So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[CoyoteMagic]

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NICE! Show us when you get them done!

Speaking of Tattoo!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE Vote for me!!!!!

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If I win I can afford the ones that I want to get done, lol. Mine is entry Lucky #13!!!! It's the tat of the Y-Me Ribbons.

 

[chilling in muscadine]

WOW!!!!! Gin has a thread on her cancer, but why wouldn't you, Just because I've felt like crap since april fools day when I got my first treatment and haven't felt like going on line much. And then WOW she has a huge thread. It did take me two days to read it at night when I could get my pigs to sleep. The like to play chair with people in it tipping. In other words I will be at the key board typing and the next thing I know my chair is rolling me to the middle of the room.

At first it aggravates me but after awhile all I can do is laugh at them. I give them an apple or orange and they are off to a nap them.

I have wonderful news. I have officially received two months of the drug called Adriamycin, nick named the red devil. This drug leff me hospitalized on three seperate occaisons and had to receive two units if blood during one trip. YIPPIE, thats one over with.

Now I'm on the taxol like Gin in is on. I've done two months and one week of that one. Three more weeks to go on this one and then I get to start my good old 60 treatments of radiation. I about fell out when I heard the 60 treatments and will do these in a three month period. I did want to tell Gin that since the pot pills got in my system good all I do is think about food. I only gained one pound this week so I'm up seven pounds since starting the taxol. All this food I am eating is giving me energy to get out of bed and do stuff. I'm laughing again which is a major thing to have going on when your are real sick. And I can't beleive what I'm about to do you beat me to it. Oh well if we can't laugh at our selves who can we laugh at. Here goes :

Man I hope I don't ever have this hair cut again. During my chemo trips on friday I am seeing a lot of new faces and they are telling me that they are starting there second trip throuh chemo land, the toughest town in the whloe da#n land. Im like that goes double for me. The one thing I think will save my life is because Im eating so well. I do beleive my derpression and PTSD, and the anorexia are way down on the list of my medical problems now. Cancer kicked them to the curb.

Thanks a lot Gin for the pic, your gonna make it. Just pay attension to what your body is telling you and you'll beat it. I still can;t beleive you beat me to the pic idea first, you brave gal you. Thanks for letting me put mine up too. Now I have something to laugh about when I'm felling blue.
Thanks ladys for all you cherry post to keep Gins moral up, you guys all rock!!!!
Your friend,
S@R@

 

[Lunachick]

Wow Sara look at you! You got fuzzies! And eyebrows! I'm jealous! It's so nice to see you on here posting and everything YAY! Tell us more about the chair rolling pig antics and show us a pic of them!

So glad you're back on board.

I'll know more about what kind of radiation I'm supposed to get on the 18 of Aug. Sara, you've gone through the hardest part, this should be easy for you now. Be strong woman!

 

[OrpingtonManor]

I have a friend who just went through her radiation. so many treatments! Now that she's done, we're going to have a cancer-free party to celebrate all our friends who have had, and beat, cancer! Yay!

 

[WingingIt]

Luna, those chicks are adorable and I'm so glad you 'rang out' of chemo. Do they do that there? Back home when someone is done they ring these big ole' bells celebrating. Anyway, I'm very glad you are done. I'm trying to remember how long my Mom kept her port this time, I want to say it was probably 6-9 months. She has horrible veins, anyway, so she was OK with that. I do know it was based on how her bloodwork numbers were looking, they wouldn't remove it until her numbers were low and stayed low long enough.

Sara, you look good. Really, your color is even and you've got fuzzies already, too! My family tends to turn into spotted leopards on chemo. Your piggies sound HILARIOUS!

You're both doing amazing!


Oh, have to add a comment since some were talking about tattoos. I have one and my Mom wasn't so excited

about it when I first got it (I was an adult and on my own, so too bad..lol). Well, when they did her chemo they had to mark, permanently, certain measurements on her chest so they could precisely move the chemo each time. So I give her heck that she was complaining about my one tattoo when she's got THREE!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Sara you are doing AWESOME!! I remember when you started this, big changes since then! I'm so proud of you!!! Friend of mine was on that "Red Devil". It left her feeling so sick. Wish the government would pull their head out of their butts and make the pot pills legal here. It would help so many people. So much of it is grown in the fields around here illegally they should just make it legal and tax the heck out of it!! (step down off my soapbox now, lol!)

You 2 ARE Survivors!! You've got the attitude and will power to get it done!! An inspiration to others facing this ruff road!

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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Hi Gin, I hadn't been doing so well until the MJ pills kicked in. I was losing a pound and a half a week and for this to happen on an already thin body was a bad thing. When I did start gaining I got all this energy. I can't beleive that a drug that has so much stigma attached to it and could help so many people isn't legal in all the states. In Alabama alone its legal in pill form I'm guessing. I've never looked it up or asked my oncologist, but for what its done for me I'm a beleiver. If its not legal in your state I just pray for anyone that is in the shape I was in find a way to get the pot pills. Its was like night and day once it got in my system.

