Calling all TNs
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Thanks journey! I know that i have all you wonderful ladies to help me get thru these next days...I always come back to you and you all give me a since of relief!
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Moe: It sounds like the best news that it's not in your hip and it sounds like if this is nothing to worry about in your breast then hopefully the US will put your mind at ease. If not, you CAN do this and you already have. Hang in there Hun and sleep all you need and then wake up and scream too.
Bak: Welcome back, you were missed.
NavyMom: HAPPY DANCE for you.
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Moe, the waiting does suck...hang in there, you are not alone.
I would like to say thanks again to all of your happy wishes for my good news. And just so ya know. I did do some happy dancing. Dh and I have been taking ballroom dance lessons for the past five years. Last night we moved the coffee table and the throw rugs and did a little dancing in the living room. Was a nice night. And feeling very grateful.
Keeping those fighting the fight in my heart and always hanging on to hope for healing. I hate cancer with my entire being.
Trying to mentally prepare for DS deployment. He asked me to do him a favor......Keep my shit together so I can support DIL. Reasonable request but, Not sure how I will keep smiling while his plane leaves, but will give it my all. He has never been the kind that asks for much. He has no idea what a tall order this is.
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Moe, I know it's hard to wait like this but I bet if they thought it was really serious, they would have had you in for the Ultrasound by now!
I'm hanging in there with ya.
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Navymom - I love the picture you painted, of you and your husband dancing. I can just see it.
I don't even want to imagine how hard it is going to be, watching your son leave. Lean on us, we're here for you.
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F*^% ing neulasta shot today. So glad I remembered that I can only tolerate 1/2 dose, because no one else did. DH did a great job of nurse!0 -
Navymom: my heart is aching for you to have to watch your DS go off in that plane. So often we forget about the families who make sacrafices when their love ones are deployed. I could never hold it together. I would try my hardest until he was out of sight and then just tell him later I did........your family is amazing and what a brave son you have. I will be there holding your hand and I will sneak you the odd kleenex too.
I am off for our family "new years" and DH's birthday weekend tomorrow. I will mark my 1 year of diagnosis on Sunday with my favourite 3 boys (2 small and 1 big) in my life, in a bunk bed suite, surrounded by their smiling faces and amazing hugs. I will check in on Monday. Love to you all oxoxo
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NavyMom - Because your dear son doesn't ask for much you will do this for him even if you fall apart after. He must love you very much to trust you with the care of his wife, not many men can do that for one reason or another. He will go knowing that she is in your good hands and that will put his mind at ease. And he will be home again before you know it. Big hug and thinking of you. Annie
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Navymom: Give you son a huge hug from me here in Canada. Sunday is remembrance day and I am so glad it is recognised so well here. We owe them and future military so much. Thank you.
I am burnt, cranky and tired so going to bed to watch a movie... tomorrow is another day AND I have to keep focusing - only 2 nukes left. WOOOOO HOOOOOO !!
positive healing hugs, love and thoughts to you all xxxx
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Tazzy congrats on almost being done with rads. Remembrance Day is a holiday where I work. Since it falls on a Sunday this year, we get to take Monday to observe the holiday. My grandfather was a veteran.
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Hi everyone,
This is my first post here. May I join your group? I am also TN and just finished the second radiation treatment of I think 33. I am trying to figure out this site right now, and found this thread...YAY!
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Welcome loveofcritters.
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Welcome loveofcritters, we're happy to have you (although sad you had to join......you know what I mean)
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welcome loveofcritters - you'll find plenty of knowledge, support, humor and love here. Also, the list of abbreviations we use on BCO will be very helpful for you. If I knew how to post a link, I would. Maybe someone else will so it'll be easy for you to find.
navymom - I cried when I drove away that first time I left my son at college! I can't imagine watching him leave for deployment. When the day comes, wrap your arms around your DIL and cry all you want to. It'll be a moment both of you will share and she'll realize you can turn to each other in the days, weeks and months ahead.
luv and inmate - hope you're feeling good today. I think of you often and send healing vibes to you every day!
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born - I also have a cancerversary tomorrow (11/11). What a year its been... Enjoy your weekend with your loved ones.
tazzy - hang in there, you're almost done!
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Navy- I can't imagine what it's like to see your son off. One of my biggest fears is that one of my children will join the military, not that i am against the military in any way, I am just a typical Mom that wants to keep her children safe! Sending you a big hug and strength and your son prayers for a safe deployment.
Welcome Loveofcritters. No one WANTS to be here, but it is a great place to be for support and humor!
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Journey: Happy Anniversary to you too xo
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Church Bulletin Typos
These sentences actually appeared in a church bulletin or were announced in a church service. Read them and weep!
- Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at Calvary Memorial Church in Racine. Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.
- Announcement in the church bulletin for a National Prayer and Fasting conference: “The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals.”
- Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 pm in the recreation hall. Come on out and watch us kill Christ the King.
- Miss Charlene Mason sang “I will not pass this way again” giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
- Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don’t forget your husbands.
- The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.
- The sermon this morning: “Jesus Walks on the Water” The sermon tonight: “Searching for Jesus”
- Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
- Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.
- Don’t let worry kill you off – let the Church help.
- Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
- A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
- The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.
- Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be re-cycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
- For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
- Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person (s) you want to be remembered.
- Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.
- The church will host an evening of fine dining, superb entertainment, and gracious hostility.
- Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 pm – prayer and medication to follow.
- The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
- Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 pm. Please use the back door.
