The Hermit Club
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lily....many prayers for you.....hugs too.........
CCFW..........thanks so much.....you make me feel warm and fuzzy......hugs to you too.......
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Teka, stay safe, hope your power stays on. Nice photo of the branches though.
((((Lily)))) hope you continue to feel better each day. I am so sorry you are having such a difficult time with this.
Blondie, sounds like a great day all around!!
Cami you always say the most insightful things. You have such a kind heart.
No new snow here today, the clouds look like they are full of it though, so maybe this evening. I shoveled yesterday just the really necessary places. My neighbor's son came over and did the concrete pad in front of my garage for me later in the day. I usually do it, but didn't want to push it yesterday. The snow melts there and then refreezes and make an ice rink, can't tell you how many times I've fallen on it. Don't want any falls this winter. So I was very glad to have him do it for me.
Have a great week and Merry Christmas to all my hermies. Hugs for all!!
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gramma......stay upright.......lol......ice is the worst......and I fall walking across an empty room.....lol
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Lilly55 (((hugs))) filled with feel better and better wishes.
Storm insiders be safe and keep warm. I hope none of you lose power or lose power again. Blondie, it sounds like you and I may be the only northerners out of the snow/ice path.
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Hi hermits- been slowing down this weekend. I had a couple bouts of dizziness the past few days and discovered my BP was very high yesterday. So my body is saying SLOW DOWN and I have listened. Today it is good (122/72). I told my client the go live has taken it's toll, so now I am going to be off Tuesday afternoon through Thursday. That means I only work 2 1/2 days this week. I also have a trip to the MO this week too, as a follow up on the coming off and on the anastrozole this fall.
Oh and then I have had this sinus thing that started in early December and lingers. I felt like my nose was running so I went into the bathroom to blow my nose and good lord, blood everywhere! What I thought was post nasal drip was a bloody nose! It stopped relatively quickly, and know my sinuses are super dry. Going to go to the pool and swim and then sit in the steam room which will help.
Needless to say, I feel like a bit of a train wreck this weekend....
Lily- I am glad you are starting to feel better, but know you are still suffering. Cami is right in that you will get through this and the pain and suffering will get better with time. You are just having a terrible time with this along with other things in your life. I hope you felt the love of our yoga circle last night.
Everyone be careful with snow and ice and crazy holiday traffic. I will pop in again around Xmas day for anyone who is out here.
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jazzy......all rain here, but still crazies out there.....wish I could avoid it, but last minute food stuff....ugh.....
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Jazzy just take it slower, goes to show u u'r working to hard and not playing enuff, by playing I mean relaxing more.
Gramma stop shoveling, that's hard to do
Ducky u slow down too.
Take a page from my book titled---Do nothing, and no one can prove a thing.
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Cami.......need that book......after xmas eve.....I am done....unless I divide to do the N Years Day pork dinner........
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Ducky LOL--u;ll do it I'm sure. Sounds yummy too.
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I got the snow shoveled. Now I'm wrapping gifts. I took something for my back last night. (Wearing a10lb aspirin didn't help at all, lol) I slept well and woke up this morning feeling ok. I took some more tonight and it's helping.
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Jazzy, Ducky, and Dutch ... please take it easy ... this season's weather and holidays are soooo taxing.
Cami, I have been taking a page from your book since before I knew you ... I just didn't know you were the author ... so happy to have met you.
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Dutch peeing my pants.......I need that 10lb aspirin for my letrozole SE's I only take 325 mg at night for the heart................sure your spell check kicked in LOL, LOL
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Sally.....it's a promise right after midnight xmas eve......thanks for caring.....hugs
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I actually feel quite good right now. Should I be worried, lol?
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ducky, I've had some bad falls on ice. When I lived in the Sierras in CA I had a steep long driveway. I was out shoveling one afternoon and slipped on the ice. I landed on the handle of the shovel and proceeded to slide on it down the driveway into the road! I had the biggest bruise on my backside in the exact shape of the handle!! I couldn't sit comfortably for a long time!
Jazzy, sorry you aren't having a great weekend. I am glad to hear though that you are listening to your body and taking it easy. Good too that you get so many days off next week, rest and recoup time.
cami, I live alone so I need to shovel when it snows. I was just lucky this weekend the the neighbor's son was visiting. I love it, "Do nothing, and no one can prove a thing."
Dutch, glad your back is feeling better! LOL, don't jinx yourself!!
Just lightly snowing right now, I had expected more snow from the way the sky looked all day. But that is OK, it is still white outside and that is all I want for now.
Hugs for all my hermit friends!
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Good morning Herms---I hope u wake up with a good spirit and good common sense. I just know this is season of worry and timing and put that together and it can be brutal, oh add the weather that's another whole ball of wax. I just want everyone to have a nice week and enjoy what this week means
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I have posted the below on recon thread, please forgive me for taking a short cut and copying it here, but it will let you know where i am.....which is pretty much in the pits emotionally...
After a first graft in the summer I was feeling confident about my second one, well it has been a total nightmare. Op was two weeks ago and I did not feel right from word go....good news was I had a lovely mound shape and felt positive and hopeful, but I felt so ill and was in so much pain. One night I could not sleep at all, I had no appetite and just felt generally ill. To cut a long story short, by sheer luck (as I was too ill to know how ill I was) I ended up at Emergency last week. They admitted me with a huge infection, unknown source, I was REALLY ill, then Tues morning my chest just burst open and it started to leak 500ml of pus and ALL the recon work I have had done so far is all gone......high temp heart rate of 150 etc etc........
