MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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marlegal - love your post.
Eli - sending you healing vibes, smiles, warm thoughts and gentle hugs.0 -
El Thinking of you and praying for a speedy recovery. Very Gentle (((hugs))), Miss you!
Love the Holistic Healing Hug Marlegal!0 -
Hi everyone my name is Carla. I had a lumpectomy about 3yrs ago chemo and radiation.. And I'm having such a hard time dealing with the pain and the hardness in my right breast . I want to go back and have the double Mastectomy . I'm tired of living with the pain and fear every time I have pain sometimes I hurt so bad I can't do a self exam...0 -
Welcome Carla. What has your surgeon said about the pain? Have your mammos since the lumpectomy found anything suspicious? There are exceptions to everything, but in general I don't think you should be experiencing pain on a daily basis. Hope you can get to the bottom ofnthis.0 -
It's alive! Franken-colon has been awakened.
You won't believe me, but my surgeon actually looks like the famous film doctor (just slightly younger and with a better haircut!)
I am out of the Hospital and it is good to be home. Let the real rest begin. Once again, I was a healer-overachiever and my doc was happy to discharge me in two short days. I read through all off the posts of support and I thank you for them. If only I could have had some of that fresh cider or the baked goods because I spent my surgery evening starving and looking waifishly hungry.
Mac, Somebody with my kind of humor (but much more baking prowess) made a hilarious dessert!
Welcome, gagirl! Also, welcome to Carla62. Any idea what is causing your pain? Is it scar tissue and adhesions? Did the doctor have any answers for you? I had radiation and a hard boob for, maybe, six months. It was not unusually painful and eventually it did soften up. Although people heal at different rates, three years seems too long for you to still have that amount of soreness or hardness. I hope you can get some answers and a resolution that does not involve mastectomy (which can, sometimes, leave you with issues that are equally unsatisfactory.) Keep us posted.0 -
Welcome Home Eli0 -
Welcome home Eli.........Glad all went well.0 -
Eli, good girl! You be good now and REST.0 -
Eli, hooray! Behave yourself now! I hope your system lets you indulge in some of your favorite things real soon
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Did you have a need for the outhouse? Glad you are home again & able to heal (slapping your forehead)!
I'm getting ready to go see "Gravity". Excited & scared all at once. The previews have made my stomach knot up; will be interesting to see what the whole movie does.0 -
welcome home, Eli! You really ARE an overachiever! Rest up and heal!0 -
Welcome home Eli!!! I have been checking each day for word of you and I'm so glad you have been the ever over achiever in the healing department.......you go girl!!! Now you rest and recover.......so good to see you through!
Love n hugs. Chrissy0 -
Hey Elimar, you did it! You got out sooner than ASAP! Silly things like medical procedures can't keep a good over-achiever down. Yes, a hospital is no place rest, glad you are home.
Eph - I'm scared/excited to see that movie too. Are you going to an IMAX to see it? I can't believe how anxious the trailer makes me feel - can't imagine the whole movie.0 -
E~ Welcome, welcome home!!!! Take it easy, let yourself be pampered.Gentle hugs.
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Yay Eli- May your plumbing never have to be "snaked" again!0 -
Welcome home Eli! So glad that the fine Dr let you come home sooner rather than later. Let the healing begin! Thinking of you.
Welcome to the middies Carla. I sure hope that you can get to the bottom of what is causing you such pain. Stick around for lots of fun, support and encouragement from everyone here.0 -
I saw my scar when I showered today and it looked fabulous, almost better than one from the previous surgery that looks like the remnant from a knife fight. Yes, I am still sore, but I would say that pressure (from edema and -gas-) is causing most of my woes today. I cannot begin to tell you how great it feels not to be wearing any foreign devices in or on my body. Yahoo!!! After healing, I will be at the mercy of the follow-up scanning (same as B/C, which of course I am still being monitored for but am a lot less worried about,) so as great as i feel, in the back of my mind I know I am not nearly out of the woods yet.
Trying to achieve a nice balance between mobility and resting today. Have a few loony hospital tales to share, but I will save those for during the week. What's a hospital stay without a bit of annoying nonsense, right?0 -
Very happy for you E! Hooray for great plumbers😎 Jo0 -
Ok -Gravity is VERY intense! Sandra Bullock deserves another Academy Award. George is wonderful to look at.
