MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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macatacmv-ouch! How does one tear a cornea?
I'm sure E will have tons of stories; I can hardly wait!
Jo-what's shaking?
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hns - hope the barium has worked it's way through and you are feeling better. Can't blame you for wanting to hear results from the MO rather than get a bumbled up report. We will wait with you.
macatacmv - sending you healing vibes in hopes that your eye gets better soon.
Looking forward to hearing Eli's tales of the high seas!
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Okydoky update...cancer sucks! So yesterday was Abraxane & Hercepton and I lost my leather gloves :0(. Chemo brain is expensive lol! I was given a script for cloxacilon (sp?)
2 x 500 mg four times a day for 14 flipping days....did i mention that my body doesn't like antibiotics or poison! One of the side eg gets is C. Diff.....I was so happy to read that ack! I'm calling tomorrow to find out about my cultures as this for sure will put me under!
Right now I feel like crap from all the junk I have in me that will probably explode out tonite yuk yuk....
I gave Jim royal shit today as he moved his toothbrush to the front bathroom...hmmm I said to him, with a dangerous tone in my voice....I close the lid and flush twice so what's you're problem? 2 nights ago you wanted to do "what" to me and now you're moving your toothbrush.....ho ho...the front bathroom is next to the front bedroom.....he sheepishly moved his toothbrush back to ours....tread carefully with a woman full of poison is my new saying lolol!
macatacmv! Holy crap, what about that eye? When someone says similar stuff like that to me I hex them...and I tell that I hexed them!
Heart, Jim is the closest within range today so one more screwup from him and I'll deck him....well as soon as I have the energy...Timmy's is chock full of wonderful treats and everybody is so happy that they're in the hospitals as hospital food is crappy, although they are trying to compete with Tim's LOLOL!
I was soooo stressed about them using my vein for chemo that I FORGOT to take an Ativan...geez can't believe I didn't use my drugs! That's probably why I lost my gloves, fear! I don't sleep the night before a treatment as the whole thing still scares the shit out of me...I'm sure eventually I'll adjust.
Marlegal, Epf, Barsco, thanks for the PP, I look around when I'm in the clinic and think of all you ladies that have been there and some of us still are and wonder....wonder at our balls....really this is scary stuff...no wonder we have the babies!0 -
Jo - so good to hear from you. Poor Jim - I bet he is rethinking that retirement about now huh? lol I sure hope that Cdiff does not make an appearance - that would be too much. Is the cloxacilon to prevent Cdiff or to address the infection that you were talking about the other day?
You are sooooo entitled to fear the whole cancer and treatment scenario. There is certainly nothing welcoming about any of it.
Feel better my friend!
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Not much time, but wanted to give hugs to Jo. Your stories crack me up although the subject isnt funny, truly. You just have a humor so similar to my own that I can't help but laugh!
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My sister came over today to cheer me up, I'm so sick from the antibiotics
So we played with some scarves (she wants me to get a wig..but I think I'd be to hot)....so this hat is from the angels at the cancer clinic that volunteer their time and make these hats....I wasn't to crazy about them till Lynn said turn it around like Lucy! So Voila....my Lucy look! She is my fav actress of ALL time. She reminds me of my mom, even looked like her. My mom had a crazy life...perils of Pauline! She and her sister went to France in 1939 to visit her aunts and uncles, cousins etc. and yep....shortly after the Germans invaded France and she along with thousands of other people stuck in France at the time had to report to the Germans weekly as they were British Subjects and Germany was at war with Britain.(nuther time)Barb, the antibiotics are to prevent me from becoming septic from my port infection.... xoxoxo
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Jo - I LOVE your Lucy look and I Love Lucy, too! I have her entire collection on DVDs - it was a great deal somewhere. That's a lot of antibiotics you have to take - it must have been pretty serious. Your mother sounds like a fun one - my mom was/is too. She's 86 now, so more difficult than fun but I still like hearing her WWII stories. Not near as exciting as your mom's, though! You gotta tell us sometime - I'll relay it to my mother.
