CRAZY TOWN WAITING ROOM - TESTS coming up? All Stages Welcome.
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Beppy and Katy...you two are the best. You absolutely get it and you both are so encouraging not only to me but all the ladies here😘
Beppy I think you will find this funny. I did turn in the air on and now I'm freezing. I can't win lol. Starting to feel like myself again.
Val...I'm sure you are trying to recuperate but I wanted you to know I'm thinking and praying for you. I'm available if you have any questions. Take care.
Love you ladies and enjoy the rest of your da
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Sher- glad you are feeling well enough to make a joke! Haha. It is hard to get temps right.. Especially with hot flashes.
Glad to hear cars, bodies and minds are in healing mode.
We are enjoying pretty nice weather here and I'm watching my cherry trees anxiously. Want to get some at just the right minute but so do the birds!
Sending love and hugs to all, special hugs for Slow, and thinking of quiet crazies too.
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back from Dermo doc but she tried to have me use an anti biotic cream on it.......it is in the center of my back? So we compromised on a z pack in case I can not get a private nurse! No pain for now and glad that is over for now
Hot hot hot and turned on the ac
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Iris, the hidden metal key opens the doors of my Outback, but once inside if the battery’s dead, nothing can start it.
Good luck at the dermatologist--wish me luck too. Just got back from mine, who did a full-body skin exam and found two “concerning” growths. One was on my lower right temple--probably a “seborrheic hyperplasia” (oil gland gone wild) but she wanted to rule out basal cell carcinoma. So she biopsied a small part of it, plus removed the oil gland itself. But on my back, she noticed a very irregularly shaped mole that was pale tan with splotches of golden brown. She said it is most likely just some kind of dysplastic nevus, probably benign but precancerous nonetheless. So she removed it all for biopsy to rule out (gulp!) melanoma--I have sort of a family history (half-aunt died of liver mets from melanoma). Wondering if I should still go ahead with the Italy trip for late July and just buy trip cancellation insurance. If the face lesion is basal cell skin cancer, she’d just remove it all and then just watch the area. Same with the back mole (which is now gone anyway) whether basal or squamous. But if the back lesion is melanoma, my world will turn upside down again--and I’d be facing back rads and possibly some sort of chemo.
But on the upside, she said I have great skin and she can’t believe I’m 65.
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Katy...I'm 61 and never experienced hot flashes. Guess I've been too busy fighting breast cancer two times😳
Chi...I hope everything turns out well for you.
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Mammo went fine, thanks for the well wishes. I was told to wait while the radiologist read the two pics. Then a tech came in and told me "everything appeared to be benign" according to the radiologist. Huh? "Everything"? Okay so the word benign is good but "everything?" I did see what looked like microcalcs on the screen and I am sure it's nothing but I think this woman needs to work on her delivery especially to someone who had cancer already.
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sandy, i had a remote thingies punk out on me but the little key still got me in the car and started
Mine was age related! Car is an 07
Well gooluck on the skin thing I got my thingies removed, got anti plus cream and doc said it was a typical cells and to do a full checkup,in 6 months
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What’s “anti-plus” cream?
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Molly50: good, I guess....though I'd also guess that "pretty much anything to do with the first mammogram, post-treatment, is upsetting". (Still having nightmares, though more pastel, myself)
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hello dear crazies,
I have been plowing though all the entries trying to keep up with all you and getting to meet everyone I haven't yet met.
It has been busy here with cooking, writing and tests. I had my 3 mo check up last month with my onc and they don't do stuff nowadays the way they used to. No blood tests every 3 months... He goes by the regular blood tests (no tumor markers) as he says (as does everyone I talk to) that they are often not accurate. He's more interested in all the white counts, liver, cholesterol etc. soooo... I had my blood tests done sat week going to my interest for my yearly physical on Tues. all results will be forwarded to the onc Insee the onc again in July. Anyway I had my routine colonoscopy ... All clear one teeny tiny little polyp no displaysia etc.., I talked to my oncologist afterwards who did I'm good ... Due for another colonoscopy in 5 yrs considering my cancer history. So that was a relief ( I guess)
I started my biking again and did something to one of my glutes when I threw my leg over the bike in the wrong way so now I feel,like I have ass and thigh cancer. Seriously my ass and hip hurt from it so..... Still have to plan the ovary removal ... And then hopefully I'll be done for a while. I got a fit but to chart running speed walking... Surprised I'm doing about 37 miles a week.
