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Wow, this is a busy thread! I found out yesterday that I did test positive for c-diff.They put me on more antibiotics. The staph infection is gone thank goodness but I guess all those antibiotics is why I got the c-diff, which I think was worse than having chemo. Feeling better again but it comes and goes. I started school, just 2 online classes and I am having a hard time getting into it. I am taking philosophy and psychology, both interesting but my mind just keeps wandering when I try to read. Most of the students are about 18, with just a few of us older students. With the business classes I have taken there were many more people in their 30's and 40's and beyond.
Still waiting to start radiation, but my scar that re-opened needs to heal and I need to get rid of this c-diff. I hate that it is taking so long to start rads!
Glad you are home Suze.
KS-sending prayers to your friend.
Luvring-you must be tired of treatment! That is a long time.
Hi inmate-hope you are feeling good!
Thinking of all of you!
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Glad your back home Suze.
Congrats on your last chemo Inmate.
LuvRVing, Congrats on being finished.
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Suze: so glad you're home, be comfy and regain your strength!
Inmate: Congrats on your last chemo - may it be forever!
LuvRVing: Hope you're celebrating - congrats on being done!
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Thanks everyone! Mentally celebrating, for sure. We are going to Florida in February, but the real celebration will be at the end of May when we head to Paris with our two adult girls. Now that will be a celebration!!!
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Suze- how wonderful to be back home. Rest and feel better soon!
Michelle- Congrats on finishing! What a long haul you've had!
Inmate- Woo Hoo for you! As Luah said, may it be forever!!
Bak- so sorry you are dealing with this. I hope you get to feeling better soon. I see you have been following Coolbreeze's thread about her c-diff- that crap is nothing to mess around with!
Off to a fun lunch with my 2 best friends. I am taking them to the Melting Pot here in Kansas City to thank them for everything they have done for me since dx. I have truly great friends!
Happy Frday the 13th!!
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LuvRVing,
We'll be in Paris and Rome at the end of March. This is our "do-over" trip since I was diagnosed the week we got home last year. Now that treatment is over, I have hair and we're getting closer I'm starting to get very excited.
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Heather - there are quite a few of us who are going to Paris this year. I think we should start a thread so we can share planning and our experiences. Would you be interested in that?
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Absolutely! One of my bosses asked what it was about Paris that we all loved so much that we would go back. I really couldn't answer except to say, there wasn't anything we just didn't absolutely love.
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I have Norton antivirus on my computer. Every now and then it sends a little message to me on screen. "Scan complete. No threats detected." Ha!!!
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Nothing as exciting as Paris for me. But I am off "home" to England in March to see everyone.
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Wow ladies Paris sounds like a wonderful place to go to celebrate!
I too have good news: My scan came back clean as a whistle! After 20+ months of treatment I find myself at a bit of a loss what to do now. I guess that will be the fun part, answering the question:
What do I want to do when I grow up?
Thanks so much for all of your support. I am humbled by the strength and compassion you all have show in the face of your own challenge. Much love to you all!
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Congrats Inmate!!!!
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Gilly, England sounds just as exciting as Paris to me.
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Inmate - Congrats!!! I'm so happy for you!!!
I also hope to go to Paris this year. I've never been there, and its on the top of my wish list. I didn't have the money or energy to make the trip last year, when I finished treatment (also wanted to have some hair....lol) So this is my year to make it happen!
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LuvRVing - sorry, I didn't see your post earlier. Congrats to you on finishing treatment!!!!0
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Congrats to Luv and Inmate, for finishing your treatments and wonderful news, Inmate, about your scans.
Susan: I am glad you are home now and hope you feel stronger each day. I have heard Disney cruises are wonderful, hope you can go and have a great time.
Paris sounds fun. I think we all deserve to go!
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Congrats to all the ones with good news, finishing treatments. Have fun in Paris! I sure would love to go.
Also want to say a big thank you for all the prayers for my friend, but sad to say she passed this morning. I hate f'ng cancer!!!
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ks: I am so sorry about your friend. No other words - just that you're in my thoughts.
Inmate: Doing the happy dance for you - fantastic news!! (And who said Friday the 13th was unlucky?)
Talking about trips, dh and I had to postpone our big post-BC trip to the Galapagos Islands last year due to his surgery. And now we are set to go at the end of March, can't wait.
Have a great weekend, ladies.
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Inmate - woohoo, big congrats to you, too!!! As Gilly said, scan complete; no threats detected!!!
Ks - so very sorry, so sudden, so sad. Peace to you and her family.
Luah - Galapagos Islands, I've seen that "expedition" in the National Geographic travel magazine that shows up in my mailbox once or twice a year. What a dream trip!
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Inmate- Happy for the clear scan and happy you are done with chemo! Go celebrate!!!
LuvRVing- Happy for you too. I couldn't wait to be finished with rads. Hated that part......
