Im bitchy, I moan, I groan.....anyway.
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O.K., I'm just jumping right in...
That Sucks! Now listen to my crap...
Yes, Nicki & Sue, the side effects found me. Abdominal cramps/constipation, headache, sore throat, fatigue and sudden taste changes.
Other than the above list, my minor gripe is that when I told my dh about "here come the taste changes", he says: "I told you to cut on your coffee" (that was where I noticed it first). I, misunderstood, thinking he was referring to acid indigestion, and said, "no, it's not bothering my stomach, it tastes weird." And he repeated, "Yeah, you should cut back." Exxccuuuuusssse me. I didn't realize you had been through chemotherapy before! So, I was a little snappy and said, "How about just saying, I'm sorry and it sucks that your coffee tastes weird." And came back to the computer.
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Busy morning here in Chicagoland. I retrieved my energy and have been planting tomatos, peppers, and more herbs. Gotta take advantage of these energy spurts when ya can.
Sue: Instruction first: Go to my home at the top of this page. Click on my profile. Click on my public information. Scroll down to your signature. Type in what you want to show. Then go to the bottom and hit save/exit. That should take care of it for you. Having to work while your getting chemo sucks. There were some days I couldnt work at all - came home and spent the rest of the day in bed. I would say that the fatigue sucks big time. And who are those smartie pants that say its easy working while your getting chemo?
Lori: Post chemo hair sucks and talking about it everyday makes it suck even more. People who havent had chemo dont understand those hair feelings. They think its like shaving your head and it growing back right away - when its not like that at all. You can come here and bitch about your post chemo hair all you want, you will get a big sucks from us.
Hanna: What a great comparison. Rubbing a pregnant belly. When I was bald someone actually rubbed my head for good luck. Now that sucked.
Sheila: Having to deal with a wound sucks. Ive done the crying thing to. Just sorta bites ya in the butt. I rubbed my eyes and looked like a raccoon. The makeup was water resistant, so you can guess it right - couldnt get it off until I got home.
Rock: A man following you into the bathroom sucks. Was he at least good looking?
Cristine: Ya know what sucks? Chemo side effects! I read all the time that some people dont get side effects to chemo. So ok - where are they? I put hot pepper on everything for taste, I ate cold things for my throat, I ate fig newtons and dried apricots for the constipation. The only thing I could do for the fatigue was a big sucky NOTHING! Had a picture for your husband today.
OK - gotta go. Have some gardening to do.
Nicki
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Nicki,
No, I meant the pictures and stuff you put within your posts. I don't know how to do that.
Thanks in advance, and can you make the instructions detailed as I am not only tech-challenged but left handed?
Love,
Ms. Grumpy (Sue)
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Sue: Do you have photobucket?
Nicki
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Nicki,
I don't know. Is it a web site?
Sue
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Sue: Go to this site and open an account. Its free. Just google photobucket.com.
Explore it a bit, and I will come back later to tell ya how to post the pictures. Its really easy.
Nicki
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Nicki,
Thanks!!!
Sue
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Sue - Glad talking to your sister helped lift the blues some. I have 3 sisters but am only really close to one and I consider her my best friend. She can always pick me up. Being fearful sucks.
Rock - Thanks for the advice on the BE eyelid primer. All the rest of my make up is BE, but I've never tried that product. I'll have to try it, I love their products. Sucks about the man following you into the bathroom, I bet he was pretty embarrassed.
Chris - The only thing I can say is the tasting thing sucks. I didn't do chemo so I don't have any words of advice. I've watched my Mom go through the same thing after her treatment for thyroid cancer. She has barely any taste and very little saliva left. She's lost a lot of weight because she doesn't eat all the junk she used to, but she really misses it.
Nicki - Good work on getting some gardening done. Don't know how you have energy for it after working all week. I used to do that stuff, but now I just can't get motivated (oops, that belongs on GSG's thread). Nothing like home grown tomatoes though, maybe I should try my hand at them.
Traci - I've forgotten the timetable of your move. Hope everything went well and we'll hear from you soon.
