Class of 2009 - Sisters in the same time frame
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Happy Birthday Marion.... we share a birthday, today is my 46th Birthday!!! I to am so glad to celebrate another year and glad to be alive!!! I totally agree that 2009 was a krappy year!! The best things that came out of it were my granddaughter Straitlyn and my grandson Colton!!!
Michelle - good luck with your mammo on Tuesday! Sending prayers and {{{hugs}}} your way.
Carolyn - yep got a smaller boob here after a partial mastectomy ( it was a little bit more than a lumptectomy because I had a little more tissue removed) and then radiation. My bra's don't fit that side either. I've actually been wearing a smaller bra to fit that side and kinda falling out of the other side. I have the same problem with it showing through on fitted clothing. I have an appt to see a plastic surgeon for an evalutation for reconstruction on Wednesday. I'm going to see what he recommends. For now I am just wearing padded bras. Good Luck!
Renee
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HI ALL
SHELBY
LOL i thought i heard someone screaming from the clouds it must of been you falling from the sky ,lol glad you had a fun experience, Ive never had the argue to do that its defiantly not on my bucket list but Canada is i want to go there .
MARION
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hope you had a great day . Ill be celebrating mine in July havnt given much thought as to what i want to do maybe a small family thing
As for boob size my one after 2x opps is a cup size smaller i wear bras to accommodate my good boob ,the bra i normally wear is like the t shirt bras with that extra slight padding so you cant really tell only if you look hard enough and i don't thing many people will ,oh except for the ones who you tell about your cancer and the first place they look at is your boobs i find that happens a lot.
Well keep well everyone
JOJO
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Shelby I am so glad you had such a great experience we all need that, on my bucket list is parasailing which went on this winter when we saw them in florida, don't think I would have the nerve to skydive, but we will see.
Happy Birthday Mimi and Marion may you enjoy many more.
I will give some of these remedies a try and let you know how they feel and work, I have thought of recon but after 3 differnt surgeries, 2 biopsies, 2 differnt cancers in the past 18 months I will live lopsided!!!
The weather is supposed to warm back up next week so will transplant all my tomatoes that are growing out of the containers and put them out in the potting shed, it is staying around 45 at night and 60-70 during the day in there with the big south doors.
Making homemade baked beans, BBQ short ribs, multi grain bread, and coleslaw for dinner today. Hope all have a great day.
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Carollynn, you are making me hungry! I love fresh tomatoes and bbq. We are cooking out today too, fajitas and sausage, yum!
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Renee, happy birthday...have a great day..
Ok ladies, now I am hungry...what to have for supper?
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Thanks for the Birthday wishes! Ya'll are making me hungry too and unfortunately for me BBQ and baked beans are not on the diet plan for me. Usually it's baked and broiled chicken, tuna, fish, lean cuts of red meat (only 2 x's week if that) and lot's of salad with low cal dressing, and green veges or legumes with not salt. I have a specific menu I follow. I didn't get any cake for my birthday so I still plan on cheating and getting a piece somewhere... don't know where yet? Don't want to buy or bake a whole cake just for one piece. LOL!
Renee
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Jojo - yes, you should visit Canada some time. It's nice here. I'm in a suburb of Toronto and am less than one hour from Niagara Falls. Australia is on my bucket list!
Carollynn and Shelby - the dinners you are planning sound fabulous! Michele, I'm sure your's will be equally as appealing. Now I'm feeling guilty. I have meals planned out for the week but am attending a meeting tonight and won't be home for dinner. Therefore, I was going to have my husband cook spaghetti noodles and bottled sauce with a salad from a bag, while I'm out! It's not my favourite meal but they love it and it's easy for him to prepare.
Have a nice day!
Edited to wish Renee a Happy Birthday!!!
Sherri
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Happy birthday mimi1964! I hope you got spoiled! What did you do ?
Thanks for the birthday wishes, I had a fabulous weekend! And I actually got an unexpected gift: I am a Butler University alum and the Butler basketball team won last night against Kansas State and are going to the Final Four. Any college basketball fan on this thread ??
txstardust: Skydiving would be an awesome thing to do, I did not even think of it. The older I am the less brave I get, so I need to do it sometimes soon, before it is too late!
