2010 Sisters
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mjb - So sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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Cat---im not likin your drs one bit!!!!!thats all I can tell you.When I was told those words I RAN to another Dr.I wish you all the luck in the world.I sure hope someone comes on this thread with more info then I just gave you.
MJB---sorry for your loss.I lost my dad when I was 8 yrs old.Its always a loss.
Sending up prayers for all the sistas.God bless hugggggggggs K
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Well, after getting through my surgery, radiation, and 5 1/2 months on tami with few SE's, I thought I was on my way to getting back to "normal". But no, not just yet. The tami has made my ovaries go haywire, and produce multiple, repeatedly rupturing cysts. My GYN and MO agree that the ovaries should go. So just another bump in the BC road, I guess! I see my MO in 2 weeks, and we'll discuss what happens next. I'm a little nervous, not about the surgery, but about what happens afterward. Instant menopause, maybe going from tami to something else, I don't know. I'm a little overwhelmed at this point. But after 5 weeks of constant pain from the cysts, I know I need to do something. I'm glad I have all of you to lean on, and everyone here is so wonderful, it makes this journey easier! HUGS!
Sandi
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Sandi so sorry for your ovary problem. I so understand your hesitation in instant menapause. But the pain sure is not worth it either. Keep us posted. ((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))
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Oh Sandi, breast cancer, the gift that keeps on giving. UGH!! {{{HUGS}}}
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Hi BarbaraA!
I am going to jump in here - I am a 2010 girl but have not posted here before, so hello to all.
Panmars - If you have been on Tamoxifen and your estrogen has been suppressed you may not notice much of a surgical menopause if you have the ovaries removed. I had a TAH/BSO 10 years ago for numerous uterine fibroids (I was 45) and my main issue was flashes. They recommended removing the ovaries which I did. Post-op path found a 3cm mass in the right ovary that was undiagnosed. I did do HRT but of course stopped when I was diagnosed with BC. I just started on Femara but I was pleasantly surprised that the time period between stopping HRT and starting Femara (almost a year) was not bad for flashes.
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Hi SK!! This is a fun group of ladies. Welcome.
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BarbaraA - Thanks! I felt like I needed to broaden my threads and get together with some people who are where I am chronologically!
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Welcome specialk this is a great group of ladies here.
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Welcome Special K
Hi Barb and Sherry and a big hello to my sista Joyce.....It seems like we know each other forever.
Everyone knows I tell it like it is (if they dont they do now).
2010 sistas have been together holding each other up for a long long time.YAY>>>> for us...love all of you.God bless.hugggggggs K
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Hey GD, long time!
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Hey Barb----im keepin an eye on you!!!!!!! lookin good sista.0
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Thanks, GD, but I have to stop eating. I am back up to 120 (from 106 which was too thin). 112 is good. Arggh, 8 pounds to lose.
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Barb----your face looks good....better to be a little over then a lot under like me.....I need to gain 10lbs ASAP and i cannot....keep smiling.0
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Special K - welcome to the group. There is lots of support, encouragement and love around here that everyone shares with whoever is in need.
GD - gald you are posting again. Love you girl.
Got news from DD yesterday and Micah is gaining weight now and the Drs do not know why he was not before or what started him gaining now. Anyway, DD and CS are both doing great. Thanks to all for the prayers.
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Hi ladies - thank you for the welcome! I was fortunate to have lunch with BarbaraA recently - I really enjoyed it! There is no such thing as too much support - so I am glad to be a newbie to this nice bunch of people!
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Congrats Amyjo-----nice to hear baby is doing well.....and its always nice to see your smiling face.2010 sistas are the best of the best...love all of you.huggggs K
BTW Joyce im not takin any meds either.....not gonna worry about it either....if it comes back ill go to war too.until then im gonna enjoy life taking one day at a time.....
We are strong,tough and professional fighters....bc betta stay away from all of us.
God bless.xoxoxo
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welcome special K:) it is a great group:)
CAT- you gotta find docs y ou trust and who respect you- simple fact- the last thing we need in all this stress is to be MORE stressed by the very folks who are supposed to be helping us.