My pigs are both girls. My first one I got when she was 8 weeks old and her name is Petunia. She was born on Nov. 7th. I loved her so much but felt like she needed a friend {what was I thinking}. Well I got her a friend, I named her Stormy because her first day in the house it was like a storm going through my house. She was born on Feb. 7th and I got her on Feb 14th. Just seven days old. BTW I was born on Marth 7th. That would never happen again even if I tried. Well I was terrified that I wouldn't wake up to feed Stormy her bottle feedings at night for the next 7 weeks. Snakeman just laughed at me. Now I was raised in the city not the country. He said you'll wake up to feed her. He was right. This baby pig that would fit in one hand would come find me and squeal so loud that you would hustle to get the nipple in her mouth.

Well they are both over a year old now and I got them before I knew about the cancer. Petunia is more independent and doesn't need me like Stormy does, she thinks I'm her mama. Well my chair in my office rolls and Stormy hasn't figured out how she can get in my lap and snuggle. I do need to get some video of her rolling me around the room. My pigs make me laugh everyday and thats a good thing.

Another quick story since you asked about my pigs Gin. Stormy and I were napping on the sofa. Stormy was under a quilt, she was trapped under there good. Well I heard her papa move a food bowl and I woke up to get out of her way because a pig will take the shortest way to a food situation even if it is walking across your face. Well I sat up and Stormy couldn't get untangled from the quilt. The next thing I felt was her hooking he snout under my leg and then the next thing is I was airborn, I cleared the end of the coffee table and landed about three feet away on the floor still sitting up. I looked up at the sofa where I was sitting and that is about the time Stormys head came out from under the quilt and she looked at me and went oink. Now a video of that would be priceless. lol It took me one day after that to teach her that she had to lay with her head opposite to where mine was so if she heard another food bowl she would now go away from me instead of across me. Pigs are extremely intellegent.

Your so funny Gin, I do have eyebrowls, some but on one eye I have just two eyelashes. What a cruel joke chemo plays on us women. I through my makeup case in the drawer and you know they had that look good, feel good day in my oncoligist building where they gave cancer patiens a gift bad with $500.00 worth of expensive makeup. All my stuff better come back cause I want to use the expensive makeup. I'll have to check with you on colors because I already know I want use some of the colors and maybe you can. I'll send you some pics and see if any stuff looks appealing to you.

Well thanks for listening Gin, keep it up guys, I feel so much hope and love on this thread its unreal. All you guys are awesome and I can tell so much of a difference than when Gin found out about the cancer. We were both terrified finding out around the same time. Were gonna make it, piece of cake, walk in the park rubbing those healing stones. lol

S@R@

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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Thanks CoyoteMagic, I really do feel like a survivor now but before when I wasn't getting enough food in I did not. I was on a routine of chemo fridays, not eating but sleeping sat and sun, then no appetite on monday. Come tueday through thursday I would have a appetite and them chemo again on friday morning. Then repeat. Most of you know I already had anorexia for over 4 years when I found out about the cancer. If it wasn't for the anorexia I would have never found the knot in my breast. I would just like for anyone out there that may have a problem eating, because anorexia is a side affect of chemo to get the pot pills, and if your state isn't legal travel to a state to get them. Do whatever you have to do to get it. I feel like its the only thing saving my life.

Stay on that soapbox CoyoteMajic, you are so right. I just wonder if this problem affected more men it would be legal in all the states. I have nothing to back that up, just a thought.

 

[Damummis]

Hi Luna,

Just checking in. How ya doing? Been busier than a one armed paper hanger here. Gardens are rocking, still no moon flowers though. Beautiful plants, just waiting for flowers. The nasturtiums right next to them are attracting all types of hummingbirds. Never seen so many until this year. Crazy year if you ask me. Hot as all heck. All the old timers here keep saying "Neva saw that before...... ayup." Global warming. I am now a zone 6. Not 5.

Ok I'll stop babbling.
Hope you have a good one.
A

Oh, and to all you who are fighting the good fight.
You are an inspiration and a wonder. Because of you, I am living every day to the fullest. Enjoying my family and getting the most out of my experience here on this planet. With folks like you who needs Tony Robbins (Ewww).

 

[Lunachick]

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Thanks Aimie! I was thinking of you this morning when I was checking my moonflowers, they're climbing up the pole but they're not doing much, no buds at all YET. Maybe it was the heat this year. I did plant them late this year.

- Don't stop babbling! I enjoy reading your posts.... ayup.

I saw the Dr today and she said she never really had a patient like me do so well with the chemo.

She said a lot of it is attitude. And I only had to have ONE shot for the low wbc! yay AND I can make an appt to get my port out next month!

She also said to start watching for hair growth......

I'll even welcome my pesky little chin whiskers

YAHOO!!