The restaurant has not yet opened but getting close...meanwhile our online store www.TheChaunk.com is open and before I drop back to catch up here's the latest gluten free blueberry tart w/ buttermilk ice cream for the restaurant menu along with vegan chocolate mousse with edible dirt
Anyway.... If anyone wants to reach me just private message me... And if anyone is near Sonoma give me shout out! I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed right now with all of this stuff.p and a bit nervous about Tues
Waving to all my fellow crazies!!!
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Sula, your posts always make me drool. 37 miles!!!!!! Great your appointment went well though I am lol at ass and thigh cancer.
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Sula- Great to see you! (And your lovely food porn). Well done on the mileage. Keep well. 🎈🎈🙏🏻💗🙏🏻
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Hi Crazies...finally back from too long on the road....trip went well but I am tired and sooooo ready to stay home for a while...will write more this weekend. In the meantime, hugs to all of you. I've missed being here!
xoxox
Octogirl
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Octo, welcome home! Sula, all I can do is drool all over the keyboard.....and hope I don’t short out the computer. I really feel your pain--literally. I tore two out of three glutes (medius and minimus) back in Feb. 2015 (the year of Chi-beria Snowpocalypse) first shoveling snow and then the next day walking 1/2 mi. to a Super Bowl party through 2+’ft. of undulating-surface snow during a raging blizzard--had to use trekking poles. I’m still stuck with a nasty case of intermittent bursitis and IT-band syndrome. (It got better, so I didn’t renew my temp HC permit....and I got my bc dx the week after it expired).
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Finishing the yard work today. I'll be so glad when everything is planted and then it's just routine maintenance.
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sandy, i meant anti biotic cream earlier. Since my nasty mole was in the middle of my back, i went to gym this morn and got the nurse there to help me out
I am pathetic
Happy to see the food porn, making me hungry for more than my salad for lunch,
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Headed to the shore ladies......going to my sons.........my grandaughter is picking me up in my sons $100,000 + Mercedes Benz..........he went down in his truck.....(something wrong with this picture) earlier this morning.........
I am absolutely not dressed to be riding in a Mercedes......LMAO....I look like I went to the thrift store and bought my clothes........and guess who doesn't care.........not trying to impress anyone........comfort is the name of my game.......hate the ride......Mercedes or not....his car is more comfortable then my living room furniture.....LOL.......
Will be back late Monday night.........
Glad your all doing good with your tests, and Sula, glad to see you Girfriend.....
Talking about A/C...mine is on.....talk about freezing......I do need help........last night I put mine on around 6pm.......I was freezing my ass off..........when I turned it on I just pushed the knob to "cool"...........it had been on "Off".........when I looked at the temp, it said "75".........I thought.......Ok, that's a good temp...............walked away..............
Side note>>>>>Forgot that 75 was the room temp.......my actual temp that it was set at was "66" which was what I put it down to during the winter at night......................when I got up to see "why the hell I was freezing"................the room temp for the a/c was "66"...............LMAO...........no wonder I was freezing..........
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Bob’s home--I showered and he changed my back band-aid. (Did the one on my face myself).Tomorrow night I either have to drive down to the Hilton Garden Inn at Midway (he doesn’t want to deal with “Bike the Drive” road closures) and stay overnight--he won’t get there till all restaurants down there are closed), go a day without changing the bandage (he won’t be home till dinnertime Sunday) or use a giant band-aid so I can slap it on and cover the wound without contortions.
I need to stop freaking out--my best buddy from law school had a superficial melanoma removed from his arm......20 years ago. (Whenever I visit him & his wife in SoCal, first thing he says is “where’s your hat?” and the second is “here, have some sunscreen.” Guess he’s not just projecting after all). So I will wait till I get the path report to book the Rome and Pisa flights & hotels....but as long as I won’t need adjuvant therapy, I’m still going.....just not going backless or sleeveless. And packing lots of sunscreen. (Meanwhile, I’m not doing any farmers’ market gigs without a hat).
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Woke up nice and cool this morning. Gonna be another scorcher today
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sandy, guess I missed the full storey of your skin thingie, do hope it is not bad. Mine is consid ered a typical cells so except for regretting my past beach frying days, all,should be good. Not good on hats as i have the family big head!
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Sandy, good for you for keeping the Italy trip on the radar. Hope all turns out as well as you deserve!
As for me: well, hell. The best laid plans.....Two days back in the office after my trip were very busy with a lot of the type of stuff I hate to do...so I was *really* looking forward to my long weekend at home: grilling with hubby, admiring his gardening, doing some shopping, puttering around the house, watching baseball, maybe heading up to Yosemite one day for a bit of hiking, and going swimming at the gym...
well, I will be doing those things, to the extent I can from the couch or the patio chair, but shopping, hiking or swimming is out.
