Single life after a mastectomy
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Enerva- wishing you better days my friend. Hugs sister. We are listening......
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hi, all good news
so she said that the bleeding and the pain was due to a cyst which was in my left ovarie but its resolved now at least thats what she thinks due to no more bleeding
as soon as i can i will post here my results for you ladies to see it. also good news regarding the pelvic screening no cancer cells found yahooo that was a bit scarry. Now the cyst in my wrist is actually smaller now so i am very glad, all the test went ok and she does not plan to see me any more unless there is an issue and i call her office to see her. )0 -
Enerva- oh thank god, so glad to hear this. I had one of those too that they found when I was having the fibroid problems. That explains everything and it sounds like there are no pelvic issues. That should make your day go better now.
My floors are done but the painter is not coming until tomorrow so I have put a few things back but will do more after she finished the touch ups. I am tired today so I am going to rest....
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Enerva .THANK GOd your reports are fine .its very sad and scary wen i feel any pain my mind always tells me i hope its not cancer again .i laugh inside when i hear others making plans for summer n next winter.so much uncertinity around me.i am so happy for you Enerva
Jazzy .BB.have a nice day
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ok on the train I scaped work on time even though my manager started asking me about issues other people are handling right at 10 to 4 pm he knows I leave at 4 so always finds something to bother me with. I found the info sent to him then left.
I am having runny nose again. It seems I never get 100% well, I need the spring to start, the results game me a relief but when I got to my desk I felt very light headed. Have you guys felt like that? It's very estrange feeling. I am so paranoid these days.
I need to learn to let go of the worry.
Hope you guys had a great day.
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Just popping in to say HI.
Wishing everyone a good week.
I am glad the reports were good E. Wish I had words or advice, I think You are doing quite well and need to know just that.
Jazzy, the finishing of your home improvements have to feel so rewarding and complete.
Milky glad you were able to get away before hitting the school grind again.
BB, wishing you continued wellness and positive moves forward.
Junie and life.....hugs going your way.
welcome to the new folks....I would write user names, however, I would lose my post going back to look them up. My apologies.
I have been working extra to fund my trip to the Jazz Festival. My cousin left me a message saying she wanted to switch weekends and the change in airfare (we already purchased) would be @ $200 to change flights. I am kinda of let down at her changing her mind. I'll see what she has to say tonight when we talk. If the trip is less days then I might be up for totally changing our dates.
Anyhow....hi ho hi ho it is off to work I go for the next couple of days.
Snuggling with my bambinos .....
XOOXOXXOXOXOXOXOXO
Piper
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E - glad to hear the good news....
jazzy - can't wait for your photos of the renovation...
piper - hi (((hugs)))....oh i just hate ppl change the plans at the last minute. i hope things will work out...
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Hi ladies- went out to happy hour tonight with a friend/colleague who worked on the big project with me that ended last summer. Jon and became good friends over the past few years and will miss seeing him around here, but know he will stay in touch. Not a romantic interest, just a great friend and business relationship. We went to a brewery and I had the best nachoes ever! But it was snowing like crazy when we left and was glad to get going as we may get a bunch of the white stuff tonight.
Piper- good to hear from you and sorry about the change of plans. I hope it works out for you to go still. I was going to go to CA in May to the Newport Jazz Festival where my sister lives. They are always badgering me to come visit, and said I wanted to come around an event. But they ended making plans to go back east in early June, so that and a few other things around the festival made it no longer desirable for anyone to do. I did not have my heart set on it, but know you will be very disappointed if you cannot go to NO so fingers crossed girlfriend.
Enerva- I think Piper is right, you are doing a-okay and no doubt the winter is hard on you. I have had a lot of respiratory junk this season and that has me feeling tired sometimes, but not lightheaded. The only time that happens if I don't eat regularly and the blood sugar crashes. That could be what is happening to you too, eat small snacks during the day to keep your sugar steady. Your report says normal, normal, normal!
I will post some pictures maybe by tomorrow. Got lots of work to do.
Oh and I have been getting some cool new work opps coming my way. One came today that could be the right work at the right time. I hope to hear more on that soon! I will be ready to get back in the saddle again and making money.
BB, Life, June, and everyone else here, wishing you a good evening. Stay warm!
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Good morning- I saw this on FB today and had to share it with you. A woman in Scotland who is 109 attributes here long life to avoiding men! Interestingly enough, I had a cousin on my mothers side who never married (like myself too) and lived to be 100.
