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Getting ready for a busy week ahead.......I'm heading to the city on Monday as I have doc appointments on Tuesday and I hope to finally find out what the lump in my neck is. I'm guessing that I will have to have a CT and FNA.......that's good, at least I'll know.
When I get back from the city I am going to go over to my SIL as her daugther and grandsons are coming to stay (they live in Brisbane) and I want to catch up with all of them......besides, my niece has made me promise to make tripple choc gooey brownies for her and I must keep my promise!........lol.
Hoping you are all well.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hey Chrissy, sounds like a normal busy week for you. I hope your scans etc don't bring any more issues for you. Have fun with your SIL and other relatives.
I've been busy getting the shop ready to reopen. We've been moving the machines around to make more room and hopefully I'll be able to have an office down there that is separated from the work area. I'm still throwing quite a lot away. lol
We are trying to get my insurance to get me a brand name medication to help cut down on side effects. Whew! I am hanging in there.
We are digging out from a whopper of a snow storm. 2014 came in with a bang.
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Chrissy, sucks---dislike when we know something isn't right. God Bless you girl friend. Hope you are wrong. L&H&P's sheila
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Mac --duh --you are reopening the shop ? Go girl. I must have missed allot. Sorry will try to read back.
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sas, hey! Yes, a man (cobbler) has moved to the island with his wife. They always wanted to live here, she can work from home and he is going to work the shop. I will still own it and do the paperwork etc... interact with the customers. I am finding out how much less stamina I have. lol.
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Nancy what's the time frame for getting things going again in the shop?
Sas, I've been having neck issues for quite some months now but both GP and I thought it was just the arthritis.......ah no, ENT found lumps when she was doing exam for my deafness so now a month later it will be checked by my Specialist when I see him on Tuesday. My guess is CT as I said as it is the same place that was up before dx stage IV so am guessing a node that is full.......just need to find out where else it's gone to. Wouldn't be surprised if it's the lung as I have been having trouble getting my breath at unusual times and not when you'd think........and I don't have to do anything physical!....It's such a pain.....lol.......but I will be happier to know.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Mac-YAY-you sound so happy Yippee.
Chrissy, wait for the reports......we assume......... we do.........helles belles on dx of the thyroid thing I had all the docs do the preop workup without orders. Thankfully, insurances paid for it b/c I was due for all work ups LOL. Yeah, we expect the worst. Always. But you taught me to wait and be patient. That a met's wasn't the worst. That the best met's to get was bone met's.
My 5th canserversary is jan23rd. Methinks, i'll be getting several negatives within this time. Premonitions. Got my BMX on a premonition. Got last colonoscopy on a premonition and there was a pre-cancerous polyp. My docs that really like me, somehow pay attention. There's more premonitions .-
Listen babe and I will listen to you----you are right------what is---------is
L&H&P's sheila
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Okay Chrissy lets talk worstcase scenario, tumor on the seventh cranial nerve. There is sx for that. There is base of the brian sx if a tumor is lower than the nerve. I had to find it on the net.
Base of the brain sx was started in 1994. My MO had no knowledge of it, and it wasn't done except a couple of places in the state. Had I not brought it up . I'm not sure if it would have been brought up. Again MO didn't know about it. Neurosurgeon didn't offer it as an option the first time, Methinks he only brought it up the second time b/c it was MO notes......................Pisses me off we have to find our own treatments. I wonder if Apple was ever made known of it b/c she had a meningioma like mine. Pisses me off not knowing is she was ever offered it as an an option. If it was an option, she maybe didn't need to die.
Look you are the fountain of hope, but hedge it by having people search all over the world
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Sas I hear you girl and I will make sure to follow through.....you should know by now I am well read before appointments and my docs know it......lol. They don't usually mess me around because of it because they can't baffle me with bull sh*t......lol. Anyway, I'm not thinking brain as I had a CT done in September and all was clear so I'm looking neck and lower.
All will be well so don't worry.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissy I will be thinking about you on Tuesday and thinking all clear! Maybe it is just a fatty tumor, they do pop up here and there. I hate it that we have to worry, but I don't know any way around it!
I am worrying more now than I did earlier and have to cut it out! I so much want back those days of innocence that are long gone.
Hi Shiela
Love Ginger
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Forgive me, but I'm going to jump back in again! I miss too many of you.
Ginger, I, too worried more in later years than at the first. I'm now five years out, but they don't use the word remission anymore as y'all know. In fact, I see my doc every six months now instead of once a year as my ER+ cancer was slow growing and now is when it would recur. They have been following some nodes in my axilae and my neck as well. They are just under a cm so won't biopsy yet..... I'll be thinking of you Chrissy. As for you mac (I only read this page) glad to hear the shop is on track. How's laundry day now for you? Hello to everyone else, I've missed keeping up on you but just got too depressed with some of the sisters dying and restricted my threads. Good to be back...
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Ginger, I don't worry any more as I find it a waste of energy.....lol......I'd rather waste it on something a little more productive. At stage IV it can't go any further just spread out so we keep an eye on things and I live life to the fullest the best way I know how.
