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Survivors who have used only alternative treatments

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  • PattyS
    PattyS Member Posts: 194
    edited June 2011

    Blue....Unfortunately, I'm sure you are correct.  Sad.....

  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 263
    edited June 2011

    Well, I was very happy with all the talk in this thread about having sex in swimming pools and then a picture of Karl Rove popped up on my screen and spoiled it all.

    I was just reacting to being characterized as loving chemo and thinking all doctors are saints, which isn't true for anyone here, certainly not me.  

  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 263
    edited June 2011

    BTW, Luan has taken an integrative approach and combined conventional and alternative practices, so I'm not getting the bright lines everyone is drawing here.

  • sweetbean
    sweetbean Member Posts: 433
    edited June 2011

    Three statements - one is true, two are false.  Guess which one is true.

    1. I love chemo so much I want to make out with it.

    2. I am petitioning the Vatican to have my entire oncology team canonized.

    3. I've had sex in a pool.  With a 23 year old.

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 1,422
    edited June 2011

    Sunflowers - you said

    "I agree with you, I think we need a place where women who CHOOSE to have chemotherapy, and also use natural supplements can go for advice too.  I've suggested a Forum called Integrative Approach - that is one that uses ALL available options."

    Well this forum is called "Alternate, Complementary and Holistic" and we have every right to post here. I have previously posted the definition of Complementary here and that wasn't welcome.

    With regards to this actual thread - it was about a woman with HER2+ve bc - a lot of people who have questioned chemo etc and who have posted on here are NOT HER2+ve and do NOT know how serious that diagnosis is. So they should be the ones to back off, as others like Lago and I do have HER2+ve bc and we DO know how serious that is.

    BTW Luan - you say your report button has gone - well that seems to be a new feature that takes away this right from people who have been abusing the report button.

    Sue

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 302
    edited June 2011

    Number 3!

  • PattyS
    PattyS Member Posts: 194
    edited June 2011

    #3 is true!

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited June 2011
    Bluedahlia Is that your final answer? Do you need a life line?
  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited June 2011

    Number 3.

  • sweetbean
    sweetbean Member Posts: 433
    edited June 2011

    Hahaha!!!  You are all right!  Bluedahlia wins for being first!  

    He was 23, a Heath Ledger look-alike, and it was a hot summer in Virginia.

    I HAVE NO REGRETS!  WAHOO!   Wink

  • PattyS
    PattyS Member Posts: 194
    edited June 2011

    Wow! Heath Ledger look-alike! Definitely, no regrets!

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited June 2011
    Sex in a pool...never any regrets. Cool
  • LtotheK
    LtotheK Member Posts: 487
    edited June 2011

    Right on, Britchick, as usual.  In the meantime, I'll be looking for a topic where we can actually talk aout evidence-based research we can take to our doctors for discussion.

  • elmcity69
    elmcity69 Member Posts: 320
    edited June 2011

    sweetbean, your post was the best.ever.

    heath ledger at 23...wow. we all need some of that!

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 1,422
    edited June 2011

    Looks like the trigger fingers are busy again!!!

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited June 2011

    Yay for Sweetbean!

    Sheesh .. I just had a post reported on this forum.  I was hoping all the reporters had gone away or stopped.  Guess I was wrong.

    SusieQ .. we were writing at the same time .. did you have one reported too?

    Bren

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 1,422
    edited June 2011

    Sweetbean - hello from another triple positive lobular - we are VERY special.

    Sue

  • PattyS
    PattyS Member Posts: 194
    edited June 2011

    I had one reported, too! But I kind of knew that it was going to happen when I decided to post it. 

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited June 2011

    Patty .. I hope it's the same people who keep reporting so the mods can see for themselves that there are a group who are 'report happy.'

    Bren

  • PattyS
    PattyS Member Posts: 194
    edited June 2011

    I think the Mods are on to them already, since some have been revoked of their right to report. Makes perfect sense for that to happen.

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 1,422
    edited June 2011

    I just noticed a few posts had been removed. I can't see my home email from work anyway.

    Sue

  • Lynn18
    Lynn18 Member Posts: 284
    edited June 2011

    sweetbean:  Way to turn a thread around!  So if he was 23, were you a cougar? ha

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited June 2011

    OMGosh .. there are four or five post deleted by the community on the previous page.  And it's not even a Friday.

    Bren

  • sweetbean
    sweetbean Member Posts: 433
    edited June 2011

    Hahaha!  You ladies are so funny!  That was a seriously fun summer.  *sigh*

    Hey there, susieq - you know, I hadn't stopped to think how rare that is, but you are right.  I also had IDC, but most of my tumor was ILC, which is how it got so dang big.  And the Her2 was discovered after surgery (I had neoadjuvant, so I just started the Herceptin. Piece of cake, though!)

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 1,422
    edited June 2011

    Sweetbean - it is VERY rare - you won't find many of us on here. I think I found out it was 0.1% of bc patients.

  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 1,422
    edited June 2011

    Have you been banned again Blue - WTF??????

  • sweetbean
    sweetbean Member Posts: 433
    edited June 2011

    Lynn18, I was 31, so kinda!  He pursued me for six weeks and I just kept saying, "Oh, C'mon...he's 23!) Finally, my friends met him and looked at me and said, "HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?"  (That's a quote!)  So I went for it.  Fun, fun, fun!  And we are still friends!  

     And yes, I like to use humor to diffuse a situation.  It's hard to argue when everyone is laughing and thinking about hot 23 year-olds!   Smile

  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 842
    edited June 2011

    Well sonovagun .. just had another one reported.  What the heck is going on here.

    Bren

  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 57
    edited June 2011

    A drive by fruiting

    Mrs Doubtfire

  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 100
    edited June 2011

    Reporting sucks. 

    Sweetbeans' posts, in contrast, ROCK.

    L