Men should come with a warning that they are hazardous to your health, at least your longevity!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/secret-to...
Have a good day ladies!
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good morning ladies
Piper thanks yes I agree, weather has been brutal today again -7 and calling for snow on Saturday which may affect my open house, o well we shall see. I am on the train took some sinus pills last night n it helped me to sleep. I have the rhinitis again, ll stop to buy more tissues for my desk.
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lol jaz I wrote the post n never submit till now lol that about men it's funny. I agree
Well I think I am crazy but I decided to drive 3 hours on Saturday morning I ll leave at 5 am to go to sarnia,Ontario.
I ll show up at the lady s door. I need to make sure lucky Is really gone. I just have to go. There is no way my bird will just die over night and if he did I need to drive there and see it gone. It's just something in my stomach that bothering me. Plus I don't believe in souls or spirits but if there is a small possibility that they do exist then lucky ll see me there and he may as well come back with me. It ll give me closure. Yes I am nuts. But I know if there is a group of people who may understand me that is you here.lol
My open house is at 2pm I should be back by noon or 1. I ll let u guys know what happens on Saturday.
Bb how are you? Did you quit smoking? These past weeks I wanted a cigarette so bad lol but I didn't have the courage to get any.
Milky how are you?
June, hope you too are ok.
Jazz send us some pictures of the new floors.
Good night
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Hi ladies- here are some basic pics of the rooms that just got the flooring done. The one on top is what was my spare bedroom, now turning into a wellness room for yoga, mediation and other things that support me. The other room is my home office. I will send more finished looks as I complete putting the rooms back together. I started working on that today.
Enerva- I am sorry you are having sinus issues. I hope your trip out to see the woman who had the bird goes okay. It sounds like it is what you need to do. I also hope your open house goes well even if there is snow.
Going in for another apt tomorrow as part of my 6 month check up process. Will keep you posted.
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Enerva Go girl do what makes you happy .make sure dont get tires because you have open house on sat.
i have college on fridays i took 3 courses this semester.life is moving on .
Jazz.june .bb.have a nice weekend
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My mammo and ultrasound okay today😁0 -
BB- hang in there with working on quitting the smokin. It is not easy, I watched my brother try to do it for years. I know you REALLY want the surgery and are determined.
I have never smoked, but did have to learn how to undo being an emotional eater. I had to write down what I was feeling if I found myself eating when something was not going well. Stress, loss, sadness, loneliness can all be triggers for me to eat to much. Sugar was my addiction for many years, but I gave that up and am the better for it. Are there triggers for you with smoking?
Do you have a PCP? Even though my MO wanted me to have the bone density test, I had a hard time getting them to call me back about it to get the orders in. So I called my primary care doc and got it scheduled a month before I was going to see the MO's office as requested, Then they started calling me up right before the apt saying "oh you need to get it done" and said no one called me back from their office so I had my PCP order it and they were going to get a copy. This medical group got bought out in the past few months and let's suffice it to say, it is NOT transparent to the patients......
If your bone health is good, then you probably don't need to see anyone. Our bone centers here send you the report directly. I understand avoiding the doctor apts when possible. I have to go see my BS next Friday, the least favorite of my physicians.
And since I work for myself, no one really can say what hours I work. I am on a break right now as I finish the work on the house so I am free to do what I need to without observation, but when I am working, I am off site from my client locations on Friday's and try to take care of any and all apts then. The only apts I cannot get on fridays are with either my PCP or dentist as they don't work fridays. I can get all the other stuff done most fridays if I call ahead, including these BC apts.
Must get working on the re-assembly of the rooms. I will have better pics to post soon.
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hi everyone, thank you thank you thank you all for understanding about my guilt, yes I will go, I thought about it and I put a nice hat and gloves I crocheted in a nice gift box and I will bring it to the lady. Plus the toys I had bought for lucky so her other two birds can have them. I need closure if I see that he is not there only then I ll be able to let go. Also I will show them how much I do appreciate that they did love him so much that never let me near him again. I know it's going to be very hard cuz when I went there to drop him off I cry all the way back. So it will be sad, but bb u are right it's just a guilt we can never end.
Jazz wow your floors are beautiful.
Milky college must be so good. I wish I could go back to been a student.
