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  • readytorock
    readytorock Member Posts: 51
    edited December 2016

    Will be thinking of you! Just think - when you get your negative results, you can celebrate and not think about it for SIX months!!!

  • opt4life
    opt4life Member Posts: 111
    edited December 2016

    Thanks readytorock. My 3d mammo was quick and the doctor stood by and gave me the 'negative' results. 6 month check-up here I come!



  • specialk
    specialk Member Posts: 9,261
    edited December 2016

    opt - yay! Gotta love some fast service!

  • NisaVilla
    NisaVilla Member Posts: 505
    edited December 2016
    Great news Opt4! That must have been stressful. All so recent for you. Hard to believe but it gets better. Keep doing what you are doing! We are all there celebrating with you. Hugs, Nisa 🌷
  • lemint
    lemint Member Posts: 76
    edited December 2016

    Great new!!!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited December 2016

    Yea! Do something fun to celebrate!

  • opt4life
    opt4life Member Posts: 111
    edited December 2016

    Thanks ladies, i so appreciate the support. I spent the day at the new MGM Casino. What fun! I won $200 and had a few spirits. I don't know how well that will mix with my Aromasin but oh well, a girl should be able to have a little fun every once and a while.

    Onward and upward


  • mjsgumbas
    mjsgumbas Member Posts: 323
    edited December 2016

    Wishing all of you wonderful ladies the Best holiday season!!! Hope you treasure your time with family and friends!!! Wishing nothing but health and happiness in the New Year too!!!

    💕Mary Jane

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited December 2016

    Happy Everything! Heart

  • hopeful82014
    hopeful82014 Member Posts: 887
    edited December 2016
    Wishing all of you a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, and Kwanzaa filled with moments you will always treasure.
  • specialk
    specialk Member Posts: 9,261
    edited December 2016

    To all my stage II sisters, I wish you a season of joy, and only the best for 2017!

  • NisaVilla
    NisaVilla Member Posts: 505
    edited December 2016
    My wish to each and all of you here: Health to enjoy all of the small things that make this one life we were given so awesome. I am grateful to you for another year of kindness and good thoughts. Hugs, Nisa 💕
  • opt4life
    opt4life Member Posts: 111
    edited December 2016

    Happy 2017! Wishing you all a blessed year fullof the two best H words ever--health and happiness.

  • mjsgumbas
    mjsgumbas Member Posts: 323
    edited December 2016

    Back at ya Opt4life! Continued HEALTH to all our sisters!!!! May 2017 bring new opportunities for travel, good times with family and friends and making memories!!!!

    HeartMary Jane

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited December 2016

    Amen!!!

  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,008
    edited December 2016

    Happy New Year and good health to all.

  • opt4life
    opt4life Member Posts: 111
    edited January 2017

    Hey ladies, it's quiet here and I'm hoping that means folks are out enjoying life or attempting to. Just stopping in to say 'Peac'✌🏾

  • hopeful82014
    hopeful82014 Member Posts: 887
    edited January 2017

    I actually think the Stage II group is one of the quietest on the board - but also some of the nicest women :)

  • NisaVilla
    NisaVilla Member Posts: 505
    edited January 2017
    I agree we have become a super quiet group and that we are a nice and supportive bunch, in addition to having some walking BC encyclopedias around. But when cancer is quiet, we don't seem to have much to talk about. Some other threads have "themes" so maybe we could come up with something. Or a commitment to check-in once a month and share how life is going? Because for most of us, treatment continues. Not sure where to go with that, but I too would like a bit more contact. Hugs, Nisa 🌷
  • opt4life
    opt4life Member Posts: 111
    edited January 2017

    Hopeful and Nisa, totally agree that we have a pretty great group here. I like the idea of a monthly check-in as treatment does indeed continue for many of us.

  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,008
    edited January 2017

    I am here too. I tend to check my active favorites and run because life is crazy and I have also been trying to not think about BC all the time. I had a moment yesterday of fear because I have been getting migraines that last 12-24 hours and I guess yesterday at the height of pain I wondered if or when I should call my MO.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,698
    edited January 2017

    Hi everyone! I'm on vacation in Arizona. It's quite unseasonably cool here, but no ice or snow; so all is well.

  • hopeful82014
    hopeful82014 Member Posts: 887
    edited January 2017

    Nissa, I like your idea of a monthly check in.

    Molly, if you've been getting the headaches for two weeks or more I'd definitely call your MO's office and run that by them. I'm sorry you're dealing with migraines - what a misery - and then to be worried that they might portend something even worse is more than you need.

  • jojo0529
    jojo0529 Member Posts: 56
    edited January 2017

    hello Molly, I read the posts often; however, as much as it is a sense of support the boards serve as a reminder :(. I hope your migraines have subsided. I think at some point everyone gets headaches, joint paint, stomach pain, etc... with us it is hard not to link everything to BC.

  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,008
    edited January 2017

    Jojo, exactly why I try to not assume or jump to the worst case scenario! My son's GF lives with us. She is a childhood cancer survivor. She said she's lived with those thoughts and fears for a long time. I am better today but they come and go. It's not normal for me so I am waiting to see if they continue. If so I will contact my MO.

  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,434
    edited January 2017

    ((hugs)) to all, just checking in. I'm mostly fine, just super busy. Was supposed to have mammo today, but it got postponed until Tuesday. just a few more days of anxiety...

    Octogirl

  • mjsgumbas
    mjsgumbas Member Posts: 323
    edited January 2017

    Hi all! Nice to see everyone checking in!! Just did my yearly bloodwork - nurse called and said all good - whew!! See MO Wednesday for my quarterly check up! Had an awful experience with this blood draw - crazy lady nicked a nerve!!! It was crazy painful and now have shooting pain down my arm. Had to follow up with my primary yesterday. All he could say was it happens and will take time - sigh!! Good news is I am down 30 lbs since I last saw him 3 years ago!!! Yay! Getting the lymphadema under control and now finally healed helped! And switching to Miller 64 LOL!! I'm finally back to my old self and my old size 8!!! Just in time for our yearly family cruise and almost 2 months away from my wedding!!!!!!! It's been crazy fun planning and we are all set! Also, just found out my daughter is making me an all too young Grandma at 44! She gets married in November and poof - honeymoon baby! Lots going on!!

    I totally agree with the monthly check ins! Good idea Nisa! Look forward to reading how everyone is doing!! ((((Hugs))))

    Mary Jane (edited because every time I sigh my name it leaves off the E in Jane)😂

  • jojo0529
    jojo0529 Member Posts: 56
    edited January 2017

    Molly I am glad you are better today.

  • Molly50
    Molly50 Member Posts: 3,008
    edited January 2017

    MJ, I had the same experience and it took months to go away.

  • Sunny_Girl
    Sunny_Girl Member Posts: 38
    edited January 2017

    It is kind of reassuring that it's a quiet group! Dec 7th was my last date of chemo - 4 years ago (Taxotere, Carbo & Herceptin). Finished Herceptin the following July.

    I still have moments of anxiety, but my life has been busy & wonderful. My daughter was married & we have an 11 mo old grandson. I am very thankful, everyday.

    I see my oncologist every 4-6 mo & still get a little nervous about it. I'm not sure when that will change. Occasionally I have moments of the "other shoe" dropping, but I think time will have to take care of that.

    I keep quietly lurking & hoping the best for anyone that has landed on this website.

    Patty

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