My only gripe for the day is that my daughter and grandson left today to spend a week in Florida with her fiance (our name for him is sperm donor) and his parents. I usually see them 4-5 times a week, so this is going to be tough. . .I miss them already (especially my little Q-man).
Hope everyone has a less than sucky day.
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This has nothing and everything to do with cancer:
Yesterday, on my way home from work, I stop at the fish store to pick up some shrimp to cook with pasta for dinner. I was BEAT, barely able to drag myself through the day, and really, really, REALLY looking forward to getting home and kicking back.
Another woman parks just in front of me and speedwalks into the store. That means, of course, that she's ahead of me in line. Fair's fair, I know - she did get there first - but part of me is thinking: come on . . . I'm wearing a scarf wrapped around my head because I'm obviously BALD underneath . . . would it kill you to offer me to go ahead of you?
. . . ESPECIALLY if you're going to gaze at the ocean's bounty behind the counter as though you've never in your life bought fish before. And ask questions like, "what's that?" while pointing at a tray of fish clearly labeled "TILAPIA."
(Answer: "Um, that's tilapia.")
. . . And then buy something else. And then ask for detailed instructions on how to cook it. And then stand there, looking puzzled, prompting the proprietor to offer additional recipe tips.
I wanted to kill her. And I really, really hated myself for being so bitchy, because after all, what had she actually done? The whole thing just reenforced the idea that having cancer divides us from the rest of the world . . . there's "us," with cancer, and "them," without it . . . and for all the cluelessness that "they" can display, we're (maybe I should just say "I," since I'm being the bitch here, but I have a feeling that others will know what I mean) also guilty of a certain kind of cancer-inspired self-absorption and, well, bitchiness.
The fact that it's totally understandable doesn't make me hate it any less.
End of rant.
Linda
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Linda. Yes. Amen. Suck-ola. (The woman who couldn't read also wedged herself and her 42 shopping bags into the remaining seat on the subway, but not before coughing her lung up in my face. "Helloooooo, I'm in a immune system "nadir" here! Helloooooo!" )
My fish story. It happened a few weeks ago.
I cross the street to the fish market. I pick up two pounds of squid. While I am waiting for them to package it, two women, ordinary, middle-aged women just hanging out at the lunch counter ask, "So, how do you fix that stuff, anyway?" And I can't resist. I say, very deliberately and seriously, "Well, first you ask the counterman to cut it up for you into rings. Then, you buy some beer batter mix. You also need to make sure you have some canola oil. Not corn oil, not olive, not butter. Only canola." (Lots of head nodding.) "Then, you're going to need a skillet with about an inch of oil in it. And you're going to need it to be hot, but not too hot." (More nodding.) "Next, and this is the trickiest and most important part. So you want to make sure you don't mess it up. Everything hinges on this step." (I swear, everyone in the fish market is leaning forward.) "You take the bag of squid, and you hand it to your dear husband or girlfriend or whomever, and you say, 'Sweetie, I've had a rough day. Please fry me up some calamari.'"
I slay myself sometimes.
(Pre-chemo calamari. Those were the days...)
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Linda,
Every time you rant, I hear you so clearly. And you're right--we (speaking for myself) are guilty of self-absorption and bitchiness. But that lady could SO have offered to let you go ahead of her!!!
I went to the fish counter at a local grocery. They have something called Kona Kampachi which is a really clean fish that has no detectable mercury or pcbs and no internal parasites--(KonaBlue.com of you're interested)--but it's $22.95 a pound!!!!!!! The price wasn't posted at the fish counter, though, so I asked how much it was. When the guy answered me, I said, wow, that's steep--but I am trying to eat really clean food, so give me that filet--and pointed to one. When he weighed it, it weighed about 1 1/2 lbs, so the price showed 33 something--and I must have shown on my face how steep that was for a piece of fish, because he said, I'll give you a discount--and charged me for one pound. It totally caught me by surprise. When he had it packaged, he said, hope you feel better, have a good day. It was really nice.