I had no idea that a PET scan could make me so sick! Yesterday, it was all I could do to lift my head to drink some water. I had diarrhea all day Wednesday and by Thursday I was so weak - I guess I was dehydrated. Around 6:00 pm, I decided I was going to call my onc in the morning to see if I could get an IV of saline solution to rehydrate. I could barely move. I thought, is this what it's like to die, lol. But finally last night around 11:00 pm I started feeling better. Today I just feel worn out. All because of a scan? I don't know if it's me or if those scans are always like that, but it was a doozy.
Everybody have a good night! I'm kind of having a party, but I'm at least having a Bloody Mary!
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Jo - your sister sounds like a great friend to have around. I'm sure you two had a blast with the hat. Your Lucy look is fabulous. The story about your Mom sounds intriguing. Would love to hear the rest of it some day.
Feel better soon.
HNS - that scan really knocked you for a loop. Strange that it would do that to you. Maybe it was the barium? Glad you are feeling better though. Hope you are enjoying your bloody mary.0 -
HNS, I wonder if you were hit by a 24 hour bug that was just bad timing? Whatever the reason, I sure hope it's over and done with and you're on the mend.
Jo, I loooove the look!!! Be sassy with it girl
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Has anyone heard from Barbe1958 lately? Last I remember she was going to
Toronto with her sister.0 -
She's posted on FB but not here!
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Jo, I couldn't deal with the wig either. I bought one, but wore it exactly one time. I wore those turban thingies, like what you have, hats (over a thin turban) and scarves. This was my favorite scarf:
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I love your scarf as well Momine! You have to go with what you're comfortable with....I'm a plain Jane and it is what is...... Xoxoxox
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I like how the turban looks on you, Jo.
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Wait so now that I am 40 I am middle-aged????Wow I don't know whats worse hearing that or my new diagnoses.....just kidding.
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Welcome raehyg. Sorry that you have landed here but you have found a wonderful group for support, encouragement, friendship and fun. And being just 40, you are one of the young middies! Lol
Jo - I sent you a pm. Just let me know what you think. Thx0 -
Hi Gals, I'm glad to have found this thread! I'm nearer the opposite end of this spectrum from raehyg: I'm 57. I'm married with three grown kids, five grandchildren plus a sixth on the way, and I work fulltime. My diagnosis wasn't the happiest way to start the new year, but I'm doing fine so far. My lumpectomy was a little over three weeks ago. This Friday, I'll have my Mediport inserted and March 7, I'll have my first chemo.
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Raehyg, that was my first reaction too, lol, although I am now really, really close to 50, so way older than you.
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Welcome GailAnn - it is really hard to be welcoming newbies to the site. However, it is good that you have found a place for support, encouragement, knowledge and friendship. Come by often and let us know how you are doing.
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Thank you! Oh and Raehyg, you can't possibly be middle-aged, because my oldest daughter is 40 and there's no way I'm old enough to have a middle-aged daughter
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Welcome to raehyg & GailAnn-going on your theory GailAnn, I can't be middle-aged (turning 59 this year) since my daughter is only 18!
E-you should be back on solid ground today, if our supposing is correct. Can't wait to hear all about it.
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Rae N Gail, welcome. Age truly has little bearing in this room as you will soon come to learn. Humor and compassion are way more important
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welcome ladies.
It says on the topper that this is "home of the hot flash" so I definitely know I fit in no matter where I am in the ish range.
I was just noticing in some of the decriptions of the threads that they are mentioning age more. I, for one, am more interested in what we have to say than how old we are. This thread makes me laugh and feel love, can't get much better than that.
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Welcome Rae & Gail, omg..my daughter will be 41 this April....ancient over here! Lol
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Welcome Rae and Gail!
Jo, I go bald-headed, but if I could get one of your I Love Lucy scarves, or learn how to tie it, I might consider it my new look.
