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  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited October 2009

    Awwwwww Bette.I pray for relief from your pain.  So sorry. 

    Ozzie---Prayers for you as well.

    AmericanPinnay---Yes!!!!!!!!! I was so happy when they took my port out!!!

  • prayrv
    prayrv Member Posts: 362
    edited October 2009

    just received word from my gyn's nurse - D & C results are B9.

    Thanks for being here.

    Trish

  • americanpinay
    americanpinay Member Posts: 30
    edited October 2009

    Thanks, Jess. Hope you are well.

    Congrats Trish!

    Take care ladies.

  • Ozzi
    Ozzi Member Posts: 13
    edited October 2009

    Congrats americanpinay - great news. 

     Bette hang in there - put yourself first - try to get some rest.  

     I'll be retaking blood tests after the New Year, going to let it go until then.  Hang in there everyone!

  • americanpinay
    americanpinay Member Posts: 30
    edited November 2009

    Thanks Ozzi. Good luck on the blood tests.

  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited November 2009

    Hey.  Just got a surprise call my doc wants an mri of my chest.  I know it's routine, but i thought I had a bit more time before it---Jan 2010.....Yikes.  Here I go again!

  • americanpinay
    americanpinay Member Posts: 30
    edited November 2009

    Jess...I know it's two months from now but I wanted to wish you good luck on the chest MRI...hopefully, you won't have scanxiety in the meantime...I almost jumped when my med onco mentioned that we'll do another PET/CT in three to four months...he wants to watch a small, mildly hypermetabolic node in my neck...yikes...will this ever end???  I guess, I should be really thankful that my med onco is very proactive...

    Take care y'all.

  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited November 2009

    Thanks Americanpinnay--I guess I meant doc wants it next week and not Jan 2010.  I will try not to worry......   Ha!!!

  • Ozzi
    Ozzi Member Posts: 13
    edited November 2009

    hey Jess, those surprise phone calls are great - aren't they.   Take a deep breath - routine testing - all will be well. . . .

  • americanpinay
    americanpinay Member Posts: 30
    edited November 2009

    Oh, ok...sorry I got confused (BTW, this happens a lot, I blame chemo and Tamox) about the timing, Jess...good luck next week then..will be praying for you...

  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited November 2009

    Well, I have to wait for the mri until I have the tissue expander out.  i wondered about that!!!  They assumed mine te was out when the doc wanted to schedule my mri.  The powerful magnet of the mri would totally mess with my te since there is a magnet in it!!!  Guess I'm gonna have the apt in Jan like I though!!!!  :)

  • Ozzi
    Ozzi Member Posts: 13
    edited November 2009

    Ouch - absolutely the tissue expander has to come out!   January is good. . . . . . . . . put it aside and enjoy the holidays . . . . . . .  .

  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 377
    edited November 2009

    If you all can click on Bette's Caring Bridges site. Her address is posted there I am sure she would enjoy a card from you and lots of prayer's. Her husband Tom has set a goal for 1000 cards.

  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited November 2009

    Hello everyone.  Still waiting!  Any good stories out there?  Oh, I sat around and ate candy all weekend.  Yuck, but good at the same time! 

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited November 2009

    I'm waiting for results on an MRI after one  suspicious area on a bone scan.

    Terrified but trying to be brave and think positive:)

  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited November 2009

    TriciaK--My thoughts are with you.  I am sending positive cyber,healing and calming thoughts your way.

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited November 2009

    Thanks Jess, the waiting is soo hard. I'll keep you posted and thanks again:)

  • 2hands4me
    2hands4me Member Posts: 39
    edited November 2009

    TriciaK - yes the waiting is hard, but we can do it! I'm waiting to hear the final path report after my left mastec. last Tuesday. They say all is fine, but would definitely have been cancer in the near future. IF there was already something....it will mean another surgery for auxillary node dissection. But, I'm thinking positive and trusting God that all will be negative at this point.

