CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Well....the lump on my foot was a bruise..and I was ready to put it behind me and stop the crazy and get on with life. Now I've got this other deal making me crazy. I've already called MO's office about it, but this shit never ends. I only noticed this because my back was itching and I leaned up against the corner of a wall to scratch and the pain was intense. The lump is hard and doesn't move according to dh. It hurts when I lean back while sitting and if I lay on my back. Sometimes when I reach or turn a certain way it hurts too. I have felt on and off pain in my back in that area for awhile, so who knows how long this has been here. Bone mets don't present with a lump....riiiiight????
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Hi Crazies,
Tang, I felt that I needed to comment. My DH had almost the exact same bump except it was more to the right and a little bit higher and bigger. They ended up opening it up in the dermatologist office and a bunch of yucky stuff came out of it. They just cut it all out and sewed him back up. They sent it for testing and it turned out to be nothing serious. He does have a nice scare there now. I hope that is the case for you as well. I've never heard of bone mets presenting in that way. But as you know, I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV.
Gaia, So wonderful to see you here!!! We have missed you very much.
Shorfi, Wonderful to see you too!!
Ducky, I'm holding you close and sending gentle hugs to you.
I've caught up on all of our CT thread, but my concentration has gone right out of the window and I can't remember much of what I read. I guess I'm just a wee bit distracted. I will try again tonight when it's quiet and I have less distractions!! I do my best thinking at night!!
Sending love and hugs to all that need them today. You are ALL always in my thoughts. Waving in the direction of the tree house.
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Tang I had one on my back too. Went to dermatologist, he cut out this big gross sebaceous cyst. They can hurt because they are filled with puss and this gross cottage cheese looking crap, really thick stuff. He said backs are more prone to it because of how we sit and it's harder to wash. Fingers crossed that's all yours is!
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thanks for the feedback...it helps to hear this. Was your lump hard or did it feel like there was puss in it?
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it was hard. The stuff in a sebaceous cyst is really, really thick.mine grew to about 4 centimeters before I had it taken out, it was disgusting
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Thrilled that this is one more step to normal.
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Another sebaceous cyst veteran here. Mine started out small in late Nov., and I assumed it was just a zit so I put benzoyl peroxide (aka OxyClean) and bacitracin on it (had to use a long surgical swab because it was in the middle of my back). But it just kept getting bigger & bigger w/o coming to a head, and it hurt like hell. I went to my PCP but he said it was too big and deep to drain--it would have needed to be excised surgically and closed with sutures and I wouldn't have been in any shape to go on my cruise. So he had me take 10 days of Keflex and keep up the benzoyl peroxide and bacitracin ointment twice a day. It was gone in a week. And sebaceous cysts really are a kind of zit--the clogged pore (a blackhead--Bob could easily see it but I couldn't) gets infected but instead of the waxy stuff & pus coming to a head on the surface, it grows inward. That’s why it’s thick & hard--the skin over a normal pimple thins out, but a sebaceous cyst develops beneath both layers of skin. Sometimes it can even impinge on a small nerve, which can produce very sharp localized pain.
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M0mmy!!! Happy Dance right back at you!!! Great news!!!
Octogirl
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Thanks Octo
Evening hugs to all!
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Hello Crazies!
It's been so long, I'm glad I finally can post a bit. First off
Jack/Katy glad you are doing well and the enzymes are moving in the right direction. Four legged Jack is adorable!! He is a perfect ambassador for the brand Canine!
Jersey, yay for the end of rads
Octo, so glad you're getting fitted always good to get back to the new normal. I keep thinking about where i was this time last year (mid chemo) and it seems ages ago. Like a whole other person went though that. I love the Yosemite pictures, wow, I havenb;t been there since I was a teenager back in the last century
Ducky, so great so see the lovely family photos. I'll say it again, that is one good looking crew you've got there.
Mags, sorry about the new diagnosis, but glad it's the as they say "good" kind.
Rainny, glad you are doing well and busy busy busy...I hear ya laundry never sleeps. I always count the day I was diagnosed since that;s when this fun ride started.
Slow, hope this finds you doing better. I envy you your meeting with Poppy and Tom! Wish I could have been a fly on the wall at that one. Thanks for always giving me a shout out even when I've been absent.
To everyone else, hope this find you all well/slogging on/laughing/dancing etc.
I am still in a splint and going to see another hand guy in a week or so. There has been improvement but it still hurts and I just want to make sure everything is healing ok.
Meanwhile I've made a colonoscopy appt (looking forward to that...not) as part of my regular physical in April and then once that's done and hopefully ok on to removing those dang ovaries. I just want all of this to be over.
