Susie!! Your son got married! Congratulations, that is wonderful š! I hope your husbandās new meds are helpful in the long run. So many times (we all) fix one problem, and then others pop up. Iāve...
Hi Susie. Thanks for removing my last name, I didnāt know that was a no-no. I wouldnāt want to get put into forum jail! Yes, I painted as a child, very young, I started drawing as soon as I could...
Well, I had another surgery 6 days ago, on January 4. This was to take the expander out and exchange it for an implant. The surgery went very well. I only had minimal pain from it. I still actually...
Omgosh, I am so sorry it's been so long since I've posted. I did not die! lol The healing continued really well from the reconstruction of 11/14/18. The back scar is flattened out, but a section of...
Thank you! I do think i am healing pretty well, and pretty quickly. I end up in pain several times a day, so that's my alarm clock for taking medicine. But the pain no longer gets up to a ten out of...
Well I had my surgery done yesterday. They are generous with the dilaudid, thank goodness, as the back pain is severe. (But Iāve had worse pain through Voldemort, so I feel like I can handle most...
YUM!! Chicken and dumplings! I will forever think of being a little girl and enjoying both my momās and grandmomās chicken and dumplings. One did it with the big, fat, round ball dumplings and one...
Hola. 2 weeks from tomorrow is the new ābig dayā. Weāre technically in flu season now (which my doctor says lasts until MAY), so I am forgoing doing anything in public from now on. No opening the...
Good to hear from you, Susie. Your Texas weather is just bizarre, lol. We also have had either drought or horrendous rains (without the temperature swings), and no matter how much rain we get, 2 days...
Susie I am not hesitant at all to try a hypnotist. I just donāt have time. It seems like I have 3-5 doctors appointments every week, not all of them related to cancer. But it does overwhelm me. I...
My timeline of 6-12 months to heal from the staph before any other surgeries could be done was based on what I heard the emergency surgeon say a couple days after the surgery. Since then, 3 other...
Today I awoke feeling emotionally just about like the old me---fearless, and the most positive person in the world. Or more accurately, I feel the POSSIBILITY that I can be fearless and endlessly...
I do plan on continuing to write here. I just meant that I couldn't go on with the same subject, being in the emotional state I was in, any longer. I have in the last 3 days or so significantly...
I realize I don't want to go on with detailing all the valid reasons I have for feeling like I do. After the post above I had a really long chat with a gf spelling it all out and I am worn out, fed...
Hi Susie and ZenHen and anyone else who may be reading. ZenHen, I wish you improvement/remission/cure with whatever health issue that you're dealing with is close to being true. I'm sorry I'm not...
The news was good! Although I did sob whenever I spokeāeven after Iād gotten the good news. Itās the subjectāknowing what I look like under my clothes and knowing that there will be AT LEAST one...
Hello folks. Susie, you amaze me. Everytime I think something unique is happening, I find out you've been through it or worse already. This is very uplifting to read, as you've gone through so many...
One of the appointments I went to after that last post was to my PS. The first thing she said when my gown came off, is "It doesn't look like we'll be able to save the other one". Everything was a...
Good morning folks. Sounds like ya'll are hanging in there well enough. Which is why I've been hesitant to write! I know it's safe here for me to vent my heart out and bemoan my fate, but sometimes I...
Surgery "went well" i guess. from the doctors' perspective. i entered the hospital thinking it was going to be an outpatient surgery, which made no sense to me at all. However, right away they said...
I have left my son's room a few times in the last couple of days!!! Woohoo! I haven't done much but I consider it a big step to moving on into my reality. Best of health and positive thoughts to all....
Zen Hen I could hug you :) Thank you....
Howdy. I don't have much positive to say,,,,,which is what has kept me from writing. I feel ungrateful, or rude somehow, if all I do is come on here and complain about one thing or another. But...
Zen Hen (great name!), You have no idea how much your post lifted me up! After a very rough week overall, and then a disappointing visit with my PS, I was feeling like giving up in so many ways. And...
Howdy. My pre-op with the PS got moved to tomorrow, only a 2 day delay, and surgery is still 20 days away. I've been to the PTSD specialist 3 times. The last appointment I canceled and have called to...
