CALLING ALL STAGE I SISTERS
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Sheila you always have the sweetest "good night"!
Raj and 3jays... hello! Hope all is well with you both.
Up early here, couldn't sleep. I am impatiently awaiting our Winter Storm. But more than that I simply went to bed too early and awakened with a headache so I got up to finish reading my book I've been on for 4 months... Yeah, I finally finished it! Great book if you get the chance to read it. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult. I just don't have a lot of time to read there are so many other things I prefer to do.
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Allergies cause me to wake early with a headache. I have a book by my bedside that I need to finish. Maybe I should get to reading. I like to read in the tub, but not if I've borrowed the book, just in case... When the kids were young, it was the only place I could get something the resembeled quiet time.
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I was up at 8, stomach growling. Maybe have some Jell-o for breakfast. Start prep at 3.
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Deb.....27 hours and counting
Meece...The bathroom was the only place I found peace those days.
And they knew better not to bother me there. I used to call it my office.
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You poor thing. It scares me to think I will be going through that in the near future, I can be whiney.
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ladies! - Monday 10 Jan - fine day with light wind and some cloud cover, 78oF. I am enjoying the long summer days.re colonoscopy - over here this test is only ordered if there are symptoms that require investigation. It seems to be more of a screening test over there, would that be right?
Meece - allergies are the pits and waking up with a headache is not nice. I used to occassionally wake with a migraine and that was a real downer on the day. Summer allergies have got the better of me the last two years and I have had to resort to cortisone nasal sprays to keep it under control, better than taking yet another systemic drug I guess. Must be annoying to have them all year round though - you are in winter and still have them.
raj - Some women who had bc in a lot of nodes do stay on hormone treatment for longer than 5 years and many stage VI women are on an AI for as long as it works but early stage treatment is usually only 5 years and can be one drug all the way through or a combination of Tamox and an AI. I am sure I rely emotionally on the drug, as taking it offers protection from a recurrance, and I know I will feel apprehensive and vulnerable when I stop taking it as you must be feeling now. This is the last challenge in our experience with bc though (we hope) and if we have made it this far I guess we will deal with this change when it comes to us.
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raeinnz - Colonoscopies here are used as a screening test as well as to take care of polyps or another things that are seen. My GYN ordered one for me at 52 - thinks when you turn 50 everyone needs to have one.
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Mine has been trying to get me to have on e for about 7 years now.
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Hi rae..so nice to see you here at the same time i was on. I keep missing you.
I had a colonoscopy 3 years ago and no repairs were needed. I think its every 10 years right jo?
HUGS SISTERS>
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Sheila - If the first one is clear then it is 10 years. Fat chance I will ever have one again unless it is absolutely needed. No more "screenings" for me.
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I will get my bone density test in about 2 months.
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I am afraid that they will find some minute thing which will cause me to have the pleasure of many re-visits.
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Oh Meece - easier to find out something small than something worse....I hope you agree to do it soon.
I had my bone density test last week in Dec and just realized nobody has told me that all is well, or not.
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My dr. says dexa isn't covered and would be over $200 oop, so I won't be having one of those anytime soon.
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You have to be over 50 yes?
I wouldnt go every 2 years if I wasnt on Femara.
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To have the Dexa covered? I am 47.
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You are too young for Dexa test Meece.
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Meece - Finished my version of the 5 yard quilt. Will post a picture on the middies thread tomorrow and will also email you a pic. I need to be at my office computer to download it off the camera's memory card. The internet speed on my home computer is slow these days and I doubt I could get it sent through. So look for it shortly. I don't have the binding on it yet - have to do the hand quilting next. I am ready to put it together and will do that this week.
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Yes, you are too young Meece. Lucky young one
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My dr. ordered one for me, and he died a week later, I didn't go in for it. It's been two years now.
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Meece - That is scary.
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He was a friend as well, and he died at the age of 57 from massive heart attack.
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Meece - Sorry to hear that. He was so young.
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Sometimes I think about things and tell myself beside BC there are so many other conditions can kill you in a second.
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yup, odds are that most of us will die of something other than BC yet here we are so focused on it....can't help it though
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Diane last year I waited until my Tumor marker test results in order to buy my ticket to Hawaii.
DR called me at 11AM by 11:20 my flight was booked. Of course I knew all the details and the price.
This year Im thinking if I should wait again. Probably I will
I see the Oncologist on FEB 21 results by 23.
Am I crazy?
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Yes, of course you are crazy. We are all made crazy by BC
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OOOh I love the way you think. LOL
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G'night crazy lady!
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