "Here, give it a go on your own head!" I posted my response to the woman I barely know who shaved her head "in solidarity" somewhere on the chemo board so will spare you here.)
Pink ribbons suck, unless possibly redeemed by the presence of a skull with flames coming out of its eyes. Or a snake.
smthlme: The "swoosh" part of your email alone made my frigging day. (I'm def using it.) What part of "I have no breasts" do people not comprehend? I'm not sure a photo is needed. Perhaps just hand her a clipboard and say, "Ya see, pretend this is your chest. . . "
MissShapen: Aaack! And it's right up there with those folks who said "Oh, I'm sure it's not cancer!" [Yeah, thanks. Real helpful. I missed the part where you can detect cancer with your spider senses.]
PART 2: LISTEN TO MY CRAP.
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rockthebald,
you be as piggy as you want to, need to....for as long as it takes. That's what we're all here for. I have to say, your sister's cluelessness SUCKS!!
Now listen to my crap!! Had tx #2 yesterday, fought nausea all evening but slept well, and this morning I can't type without numerous typos. (I know, it's a small bitch, but it's all I've got so far! will post later with more...
Love,
Sue
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That sucks to everyone. Now, my crap:
Yesterday when I logged into Photobucket, I got a prompt to change my password. I did, but forgot to check the "Remember me" box and promptly could not log in this morning! When I changed my email addy a few months ago, I did not notify Photobucket, so I guess they are sending the new password they forced on me to my old address. WTF?!? I'd post a really neat pic of someone with steam coming out of their ears, but, of course I can't.
I hate when technology has a brain fart...
And OCTOBER is the true BC awareness month, btw...
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All that crap SUCKS!!!!! I am going to kiss my sister today. She is not prone to saying stupid things.....maybe becasue she remembers how hard I hit when we were kids! LOL
OK....here is my bitch...
If hallmark, or the powers that be make ANOTHER breast cancer awareness month...May AND October....my head will explode! Guess what? I'm already AWARE of breast cancer!
Grrrr.....
Deb C
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Deb,
I'm with you. A whole month to be aware of Breast Cancer? Try 365 days for the rest of my life. I use to think it was great...until I was diagnosed. T-shirts, coffee mugs, jewelry, cookies, flip-flops...pink ribbons are everywhere. I'd like just one day, just one, dedicated to "Today I get to forget Breast Cancer (enter preferred word) my life."
Linda
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Bitch today .... just added another doctor in my small town who has seen me naked!!
A year ago nobody in Martinsville had, but Tim. So add to the list of oncologists, surgeons, rads techs, PCPs, nurses, etc. ... the dermatologist who did a full body check today!!
Yep had 5 things biopsied off my back. 3 burned off my head and one off my face. Guess what ... in 4 weeks I get to go back and get more biopsied on my stomach and leg.
Maybe I shouldn't have a worn a bikini when I was young and hot and laying on the beach!!
Now, I resemble a beached whale with little pieces being chunked out of her hide.
I need a pain pill now cause all those injections are wearing off.
I was thinking about Rockbalds sis on the way home ... I think I would rather have an STD than cancer. At least, hopefully, there was some fun involved in getting it!!!
love and a less crappy afternoon to all,
Bren
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BinVA: The forced Lady Godiva. The biopsies and the burning and the pain. They suck.
At one point, I realized that nearly 2 dozen medical folks had seen my breasts in the past three weeks. It got to the point where I -- normally kind of a prude -- would enter a room and start to take my shirt off. I remember this poor technician practically shouting in terror: "Stop, stop, lady! You can keep your robe on! Remember, it's an x-ray!"
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Next we'll be going naked to the dentist!!! I haven't shown my dentist or periodontist my boobs yet!! ALthough he has indicated in his chart that I am very emotional and cry a lot. Excuuuuuse me.
Must have been the rads at the time were upsetting me!!
I keep laughing about what your friends said in jest, something to the effect of "don't mind her .... she has a rash!" Hopefully, I didn't misquote.
Good to see you here Ms. RTB.
Bren
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Cristine: Thanks for noticing the change in my avatar. If you could see it in motion, she is swinging fairy dust with her hand. I just really needed a change!
Rock: Oh that was a great that sucks post.
The hair is worse than I thought. I spent 40 minutes trying to do something with it and I was crying the whole time. Husband saying "you shouldnt have gotten it cut. You finially started to look normal again!e" I took a giant step backwards and my hair was almost back to my old style - be it thinner - it was almost there. Of course I then think what the heck is wrong with me. When I was bald I woul have taken the tiniest growth, so why am I whining now? The bc story vs the rash that can be cured with a tan? Ohhhhhh! That one made my blood boil. What really sucks is nothing has been the same since breast cancer. Everything has changed. I want the old me and will never get it back and Im tired of trying to find the new me.
Sue: Your that sucks is a biggy. When I was getting chemo I lived on the computer and not being able to type stinks.
Sam: I too am sick of cold cloudy weather. This is an awful Spring and I bet we go right into summer!
Felicia: Photobucket did the same thing with me and I have a bizarre password. They are doing stuff to the site also making it very difficult to get pictures. Ah yes - lets fix what is working good already.
DebC: Hahahaha Im laughing at your sister remembering how hard you hit. Thats a good one. Please say it aint so. Are they really adding May to breast cancer awareness? If so, I might just go find a hole and sit in it.
Bren: Ah yes, yet another health issue a tanning salon cannot take care of! Wouldnt even consider a bikini nowadays - beached whale indeed! Hahahah I just read your second post about it being written that your emotional in your dentists chart.
BBL!
Nicki
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I knooowww Nicki ... what kind of a thing is that to write in a dental chart!!! And then to have the nerve to tell me it's in my chart!!
By the way ... the dermatologist also found a rash on me under my boobs and suggested white vinegar! What a hoot.
Sorry about your hair. I haven't had mine cut since my B-day last Sept. It's a wild mess of white!!
Please don't tell me "they" are going to ruin the perfectly lovely month of May!!
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Felicia, you wanna know what really sucks? That prompt to change your password on Photobucket was optional. I like my Photobucket password--it's easy to remember and very weird. So I just opted out (ignored the prompt), and didn't change mine. I logged in just now after I read your post, and my old one is working fine.
Bren, I am dreading going to the dermatologist. I have very fair skin, and he already scraped off 3 spots of actinic keratosis. I know I have more of them--they've flared during each of my Taxotere/Cytoxan treatments. My onco said sometimes they'll even peel off and go away with chemo--sort of an unanticipated benefit of chemo, eh? But if they don't, I'll have to go in for the full-body-check once everything has calmed down from chemo.
There is only one decent dermatologist in my town, and he has a 3-month waiting list. Heaven forbid anyone would have a dermatological emergency! (A dermatologist told me once that was an oxymoron.) The other dermatologist is a quack. I had a plantar's wart on my foot, and wanted him to freeze it off or whatever. Instead, he gave me this song-and-dance about immune suppression and killer T cells (heck, I have a graduate degree in immunology--I know all that), and he put me on a one-month course of Tagamet! Didn't do a darn thing. So I went to the other guy, who froze it off and gave me some stuff to paint on it for a few weeks until it went away totally.
rockthebald, I am sooo glad you found this refuge from the insanity of BC. You've certainly embraced the spirit of the place. We laugh as we cry.
I am very sorry that I do not have any qualifying bitches today. I'm actually feeling pretty good, while waiting for the Neulasta truck to come by tomorrow. But, to everyone else, I'll shout a hearty, "THAT SUCKS!"
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