Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Good Morning everyone. It is going to be gorgeous today and I will be inside but that is ok....more where it's coming from so I'll get my chance to enjoy.
Junie, you are most certainly not old. I know people often say it's just a number ( true ), but when I was quite young --- before my teens I felt like I was very old ( actually I was ), but each birthday I have I would swear I'm actually younger, or as you say unable to identify what a 63 yr. old should feel or even how to act. In my thoughts I seem to recall ( my memory could be faulty here ) that when I was young, people who were my age now acted quite sedate and dare I say seemingly not all that enthusiastic. At any rate, I have ( especially now ) plenty of eagerness and I'm going to let it take me where it will.
I'll be back after work. Hope you all have a beautiful ( seems like Spring ) day.
Jackie
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JO-5
I will be praying that yor test results turn out good today. God can do marvelous things.
I know I'm not on here as much as the rest of you ladies, but when I get on here and read all your stories it encourages me.
I go to my daughter Debby's at least once a week, she works all the time and rarely has time to wash or staighten uo her house, so i do what little I can for her. She is my rock. She takes the time to come and give me my B-12 shots, and she is there when i take the Herceptin. Don't get me wrong, my husband is great, but sometimes he looks a little scared, and Debby just takes over.
Also, I try and check on George at least three times a week, remember, I told you he has cancer in his knees. Now, he has a big skin cancer on his left arm, he is putting salve on it, but I can't seem to get him to go to the Dr. I know it hard on him since he doesn't have any family. I have tried to talk him into going to church, after all, a chuch family is great to have.
To all of you ladies, I ask God to heal each and everyone of you when I say my prayers.
I have 17 grandchildren, 2 stepgrandaughters who I love just as much as I do the rest of them. I lost a 5 year old grandson to an aneursym.
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Just for fun...
I took this Wednesday...in Imperial Beach CA
The islands in the back are the Coronado Islands..part of Mexico..
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SoCalLisa,
That is a spectacular photograph! Thanks for sharing. I'm on the other edge of the continent, overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami. No mountains around here. Everything (except the high rises) is flat, flat, flat.
Barbara
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Hi Gals:
TKS TO THE MODERATORS FOR THE FORUM
I could not find this thread 3 days ago
so am way way behind
for Jo.. sending out those prayers
and also Susan for your daughter
sure I have missed many in need of prayers
so, am sending to all
Have a fine week-end gals
this is o/t
but did any of you see Larry King last night
about this Rhianna case?
what do you think? They are both so young
such wonderful opportunities for them
guess we need a new topic for it
We spring ahead this week-end
Oh, and Jo, yes Mom doing things for herself IS great
but.. you see see quite a few times, she has
fallen, so we are v. concerned
I see so many with canes these days, younger
people too, it seems, and yet some older
are embarrassed to use them
This is a great photo you have posted
S.Cal. Lisa
)Sierra
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For Marpatn:
I did send you a private
try to take one day only
at a time.. otherwise it is so
overwhelming
so many sisters are here for you
and you will ge through this
Hugs,
Sierra
keep a journal
right from the start
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Susan
I hope and pray everything turns out great for your daughter. Needless to say, we all think about the bad things before we think about the good things. Just trust and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, he can heal when even the Dr's can't. I will be praying that everything turns out great for your daughter.
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What a hassle, Jo, but what GOOD NEWS you received! YEA on the clean mammo. Now you can enjoy your weekend!
Rita
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First, Jo - Whoopie pickle!! And, thank goodness for your tenacity!
Mother and Sierra - Thank you so much for your kind thoughts for my daughter. Tues. can't get here fast enough.
Lisa - wish I could be there and not here!!
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Jo,
Glad to hear your good news!!! Wooooo!
Spring.
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JO-
Just when we think we're safe... You were! SO GLAD to hear about your 'final' pics. Good news.
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SoCalLisa, it is quite a beautiful picture. Dh and I lived in southern California for many years. All the way from Santa Paula to Santa Barbara. Spent most of those years in Ventura. Ocean and the islands are always breath-taking to me. Still, I needed to come back home. Did not realize that I so missed the seasons we have here.
