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  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited September 2015

    GoDees.. Welcome !! I see you are from Melbourne.. I am a Queensland girl.

    Carol and Mel.. How are you both? Thinking of you (hugs)


  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited September 2015

    Hi GoDees and welcome! Oh yes, there are quite a few Aussies here. I'm from SA but don't hold that against me.......lol....... and been around these boards for quite sometime now. Feel free to ask anything and everything as we've pretty much all been there, done that.

    If you are on FB there is also a secret group for BC girls and if you are interests let me know and I'll message you the details.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

  • midnight1327
    midnight1327 Member Posts: 1,331
    edited September 2015

    Hi Girls, just calling in to say hello. not been for awhile. things are starting to work out now apart from my sister who had an op to check out her uterus etc and they found a mass of some sort on a scan and then got word to say that the specialist said their is some abnormalities and that the blood test showed her tumour markers are up to 4.8 and getting higher and they are numbers of colon cancer tumour markers, so will have to see what becomes of this. I have been reading yr posts carol am thinking of you. take care. always something aye, this dam cancer.. hello to everyone and even tho I am not on much, I think about you all heaps. XXXXXXXXXXX

  • mandymoo
    mandymoo Member Posts: 632
    edited October 2015

    hello GoDees and a warm welcome to this wonderful group. I am also from South Australia and only pop in to say hello now and again, but I love reading the posts, lol.

    I have my appointment at RAH tomorrow for a bone scan and then next Friday a CT scan for head and body to see how everything is going. Blood test also next week for Tumor markers. Then Oncologist appointment on 13th October, so my mind is wandering every now and then and also I am keeping positive with plan A, plan B, plan C etc. I am still feeling very well, except for this dreaded cold that has been hanging around for the last 5 weeks, but now that the warm weather is here, I am sure that I can shake it off.

    I hope everyone else is going well and enjoying some spring weather for a change.

    Warm hugs

    Mandy xxxxx


  • Trisha-Anne
    Trisha-Anne Member Posts: 1,661
    edited October 2015

    Welcome GoDees - this is a wonderful site, and you'll find lots of support here.

    I'm in Canberra and living and enjoying life at the moment :-)


    Trish

    xoxo

  • Tammy_M43
    Tammy_M43 Member Posts: 565
    edited October 2015

    Welcome GoDees! Lots of collective wisdom here!

    Annette, hello! I think of you too..best wishes to your sister.

    Mandy, glad you're feeling well....that's what's important

  • Tammy_M43
    Tammy_M43 Member Posts: 565
    edited October 2015

    My dragon boat club had a write up in the local magazine..


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    Unfortunately, I wasn't there that day for the pic but it was great publicity for what we do and for our plan to attend the international breast cancer paddling in Florence in 2018!

    I'm saving now 😉


  • Delvzy
    Delvzy Member Posts: 454
    edited October 2015

    fantastic Tammy

  • mandymoo
    mandymoo Member Posts: 632
    edited October 2015

    Tammy, you go girl! How exciting. It will be 2018 before you know it. I am so excited for you xxxxx


  • midnight1327
    midnight1327 Member Posts: 1,331
    edited October 2015

    Hi Girls, my mum is 82 and the other day she was given a chance to sky dive, my nephew had to pull out due ro work and it was paid for, and they rung mum and asked her probably thinking she would decline and she said, yes I would love to and she went up in that plane and dived out with her pink parachute, and she said, she did not feel once bit of fear. she is very brave at 82 lol.image

  • midnight1327
    midnight1327 Member Posts: 1,331
    edited October 2015

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  • midnight1327
    midnight1327 Member Posts: 1,331
    edited October 2015

    That was her in air field at airport ready to get into suit and then her in her glory coming down in her parachute. lol. she never ceases to amaze me. lol

  • Delvzy
    Delvzy Member Posts: 454
    edited October 2015

    wow

  • aussie12
    aussie12 Member Posts: 421
    edited October 2015

    Hi all

    Midnight she doesn't look 82, more like in her 60's. I would never do that, not even if I was paid !!!

  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited October 2015

    Wow.. Wow.. Wow ! What an amazing woman.!!

  • midnight1327
    midnight1327 Member Posts: 1,331
    edited October 2015

    yep she 82. she is always told that. she looks after self. she took her friend shopping one day and somebody said to her, yr mother needs help and she is older than her friend. . my eldest sister is 62. lol I am 54. she keeps herself young by doing things, better than me.. na she is cool doing that. I am really proud of her. gran kids calling her super gran. my eldest sister gets mad when somebody refers to mum being her sister. lol, I am just proud. thanks girls.

