Class of 2009 - Sisters in the same time frame
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I don't think we have heard from Juanelle since her doggie was hurt. Hope all is well. Missing her.
pam
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Pam, I hope they are able to figure out the cause of your neurological issues.
Abby, good luck with the upcoming surgery.
Michele, I'm meeting with a cardiologist tomorrow. I've been having a very strange irregular heartbeat and shortness of breath over the last few months. What's going on with you?
Hope you are all having a nice weekend wherever you are. Staying busy here, as always. Last week was a very exhausting one for me. A few nights, I got less than 5 hours of sleep. Not enough! So yesterday, after driving my daughter to a band competition in the morning, I came home and slept until 3 in the afternoon. Of course, it was nice to get some sleep, but then all the plans I had for getting stuff done yesterday were not realized, and I've had to squish stuff into today. I'm getting there, though! My goal is to get to bed by 10:30 every night this week. Waking up at 5:00, it's essential I don't stay up too much later than that.
Have a great night, everyone!
~Shelby
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I must have heard you ladies calling, because I just all of a sudden thought about checking on you guys and I see that you were asking about me. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of everyone, but for some reason, I have not been taking the time to keep up.
We went on vacation to the Grand Canyon in September, we were gone for 10 days and it was so wonderful. That is really God's country. We traveled 2600 miles and had so much fun. It was just me and my DH and we hadn't spent that much together time in so long.
My grandson is playing football, he is 6, so there is a game every week. They are tied for 1st place and he loves to play. I kept my granddaughter a couple of weekends ago and she can really tire you out. I work out two days a week with a trainer and am trying to work out one other day, so I don't get home until 7:00 in the evening and when I get home I don't want to do anything.
My little dog lived through the snake bite and is doing well. She is getting old and is starting to have some other problems that are not related to the bite, so we will just have to see how she does. But she is well from the snake bite.
I have lots of reading to catch up on to see how everyone is doing. I had a colonoscopy last week and have a few problems, but nothing to really worry about. I am sure that what problems I have were caused from getting so clogged from chemo. The gift that keeps on giving.
I will catch up on my reading and hope that I find all is well with everyone. I will try to be better and keep up with you guys.
Juannelle
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YAH!!! Juanelle is back.
pam
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Thanks, its good to be back. I will try to keep up and not stay away so long again.
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I am still waiting for an appt with a neurologist. Hurry up and wait :-(
pam
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Why are you going to a neurologist?
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I don't want to scare anyone off of Arimidex but I have developed an increasing tremor, among other less annoying symptoms, over my 15 months on it, dramatically worse since I changed to the generic product. I have tolerated the usual A aches and pains but I have really experienced a decline in QOL in the last couple months. This is no way to live!
There!!! I feel better.
pam
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Hope you get that appointment soon, and keep us posted.
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Pam, I hate to hear that for so many reasons. First and foremost, is that I want you to be well and not have any more SEs. I hate this gift that keeps on giving. We want it to stop.
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Juanelle, so glad to see you back!!! By the way love the new pic of you and the grandson... the new hairstyle is very becoming. Although I chat occassionally with you on another site.
We have missed you over here very much. I'm glad you and your DH had such a wonderful time in the Grand Canyon. I don't know if l could tolerate being alone with my DH that long I might hurt him. hahaha!! just kidding!! Pam I really didn't realize that the Arimidex was causing you to have such terrible problems. Are you still taking it even though you are having tremors? I know that I did some research on all of the AI inhibitors vs Tamoxifen and their benefits of both vs the risk prior to discussing what I should take with my Onco. I am post menopausal and have been for 8 years but I decided I wasn't willing to risk all the side effects of the other medications.
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Ladies, I've kept up with all of you through these months but didn't post very much or even go on the computer. I have been struggling with taking Arimidex Pam and decided not to because like Renee said the side effects were so great. I finished Chemo last week. Chemo was a walk in the park next to complications in my body and with my heart, from past medical problems. My Onc doctor really is quite upset that I won't do Arimidex. But I have had osteoporosis in the past, I have thrown blood clots 6 times and I could go on and on. Finishing chemo and then a blow out with my joints etc, that I couldn't walk or get up out of bed without help. Arimidex and joint pain and swelling, won't give up the quality of life that I have worked so many years to get to now. Pam I have cried thinking about how strong and feisty you have been all this time and then for you to say you have lost QOL, it just isn't fair.
