"Chatting" for Hearts; Part II

Lil is still having a few problems, but they don't know if these will clear up with some more time...she went on vacation, so we'll have to wait!

It's not my back Libby...though it's part of it-it's my legs and my upper back, which I'm relating to lungs...I do have lung problems, but have never had it like this.

Heidi's situation is really troubling to me, this has been 2 wks. already waiting for a mammogram after discovering a mass in imbedded in muscle, her Dr.'s been out of town lecturing and the MA in the office has told her it was scheduled and Heidi found out, someone forgot to do it. :( Hopefully by next week she'll get in and find something more out!!! Something positive would be nice-right Heidi!?

Barb, what's up?? lol I don't know, Libby. Kathlyn's just not feeling too good right now-hopefully she'll be back in a day or two!?

So there you have it, Libby, we've been abandoned for now! :)

Have you had any results with your tests that you'd care to share?? You're not hiding anything are you? Seems like a lot of tests so far with nothing going on...I was just speculating if they were looking for a connection to something?

With Love and Hugs, Teri :)

Hey, I'm here. I think I might have had a touch of something. Family members have been sick with cold and flu symptoms, during the hottest summer we've had in ages here in MI. I came home from work this afternoon and slept for 3 hours. That's an awfully long "nap!" And I slept pretty well last night for the most part.

I hope all of you are well. I have to catch up on posts and see if I can catch up on what has been going on for the past week! Hugs, Kathy

Kathy

 a cup of homemade chicken broth with a touch of garlic in it then tea and lemon and a dab of whiskey to make yoy sleep like ababay. hope it doesnot turn into something to bad and post when yuo can.

Heidi

Good homemade cough Syrupo and it works and does make yu sleep like a baby will send it to you in an e-mail later on today.

 

Folks this stress from waiting and witing and being put off is geting to me I now sleep ok but wake up feeling groggy and then also toss and turn alot and I can tell my thyroid is acting up due to my tiggers and this stress is awful feels like I got something in my throat and it feels full. called Doctors offcie Fri abot 3 pmm he called me  said wait and see when I give blood and have my songram tests on July 11th the se him on JUly 25th Itold him what was happening and he said he will see what is up sionce they both work in one clinc but offices in the mniddle and one side of the office is my thyroid doctor other side is my PCp letys hope he can find ut too. But my thyroid is giving me the fits now and that can make my heart condition worse too.whichj I donot need now.

 

Folks I posted on another website and got no repilies about this ????? But what does CHEMO do to you if you have heart disease I heard it can get worse and that I donot need heard it on the news and  barelya pargraph in the paper if you have breast cancer and heart disease and have Chemo it can make yuor heart disease worse have any of you heard this.

Heidi

 

Heidi, though I did try to look up this combination - I didn't find anything yet. What I can tell you is that I do know that chemo therapy is hard on the body - basically your immune system is weaker and you are apt to catch things more easily, that is why they recommend staying away from people that have colds/flu's, etc. Remember when my Dad had lung cancer? He went through Chemo therapy when he was78/79 yrs. of age and he had a prior MI, stents in his aorta, stents in his femoral artery, CHF, an aortic aneurysm, emphysema, neuropathy, he was on kidney dialysis, he had A-Fib amongst other things including skin cancer. The main thing he became ill with was pneumonia. But he survived that and did well after that incident. The only thing that seemed to affect him and his body the most, was the loss of my Mom, his wife, of 55 yrs. Heidi, I understand your need to know as much as possible, but try to focus on more of the positive for now as much as you are able!! If they discover it is a cancerous mass, then they will determine what you can and cannot handle at that time. You are one tough cookie!! Love and Hugs, Teri :)

Beach Jay here is the recipie

in a small jar add 1 to 2 ounces of water to that add 4-6 Tablespoons of sugar then a juice of 4 lemons or the equivaalent of it then 3-4 shpts of Whiskey 86 proff or 100 proff and two tablesp[oons at night it does help or if your hubby can stand it a shot of straight JW Dant 100 proff could loosen up the phlemg.

ok.

 

NOw folks I hada fluid filled cyst back in 1994 and they did a FNA to drain it now they did another FNA nothing came out so no Fluid Filled Cyst is what my Doctor told me now still a waiting.

