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Willsie, keeping my fingers crossed that all is good and nothing nasty shows up. Hoping that what is upsetting your GI is something easily fixed. Hang in there girl, we're in your pocket!!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Wilsie, strong hopes from me that you get a positive outcome from having the scans.
Mac, I've had at least 3 basal cell cancers. They're very slow growing and not to be feared like our enemy, bc.
Chrissy, your daughter is gorgeous. Did she inherit that body from her mom? Keep us updated on her competitions.
After 3 1/2 months away from home, dh and I returned to south Louisiana yesterday afternoon. And, yes, it's still humid! With any luck, we'll have cooler, less humid weather in a couple of weeks. It's nice to be home but there's an awful lot of work to be done. The camper and the house need to be cleaned, the yard needs attention and there's lots of laundry.
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carole, I have had one basal cell on my right cheek under my eye in 2006. That one was my first and I let it go too long. It was a mohs surgery and was deep. Since then I have been on a schedule with my derm. He is seeing me now every 6 months. So I have had lots of small spots frozen and scraped. They had me put cream all over my face at one point like a chemical peel. But this popped up since the last time I saw him and he wants to excise it so he gets clear margins.
I hope you're settling back in. Getting thru the laundry?
wilsie, we'll be with you virtually. I hope they get to the bottom of your GI issues. keep us informed, please.
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Wilsie, hoping for good results on your scans tomorrow and nothing to worry about.
Kathy
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Lol Carole on the DD inheriting her body from her mom........she is a really good mix of DH and I but the muscle is all her! She has worked long and hard for that body and so deserves all the recognition she earns from it. That's two comps down and now it is the Nationals for both Associations, the INBA and the ANB. The first one is INBA in Brisbane next weekend and I will be attending that one and the following weekend is the ANB in Sydney.
Nancy I have had MOHs surgery on my face five times and nurmerous burns and scrapes. I have such fair skin and as a child insisted on trying to tam like all my friends.......alas, I just went red, was very sore and then peeled back to beautiful white again.....lol. The only thing I got from all that tanning was a heap of skin damage that turned up as basal cell cancers. By the time I was eighteen I learned that being pale was good and started staying out of direct sunlight and still do as much as possible and if I have no choice? then out comes the sunscreen, hat, sunnies and to top it of, an umbrella.......yep, I think I'm shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted but I still get told I have beautiful skin and I guess all of that is paying off........lol.
Carole I hope you get that laundry tamed and in the closets as well as the rest of the work done after the holiday.
I'm heading out the back to start work on the bookcase that needs to be sanded and repainted. Can't wait for it to be done but it won't get done if I stay on the computer.......lol.
Have a great day all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissy, I was also fair-skinned (white blonde hair as a child) and slathered on Copper Tone with oil and roasted in the sun to get a tan when I was in my early 20's. Now I'm paying the price, my dermatologist tells me. Every morning during the sunny weather I put sunscreen on my face.
Good luck to your daughter in her competitions.
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I was a sunburn kid too and a lifeguard before sunscreen. Lots of stuff to burn or cut out.
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Back from scans. New mets to liver and spine No more Faslodex, back to the real thing, taxol. Goodby hair . I am so disappointed. I hate to tell my sons, one who is dealing with PET scan on Friday, himself
I can do this again. I just sure didn't want to . Wilsie
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Wilsie, I'm so sorry to hear you have new mets. I just finished my Taxol 4 weeks ago. It wasnt too bad, I sure hope it works well for you. You can do this!
Kathy, I'm so happy that your DGS is doing better! I will keep praying for a full recovery.
Chrissy, your DD looks fantastic! I can't imagine how much work goes into getting a body like hers! I'm way too lazy. Lol glad to hear she did so well in her competition.
I'm so far behind on here, I will have to go back and read to catch up. I'm feeling better everyday. My brain fog is clearing a bit and my energy level has gone up. My neuropathy is still my biggest issue. It has spread to the entire bottoms of my feet. I'm still hoping it will eventually clear up. I've had 3 rads now. Hoping that my SE's are minimal as I progress with them. Anyone have any good hair growing tips? Lol I seem to have male pattern baldness. 😜
Wishing you all well, hugs, lilyrose
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Oh Wilsie, I'm so sorry to hear that you have had new progressions! Bugger!!! (Aussie expression) What a bummer you have to go to the chemo store again but I sure hope it works for you. We're here for you to hold your hand and gee you on.
Lilyrose so glad to hear that your energy level has risen and you are feeling better day by day. Here's hoping that neuropathy clears some what for you. Yay! Three rads down!! I know you will be looking forward to the end of all the treatment and getting your normal life back......well as normal as possible.
Thanks for the nice things you girls have said about DD.......I really am so proud of her. Yes Lilyrose it has taken a heck of a lot of hard work on her part to get and maintain her body but the thing is, she actually loves it!!! Not my cup of tea really as I couldn't actually find the determination to do that but good for her to have that drive.
