MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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White caviar ????
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elimar- I need your help. How do I get back into the signature part to make changes??? Please humor me, I am not computer smart. I know how to post on this site, get emails, copy and paste, and turn the thing on and off.
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D-rose, Click on your own name above, then on your profile page (to the right) click on Edit Profile.
Marybe made me think of Dippin' Dotz, the weird round ice cream stuff, for the MP?????
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barb beat me to the marshmallows.
Had another good visit with the MO yesterday. I go back in three months and if all is still good I get to graduated to every 6 months. Woohoo. He also said my PS did an excellent job. I thought so but good to hear it from a professional that sees what all the PS's do.
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I was thinking a soft pillow .. but then again im on sooo much pain im in love with pillows .. LOL
good day ladies .. and Happy Cinco De Mayo.... 0 -
When did we start the MP 's again?
A bag of filling for crafts.
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Fish eggs.. not caviar but fish rouge...
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So glad I moved us to pg 667.. hated the last page number
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carollynn.......Sorry to hear you are still having problems. I hope you can get some resolution and feel better very soon. When I was having problems, my RO originally thought I had cellulitis. He treated it with antibiotcs for 10 days and there was no change. Eventually I was diagnosed with Truncal Lymphedema. I did go to a certified LE specialist and learned how to do self massage. It has helped a lot, also I wear compression bras. They are not attractive, but they really help a lot. I sure hope someone can properly diagnose and treat you. Hang in there. I know it is frustrating.
I still can't sit for long periods of time. I went to the doctor Thursday for my ten day post op check. Apparently feeling like I have given birth to a hippo, plus feeling like someone took a sledge hammer to my taibone, is normal for ten days out! Glad to know that, and also happy to hear in 6-8 weeks I should be all healed up. I wish it was today. Just sitting here makes all my south parts scream! I do have one of those donut things, but it really has not helped much. I feel so funny having to wear an Always pad almost 16 years after a hysterectomy. Drainage!
Dianarose I hope you start feeling better very soon. You have been through so much!
LovesChristmas, glad to hear the last Julia update was positive. Sending lots of healing energy to her.
Count me in on sharing some of that rhubarb wine. I have never had it, but it is wine. Wine is good......
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Janis.....call me stupid, but why are you getting drainage into a pad??? I've had a hysterectomy too, and that area is all closed off.
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Wow! What a milestone! What a lot of posts! What a lot of sharing Middie to Middie! Wow!
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My guess for the mystery picture is a close up picture of styrofoam.
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Barbe......I had a vaginal hernia repaired. My bowel had literally fallen into the vagina. I have sutures both in the bowel and inside the vagina. Very miserable surgery. He said my bowel was "a mess". They had to tuck that back up with a patch and my bladder is in a sling. The leakage is just normal post op fluids from all the work. It is VERY strange, you bet!
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MP...Pearl Onions or small Cotton balls
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Meece: I think it's styrofoam.
I've been lurking and not posting much. I'm still waiting for the results of an oncotype, CT, and bone scan....but it looks like I'm going to be treated with Ameridex only...due to small size...although the HER2+ has me concerned.0 -
Here is a glass of rhubarb wine for all !!!
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Janis - Sounds VERY uncomfortable to say the least. Hoping that you start to get some relief soon.
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That's does sound uncomfortable Janis...yikes! I hope and pray you start feeling better soon!
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JANIS .. omg i couldnt imagine that please get well ... and here I am crying like a baby over my mastectomy and TE's...sounds like an uncomfortable mess .. HUGS for u darling ..
That wine looks besutiful carolynn .. I am a non drinker so sorry I cannot take a sip .. although I bet its delightful
Night ladies , I am gonna pray I wake up feeling no nausea in the AM ...Hugs .. maybe tomorrow I can get out to walk or something ...
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I'm not a wine drinker, but the glass itself is pretty, carollynn!!
I stay away from guessing the MP, don't want to have to find one to post if I happened to be correct. Enjoy reading everyones guesses though.
