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Hello dear fellow sojourners....
Just a quick FYI...I have listened in on several conferences hosted by Living Beyond Breast Cancer (http://www.lbbc.org/) They have a conference call tomorrow evening that all can register for on Follow up Testing 101. It may be old info for many, but since these things seem to change from day to day, thought I would share. I am cutting and pasting info. By pre-registering they will email info to you and the presentation handouts.
God Bless!
Follow-Up Testing 101 - New Evening Time!
Our November teleconference will focus on the National Cancer Institute's guidelines for follow-up testing and why follow-up care may vary from doctor to doctor
Speaker: Nancy U. Lin, MD
Register for this free teleconference.
Join Living Beyond Breast Cancer for our next free teleconference, Follow-Up Testing 101, at the new time from 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Wednesday, November 18.
Nancy U. Lin, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will give you practical information about follow-up testing, including:
- The National Cancer Institute's guidelines for follow-up testing
- Why follow-up care may vary from doctor to doctor
- The differences in follow-up care between early-stage and advanced breast cancer
- The importance of a long-term survivorship plan
- How to communicate post-treatment concerns with your doctor
About Our Speaker
Dr. Lin is a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute specializing in the care of women with breast cancer. Her research focuses on developing new therapies for women with brain metastases and women with HER2 positive breast cancer. Dr. Lin is an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and a recipient of an ASCO Foundation Young Investigator Award and Career Development Award.
About the Program
Our speaker will give a brief presentation, followed by a question-and-answer period. To participate, you need only a telephone or computer (listen-only) with Real Network Player or Windows Media Player. Social workers may be eligible to receive continuing education credits; see our registration form for more details.
New Features for Online Participants
A slideshow presentation will be available online during the program. You will also have the opportunity to submit questions for the question-and-answer session online
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Hey Gang,
Thanks for the prayers! Please keep them coming. Second surgery completed. It wasn't nearly as much fun as the first, but the doctor says that all went well. I think I allowed the nurses to give me too much pain medication though. I had to sleep it off. Good news, I'll never be a drug addict, I don't have the stomach for it. I've got to go back tomorrow morning to have the drain removed and we should have pathology back by Monday. Mike's sleeping off the stress of the day right now. Thanks again for all the prayers and love. It really does make this all much easier to bear. Thank you God for carrying the cross for me. Love & Thanks & Blessings, Ann0 -
Bless, so glad things went well! Sending you prayers and love!
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Jeannine....I dunno nothin! I read and learn every am and hopefully give credit to the source. Maybe I do sound like a self appointed know it all tho!......eeks tell me if that starts to happen so that I can humble myself...noone likes a know it all! Have always been a generalist in nature,jack of many trades master of nothing......ADD? whatvever...enough about me! FOCUS!
Ok, ladies wanted to make you aware of a thread on BC.org started by moderators asking for stories from women under 50 who benefitted or whose lives would have been worse/nonexistent using these current proposed(?) guidelines we're all up in arms about.
Nov 18th: Saints a year in Faith and Art: saint Frediano of Lucca: Bishop, remains unclear whether Frigidian, Finnian, amd Frediano are one saint or 3. According to Gregory the Great, Frediano(despite the name) was an Irishman of royal lineage who became a monk and set off on a pilgrimage to Rome. A Frediano was certainly bishop of Lucca around 560, acclaimed by the clergy and people alike. he was active in his diocese in pastoral work and also as a hydraulic engineer, doing his utmost to bring an end to the nightmare floodings of Serchio River. according to legend, freiano used a rake to scratch a new, safer course for the river to follow, and it obeyed. He seems to have died around 588. Frediano is from the German and means 'bearer of peace'
anyone notice these saints die young? or perhaps sign of the times?
Quote from Daily Catholic Bible: "We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great acheivements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. " St. Rose Phillipine Duchessne
There ya go ladies, continued love and prayers and continued intercessory prayers please from Agatha and Perregrine...Hope I said that right!
Nancy- St Agnes lol! I had saint Jane...I do NOT even remember...how incredibly shameful! I know there is more than one St. Jane.....probably should've picked Mary Magdalene but hey it was 6th grade, not my 20's!
Oh well! Have a beautimous wednesday ladies!
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Praying for all my BC sisters. Also please pray for a fellow sister from my Chemo in Aug 08 thread Bette George Dietrick that just entered hospice and had to go to the hospital so they could get her meds under control to control the pain. Her dear sweet husband Tom keeps everyone updated on CaringBridge.
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Yes, I've been following Bette, too.
