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Karen (((hugs))). This is a very worrying time for you, and my thoughts are with you. Do not despair!!! Don't throw in the towel neither!!! do you hear me??? Yes, I have 3 different brain mets and one in the meningies - well over a year now and I am still going strong. (I think out of all the other mets, such as the liver and the lungs, the brain mets are the worst, and I have them everywhere). Wait until the MRI results and then see what type of treatment will be available for you... and there will be treatment after that. There are many women in the Brain Mets thread who have been around for ages, so, I hope that this may give you encouragement. Yes, this cancer sucks and then all the twists and turns that also gets thrown at us makes us even more anxious, and it isnt fair, but it makes us stronger. When you find out, get in touch with the Brain mets thread and the girls there will be there for support and encouragement. Let us know how you get on, and I am keeping my fingers crossed for you, sister. We are all feeling for you right now. Hurry up, Monday. xxx
Hugs
Mandy xxx
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Kazzie, don't forget that you can get another opinion or two about diagnosis and treatment options. Thinking of you.
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Karen ((((hugs))))) try not to panic
Trish
xoxox
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Hi all
Karen I'll be thinking of you.
What a crap start to the year, my sister's best friend has only got months to live with cancer, Mum's sick in hospital and then there's Karen freaking out about her cancer, not a good year so far and it's only the 2 Jan.
Mum's still having tests done, she's very yellow and her potassium is low. She will be in hospital for a while as she needs to eat properly before they let her out. There doing tests for cancer on her as well.
Mum's in Royal Perth Hospital, that's one hospital I've never had treatment in.
Carol
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Karen, i know it will be hard on you, but try to be calm, easier said than done huh. yea, just know we love you and holding your hand. big cyber hugs, xxx
Carol, i am sorry your mum so unwell, she probably wont feel like eating much if she is jaundiced like that, probably feels quite sick, i hope they do something real soon for her, big hugs. i know with somebody else that had liver and jaundiced, put a stent that blocks the bile off from somewhere and she got lot better for a long time. and began to eat and the yellow look went, they may do something like that, depends on her problem and what comes in the tests. big hugs and take care. also carol take of you too ok,
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So sorry to be just about me....but I am reading your posts, just struggling to put anything in words.
Racy....I have had second opinions before but I will wait & see what the MRI brings before I go down that track. Everywhere I go though I get told I'm lucky to have one of the best oncs in town!!
Yes, I'm scared but keep hoping maybe it's all due to a skull met pressing on my brain.....grasping at straws maybe but hey, you never know
I said the onc 'my grandson is due in 10 weeks, you still think I'm gonna make it' & after some silence he said 'we will do our best'!!!!
I know oncs think & prepare for the worst so I'm hanging on to that at this point....a long weekend ahead!
Thanks girls for all your messages of love & support......love you all
(((Hugs)))
Karen xxx
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Karen, have you in my thoughts, of cause you wil be here to see him born and after. xxx
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Its all just surreal Karen isn't it, when you have pain but still living life as normal and yet are given the impression that your life could be in jeopardy. I just can't get my head around it at all, i think it would have to be one of the most hideous diseases for this reason.
I went into this shitty disease blind really, as i suppose most of us do to the fact you could be feeling ok and then told "well no your not actually". I had the doctor come and see me this morning and told me i had a huge clot in my lung and i could easily have died if i didn't see the lung specialist for a follow up appointment on Monday and be admitted to hospital.
I can cope with dealing with the illness, i mean i have no choice, but i cant cope with the thought of when i will be told that i have limited time left if i haven't come to that realisation myself.
So sorry girls, thinking this would be more appropriate in stage 4 section than here, guess i have too much time on my hands.
big hugs Karen and i know how much we hate being told to think positive,but really what else do we have, i feel its all that keeps me going.xxx
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{{{{Karen}}}}
{{{{{Australia}}}}}
regards Jenn
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Australia, there are a few stage IV girls here and I'm sure the other girls are okay with what we say........if not, again I'm sure they would tell us. Dealing with the disease itself is a real challenge at times but when you throw in all the other added goodies? well it just can become a living nightmare.........hopefully you can get that lung sorted soon. Good luck with the specialist on Monday.