You all enjoy the recipie I useit when I haev a cold etc.

 

Heidi

hi all,

teri, was barb having a procedure?  can't remember now...but of course i hope you're feeling better, too..,

heidi, so will you hear something on tuesday?  seems that's what you said on one of your recent posts. 

not hiding anything from my healing well family - just waiting game a bit still, from the docs AT HOME, not mayo.  and frustrated/sad/disappointed that okay, i give in, there are no miracle cures for any of us, right?  all we can do is our very best to stay on top of our medical situations, and mostly it seems to happen at our own insistance, all of us.  now at mayo, that wasn't the case, but "back home," for all of us, it sure seems to be the way it works.  so frustrating.  anyway, i'm still having some really hard times/days, i have some times where i feel OK and times when i feel i am surely ER bound.  i'd just like to:  level out, find some meds that will help the tougher times.  i'm not expecting a cure.  i would just like to feel a bit more "maximum" so that i can work, actually eat out with friends, etc.  but you know, i know that i'm a lucky creature, here in my own home tonight.  i feel every night not in the ER/hospital is a good night, really!  so...i'm hanging in, but admit that i feel i've done about everything i can do, and still feeling purty lousy so much.  discouraging.  i need some heidi/teri/barb/kathlyn words of encouragement!  i feel selfish asking, when i know you all share equal if not greater problems than i do.  but thank you for being there for me -

by the way, heidi, i was just about to ask here whether or not anyone else in our gang has had cancer/breast mastecotomies.  i'm a 12 year survivor.  heidi, i did not have ANY treatment.  i had my breasts removed, but no chemo, no nuffim'.  and i sent someone else with cancer to my oncologist this past year, she gave them pills to take instead of having chemo.  so don't despair, don't jump any guns 'til you find out for sure what's going on.  then we will be here to help you face it!  i want to encourage you STRONGLY to get more than one opinion though, on your diagnosis AND the treatment.  it's amazing how that can vary from doc to doc.  not a one of my male docs, when i had breast cancer, recommended that i see an oncologist.  one year later, i said "shouldn't i?"  my doc said "gee, yeah, why not?"  i wanted to whack him on the head with his clipboard!  anyway, you know how it is these days, you have to take your care into your own dern hands and be "assertive" - i'm trying to stop being aggressive and being "assertive" instead!

x's to all,

libby

Hiya Libby, pal!! Barb...I'm wondering where she is too, but I suspect she's working very very hard! The place she worked at, upgraded her to a fulltime position which she wanted, but I think she's still working her parttime night job...so no time for us right now. :( Barb!!!!

Libby this is off topic but my Mom in her 60's was diagnosed with breast cancer, had one T cell in one lymph node, so they did a radical and then put her on Tamoxifen and she went past her 5 yr. plus mark and then in her 6th year was found that it metasticized to her liver. They put her on Femora and she lived another 2 1/2 yrs. No chemo. There are so many new things now, they are saying Femora instead of Tamoxifen...so you never know.

Libby, do they know what your stomach pains are from yet?, do they know yet what they are treating? I just want you to know, that you never walk alone...you know that don't you? You have your Angels looking out for you, always.

Not knowing what you are dealing with is such a very hard thing to cope with-sometimes worse than knowing, so I do understand that. Is your pain tolerable-have they given you something for that? Try to focus on something beyond today and beyond this...With hugs, Teri xoxoxo

Libby yep Tues is when the doctors schedualing secretary is in but will try to find something out and I will demand me to see and onocolgist too if it is the Big C.

I always tell people I like the  Tim McGraw song Live like yua re dying go skydiving, rocky mountain climbing ride a bullname fumanchu and I have been down to the botom of the grnd Cayon and back on a mule before my sister could walk she is now 37 no bull butu aa horse I rode many years ago and next year when I turn 50 I'll go r tandum skydiving and then today I missed church kind of in a funk mood too Libby and saw it on Tv and the preacher preached on Live Like yuo are dying them my friend Dorene  called me up and said he preached on yuor sone Heidi i told her I saw it.