KS- My deepest sympathy to you and your friend's family. So sad......
Susan- So glad you are back home with your gang. Hope you are feeling better. Hugs.
Have a great weekend everyone. Here in Quebec, we had a lot of snow these past 2 days. Will go play in the snow with my boy.
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ks--soooo sooo sorry about your friend. Cancer sux!
Inmate--I danced a jig when I saw your post
luvriving--horray for being done
Jealous of you Paris bound ladies. My husband and I celebrated our 25th last year and had booked an all inclusive to a 5* resort in Riviera maya Mexico. Instead of margaritas in the sand I was recuperating from my BMX. We rebooked for April this year so can't wait to go! Bon Voyage to all of us.
Maggie
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KS=so sorry to hear about your friend.
inmate-that is great news! I am sure you are ready to be done with treatment. I have been feeling like I am in unprotected land since finishing chemo and waiting for radiation, but my bs says-remember you had complete response and then surgery. It does make me feel better and I am going with that! I am also trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up! Even though I am struggling with school right now, I still enjoy it and it takes my mind off of other things.
mccrimmon-how fun! I would love to go to Paris, just need to get over the airplane anxiety!
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Hey mccrimmon, I'm an hour NW of Philadelphia in Berks County.
I'm a rural gal so there's no actual town to cite. Like Heidi, I live in horse country, although I don't have one or ride - but I walk my giant dog by my neighbors' horses almost everyday.
Nice to be back and I'm so glad to see so many familiar names here. Sorry there are so many new members (who wants to have bc!) but I'm happy to get to know you guys.
I celebrated my 1 year from dx back on Nov. 30th and had my 1st post-tx mammo around that time. Funny story: I had the mammo and they sent me to a waiting room. I was there a long time, as in other patients were coming and going and I was still there. This made me nervous, of course. Then, unlike the others who were talked to/dismissed right in the waiting room, I was called into a hallway to talk to the radiologist.
She was talking but my ears stopped working, and she must've known this could happen with a bc patient, because she handed me a paper that said "benign, normal" and then it finally registered. I stared at her and promptly burst into happy tears and hugged her. She was not expecting that! LOL
So, I'm feeling good and even have days when I don't think about it too much. I hope everyone who just finished tx gets to feeling good too, and celebrates in some way. You've earned cake AND ice cream.
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I wish this site had a Like button. It would be so much easier to express my feelings.
Heidi (still hugely sore from taking a huge face plant when my foot caught while trying to keep my crazy Boston Terriers from chasing an unsuspectiong cat in the back yard).
Cat was OK... not so much me.
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Maggie, DH and I went to Rivera Maya for our honeymoon, love it but it was HOT!!
BAK - I have alot of anxiety when it comes to flying buy my hubby has the traveling bug so I just pop a prescribed pill and go. I think you deserve a vacation.
Michelle, before we moved to florida we lived in Bucks county so we weren't too far from you.
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Welcome home Suze...good thing!
and Inmate..woo hoo on your clean scan...let me know what you decide about growing up...maybe I will go with you..or maybe not..
You ladies are making me jealous with your travels to Paris, Rome, England....I'm stuck in Ohio...gah..
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Hi ladies!
Been off this board for a few weeks - glad to see many of you are doing well and getting CLEAN SCANS!! How awesome!
I completed my 5th TC treatment yesterday and all went smoothly. I think I had a reaction to the steroids this morning as I wound up rather flush on my chest and face but it subsided (even after taking the oral steriods today) so not too worried. My last treatment not only gave me phlebitis but a lovely burn mark on my arm - it's finally almost gone but boy was I feeling like a heroin addict for awhile. Really was ugly.
Still a bit nervous about surgery but I've been told by countless folks that that's the easy part - chemo is worse. My chemo experience hasn't been anywhere near as bad as I had it built up to be in my brain so we'll see.
ks - I am so extremely sorry to hear about your friend. I can imagine she fought like hell - at least now she doesn't have to fight anymore. Loads of hugs to you!!!
I am a travel nut! Haven't figured out where we are going this year, mostly because I'm not sure when treatment will officially be over (I'm thinking April/May timeframe). Last year we went to Ireland and it was a blast. Paris is amazing - would definitely go again. I'm hoping for the south of France this year, or maybe Scotland (that's where the boyfriend wants to go but I've been there already and want to see something new - time is so much more precious now, isn't it?). And I LOVE England - would move there if I could! To those of you traveling have an incredible time!
Stay strong, ladies!! We gonna get medival on this thing!
Heather
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ks - so very sorry to hear about your friend. My thoughts are with her family, and with you.0
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thanks ladies
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KS-So sorry you have to go through losing a friend to cancer. I lost my best friend six years ago to this dreaded disease (hers was a sarcoma). Still think about her every day. Take extra care of yourself during this time.
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