CALLING ALL STAGE I SISTERS
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Sherry ~ I'll be with you also, sister/friend. ♥
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Sherry, you are in my prayers.
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Sherry.....with you all day my friend in spirit.....big hugs to you
Sheila...here's an extra hug for you:)
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annette..sister/friend...how are you doing? ♥♥♥♥
Are you still playing in the garden/ When is the big day
granny & ducky are playing MIA game
Sherry hoping you are resting comfortably...hugs ♥
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Sheila....how are YOU doing....as I said a few days ago...my heart goes out to you my sister/friend....you are one of those gentle souls that when you love love deeply and it follows when you have sadness it hurts.... I am playing in the garden I am playing as much as I can..things are still wonky in that for the first time in my life i have no idea what I am doing in regards to my marriage but that is ok too...hahaha...I am still planning on being in nyc and hooking up with you on May 4...I cannot wait:) Oddly enough, if we proceed with the divorce as set...it is to be final on May 4....holy moley! And if that is the case...I cannot imagine a better place to be than in New York City meeting my sisters:)
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Annette, praying for you. Happy that the date works like that. I can just imagine you all in the train station hugging and crying. I know that is how I would be!
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hawk...you are right...i hope we don't get arrested LOL
Annette....Is May 4 Friday our official meeting day?
Yes you need to be with your friends.......♥♥♥
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So excited for you Annette, Sheila and Granny and anyone else that is meeting in NY... oh how I wish I could come also. Maybe in another time and place.
It's really been like summer here in the mid 80's. Hard to believe and it March. They are telling us we will have a cold snap in April... guess that's par for the course. But we already have red wasp and red ants out and snakes, oh and mosquitoes that are so big they could carry you away. We really need a cold snap to kill off some critters. LOL!!! Keeping my fingers crossed.
I sent out resumes for 2 jobs today. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying for these jobs to come through. You just never know anymore. My future son-in-law also has been out of work for a few months and he has a job interview tomorrow at 9 am hoping and praying he gets the job. He has a 3 yr old to pay child support for.
Thanks for listening love you all.
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Shelia, my heart is your heart. Oh my sisters here... my heart is yours, all.
Such a hard day for me. I was told -after admitting I needed help, such an affront to my pride and Independence- that I could and then told I couldn't (my insurance didn't cover it), have psych-onc help for months and months, and then I finally got a Little. It is hard to be so flat-lined by procedures and have to try, by yourself, hair by hair, to raise yourself back to life.
To sit in the presence of an *adult* woman and express the grief and *work* of trying to heal from cancer was cathartic. I am a real woman, not in need of a sympathetic, albeit sweet child-in-training-social worker-student, but in need of an adult who might understand the consequences we women face at the age of having raised children and lived long enough to be too capable of grief to expect this.
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truebff: So sorry you are having to go through this. I understand completely what you are talking about. You might get better support and understanding right from these threads than from someone who is too young to understand what is involved when you have faced challenges like we have and are trying to get our lives back to some semblance of normal.
I'm not sure how old you are, or if you are still raising your children, but if you are, then that complicates matters even more. I have raised my children and had retired and was looking forward to some leisure years, then this. All that said, it breaks my heart that younger women have to deal with such a horrible disease as bc at a time when they have so much to live for. As bad as I sometimes feel for myself, I have lived a good life and have seen my children and even some of my grands become responsible adults. I was fortunate to see my first great grand born last year.
I think all we can do is try and count our blessings and be grateful for what we have here in the present moment. We can't look back, the past is behind us. We have little control over the future, for we don't know what it will bring. All we can control is the present moment and our actions in the present. It is what it is...the hand we were dealt...now we have to play it out and make it as positive as we can. Do whatever you can to keep yourself in the present and know that today you are healthy and, from what I can tell by your status, NED.
Sending you prayers and healing energy!
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Shelia- it sure is....I thought either you or Granny said that Friday would work best for you...it works good for me since I have the conference from Tuesday to Thursday. I am getting excited - i just got an invite to be the keynote speaker at a breakfast at the conference...silly people think I know what I am talking about. It was funny, she asked if 30 minutes would be too long hahahah I told her you will have to give me the hook once i start blabbing.