Libby just think postive thoughts aand cry and talk to God and punch a pillow if you haveto and  find a way to let it all out and if you have a furkid love yur furkid pet it hold it give it kisses and let ity give yu furkid licks ok.

I am off to nassau County to a Humane Society Pinic for its vol and also di=scuss disaster prepardnes  for animals  from 3-7 and will leave about 2 pm  well I'll post when I come back just hang in theer Libby and yes  tell them what yuo want we gott o be advocts for our own selfs we know our body better than anyone else.

Anmd yes folks please check with yuor Doctor abuot this rememdy it is an old Grandma remendy like other things we have learned through the years I am also on 7 meds and only use that if my tempo is up and really bad coughing too it does knock me out too and maks me sleep like a baby but first check woth yuor doctor ok.

HEidi

The place was so beautiful and relaxing right on the river with 400 acres all around us and gazabeos etc and a barn wiht pictures of all the wild animals that come up at night der, racoons etc the acoonswee so cute. the people who own thios land made the pound puppies from years ago but lease ity out to organizations with a good cause then they donate some money back to them. This was through Nassau Humane Society where we Vol. I willnot know anythingt ill sometime Tuesdaywhen i call when the office Assistant and  schedualing secretary are in. but this is makeing me tense and know my thyropid is dncing in me neck and acting up i can feel it oh well . I'll let you nkow soon as I know something I also know this has you guys and gals pulling ut hair too. yu all take care and I'll post sometime Monday.

HEidi

 I'm back ya'all! I was at Country USA for the last 5 days. I skipped Friday because I was so fed up with the heat, the people and the road construction that they decided couldn't wait 5 more days. Plus I am still trying to recover from sinus infection and bronchitis. Now my hubby has it and is not in a very good mood. I hate when he gets sick. I was so sick last week my boss sent me home 2x. I start Friday the first there officially full time even though I've been logging close to full time hours already. I can't wait to go down to only 2 nights a week at the night job. Woohoo I'll finally get some sleep after almost 11 years of this stuff.

Libby I did have the upper scope and it went fine. I have esophagitis and gastritis. NO CANCER!!!! And does appear that the doc found the right combination of drugs. I take Zantac at bedtime and protonix in the morning. I haven't even been taking the carafate anymore at bedtime and I am finally with out heartburn at night. It's wonderful after 4 years of it every night. It might be that I'm off the Zocor too though. I hate that stuff. They want to double it now but I can't live like I am loseing my mind anymore. I have to be able to think straight for my day job. They will have to find something else. I have to talk to the heart doc about the aspirin too because it could be the cause of the gastritis according to the stomach doc.

Heidi you would have been in heaven in the doggie booth at Country USA. They even had doggie sunglasses. Mine never would have stood for that so just got her a pink scarf and then one with pooh on it to wear out east because my daughter in law loves pooh. I got scarves for the other 2 pups in my life also. My sisters pup was named after Reggie White (Green Bay Packers) so got him a packer scarf. I got my grandpuppy a really cool one with blue flames since they didn't have any flag ones left for him. I got to see the little chawawa that belonged to the lady that ran the booth. He was so cute sitting in a tiny playpen under a blanket. I don't ever recall them having that booth there in past years. It was really fun to look at all the cool dog stuff. Wish I would have had more to spend on all my favorite little dogs. Well better get to bed for now since I promised my boss I would come in at 1pm tomorrow. Oh if you guys noticed I changed my screen name. I didn't like my last name on the computer like that and I finally figured out how to change it to what it was supposed to be in the first place. Barb

Hi Heidi, we have a red hat society at the senior center where I work. It's a lot of fun. I love working with the seniors. My sons name is Josh. He is a diesel mechanic on a base in Western Iraq. I got goosebumps at Country USA when Brooks and Dunn played only in America and had a bunch of service men come out on stage and salute the audience. 3 of them were Marines in dress blues. They look so nice in the dress blues. Have to go to work now. Barb

Libby, I'm sorry you have to live with this. 10 abdominal surgeries?? Wow! that is an awful lot-no wonder you have those adhesions! I do wish you the best and hope that there will be something more that will come along in these scientific minds that hang around these labs and that one day...?! :)

With big gentle hugs, Teri :)
xoxoxo