Last night hubby and I kicked off the weekend with a bit of backyard grilling. Unfortunately, he stacked the charcoal (and yes, I realize using gas would be better, but please don't judge, and this is the weekend we were going to go look at gas grills at the Memorial Day sales)....anyway, when he un-stacked the heated coals, one of them somehow flew off the grill onto the patio, where neither he or I saw it, until, as I was heading to the grill to flip and brush sauce on the chicken, stepped right on top of it. Barefoot.
Result: a second degree burn, in a nice round circle about an inch and a half in diameter, right on the middle bottom of my foot. (and bbq sauce all over the patio, as I screamed and threw the bowl I was carrying. of course, that can be cleaned up easily).
Size and degree can be treated at home, per the Mayo Clinic and other reputable internet sources, but the location makes it right on the cusp of something I should have treated by a doc. But, I really, really, could not STAND the thought of spending Friday of Memorial Day weekend in the ER....So, we did all of the recommended first aid stuff with running cool (not ice cold) water, cleaning it, keeping it clean with gaze, etc. and will continue to do so while watching for signs of infections. Pain was bad at first but OTC meds and a glass of wine put me right to sleep, and I am only in a little pain this am, holed up on the couch with Gabe watching over me and hubby waiting on me hand and foot.
Which of course is the rub: walking is damned near impossible! Between the location of the burn and my already screwed up knee (Thanks to the AI/arthritis combo) I can't stand up or walk without help, and I really shouldn't walk much at all for at least a few days. And swimming: no. too much risk of infection. and who the hell knows if this could lead to LE, but I don't want to know. I am enough in CT already.
So, weekend on the couch. I was looking forward to down time, but this is more down than I bargained for....at least I can use the time to catch up with the Crazies...please keep your fingers crossed with me that it doesn't get infected....
Love to all;
Octogirl
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oo octo, so sorry but that sounds like something I would do
Do you have any of that super burn cream from radiation days. Sorry I forget the name....thick white stuff,
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...miaderm, but I am not sure you are supposed to use it on open wounds. Ouch, Octo! I do know that once in my younger days, I was in a sweat lodge with friends in the woods, and in the mud, I slipped and my knee landed on a glowing red hot rock. My friend was well versed in these things and had brought his medicine bag, which did consist of a huge bag of cut aloe,amongst other things, that he told me he always brought to sweats. He cut it open , after rinsing my knee with valuable clean drinking water, and I am a believer in the goodness of aloe. How much it hurt went down by a LOT, and I still have never been able to find the scar. Just take it easy, I know it's hard when you want to move!
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octogirl, ouch! I am flinching just reading your story. Keep irrigating it with clean water and change the gauze often. Your DH might want to ask the pharmacist if he/she recommends anything.
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Hmmm, silva dine is what I was thinking of ....one word but not sure if ok on open wound, can not remember
Dang this spell correct thing!
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Oh, Octo, ouch, ouch, OUCH!!!! Years ago, at Indiana Dunes beach, a bunch of us (except for me, all Bob’s fellow internal medicine residents) had grilled on the beach in a mini-kettle grill set over the sand. (You see where this is going). When we were ready to leave, we emptied out the spent briquets, doused them with lake water, and covered them with sand. We packed up our gear, and the doc who was supposed to drive decided to walk back to the van barefoot.....and she stepped right on the patch of sand that not just covered the spent coals but also upon which the grill had stood...only a few inches above ground. We propped her up by her armpits and carried her to the van. The drive back to Chicago seemed interminable....and we went straight to the ER at UIC, where they set to work treating her burn (every first year resident had to do an ER rotation no matter their chosen specialty). She spent the next two weeks working on crutches.
Have you considered buying or renting a pair of crutches, a non-wheeled walker, “knee scooter" or even a used wheelchair to keep around the house for just such a situation? (We’ve got the crutches & walker, plus a Rollator on which you can sit and propel with the good foot). And I’m not going to judge your DH’s choice of grilling medium. I have a natural-gas grill (connected to the house gas line) because I am impatient and LAZY. Nothing, IMHO, beats the flavor and versatility of grilling over charcoal, preferably chunk hardwood matched to whatever you’re cooking.
