MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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I wouldn't be so generous, no matter how much entertainment I was getting from feeding Cheetos to a groundhog.
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No kidding, Meece!
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I would at most use the "one for you, one for me" method of Cheeto Delivery.
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Cynthia~First, welcome!! Second, I don't sing or play any kind of instument either...so you can join me in being a groupie! We are the cheering section...but you do have to bring lots of wine and cheetos!! LOL!!
Barbe~Where have you been? Hope you hve a great visit!
Eli~So glad you are feeling better!!
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Eli - glad you're feeling better!
Cynthia - welcome. I don't sing or play an instrument so I'm handling all the money! I'm good with numbers.
For the second week in a row, I couldn't get chemo because my platelets are too low. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know some good ole home remedies that could build them up?
Barbe - good to see you and glad you're doing well.
Meece - I'm with you on the one for me, one for you delivery!
I know I've missed someone...I despise chemo brain! Luv to all
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Barbe - good to see you again. Have a great time in T.O. I just spent a couple of days in London with 2 of my sisters. What a great time.
Eli-glad you are starting to get some real food down. Get that weight back on girl.
My parents were married on Ground Hog day and although I live not far from the home of Wiarton Willie I have never attended the festival.
I can't wait until the Hobnobbers cut their first album. The tour to promote it should be fantastic!0 -
I'm a LURKER checking in per Eli's request. I'm some ways past your age "ish", but still enjoy reading your posts. Definitely excited, Eli, that you're have a brief respite. Love the groundhog. Love the cheetos. Minus
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Nice to hear from you again, MinusTwo. I'm going to hope that now that you are almost two years out that cancer is not running your life quite as much these days and things are going well for you. Lurk on!
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Checking in....
JoC, you have a gem of a hubby there!
Elimar, hope the metallic taste goes away soon but am glad to see you are feeling better.
Hugs & happy groundhog day to everyone. I am not a fan of the day personally since I lost my mom on Groundhog Day 4 yrs ago. Never gets easier.. Ok, back to lurking.....0 -
odie16, Sorry the holiday will now have a sad taint on it for you. It is one of my nonsensical favorites.
I like to a) "Groundhog-dial" a friend of two that I have not talked to in a LONG time; and/or b) invite another family over for card or game night, in other words get them to come out of their burrow in the middle of Winter. At least the holiday has not yet been over-commercialized like most of the others.
However, if Chester the Cheetah ever retires, we might very well be seeing a Frito-Lay groundhog, if this is any indication.
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hi everyone, I am practicing on the keyboards, right handed of course! The wine is being chilled and is ready to pour! Looks like a long winter so will find me a nice beach to dream on for a bit!
El glad you are coming along, praying that all further surgeries, treatments go well for you, we will be there with you!
I would have to ask teh ground hog to share, we actualy have problems with them here, and have one that loves to sunbath in the summer in the birdbath, go figure!!
I have always used Flickr for photos but having trouble anyone else having issues posting pictures from Flickr/
Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend, it is 15 out so heading out for an indoor farm market at the Flower Shop, local vendors will have cheese, artisan oatmeal, jams, breads etc. Have to go pick up tamox so might as well do something fun! Wings and nachos for Superbowlgoodies!
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Hello, I showed up to say Hi, finally went back to work this week after my long bout with the flu and pneumonia.
I love the groundhog, even if he loves to eat all my flowers off my hanging baskets that I have on my deck in the summer.
Glad to hear so many of you are doing so well. Have a great week-end.
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Happy Groundhog Day! I love to sing, not sure if I'm worth listening to or not, but I have fun! Can I join the band?
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I played flute and piccolo in our high school orchestra. I also play guitar. Count me in!!!! Can`t sing for shit, but love singing..... go figure.
Meece, I too, remember a flash of our `real`dear elimar on Groundhog Day last year. But someone teased her so bad about her beautiful eyes that she went back into hiding!
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Oh, if you count high school band, I could add my clarinet skills to the band.
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Hi Ladies, I am loving the development of the band, and the groundhog antics! I am at home now after my first week back at work, post-surgery, and damned glad of it. I slept til 1pm yesterday, and needed it. Now to get more work weeks in before rads start up, as I am pretty sure I will take short term med. leave with partial pay then. The rads center is an hour away on sometimes terrible roads this time of year. if I can get the one week twice-a-day program, that will solve several problems, but I don't know yet if I "qualify" for that.
