The Hermit Club
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thanks all my hermies!
I am doing fine, and ready. Jazzy, LMFAO!!!!!!
My kittaehs wish you all a warm, cozy day. Nothing better than a good friend to hang with!
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Bippy- glad you are feeling good and ready to move to the surgery on Wed.
Your kitties are cute little book ends. Cats are awesome company, dogs too I think!
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Those kittys are cute!
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Hi Ladies.........dropping by to say Hello........thouht you might enjoy this......this is a picture of a 26 year survivor of BC.....she had a mx in 1988, very large tumor....early 50's..........Rads, chemo, Tamox, then on to Arimidex....recurrence 13 years later.......another mx.....no further treatment other then Arimidex......here she is now looking good and feeling great.....an inspiritation to everyone........she has the white hair.......she is 78, I am 79......oh and no SE's from Arimidex.........phew lucky lady 5 years, but is continuing on it..........meI stopped Letrozole 2 months ago......might begin Arimidex, still deciiding....
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Ducky, amazing women both of you! Thank you for sharing, it is a much needed boost
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Ducky- great photo. You survivors rock, and what a great thing to post for those going through active treatment. Bippy, Mags, Maiden and others need all the encouragement we can give them. Others post treatment need it too.
Thank you for sharing. Made me feel good to see this!
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Got some great news concerning my upcoming expander surgery. The surgical center called and confirmed that it will be done on an outpatient basis!0 -
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Bippy - physically it was not as bad as I anticipated........and with humane staff can be manageable emotionally I think, sadly the staff I had were the before team on the training video - "how to create a stressed patient"
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Mommy- that is good news. My sister had hers on an outpatient basis. Always good to be able to go home to recover as quickly as possible. What date is your surgery?
Onco- funny, I saw that same graph on Linked In today and think it is just perfect. Although mine are more like "our project manager quit, we are behind schedule, the infrastructure group is getting outsourced, are you interested?" I seem to be the clean up woman now for this one client. Few mo weeks to go. Pushing through my final deadline on one project this week.
They call it the Pineapple Express because it originates in the south pacific near Hawaii where it picks up moisture with the tropical lows and then brings it up to the west coast and then here. Our storm was very brief on Saturday, left some pretty snow in the mountains here. Another storm is coming this week though.
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Yay mommy
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Bippy, your kitties are so cute! Roachie reminds me of a kitty I had as a little girl, she was a torty too, named Connie Louise. She was such a good mother, she would take anybody's abandoned kittens and raise them as her own. We lived on a farm with lots of cats, horses, dogs, cows, donkeys, chickens, and a couple of mules. Good luck Wed, I'll be thinking of you!
Mommy, good news on the outpatient surgery. I'll be having the same thing in a month or two. I sure hope the foobs feel more natural than the TE' s. I feel like I have 2 concrete blocks my chest. LOL!
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Surgery is Jan. 29th. Looking forward to being home that night and cuddling with my furbabies.0 -
Yaaay for outpatient surgery! Happy for ya mommy.
Maiden, roachie has the "tortitude" going. Your connie loiuse sounds like a beauty, inside and out. I always wanted to live on a farm! Roachie sleeps with us at night and is a great friend.
I am cooking like a maniac today enjoying my last day before BMX. I will be making cake of course because you always need to have one handy right? And I don't want to eat loads of processed food after surgery so I'm happy to have some of my favorites ready to go. DH has many gifts, but cooking is not one of them.
I think I'm disassociated because I'm not nervous and don't care at all about tomorrow. Rather I care, but I'm not freaked out or nervous or losing sleep. I'm good though and feel fine. Weird!!!!! My propensity for drama is receding I guess. Oh well...... I will post ya after surgery sistahs. Have a wonderful day and thanks all for the boosts!
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Bippy- I was always terribly nervous before my surgeries in the past, and then the day before, I seem to just let it all go and just blessed my medical team, doctors, OR folks and prayed for the best outcome to my situation.
Wishing you a successful procedure tomorrow and quick recovery!
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Beautiful Teka, your back yard?
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Just Hot Mocha for me
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I would like to see that. Not really, I hope You are
doing well and ready for the holiday.
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May You find Your present in the heart of the ones
You love.
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Good luck with surgery..........
Great joke Jazzy........
I think I am losing it big time...........am moving out of my home as cannot take the stress anymore, yet am super stressed about moving as its all very sudden and the place I am going to is colder, no garden and nowhere near as comfortable as my own home...........and thinking why am I doing this as it will bring new stresses............but I don´t feel safe here as the neighbour stuff triggers my PTSD and he loves to drill and make a lot of grating noises..
