MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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ha ha fbn, all the crazy toys of yesteryear.
I am amazed both loral and fbn's hubby had legg perthes. We only know one other person in our community who had it and he was a younger boy. Dawn was in a spica cast and then a wheelchair for 2 years, but she is able to do almost everything just with some pain. We're hoping this gets her pain free for a while. She has a leg length discrepancy, but because I am a cobbler I can take care of putting lifts on her shoes. lol
I'm waiting for her at PT right now. There is certainly a lot of hurry up wait involved in this process.
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yup my hubby gad leg perthes and always thought that he had a metal pin of sorts in his hip which he doesn't. When he was a kid he used to live showing everyone his scar - males are strange!! Lol
His upper body developed to full size but his legs never did so he is a cute 5'1" just a bit shorter than me. Good things come in small packages!
And his legs bang on his double bass drums whenever he gets a chance!!!
:-)
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mac, Glad to hear your daughter's surgery went well. PT is hard work, but well worth the effort to get mobilized again.
Son #1`just arrived home for the summer. Son #2 sleeping off the party he went to last night. I made a potato salad. Yup, it's Memorial weekend all right.
Hope all are enjoying it as well. Even you Canadiennes.
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hubby and I are celebrating beautiful weather with him rolling a lint brush over my scalp!! Lol
Elimar he'd love some of ur potato salad!
Getting rest to watch the NASCAR race then hockey! What can be better than Jeff Gordon and the ny rangers? Lol
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Footballnut, what a great and saucy smiling photo - thanks for posting! Hope you are feeling well.
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oh I think I had a friend with leg perthes, he had to be in a brace that held his legs just so, he was maybe in first or second grade.
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wirdgirl, yes, probably perthes or dysplasia.
I want to make potato salad. It doesn't feel like a holiday weekend. I'll have to find a little pack of mustard somewhere, tho. I don't want to have to buy a whole jar. We're only here for another week. Maybe the cafeteria in the hospital will have some. She is starting to be hungry and keeping food down now. All good signs.
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I am becoming like that with the idea of, I don't need a whole jar of mustard in my cupboard. There must be a stray packet somewhere here at the office, etc. lol
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Oh, I did manage to make the potato salad, we got some mustard from a restaurant in a little to go cup. All my DD wants to eat is mac and cheese, tho.
We took a rest out by the pool today between PT sessions. It is so odd to me to see snow topped mountains while soaking in the sun.
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Mac, Where the heck are you? That looks amazing.
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yes where are you? What a beautiful picture! BEAUTIFUL !
my hubby and I are thinking about going away for a few days next week before my next round of chemo and this photo is really motivating me !!!!
Lol
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Gorgeous!!! Colorado is living up to your expectations well!
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are I kidding me? I just got my freaking period!! Really????? After round 1 of chemo I spotted 3 days after infusion which continued for a few days
Now it's 8 days after infusion and here I go again - not even a full month after the last visit!!
Hurray she said sarcastically!! Lol
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omg...football nut...that's frustrating! I am 54...wasn't in official menopause and was about 40 days late with my cycle back in January...so the first day of my first infusion...I get a full blown, crampy, bloaty period! Well...at least you won't get it next week when you go away...it's great that you feel good to do that!! Rosie
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Rosie I turned 50 last July and my periods started to get irregular last sept. 4 weeks then 5 then 3 then 6. Two years ago I had one hot flash during band practice!! Lol
I stopped the birth control pill last sept and since then my cycle has started to get irregular. Once this nonsense started I continued to be somewhat erratic but even got my period before my mastectomy. Lol
And again today ! The fun never ends!!!!
Lol
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Yeah, what is up with these periods?!! I am 56-1/2 years old. Had only started to be in peri menopause before this started. Had a FULL BLOWN HEAVY period right after my second lumpectomy. Then get another period the same time as my second infusion (I am getting dose dense, so every two weeks for me). Now, a week after my third infusion, have started spotting and slightly cramping AGAIN.
So done with this, except my body apparently isn't! Had to get my bloodwork yesterday and I get it done at my infusion center .... the onco nurse said that while getting my period might be good for my bones and heart, it isn't good for breast cancer due to the estrogen!