Sorry you had to wait when you were so tired, I know how that feels. Once when I was almost 9 months pregnant with our first child I forgot to pay the water bill. I got home from work, exhausted, and we had no water. My dh was out but was coming home later. So I went down to the water co. and stood in line, and paid the bill. The lady said, we will have it back on tomorrow afternoon. I just started to cry and asked, is there any way you can turn in on today?? She said, no I'm sorry. I said, Please turn it back on today, because I forgot to pay the bill and if my husband finds out, he is going to beat the hell out of me. (That is SO not true, he would never do that. I actually still feel bad about this because it just came out, I didn't think about it, it was like, I just HEARD myself saying it.) When I got home, the water was back on.
Hope the rant helped and you feel more energy soon.
Hope no one else is dealing with too much sucky stuff today.
Hope you guys still like me after I told you the horrible lie I told.
Love,
Sue
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Sue, of course we still like you -- and we love-love-LOVE the hat.
Rock, thanks for making me snort with laughter.
Linda
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Sue, If you didn't have a fedora, I don't know how I'd feel about the lie. But since you dooooo.... (kidding of course)
I'm glad I can inspire snorts. Given that I can't cook for sh*t.
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Crap! I just tried to post my gripe about my ac going out this week and my post just disappeared. Maybe I'll tell that story another time.
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I just love you ladies. It's so nice to have a place to come and rant about ANYTHING and we listen and care and don't judge. You gals rock!
Sue, I wasn't working through chemo. In fact, I haven't worked OUTSIDE the home since my first child was born 38 years ago. LOL I don't know how you girls do it. Take care of a home, kids and work, and more. I take my hat off to you. And, if you feel you need to talk to the doc about your back, do it! I was very lucky. Neulasta never bothered me. A woman sitting getting her chemo told me to take Tylenol before the Neulasta shot. She said she forgot one time and she had so much pain. Thus, I took Tylenol each morning before the shot. However, I don't think that's what helped. But, Taxol gave me bone pain and a crampy feeling like I was going to start my period (too old for that), and sort of a little back ache. And your story about the fish..WOW! that's a lot of $$$$$! And your story about the water being cut off....I'm sorry, but I laughed! Forgive me?
Miss Lolli/Lori, welcome to the BITCHING BOARD! ALL bitches are welcomed! Even people who compliment you on your undergrown hair...bitch away! When my hair grew out it came back soooo dark. I hated it! Other people, including children and dh, said they liked it. I didn't. I had it highlighted again like I've been doing for many years. It's my hair and I'll do with it what I wish! Please come back and bitch some more. We need you!
Hanna, hey there. Where's your bitch? You ALWAYS make me laugh. Dream one up if you have to. Lie (make up a story) if you must...like Sue!
Sheila, my dh has a riding mower. It's our second one. He's only used it once. The boy next door cuts our lawn. Before his brother went off to college HE cut our lawn. No one cleans my house.
When it DOES get cleaned I do it. I've had those crying jags once in a while. I want to have one now, but it won't come. And talk about messed up makeup! Steaks down my face. I use Bare Minerals and it streaks. They lie. Some women say they go swimming and their makeup isn't messed up. It's not my eye makeup I worry about. It's the blush and foundation. So, when I think that I'm going to cry I take some makeup with me to fix it. Before I got bc a friend and I were out of town. We went to JR's (a discount place). I was talking to her about my dad's death and I started crying. I didn't wear BE then. Anyway, we went into the place. I was checking out the perfume I wanted to buy. I was talking and messing with the woman behind the counter. I looked into the mirror on the counter. OH, MY GOSH! My face was soosss streaked from all the tears. Had black stuff under them AND my "friend" DIDN'T TELL ME! She laughed at me when I looked at myself HORRIFIED! I couldn't believe she let me walk around that place like that! And, Sheila, I'm sorry about your "wound" not healing well. Have you thought about taking vitamin C? I heard it helps heal. And when your grandbaby gets back you're gonna heal even faster.Aw, Cristine. How well we remember. And the taste buds. That was AWFUL. Nothing tasted good. I like salty things. I ate saltines and drank gingerale. I love tea. Couldn't drink it often. It didn't taste good. I don't believe I even drank coffee. That's when I was on AC. I think things changed a bit when I started Taxol. I had sever heart burn while on AC. I didn't think to tell my onc. I just took Tums. I think I needed something stronger, but I was too stupid to know. Things will taste better....when you're done. LOL Hang in there!
