Illinois ladies facing bc

LisaMomof4 - How's the new job going?  I figured you've been swamped since we've not heard you much here.  Commuting from the 'burbs, 4 kids, hubby, how you manage????? Is the commute your bit of quiet?  I once commuted by train, but took my toddler DD with me since her daycare was near the job.  Not a quiet commute.

I should be going to all the area art fairs, but I can't handle the combo of heat, humidity and crowds.  With the 57th St fair, I had no excuses since it is so close.  Also Lago and DH showed up.

Hope everyone stays cool this weekend and chills out from SEs, chemo, rads, Tam and AIs.   

Lisamomof4 we're going to the fair today too, probably early. It will be hot. I did it last year wearing my sleeve too and it was hot. I did wear a hat and it helped. I really hope you can make the walk but I understand about the fall schedule.

kijiberty DT=Downtown? I'll be at the fair so look for me if you come. I don't look like my avatar anymore ( 2weeks post 4th chemo). I look like the last picture in my hair transition thread. Might even wear the same jewelry and similar dress.

FYI I don't offend easy. There are only a few things that will really set me off and nobody here that I know of would ever cross that line (at least to my face ).

ACS Walk remember you don't have to participate in the walk or volunteer to come to the event. There is an entire area for us survivors and support givers (hate the term care giver. Sounds like we're all elderly in a nursing home).

Keep cool ladies.

Lisa:  Good luck with your new job on Monday.  I am so excited for you!

Invisible it's when you try to straighten your finger and it kinda sticks then snaps up. You are still healing from surgery so it will take time to get all your strength back but you'll get there. I never really had too much tightness I think because I was so numb or it just didn't bother me. I do hear it goes away but will take some time. Nice to see you.

Lisa... Congrats on the new job. Not sure how you juggle going back to work with 3 very busy kids... and, oh yes, a DH too! Take care of yourself too.



Welcome to Heidi. How did the doc appt go yesterday? This time of new diagnosis can be overwhelming. Soon you will have a plan of attack and can maybe start to wrap your head around things. We will get you through it.



ESD's!!!! Aren't they just wonderful. I had a bad case of trigger finger along with extremely painful knee joints while I was on the generic Aromasin. Glad to report that all side effects have disappeared since going back to name brand Femara four months ago. Keeping my fingers crossed that things stay this way.



Hope that everyone is staying cool this weekend. The rain keeps missing us and we need it BAD! Tomorrow is our big parade and fireworks. Fortunately they shoot the fireworks off from a barge on the lake so inspite of the terribly dry conditions, they will go off as planned. My DH always drives the church float in the parade and I usually walk along with the group passing out candy. Due to the heat, I am not participating this year. But we can just walk a couple blocks down to the lake to watch fireworks with all the neighbors in the evening.



Kjiberty and Roula... Hoping for minimal SE's this weekend. I went thru chemo in the hot summer of 2010. Treatments on Tuesdays so I was always down for the count over the weekend. My favorite chemo food was watermelon. I recommend some icy cold watermelon this weekend for both of you.

Invisible - I have the same question.  My BMX was back in March.  Every fill made things tighter for about 2 days.  I am done with fills and I have to live with the pain/tightness until September when I get the exchange.  I am just not sure if this muscle pain will really get better after the exchange - they'll still be stretched??  I'm OK during the day, but laying down is tough. It is certainly better than it was the first few months and really is tolerable.  

Lago - I have trigger finger.  I hear that you can get a cortisone shot and consider surgery if that does not work.  I have not tried as it sounds painful - I am hoping it will just go away.  I did read that they are not dangerous and treatment is really only necessary if it bothers you.

Happy weekend, everyone! I'm trying to catch up, but can't! Welcome to all of you I don't quite know yet. Wonderful ladies here, with much support and friendship.

Lago, I got the joke, and also cracked up. Helps to already know your humor, and mine is similar. DH says injections first, and then surgery for trigger finger. But surgery too drastic if it's an se from a drug that you won't need forever. An unasked for opinion, but he and I are on different computers in the same room, so I asked him.

So happy for a little rain last night, but this heat is getting to me. Too much dragging hoses around to water new shrubs. They look great though, if I can keep them alive. My timing was pretty off for this whole planting thing.

Everyone take care to keep cool, and have some fun this weekend. Let's have ice cream! I always love an excuse for that. Seriously, maybe we should have a Maggianos lunch soon.

The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Well I hope you got a Geico Gecko fan. I have 1 from this year and 2 from last year. I may bring mine to the Bucktown. Last year wasn't too hot at Bucktown but the year before was hell-like. Best to go early. Later in the afternoon the city is just too hot. Asphalt heats up.

   

Hi Beata,  Sorry to hear about your struggles.  I hope you don't need more surgery.  I was on an antibiotic that counteracted the pain killer SE's for much of the time!  Good luck with the pathology.  I assume your Sentinel Nodes were clear, so hopefully everything will look good.

beata...easy to say but hard to do.  Do try not to worry about Tuesday.  You are in the middle of healing, and having bowel issues makes it hard to pull the more positive aspects to things up.  Once you start getting good results with your medications I think things will be better and your outlook will be better too.  Another cliche' but hang in there --- stay calm, breathe deep, and visualize the HEALTH you intend to have. 

Still boiling here.....several more days of it too.  Family picnic for yesterday was cancelled and will take place at a cooler time when we can all enjoy being outside.  I hope we do cool off a bit as this so far has been quite incredible and it is hard on people who must work outside.

Hope you are all set to have a great Sunday. Smerf, Zap, Wendy13, Rita,JanClare,Laura GTO -- thinking about you and everyone else. 

Hugs, Jackie

Try to remember u still have some healing to go Oh Beata The first thing I see this morning is u'r having a bad week-end--I'm so sorry. Sometimes it's such a slow process with all different complications and to me that's an awful one, but they do have lots u can take and just going thru all u have can make u feel a sadness cuz u'r body is weak now and no matter how many operations u have had each one is an experience u want to forget and in time u do. But the body is a wondrous thing--every 24 hrs it heals more and more which always amazed me (for operations) LOL Well u have us and u know how much everyone knows so much here (not me)--I'm just a sideline. And I sure hope Tuesday goes well for u.  

Oh Beata, take it easy, one day at a time. It will be over before you know it!

Beata,

I'm praying for you. The pain meds were hard on me too.

The Dol-q-lace didn't work for me, but I halted the recommended dose of a Colon Cleanse we picked up months ago at the grocery store and it worked. My dr. Said whatever works and if you have ever done a colon cleanse, they work. But the bottle calls for 4 tablets, 4 times a day. I just took one tablet at three meals and it did the trick for me.

I also tried Milk of Magenesia and that worked another time for me.

Remember that all these ladies have so much wisdom and each day does get better.

(((hugs)))

Hang in there Beata.  The waiting is the worst, I hated waiting for the path report.   Jackie has put a great quote on here more than once, and I posted in on my wall....  Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it just saps today of its strength.  I love that quote, and it has helped me to read and re-read that one more times than you can imagine.  

I had the necrotic skin after my BMX.... had to have a second surgery.  It is NOTHING like the BMX, I was in and out in two hours, they did the debridement under local, and I went home a took a nap and it was no big deal.  Hopefully you won't have to even have that procedure, and things will heal up, but know that if they don't the debridement surgery is nothing much to deal with.  

Hope you are feeling better and stronger every day!