Continuing the novena...St. Peregrine, please intercede on behalf of our special intentions, Bette, Ann...and for all at bc.org. Amen.
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Ladies....I'm in awe of your prayers.....I am SO NOT a good "prayer"........I do come to this thread daily to read your intentions, though - and I DO pray for them.....just not as beautifully as you all.....
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Val, Jesus hears us all, i am sure your prayers are beautiful to His ears--Went to bc surgeon today and the lump is just a cyst!!!! Amen and Praise Jesus, thank you Lord and my bc freinds for praying
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LMFSM: AMEN! AMEN!! I knew you would be okay
God truly hears us. I'm so happy to hear your news.Bless: Happy to hear your surgery is a success!
Jennifer: You are funny and not a know-it-all...I find your facts very interesting.
Yes let's continue to pray for our dear sister Bette Dietrick (she started chemo w/me last year and we're both going through recurrence again)..She is in much pain and suffering. A beautiful lady..whose endured too much like many here...
Tomorrow: My dreaded PET Scan ugh....please continue the prayers!
St. Peregrine: Continue the intecessory prayers for all suffering now in Christ we pray Amen.
Jeannine-
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Jeannine
Prayers for you tonight, I believe you will be blessed and we are all praying.
Pray hard ladies, we have gotten many on this thread through so much, I have the faith.
God is listening.
Amen!
LMFSM - I knew you were ok, just knew it. And I am sooo happy, celebrate and give thanks!
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Jeannine..
I have been praying...
Poor Bettys family...:(... I do not know her... I pray for her pain... God Bless her...
Jen.. your posts are not in vain and they keep me smiling and learning... I LOVE THEM! Thank you!
Val.... I just say... Jesus.. over and over and over i my head.. when I cannot pray... He know I want to...0 -
Continuing the novena...St. Peregrine, please intercede on behalf of our special intentions, Bette, Ann...and for all at bc.org. Amen.
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Ok girlies thanks for all the kind words...i am goofy! i admit it...but it's fun!
LMFSM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you for sharing your joy w/ us!
Ok ladies, I'll try to get back this pm w/ more. Curretnly cramming for test, and I'm WORKING IN STAFFING today first time in 2 mos...yikes! So this is a total hit and run.
love and prayers, continued interecessory Peregrine and of course Agatha,
and whomever the patron saint of test anxiety(both petscan and Catholic bible study exams) is help us out today!
cheers!
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Dear God, Thank you for all the blessings that you've given us today and everyday. Thank you for the ladies on this thread. Thank you for their prayers. Please bless them all and all of their families and friends. Please dear God, heal them, fill them with your peace and surround them with your love. They are all so beautiful and precious to you and to me.
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Good evening ladies....I continue to pray for all of your intentions daily....
The new guidelines...yuck!! Leaving young women with nothing but an excuse not to get squished! Grrrrrrrrrrr........
Prayers for Bette George today....
Jeaninne...any chance you got the results of your PET today? If not, when? Sending prayers your way, too...
Marie 317...so true about lobbies.....particulatly if you want to compare them to church! I have even told others who stay away from the cup (at all times...not just if sick) due to concerns about germs...I would rather catch a cold from the cup of His blood and salvation than be healthy anyday!! Call me crazy...but I am crazy for Him! And I have never prayed to JPII. You are giving me a good insight....thanks, I will start tonight!
Please Lord...calm Jennifer down so that she can test well!
Amen!God Bless!
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Please pray for my friend Mary and her mom (also Mary). The daughter has just had a lumpectomy and will be starting chemo around Christmas. Her mom has had bladder cancer for about a year and it has spread to her liver. They have had to call in Hospice because she is dying. This is such a difficult time for their family. God please be with them and let them feel your presence.
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Jesus,
In the name of your own Mother, we ask that you bless Mary and Mary so that they may never feel separated from your love and mercy. Help them as they traverse this difficult course in their lives, but let them never take their eyes off the prize....eternal life with you and the Holy Family....Amen.
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Amen!
Bless.. thank you for your prayer for us earlier.. and BLESS Mary and Mary... I do hate cancer...Thank you so much St. Peregrine for your intercessory prayer. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Good morning ladies. I will have saintly info for you tomorrow ! Will be running thru shower and to work in a few.
My offering is my memory phrase from Exodus 4:12
"Go then! It is who will assisit you in speaking, and will teach you what it is you are to say."
We started w/ the Exodus because it is such a central theme: 'slavery to freedom'. And the torah is the basis for the NT and Jesus teachings/the Gospels. We'll do Deuteronomy next............This is such a gift as one of the big things about Deuteronomy is it preaches to the comfortable......whan we get too comfortable is when we start not needing God...that was the message from our lecture after the exam.