Rock, the man following you in the restroom...yep, that is kinda funny. However, I would have been freaked out thinking he was going to rape me. I bet he WAS embarrassed. LOL And your story about the Calamari was hilarious. I can just see the look on the women's face. I don't know how to cook it. Now I do. Hand it off to the closest person.
My gripe. I need to wash dishes. I'm tired. Don't know what we're having for dinner. Leftovers? I think there's more salad left. I'll eat that. Dh can have the chicken. I just realized something. I'm getting hungary!
Shirley
Nicki, nice to know SOMEONE has energy. I don't like gardening. In fact these days I don't know what I DO like.
I want some home grown tomatoes. My dh planted some in a pot a few years ago and they were soooo good. You go, girl! Keep on planting.Lewing, stupid, inconsiderate woman! No, not you! The woman wanting to know how to cook the fish. Even though it wasn't funny while you stood in that line (or what felt like a line), I had to laugh. You tell a great story!
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Beergirl, your ac went out and you live near Houston! I bet it's hot and humid there. You need a beer, girl! LOL
Shirley
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nice earrings and false eyelashes made me feel better when my hair was soooo short try the lashes its fun !
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For awhile there, it looked like the level of suckiness was decreasing....but, NOOO.
Sue--Here's how to put an image in a post:
1) create an account on Photobucket (its free: www.photobucket.com)
2) print out timtam's instructions: http://tamako.milkcafe.to/luv/bco_photobucket/index.htm
3) following timtam's step-by-step guide, upload your photo from your computer to your Photobucket account
4) still following timtam's guide, add your photo to your post on BCO
I am really dumb when it comes to gee-whiz computer stuff, but I found her instructions to be foolproof. I know jpeg (.jpg) files work; I don't know about other image formats. Be sure the pic isn't so big that it increases the page width and drags the post off the side of the screen.
What sucks:
1) Not being able to remember what someone else has posted. I have to keep 2 browser screens open, so I can read the other post as I'm typing mine.
2) Having a man follow you into the women's restroom. Rockthebald, I probably would have made a big scene about a guy following me into the ladies' room...only to discover that I looked more like a guy than he did. That sucks, too.
3) Poor Shirley hanging around here, wanting to talk to someone; but there's nobody else here;
4) Starting chemo. Doing chemo. Heck, everything about chemo sucks. Nicki, you said it best: It's like jumping off a really tall building. At first, you look around and figure, "OK--so far, so good." Is that ever true!
5) Having to work during chemo when you'd rather be at home, curled up under a blanket.
6) "The new normal." Sue, I hate the phrase too.
My suckiness? Oh, nothing, really. I have good news: my last Taxotere/Cytoxan tx is next Wednesday. The only possible sucky thing about that is if it gets postponed because of my blood counts or my slowly resolving sinus infection. I'm thinking healthy thoughts.
otter
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Sorry for everyone's crap. I remember when I was pregnant. No one touched or rubbed my belly. Must have been the look on my face "touch my belly and I will rip your head off". This is MY belly. All my girlfriends used to talk about this and it never happened to me and I also would never do it to someone else. Now I feel like I missed something.