So iāve Been thinking about all the things I should accomplish before my surgery in a few weeks. All the weight I should lose, exercises I should do, fit in as many appointments as I can. So it...
Susie, if we lived near each other, I'm sure we'd be friends in real life. Two times in the past ten years it has worked out where I got to meet an online buddy, and both times we clicked. I think...
Susie, I'm glad you had a nice Memorial Day. It is hard for me to think right now. I have become a MESS with anxiety about the upcoming surgery. I did get some anxiety pills from my doctor and just...
I am so thrilled to say and feel that I actually have hair again! I know it's been coming in very slowly for about a year now, but it's really been until the last month where it is long enough (about...
Hi. I know it's been a long time since i've posted. I am going through a period of denial, where i try not to think about ANY of this. I have my surgery date--July 18, to switch out the expanders for...
pt 2. Then about a week after that my husband and I had each DVRd shows to watch, and I came into the room to watch mine when I thought his was over, but his show had run late and so I caught a...
Susie, I would want to be just like your friend in her 70s-- no matter what cancer may keep coming back, I would continue to fight it and go on with life, in the best possible way I could. Yes, the...
I understand about the pollen. Same thing here. I thought about you the other day when I heard the newscaster describe the wacky Texas weather. I still wanted to post about my PTSD episodes, because...
I guess Iām glad iām not the only one. But I am sorry it happens to you as well. A couple times when I think Iāve lost a post, after hitting some random key, Iām able to find my post-in-progress by...
I just wrote a super long post and LOST IT. My fingers often hit the wrong keys and I've had this happen before on this site. I have no idea which finger is hitting what wrong key, buy it is...
Susie, I am horrified by your post. It has taken me all day after reading it to respond because it set off a PTSD attack!! It is exactly what I have begun to fear for my future (having never thought...
Continued--- so it was night, same old story, hearing lots of "I'm not willing" and having the call button not answered in anything CLOSE to a timely matter. I had to pee, the portable commode was...
Susie, I was wondering about you being MIA, and fearing it might not be something wonderful like a vacation. Saying prayers for your and your family, and hoping to hear from you soon. To go on with...
Well, the call to the litigation specialist went as badly as it could. It ended with her saying the hospital feels they have no compensable responsibility to me. So now i'll go ahead and tell ya'll...
I forgot to mention that my blood work came back normal. Yay! I didn't need to schedule an ultrasound or CT scan, whatever, to find out if something's wrong all because some #was slightly below or...
So iāve been applying these two scar creams for awhile now, and I have to say I am impressed. I started out with pretty great results after my PS was done with me after the mastectomies. But these...
I can't believe it's been so long since I wrote. I am not keeping up with my creams as diligently as I did at first. It's supposed to be twice a day, but now I'm only doing once a day. It's hard to...
Susie, you are not losing your mind. I did indeed post that my name is Linda. Not too too long ago. Like you, though, if I go back with the intention of finding a specific post, I NEVER find it....
Susie and all--- I really do have chemo brain! I DID see my PS today. And the right breast, the one that had to be replaced, is done. There's no more skin to stretch. She did add a little more to the...
Susie, that sounds dreadful what your father went though, and I'll bet there's a lot more you didn't say. Yes, I am keeping on top of the hospital. I got a call today from someone in hospital...
Well, I have to say that I am very disappointed at how slowly my hair is growing back. Most of it is just 2 inches, and some places 3 inches. And it ONLY stands straight up, like clown hair. Not a...
Hi. Yes, I have made copies of everything. A complaint was eventually filed with the nurse manager of the floor I was on. She was very sympathetic and agreed that everything the nurses and aids did...
I regret to say I have NOT kept up with my pre-cancer days physical warm ups. I had been doing them nearly every day before the Nov. 2 surgery to switch out my tissue expanders, but I know I had a...
Brrrr, that is some cold weather. I know Texas can be like Florida where it's so cold you're wearing 3 layers of clothes and boots on one day and then a couple days later it's warm and your wearing...
Hello Susie, and everyone! I wish I knew more "names". I feel like I have friends out there. Which reminds me. Let me introduce myself. My name is Linda! So, my younger son just returned to DC to law...