I think I might be having an old fashioned breakdown...............I really feel like that..........waiting on results of further blood test for my liver too but I think they will not be good..............some days I think I am just waiting to die, and wishing it would be soon, isn´t tht awful. I am so disappointed with myself and how I have coped, or rather not coped....with all this.........
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Hermits- waking up to snow this morning. Not much on the ground but expected to get a few inches here today. The forcasted rain but when I left work last night, it had the raw cold in the air that felt like snow. And here it is.....
Teka- I really love hot drinks with booze in them. My favorite is coffee with some Bailey's Irish creme.
Footprints- I love what you shared above, finding your present in the hearts of ones you love. I hope you are doing okay, and know this time of the year is not an easy one for you.
Lili- I am sorry you are feeling so stressed, and having to move. Your comments do suggest a deep depression that is just so common with any serious illness. I talk to many women on these threads who have suffered deep depression, PTSD, etc. post treatment. The fact you are trying, caring,and wanting to feel better means you ARE trying to cope and find your way through this.
If moving gives you some peace and quiet, it may be one step that you are doing to create a better environment for yourself. I think all of us are a lot less tolerant of the junk that goes on around us in the world. I almost said something I should not have to my client yesterday, but caught myself. Fortunately, I am not on site there today.
Hugs sister and find yourself some counseling or other type of help to get through this. We are here for you too.
Thinking of our Bippy today too, who is having her surgery.
How is our Mags doing?
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For the cat lovers, something to brighten your day.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/best-cat-pictu...
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Just relaxing now that I got the chores of the day out of my way!
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Mags is still waiting for word from RO. Tonight is DH's team's Christmas party, for the second year being held at an upscale bowling "lounge", really a restaurant with bowling lanes, everyone had a great time last year. I will wear my wig but not guaranteeing I will keep it on all night. Hot flashes have been awful lately. As cold as it is, I could probably just step outside though. It's 38° now but overcast and feels biting cold. I don't know what the weather is supposed to do today. Anyway, I'll dab a bit of makeup on – I have about half a dozen eyebrow and lash hairs left. Kinda peach fuzzy on top but still lots of bald spots. What's growing back though? That's right, whiskers. Shoot.
I've been following, but have had nothing to say... Hey, I'm a hermit, after all.
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Mags- good to hear from you and hope you hear from the RO soon.
I am glad that you are going to try to go to the party tonight. My hot flashes have been worse lately. I dress in layers these days.
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Lily.....don't normally comment, but at 75 I moved from a house I was renting (beautiful) from my son when he suddenly decided to sell it......I had only been there 5 years after moving from a house I owned, just was not crazy about the location....very nice, but a lonley area.....
Moved from there to my son's gorgeous rental property in a lovely neighborhood, and right behind his huge home....so when he said "I'm selling, you have to relocate I was floored.................I was 75, and a widow for 19 years.....thought.....OMG.....I can't do this.........
Well I vowed I would never rent again even though my son offered to "rehab a home for me again, just the way I wanted it"..........I said "no thanks, I iwll buy my own".......I did, and another son gutted the entire house, and I boght it..........Could not get a mortgage so had get a HELOC on my "shore propety".........
The home I live in now.....is brand new from top to bottom, heat, plumbing, walls, floors, roof, entire walls taken down to make it a "straight through home"........1 floor living.......with a gourmet kitchen, and walk in shower.....alll marble......
I have been here 4 years last week.......love it....have my own home back..........and I did get through it......many nights waiting I cried myself to sleep, but finally put my Big Girl Panties on and dealt with it............what other choice did I have.......my home is gorgous thanks to another son, who took the ball ran with it and scored a big TD.
2 months after moving in I was hit with BC.......but I survived both........you can do this......not fun at 75, but you do what you have to do......hugs..........
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Mags,
that reminds me of last year during the summer when hubby and I went to my 20 year class reunion. It was freakin' hot that week and I initially wore my wig. Took the dang thing off halfway through the night as it was so hot. Not one of my classmates that were there cared I was bald, because they knew what I was going through.
Hope that you have a good time tonight.
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I have never had a hot flash......................I get all the other SE's from my AI........like bone and muscle aches and pains, neuropathy in he feet......thinning hair.....dizzy.....off balance.........trigger fingers........and in addition Lymphedema..........all the fun things............no one believes me when I say I don't get hot flashes.
I laugh and say "wouldnt know one if it came up and introduced itself"....gues that's a good thing........my problem is always being cold......LO
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