The friends who do not have cancer do not understand. My one girlfriend was soooo stunned. I had my surgery (bilat mast with tissue expanders) on a Friday and was discharged home on the Saterday. On Sunday she calls me up and asks me if I will be ready to go to the Domician Republic on the following Friday because her and 3 other girls have already booked and want me to go too. I told her that I couldn't even carry my purse let alone drag a suitcase through the airport. Then after she gets back and I am having my tissue expanders filled weekly and having a lot of pain, she tells me that if I am out and about on the weekend to drop by her place because her and her husband are going to be home all weekend. I told her that I wasn't even driving a car yet and my Mom was coming over to help me with the DD as DH was at work. Really, some people just do not get it!!!!! I just felt like yelling at her "Listen Chester, I had both my boobs removed and tissue expanders put in and I feel like there is an elaphant sitting on my chest and a boa constricter(sp?) trying to squeeze the life out of me." Some people!!!
That is my Gripe,
Kerry
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Rock, I laughed when I read about the man following you into the ladies' rest room. And then I started to wonder about the details. Do men pick up other men in the LADIES rest room? What was he thinking you were going to do with him in there? Never mind, I don't think I want to know....
Cristine, sorry about the se's -- they suck, bigtime. One question: why did you still have an IV in your arm the night after tx?
Linda, I know what you mean -- I sort of feel entitled to bitch and moan and get annoyed at people who sweat the small stuff, and then feel guilty because really, what have they done to me?
Sue - chemo-induced fatigue sucks! I love the hat too. And I don't hate you re: the comment to the water company -- I am generally very (even excessively) truthful but having no water totally, completely sucks. I lived in a tropical country with water problems at one point and I'd take no electricity over no water anytime.
Nicki - you are so right that "people who haven't had chemo don't understand those hair feelings." They absolutely don't get it. I spoke to a relative a short time after losing my hair and she said something like, "well, here in NYC there are a lot of bald women, if you lived here no one would look twice." Well, good for them, but what the heck does that have to do with ME? They voluntarily decided to shave their heads; I am traumatized every day by the loss of identity that (for me) goes hand in hand with hair loss.
A few minor suckinesses from me:
- I have been reading anything and everything on this board re: hair regrowth, and it is depressing me. I don't want to know that I could still have bald spots in three months. I don't want to know that my formerly thick, curly/wavy brown hair could come back thin, straight and gray. Can I please just fast-forward the next 10 months or so until such time that I can look/feel NORMAL again???
- I have this friend (a single mom like me) who is constantly complaining about her "miserable life." She has two healthy children, a nice home, a decent job, and an exH who pays his child support and sees his kids regularly -- and she's never going to find the rich husband of her dreams with such a negative attitude. Next time I think I'm going to say, "well, at least you have a full head of hair and you're not about to have a boob cut off." Maybe that will shut her up.
- I have gained 20 lbs since my dx in December. I have never been this heavy in my life, except when I was pregnant. One week ago, I started on weight watchers (counting points on my own) and I've been walking every day, which is the best I can do for exercise considering that I'm three weeks post chemo. I was feeling healthier and confident that I was losing weight. So I stepped on a scale yesterday -- and it was exactly the same as a week before! OK, so I went and peed and then I was down 0.4 lbs. This sucks! I still feel like my digestive system is sluggish from chemo but I don't know if this is even possible.
- and one non-bc-related complaint: my "dear" bf didn't call me tonight. In the grand scheme of things this doesn't mean much (he was with his kids and I was with mine) but it still makes me sad/annoyed/lonely.
Good wishes for an un-sucky rest of the weekend to all.
Lauren
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Yay, Otter, on your coming up last chemo! We'll think healthy thoughts with you!
Kerry and all the ladies who had/have babies in their tummy (uterus to be correct). I LOVED feeling my dd's belly. I loved feeling the baby kick. LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it! Share that belly with your friends. It's a MIRACLE! Okay, you don't HAVE to, but it's so much fun feeling babies move. Yes, BABIES! In my eighth month I was ready for that baby to come out! Your friend, Kerry, is clueless. How can ANYONE be sooo dumb. She needs to come visit you and you could show her your "boobs." That'd shut her mouth. Forgive her naivety (IF YOU MUST!). LOL
Lauren, if you are able to lose weight AT ALL, that's good. GOOD JOB, LAUREN! I hate it when people tell me that. I feel like a small child. And your boyfriend...what can I say... MEN! Ya can't live with'em and ya can't live without'em. Sucks! And DON'T read about the hair growth. I promise it will come in faster and thick if you stop reading all that stuff.
