Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

Morning gals!  I didn't pay attention to the one of you that has itching about something?  I just mean I read about Domeboro being suggested...

I had to use it one time, for about 6 months...  I ordered it online, but I think Walgreens' also carries it.  It comes in white & blue box I think, with little packets of "stuff" in it.  I used it for Stasis Dermatitis, on my lower leg...  I mixed one packet in a little plastic container with water...  Then I dipped my fingers in the solution, and rubbed the whole ankle area with it..... about 4 times a day.  I just put the lid on the container, and kept it in the refrigerator.    I only blotted it on...  and I think I used a Fluocinonide ointment on it after I did the domeboro "baths"..... 

I had this itching, spot, with little blisters, for about 6 months, for no REASON!  How do we GET these things?  But the Domeboro helped.  I think I found some on Ebay...

Mimi, chocolate red wine???  Sounds like something I would make, Ha! 

Hi Folks, I recently found out some info that has pissed me off in re: the drugs given to me during treatment for BC. I was almost killed with my one and only chemo. Taxotere was the culprit. I "failed" all three AI's b/c of s.e.'s. All of this could have been avoided had my MO paid attention to the Cytochrome450 genetic testing. Of the six genes tested, I have abnormalities in three. All are major players in the drugs I was given. Had I been tested, it would have been known. The drug choice and /or dosage modifications could have been made

Rather than rewrite the details here The link below will take you to a thread that has the posts that I have written in the last few days.

I'm not trying to sell Genelex. Other laboratories are doing genetic testing. But Genelex is the only company right now that provides the application of the genetic results to the drugs we are taking. Other companies, I'm sure are trying to build the same business model. It's the future of drug administration.

Why? Patients will no longer except being experimented upon with drugs that can harm them. If the docs won't do this because it's the right thing to do it. Then we have to PUSH them into doing the right thing.

http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/73/topic/7...

You're not the first person, sas-schatzi, that I've heard about but for sure you had the worst side effects. I'm sure you posted this info on the chemo webistes. You know, since doctors still don't know what causes cancer and there is no cure for it...just NED, no evidence of disease, we are all guinea pigs. It's not just toxic drugs, it's surgical complications that can last years but we're never told about, lymphedema possibilities that are just awful to deal with, etc. etc.

Breast cancer treatment five years ago bears little resemblance to how it's treated today so hopefully we are going in the right direction and will see huge improvements soon.

Success is in the way you walk the paths of life each day; it’s in the little things you do, and in the things you say.  Success is not in getting rich, or rising high to fame.  It’s not alone in winning goals, which all people hope to claim.  Success is being big of heart, and clean and broad in mind; it’s being faithful to your friends, and to the stranger, kind.  It’s in the children whom you love, and all they learn from you; success depends on character, and everything you do.  unattributed

Jackie, hope your four remaining days of extra long hours go smoothly ... will you get a few days off to recover? .... more than just two days?

Hi all,

Haven't been on for a few days.  We actually had a shower early this morning, it is foggy.  Boy do we need the moisture.  We finally received our Home Study forms from CPS in El Paso.  Filled them out, scaned them and sent them back.  DD is in her second week of Out Patient Alcohol treatment.  One evening last week she had a $1.50 on her so she thought she would go get a beer, and turned her car around and went to the AA meeting at the catholic church instead. DGD will not even write her Mom a letter.  I asked her about it and she said I don't know yet.  I am kind of concerned about her going to school here again, because our school system is having major money problems and they just cut the arts and band programs along with 3 other sports.  She will not have opportunity here that she does there.  She is going to stay where she is until school is out.

DH has been teaching a gentleman from Mississippi how to make brooms for the last 9 days.  He caught on real quick.  He will be leaving tomorrow.

I am lazy today, will only do what has to be done.  Before this home study we need to paint some doors.

Everyone take care

Ack! After enjoying 80+ degree days it was below freezing last night in San Antonio. All the ash trees have new leaves and the pear trees are blooming pink or white. The first Texas bluebonnet was spotted earlier this week in Bastrop and the road sides are full of bluebonnet plants with rosettes ready to pop open. Now a freeze! The only good news is we got some rain. If the weather warms up and there isn't much damage from the freeze, the rain will lead to an explosion of wildflowers next to roads and in fields all over Texas.

The bluebonnet pictures are pretty! 

Today was a very pretty, sunny day with high in the low 50's.  I had a fairly busy day.  DH and I went to the YMCA to exercise about 8 am.  Later in the day, I went to Walmart to buy my mother's groceries, took them to her house, and then drove her a short distance to her hair appointment.  She is feeling so much better since she went to the pain clinic and had some cortisone shots.   

Chevy and Rita, how are you ladies doing? 

Good morning ladies,

The bluebonnet pictures are so pretty.  We are in the single digits with more snow today, Saturday and Sunday. Spring will be here one of these days.  At least the sun has been shining.

Off to work now. Have a great day!

Welcome Diane.  

I have started doing a little yoga guided by a dvd by Jane Fonda for beginners.  It seems to be relaxing me which I needed as my anxiety has been high lately.  Although I had heard that emotions could be running high after treatment ends, I was still surprised.  

I don't think I've ever seen blue bonnets, but when my daughter was about 5, we went to the library once a week. She checked out a book called Bluebonnets for Lucinda, about a little girl in Texas. She loved the book and checked it out every week. I tried to buy it for her, but it was out of print. Now she has a little girl who is 6, and I found the book on Amazon and bought it for her!

Mary how great, it was required reading in elementary school when our daughter was in school here in TX.

Glad you found it for you GD.

Its a pretty day in the Davis Mt's. it is windy.  Yesterday afternoon while I was doing some things around the house, I walked by the kitchen window and there was a large donkey at the bird feeder and he had ate the grapefruit rind which the birds had picked out.  I was wondering where they were going.  Then he drank every drop of water out of the pan we keep there for the wild animals and birds.  

Well, they fixed everything on DH truck and found that it has a bent frame, so now they have to come and tow it to Ft. Stockton.  We are still without it.  One thing after another.

Hope all have a good day.

Common sight in our part of Texas.

We gets lots of different kinds of wildflowers, not just bluebonnets, although they are always the first ones to bloom. We usually see the first ones around the end of February and have one kind of flower or another my the roads for months and months. In the fall we have fields of several kinds of yellow flowers. Beautiful all. This was taken in Fredericksburg last year at Wildseed Farms. Google it to see fabulous photos of all the kinds of flowers they grow and seeds they can mail to you.

MaryFox, Congratulations on your last chemo!!! All downhill from here.