I've been working on dishes for the restaurant that will be opening mid April..very hard to cook with just one hand and the otherin this brace but here's some food porn
S'mookies..vegan gluten free high end mallowmars
there's my brace
jasmine vegan macarons
and vegan earl grey tea macarons with meyer lemon filling
anyway.....love to you all..I'll be checking in again soon...just hard to type with one hand in this contraption.
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Sula, I can almost taste those cookies. Do let us know the details of when & where your restaurant will be opening. Good luck with your hand--sending healing thoughts.
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Hi all !!!! Did Someone mention a Happy Dance. My specialty. Although the bananas remind me of the drains from my past.b/l mx.Pus and gross crap my kind of topics.
I wanted to share. I have a tiny bump similar to yours tang. Going to dermatologist.
It started as a pimple now red and solid. I use to squeeze the crap out of it then pour peroxide on it but given my current crap with lymph nodes what's one more Doctor visit.
Had a biopsy today on the nodes hanging on until results are in. Then I will really cut loose. Lol
Glad everyone is hanging in and life totally happening here. Big hug to all.
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Sula is back! Food porn-that-none-of-us-can-top is back! Woohoo!
Hope that hand is better soon, Sula! You've been on my mind also. Gentle hugs!
Octogirl
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Hi all: One more reminder: Crazytown members are getting together on Saturday morning, March 26th in Riverside, for brunch! WooHoo! We are going to have fun and I am very, very excited!
I just wanted to let you all know that if you are on my email list for the SoCal Crazytown get together on March 26th, you should have gotten an email tonight about RSVPing...If you'd like to be on the email list and aren't, or didn't get the email...PM me, including your email address in the private message, and I will send you the details!and, again, if you are interested in Skyping in, PM me about that too! Just be sure to include an email and Skype address for that also...
HUGS all!
Octogirl
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Gaia, so good to see you again!
Funthing, LOL about the drains, that is exactly what it feels like. I hope your biopsy results bring some good news.
Sula, earl grey tea macarons? Sounds very intriguing.
Tang, the part where you said you were "ready to put it behind me and stop the crazy and get on with life. Now I've got this other deal making me crazy." That is so true! Every time I think maybe I can stop the crazy and try to get on with my life, something else comes up to worry me.
Mommyof2, yay for a good CT scan and getting the OK to get the port out!
Sandy, I hope you made it to the polling place and back OK. It's a stormy night out there in the midwest. I spent 45 minutes in the basement earlier when we had three overlapping tornado warnings at one time.
Ducky, if you're out there reading, I hope things are going better for your family. Let us know how your son is doing.
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Hi Crazy Sisters, I've been mostly quiet for several weeks---influenza, uti, bronchitis all at the same time. I've moved from my bed to the recliner, so things are looking up.
Welcome to the newbies. You have found one wonderful place to hang out. You most likely have figured this out by now.
Ducky, missing you. Please check in when you can.
Sula, good to see you AND your food porn. You know you can send out samples via our famous tube. So sorry you are still one-handed.
Slow, I hope your stress decreases as you tick off each of your scans/doctor appointments. Focus on the 26th.
Cysts: Oh my. Sounds better than other things those lumps could be.
Katy, Have you had as much rain in your area as I've heard they've had elsewhere in Oregon?
Octo, What a fun day we are going to have!. I hope everyone who wants to, can come to our meet-up.
I know I'm missing others, so I'll just wave hello and try to catch up later.
Let's all look for some joy tomorrow. Jan
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Mommy.. Yay :-) That's wonderful news :-)
Sula.. Those cookies look seriously yummy.!
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I just unplugged my computer when I saw the lightning flashes. We're not in the tornado-watch zone here by the lakefront, but it could still get dicey. Will probably lose my satellite signal just when they're calling the Dem. races in IL & MO and the GOP race in MO (all still too close to call). Our State's Atty (akin to county DA) just lost the Dem. nom. big-time over mishandling of recent police-shooting cases--and if you win the Dem. nom. for Cook County office, you've essentially won the general in Nov. Decorated Iraq war-hero Army pilot Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth just crushed her opponents by 72 points for the chance to take on GOP Sen. Mark Kirk this fall. Kirk, a Naval Reservist & formerly a moderate, has tacked farther and farther right (including making some clueless misogynistic statements) to play to his base. To his credit, he battled back from a stroke three years ago. (I can hear Duckworth's campaigners now: “I'll see your stroke and raise you a double amputation and permanent shrapnel").
