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

Whew !!!!I  I'm back from Carbondale and someone ( probably a mistake, but it works for me )  made this appt. for me as a "diagnostic" mammogram.  So, they were able to give me the results before I left.  Good news !!!!  I was pretty cool about it --- I think because my Avon Navigator from 7 yrs. ago came in and we chatted away like we the old friends I feel like we are.  Anyway, even the tech said -- hmmm, that's weird, but since they used that word, we can give you the results right away. 

Anyway, Donna, the patient Navigator and her husband had just adopted a brand new baby girl ( they had two grown sons ) 7 yrs. ago so my visits with her were immersed with the joy and enthusiasm Donna was feeling at not only being a 'mommy' again, but of a little girl as well.  So, I was a bit more relaxed but still found that I was holding my breath just a little bit. 

I think if you go 15 years for the most part ( I'd have to read up though ) you would have a new primary wouldn't you ?  I feel like I had some of these answers at some point but have forgotten it all.  I can forget so much easier these days.  I do think though that is sort of an age related kind of thing.  Also -- I think after years I'm just tired of trying to hold all sorts of facts in my head.

Didn't someone mention at one time that you only have so much room up there for information and when your brain is full....that's it.  Nothing else can stick for long.  Hmm, or is that my wistful thinking !!!

Puffin not sure I said, but I sure like your avatar picture.  I do hope your friend has and is very successful ( it sounds like she and here Dr. have a good handle on things ) with her txs. this time around. 

70 degrees sounds so delightful Carole -- which is what we just had before our ice storm.  It is still hard for me to believe we did over a 4o degree drop in temperatures overnight to get our ice storm.  Incredible ??? 

Chevy, if we could all charter a bus we would come to Colorado and demand rides in your new car.  I didn't realize  that a Prism was a Chevrolet ----  you actually might feel some comfort then maybe --- of course the Cruise is a much newer model, but I noticed only slight differences in Denny's truck ( Chevy ) and my Blazer.  His was a 94' and mine is an 04'.  Just glad you have an automatic transmission.  Oh how nice that is going to be for you. 

Anyway, I'll see you all later.

Jackie

Yes Jackie.... I'm so relieved for you.... You are my little Sister, and I just worry...

Yes... I think after 15 years, it would be a "new" one.... not mets.... Is it the same breast? I can't remember what you said....

My "new" car is a dream... I am just too happy... I keep going out to the garage to check on it.... Ha, ha! Janie drove it around a few blocks... I was like a Mother hen... ! Thought she should have driven slower! But she loves it too. Tomorrow night it will be mine.... free and clear.... what a relief!

I wouldn't even make you take your shoes off if I gave you a ride...:) I remember when I was about 15, and this guy picked me up from home, and asked me to take off my shoes.... I thought ...."well, okay...whatever".... But NOW if that happened? I would say "ARE you Flipping NUTS?"

But you girls could keep your shoes on.... maybe.... if you scrubbed the bottoms first.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.  Let me learn from you, love, you, bless you before you depart.

Mary Jean Irion

YEA Jackie! So glad to hear that all went well with your mammo!

Welcome Sophie and Chloesmom. Come and visit us often.

Well Thanksgiving is over and the excitement is building toward Christmas. There seems like so much to do to be ready for it. I need to start on my Christmas cards tomorrow and finish up my shopping. Although I'm always running around like crazy during this time of year, I really do love the season. My grandsons help me put up my tree, too when they were here over Thanksgiving. It is certainly not a precisely decorated tree but they thought it was beautiful when they finished and I won't change a thing about it! :-)

Congrats on the new car, Chevy! So glad you found one you really like! :-)

Carole, so glad you made it home safely! It sounds like you had plenty to eat once you got served! I'm like you. I have to eat something every few hours. I seem to get headaches if I go too long without food.

Hugs to all of you!

Puffin, now you can be strong for your friend.

Yesterday was a difficult day because the vet told me my miniature schnauzer, Penny, has lymphoma. She has been with me through everything, so I will be here for my furry faced girl

Teacher, sorry about the bad news concerning your pet friend. 