I am pretty sure I passed! Did better than I thought. thanks for the prayers. one of the smartest things I did was to met a couple other students at the student union an hour or so before class and we discussed and studied.....it ws their suggestions that saved me, lead me to correct answers on a couple sections about Pilgrim feasts and reviewing the sources of the Pentateuch Yahwist, Elohist and Priestly..........we were given verses and had to identify which voice it was an example of......Definitely passed objective portion we had a few short answers and they, a few were relaitively subjective.....we reviewed all. I did Waaaay better than I thought esp for missing 4 classes.
Work..............Mixed bag.....I will stay UPBEAT!......sometimes hard when there is such buzzkill around you...not talking about the patients............I digress.......It will be ...I will be OK, regardless. Thank you Lord for doing as God did for Moses above.......'assisting me in speaking'...or maybe even assisting me in shutting my mouth......and NO I do nOt think I'm Moses! Lol!
enough about me......prayers for Bettye and the Mary's and anyone else I'm leaving out....prayers and love to all of us.
have a wonderful friday all! TGIF!!!! woo hoo!
Lastly Saint Peregrine thank you for intercessory prayers....forgive me ladies....does Agatha provide intercessory prayers as well.......sorry trouble w/ the verbage here...teach me?
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Jeannie, Any results yet? STill praying for good reports! In sisterhood, xo
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Continuing the novena...St. Peregrine, please intercede on behalf of our special intentions, Bette, Ann, two Mary's...and for all at bc.org. Amen.
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Prayers and Blessings for all my BCO sisters!
I pray that all are well and happy!
It has been awhile since I have posted.
God Bless you In the name of the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit!!!
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Thank you all so much for your prayers for me and the Mary's! It really does mean so very much to me. May God bless you all today and always in all ways.
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Ofering prayers for all my breast cancer sisters, especially for Mary and her mother Mary. Lord have mercy on the suffering that dear family is going threw, be present in their grief and give them strength to endure what is ahead. Send them special graces and put people in their paths that will be there to help them. Give them the reassurance you are close and will never leave them or forsake them. Father we have no answers to why people have to suffer as they do, but you did tell us we will have tribulations in this world but Father you have overcome this world and we ask in the name of JESUS for your will be done.
Thank you Lord for LMFSM. PRAISE GOD..
Ladies all I have to say about all that is going on in the world today, regarding the goverment becoming so big and now taking away the health rights of so many women. We are living in such evil times. COME LORD JESUS COME0 -
TImes right now... remind me of Genesis.... a LOT
Jen... Any saint can pray for us. Agatha is another Patron of cancer.
St.Peregrine is the most know for cancer.. but there are more....:)
You can look of the saints online, to see the story of their lives and fins their novenas...
YOU... have mucho energy... I do not even know you... but you seem so much like me... about... 10-15 yrs ago....:).....
I love your energy and sharing... do you ever sleep...lol... I get bout 6 a night..)
I love bible study ... but cannot join a class yet.... but I will...
I babysit kids m-t-w... then go to work after some... then work t-f-s.......nights too... so Sunday is the only day... I have for Mass...paying bills... hubby...LOL....etc...
BUT... when the Lord lets me.... if....
I will be a volunteer at a cancer center... work with hospice..... go to bible study once a week.... do more with my Church.......
These are my goals... but... might not be our Fathers..... so... I wait...:) It would take GOD to make this work.... so.. if it never does... then I know... it was in vain for me... but I pray about it.. and hope...
night all..... working in the morning......
Thank you St. Peregrine for your intercessory prayer, I Jesus name. Amen.
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Laura,
Thanks, very sweet. My sleep wake pattern is major jacked up! actually has been since I came home. Could be meds, or hormonal? doesn't matter when I can't sleep I just get up and DO something. If not working I take a nap in the afternoon! eeks! How embarressing but this time of year So very nice! By nature I love going to bed early 8 or 9...embarressing but a lifelong thing...family loves to give me grief over. Has caused an issue more than once w/ people whom I date as well as other friends, etc. I've also always been an early riser. VERY much a morning person as was my dear dad. I don't have children so guess I do have a bit more time/energy. Love them work w/ them and it's ok..A LOT of grieving over the whole 'I'll never be a mother or grandparent" this last spring when I started Tamox...but doing Sooo much better now! I do love borrowing my nieces nephews(there are 33 last count!), friends kids and then RETURNING when I'm done!...works out well for many!
