2013 Survivors!!!
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Ndgrrl -
Karen - I'm in for your pocket party. My motto is - never go alone!
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Just a quick check in for me... glad to see Michelle and all the old familiar faces checking in here!!!
I have not found a job yet, and I am realizing it's going to be hard because somehow I ended up in a specialty field... BUT a friend has hooked me up with her boyfriend and I'm working from home for him and making some side money... so that should hold me over.
I just got over the poison ivy last Thursday! 2 1/2 weeks. I have no desire to go near any single plant area in my entire yard ever again... and I SUCKS that I can't enjoy my yard. My husband was out there clearing out the vines last weekend and the work he had to do to be clean and oil free afterwards... what a pain in the ass! Anyway, now I have a bumpy rash all over my arms. Most likely a result of all the creams and steriods being rubbed on the for over 2 weeks. ARGH!
Keep sending me good vibes for
Glad to hear people are healing and recovering from surgeries... and yes - it's crazy to look forward to surgery; but it puts us back together, right?
xoxoxo ladies
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Thanks for all the well wishes:) I will go party in anyone pocket. I am ready for a vacation and I have not seen NY so I am there
I am going in for my first ever breast MRI next week. Took me a year but finally found a Dr that agreed I should have one just to be on the safe side. I am a bit worried about the tunnel and do have left over loopy drugs from last year that I can take.
You all can come join me in my pocket if you feel like you need a trip to ND. Its nice here this time of year
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Hi Ladies
So glad your all doing well.:). Janeau glad you have got something....who knows it might take off and u may never want to work for anyone else!! Ndgrrl glad you are moving forward. I have had a mixed bag recently, after years of regret for not completing my education, which I always felt held me back by making me reliant on the private sector for work, I have enroled to study for a foundation degree in business!!! 4 years of hard work ahead!!!but by the time Im turning 50...I hope to have a degree!!!. My BIL sister (some of u may remember she was diagnosed with peritineal cancer last yr 43yrs old), is leaving hospice care tomoro to die at home., so a tough few weeks ahead. Believe I am truely jealous of all your travel.♡. I have spotted a few of our gals having a great summer together...(scottie & gang!!). I have had a great summer and am now looking forward to October to get studying!!!!
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Jumping in pockets, happy for good news.
Ireland - hugs for your BIL sister. Hope it is peaceful for you all.
Hugs everyone. Summer is busy times. Off for my 3 monthly check in tomorrow at the cancer agency. Always a little anxious..... then Friday the Outlaws arrive from England for a month. We have lots planned.
Hugs and love to you all xxxxxxxxxxxx
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ndgrrl, congrats! What a year!
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Ty for the well wishes.Ireland so sorry about your BIL sister. that is always so hard-- Hugs... Congrats on going back to school. I did that a few years ago- online- it was tough but fun at the same time
Jo have a great visit with the outlaws- LOL-- You still go for check ups every three months. I wonder if I will stay at 3 months now that I am a year out or if they will switch me to 6? My Oncologist is leaving so I will have to see a new one- Was hoping the Cancer Center would get a female oncologist.
Take care everyone
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Anyone out there receive intermediate onc score (inconclusive results by 40%) and then do mamma print which came back high NOT doing chemo and tamox? What is your experience? How are you surviving it?
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Hi ladies,
Thanks for the pocket party. All went well with my mammo and starting next year I will see the nurse practitioner at my appts unless something is wrong. Keep fingers crossed that never happens!
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Karen - your turn
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yay, Karen!
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thank you! Was very weird I got a print out of my next Mammo appt in the mail and now instead of seeing my BS I'll be seeing the NP and they wrote that he moved me to "survivorship"!
On another moving forward note I made an appt with a acupuncturist who also practices Chinese medicine. A woman I know who had throat cancer goes to her and she said that after her first session she started getting some taste buds back. We'll see!
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Hi ,
Join me in my pockets tomorrow as I have my first MRI- Took me a year and tears to get one - now that it is finally here I am getting anxious and scared. This too shall pass, but it cant pass quickly enough.:)
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I'm in! Bringing fudge!
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Ndgrrl - I'm in. Never go without us. We are here for you.
Watching the summer fading away. Isn't it fun!
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ndgrrl - jumping in. Fudge - yum, yum. I'll bring wine.
Wont be on here much - Outlaws visiting for a month from the UK. That's why I'm bringing wine.
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Every single woman with BC is a survivor. The fact that that we lived to be diagnosed means we have survived. The fact that we passed through diagnosis, surgery, chemo, treatment, stress and financial burdens makes us survivors. We have all cried a river.