Eph3_12: I love the word shiteous too!
micheleboots: you got diagnosed the day after your birthday, I can only imagine how you felt. As you said, this year will be better!
justmealicia: I hope the pain goes away soon...
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Renee,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like you are doing a great job with your diet. So hard to stick to one. I hope you found a piece of birthday cake somewhere :-) Yes, a whole cake setting around could lead to trouble.
Roasted chicken for us today. And baked sweet potatoes. Maybe green beans. Boring but maybe healthy. Who knows though... the rules keep changing.
Happy weekend all.
pam
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Renee ~ Happy Birthday !!!
enjoy ~
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Happy Birthday (belatedly) Renee and Marion! I agree that last year SUCKED EGGS. So here's to a better year and thank god we are alive.
Txstardust -- wow that is so brave of you to jump out of an airplane on purpose! You could not pay me. Glad it was a blast.
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Happy Birthday Renee and Marion. Glad we are all here to help you celebrate.
Shelby, I like Lilah would not have the nerve to jump from a plane. I am so scared of falling it is unreal. I would be dead before hitting the ground. I am really glad you had an awesome experience.
There is very little difference in my breast size. There is some but I doubt if anyone would ever notice. Maybe if I was naked, but that isn't going to happen believe me, except for hubby. I am sure in the next couple of years the way I am going with the eating thing, there will not be much difference for long. The old fat cells will fix that.
Juannelle
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LOL Juanelle on the fat cells fixing the boob prob!
Lilah I totally agree with you and Juanelle I would... could not, ever, jump out of an airplane! I would be dead before I got to the ground.
Marion - my hubby and I spent the evening alone which is something we seldom get to do. We went out to eat. The real celebration was last week when we went to Bristol for the race, that was my birthday present.
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HI ALL
HEY SHERRI maybe we can house swap i live in NSW on the beach and the bush is behind us very nice hhhh somethink to think about
I whent to work today ALL DAY and im tired VERY tired, poor JOJO ,sore feet ,OH, i might have to have another massage mmmmm
JOJO
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENEE & MARION...
Shelby, you go girl, there is nothing like the wind through your hair and living dangerously!
Alicia, Sorry you're having so much pain, I can't remember who owns the magic wand but I'm borrowing it in hope that it will bring about a less painful week for you.
About breast size being the same mine is -11 on the left side and a 36C on the right, the doctor told me I should get a special prosthesis but I like the idea of hankies, I too have a drawer of lace and old collectible hankies always wondered what to do with them.
Michele, another thing we have in common I got my diagnosis three days after my birthday. I hope that you're feeling strong as you seem and that happiness surrounds you each and every day.
So here goes it ladies. I spent all week in the hospital. They had planned my second surgery in less than two weeks, however I got an infection under the skin near the bone, too close to the heart and they had me admitted on Monday. They took out all my lymph glands that were left on my left side from my arm all the way up to the collar bone and sternum area, opened back up my mastectomy sight to clean out infection. So they cut me across and then down my side, under my arm and five places above my mastectomy sight and horizontally along the neck area. I wasn't sore last time, this time, I really feel it. More drains. They couldn't put in my port in because of the infection, which I think the doctor were worried about because of my immune system being so compromised. So now I'm back on 1,000mg of antibiotics three times a day. They confirmed again the HER2 positive and told me all my daughters should be aware of it and tested. After the infection is gone, the port will be put in and chemo begins. Even though they said I couldn't do chemo, they say now there is no other choice they have to give me chemo and watch me closely. I must stay off all autoimmune and TNF blockers. Waiting to see if the lymph glands they removed also show cancer. If so a much more aggressive approach they said will be taken. I thought and what they have been doing to my body isn't aggressive?! I have no more lymph glands at all left on my left side. Doctors told me not to think of anything but take things one day at a time.