Shirley
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Oh, great, I tell you guys about the worst lie I ever told and suddenly it's like, maybe I'll make up a story.......like Sue!!! I guess what they say about atta-boys and oh-sh*ts is true.
Otter, glad you're back--I've been missing you! And thanks for the instructions, you always come through for us. Shall I refer to you as Esteemed One again?? Because I am willing to.
Lauren--you are so right not having water--there are certain things that absolutely must disappear, if you know what I mean. And on the walking thing and the weight thing--you are gaining muscle weight from walking, if you're walking enough. A truer measure of progress is how your clothes fit. (Or you can do the tape measure thing--measure arm, thigh, hip and waist on a designated day weekly. You may be surprised at the progress you are making. I would also limit the fats I eat to about 20-25% of calories daily by substituting lowfat dairy and fake eggs, etc.) Muscle weighs more that fat. You can gain weight but get smaller!!! And it's all about KNOWING you got smaller that can keep you on the right road. Do you find that the exercise helps with the emotions? Boy, I really do. I try to walk for thirty minutes every day, longer when I can. I was doing an hour before dx but 30 min. is all I can manage now and I have to do it in the morning as my heat tolerance is ZERO. I think I am having about a hundred hot flashes a day....
Cristine, hang in there--both times day 8 has been the turn-the-corner day for me. Everybody is different, and every tx is different, but you will discover a lot this first round on how to make the rest of them easier.
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Shirley, of course I forgive you. You are my role model. And do we know where Hanna is? Hanna, we need a story.......................please..........
Sorry if I missed anybody. I don't know if my thing is sucky or un-sucky, I think it's un-sucky. I have started to go out more with no fake boob. We went to dinner tonight with some friends from work and spouses--really nice guys that I work with. I wore a knit sleeveless shirt with a linen shirt unbuttoned over the top, and no bra (I'm not very big). The knit shirt was high-necked and modest. At first I felt a bit uncomfortable, but I got over it and physically I was much more comfy. When I walk, I am walking bald with one boob, in exercise clothes. So far no one has run screaming, but my neighbors think we are weird anyway because we live in this old house and don't have chem-lawn come once a week. Plus during the work week I am walking at 5 in the morning and it's dark and everyone's asleep.
Well, I haven't been drinking much coffee, and tonight I had a big cup at 8 p.m. and guess what I can't sleep. I may be up all night because I have to get up at 7:30 as we are going to church.
Hope everyone has a good rest of the night,
Love,
Sue
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Sue,
The other day, I told the pharmacist that if she didn't call my ps who wrote the script for Effexor, and explain to him that I need a LOWER dose than 150mg, I would just go home and 'blow out my brains'. NOW, I am in NO way suicidal, but I said it.... don't know why. I was desperate, I guess, since none of my drs. has been much help lately, and I had just gotten back from my primary care drs., where they Can NOT find a vein if it jumps out and bites them!, so I was really feeling low. Last night, my dh stopped at the pharmacy, and I picked up the Rx...it was for 37.5 mg!! And so far, I haven't had those guys in the white jackets at my door, trying to take me to the mental hospital. I've been worried that they would show up at my house and take me away.I am back from my short break, but I will probably still not be here too much...trying to get myself together, and find out who I am.
happy Sunday
Harley
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Harley,
Know that you are treasured here. Hope the rx stuff gets straightened out. Know that whatever you need to do is okay.
That said, know that I miss your posts and your humor. I hope things with dh are better and things with you as well. You will figure it out.
Hugs and love,
Sue
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Well, my boyfriend just called and told me that he didn't answer the phone last night because his daughter was throwing up all night. OK, I guess he had a good excuse!
Sue, good for you re: doing what feels comfortable. I'm going to have a reduction at the same time as my unilateral mastectomy, but I'll still be a C cup on the other side, so I think I'll be too lopsided to do that, probably.
