2013 Survivors!!!
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Aimee, I know I could get out old atlas out but quick question. How far is LaCrosse (we have good friends who live 4 miles from there) as my understanding is that LaCrosse (spelling?) is just about on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. We have more friends about 2 hours from there. Also our friends told us when we last saw them that Minneaplis/St. Paul airport is about 2.5 to 3 hours from LaCrosse. Even though I know it is highly unlikely for me, it might be fun to at least look at options of flying into Min/St. Paul, visiting all our friends and driving to Iowa. Or are the distances great?
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Scottie, that interesting. I'd love to read that, is there a link you could post?
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Marian, it is about 3.5 hrs from Lacrosse to Coralville. The more the merrier if you can make it!
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Shianne....I'm useless with computers.....😜...If you want to send me a PM with your
e-mail address, I can forward it on to you....that much I can do. My whole family is
very computer savvy and they are always wanting to teach me things on the computer
but I don't have the patience and I'm happy doing my thing with my IPad....😋
Ok, I'm into the shower now and off...I'm taking my class on a field trip today so a nice
break from the classroom.
Have a great day everybody...❤0 -
www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall05/PATTbits.html
Hope this link works. For any of you knitters out there lol, I saw this and would love to do some up but my PN fingers just won't let me
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Good Morning! Thank you all again for my bday wishs! I am very blessed. My DH isn't Greek but he knows how to spoil me. I also have to be careful what I wish for, over the years I've received an abundance of goodies - and then wondered why.
Your trip plans sound like so much fun. Who is the official photographer? Someone must be appointed or with the drinking and table dancing- those of us who can't make it won't get to see a thing. Are you all wearing matching hats or T shirts? How will Mcook pick you out in a crowd?
Shianne29-if I could follow a knit pattern I'd make you some titties. I know someone on this board can make your wish come true. Is it Scottie or Scorchy? I make wonderful preemie hats if anyone gets pregnant :-)
Shari - hope you are continuing to mend and feeling brighter.
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Believe NEVER wonder why you get an abundance. It's obvious you are a warm and generous person who deserves it! It's all about karma and the threefold law. What you put out into the universe will come back to you threefold!
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Karen: nicely put about Believe... you said what I wanted to.
Here at work - its beautiful and sunny and going to reach at least 21 degrees today. Hope it lasts for the weekend.
Hugs everyone, minimal SE's, may your days be full of sunshine, love and happiness.
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Shianne.....I've been knitting since I was 5 years old....don't do much anymore .....
My family is not interested and I don't need the heat.....lol0 -
Believe.....everything Karen said.....I'm sorry you won't be able to join us this time, but
as everyone is saying, we will have more.0 -
We better have more! Wish I could b there to c u all and to support mcook!
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Karen put it beautifully!!!
Believe you are an uplifting, kind, generous and gentle person. Every good thing you receive is deserved in multiples. You are an angel!!!
As for photographer... I'm sure there will be many pictures taken. I wish everyone could be there!! You have all helped me in so many ways, I can't imagine sailing this turbulent sea without my sisters!!0 -
for those that cannot make it we can arrange to facetime or skype with you .....
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Shari.....be careful what you wish for.....we all love New York....💃
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Hi everybody....just got a PM from Ireland and she is fine!!!....She is very busy, having started three different jobs in the last three months!!!!
She is missing everyone and is going to spend Friday night TRYING to catch up and will
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hi ladies, sorry, but i am wondering where to post just questions about pathology? does anyone know? i dont want to start a whole new thread!
or maybe you know the answer... I am just wondering if EGFR and Her2 are the same thing? thanks!
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Hi Charz,
EGFR is the same as HER1. The pathology appears to be a bit complicated and I don't pretend to understand it. Wish I could be more helpful.
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@ Believe 777
Happy Happy Belated Birthday my Dear. You are a wonder and very much LOVED!
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Dam it! Now I am feeling guilty because tonight I want wine instead of running:) but all your support here has made me just bring my glass to the treadmil:) HA! Seriously freaking thought about it tonight but thank goodness my work week is over! I took tomorrow off and my best friend is coming up to stay with me and go to my last chemo appointment! (herception) so surreal that it has been a year since I started this drug as back then it seem so immpossible I would actually say I am going to kind of, sorta miss that chemo room? Just because I feel so much love and peace in there and sometimes sadness. Weird huh?
Well ladies I just got home and need to figure out my dam budget variances in the positive (which I told my CFO just raise my salary for that $500,000 then we are back in green:)) yep that went over perfectly... His words were ...Michelle, after 10 years of this fun, you should be paying us:) good thing I adore him!
I always say if you stay in the green they will leave ya alone but whoops I might have over done it:) dam
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Scottie: thanks for letting us know about Ireland.
Great idea about skpying when we are all there and those that cant make it.
mcook - I am so impressed you are on your last chemo, training for a marathon AND drinking on the treadmill.... I could never master that - hee hee ! And no not weird about missing the chemo room.... it is such a big part of our lives for such a long time. Every 3 months when I see my MO I go up to the chemo room and say hi to the nurses and volunteers !
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I too think that the chemo room was one of the easier places to have been; somehow we were all in so much the same place and nurses were so caring. I get it and I think also that it eased the lonliness of BC.
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I'll start saving for the NY trip when we get back from Iowa!!