Here is my question to all you ladies out there, after this surgery I felt so different. I can't put my finger on it but I'm not the same woman that I was, something changed. Losing my breast didn't bother me but this drastic surgery again has left me in a state of I don't know what or who I am. Have any of you felt this way?
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M360
Its me with the magic wand I'm really princess Jojo and i think I'm going to have to charge it back up for you my dear sister , i will wave it over you for good results on the lymph nodes and for your body to be able to handle the chemo that they want to give you . I'm sure they know what they are doing and your onc has spoken to some really good people about your case , hang in there and remain the same person that you are its just a new ball game for you to play you will get through this .
PRINCESS JOJO
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M360, you are such a wonderful strong woman. I think this disease changes a lot of us and it takes time to figure out how. I pray that you are able to put all your energies into healing.
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M360, what an ordeal you have been through! You are so strong, I just know that you can get through this. I know it's hard to trust the doctors - I have trouble with that - but sometimes you have to trust that they know what they are doing. Good luck to you with your recovery from surgery, and I'm sending prayers for peace and healing.
Blessings,
Shelby
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M360 ~ you poor thing. So sorry you needed such major surgery. I am hoping and praying this aggressive surgery got everything OUT. Of course you feel changed, you are. Be strong and I love JOJO's analogy it is just a new ball game. Rest up, thinking of you........and prayers.
Alicia
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Happy Belated Birthday Renee and Marion! Hope you both had a fantastic day!
I agree with everyone that said that 2009 was a nasty year! I am praying that 2010 is better. So far, it is not living up to its potential, but it is early in the game.
M360- My heart goes out to you. You have been thru so much, you are in my prayers and I hope you stay strong!
Alicia- Hope you feel better soon, hope that infection clears up. Has the doctor put you on antibiotics to help with it?
Hope you all are having a great day! The weather is supposed to get really beautiful this week here in the Chicago area, I am so excited! My hubby and I did a lot of work around the house this weekend, and one thing we did was get out patio tables back out and got the yard cleaned up. I am so happy to be able to get outside and work in the yard. It is a sort of therapy for me, and him too. My poor hubby has been working 60 hours a week and he is so burned out. We got a pink flowering crabapple tree this weekend and he planted it. Then got a bag of 6 hostas and some other annuals and made a flower box around it. I love spring!
Hugs to all you lovely ladies!
Jen
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Thank you ladies for all the support. Today more complications the special surgical clear bandages that they put over the foam covering sutures caused an allergic reaction with hives that looked like blister filled with fluid all along the edges across my chest. I can't win with all these things, I've pleaded with God for a break.
Jen, don't work that arm so much I'm worried that your lymphedema could get worse, please take care. I was told that if I do any yard work to make sure that you put a good bug spray on your clothes before, let it dry, then put on clothes because a bite from any bug can cause infection in your arm. Were you told this? I got a custom fit garment and I must say I love it, really controls swelling and helps the pain in my arm and hand. Now to gardening, Jen a flowering crabapple how wonderful. I must say I love hostas, did you get one type or different types, there are so many and all grow so wonderfully large on the East Coast and Midwest, out here I think because we have more sun their not as spectacular as I've seen in the East. I too love Spring.
Lilah hoping you're having a wonderful Passover. As for all you ladies have a wonderful Holy Week leading up to Easter.
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M360 I too love gardening, I just came in from my potting shed, I transplanted tomatoes into larger pots. I love hostas, I have the smaller blue, the green with white tips and the lime green ones with yellow tips. Dahlia's are one of my favorite, I put some of them in some dirt today too. Oh the feeling of dirt under the fingernails!!! LOL Spring is so wonderful, the plants are peaking out. It is supposed to be nice later this week so things will really start to grow soon. Blessings to you, and enjoy Spring.
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M360- Dang girl! You are just to sweet. Here you are going through all this junk and you are still being so nice and sweet to everyone. You're my hero.
You must be Southern. LOL
I hear you on that Funk feeling. For me it's facing immortality straight in the face that scared into a never ending Funk. Then someone on this site (you know who you are) straightened me out. Thanks Joni. My doc still has me on anti anxiety meds. but I am only taking about 5 a week instead of the 21 a week she perscribed.