ENOUGH ALREADY! I was hoping for some silver linings to all of this .. .not getting my period, not having to shave my legs. No on both counts :-(
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You are all making me feel so grateful that I had crossed over into menopause territory before all the chemo began. (For that matter, I'm glad it was out of the way before everything else took place in my pelvis during the bout with CRC.) I cannot imaging bloating and cramping added on top of every other awful feeling. Why does the universe do this? It's adding insult to injury, isn't it?
Welcome, Rosiesride!
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Clever header pic, Eli!
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thanks elimar...I also think the late menopause with all that estrogen did contribute to bc, but who knows! I never wanted hysterectomy as my gyno a few years back suggested I could due to a fibroid but we opted to watch it and it hasn't bothered me....if I knew then what I know now about estrogen and bc...oh well, couldawouldashoulda...just keeping the faith!! Rosie
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I was SO glad to get a hysterectomy years ago!!! HUGE fibroid and tons of heavy bleeding. I don't miss the crib for a second. BUT, the surgery was a hard recovery for me, possibly because of the mass taken out and everything kind of shifted. I wish I'd done it years earlier.
Signed: It
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i had finished the monthlies after a year of extremely erratic heavy bleeding, i am talking lots of scary red. two or three times in a month sometimes, and then not again for six weeks. i was all done at age 45, 7 years before BC. wasnt ever thrilled about that part of my life, unless i had been not too careful about pregnancy protection! i do think it must be AWFUL to still have a period during chemo....eeeew.
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Period - less since 98 due to surgical menopause. The 3rd best thing to happen in my life~~!
Leave early in the AM with the "girls" from school. We are all turning 60 this year & we are doing that train ride to Seattle & spending 3 days up there sight-seeing, etc. Looking forward to it, although it will be weird to be with these gals again. Most of them I haven't seen but at class reunions & such & a couple of them I didn't even really know. But I'm able to get along in a group so I think it will be fine!
See ya when I get back.
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my period seems to have lasted for a day! Lol. Time will tell! After my first round of chemo I spoofed off and on for 3-4 alternate days
The joy never ends!!
Lol
Have a good day all!!
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FBN, spoofed? okay, my new favorite word of the day. never heard that before!
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Me either I had to look it up!
spoofed
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a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.2.
a hoax; prank.verb (used with object)
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to fool by a hoax; play a trick on, especially one intended to deceive.verb (used without object)
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I was sorry to read, on another thread, that one of our Middies "cmbear" had passed away this month. She had not been active on BCO for about a year and a half but her last post was on this thread. I think she stayed in touch via Facebook (or maybe the chat room,) as some do. I find it hard to follow all who have posted on this thread (one of the limitations of it being a long-lived, large thread) and many who leave here pop up on other threads as the topic suits them, so I don't always think "something bad" has happened when someone goes away, so this comes as a total surprise to me.
Starting out with ILC, Stage IIIb in 2010, her profile on BCO revealed that she had turned to Stage IV in Oct. of last year, so she must have stopped by to update that even tho' she did not post further.
Can't remember exactly if she was the one who started the Pocket Parties on this thread, but she was always joining in those with virtual hospitality and words of encouragement. I enjoyed her many posts. As with most who wind up here, she had a great sense of humor. Only in her early 50's, she is yet another who was robbed of longevity by this horrible disease. R.I.P. Claire.
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I am sorry to hear about Claire. Her death hits particularly close to home, since I have the exact same DX. I remember her posts well.
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i guess i never read from the biginning of this thread so i didnt meet her. i am sorry for her and her family, and for those of you who loved her. it does freak me out a bit to think that as time passes, some of us are bound to fall, but at least the trouble is over...
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I am sorry to hear of this also, I did not know her but it saddens me still. It must be so hard for all of you to go thru the losses being on this site. It is a wake up call for me each and everytime I read about someone passing away from any type of cancer not just BC. I thought I was always aware of death but now I fell him much closer....keeps pushing me forward to enjoy everyday I have left. Hugs to everyone.0 -
Claire got mets to her spine which traveled to her brain. She was in the hospital for a week, but sent home on hospice. Her family was surrounding her and holding her hands while she passed. God Bless us all.....
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