Jo.....how thrilling for you. Not great to think you had to go through all that for possibly, bad tech, bad films or the like. Still, have to take the wins when they come and I do believe in the end this was one of those. You should be able to have a really wonderful week-end now.....as well as the rest of your family too.
It is so true that it takes so very little at times to make us think the worst. I know we want to gain control of that but I'm not sure it is possible. We just have to rejoice when we get the all clear win. Blessings lovely lady.
Talk to ya'll later.
Jackie
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Good morning everyone on this very balmy warm Saturday. It is so pretty today. I'll be doing a lot but enjoying all I do, I'm sure.
Was thinking what good advice the journal/notebooks are and wishing I had done it. Guess I could always try and go back but at the time I was diagnosed I was so blind-sided ( no family history etc. ) and inwardly frantic and probably in deep denial, and I think it took months before I really dared let myself wake up from the nightmare. So if you are just starting.....from someone who DID NOT do this, it makes such sense because you will do so much.
Hope everyone has a really good day. I'll be checking back later as I always do.
Jackie
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I came across this in an email this morning and immediately thought of everyone here....so this is for all my *sisters* who have touched my life, my heart and my soul so deeply ......
BUT.........
Hearts break.
Jobs come and go.Time passes.
Life happens.
Distance separates.
Children grow up.
Love waxes and wanes.
Men don't do what they're supposed to do
Parents die.
Colleagues forget favors.
Careers end
Sisters are there,
no matter how much time and how
many miles are between you.
A girl friend is never farther away
than needing her can reach.
When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you
have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life
will be on the valley's rim, cheering you on,
praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on
your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the
valley's end.
Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk
beside you...Or come in and carry you out.
Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters
daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers,
Grandmothers, aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended
family, all bless our life!
The world wouldn't be the same without women, and
neither would I. When we began this adventure called
womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or
sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we
would need each other.
Every day, we need each other still.Sorry this didnt print out perfectly but the words and the sentiments are all there if you read between my little mistakes
jan
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Jan, hope you don't mind. I cleaned the post up abit and pasted it into the Illinois Ladies with Bc because it was suh a fantastic piece. Such true words needed sharing.
Jackie
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Jackie.....rock on my friend.....I should have just sent it to you in the first place, you know how long it takes me to figure things out on the computer, I am however, very competent at starting IV's *bigsmile* thanks for fixing and transferring !
Jan
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JO-5I thank the good Lord in heaven for your good news. I know you are stressed out from all of this. I know since I took this cold about two weeks ago, I seem to just stay so tired, especially from the coughing. Guess I will start on the Arimidex on Monday. I'm walking about half a mile a day, maybe that will help the weight stay off, I surely hope so.
Enough about me. Just wanted you to know how happy I am for your great news!
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Jan, I loved the poem. How true it is! Gosh I wish you would have been the one inserting my IV's during my treatments. Most of the nurses in the oncology area were good at this but there was one nurse called Shirley who could never get it right. It got to the point where I would ask for somebody else. She certainly needed a refresher course!
Although it's cloudy right now, we've had a beautiful day. We played 9 holes of golf and it was so nice to get outside and whack that little white ball!
I hope everyone is doing well today!
Rita
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Jan - that is beautiful. I am sending it to all my biological sisters (3) and all my extended family including friends.
Motherof7 - 1/2 mile is about all I can do - those folks on the fitness sites are talking about 2-5 miles a day. Yikes!
Good night all!
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Jo----How Wonderful! I know you're breathing a sigh of relief... Have a fantastic weekend!!!!!!!!
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Hi mzmiller,
I am so sorry to hear your daughter also has a lump and I really hope they will do a biopsy for her sake. I hope you'll keep us updated on how she is doing. She's lucky to have your help while she deals with this, it is a scary time, isn't it?
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Jo-5 and Galnok - Thank you so much for your thoughts. Jo, you're right when you say how much differently we respond after bc. I probably would be concerned with Jade's lump, but would really assume it was nothing. Now, I'm frightened that it is something, and hoping and praying I'm wrong. I don't think I quite understood how nasty the bc is in young women until I got my old lady cancer. Bless their hearts.
I'll keep you posted on Tues.