- The eight graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend the tragedy.
- Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double door at the side entrance.
- The associate Minister unveiled the church’s new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: “I Upped My Pledge – Up Yours”
- Our next song is “Angels We Have Heard Get High.”
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Good morning fellow TNs So many new faces here since I was on last, so sorry to see that but so glad you found this site. It really seems like yesterday I was signing up here thinking omg I dont know anything that is about to happen to me and I am closing in on that being two years ago.January of 2011, so so much has happened in that time, I had to step away from the boards for awhile and heal and deal with some hard things in my life but am happy to be back and trying to see how everyone has been doing. I am happy to report I have had my one year check up and all is good, such huge relief. Have a wonderful day
Hugs Kymn
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Hi Kymm we also now have a FB site for the ladies. Let me know if you are interested
xxxx
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Remembrance Day, often referred to as Poppy Day commemorates the sacrifice made by servicemen in times of war.
In the United Kingdom the day was first commemorated in 1919, when it was known as Armistice Day, with two minutes silence at 11am on 11th November. The day marked the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that brought World War One to an end in 1918. Its name was changed to Remembrance Day after World War Two. The day is also observed by other commonwealth countries.
In the United Kingdom two minutes silence is observed each year on the 11th November. On the second Sunday in November, Remembrance Sunday, special services are held and poppy wreaths laid at the Cenotaph in London and at war memorials in towns all over the country.
The poppy is used to symbolise to symbolise remembrance and in the United Kingdom the Royal British Legion sell poppies in the weeks prior to 11th November to raise money for servicemen and their families.
During World War One some of the most intense fighting took place in Flanders (west Belgium). Buildings, roads, fields, bushes and trees were destroyed. However, despite the devastation, poppies flowered each spring. Poppy seeds that had been buried for years were brought to the surface by the churned up mud and germinated.
John McCrae a Canadian fighting in the trenches in Flanders wrote a poem called 'In Flanders Fields'. The poem was published and the poppy was adopted as a symbol for those who had lost their lives in battle.
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae May 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies grow
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Released from hospital and on my way home!! What a long two weeks
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Welcome back Kymm!
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Good to see you Kym!
Bernie..thanks for the post about the veterans...very interesting....
Navy mom...whew! glad things are ok with your scan..and good luck to your son! I have a friend whose son is in the service and has been in a submarine for the past two months...she freaks out alot too so you will not be alone.
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Bernie - More than 40 years ago, a friend asked me to type up the bulletin for his new church. He was young, and he didn't have a secretary yet. It was his first sermon out of divinity school. I did my best, and still made an error of the caliber you wrote about. He was forgiving by the time he got home, but I'm told the congregation had quite a laugh. Too bad I don't remember what I typed, but I think you could have included it in your list. (PS, I left the country a few weeks later and never heard from him again.)
Bernie - I've always loved that poem, and would occasionally recite it in class. I taught English to foreign-born students who probably had now idea what I was talking about even with my careful explainations. I remember people selling paper poppies in front of stores when I was a child. I wonder if they still do that now.
To the new ladies - I'm adding my greetings as the others have done. Welcome/Sorry at the same time.
Navy Mom - Hanging on with you. Somehow you will make it thru this too.
Dawn, Michelle, Karen - I think of you often and send you big encouragement.
I had my drainage tube taken out yesterday. Major ouch!
Have a peaceful Sunday and find some joy. Jan
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Hello ladies - I am new to the boards and just found your page. Here is my rundown:
Diagnosed August 7, 2012 at 37 years old. We have two kids, 5 and 2 as of last week. The tumor was 2.1 cm at diagnosis, grade 3 with metaplastic cells. Two weeks later it was 2.6 cm but no sign of spreading to the lymph nodes. When we found out it was TN, I signed up for a trial that had amazing results for aggressive TN tumors. 12 weeks of Taxol, followed by 4 rounds of AC every other week and then surgery. I started Taxol at the end of August, three weeks after being diagnosed. I had two seperate biopsies of the site because of the study, 4 samples each time. The second biopsy also included two other spots that lit up on the MRI but turned out beneign. I had a lot of fibrous tissue from the biopsies and we haven't been able to feel the tumor until the past month (it is all the way against the chest wall). A week and a half ago my oncologist said that the Taxol wasn't working. I could tell that there were a lot of changes which weren't good and had an ultrasound last week which reveiled the tumor had grown to 3.25 cm and there are now two additional masses. I'm scheduled for a BMX with TE placement on the 29th of this month. I'm waiting on another PET scan hopefully this week to see if it has spread. Pretty much scared out of my mind at this point.0 -
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
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An American poet and war volunteer called Moina Michael read the poem, “In Flanders Fields”. It gave her the idea of using poppies to remember the dead but also to help the living at the same time.
Moina bought real poppies and gave them out to friends. She also sold some poppies and gave the money to surviving, needy ex-soldiers. The first official Poppy Day, organised by a charity called The Royal British Legion, was held in 1921 and continues to this day.
The Royal British Legion use money raised on Poppy Day and at other events through the year to help thousands of ex-soldiers and their families. They also organise festivals, parades and church services of Remembrance.
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Hi everyone, just dropping in to say hi. Haven't been up to posting much. Chemo has been tough...then came the hurricane! We didn't have power or heat for 13 days & were living from friend to friend, like a band of gypsys. Power & heat are back on now
. Chemo tomorrow:(Love to all!
Hope
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