Yay Barbe is back!!!! Good to see you!! Hope those nodes of your stay small or disappear all together.........
Just popping my head in the door so to speak before I head off to bed........it's 1.45 am here and time for this person to be asleep!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissy....you amazing...your attitude is such an inspiration to everyone.......as I said before you always made me feel hopeful from the first time we met.
I hope and pray for some positive news on Tuesday.....your the best.....hugs
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Chrissy, Ducky said it so well I can only echo her words. My heart and prayers are with you.
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Chrissy, I hope you get good answers (and we know how I define "good") on Tuesday.
I agree with you - worrying is a waste of energy.
I got some of the answers from my PET. Onc said "nothing dramatic", no spread to organs though there is some increase in bone. He wants me to start Xeloda since he doesn't think I'll respond well to AIs. This whole thing is such a head game - I know it's still bone, I know I'm not so much worse off than I was but - it's chemo. That makes it feel so much more serious. The head knows one thing, the heart feels another.
I told my DH today that I wasn't going to live my life treating the cancer - I'm going to live my life and treat the cancer.
Leah
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Leah.....so sorry....3 not good news for me this week....lots of prayers to be said for my dear friends....will turn it all over to our church prayer line....many, many prayers then...plus mine....God Bless you, Chrissy and Mary.....
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Prayers and positive thoughts for our bc sisters undergoing tests. Here's hoping those tests relieve worries. Hugs.
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Totally agree that worrying is a waste of energy - just wish that I could make logical self order my unreasonable self around a little better. That, I think, is what makes so many of us admire those of you who can. Chrissy, I don't worry for you, I know that whatever results you get, you will deal with them and go on taking pictures, and admiring birds, and cooking food with weird names and helping out those of us who are a mess .No matter how bad your cancer may be - there is something about you that is very, very healthy - your spirit, I guess. Love to ya.
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Ziggy.....so true.....
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Lovely sentiments expressed eloquently by Ziggy.
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Agree
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Ziggy and Duckie put it all in such a lovely way. I can't do better and I think them.
Love to you all
Ginger
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Awe, thanks girls, you make me blush with your praises.
Leah why doesn't your onc think you will well to the AI's? Your signature line says you are ER/PR + so you should do very well on them.........Did you ask why his/her thoughts ran that way? Anyway, I'm very glad that it is still just in the bones for you although that can bring problems of it's own.
Ginger I do already have a few of those fatty tumors mainly under and to the back underarm on my BC side........they are a pain and really interfere with the lymph flow so my lymphedema has increased since they have been there. They are funny things as they often get itchy.........lol.
I'm sitting in my lounge with the tele on and low and behold there is a program called 'Arial America' and it's focusing on Colorado and the Rockies there so I'm half watching and listening as I type and every now and then think, I've been there! Those mountains are truly magnificent and make my heart jump when I see them featured in a program.
Hope you are all having a good weekend!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Morning all.
Saw that programme Chrissy, it was great and for us brought memories of our trip in September. We really love Colorado.
Being lazy this morning because DH is away but must move soon as I am on cat feeding duties for friends. I do have a fat ginger boy sleeping of the bed - he refused his breakfast but looked very well satisfied. I wonder where he had breakfast this morning???
DD1 wants me to go around and help her sort out her clothes as she cannot fit them into the wardrobes!!!!
Big hugs to all.
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I've been away several days due to no internet, also had no phone, and was almost certifiably insane! Time Warner Cable finally got everything going again today and with a new router we're back on line.
Chrissy, like all the others,my thoughts and prayers are with you for your scans. I'm so hoping for good results and know that whatever it is, you'll come through it on top as you have before. Please keep us posted! I know worrying does no good, but it's hard not to.
Barbe, so good to see you. I'm delighted you're back!!
Really really cold here tonight. Weather warnings all over, and already a two-hour school delay in effect. It's supposed to be 9F or lower, and we're simply not equipped to deal with such temperatures here. At least the weather is clear and we have no snow or ice!
Kathy
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Kathy, with no snow or ice, what would cause a 2-hour delay? I'm picturing people walking outside and becoming "frozen" in your, what, mid-40's temperature....hehehehehhe We were -40 yesterday....
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LOL, Barbe! But no mid-40's here in sight. We got to 7F last night. I think the delays (and they were everywhere surrounding us) were due to the fact that the school buses here are not equipped to travel in such unusual cold and the fact that most children who ride them have to stand outside and wait for the bus. We're about 25 miles from Charlotte. Oh well, my DD, who teaches, was happy about it.
Kathy
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Freezing in Philly........I mean Brrrrrrrrrrrr, cold.......one more day of this and then the temps begin to go up....upper 50's by the weekend........think I will go pull out my bathing suit......
it has been brutal here, but a lot better then Chicago when my two grandsons live......they said it is horrible there.......so cold it hurts....
Hope everyone is keeping as warm as possible........hugs.
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Sunny and seventies
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