I CANT WAIT TO MEET YOU...gonna be hard to leave once I do. There is a great turkish cafe on brazil street (or 47th?) right off times square where we can get some good food. I was walking by there several years ago and the guy out in front was waving people in...I shook my head no and he asked why not..I said, well, I am armenian..he said please come in...then manager came over and they treated me like a queen...it was amazing....taught me what my dad had already taught me...THAT was THEN and this is NOW. I was spouting one day to him about all those *bad* turks and Dad went real quiet and asked what they did to ME. I said well look at what THEY did to grandma and grandpa and you. He said, I repeat, what did they do to you. All of those people who did those bad things are dead now. It is in the past. Do not ever let me hear you speak of any people with a blanket dislike based on what you think you know. Do you want to be held responsible for everything every ancestor did wrong? this came from a man who saw his parents murdered before he was sneaked away with his sister to an orphanage until his brother could retrieve them. Lots of bad stuff. Yet that was his attitude. So, yes, I enjoyed my dinner at that little cafe and would like to go back there:)
criminy...sorry for the long saga but you know me when i get going:)
Mimi- i am so sorry you are going through all of this crap. And here I am desperately looking for someone to help me with my son for a few hours every day....not to mantion the lamers applying for jobs at my office...ACK....i am sending big prayers to you and your son for work to come swiftly
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Hello - new to this thread but I recongnize some of you from other threads. I have not been able to read all the pages so far but my thoughts are with all of you. I am stage 1. Was diagnosed with a rarer form of cancer, tubular carcinoma and DCIS surrounding it. Finished my rads last week.....I can not take tamoxifen and will not get shots to put me in menopause. I have opted for ovary removal to further my insurance of not having this come back or anywhere else in my body. Planning the surgery for May. Anyone else on this thread have this done?
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We have 2 missing sisters........ducky & granny
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Hello kingjr.....i'm glad you found us.
I was post meno so I can't answer that question sorry.......
Annette.....I agree with your father 100%....You can't hate the generation that had nothing to do with the past.
I'm looking forward to meet you sister. Friday is fine i'm not picky....I just want to spend a full day with you and granny and whoever else is coming......
Hugs
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Mimi - I am continuing to pray you will find a good job soon. Will also pray for your SIL as well. Hang in there ....
Sheila - My heart goes out to you & your family. ((( HUGS )))
Annette - Your father sounds like a very wise man. It is a damn shame there arent more people with that mentality these days.
Welcome to the newbies! Hate that you have to join us but am glad you did. Feel free to reach out to us for any help or support as needed..
Have a good night ladies. Sweet dreams.....
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Welcome kingjr66...good to have you join us.
Annette: You father sounds like a wise man...he raised you well.
Haven't seen granny or ducky post in quite a while? Where are you ladies??
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Sheila, granny is in PA visiting her GD.
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Thanks chabba 0
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Wow, I have not been here for awhile and trying to play catch-up. I do see some on different threads.
kingjr66***
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As you can see in my diagnoses, it is 5 years today that I got, "The Call." I was post meno ER/PR+ over 90% so it was Arimidex for me, I'll be done with that July 26th. Can't wait.
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Deb...i'm glad you stopped by....
Congratulations on your 5th year anniversary........
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Happy Anniversary, Deb. I love celebrating these milestones!!!!
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Happy 5 yr Anniversary Deb!!!!
Welcome to the newcomers kingjr... I pray all goes well with your treatment!
Thanks for all the prayers still going up for me a job. My future son in law got a job yesterday and I am so thankful and excited for him and my DD.
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Happy Anniversary Deb!
Welcome kingjr.
Yay for the future SIL!!!! Congrats. Continuing prayers for your job placement Mimi1964.
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Happy Anniversary Deb! Thanks for taking the time to stop in. You are an inspiration to the rest of us.
Mimi - I am so happy your SIL got a job. Now we just need to double our prayers and get you one too!
kingjr - Welcome to the club none of us wanted to join but I am glad you found us..
Wishing all my sistas a wonderful Wednesday!
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Hi ladies can I please take a moment and rant. I have been on other areas of this site and really not found the answer I'm looking for. I took Tamoxifen for a yr. and my hair came out I never told the MO there were so many other SE's we changed my med to Arimidex. I have now been on this for a little over a yr. and my hair is falling out. I wash it and it comes out, I brush it or run my fingers through it and several strands come out. I use to have really, really thick hair but it has thinned significantly in the front hairline and the crown. Oh and those areas of my head itch periodically all the time. I've changed my shampoo's up, my hairspray's and I continue to have all the symptom's. My Question is this: for any of you that have completed your treatment of the T or your AI and experienced hairloss did it grow back after you stopped your drug treatment?
Also apparently the meds are causing me to have a fatty liver... do you know if that reversed after you completed your meds at the end of 5 yrs?
I don't see my MO till July. I don't know if I should call and schedule an earlier appt or not. I just found out about the fatty liver in Dec. But I didn't know till I read on a thread today that Arimidex could cause fatty liver disease. My MO didn't tell me that.
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I'd call my MO and get a second opinion if you're not happy.
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mimi, have you tried taking biotin for the hair loss? It has help a bunch of us on the tamoxifen thread.
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Mimi
I would certainly encourage you to contact your MO and/or PCP...
Vickie
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