Have a great day all! Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Good news today for me...from my liver doctor..stable..that is the magic word..
so I bought myself a new Samsung Tablet 10.1 Note..with the little pen like my phone..
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Wilsie, I was so hoping that you wouldn't get bad news. I hate bc. Good luck with the treatment.
I can hear my clothes dryer as it tumbles the LAST load of clothes. It and the washing machine have been going most of the day.
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Thanks Wren for suggesting I might find support and friendship here. After the warm welcome on the Older than 60 ...year tread, I will pop in here. I am looking for people in our age range to share the ups and down of this disease.
Wilsie2, sorry to hear of your progression. I remained stable for 8 months on Faslodex and even though the shots were a " real pain in the but", it was easier than the month on Afinitor. I am now on Xeloda and after three months, all but one liver tumor has resolved as well as lymph nodes and bone mets. I will happily ( well that might be an exaggeration) tolerate the side effects of fatigue and Hand and Foot syndrome if it keeps working.
Hope you all don't mind another older voice chiming in.
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Wilsie, I hated to hear the news about your scan, and hope telling the children was easier than you thought. Hope your treatment starts as soon as possible and can kick this cancer to the curb in a hurry. We'll be here for you in the mean time.
Welcome, Crone. We're glad to have you and hope you'll chime in often.
Lisa, great news! Now enjoy that new tablet!!
Carole, I'm grateful to have a washer and dryer, but laundry is still one of my most hated things to do. It's the folding and hanging that get to me and it's so easy to keep pushing that "tumble/press" button! As bad as unloading the dishwasher. I'd have never made it as a pioneer, would I?
Lilyrose, it's good to see you again. Hope the neuropathy improves; even a little bit would help.
Sunshine today! So nice to see!
Kathy
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I need all the help and support I can get! Thank you all, today seems much better than yesterday, it's just hard to grasp that you have to go thru chemo again This will be my third time, and yes, I will do what it takes to get the beast back in its cage. I tolerated Abraxane well, and I understand Taxol is pretty much the same.
Well, tomorrow is my retirement day, and I don't feel much like celebrating. I am happy to get a new port Thursday, it took the lab three tries to get my blood yesterday .
So, Pollyanna as usual, I delivered the news to sons in a manner that did not freak them out, as the first time did. I find myself believing my own optimism and positive energy, which is my way of coping
Wilsie
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Wilsie we all have our mechinsms for coping with this disease and I think I'd rather the optimistic, happy out look than have one the other end of the scale. Telling the family is always hard so I'm glad for you that you have gotten that bit out of the way.
Hanging with you as you move ahead. Oh! And thank goodness for ports!! That have saved many an arm.
Hi Crone!! Welcome! Happy to give support to those who want and need it. Hope you enjoy hanging with this little group.
Carole, glad to hear that the laundry is almost done! I find that the worst part of getting home from any trip! To me it feels like an anti climax somehow and really strips the fun of being away. Talking of laundry I'd best get mine done soon as I need to pack some of the knickers!
Lisa, yay on the good report from your Liver doc!!! You definitely deserve the new tablet!! Let us know what it's like as I would dearly like to get rid of this iPad and I really do like the Samsung products!
Have a great day all! Love n hugs. Chrissy
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already liking this Chrissy.Easy to set up.
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Wilsie, liver mets sure messes with our heads, doesn't it?
I like the optimism and positive thinking you've chosen. I try to do the same thing. Positive thinking won't kill a single cancer cell but it makes an immense difference in the quality of your life.
In a class I once took with a very well-respected rabbi, he said, "You can't choose the circumstances. You can choose how your react to the circumstances".
The choice is mine, to laugh or to cry. Most of the time I choose to laugh.
Leah
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Hi all.
Sitting waiting to go home from Australia.
Just sending hugs to all.
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Aly, We'll look forward to hearing about your trip when you're home and rested.
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Aly, you New Zealanders and Australians are lucky to be able to visit back and forth without the long plane flights we Americans have to make. Except for those expensive flights and the long duration of them, I would love to go back to both countries. Of course, it works both ways. You have to make longs flights to come to Can. and the U.S. Isn't it fascinating to think about gravity keeping us from falling off the great ball of Earth!!! LOL!
It's very humid and uncomfortably warm outside today but we're supposed to have a front come through that will bring some relief, at least temporarily. I'm ready for fall weather! Even though I dislike having to blow the leaves off the porch and patio and carport for several months until the trees finish shedding the leaves.
Every season has its drawbacks as well as advantages.
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98 degrees here
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New port installed today that sure will make things easier New one is much smaller than my last one, and can be used for the contrast on scans . This is a blessing to me, as my veins are always a challenge for the poor nurse who has to stick me.
Another improvement I found, the prep liquid you drink for ct scans no longer tastes like yucky lemon stuff, it tastes like water .
Trying hard to find good news in my latest ordeal. I am grateful. Looking forward to my first taxol treatment on Monday. At least I feel like I'm doing something!
