Illinois ladies facing bc

Good morning ladies.  Gosh, I am so pleased with my recovery from exchange surgery.  I feel so good and have to keep reminding myself that I had surgery just yesterday.  Dr Kim promised me this would be so much easier than my BMX a year ago... he was so right.  Compression bandages are a bit tight and I am looking pretty flat, but I guess that is a good thing for now.  Lago and Adey... I am so excited for you to get yours done.  This is way better than those hard bricks on your chest.  Going back to see my PS for a follow-up April 11th.

Lisa... have fun in the city with your kids.  Hope you were able to get that bone pain under control.  I had alot of that with my Neulasta shot that I got after each chemo tx.  Advil seemed to work for me.

I hope everyone has a chance to enjoy this beautiful spring day.  Thoughts going out to eveyone in TX and dealing with setbacks.

Joan, great to hear how well things are going.  You have come a long way and you have done it very well. 

Good for you.

Hugs, Jackie

zap sorry for your loss..

zap - Wow...so sorry! My sincere sympathy to you and dh, your friends' family and friends.

Julie, I am thinking about you today. So sorry you are going through this again. Hoping for the best possible results, and here for you either way.

 Gentle hugs,

Pat

Susan - so sorry to hear about Bill's death.  I do recall you speaking of him often.   You were a good friend and I am sure his wife will need you during this tough time.

Hi all....I have not posted lately....just trying to read and catch up...a lot happens when you

don't do this frequently...whew..

.I changed my screen name...after reading some interesting posts

referring to the log in name you select.  

So in case you don't recognize who this is my screen name was formerly

DeniseAckerman.  

Hope everyone is doing well...I'm still trying to read older posts...my grandsons have

kept me very busy this past week so I have not been able to keep up.

Have a great day tomorrow!

Susan - I am so sorry for the loss of your dear friend. 

Joan - Very glad to hear that your surgery went so well.  

Susan -- I'm so sorry to hear about your friend.   So sad. 

Still checking the discount web sites for tickets to Million Dollar Quartet or Blue Man Group.... popular shows for the spring break crowd so the tickets have dried up.  Oh well, the kids are rolling with it, and we'll just go see it when the tickets come available in the next few weeks.   Yesterday we had a nice Chicago day, had lunch in Chinatown, then parked in the loop and attempted to get into the Sears Tower (sorry, it's still not the Willis Tower to me).  90 minute wait!    Today is more of a suburban day, lunch at the Orignial Pancake House, then movie at Muvico, if we are still ambitious then we will head downtown to meet my husband for dinner.  Just nice to have a couple of days off not filled up with dr appts to spend with my kids.  

Lisa....the original Pancake House....yum.  Glad you are having a good time spent with loved ones, making good memories. 

Donna - Happy April Fools Day. You are making memories too huh !!!  Should be a bonus in that when you sell your house. Fridge's are sorta pricey these days.

Denise/Team Nana...it is hard sometimes to miss one day here.   

Hope you all have a wonderful day.  Sun will be in and out here, but temps are going to start edging up --oh there is a God.

Hugs, Jackie 

Hi,

just a brief check in to let you know that i survived the biopsy.  Chalk up a new bc experience- just when I thought I'd had them all.  Stereotopic biopsy. Have to say it's a huge improvement over the surgical biopsy I had to have back in 2000.  Wasn't terrible. The nurse and radiologist were kind and professional.  I was a little unprepared for the amount of blood I saw when I got up (you lie on your stomach with your breast hanging down a hole...) and that did jar me. But the cut itself is small, already has a scab and I'm only a little bruised.   I was called this am, however, and told I will NOT have results today.  Monday.  Cannot rush the pathology-- whatever they need to do takes a certain amount of time.  I was really hoping not to have to go into the weekend letting my mind run away with things. 

I had pretty much already made up my mind on a proph mast-thinking late summer- and getting the mamm out of the way was the first step to setting up the requisite appts- so there is a certain amount of irony in this. I'm obviously hoping that this is DCIS or very early invasive-- as the mast would then be an appropriate treatment anyhow.   I've dealt with this crap twice on the left side already- enough already.  I've actually already met with ps and confirmed he can do the same surgery on the right... so will pause there and see what Monday brings.    Just need to find a way to put my brain on ice for the weekend. Too bad they don't offer temporary weekend lobotomies.  Slept a total of one hour last night. Did you know there's actually a show called the World of Taxidermy on at 1am?!

arrgh

-j

Julie- ((hugs)) to you.  That sucks.   Hoping that you can stomp out the ANTS (automatic negative thoughts) in your brain and get some rest this weekend. 

Susan, so sorry to read about your friend.   But I know you will be a great support to his wife and family. 

My best to all going through treatment.  Have a good weekend everyone!

I wish to thank you all for the  kindness shown to me upon the death of our dear Bill.  I have been talking with my BF and she shared that Bill kept on with the chemo, knowing that it was causing heart damage.  He did not want to go slow and long with Hospice, and so he was willing to take on all the big guns of chemo.  His doctors also shared that it was going to start to be tough as the cancer was now in lung, liver and colon.  Bill chose to go his own way, giving cancer a damn good fight, so his family and friends would remember him as vertically upright and in fighting mode when he died, and indeed we do.  Paul is more troubled than I am as he will be giving the eulogy and he breaks down just preparing it.  Please pray for him so he can do this.  We did take a ride to Peru, Illinois of all places, just to get away and see open, flat land (Illinois terrain is so uncomplicated). It was soothing.

Thanks again and have a lovely weekend.  If you are looking for a carefree book (and so carefree that it could be riddled with imagination rather than accuracy) get Heaven is a Real Place. I have it and my daughter finished it in one reading.  It could be ridiculous (near death experience with a visit that includes heaven), but is uplifting and I need uplifting right now!

Thanks again,

Susan