Karen, grasping at straws is what we do and eventually we gather enough to hold us up for a bit longer. Keeping everything crossed that the MRI gives good news on Monday.
I will be glad after Tuesday when I see my docs and hopefully find out if this lump in my neck is BC related. I'm sure it is as it is the same place that I had a lump when I was first dx'd stage IV but with treatment it disappeared......well it's back bigger and better (not) and my neck has been causing me no end of pain for a few months now. I guess or I hope the doc will order a CT to find out a bit more......sigh!.....it all seems to be going pear shaped and the year has just begun.
Take care all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Karen, my heart aches for you..... please, let us know of your MRI results as we are all sitting on the edge of our seats holding your hand (((hugs))).
Chrissy, I remember you complaining of that lump in your neck back in November... I hope it is nothing sinister (((hugs))). I will be thinking of you on Tuesday and keeping everything crossed.
((Australia)), this thread is for us Aussies, and Kiwis regardless of what stage. I hope that things will start looking up from now on. xxx
Hugs
Mandy xxx
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Happy New Year everyone. Thought I would say hello to you all. I'm a newbie here, but unfortunately not new to BC, I'm stage IV. Well wouldnt you know it, now my minds gone blank and cant think of a thing to say, and thats a first! LOL
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Hi Rak and welcome to the thread. There are a few stage IV girls here and the rest of the girls are great! Being stuck for words is not new to any of us so just jump in as the mood grabs you.
Where in this big country of ours are you from? and how is your treatment going? Ok, I will forget the twenty questions......lol.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hi Chrissy, and thanks for the lovely welcome. I'm in rural NSW, but we have lived in most states at one time or the other. The only downside is having to travel for treatment, but its so great to come home afterwards.
hugs
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prayers for Kazzie and Chrissy xxxx...
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Rakovina, welcome!
(((a big group hug for all)))
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Rak, I live in country SA so know all about having to travel for treatment.......it's a bit of a pain but as you say, getting home after is a real nice feeling.
Thanks Racy for the prayers and Tammy for the group hug.......it's great.
Love n hugs all. Chrissy
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Thank you girls, didn't mean for it to be about me, I just was so concerned for Karen. So sorry Chrissy you are dealing with the uncertainty of a lump, why on earth haven't you had a CT yet? Is it because of being isolated? I don't know how you do it, I think you are so brave and so supportive of everyone else when you yourself have something far more serious to worry about. Sending you a big hug,because "you need it".
Rak, welcome to the forum, you will get heaps of information and wonderful support from so many beautiful souls.
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Feeling
sad. Christmas had brought the hope of a new little one in our family
but that is not to be. Son and his wife struggling to come to terms with
this. For me it brings back memories and I am thrown into grief over
the babies I lost because at the time I did not have time to grieve.0 -
I am sorry to hear about you feeling sad, Alyson, that would be sad start to the new year for you and your son and daughter in law, BIG HUGS TO YOU> XXOOXX take care/
Chrissy,i hope they find out about that lump soon, yes you are brave, you are there for everybody and you need help with your health but we here for you and always will be. love and a lota of hugs for you X X OO X
Rak, welcome, you will get alot of good advce and lots of support on here. I am from across the taman, Alyson is as well, but we come over here and all just share, there is a nz board as well, should you want to have a chat to the kiwi girls. we all are connected because of what we go thru. or going thru. big hugs to you. xx
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A Big group hug for everybody.
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A Big group hug for all , xxxooo
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Thanks girls.
Australia I see my doc on Tuesday so things will move very fast then. I have been watching it to make sure it hasn't shrunk which would mean other things not BC or grown = BC. I think it has grown slightly but I could be wrong.......I know I will be happier once I know exactly what it is.........I am not freaking out as I fully expect this disease to creep and pop up all over the place but I hate not knowing for sure........I'm a little perverse at times.......lol.