Stage 0 or beyond...all survivors.
I bow to all of you ( and me too!)
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Amen Raider Girl!
I got the best surprise today - our friend (more like family) drive in from Arizona! Said he didn't want to miss our Labor Day party! Came out of the laundry room and he was standing in my kitchen! So happy! Haven't seen him since Christmas 2012.
Be strong Tazzy! And stock up on some good Australian Shiraz!
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Thanks all for the pocket party I needed you all when they had to try for an IV 3 times I am so much a problem child when it comes to veins.. Did you all enjoy the beating of the MRI machine, was bummed they do not provide headphones with music just ear plugs- but the good news is it was clear!!! I fretted a year over it and finally finally its over and its good news!!! I really did enjoy the fudge and wine ...MMMM MMMM MMMM. Tazzy try to enjoy the outlaws-
Raider girl- I really like what you wrote about survivors. Sometimes I don't feel like one as I didn't have chemo and I had internal radiation so my treatment was done so quickly it was a blur.
Karen have a great party and enjoy your friends visit
Enjoy the rest of summer everyone- Harvest has started here so its more like fall
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It is fine times with the Outlaws. Thankfully we all get on. Phew !!
Love your definition of survivor.
Peace and love to all xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hello Ladies....I'm one of the lurkers that has been reading and loving the posts over the last year +. Just finished the exchange process and was humming right along in my survivorship.
This weekend I was purging old files and came across my original diagnosis paperwork. Read the post surgery pathology over again and it's shaken me so badly that I can't get the prospect of recurrence out of my mind......how are you dealing with this worry?
I'm feeling good and NED but I am surprised how this has brought me back to that initial panic and worry.F-ing cancer.
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Hi volley, I try not to read back on it. But when I come across the paperwork I think "fuck I was lucky I am still here to talk about it". Look forward, not back - you're not going that way.
Pleased to decided to join us.
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Ah Volley - Tazzy is right. We all keep looking forward. Speed bumps along the way but together we keep on going. We also take our pills and keep all of our doctors appts. So far so good.
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Hi all~
Have not been on much of late but do try to stay caught up. I am keeping busy with everyday life and it feels good. Still traveling about.. Going to Annapolis next week to watch DD soccer team play Navy. 10 days later off to FL again to spend a few weeks with Dear Dad. I hope everyone that can keep checking in and those that need me in pockets...I am ready to jump in at any time! I saw this and thought of all my sisters here....
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Hi Volley, remember the patholgy is only based on statistics and someone elses thoughts of how your body will behave....no-one knows how your body is going to behave.....like believe and tazzy have said...look forward. I burnt my paperwork along with wig as soon as I could and now only concentrate on moving forward.
Good to see your still travelling Aruba. Hope everyone is doing well.xx
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Ireland, good to see you post. I know you were in for a rough ride with BIL's sister? Hope is as good as it can be considering the circumstances. I bet you are excited to break open the books? Studying when you want to is one of the pleasures in life.
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was at a friends daughter's wedding in Sorrento, BC yesterday. Was at a really beautiful campsite/retreat. After the service we were walking back to our camper, I rolled my ankle and have broken my ankle in 2 places. Surgery tomorrow.
What a bummer to say the least !
Hope everyone is managing to enjoh the sun today.
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Oh Tazzy. In your pocket tomorrow. What is it with us and ankles? You and Websister too. Hope your are not laid up too much or too long. Wouldn't want you to miss much time behind the woodshed.
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Oh Tazzy, so sorry to hear that~~enough already of surgeries.
While hiking last week I found I had a foreign body in my heel. Saw GP day after my return from Mt. Baker and tiny sliver of metal removed. All good but he was concerned about a mole on sole of same foot. Sadly I allowed a dermatologist to persuade me to allow her to do paunch biopsy. What was I thinking considering I am leaving for Nepal in under 3 weeks to trek again! Good news is she rushed the pathology and only two days and she called last night~~no cancer. I need to be more assertive though I know it is good news. BC causes paranoia I think. Problem is that feet heal slowly and often badly but I am hoping for the best. Meanwhile off my foot and training off!
Hello to all of you!
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Aruba - love the sisters picture and saying!!!!!!!!!
Tazzy - I am sorry about your ankle! I will be in your pocket tomorrow. Wishing it all goes well and you recover quickly!😄
I have been reading but have been very busy with back to school and haven't written in a while. I have also had a few complications with my recovery, but feel everything is getting better now.
I think of everyone every day and love you all like sisters!!!!
HUGS TO EVERYONE!!!!!!
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