This afternoon the "Classic" series at the movies was showing "The Matrix" (I know, how can that possibly be Classic already?) I had never seen it on big screen & it was even better than the 1st time on the TV. Loved it. Keanau is so HOT in that movie!!!!!!!!!!!0 -
lol Eph...agree that Keanu is easy on the eyes! Sounds like Gravity is a must see from all I've heard. Will have to find a movie buddy!
Eli, slow and steady girl...you're home, take it easy for a while. Ger some meat on those bones!0 -
Eli - Glad hear you are home and on the mend. Take care.0 -
E~ Just a simple, "Hey there!"Having my yearly diagnostic (this time) mamm tomorrow morning (actually THIS morning, as it is Monday AM already). I'll be glad when that's over. I so hate that dang plate trying to insert itself into my chest - damn, that hurts!
later gators!
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Val - hoping for a quick, painless mammo for you today that shows nothing but healthy tissue.
Eli - I trust you are relaxing with a good book or some senseless tv show and letting your overachieving body heal some more.0 -
Val, thinking of you this morning. Hopefully only minor squishing and all good news.
Eli, yay for the fast turn around time in hospital, first shower, and feeling of freedom from medical devices!!!!!!! Now it's healing time.
Has anyone here heard of tong ren healing? I should probably post this question on the alternative thread. But anyway, I took my friend up to a session on Saturday and am still trying to decide what I think about it. She felt some healing and seemed encouraged by the kind people. They were willing to treat her unlike some local acupuncturists.
I am resting up for my appt on Wednesday with the rheumatologist. I was lucky there was a cancellation in her schedule.
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Val, once again I have every confidence that you will do just fine with your mammo. Can't remember if you get your results same day. Hope you don't have to wait for them and can come back quick and let us all know the good news.
p.s. Around here, "pampering" just means meeting with a touch less resistance whenever I ask someone to do something. (There was still a handprint on the shower wall from the work we had done LAST WEEK., and my son was reluctant to clean that because it was not his handprint. Yes, really!) My husband IS doing all the cooking. While that sounds great, he never met a spice he didn't like and I am all about blandness right now. Gotta watch him.0 -
E, we crossed posts. Lol about the pampering. How quickly they forget what we do(did) for them. I don't understand why we gotta ask for something to be done when we just do it. My DD makes a fake crying sound whenever I ask her to do something, it makes me laugh. Eventually she gets around to whatever it was. It's nice having her here,tho.
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Eli - Your son sounds like he might be around the same age as mine. More than once he has commented "I didn't leave it there" or "I didn't dirty it" etc.......
Mac - my guy doesn't make the crying noise but he does at times express his objection to it. Oh they are so hard done by aren't they? I remember having chores to do every Sat. morning and they were to be done before going anywhere. With 6 girls we had a rotation schedule so you didn't get the same job every week which I guess was fair. But of course the boys had no chores. What's up with that?0 -
Here's a tale from the hospital: I got to my own room at 2:30 in the afternoon. By 5:30 I was up and walking laps around the floor, which I continued to do a few at a time reaching a total of 12 that first day. I had dozed a bit in between but, by 9:30, I had just had my vitals taken and was ready to get a few hours of real sleep. At 10:00, someone comes waking me, saying "I have to put your Fall Risk bracelet on." I said, "I'm not a fall risk. I already did 12 laps around this floor without help and didn't fall once. And why on Earth would you wake a patient up for THIS? You could have come at 4:00, 6:30, 8:15, whatever, when I was awake. This is ridiculous and I'm not wearing it." She said, "Oh, here everyone has to have a red or yellow bracelet. Everyone is a fall risk. No one is a green." Long story short, they never did get one on me AND when I get the hospital feedback questionnaire, this will get a whole paragraph.
You also have to realize that if everyone is a fall risk, then it would only be necessary to identify the high risk people with a red bracelet, as everyone without a bracelet would be assumed to be "yellow" anyway. Duh!
Still, I was happy enough to realize that neither my common sense nor feistiness had been surgically removed; and I have always found hospital policy debates to be therapeutic. (Where are the toolbar smileys when you need them?)0 -
LOL Eli!!! The surgical removal of common sense, feistiness, and/or sense of humor would be the greatest assault on our seemingly "slice and dice" selves!0 -
Eli ...Your nurse...
Wow!!!!!0
