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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited August 2014

    Because I had a double mast I say "I have nothing left to give!"

  • fujiimama
    fujiimama Member Posts: 236
    edited September 2014


    hello everyone,

    thought I would check in. I've been on this treatment plan for almost exactly two years. I'm going strong. I've been ned most of this time. I have a few spots starting in the lungs so I have added aromasin to the mix. Perjeta can still rock my stomach. But as time has gone on it's gotten better. I try to find meds that have the opposite effect. Lomotil and I are good friends. Just thought I'd let you know that long term is possible.

  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,909
    edited September 2014

    Hooray for NED, fujiimama!

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
    edited September 2014

    screen shot from Warm & Fuzzy thread. It's a hoot!

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  • WinningSoFar
    WinningSoFar Member Posts: 126
    edited September 2014

    You know you have cancer when everyone tells you that your head is perfectly round and you say 'thank you'. 

  • georgiarai
    georgiarai Member Posts: 60
    edited September 2014

    Ha - so true, alexgram.  I'd never given a thought to the shape of my head before cancer!

    YKYACP when you set parameters of when you will worry and when you won't.  My "goal posts" are:  (1) If something isn't any better after 2 weeks; (2) If I start falling down randomly; and (3) If I start speaking Portuguese (because...have you seen the movie Phenomenon?!) 

    Hope you're all having a nice September!

    ~Rachel

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 439
    edited September 2014

    YKYACP when after an ultra sound liver biopsy, you tell the Drs and nurses you actually enjoyed it!...compared to the failed attempt by CT last week.

    Sheila.

  • auroaya
    auroaya Member Posts: 784
    edited September 2014

    YKYACP when after going through any scans (in this case CT) you play "phone tag" with the doctor's office to try to schedule an appt. to review the results.

    Aurora

  • fujiimama
    fujiimama Member Posts: 236
    edited September 2014


    ykwyacpw- Your kids are learning their letters and numbers from elevators in the various Dr. building

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited September 2014

    SadAh Fujimama. Sure isn't what you would choose as a learning environment is it? Glad you ARE there for your kids though, and obviously such bright observant children too. Smile

  • thisisme
    thisisme Member Posts: 45
    edited October 2014

    when you have a conversation about the improved style and colour of the radiology gowns.

    when you tell the IV nurse what gauge needle you need for the CT contrast

    when you arrive with and share powdered Kool-Aid with the other CT patients trying to drink all that yucky contrast

    when you remove your own IV after the CT scan because you have to rush to your next appointment and the technologist is busy.

    Happy 

  • barsco1963
    barsco1963 Member Posts: 879
    edited October 2014

    thisisme - I think I would probably be late for the next appt. I can't imagine taking the iv out of my own arm.

  • Ladyhoo
    Ladyhoo Member Posts: 3
    edited October 2014

    I love this thread so much!! I was thinking you ladies this morning while getting fitted for a new mastectomy bra: YKYACPW your lingerie store is in a hospital.

  • georgiarai
    georgiarai Member Posts: 60
    edited October 2014

    YKYABCPW you hear someone else has breast cancer and ask "what kind?" 

    Recently someone asked me what kind of cancer I had, and I looked at her funny because it's not a question most people know to ask.  She then clarified, saying "I mean... breast cancer? Lung cancer?"  Aha...then it made sense. 

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited October 2014

    I love this thread too. I can't remember who wrote it , but I loved the line YNYACPW  "You unbutton your shirt, as you sit in the Dentist's chair!"

  • belleeast
    belleeast Member Posts: 96
    edited October 2014

    Ariom,that would be me Lol Thankful I realized why they were looking at me weird before I got to the last few buttons!!!

  • WinningSoFar
    WinningSoFar Member Posts: 126
    edited October 2014

    YNYACPW you're proud of your 1/8 inch of hair. 

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited October 2014

    YKYACP (or were) when you sit down at a table with all women (in SoCal) and the subject turns to having nipples done, and of course by Vinnie

  • fujiimama
    fujiimama Member Posts: 236
    edited October 2014


    ykyacp- when your nurse tells you that there's this guy in so-cal that does amazing nipples and that they tried to recruit him. You smile and say "oh Vinny". She looked dumbfounded.

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited October 2014

    Oh Belleeast, I have shared that line around at the dinner table and with the girls at my BC group! It always gets a great response! lol

  • julz4
    julz4 Member Posts: 1,373
    edited November 2014

    This happen to a friend...... Ykyacp.....When your driving down the Highway singing to "90's" music & Everyone you pass is giving you strange looks because the wind is whipping over your smooth bald head!

    Then this friend's friend came back with one better! She was driving down the Highway when a guy in the lane beside her started flirting with her! It went on for a bit, his continued flirting! So she reached up & took her wig off & layed it on the seat beside her! The look on the Flirters Face .........Priceless!

  • nativemainer
    nativemainer Member Posts: 7,909
    edited November 2014

    LOL!!!


  • fujiimama
    fujiimama Member Posts: 236
    edited November 2014


    julz4 fantastic. Love it.

  • AlexaP
    AlexaP Member Posts: 90
    edited November 2014

    YKYACP when you start talking to your plastic surgeon about foobs and fipples and you both burst out laughing

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
    edited November 2014

    LOL

  • georgiarai
    georgiarai Member Posts: 60
    edited November 2014

    YKYACPW occasionally, on your way to work, you have that random moment of panic and have to look down to reassure yourself that, no, you didn't forget to put your boobs on today. 

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited November 2014

    GeorgiaRai, I have to "cop a quick feel" as I leave the house, to make sure I am wearing mine. You'd think when I only have one to remember, I'd never have a problem! lol

  • georgiarai
    georgiarai Member Posts: 60
    edited November 2014

    LOL, Ariom! I'm constantly copping a feel throughout the day, just to make sure they haven't wandered into unchartered territory.

  • AlexaP
    AlexaP Member Posts: 90
    edited November 2014

    Mine almost fell out once when I was working in the yard with someone I had hired to help me... Ykyacp when you tell your husband "my foob almost fell outta my shirt right in front of the gardener today"!

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 4,027
    edited November 2014

    I know what you mean GeoriaRay, and Alexa, when I first had my Umx, I was running up and down the foreshore where my Husband was sailing, trying to get photos, when I felt something under my chin, you guessed it, the puffy had worked its way up and out. I never wore anything, that wasn't in a pocket again!