Oh Aly, ((((((hugs)))))))). What a shame, it is so hard when you lose a babe........been there, done that so know exactly what you, your son and DIL are feeling. As hard as it is I used to say to myself that it was natures way of making sure that all would be well with the babe.
Another lazy day for me.........it's so nice to have the house to myself through the day.....I now have time to go through all my crochet patterns and work out what I can do for my next project.
Have a good weekend.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Alyson, sorry to read your news.
Annette, great pic!
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lol DH in all his wisdom out at farm decided to leave car door open while he worked. but bad luck struck as he also left a pkt of chocolate chip farm bake cookies and when he got back to car to have one and a drink, there was an animal sittiing in front seat, A sheep. loL and guess what it had eaten. his fav cookies lol, it was sitting over the pasenger seat and the hand break and the packet was MT lol, i don't think DH is very impressed, he came home and went to get dog roll. from store. and more cookies. i found it quite humerous. the windows dont wind down well in that car and it gets very hot.. bloody sheep. lol. i said as long as it didnt shit on my seat. lol, he would laugh then, i bet ya.
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Lol Annette! I can just see that sheep sitting in the passenger seat of the car munching on hubby's cookies!....Oh my! I have tears of laughter running down my face! You always bring a smile to my face with your farm stories.......thanks for that!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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lol, all i could really say to his plight apart from, worrying if she had deposited on my seat, is BUGGA. lol, i have just told him, Chrissy is splitting her sides, laughing about the sheep sitting in the seat flogging your cookies, he said, i only brought the packet this morning and had about two. well the car door is shut now while he 's out it, it was the real pet one, very quiet. she is called Dolly. he said, i will start calling her lamb chops. now lol.
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Annette, you told that so well its very easy to visualise Dolly having "high tea" in the car. LOL
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Annette, many years ago my hubby decided we needed some sheep to keep the grass down on our 2.5 hectare property so he rang a stock market proprietor and inquired. As luck would have it there was a lot of fifteen sheep that were in the stock yard for sale......the short is, they decided on a price and he set off in our seatless Mitsubishi L300 van to collect them. When he got there the bloke looked at hubby like he was nuts!.......fancy going to put fifteen sheep in a van! Hubby was so pleased with himself that they all fit in the van and set off home........there was no baaing going on but all of a sudden there seemed to be this unholy smell rising from the back of the van. One of the sheep had made it to a position that she was riding with her head resting on hubby's shoulder as he was driving and he got many a funny look and almost caused a few accidents as he drove down the freeway with a van full of sheep and one hanging over his shoulder!
He did arrive home safe but the condition of the van was another thing all together! After hosing, scrubbing and hosing again the smell actually took years to dissipate and I refused to ever ride in that thing again.
Do you get the idea that hubby is not a farmer? I agree, he's not and never will be but at that time he thought he was and knew everything. I'm sure that the fellow at the stock yards dined out or drank on that story of the bloke from the city with the L300 for many years.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Annette...I too am having good laugh visualising the sheep with the choc chip cookies.....I' m sure he enjoyed them .....lol. I do enjoy your funny stories
Chrissy...good luck to you on Tuesday....as you say, what a start to 2014....between you, me & Gail, I think some good luck must be coming our way.....everything crossed!!
Rakovina....welcome to this site of amazing women!You will get so much knowledge, love & support here, it may become your lifeline. Sorry you need to be here though xx
I'm feeling a bit better today, just want the MRI over n done with & will then know what I'm dealing with. I'm a bit stoned from all the dugs so that could be helping.....lol.
Thinking about a girls weekend with my sister & preggy daughter (I can't leave them!!!) & maybe a couple of my old girlfriends that you all know I catch up with regularly could join us, fingers crossed. Would have to be soon as incubater is 30 weeks now
Happy new year to all (not sure if I've said that yet!!!!)
(((Hugs)))
Karen xxxx
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