I did get to vote this afternoon, Gordy voted this morning, and Bob voted early last week. (No, we didn’t all vote for the same candidates though we did stay within one party). I will not get partisan except to say that if the Presidential and Congressional elections go a certain way, many people not yet on Medicare with serious diseases (such as breast cancer) could lose their insurance coverage if the ACA is repealed and insurance companies are once again free to refuse to cover preexisting conditions, deny policies to people with them, or even drop them from their rolls. Just saying there's even more at stake here than a wall along the border, the composition of the Supreme Court, and the debt ceiling. End of rant.
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Jan- YES!!! I'm drowning........
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Sula, oh my goodness if I knew where in California you are I would be lining up to buy those cookies!! Duckyb if you are reading I am praying for your family. Poor Wyatt is bad off again. I thought I was going to lose him he crashed so quickly this evening. Needless to say there was no dinner cooked tonight. My son's GF was the only one home and she helped me stabilize him. If stress causes cancer to grow I am in trouble.
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Molly, prayers that Wyatt improves and holds on.
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Chickadee, I had the "let down" feeling in my breasts after my biopsy and diagnosis. Although I never found out exactly why this happened, one doctor guessed that it might be due to nerve damage/irritation from all of the squishing and poking. Thanks mammograms and stereotactic biopsy. It seemed to last forever, but stopped after about a month.
Molly, Praying for Wyatt and your entire family.
Sula, Those macarons are beautiful. I'm drooling imagining eating them!
Hi to everyone. The kids have kept me so busy this week that I haven't had time to spend on the boards. But I live in Crazy Town. I woke up one day last week KNOWING that cancer is killing me.
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We also notice what’s going on in our breasts a lot more closely after we’ve been diagnosed with cancer (or even started on the diagnosis journey) in one of them.
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Morning hugs to all!
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Sula, welcome back! It is so good to hear from you. I've missed you and your luscious food porn! Hope your various injuries are healing.
Jan, I am SO glad you are starting to feel better.
Molly, I hope Wyatt turns the corner. We are all holding your family close.
Sandy, you called it like it is. Without the ACA and its protection of pre-existing conditions, so many of us on these boards would be in terrible trouble on the insurance front. I have fond memories of Cook County politics; I lived there when Washington was elected mayor.
I am happy to report that our kitchen sink is now fixed. There are many reasons to be in Crazytown, but at least in this regard, all is good. And the sun is shining here for a change.
Love, hugs, and protection against the weather for all crazies!
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M0mmy, great news!!! Yay!
To all of you crazies... warm hugs!!!
....I get a six week reprieve from the Herceptin t see if the PN eases, as I begin the Tamoxifen... Heading to lay low for a few days waving as I go back to the tree house
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(((Molly)))
(((JerseyGirl)))
Keeping all of you in my thoughts today!
Octogirl
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Sula- great to see you! Thank you for the lovely food porn!
Rain- so glad your sink is fixed! Can't even begin to imagine that with the workout it gets daily!
Molly- thinking of you and Wyatt. Sending hugs.
Jersey- I'll come up and curl up in a corner of the tree house with you. I've been plagued by alternate nights if no sleep and nightmarish sleep. It's better than residing comoletely underground, but I'm not as buoyant as I was a week ago.
Octo- I hope you're having a better week.
Hugs back to Mommy and all other Crazies, waving as I cruise through CT on my way to the treehouse.
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M0mmy, you don't know how much it cheers me to see you giving out hugs to every one! I really appreciate you doing that, the cockles of my heart are getting very warm now!
Molly, thinking of you and Wyatt, sending signals out to the universe,that he may grace the world with that smile for many years to come.
ChiSandy~ Beautiful and true rant, gotcha.
Gaia! Gaia! Just, hi Gaia! I hope everything's okay with you, think of you often!
Tang, nice to see you here, even if it's cause you are worried. Breath,Slow, just like our mayor says...
Pop!
Sula! Yay! I am so glad you are being able to make wonderful things to eat still! I have never had a macaroon, I think I should try yours first, it would probably spoil me for any others! I don't know why, but since I was a kid, I thought pirates ate macaroons..
Gma,Pennsy, all others, I am reading, but never seem to catch up, about a day behind, so nice to see you all here, populating our crazy village with love for all.
And, you guys! I meant to tell you all of the imminent arrival of my friend lizlori! I am so glad she found us! And thank you all for welcoming her, she is a brilliant writer of emails, and then, I lost track of her some how, even though she wasn't moving! I know you will all love her, she is like Beppy, a very gentle and kind person, and I am so so so happy that she is here!
I made a very long post the other day, and lost it. That was the first time that ever happened to me, bummed me out, as you know, I mostly read. So, I wanted to say the one thing I remember is BEAUTIFUL QUILTS!!!! Hope everyone has a pretty good day. Pretty good is pretty good enough!
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