I have an appointment to meet with an oncologist 2/12, who ordered the oncotype dx test. My insurance leaves over $1,000 for me to pay, which got me questioning the whole medical/ industrial complex again. I tend to go into a heightened state of outrage about costs of high tech dx and tx every now and then, realizing the motivation of the manufacturers is to sell their product and make a profit. Having a CA dx puts us consumers in a wicked vulnerable place, where we are unlikely to say, " Gee, I think I'll skip it for now, thanks." The docs have to guard against under-treatment or they could get sued. What's a girl to do? Well, plunge into the research and figure out as much as possible what benefit the costly test would provide.
On the company site, Oncotype Dx tells docs that they can reduce unnecessary chemo in almost 30% of ER positive, Her 2 negative, grade 1 or 2 patients. But that group already seldom is prescribed chemo anyway. These are the things that I get annoyed with and that erode my faith in highly promoted/marketed diagnostic tools.
However, I have read some recent stuff that suggests ER+/PR- with high proliferation rates and her2 neg, seem to be harder to treat. Recent stuff is implying that the critical factor in the Luminal B group might be the negative PR. It looks like I am in that group, so may find the Oncotype more than just a restatement of data that is already known, making it more worth it than not.
As distracted as I get with my fits of outrage and my conspiracy theories, I am extremely willing to do well researched and beneficial treatments if I can know the reasons for it, and will gain more than I will lose as a result of doing so. I had unquestioned Luminal A cancer in 2003, and did limit treatment and I feel ok about that choice. Its not the same animal this time around. Plus, I decided recently that I want to live to age 93, and with vitality, at that!
We have a little sun this morning, which brightens and cheers, hope you all have some of that, too.
All best, Mame0 -
Happy Goundhog Day! You guys move so fast on here that I can't keep up! Maybe I just move to slow.
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Poking my head out of my burrow to say "HI" to everyone!! Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!
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Hi there, fmakj! I always just assume you are out there lurking now. You will have to let me know when you stop. Have you noticed that this thread has quite the Canadian contingent as we have picked up a few new ones lately?
MameMe, From the basic pathology, it wasn't likely that I would be given chemo for my B/C, but I wanted that OncoscoreDx to be the final word on it. As it was, I was an 18 (and passed on chemo) but if it had been a couple points higher, I think I might have considered it. I just wanted ALL the info. I could get. I know that Genomics does work with people who have trouble paying for the test, so they might be able to work out something that could lower your cost.
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MameMe-Genomics never billed me for anything that my insurance didn't pay & I actually don't think they paid anything. I don't ever remember a "billing notice" re" my onco test.
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Hey Ladies~ The only bill I got was a co-pay. I too wanted all of the facts. I was only an 11, but here I sit with TEs, getting exchange on Wed. Oh well! This is the life I now lead! Carry on!! (OMG I WANT crunchy Cheetosssssss)!!
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Annemarie, I would leap at any possible diagnostic tool with a triple neg. situation like yours. It sounds really involved and challenging to go thought a BMX and then recon. You have guts!
Eli and Eph, I am hoping for a break if I go ahead with the test. I spoke with the company and they laid out the gap plan they have, so I need to talk with DH about last year's taxes. I think we will need to do a lot of math before we will know if they will help out.
Have a good Sat. night everybody,
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MameMe...OMG!! NO! I need to fix that!!! omg! I'm not triple neg. oh crap! I am ER/PR +!Sorry!!
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A miracle cure! ; )
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Sending virtual crate of favorite crunchy Cheetos to annemarie, even though its Sunday. Our virtual PO is always open, no lines, no waiting...
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It's Super Bowl Sunday, everybody should be stocked up. Just don't pay those WalMart prices!
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Okay, now you've done it! Gotta have Cheetos when I go to
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Darn forgot the cheetos!oh well will take a bag from above!! We are going to enjoy good food and friends for superbowl, bbq and asian wings, queso with tortilla chips, egg rols and macaroni salad, what a combo but there is a favorite in there for everyone!! Will have to make a batch of Sangria too!!
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I was starting to get jealous of Annamarieh because they usually don't give TNs the oncotype test. They didn't give me one and I found out that was why.
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Carrollynn 79,
Pass the Sangria please.....lol
Or a good recipe, ha ha!!!!!
Hope everyone enjoys the game and that I win lots in the football pool....0
