MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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OMG, can anyone here imagine the energy level Dianarose had BEFORE her cancer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How does she do it?
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Chacha, I'll not worry with you..."Hugs"
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So many posts, so little time. I'll just stick with current events and add that the thought of Diana's energy level pre-c is a little scary!
Haven't posted much lately but I've been in every pocket when needed, I promise.
Chacha, I have NOT worrying down to a science, we got this covered
Eli, I am so glad you took this break. And that you know yourself well enough to know you needed it. You are one of the most self aware women I've ever met. You go girl!!0 -
Diana - you certainly do keep yourself busy! Picking fresh strawberries is always a good idea - until it comes to cleaning them. But fresh strawberry jam is oooooohhhhhhhh sooooo gooooood! Good to hear that the mets were contained. I am hopeful that the all of the little buggers were taken with the ovaries.
I was out in the garden pulling some weeds, in between swats at mosquitos and horseflies. Found the beets, and lettuce. Everything is starting to grow so well. The corn is getting to be taller than the weeds! Which of course gives me reason to not have to pull the weeds from the corn patch!
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whooeee, lots happening here! edited for spelling
I have had lots of company lately and am wearing myself right out. Today I took 2 naps and I come on here and read about the Queen hulling 30#s of strawberries. Diana, contained is a great word right now! And them being removed is even better! Glad the bakery is coming together. Are you cooking there, now?
Eli, yay for the break! Just in time for the heat wave you get to ice up.
barsco, sorry about your friend. Man, it hurts to keep losing people to this disease.
chacha, no worries! be happy!
I've been hanging with a friend that has hospice involved now. The good news is she is getting some great services that she should have been getting all along, like LE massage therapy. I just sit with her and we talk about the old days. Some days I take her dog for a walk. Helps me to keep it in the day.
Last weekend I went to the Farmer's Market. We were purusing a holistic booth when my cousin pipes up and says what can you do for her cough. She's been coughing like this forever. So now I am making wild cherry bark tea, diluting it with plenty of honey and choking it down. So far I see no change. I am suppose to report back next sat.
Anyway I learned to make little gluten free baked donuts. See they are healthy for us. I'll bring them to the pps. I know I am no match for the Queen of Tarts.
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Thank you all for the "No worries" pocket party!
I got the call last night for my consultation with the surgeon on July 1. Thats the same day I see my MO for our regular visit so I'm hoping she will give me more info on why the surgical consult when I see her. Pocket party, please? I'm thinking a spa day is in order.....looking forward to Viatnamese Pho lunch between the two appointments.Dianarose.....I know what you mean when you say the "good" news is mets. Mets has been the scariest thing until I started looking at the possibilities with the pancreas! Pancreatic metastisis would be better than a primary cancer of the pancreas.......oops No worries!
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I have my 6 month MO appt with my Zometa infusion tomorrow. I am having lunch with my BFF's from gradeschool if anyone wants to jump in my pockets we can have a really good time.
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If those donuts are going to the party, I'm in
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I'm down for the party Sherry!
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Count me in too.
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time to make the donuts!!!!
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Can I have the donut recipe??? They look delicious !!! Sherry- count me in for the party. Parties are a good way to forget about all the other crap.
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PP and Lunch - I'm there!
There is a lady who has a Donut trailer in my area. She travels to various local events in the summer and parks at one of the drive in restaurants when she isn't out and about. They are sooooooo delicious.
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sherryc, May there be absolutely nothing to follow at your follow-up.
Everyone's chowing on those doughtnuts, I thought I'd bring my crumb vacuum to keep sherry's pocket clean.
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lol Eli - the elephant in the pocket! Although he is a welcomed one.
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OK who's the black sheep (well dog) with the big ears in the topper picture?
Eli - that picture made me snort this morning. Thanks!
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That's a poodle wanna-be. There's just something about more than one or two poodles that is funny. I suspect the same is true about goats. Oh, most definitely!!!
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I made 24 jars of jam and it didn't put much of a dent in the strawberries so I guess I will be doing a few more batches.
Rain, Rain, go away. My 14 yr old is housebound and getting on my last nerve.
Going to get a copy of my path report. I like to have a copy to have all my questions prepared before my appointment.
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After your donuts....maybe a little relaxation? ....or recreation? 
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Sherry - I'm sorry I missed the PP but I can tell everyone had a good time with your BFFs. I did manage to get some of the donut crumbs! I hope the appointment went well and the girls did not cause too much of a commotion...
Chacha - I'll be there on Monday for your PP! I hope the donuts are there and yes, Chacha, I'll take the recreation please. Oh, did you say Pho?
Try not to worry this weekend... easier said than done, I know. This is a rollercoaster life.Oh, gosh barsco, if I had a donut trailer around here I would follow it everywhere!
mac - I would love the donut recipe, too!