I have been in a bit of flux- having to gain weight back after being so proud of losing weight in order to have fat grafting on my boobs....went to PS for checkup yesterday in which he delayed FG surgery to allow more fat on me (YIKES-what a crazy alice in wonderland thing this is) and then he discovers a huge umbelical hernia and the fact that my tummy muscles are completely split apart (which isn ot unusual after two pregnancies) but mine are really far apart...it explains a lot of which I just had been living with and chalking up as my weird body...so, here I am at nearly 55 (magic double nickel day september 18) and having decided before BC against cosmetic surgery (beyond perhaps a few shots of joy juice in the face if needed) but no boob job, no liposuction, no tummy work, and never a tattoo I find myself with new boobs and nipples-lipo in order to do fat grafts, eventually to be tattooed after all work is done...and after the hernia and muscles repaired a tummy tuck to finish it all out - I mean what planet is this?Part of me is thrilled, part of me feels like a shallow empty head for being a bit excited about it, part of me is scared to death that my choices for foregoing the AIs for my supplements will bite me in the butt...it is all just so swirly sometimes....but today I have just decided to say what the hell- DANCE:)
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annettek - I am right behind you on the double-nickel, Oct. 9th is mine! And, yes, all of this is Alice in Wonderland stuff - one pill makes you larger.... I would be a little excited about the body work too, I will do FG as well but I def do not have to gain any weight to do it! As a matter of fact, if you need to borrow some I am here for you!
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Amyjo glad the baby is doing well.
Annette I am in the same boat as you. I need to gain weight so I can have my BMX with DEIP reconstruction. I am not a good canidate for implants and I don't have enough belly fat. If my Dr's had just given me all the info in the begining I had plenty of belly fat then. But thought I would get in shape and loose weight and now I need to gain weight. I have been eating like crap which I hate but have managed to gain 4 lbs. But DH thought I was too skinny and says I look perfect now. I probably need to gain another 15 lbs but we will see what the PS says as I go along. It is not coming on fast. Maybe the holidays will change that. I also think the tamox keeps me from gaining weight. But I am like you I think if I am going to go through all this crap I am glad I am coming out of it looking good plastic surgery and all. I would have never considered it before BC.
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Sherry - I would be glad to donate my fat, I have enough. Do you have a date for surgery yet?
Dear all thanks for the kind words. Now with both parents gone I have felt kinda of like a orphan. I have had a lot of wonderful people praying for me and feel like I am finally healing. I had my last PS appointment this week and he drained the last bit of seroma fluid I had since my surgery in June to remove the TE. Now the real living begins.
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mjbmiller - it is true - doesn't matter how old one is, when both parents are gone you feel like an orphan. At the very least you feel like a grownup. Both my parents and my only sibling have all gone in the last 10 years, and it is hard. Sending you some love from another orphan!
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SpecialK-so agree .....I read everyday hardly ever post. Lost my Dad 2001, lost Mom July 10,2011. After watching over Mom for 10 years I had no idea how losing her would affect me. Only difference is I still have a brother with special needs. I will make Mama proud now watching over him.....Dear God let me survuve BC to do so!!!!
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dianemoe - I am so sorry for your recent loss, so difficult, my heart goes out to you. I hope you are able to care for your brother for many, many years. You absolutely will make your Mama proud! I lost my brother unexpectedly in '08 from bile duct cancer, two years after my Mom, seven years after my Dad. He only had 60 days from diagnosis to death. He and I spent so many years taking care of our parents we didn't have the oppportunity to spend time together as adult siblings, our children grown, without that focus on our ill parents. I feel cheated that he was taken so suddenly. In a way I am glad that none of them are left to see me with BC, it would break their hearts - even though I know they are watching over me.
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mjbmiller-I have a ways to go with gaining weight. so my plan right now is to have it next march. That gives me plenty of time to gain the weight and my boss is pretty much gone from mid january to mid march and I don't want to put him in a bind as he as been so good with me so far. So I hope mid to late march. That way I will be able to get my revisions done all in the same calender year for insurance which will help the pocket book.
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Welcome Special K, Glad to have you join this group of wonderful ladies.
I've been on hiatus - tying not to think about BC 24/7 so stayed off computer, read some books, worked in the yard ... did what needed to be done at work. Oh, and had a wonderful time with DD when she came for a 2 wk vacation with DGC. But, I've missed everyone so here I am back on the boards again!
I think that all the Dr app't that started to pile up got to me.... the MRI and mamo, etc.etc. I just needed to play hookie and chill for a while.
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welcome back Samsue---i love to play hookey..i taught all my friends!!!!!!!
I too am an orphan and i need to gain 10 lbs.
any suggestions???
love you all hugggggggggggs K
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samsue - thanks for the welcome! Sounds like you had a nice break!
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Samsue welcome back and sounds like you had fun with your family. Your right sometimes we need a break
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Granny, gaining isn't a problem with me. I gained 3 over a 4 week period... ugh. I love ice cream and was starting to have it every day - before bed and also started to drink coffee again. I hadn't had coffee for over a year since it's something that upsets my stomach but, with company and the use of flavored creamers... I was hooked! I'm now trying to wean myself off the coffee/creamers by taking the two huge bottles into work.
Let them gain the weight I don't want. 0