Work has been very difficult this week.looking worse for the next, I have several meetings including a one on one with my manager. O well I ll see if I hit the jackpot tonight so I can invite u all to a nice hotel in new Orleans for some jazz and wine lol
Bb, it was not easy last week when I had 3 appointment. One to ask for the test then one for the actual ultrasound then one to get the results. But my luck is that I chosen a family doctor whos office is right at the building next to where I work so all I did was do the appointment on my lunch hour. Which since January I am taking regularly. In the past I never took lunch I was one of those loser who eat at their desk and hold their pee all day lol
Now i say, I am going to eat and I get up and go. And I dare they say anything lol
After bc, I know I can care less for their bs. I am.having a lot of pain in my upper neck and i know it's the job but I am hopping for lotto max tonight lol
Tmw I ll be in the Rd at 5 am hoping to get to sarnia by 9 am
Good night ladies
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Enerva- it sounds like it will help you to go see these people and connect over this loss. That is what we do with people when we loose family, and our pets are family too. It sounds like you are going with some nice things for them and their other birds, and know they will appreciate it. Be safe traveling.
I am sorry to hear you have some difficult work weeks coming up. Do try to find some downtime for yourself this weekend when you can.
Thank you for the compliments on the floors. I spent some time this evening putting a closet back together and am putting things in bags to donate or take to consignment in the process. My goal is to get everything into the rooms I want there, then will focus on some of the organization of other things that needs to happen.
A good friend of mine from my grad school days, who also came to help me during my bc treatment asked me today if I wanted to take a trip with her to Durango, CO. She wants to downhill ski, which I gave up awhile ago, but there are snow shoeing trips at the mountain there too. I used to go to Durango all the time when I first moved out west, but have probably not been there in 15 years now. Will see if we can work this out to go in February. I will be ready to have a little vaca after the house stuff, and before I take my next contract.
Milky- so proud of you with your studies. You go girl!
Wishing everyone a good weekend.
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Hi friends- I hope you had a good weekend. I made good progress on the house and getting things organized to take to donations, consignment, etc. this week.
Enerva- how did the open house go? Any interest in the property? I hope you were able to get some downtime too.
BB- how are you doing?
Life- how are things going with the court stuff? If you need to not discuss that, I get it too, just would like to know you are doing okay otherwise. Say hi when you can.
Milky- do your classes start this week?
June, Piper and everyone else here, hope you have a good week ahead. Be careful folks in the east, as I hear a blizzard is heading your way.
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morning ladies
Jazz open house was fun some traffic but only one couple are interested in the house and the already have a sales rep. Hopefully they will make an offer this week but it won't be mine.another couple left me their # but no email so I ll send a msg in a few days to see if it's not a fake n offer some help. They didn't really seemed interested in giving their info so I won't push them.
Other than that I am on my way to work
Have a lovely day
Ll post later tonight
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Got my Prolia shot this morning and now we wait to see if I have any reaction to it. The nurse told me if I get the "flu-like symptoms", it will show up in the next few days. I felt slightly achy awhile ago, but nothing bad, yet. Trying to lay low today and just doing stuff around the house.
Enerva- glad you got through the open house. Good practice if nothing else. I know when the spring comes and the listings go up, you are going to be very busy with the work you really love. I hope you get through this week okay, I know you said it was going to be a busy one.
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jazz hope the shot doesn't get u sick. I ll ask about it when I get older since I ask now n Dr. Told me I must wait ;( also she says till I am 50 she can't give me the other shot for shingles not sure how to spell that disease lol I am terrify of it. Mom had osteoporosis s o I worry about my bones.
Yesterday I watch a program on a channel called global n they interviewed a man who's wife had dementia and comited suicide n it was all planned so her husband didn't get in trouble or kids.she lived in Vancouver. there is a big law case in court trying to change the fact that we are no allow to have medical care to terminate our life in case of a disease which we do not want to live with. I only glance at the program but I was really moved by the folks been interviewed
Anyway what does guys think about that? The more I think of the movie still alice the more this is in my mind. Not to saying want to kill myself just saying its terrifying to thinking may get alz and I have no one to advocate on my behave.
Good night ladies
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Enerva- I am a bit achy tonight, but nothing I cannot handle. I realize this must be like what you all went through with chemo, having something put in your veins and then waiting for what comes next. Hopefully it won't get any worse than this, but I will be keeping things easy the next few days.