Sheesh Laura you look not a day over 25 in your pic! You have a heavy schedule. I genuinely feel like I'm playing catch up on Catholicism and feel sort of urgency......to learn more, but it truly is a pleasure. I think the word 'intercessory' was what was confusing me...BUT WOW has the vocab ever grown since this CBS started! This class does take more time and study than I thought but I am loving it, just overwhelmed at times(mostly after sept surgery and all).
Anyhoo...............
November 21 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary...Lovely artwork by Titian in this book Saints a Year in Faith and Art:
"According to the Protevangelium of James as well as The Golden Legend, Mary was presented in the Temple at the age of three. This feast came into being with the dedication of the New Church of Saint mary in Jerusalem in 543 and has been celebrated in the East since the 6th century. It was introduced to the West only in the 14th century; it has been preserved as a memorial in the new calendar. In art, the scens shows Mary as a child climbing the steps of the Temple and being welcomed by the priest."
ok, more about the Art than the saint today....... or is it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_of_Mary check this out...the second one is in my book!
And from the Daily Catholic Bible todays quote is from St. Bernard of Clairvaux: " It was fitting for the Queen of virgins, by a singular privilege of sanctity, to lead a life entirely free from sin, so that while she ministered to the Destroyer of death and sin, she should obtain the gift of life and righteousness for all."
Just wanted to let you all know I read and tped all this AFTER I made all the comments above about motherhood or lack thereof.....No not always about me but...........just sort of funny, or wonderful!
Love and prayers, Jeannine thinking of you love!
Saints Perregrine and Agatha please continue w/ your intercessory prayers. We SOOO appreciate them.
Have a wonderful Saturday ladies.
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I'm officially on vacation until December 1! My biggest hurdle now is to stay away from my office email. I think I'll add that to my novena, lol. Lord, give me strength. I will have to check it for one important message, but I won't get into all the others.
Continuing the novena...St. Peregrine, please intercede on behalf of our special intentions, Bette, Ann, two Mary's...and for all at bc.org. Amen.
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Hey Nance, just tell yourself that checking in on us is much more fun than checking work email! I mean, are they as fun? Are they as loving? Do they care about you like we do? LOL
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I just played a Saturday Mass for a priest (very conservative) who sings in Latin.. it went pretty well. It's nice to hear.
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Nancy congrats! and stay awaaaaay from work e-mail...it will still be there when you return...mine was 2 mos later! LOL! Uggh still wading thru!
Apple that is cool. I went to my first tridentine mass in Nola when I went for consult in august. It was a blast from the past. Loved all except when the priest sang the gospel.....just had a very hard time 'getting' the message.
So I watched the first half of Ten Commandments and already am very aware it is the King James version. But still it is very good, esp considering done in 1956. There is a commentary version on my 50th anniversary edition that is really very informative. Charleton Heston was quite the hottie! Learned he was not the original pick for the part, mostly due to his age but actually went to Cecil B DeMille and had taken Michelangelo's Moses(the one w/ horns) and sort of superimposed his own photo w/ longer hair, etc, etc and this sold Cecil B DeMille because he so resembled the work of art. Anyhoo....Soooo glad I'm doing all this study BEFORE going to Rome, Italy...Heck Egypt! Learning Sooo much about ancient history. people who think they can understand it w/o the religious influence are missing the WHOLE point! But so VERY glad I'm getting the Catholic perspective because there are differences. We truly have our own heritage and I very much value it! I almost take insult now when I think back to others telling me I needed to purchase the King James version...I'd never say that to them...why do they think it's ok to say that to me? Sorry.... I digress!
Sunday November 22!: Saint Cecilia: Virgin and Martyr. A young Christian patrician, Cecilia(Cecily) lived in the 3rd century and was betrothed to a pagan named valerius. Maintaining her vow of virginity, she converted her husband, who accepted baptism and died a martyr. Cecilia refused to sacrifice to the idols and was beheaded. the figure of this saint is closely tied to music, perhaps because the passio that relates her story refers to how during her wedding "as organs were playing Cecilia sung in her heart to the Lord." Since the 14th century it has been customary to depict her w/ musical instruments, particularly an organ. protector: Music, musicians, makers of stringed instruments, poets, and singers. Name: Cecilia, of Latin origin menas "blind"; according to medieval etymology the name meas "sky and lilies". taken from "Saints a Year in Faith and Art"
From Daily Catholic Bible: St. Basil the Great: " The mere renunciation of sins is not sufficient for the salvation of penitents, but fruits worthy of repentance are also required of them."
There you are ladies have a wonderful Sunday!
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