You probably know that 100% pure aloe vera gel (or a cut leaf of the plant--which scars over and continues to grow) is great for burns. I once brushed my forearm against a screaming-hot aluminum Vesuviana mini-espresso maker (the kind you filled with water & grounds, plugged in and waited for espresso to drip out of the spout. Rushed to the HMO a few blocks from me, where after rinsing it with icewater, the nurse actually dressed it with Vaseline-soaked gauze and wrapped it in Saran Wrap. I know it sounds counterintuitive--holding the heat in with butter or Vaseline is a no-no for a sunburn--but once the area has cooled, keeping it moist actually encourages healing. I was sure it was a second-degree burn, but the blister never formed and within four or five days all I had was a little pinkness. Other people swear by lavender oil, which I used to use before bc--but I understand lavender has estrogenic effects, so I’ve given it up. (I even remove the lavender buds from my Herbes de Provence).
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in re: lavender vs ER+ BC patients I submit the following. The newer research and argument by Tisserand is holding sway with me. Just sayin'.
Oct 29, 2014 02:40AM mclark55 wrote:
Even though no one has posted here for a couple of years, I thought it worth sharing the latest information on lavender essential oil because it has taken such a beating with the 2007 research that was done. I thought you might like to know that Robert Tisserand, an expert on essential oils, has squashed the bad publicity that lavender oil was getting in this article:
http://roberttisserand.com/2013/02/lavender-oil-is...
I actually teach on my website that lavender oil is therapeutic to use when you have had breast cancer, and here is an excellent study done in 2014 that proves that:
Comparative studies of cytotoxic and apoptotic properties of different extracts and the essential oil of Lavandula angustifolia on malignant and normal cells:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571090
Ladies, many many essential oils have proven anti-cancer benefits - and I have the research to back that up. Contact me if you would like to see it, I have a whole document full of links to good research.
Love and light, Marnie (MarnieClark.com)Dx 4/2/2004, IDC, 2cm, Stage IIA, Grade 3, 0/3 nodes, ER-/PR+Surgery 4/21/2004 Lumpectomy: Left; Reconstruction (left): Latissimus dorsi flapChemotherapy 10/31/2004 Adriamycin (doxorubicin), Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide), Fluorouracil (5-fluorouracil, 5-FU, Adrucil), Methotrexate (Amethopterin, Mexate, Folex) End of quote/
KS-not trying to be argumentative but wanted to share some newer info
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Hi all....thanks for the empathetic ouches! Actually, I am not in much pain any more other than when I stand or walk (taking OTC still but not sure I really need to do so) but not being able to walk is a real PITA! Yes, using aloe, looks like I will have to read up on lavender :-)
Just sat in the back yard at our patio table while hubby used the garden hose to rinse me off and re-tape. That is easier than the bathtub which is further from the couch.....and the patio chairs are easier than sitting on the edge of the tub.....
I am scooting around the house in my desk chair on wheels, which is tiring in and of itself. Sandy, I used to have a wheel chair, left over from a broken foot about ten years ago...but I gave it away to a family member who needed it...that may have been a mistake. Crutches and I don't get along. Not sure how I am going to deal with work Tuesday. I really can't stay home: one of my best staff members is leaving (her DH took a transfer to another city too far away to commute, much to my and her dismay..) and her going away party and last day is Tuesday. Oh well, that may give me an excuse to make Tuesday the only day in the office next week.....
Crap. Honestly, you'd think having to lie on the couch all day would be nice. But so far I HATE it. I guess because I hate to be so helpless even though I feel totally normal (until I stand up and try and walk....)
At least the Giants are winning, so far...
Octogirl
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OUCH octogirl! I was feeling sorry for myself by grabbing the wasp that was on the pole for my pool tools until I read your mishap! The wasp was not happy with me and it let me know, but still not as bad as your poor foot! Healing vibes coming your way
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Well, the hits just keep on coming. Earlier today I noticed that my right breast seemed to be sore along the back outside (I had been hanging around the house braless for a couple of days since my skin biopsies--the sleep bra back goes high enough up that it could knock the bandage off). But it’s not the breast--my rib back there feels bruised and sore to the touch. And now, as I was eating some Skinny Pop as a bedtime snack, part of my left upper molar fractured off. (I think it had been root-canaled decades ago). Naturally, every provider (dentist, MO, BS) is off till at least Tuesday. Not appropriate for an ER, nor even an Urgent Care clinic. And Bob is stuck down on the S. Side till tomorrow night--he wanted to avoid the Bike the Drive mess and I couldn’t even go down to the hotel to spend the night with him, because of all the Beyoncé concert traffic north & south of Soldier Field.
So now I’m wondering if I’m going to need an extraction or a crown, and if I have bone mets (I don’t recall bumping into anything) or truncal LE, on top of one or two possible skin cancers. Looks like the entire stock of the shoe store is about to drop.
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