I was put on a running drain where they flush sterile fluid through your chest for two days to a drain outside, pain level was high as I could not even sit up........I was just trapped in pain and feeling too ill to care much. I was kept in hospital for 6 days, now have a different drain in and have to go to Doctors every day to have dressing changed, there is no real privacy there even though i always ask for the screens, staff just walk around them, and I just HATE it with a passion. I feel like the freak show with my one breast poking out between the bandages........My chest is now a lot worse than before I even started recon, itches like hell, looks like someone has poured boiling water on it and is just plain ugly. I am on antibiotis which mean I can only eat bland food as I run to the bathroom after eating anything.......and its all just a lousy Christmas!
Has this happened to anyone else?
Why did it happen in your case?
Did you get a reasonable aesthetic appearance back?
Any other info - I am so stressed about it all now and really down ...........
I am so unhappy and upset now.....I had to pay for all this surgery and am now left worse off than ever before.....I had hoped this would be a good Christmas but instead i am bursting in to tears and just feel utterly miserable
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THank you - my OH puts his arm on my shoulder and says "I know its hard"....well if anything ever qualified for under statement of the year..................if he had a visible willy and part of it was missing and he could only ever wear tight trousers so the whole world could see he had a weird willy and he had to go and expose it daily to any number of people who happen to wander in to the room where its being bandaged, then he might come close...........
Sorry a pity party, feel crap
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Lily...first my heart goes out to you......it had to be pure hell.....second......you never lost your sense of humor....you did make me laugh.....
It is so awful when things that are suppose to go right, go wrong........I know there is someone on here who can help better then I......plus who would I be to give you advice other then to say,,,,,,find out who or what caused this...
Please take care of yourself, keep us in the loop, and many prayers for you......have as good a Christmas as possible under the circumstances.....hugs
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Oh Lily, I am so sorry this has happened to you. No info here either as I opted for no recon, but I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. ((((gentle hugs))))
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Meatballs are done........Lord I remember when I could do the wash, hang it out, clean a whole house while waiting for the washer to finish, and iron what came off the line, and that was just 2 years ago, while taking care of 2 grandkids while daughter worked, plus had a heart attack in 2007 and was back on my feet 2 days later....
Cancer beat the shit out of me......like today........make gravy, sit....clean a bathroom, sit....clean the next bathroom, sit.......make homemade shrimp salad, sit........give the hovel a lick and a promise, sit.......all done 1/2 ass.......
Thanks cancer, and Letrozole for turning a spunky broad into an old warn out old lady.......
Ok, I'm done
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Miss Camille, Thank you SO very much for your touching words and heart. I missed you.
Jazzy-thank you and hugs to you!
Dwill and Lilly, I too can relate to "the darkest hours" and not wanting to be here any more. It overtakes you and it is almost impossible to ignore. HOWEVER, Dwill is right...there is light ahead. You just have to take minute by minute until it comes again. I promise it is there. I don't know why we have to go through this, but I do believe it is for a reason. Please know that we are here for you.
Thanks to all that wrote me such nice messages!
Love to you all!
Laurie
XOXOXOXO
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Baby Grant says "hello!"
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Laurie tht's u'r Grandson? --it's all happened so fast...He's beautiful.
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Lily this is horrendous for u. It has not happened to me--but over time I have heard this a couple of times, in fact infection for a friend of mine happened so many times, while one time she thought it was all working out she ended up in the hospital with exactly what u are describing and wore a vacuum for a bout 2-3 weeks to suck out the infection and ease the pain at this point she is doing OK but took a lon g time to get things right. and another woman I know didn't have a vacuum but drains and suction and pain like mad. I don't know if it has anything to do with a compromised immune system or it doesn't seem to have a true or right answer. Most women go thru this and it's not to bad, I know it's some pain involvd but not like u'r having. So altho I hd no recon, so mine was so painless there are those that had really bad experiences going thru different types of recon. I know this doesn't ease anything in u'r mind cuz when u'r in pain it's like OMG I can't do another day, but it is happening to others too. Maybe something in u'r body is rejecting this IDK, They seem like they are taking good care of u (as much as they can) This does happen for some women and when my Dr. asked about recon (of course I'm older) I just no, cuz I figured if anything could happen it would probably be me. And I knew about this stuff. That doesn't mean u'r Dr. has seen this a lot, cuz he might not have, it's a low % but it does happen. That;'s all I know and I know it's dreadful I'm sorry u'r going thru this.
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Laurie.....beautiful...aren't grandchildren wonderful...May your little baby raise you up..I have 18, and 3 great-grandaughter's, and not her coming in April.
Hugs and prayers..
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I am his first patient in 8 years to ever have this..................it is always me who gets complications.........it takes me so much to gear up for surgeries as I hate hospital and operations but I did it gracefully both times and now this...........its the daily humiliation of public exposure I hate too, no bloody sensitivity.....I can feel myself going down and OH is getting really tetchy too.........another crap Christmas thanks to crap cancer........
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Lily......not your fault....cancer is ugly.....I went through the surgery, and a Rads unscathed.....the Letrozole hads turned my QOL into pure hell.........constant aches and pains every where, everyday, and the Lymphedema is horrible.......
I get out of a chair holding on and say....."thanks cancer...the gift that keeps on giving.....
Let's keep hoping and praying.....hugs...
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Laurie, he is absolutely adorable!! Congrats!
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