Kerry, sorry your friend was so incredibly clueless. That sucks!
Harley, glad you got the rx you needed and I hope you are feeling better today. Take care and drop by whenever you feel like it!
Lauren
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Hello to all. First I want to shout a big "that sucks" for everyone who needs it. Today - Im sending some good Karma your way!
Sue: I actually got a good laugh at the little lie you told. Pretty quick thinking if ya ask me. Did you ever figure out how to post the pictures? If not, let me know - I can walk you through it. I too love the hat - was a hat person myself before, during, and after chemo. Loved buying earrings to match my outfits.
Shirley: Energy level for me depends on the day. Yesterday was a good day. All of the things I planted are in pots on the patio. They have tomatoes that are called "patio tomatoes." I found that during treatment - watching my flowers grow was very therapeutic. Only problem is I looked at them about every 10 minutes. It was the only thing that would pull me out of bed for a minute to stretch during those bad chemo days.
Beergirl: OMG! I do believe cancer is on my mind,more than its not. So when I read a/c I was thinking of chemo. Living in Texas without airconditioning sucks big time.
Otter: Good news on the last chemo coming up. Having to go through it still sucks though.
Kerry: Oh that was a good gripe and so true. It sucks that our friends, family, and coworkers have no idea what we are going through.
Harley: Good to see you and glad the effexor dosage got fixed. Have missed you around here.
I do love this bitchy thread. Feel like I can come here and say what Im feeling, when im feeling it.
Lauren: When I was bald, I couldnt remember what I looked like with hair. Now that I have hair, I cant remember what I looked like bald. Having to worry about how you hair will grow back sucks! Just know that it will grow back!
Breakfast time! BBL
Nicki
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Nicki,
Otter sent me directions, but thanks!!! Now where do you guys find all the amazing animated thingies you stick in the middle of your posts?!?!
Tech-challenged,
Sue
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Linda - Wow, your post hit home with me. I definitely think I get bitchy about situations now that probably wouldn't have bothered me before. I hope it will pass in time.
Rock & Sue - Your stories cracked me up. Sue, you gotta do what you gotta do. Nine months pregnant with no water. . .did they even think about how many times you would need to pee and wouldn't be able to flush or wash your hands?!?!? Rock, loved the story. I'm amazed that you even cook calamari, that's definitely a restaurant item for me!
Nicki - You've got me really thinking about trying to grow some tomatoes. Course my dumb ass dogs (I say that in a loving way) would probably eat them as soon as one grew. . .they will eat anything!
A big that sucks to anyone I've missed. Hope the rest of the day is better.
I don't have much to gripe about today. I did wipe the 2 months worth of dust off all the furniture. . .dh and dd just watched me. Oh well, having the dust gone makes me feel better.
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Sue: For instance, I feel like "smiley cleaning house."
How about typing in and searching "smiley cooking."
How about "smiley swimming."
How about a smiley giving a big that sucks to everyone that needs it today.
Nicki
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Hey there,
I think I can actually respond to people today first...
But, Otter - I have to take notes, or I forget!! Glad your last tx is almost here!
Nicki - Thanks for the great pic about men who suck (oh, that might belong on another thread...lol)!
Lauren - I was going to share it with you, but sounds like your man had a decent excuse. You can save it for another time!
Shirley - And the only thing that tasted right yesterday were BBQ chips. Whatever.
Sue - thanks for the hugs.
And I had the IV still in my arm because I went in Friday for a f/u appt. and they didn't want to have to stick me again. It was a little uncomfortable, but o.k. The f/u was routine (to see how things were going) and also to give me extra fluids or some Zofran, if needed. However, I felt and looked really good Friday morning, so we all (RN, me and physician's asst.) decided it wasn't necessary. WRONG!! Wrong, wrong, wrong. I did not drink enough on Friday, so I think that's why I think I was so bad yesterday. My onc called me yesterday and said "Let us hydrate you the next time." Right. Yessir.
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