  • mandymoo
    mandymoo Member Posts: 632
    edited October 2015

    Wow, what a brave lady.... and yes, agreed, she looks so young and fit. xxx


  • Trisha-Anne
    Trisha-Anne Member Posts: 1,661
    edited October 2015

    Wow Annette - you have an amazing mum!


  • Tammy_M43
    Tammy_M43 Member Posts: 565
    edited October 2015

    Annette, what a lesson for us all, we should all love life and take whatever opportunities come our way! It has brought a big smile to my face

  • Trisha-Anne
    Trisha-Anne Member Posts: 1,661
    edited October 2015

    Five years today since my surgery! I think we all take different days as our "five year milestone", but I choose to believe that after my mx I was cancer free

    Smileand so now am a Five Year Survivor!

    Trish

    xoxo

  • midnight1327
    midnight1327 Member Posts: 1,331
    edited October 2015

    Well done Trish. Congrats. Xxxx

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited October 2015

    Some how or other I had removed this thread from my favorites! Damn I hate it when that happens!

    Annette your mum is awesome! I'm nowhere near her age but you still wouldn't get me jumping out of a plane!

    Trish, congrats girl on getting to that five year mark!! Now to aim for the ten!

    Still hacking our way through France and having a ball! I'm so very tired but keep plodding on as I can rest (for a while) when I get home.

    Love n hugs all! Chrissy

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 439
    edited October 2015

    Hey ladies, just an update on my current status.

    I saw my latest Onc today and was very pleased to be told that my liver stats are dropping at the moment. They have gone from 800 to 500HappyI know it's not perfect but any drop is good news when you are stage 4. For a comprehensive update see the 'how are people with liver mets doing' thread.

    Hope you are all travelling this road as well as can be.

    Sheila


  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited October 2015

    Yay Sheila!! That's great news! Here's hoping they keep dropping till they bottom out for you.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 439
    edited October 2015

    Hi Chrissy, sounds like your trip is fulfilling all your expectations for you both...I know I am enjoying your travel vicariously almost as much as you are.

    During the consult, he actually showed me all the numbers, telling me that they were all 5 times higher than what's normal. I am having that major blood test they do every so often before my next consult in 4 weeks along with a liver scan...so we will have a clearer picture of lesion shrinkage etc,. I will have all my fingers xed that day, believe me.

    Sheila.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited October 2015

    I'm glad you're enjoying my trip.......lol......I was hoping to bring a few friends with me.

    I'll be keeping everything crossed that your scan shows good lesion shrinkage but your markers are alreading showing that your treatment is working for you and that's a great thing.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

  • Tammy_M43
    Tammy_M43 Member Posts: 565
    edited October 2015

    Sheila, good news and I hope it keeps getting better

  • Sarah31
    Sarah31 Member Posts: 20
    edited October 2015

    I just found this thread for us Aussie girls and would like to join in discussions. I am from Sydney and was diagnosed in July 2014 with bone mets. I had never heard of bone mets and before surgery the biopsy showed no lymphovascular or perineural invasion, so the surgeon did no scans and I asked for a mastectomy, and am glad I did as 22/29 lymph nodes were hiding out, then I had scans which showed bone mets. But two months ago I had scans which showed that the bones had healed according to my onc. But does anyone know the reason for my 15.3 rising to 240 if my bone mets have healed. My organ scans were clear. My onc changed me from femara to tamoxifen and I see him next week, and I am scared about these tumour markers. Also I am scared of treatments running out as I knew nothing of breast cancer and thought that it was one thing I was safe from as I had all the mitigating factors.

  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 439
    edited October 2015

    Welcome to our cancer world Sarah, not one any of us have willingly joined.

    I was dxed w/ bone mets 7 yrs ago and after 2 yrs of Arimidex they all but disappeared until scans showed progression and then I was put on Aromasin. After that I was put on Femara which had a very short run until I was dxed w/ liver mets. Last year, they tried Tamoxifen again which I hadn't had since '95 when first dxed but it did nothing for them so they stopped after 3 months. I wouldn't worry yet about your options running out as you still have a few left and the longer the mets can be held at bay the more chance the researchers will come come up with a new radical treatment...something we all live in hope of happening.

    Sheila.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited October 2015

    Hi Sarah, I'm a bone mets girl as well......was dx back in 2009. I'm allergic to Tamoxifen so was put on Arimadex but has some progression after fifteen months so was changed to Femara and have been on it ever since. My scans show NED (no evidence of disease) at the moment so it can happen to stage IVers.

    Hang in there as there are loads of treatments available so don't fret on that score and, they are coming up with new ones all the time.

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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