Tazzy I love the skype idea, too!
mcook, so glad your bestie is going with you for your last treatment! We will be in your pockets of course!
marianeliz, what you said about the lonliness really struck home with me. I think maybe that's the biggest reason I'm so looking forward to this visit in Iowa. And I think it's why I've been so down post treatment. I feel like I'm not in tune with my DH and daughters, or with any of my family or friends and it is a very lonely place. I'm tearing up as I write this, but it will be so nice to be around others who get it. Great bigs hugs to all of you near and far. Nite!
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mcook - last herceptin tomorrow?!!! That is AWESOME!!! Wow... will be in your pockets (and a bit green with envy as I have to slog through that crap through October still)!
Haven't been posting much but been trying to keep up. Busy busy with life - which I think is a good thing. Feeling kind of like I'm getting back to me - and it feels good. Feeling very much like a survivor warrior these days - kind of empowering. Hope you can all find your inner warrior and have a great day tomorrow! Maybe that'll be my new motto - go find your happy and your inner warrior!
Love and hugs ladies!
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I happened across this site when I was looking at another thread and thought maybe Shari, Mccook and other young-uns might want to look through it and add it to their bookmarks. It was started by women under 40 that got cancer; I guess they have meetings too. Even though I am well over I just looked at the cancer navigator online and found myself relating to alot of the parts about once active treatment is over. http://www.youngsurvival.org/find-an-affiliate/overview/
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Wanna echo what others said about the chemo room. It was not a scary place for me at all, I saw other people going through the same as me, and realized I was not alone in this battle. That meant so much. And I'm convinced most chemo nurses are angels put there to help people through this.
Mcook, drinking wine on the treadmill - you must have excellent coordination - LOL!
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From today's NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/our-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer.html?hp&pagewanted=all
It's long but worth the read - a thoughtful piece.....
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SWgee, you nailed exactly how I feel. Lonely, even tho I have family and friends around who care no one understands. I feel like they are tired of hearing me talk about it but dammit I need to talk about it!! You ladies get it.
Mcook as Tazzy said you are such an inspiration to us!! I can't wait to hug you. I've often gotten my butt off the sofa and on to the elliptical thinking "if Michelle can do a marathon I can at least do 15 minutes!" Lol btw, I've also thought that the THING needs a wine glass holder!! In your pocket for last herceptin!!!
Oh the chemo room, I thought I was the only one who missed it!! Funny how so many of us feel and think the same way. The nurses are angels for sure, and I always found the other warriors so much fun. It always amazed family and friends who went with me how people in there were so optimistic, friendly, lively, how we could laugh thru it.
Well, it's April 25 and there is snow on the ground!!! This weather is unreal, lol, please Mother Nature, could you pretty please give summer a chance!!!0 -
Ladies you got me thinking of a new innovention for my camel pack or treadmil:) wine holders:) lol
Awesome to hear I am not the only way that feels that way about the chemo room,
Thanks for saying that I am an inspiration but really I am not we all hold each others hands and all you motivate me daily with all your strength and support! You shared your stories with me and I felt so comfortable and safe here to share mine even on my crazy ass mental days when I just needed to type them out. You all have been so instrumental to me getting through my treatments with the understanding I would be ok. I seriously believe if I would not have found this site and all you, that that week before surgery I am not sure I would have just ran away. I was so terrified! I had never felt that fear before in my life. Doctors cutting me open and not knowing if I was going to survive, the physical look after etc. it was paralyzingly. Then I had all of you share you strength and experiences of your surgeries and I knew then I could get through it. Some really dark place I went this year where I was pulled out of by all of you!
Thank you ladies I will always be forever grateful that you took the time to hold my hand.
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McCook - adding my congratulations on last Herceptin - wow, how encouraging. I also actually kind of look forward to me trips to the chemo room for my Herceptin infusions, Ramols and I seem to be on a similar schedule with those. I know already that I will miss it when they are complete.
Sounds like Iowa is shaping up really well, wonderful. I will be in with Shari on the New York trip
Can't make it a long post as I have family coming in tomorrow for a baby shower for my third son's new baby - due end of June. Lots to do and kind of over did it yesterday, my back hurt so badly I had to stop and ice it for the evening. I will try to do better today, it's already complaining.
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Mcook, I read your signature line with your diagnosis and treatments out loud to my DH last night, then told him you are going to run a 26 mile marathon in July. He was simply blown away by your courage and willpower, and was SO impressed with you! You are indeed an inspiration for all of us, and don't you forget that! Best wishes on the training, and congrats on finishing Herceptin!
Websister, so good to hear you have a sunny spring day! My kids there had been complaining about the lousy weather, so this will be wonderful for them too. Careful with that back now, and maybe do things sitting down, if that will help. I'm so in on the New York trip. DH can come with and amuse himself while I visit with all you sisters - already looking forward to that! I love NY!
Shianne, that 'laughing through it' as you put it, is the most important part of this ordeal IMO. Laughter is the best medicine, and making fun of cancer puts it in its place. Life is so much more that that. My comedian son who lived with us last year while I was going through chemo, would come into the kitchen every morning, and ask, 'So Mom, how's your cancer?' Then we would laugh, and the day would start off from the right perspective.
Marian, I caught up on your blog last night. Some of the things you said there touched me deeply to the point that I dreamed about you last night. Hope the weather in Vancouver is as beautiful as on the island - sunshine makes everything better, I think. Sincerely hope that incision heals up well now, and that you can get rads started so this can be over for you. You've had quite the ride so far - enough already! Love your cats too - so cute. Mine is like my shadow, never far away from me.
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