It's foggy here this morning.  DH is off to a dermatologist apptment where he will undergo the MOSE (sp?) surgery to remove a cancer on his ear.  I have a busy schedule playing chauffeur for my mother.  Her hair apptment is at 11 am.  Then she has an apptment at a local hospital to have an injection for osteopenia.  That's at 1 pm. 

Once the fog burns off, it will warm up to the 70's again today.  We're usually in the 60's this time of year. 

I should be at the gym this morning but I'm being lazy.

Chevy, enjoy that snazzy new car! 

Happy Thurs. to all.

I am sorry to hear your news Teacher of Precious Penny.   If there is anything that is ok I think it is the wonderful stoicism that our furry loved ones possess.  They do not ( or so it has always seemed to me ) make judgments about what happens to them --- they just accept the circle of life so much easier than we do.  We grieve so much for them because we feel that they may have been cheated -- that they deserve more than the end that is coming.  But they just remain mostly calm ---   I have felt for a long, long time as animals are without guile, live by their code always -- that they are returned to us at a later time -- when we embark into our eternity.  It is what in the end makes it ok for me to have to lose the wonder that they are and have been to me.  A lot of pain, but also a quiet sustaining joy that will be a comfort much later on.  What looks like an ending will much later be another beginning -- for all time. 

Blessings

Jackie

Happy Birthday Val- hope you have a great day. Anne

Happy Birthday Sandra and Val!

Mommarch, Hope she gets good news. What a relief to know there is a match for her if she needs the marrow transplant. Sending you hugs.

Happy birthday to Sandra and Val.

Anne, Thank you for keeping track of things.

Happy Birthday Sandra -- hope it is a very delicious one:

and many, many more.

Blessings

Jackie

mommarch,

That is quite a burden you  have been carrying around.  I am so glad there is already a donor if it is needed.  I am also extremely happy that GD is with you and in a stable environment if this is to be.  You will all be in my thoughts and prayers. 

Blessings

Jackie

Mommarch, Hope she gets good news.

Sandy .....Happy Birthday

Val....Happy Birthday

Anne, Thank you for keeping track of our birthdays

Teacher...sorry to hear about your Penny

Jackie....So glad to hear that all went well with your mammogram

Miminiemi.....Have a great time in Texas

Hi to everyone!

Moms n val happy birthday

chevy congratulations on the card good luck. 

no mine was 15 years and it was metastatic it's on the chest wall on the same side as I had the lumpectomy.

I'm sure everybody is heard cuz I wrote it on other boards,I have shingles what the hell

so now i am quarantined, okay go in pain but I'm taking pain pills for my back and my doctor gave me medicine he is worried that I'll get it again, my ammune system compromised thanks for caring I'm lurking,  it's 115 am

Here's a photo from yesterday when I finally got to meet our lovely clown Mimi, aka Thelma. (She's the cute one on the right.) She and her friend Jan were in San Antonio on a bus trip from Iowa. Our weather didn't cooperate very well - foggy and humid, but the group seemed to be having a good time anyway. My iPhone photos are quite fuzzy but then, at this age, maybe that's a good thing.  We'll have to wait until Thelma gets back home and posts her photo. (Although Jan took both pictures so chances are all of them are fuzzy.)

 I saw my plastic surgeon yesterday for an 8 week check-up after my October surgery. He gave me a great birthday present - I now have a date for my final (#6) surgery and it's coming up fast! I'm "on" for December 19th. This surgery will be to finish reconstruction now that it's apparent that surgery #5 was a success. The infection I had after the first surgery last year caused a loss of parts of three muscles on my side, chest and the front of my left shoulder. Most of the soft tissue on my left side was lost including 1/3rd of the way up the side of the left implant, so it had to go as well. I've had surgery to repair the muscles but they are short and don't work like they used to. Let's just say they "don't play well with others." My altered anatomy has pushed and pulled in the wrong way, causing pain and causing the implants on both sides to migrate and cause additional pain. So now that the plastic surgeon's 4th try has worked, we can move on with getting rid of a left mud flap and do fat grafting on my "skin over bone" areas on my chest and under my left arm. Yeah! I never thought I'd get a December surgery date and figured this would drag on several more months. It's about time I got some good news.