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SAS very informative email on vit d thanks

MAgs How sweet your dh

Just have to tell you! Our Grand-son called!!!!!! He is doing GREAT! That's all that matters....... He is getting ready to go to Nashville with his Brother, for that business they are starting.... Said his Mom sometimes goes off the deep end with "things"..... but I'm just thankful I got to talk to him.... My heart is so happy!!!!!

Didn't even mention the "melt-down" going on at that time....Said he has the little "souveniers".... his kidney stones....

Thanks! Everything is okay with the world now....

I just found this article about my "little" Brother!

http://www.cowboyjackclement.com/news/niles/120315interview_kenny.html

Spookie--You've kept your port? Thanks for telling me what your "Dumbo's lucky feather" is. Mine's the tree I guess. Anyone else have a "lucky feather"? My port causes me soooooo much pain. I hope I won't have to keep it beyond October. Do you still have to go get yours flushed every four weeks?

Mags--Funny--about your port. Sounds like you have a sweetie in that DH of yours.

If I ever have to get a port put back in, I'm going to ask to have it in my arm instead of my chest. I asked about it when they put in the first one. They lied to me and told me that didn't exist. I found out that my friend had hers in her arm one week later. She found a doc who does it that way.

This cancer stuff has really strengthened our marriage a hundred-fold. I guess there can be blessings in even the hardest of things. My DH tells me how beautiful I am, inside and out everyday. He says that cancer has made me even sweeter. And he tells people that the day he met me, he couldn't stand to look away because it hurt to look away. He also went around telling everyone my head felt like a baby ducky when my hair first started growing in from chemo. That part was a little less amusing. LOL

Chevy--I'm soooo glad you got a call from your Grandson! Yay! You sound like a super caring Grandma. My mom lives for moments with her grandkids. And my sisters tell me that being a grandma is among the greatest joys one can experience. I look forward to that.

OK, I'm only going to tell this here, because I think you'll have a good laugh, but I can't believe I'm going to admit this!! I think I am going to win the Stupid Rads Patient Award. Yesterday, I was having trouble keeping cream and a pad on a trouble spot. So I decided to tape it in place.....yep, you can see where this is going. Honestly, I don't know why I thought this was a good idea in hind sight. It was special tape (very light adhesive--more like a post-it) and my skin looked OK where I put the tape. I wanted so bad for the medicine to stay in place!! Well, the trouble spot benefited, but I ripped all my skin off in three places taking the tape off. I feel like a complete idiot!! OK, you can laugh now. LOL I'm laughing at myself...and crying...and laughing some more.

Hello everybody

I'm still around, just lurking lately. Nothing much to add. Recovering after chemo (gemzar/carbo). The week of chemo I'm quite wiped out, like a bad flu. The second week I'm better, so I'm rushing to do all the work I haven't done the week before. And then it starts again

Patty- so sorry you're back in the hospital! Hope they sort it out this time.

Everybody- big hugs from California!

Ibgal--I followed that same pattern with chemo. I was always a crazy woman, frantically playing catch-up on the good week before the next round. Do you have a lot of rounds to go?

Well, my daughter's youth group's fundraiser dinner was a big success tonight. And her performance of Chim Chim Cheree was adorable. I had my first boost session in rads. Four to go and then I'm done with that mess. I was doubly tired today. I'm glad for the weekend. We will be booking our flights for the trip to Hawaii tomorrow. One step closer to that trip becoming a reality.

Mag--LOL, thanks for telling me that. I feel a little less dingy. I have lurked around the Winter Rads group, but I decided that since my rads didn't end until April 2 that I would tie into the spring one. There are a few women in the spring thread that finish the same day I do. Are you in the winter thread? Thanks for the tip. I have learned a lot from both threads, but I missed anything that said that tape would be a bad choice. If I had thought it through a little more I think I would have done differently. Oh well. A friend of mine gave me some Silverdene and it is really helping the torn areas.

Thanks. I have done fine with skin (until the tape incident, that is). My skin and surrounding muscles have been pretty painful. All of the physical things have been little bother to me because I am not a stranger to significant amounts of pain. Going through rads has however been the worst for me on an emotional level because it triggered PTSD connected to some things in my past. The gals in the spring thread have been very sweet to me. Two days ago they all helped talk me out of giving up. I had had the worst day yet. Sounds like your skin had a rough time. I saw one of my friend's wounds and they looked pretty scary. I'm glad you are healing though. I have a trip coming up, so I am really hoping I will be fully healed by then.

Smaarty--ADORABLE!!! He looks perfectly designed for kisses and cuddles. We are going to Kauai.

That's just why we picked that island. I will be done with rads on Thursday, but I still go in for regular rounds of Herceptin. Herceptin keeps me tired and in a lot of pain. We were hoping the quiet pace of Kauai would be good. We want to snorkle of course, and there's a boat tour we are hoping we can afford, and I am hoping we can do some nice day hiking on the days when my bones aren't hurting too much. I have better days than others. Yes, sunscreen! I bought a UV blocking swim top that covers up to my neck and is long sleeved. My RO told me to put sunscreen on underneath too. I get sun poisoning easily, so I'm going to be super careful.

Are there any must-see things on Kauai that you would care to suggest?

Beachbum--Thanks for the commiseration. I am definitely finding new solutions to the problem. I'm allergic to something that is in those mesh tubes they give you--they make me itch like a dog with fleas!! But I have a cami with a "bra" in it that is very loose because I've lost a lot of weight. I've been wearing that to keep the pads in place. I'm still laughing at myself. I don't like admitting not having a brain, but I went ahead and shared my little story in my rads group too, in case another person is thinking to try that.

Hi you guys! Mombie! I REMEMBER those mesh tubes! I had that MammoSite device for about 10 days, and that mesh tube thing helped hold all those tubes in place.... I am really allergic to tape also.....

Yes IBgal.... The "kid" is acting normal to me again.... Ha! He is such a little dickens..... Not really "little" or a "kid" but he will always be to me.... Ahhhh, so many sweet memories.....

And Damnit Sass! I'm SORRY I forgot to comment on your Son and his winning his first case with the Appellate Court! That is so cool! Congratulations, Mom! Thanks for calling me....! It was so fun talking to you.... we'll have to do it more.... When you said Sheilah, I thought WTH???? But right away, the brainiac that I am, I GOT it.... Ha!

Okay.... gotta go start something for dinner..... We bought the BEST "collossal" shrimp yesterday.... Usually get those midget ones, but these were the raw, big ones! I cooked a few.... and have lots left..... Think I'll just eat them with cock-tail sauce again.....

HolyMoly you hens have been BUSY cackling away!! be back in 10 hours after I get caught up!!

Good evening all!

JWoo--Funny. Did you catch up yet?

Sas--I must have missed something, but I'll add my congrats to your DH too.

Holeinone--Have a great trip!