I hope everyone is feeling well for today and nobody has new bad news! Love you guys and all your support. Don't know what I would do without breastcancer.org
Wilsie
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Wilsie, yes if we look for the positive, things look brighter. we'll be with you for this next segment of your journey.
I had my procedure on tuesday. The doc thinks he got it all and he thinks it is basal cell, if there are any surprises we will deal with them next week.
One great thing about going off island so much recently is that I traded in my old subaru outback (2008) and got a new one. We picked it up on Tuesday and I got to sleep in it the whole way home. Very comfy, and a whole lot less noise while driving on the highway.
Another good thing, I took my hearing aids in for repair. They were under warranty. The co. sent back new ones! I can hear again!!!! I was working on my DD's last nerve in that department!
Today I get to go back to the dentist. I am sooo looking forward to getting some Novacaine!!! I have been having pain in my mouth for a week. No, it's not where he put the two crowns in two weeks ago it is the right side both top and bottom. My DD made me a nice soft english muffin with peanut butter and melted chocolate on it to soothe me. When I bit down a nut from the crunchy peanut butter got stuck between the top and bottom molars and I don't know what happened but I can't wait to get it fixed.
It has been grey and rainy here for days. I finally turned the heat on for the first time this morning. Then I needed to move my herbs and some other plants inside. The season is achanging!!!
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It was rainy here this morning but now the rain has stopped and it's overcast. My golf game was rained out so I've been updating the checkbook register with all the transactions that I scheduled online, dating back to June. Next I need to go through the printed monthly statements and see how close my balance is to the bank's balance. Yawn... I had free internet at the campground in MN this summer but it wasn't secure so I didn't dare access our bank account online.
Hope everyone is doing as well as possible on this Friday.
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It is supposed to hit 100 degrees today here..
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Wilsie you know we all have your back here! Glad to hear that the new port is in..........it's so good that it's smaller and can be used for contrast as well.........sounds like something I should get as they always have a devil of a job trying to find a vein on me for the contrast.
The last CT I had they just asked me to drink a litre of water over an hour prior to getting the CT, I was so glad as I hated that horrible drink.
Well I'm in Brisbane with my beautiful bodybuilding DD and just about to go down to breakfast. I was so tired last night that I fell asleep at 5.00pm and woke this morning at 6.30am! Guess why I'm starving.....lol.....yep I fell asleep before dinner and didn't wake! Guess all the travel and late nights prior did that......lol.
DD is ready to go so so must I. Have a great day all! Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hey girls: I've been "lurking" from time to time; but the photos have brought me out!!!
I'm having a bit of a "go" with it lately.. in/out of the hospital. having some "episodes" going back in next week or so, unless I have one beefore..
I lose conciousness, and fall, or what I call "swoon" the last one was a dozy, and got me in the ER.. Mur was right there, and i just "face planted' haha
The nuero thinks it's seizures, but they're going to hok me up to machines, and try to invoje on, while monitoring my brain, heart, etc.. Oh joy! can't wait..~It's not bad enough, but they have to "invoke " one to see if it's MS ( brain ) stroke different part of the brain, or heart, blood sugar..
What fun! In the meantime, I just got my living room in order in the midst of it, and then Mur emptied the storage container, in the middle of the room I've been asking for it to be emptied for 2 years, so I'm happy, but he waited till everything looked good..spent the weekend sorting.. here i go again!
Weather is wonderful, but hot! they say tomorrow it will give us a break, hope to get the car waxed by my son..
garden is lively, I have to post the sky vine again.. twice ther size it was! I've been using "super thrive" and it not only is making the plants grow faster, bigger, but bloom more! What a joy the gardening is for meThinking of you all, especially you, Mac!.
Most people would kill to be on the Island in the summer ( i know I would) but Islanders want to get away from the ( invasion) I know!
Hugz, 3jays
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Yay!! 3jays is in da house!!!!! So good to see you pop in but not happy to hear about the 'episodes' you have been having. I sure hope that docs can find the cause so it can be sorted...........those face plants must be terrifying for both you and Mur and you are lucky not to have broken something.
Lol, just like a man to mess up what you have just cleaned up.........I'll bet you will be glad to get that box sorted. Your garden sounds gorgeous! I'll have to try to get some of that super thrive and see if it gives my garden a kick in the pants!......lol.
Do take care and let us know how you get on with the doc.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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So good to see you 3jays!
Today was Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement. It's a day of fasting, prayer, and repentance. I'm not allowed to fast completely - I have to drink, though I'm OK with not eating. Most of the day is spent in the synagogue, though i wasn't able to do that today. I had to go home for a long time to lie down and rest. It's the end of my 2 weeks on of Xeloda so the most difficult time of the cycle. I was able to go back for the last service. Most of it is said standing, but I wasn't able to do that. I was just too weak from the tx, and the hand-foot syndrome made my feet feet burn if I stood for too long. It was another reminder of how much has changed with this disease. I used to stand for the entire last service (about 1 1/2 - 2 hours) and didn't find it difficult.
May we all have a good year.
Leah
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