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24 jars of jam? What do you do with it all Diana? Sure wish I had the desire to do jam. My mom used to make it all the time, but I just can't seem to get into it. I know it is a lot of work but I think that I over think how much work it is.
HNS - The Donut Diner, as it's named, has cinnamon sugar donuts and powdered sugar donuts. I brought home a dozen of the tasty cinnamon ones thinking that my DH (the one with the sweet tooth) would like them. Turns out he didn't but no worries though - I took care of them. Still have to try out the powdered ones
chacha - I am so tired and achy tonight that I will have to go for the relaxation. Although the recreation is VERY tempting. lol
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Barsco- winters are long in Maine, so jam doesn't go to waste here. It really isn't too much work. It does have a lot of sugar though. I don't eat too much of it.
I got the path report from Boston. I don't know if it's me or that they just don't give a lot of information when it comes to mets. This is all it says.
Metastatic carcinoma consistent with breast origin involving mesosalpinx and ovarian parenchyma, see note.
Note: The metastatic carcinoma is morphologically similar to the patient's previously diagnosed invasive lobular carcinoma. The carcinom cells are positive for ER and PR and are equivocal (2+) for HER2 via immunohistochemistry.
I did read that when the HER2 is (2+) it is intermediate and would require the FISH test which was done here and was negative.
Dr. Eli- I value your opinion. Your are going to have to set yourself up to take health insurance so you can be on payroll.
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Chacha - I am also not worrying with you.
Eli - I am glad you are getting a breather. It's time!
Barsco - Sorry about your friend. I, personally, am so tired of losing friends and family. On another note - is your corn going to be "knee high by the 4th of July"?
DianaRose - Is the sequel to "Man of Steel" going to be about you, "Woman of Steel"?
Listening to the sounds of the birds and the wind in the trees and the chocolate lab puppy going after his rawhide. I am glad it is Friday.
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I HATE THIS!!!! Just got an email today from the husband of a friend, Sara. She was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer the same time frame as my BC. We exchanged emails and cards during the last year. Well.....her cancer has spread to her brain and is pretty much everywhere now. No surgery, no more chemo, just radiation to slow the progression. I'm so sad!
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Diana, you can wash and dry the strawberries well, then freeze them. That way you could make strawberry sauce in the winter for some of your delectable baked goodies.
As for the path, it sounds like the FISH settled it, so disregard my private message on the subject.
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Chachamom- so sorry about your friend.
Momine- I did end up freezing half of them. I was going to make more jam last night, but didn't have enough sugar, so that settled that. I was tired anyways.
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chacha - sorry to hear about your friend. I truly hate cancer!
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Well, Dianarose, I see now that since the Her2+ was an "equivocal" scoring of (2+) you had some medical professionals seeing your Her2 cup as half full and some seeing it as half empty. I agree with Momine, that the negative FISH score should take the ambiguity out of it. The only thing I wonder is if they just take one little area for the IHC staining because I have heard that there are some crazy cancers that can be heterogeneous and have Her2+ and Her2- in the same tumor. I don't want to further complicate this and maybe I did not even understand that correctly (I'm not Her2 and not that knowledgeable on it) On the other hand, your B/C is as crazy as they come, and I hope nothing goes overlooked. My opinion is often more questions than answers.
Yesterday my gradeschool BFF, who got B/C a year later than I did, called to tell me her bone scan lit up in the pelvis. She's getting PET/CT next and probably biopsy next. Her B/C was more aggressive than mine and I am hoping she just has some middle-aged arthritis going on, not the return of cancer.
It IS distressing to hear about friends and aquaintances getting cancer now, we KNOW what a horror it is!!! Sorry, chachamom.
I am going to a cancer funeral today, inoperable liver cancer. He was my son's teacher, and his wife is a long time co-worker of my husband too. I won't even stay long because I am a little wary of my low WBC and a room full of people. (The doctor's office is bad enough, right?) Come to think of it, I probably should not stop at Wal-Mart on the way home either, or will my trusty hand sanitizer protect me? Wow! I live on the edge!
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Thanks for the kind responses ladies....and sorry about whining when we ALL have had friends and relatives affected by cancer. I guess that's just inevitable as we age, but it seems more often and closer now.
Speaking of jam....I just made some jalapeño jam......mmmmm! Yummy on toast and on cream cheese (vegan of course! :-)
Heartnsoul ..yes Pho......it's my new favorite vegan dish, although you can also have beef or other flavors. There's a really good restaurant in Fontana right across from the Kaiser I go to, so that's where I'll be between the MO appt in the am and the GS appt in the afternoon on Monday ...no fasting required :-)0
Chacha, I'll not worry with you..."Hugs"