Just flying through on my way out the door & wanted to say, "Hello!"
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Janis, I had NO idea you were going through this!!! OMG, how did you get diagnosed? Did they just keep saying you were constipated, or did it become an emergency?? Hugs to you, sweetie!!
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Barbe, believe me, when you have this problem, you know it, and so does your Gyno. I have been putting off the surgery for years. Janis just confirmed why I have... 0
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well my original thought was frozen corn also, so I'll go with white chocolate chips instead!
Janis, That whole mess sounds like a real pain in the a$$!!! Hope you are better soon!
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Janis no wonder you are in such pain, yikes!!!
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barbe....what Meece said LOL. Yeah basically after a hysterectomy (or sometimes without) other organs just decide to move in to some of the empy space. In my case it was the colon. You can't much miss it. It just sort of...invades. In my case it bulged into the vagina. Attractive huh? I had put if off but finally became so sick of it that I had the surgery. Would I do it again, knowing what I know now? Well, not to scare Meece off but........not for the faint of heart. Ask me in a couple of months if it was worth it. I was surprised at the level of pain and discomfort and in more than one place!
Thanks everyone. I know it was kind of graphic but it is what it is. Oh, and I got shaved and everything. The prep reminds me of childbirth, circa the mid 70's when they still though shaving was a great idea. Just something else to add to the misery and humiliation!
I am feeling a bit better every day, but sitting for extended periods is not fun. For one thing I can feel those internal sutures poking me. Not real pleasant. Plus that tailbone thing, yikes!
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Hey has anybody ever experienced a achiness in the rib area. i don't know whether its the tamoxcifen, its sort of in the breast bone area and both sides of my ribs, just twinges. i have been getting it abit over the weekend. I am due for my first mamo after rads last Dec on the 18th of this month. so just wondering if anybody else has experienced these aches, i am scared of getting paranoid when i get aches in those areas.
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Midnight, I am 8 years out and still have the pain and twinges. I was never on Tamox. so I have mine wouldn't be caused by tha. Some times the pain continues for weeks, and other times it stays away for weeks. It still scares me.
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Right off the bat, Elimar was right. Of all things, when I was searching the house of what to take a picture of, I was trying to think what would stump Eli~. She and I have similarities in our thinking and I thought I would at least give her somepause for thought. I had considered taking a picture of the little styro-pellets used for stuffing crafts, but they are so hard to get back into the bag, so I opted for......
Tapioca Pearls
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Woot, woot! Sometimes having the first guess is an advantage. I'll try and have a good challenge for next week's MP. Meece, we do have something of a mind meld, if that Memories thread is any example, so I was on your wavelength. I had a box of those pearl's in the cupboard for a year. Went thru' a couple boxes of the regular kind before finally trying them. They were just too globular, and I found I preferred the tiny bits after all.
midnight1327, I am only 2 1/2 years out from rads, but think Meece is correct that these twinges can go on a long time. I still have them. My own theory is that rads makes the treatment side less elastic (tighter) and even if you can't see it, you get a bit lopsided...meaning, over time the tighter muscles and ligaments put different pressures on the ribcage and your breast bone. You might try stretching (especially rads side) or massage or even PT.
My ribs were sore to pressure (to the touch) for over a year after rads, but they are 90% better now. They did not really hurt otherwise. Usually, we are told to give a pain, feeling, or twinge three weeks and if it worsens or remains unchanged at all, the doc needs to know. My treatment side gave me a pain in my back that lingered. I told the doc, and before I even blinked he was ordering a bone scan. They have to, to rule out the worst.
Tamox. can cause achiness that lingers, usually joints. It doesn't come and go, it is more or less there everyday. To me, your twinges do sound like they come from the rads. In my very humble opinion.
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I'm almost 5 years out from rads and still have the rib pain on that side. Apparently I'm one of the 10% who gets long term pain from rads, been told to expect to have heart damage show up in another 10 years or so, and my current asthma problems may be lung damage. I wan't told about any of these possible side effects since "they happen so infrequently it's not worth mentioning."
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