Love to garden. Got about 100 tomato plants in my exercise room. Can't wait to get them out. We have a list going for our next Home Depot trip. I want some Purple Salva I found about 5 years ago and haven't seen since. So pretty with white Impatience under them. I have 7 hanging baskets to fill, two huge landscaping pots to fill and no clue what I want to put in them. They get full sun so besides the Asparagus Fern I've got to find something that can really handle the heat. Also one island/bed out front to put in Port a Lucas and Cushion Mums in. I could go on and on. As for veggies my leaf lettuce looks great already. We will be munching on that in a week or two.
and my helpful tip of the day to all my gardening sisters, Don't forget to get a tetnaus booster if you are due. We don't need anyone getting sick from playing in the dirt.
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M360 you are so sweet to remember everyone in the midst of all your own troubles. Thank you for the good holiday wishes! I am off to two seders this week and then for Easter weekend my boyfriend's parents are coming to visit (and taking us to see JERSEY BOYS on Sunday!) It's going to be a full week. As for you: I am sorry you had to undergo such radical surgery (sounds to me like a radical mastectomy... where most here get the simple mastectomy). I will say prayers that they got it all and that you recover quickly. The chemo will work! Tell yourself that and believe it. You are going to survive. Be willful.
Paulding -- way to go on the garden! I like gardening in principle but then when I actually do it it's hell on my back and I get dirt under my nails (which for me is NOT a plus) and I give up. I do love a lovely garden though... eh I have gotten so lazy!
Txstardust -- I think with doctors you just have to decide to trust them one at a time. There truly are so many good ones out there.
JoJo -- I can see you on the other side of the world waving your magic wand and it is bringing comfort to so many -- keep on waving it! How is your daughter?
Renee -- sounds like a perfect celebration!
Lilah
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Hello, Dear Friends -
It's been a while since my last post. Sorry to be away for so long. Been enjoying fewer doc appointments each week, almost have life back to something that seems normal. Started tamoxifen 8 days ago. At first it was no big deal, but SEs seem to be creeping up.
It looks like you ladies are doing well, some with more challenges than others. Hello to the newcomers - sorry you had to jump in with us, but glad to know you.
I'm trying to work up the courage to post a new avitar. my hair is CURLY. There is no product strong enough to tame these locks. Hopefully this will calm down in a few months.
Stay sassy, ladies. You are so wonderful. XO Mary
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Mary! So good to hear from you and glad to know you are doing well. Can't wait to see those curls! I, so far, seem to have mostly straight hair.
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M360-girl you can rest assured that you feel different, cause you are different. Holy guacamole I can't imagine walking a teeny tiny way in your shoes! May your days be full of all things that make you happiest-focus on the good stuff!
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Mary Magob! So glad to see you here and know you have been gone just living life! We were a little worried about you. Glad to know you did not run off with the milkman
M360, you have been through the wringer! All the surgery is enough but the emotional turmoil has got to be too much. I am so sorry you are having to go through all of this. Trust your doctors and just stay strong. Thank heavens you have your daughters. Bless them and you.
pam
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Mary ~ Yeah !!! Glad to see you back, but also glad you have been living LIFE again. You so deserve it. OH post the curls please. I look like a chia pet, sticking straight up and feels like a paint brush. LOL
Onto the gardening. I love it too ~ I actually had to do some directing while hubby planted some pansies last week. That's all for now as up here it is still too cold. Soon though I am hoping for more flowers and some veggies too !
Hope everyone is well. I am going to pop my first tamoxifen tonight. (reluctantly I might add) grrr.. more SE's to worry about.
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Last day of radiation today. I hope I remember that I don't have to turn left when I pass the hospital on my way to work! Still managing the SEs, and was told to expect them for the next two weeks. I'm just glad to be done with that.
Started Arimidex two days ago. I'm hoping to keep the SEs to a minimum, we'll see.
M360 - Your plate is so very full. Your caring for the women on this board is a great distraction for you, please know that we are praying for you, and thinking about you.
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