Susan
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Susan - Prays that your daughter's lump is just b9 cyst.
Jo & Susan - I'll say bc changes how you look at things. My sister said she felt a lump and in the before bc me I would have said casually - get it checked out. Post bc I am practically driving her to the mammagram! It turned out to be nothing - I am very grateful to say.
Now, however, I am hyper-vigilant about cancer whereas before I never gave it much of a thought. I don't trust my body anymore. It turned on me once, it can do it again.
Prayers and hugs all around.
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Hi Girls....
Well, was able to get my treatment last Friday after they pumped me full of a 30 minute IV of antibiotic. I'm still not over the crud but 60% better than last week. And you're right... these weather changes don't help any of us get over this stuff. Sounds like another rocky week of weather on the way. Oh well...... that's okay! lol
Good for you Rita playing 9 holes of golf! That's on my list of do's again when I can finally get my silly liver in order and maybe get a chemo break. Quite a few things on my list of do's again. Golf isn't at the top but would be fun to swing the club again.
Going to go back and read some of the last few days messages now and see if maybe I can catch up alittle bit. All of you have a blessed day.
Debbie
I notice there are several of us Deb's or Debbie's here....hummmm interesting
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Hi all,
I think we do become somewhat complacent don't we????? Seems like I knew very few people who had cancer, and I started my mammograms at age 30.....so I had years and years of 'nothing'happening. With no family history somewhere along the way I think I began to assume that I was never going to o have to worry about it. So, one day it hits like a bolt from the blue...your're it --- and the world crashes down around you. Then I found a startling thing on the Internet researching cancer information and groups......that it is quite wide-spread and my days of not knowing anyone with this disease are long gone. How utterly naive'. And it just took a few seconds to change my life and my outlook forever.
Jackie
p.s. Glad your better Debbie.
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JO-5
So glad to hear the digital was all clear. Thank the Lord for that.
I have a special request, it is not bc related, however, it is cancer related. would you please pray for my first cousin Junior ? His arm swelled up and being a stubborn man, he wouldn't go to the Dr. Then he started hurting so much, he had to go. Well, he has cancer in his lymp nodes, his blood is also infected, I don't know if this is cancer related or not. His wife, Betty, told me the outside of his arm looked scalded. They did a needle biopsy last Thrusday, the 5th, Betty said they would let them know on the 12th how bad it is. I know God can heal him, I also know how very much prayers do work, so would you please pray for him. Thanks!
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kmccraw423
Yep, half a mile really gives me out, however, I try and take a few extra steps a day, maybe I'll get to a mile soon. The weather here is great. It has been in the high 70's for the last three or four days. I think that makes a big difference in the walking.
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Jo that is such good news and thanks for sharing quickly....alll those breaths letting go are making quite a whoosing sound. I know I hold my breath for 'my results', but didn't realize I apparently do the same thing while waiting for others to get theirs.
Lots of prayers for your cousin, Mother of 7. I've known some women like that, but seems lots and lots of men try to avoid going to the Dr. Men can and do get breat cancer but I'm wondering about your cousin.....like if there is a primary somewhere or can cancer actually start in a lymph node. So many questions, but Jo is right.....our Creator hears all prayers and we will have to do our best with the answer no matter what it may be.
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Jo-5
Thanks for the prayers, I know Junior and Betty will appreciate them, they both believe in God and they are hanging on to their faith.
It just doesn't seem like this cough wants to let go. I am proud of myself, I walked a mile today, it sure did exhaust me, but when I get my mind made up to do something, I give it everything I have.
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IllinoisLady
Thanks for the prayers for my cousin. I don't know how all this started, Betty said Junior's arm swelled up in his armpit, she tried to get him to go to the Dr., but he wouldn't until it got to hurting him so bad, he asked her to call the Dr. The Dr. said he had cancer in his lymp nodes, so I'm not sure if that is where it started or not. They also did a brain scan on him, and when they checked his blood they said it was infected, but I don't know if that is cancer related or not. They told Betty that she needed to find Junior a surgeon and a Dr. for his blood. I will call Betty Thrusday evening, and I will let you all know what the Dr. says.
I thank each and everyone of you for your prayers for him.
Thanks and God Bless You All!
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