I have pulled away from everyone during this time, even my best friends. When people saw me they would throw all these different cures for cancer at me, and everyone felt that I could cope better than anyone in the world, which I couldn't. What hurt most for me is that I was there when two of them had cancer, drove them, was their advocate, etc. Then they said we can't deal with you having cancer, because what will happen to us, we need you to take care of us.
So these months I've been doing a lot of deep reflection on why my friends for over 40 years all feel that I must be the care giver, but feel that I don't need that in any way. My girls have been wonderful though, it's all the family I have and I must say we are even closer if there could be a way to be closer than we were. I never let the doctors or anyone see me in pain or sick, I just left that for when I was alone at night.
I canceled my colonoscopy didn't want bad news right now (I had four bouts with internal bleeding during my chemo.), I felt a month of no doctors or tests is what I need.
All you women are my hero's and even though I don't post very often, I will never forget any of you on this thread and the help and love you have given me.
Pam, please feel better and I'm praying life for you will get better and that the doctors get to the bottom of your neurological problems.
Love to all you ladies.
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Thanks for the warm welcome. MarieK and pj12345 thanks for the info on the tests. I really appreciate it.
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M360, I have been wondering how you are doing....I am glad that you are checking in again...please try to do it more often,...we miss you.
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M360 - How very much I have missed you and have thought of you and prayed for you often. It's good to know that you are taking care of yourself and trying to live life. That is what is important. Check in with us when you can and remember we love you.
Renee
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So nice to hear from Juanelle ! woo HOO glad you are doing good, hoping your colon problems work themselves out. I have always wanted to go to the Grand Canyon, may just have to book that trip for Easter break.
Pam ~ hoping your get your appointment soon..
M360 ~ congrats on finishing chemo ! Hope you feel better with each day. You sure you won't take the Arimidex?? You must think of it as pill form chemo. I know it is an individual decision only you can make. But these drugs have helped many women for many years.Renee ~ I hope you are feeling good !
To everyone ~ Have a good day.
Alicia
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Happy to report I have an appt with a neurologist this coming Monday. Thank goodness as i am about to climb the walls with this tremor. I am not depressed, just totally stressed. I see my onc on 10-22 and really wanted to have seen a neurologist before that. So this is working out. Now if there is just some help to be had. I don't think Arimidex caused it.... but maybe made it worse? I'll talk to both of them about it. Scares me to be off of an estrogen blocker but.........
pam
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M360, I am sorry your friends feel the way they do. Situations like this, let you know who your true friends are. It is sad, but true. You have gone through so much, my heart goes out to you and my prayers. You are an inspiration.
Pam, so glad that you have an appointment. I guess we will never know what the true SEs of the drugs are, it is just that we have so many things that are going on with us, we can't tell the difference. I hope he has some help for you.
Alicia, my colon problems better, but I think the cure is worse than the condition. The Doc wants me to eat 25 to 30 grams of fiber a day. Well, have you ever tried to do that. You just better make sure that there is a restroom near by when you need it or you are out of luck. lol I am trying to eat it all through the day, so maybe the affects wont be so bad. Everything I have been reading, says that men and women should all get that amount a day and it does help with weight loss, but OMG.
Renee, I guess this weekend is a sports weekend for you. I hope you are finding time to relax and get rested up.
I have stayed at home this weekend and tried to get some stuff done around my house. Cleaned my carpet, cleaned some windows, have too many to do at one time and just cleanup in general. I have a lady that comes in once a week and does the surface stuff, but doesn't deep clean and you just have to do that once in a while.
Rest and relax everyone this week has arrived.
Juannelle
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Renee, thanks for the comment about my hair. I would have never gotten it cut this short. I was always a long haired girl. Well, I look back at the pictures before BC and I look so old in them. I think, and everyone else says the same, that I do look younger with short hair. It is so easy to keep that I will keep it short and see how it goes.
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Pam ~ thinking of you today. Please let us know what the neurologist says.
Juanelle ~ wow on the fiber !!! And yes, I like you very much with the shorter hair better than your long hair !
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Juanelle, I too like your short hair. I think you look younger as well. I can't remember when I saw a picture of you with longer hair, but I do remember seeing one. Alicia, I like you hair short as well. Hell, we all look great.