    Thinking of all of you here.....waiting and waiting and waiting. Let's think positive thoughts together to make the wait go faster!

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited November 2009

    2hands4me,

     Thanks for responding, I really hope all goes well for you and am thinking only benign results:)

  • jezzy234
    jezzy234 Member Posts: 127
    edited November 2009

    Hello triciaK and 2hands4me  I hope you both have a nice weekend.  I am  eating popcorn and throwing pieces at my dog.  She now does about four tricks, usually right in a row and she is wag her lab tail do wildly it is difficult to discern her trick.  What a hoot!

  • Ozzi
    Ozzi Member Posts: 13
    edited November 2009

    Hi TriciaK and 2hands4me.

     Thinking of you both - sending a prayer your way that all is well.  Jess, thanks for the suggestion, got Bette's address will send out a card tomorrow. 

  • lorieg
    lorieg Member Posts: 79
    edited November 2009

    Hey everyone.  I have been having persistant thoracic back pain for a while now and am having a T-spine MRI tomorrow.  I am currently on Taxol/Herceptin.  I have one more Taxol treatment before a planned bilateral MRM but am 100% convinced I have bone mets.  I really hope I am wrong.

    Tricia and 2hands4me, I hope you both get good news!

  • lexislove
    lexislove Member Posts: 277
    edited November 2009

    Lori,

    Im glad your onc has ordered the necessary tests/scans. Good luck tomorrow....and lots of B9 thoughts for you!

  • 2hands4me
    2hands4me Member Posts: 39
    edited November 2009

    All OK and so thankful! Return to onc in 3 months to set up screening schedule - until then, recover and resume activities.

    Still thinking of everyone here!

  • Ozzi
    Ozzi Member Posts: 13
    edited November 2009

    Lori, thinking about you - a prayer goes out to you. . . . Remember Taxol causes pain also .. . . . . . let us know!  

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited November 2009

    Thats great newa 2hands4me, you must be so relieved:)

    Thinking of you Lori with everything crossed!

    My pet scan is arranged for Monday as they had to delay it a few days when I fell ill with a gastric bug this week:(        Soo still waiting ho de hum.......

    Tricia xx

  • lorieg
    lorieg Member Posts: 79
    edited November 2009

    2hands4me- glad you got great news!

    Tricia- sorry you are still waiting.  It seems like you have been waiting forever :-(

    I had my thoracic MRI today.  The tech said "The scans look good. Do you want a copy on cd?"  So of course now I am analyzing what this means.  Does that mean they are good technical scans or that they looked clean, no mets?  I know the techs are not radiologists but they see enough of these scans to have a pretty good idea.  I would expect, other than mets, that since I am young there wouldn't be too much else to look at in my thoacic spine (ie, not a lot of arthrtis or bulging discs, etc)  Anyway, I will hopefully get results monday.

    Have a great weekend, everyone!  Thanks!

  • TriciaK
    TriciaK Member Posts: 124
    edited November 2009

    Lori,

    I don't know, but if they said that to me I'd still take it as good news and meaning NO bad news lol....thanks for the good wishes and here's hoping for good results for you too Monday:)

  • mmm5
    mmm5 Member Posts: 797
    edited November 2009

    THis is good news, the techs won't say that unless it is good!

  • lorieg
    lorieg Member Posts: 79
    edited November 2009

    Hi all!

    I got good news today in that my T-spine MRI did NOT show evidence of metastatic disease!  Not sure what is causing my pain, still worried about a rib/shoulder lesion as the pain has progressed more laterally, but it definitely started in my thoracic spine so if that was clear I have hope that my rib/shoulder pain is just from overuse or something.  (maybe lifting my two babies??)

    Thanks for all the good thoughts and wishes.  I will check in here frequently (still waiting for good news for you, Tricia).  I also will be having a post-chemo/pre-surgery PET in a few weeks.  That one will make me insane with fear, I am sure!

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