Momine, I wore my wig once as well, but only for about a 1/2 hour, about the same amount of time I spent wearing my prosthetics. Now I don't even know where it is. I love the bald look and time cut on getting ready in the morning. Not sure how I'm going to feel when it grows out and I'm back to coloring and cutting.
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Hi maryah, I feel the same as you, it's a breeze and even if it grows I'll be keeping it very very short. Pm me your address and I'll send you one! Xoxox
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I haven't been here in awhile. I have really been in a deep, dark place. In the past 13 months I have lost my dad, my boobs, and 3 weeks ago today I lost my best friend to a sudden heart attack. Well I needed to pull my self up and move on. This song by Cher hit me just right and I am going to figure out a way to open my own bakery. Like Cher says, you haven't seen the last of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FM5Akcjraw
My friend dying made me realize even if you don't have cancer none of us know how much time we have left and not to waste any of it. I thank God for every day I have, even when it's a bad day.
I hope this song can relate to a lot of you and pick you up when you are feeling down.
http://www.nancysnotions.com/text/content/pages/GailsCKBeret.html
The above link is for a really easy beret pattern for those who are going through chemo. It's my favorite hat.
Hope everyone has a great day. Love you all, Diana
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(Sheepishly) Uh, hi guys! I apologise heartily because I thought I had slipped a "Bon Voyage" day in there somewhere, but it must have been something I mentioned only in a PM. Yes, I was aboard ship the whole past week. I wasn't planning to journal about this trip (since we so recently had Joni's tale of a Caribbean cruise) but now (since there were a few requests) I feel I owe at least a little travelogue with a pic or two SO I'll get into that in the next day or two.
ruehyg & GailAnn, I'll add my welcome to the ones you have already gotten here! Since we are all planning to live from 80-120 years, yes, these are our middle years.
JoC, I have caught up reading about your tribulation. What a story! They had you running all around, as if you were a person with tons of energy to spare. What were they thinking? Hope the antibiotics will take care of the infection without causing more woe. I also get worried taking antibiotics (for the C. diff. reason) and they have given me the drug Flagyl (metronidazole) to take along with the antibiotic before. It will keep the C. diff. in check and not let it take over.
HnS76, Sorry to hear you had a PET scan hangover, especially after I told you that it was not a difficult scan. I will give you a tip right now. Eat your oatmenl for the next week. You would be surprised how long that barium can stick around in your intestines. (I had to drink some for my "lower rads" and the residue was still showing up in the imaging a week later so scrub it outta there with some high fiber foods.)
I like the scarf look more than the wigs look for chemo-bald coverage, but a friend of mine had a chemo wig when I first met her and it looked so natural that I just thought she had great hair. My mom's fave cover up was a super soft chenille cap (Winter mos.) that was brown and had the volume of a head of hair too.
p.s. Cute beret, D-rose!
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Love the beret pattern! I am glad you shared that with us, DR. As an experienced visitor to the darker places, I can relate to the feelings you described. When new energy comes along and new ideas, it's a good sign.
I am interested in FMLA and short term disability funds, if anyone has tapped into those during treatment.
I am a month-plus out of surgery now, and will start rads for a total of four weeks soon. I am trying to get some short term disability funds to cover 60% of my lost wages when I have to leave work early for rads. The cancer center is an hour from my work, and in snow it will be more than that. I figure I will get a 3:00 appointment and leave work about 1:30. I loathe phones and trying to work with large companies, but am hoping I can get this benefit working for me. My boss said I should clarify how to use FMLA also, but I am hoping I will not need to tap into that. I work in a community mental health agency and am on salary, so if I go one month at 2/3 my usual hours.... I guess I had better check into that. I do ramble on, and think out loud!
Warm regards to all, Mame0 -
Dianarose - That is a beautiful song. I have always liked and admired Cher. I hope that you are starting to climb back up to feeling better again. ((hugs)) Love the beret - different than the regular scarves, hats etc that you see.
Eli - WELCOME BACK! You may have to face a number of inquisitions after leaving without notice. lol Looking forward to reading all about it and seeing some pics.
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