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WE ARE ROCKIN' IT!
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I haven't really cut mine since I shaved it back in July 2009. It's hitting my shoulders now and has no style what so ever. I want to get it cut before the holidays. Need to get the dog shaved too. Perhaps a BOGO?
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Pauding-check with PetSmart!hehehehe
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Joanie, how funny...but I think she should at least go to one of the frufru dog places and get her nails done as well.....
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Hi ladies,
I have missed all of you and I just wanted to peek in and say "hi"! Nothing really new to report on my end. Just waiting to have that ultra sound in November on the enlarged lymph node. My LE is flairing up in my hand pretty bad lately, but I'm sure that will always be the case.
Pam- Prayers to you and hope your doctor can figure out the cause of your tremors. Please let us know how things went at the neurologist.
M360- I am so sorry to hear all you are going thru. It is so hard to have people turn on you when you need them the most, and when you were there for them when they needed you. Know that you are loved by all of us and thought of often.
Juanelle- Glad to hear from you! And glad your dog is doing well from the snake bite. Love your new pic! You look so happy and that is wonderful to see
Abby- I am sending prayers to you as well, you are going thru so much right now with the LE and your upcoming surgery. Please let us know how things go.
Alicia, Michele, Joannie, Pauldingmom- Hope all you ladies are having a fabulous day and I miss checking in a regular basis.
Hugs
Jen
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Thanks Ladies. I had a pelvic ultrasound today. Off the records the tech said everything looked good and she saw nothing to worry over. She was so nice and understood what I have been going through. Her best friend had BC the year before.
My stress level is very high. Lots going on at home. DH had pneumonia and developed a hernia. My little girl had a procedure done Friday. Then there are the bills. lol I don't even care anymore about them. I have my onc. appointment tomorrow and I am planing on asking for an increase in my xanax.
Hope everybody else is doing great. So wish my chemo brain would go away so I could remember what I read so I could make better comments. HA my goal is to feel better for the holidays!
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Kittydog, hope you feel better for the holidays. They are coming up fast, so get ready.
I am scheduling a business trip, the first since BC. I called my Onc to get a prescription for a sleeve for my arm. I have had no problems with my arm, so this is just a precaution. The trip is the first week of December, I hope I have enough time to get it.
Alicia, I also like your hair short. You look wonderful.
Jen, good to hear from you. Hope the ultra sound goes well in November. Why the long wait?
Paulding, you look great as you are.
Michele, you look fab also. I love the picture of you in the hat.
We all look so much better than we did last year, I am coming up on my chemo anniversary and I am so glad that I am not going through it now.
Love to all,
Juannelle
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Kitty, PHEW, on the ultrasound...gotta love when they give you the little wink and a thumbs up. Don't ya just hate those bills...I should have my visa back to normal in about a month...damn old neupogen shots. I guess that is the price we pay to stay healthy.
Welcome back Jen...
Alicia, where are ya? You usually check in by now. Must be out having a blast...
Jojo, where are you too...it has been a while.
So I saw my cardiologist last week. He assures me my ticker is A OK...I have an extra heart beat every once in a while, but it is no big deal. To be honest, I almost never notice it any more. I think at first I was so scared I was having a heart attack I was scaring the crap out of myself. Then on top of that I was having these dizzy spells. I was linking them together...but...then last night while laying in bed trying to get to sleep, I have a thought........what if the dizziness is a SE from T...Well guess what. It is one of the SEs..what the hell. Why didn't I think of that. It must have been my freaking chemo brain keeping me from checking this. So now I finely feel like I am over the cancer hump...I think I will be ok...I have decided not to spend so much time worrying about cancer taking me down. It is the new me.
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HI I'm HERE !!!
Jen and Kitty glad to see you girls check in. Kitty sorry for your stress level. Try not to worry to much, the bills will always be there. I have a nice pile myself. Hope everyone gets over there sickness soon in your house.
Jen ~ sorry about that darn lymphedema... grrrrrr !
Michele ~ liking your attitude and glad you have some resolve with your heart beat. Hey it's beating cherish that ~ glad to feel you are over the hump, I sometimes hit a speed bump but am pretty darn good for the most part !
Have a great day girls. JOJO are you running around with your magic wand? Can you shrink my ass please. Check in when you can hope all is well.
Pam no word on your scan? Where are you?
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