About physician assisted suicide, I do think it should be a right for people to choose. Here in NM, people have the right to refuse treatment if they don't want to go through it, and most end up with Hospice at the end. The key is to be able to have the conversation early enough so there are no questions about whether the person wanted it or not. Just like you do with a medical directive. Because once something happens and the person cannot tell you their wishes, it all become a mute point.
There was a big case here in the US recently that made national news about a young woman in CA who had just gotten married and was told she had an inoperable terminal brain tumor. She and her husband moved to Oregon where it is legal, and she lived out her last few months traveling, but ended her life in early Nov of last year. It has sparked the debate here in big ways. As I watched it play out, I thought to myself that if I had something like terminal cancer or early onset dementia, I would like to have the same option. Let me live out my life in a quality way while I can and then go. I see no point in suffering at the end.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/11/04/...
Interestingly enough, there is a vote here with the state legislature as to whether they should legalize this here or not? I just read this in the paper the other day and was surprised. I question whether it will be approved here as this is a very Catholic state, and I believe if I understand it correctly, suicide is a big sin in the Catholic faith. But if it gets approved, I will be changing my medical power of attorney to include some language around this scenario.
I think my father who had early onset Alsheimers would have wanted this option. He lived with it a long time, and the final six years were the absolute worst. I have never cried more in my life than watching him go through that. I have seen little change in the 33 years since he was diagnosed or in the 16 years since his passing. I just read this in AARP recently about the cost of Alsheimers financially and emotionally, and the question "why there is no war on Alsheimers?"
http://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2015/...
That is what I think.
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jazz I am just like you. I saw mom go through it. I want to create a legal document for myself. Thanks for sharing the link.
I am on my way to work standing on the full train.
I need to win the lotto soon lol
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Enerva- glad that was helpful. You can create those documents on line yourself I believe. I used an estate attorney to create my information and updated things in 2012.
I woke up with some body aches middle of the night, took some ibuprofen and went back to bed to sleep until 8 a.m. Nothing too bad so far still with the Prolia shot. I will do some things at home today and go out to do some drop offs of donations today.
Stay warm my friend, that train sounds cold!
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jazzy and Enerva i was thinking the same i want a quality life i had enough of chemo n surgeries .i dont want more thrill in my life.
I dont want to be on bed and dont want my family members counting days for me.
I think heart attack or in any type of car accident would be decent way to die.but i hate dying of cancer No way.i should write in my will that dont try hard to save me no ventillator .
I took 3 courses .i have 2 classes on friday and one online course emotionally i am feeling better after vacation
I didnt feel any joints pain wen i was on vacation it all started wen i saw toronto airport i m a big drama queen .hahaha but yes every day some kind of pain reminds me of after effects of chemo
Bosum b.
Life is w hows everybody
Good night
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Just stopping by to say "hello," and I'll try to catch up soon. I see much has been happening since I last checked in. (Milky - Nice to see you're back again.)
Right now I'm dealing with pending divorce and other things being thrown my way. A little overwhelmed, but it could be worse.
Also, I recently found out that the 16yo son in a family we know has been DX with cancer. I hate that someone so young must go through this. I also hate that there's nothing I can do to help. I hope he does well with treatment.
I'll be back soon. Hugs to all!
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Milky- good to hear that you feel better after being away. A change of perspective always comes when we step away from the stresses in our life. I am wishing you a very good semester with your classes.
Life- good to hear from you and to know the divorce proceeding are underway. I am sorry you are feeling overwhelmed, but we have your back here so keep talking to us. Sometimes we need to keep to ourselves too to process everything happening.
Sorry about your friend's son. Cancer in children to me is the worst. Not that it does not suck for all of us, but so hard on the young people. Maybe you can just call and check in to see how things are going. Being present with it is all sometimes people need.
I am doing that with a friend going through treatment right now. She is trying to work while doing chemo and more than having people come to her house when she needs to rest, a well placed call is very appreciated. We had a good chat this past sunday. I saw her after her surgery in December, I will go see her again soon, but right now, she is just trying to get used to everything. Sometimes folks just need to know we care. A phone call is usually easy for them and us too.
I have been shifting gears back to my work/biz this week (while I am still reorganizing and de-cluttering the house) and talking to more people about work. I have a phone interview for something tomorrow and another follow up to do. Friday will be my last 6 month follow up and then will feel more ready to move on to my next work.
Hope everyone is surviving the week.
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