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

[CoyoteMagic]

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I believe that there is a lot of stuff out there that can be passed on at the cellular level. They believe now that men who drink excessively can have an effect on fetal development, not just the mothers drinking. Agent orange and who knows what they were spraying around over there during Desert Storm that was making people sick.

My mom tells a story that my grandmother told to her. She was watching a mother duck and her string of babies cross the dirt track from the field to the pond. A crop dust flew over head and was spraying the field. As it flew by one by one like dominoes all the ducks fell over dead.

Just think of that posion going into the foods people ate, multiplied by the amount they ate. Just like DDT and it's effect on Eagles and such. It's not just what they ate but how much of it they ate and how many generations it has taken for it to work it's way out of the environment and the eagles gene pool.

I grew up in NJ, southern NJ. The dumping ground for all the major chemical producers on the east coast. I think it was like 7 out of 10 "Super Fund" toxic waste sites were in NJ. That's just the stuff they found! Folks don't realize how much of NJ is actually rural. Farm land, forests and wetlands. It was easy for dumpers to just pull off on a dirt road and dump the unmarked containers in the swamps, roadside ditches and ravens.

Southern NJ gets most of it's drinking water from underground aquafiers (think that's the word) I'm surprised we all don't glow in the dark!!

 

[Lunachick]

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Hope you have a nice weekend too. Be safe! We got lots of nice rain today then some windy stuff, and that was it. All you guys with land sticking out into the ocean have to be careful....Batten down the hatches and keep your chooks safe. My moonflower looks almost like yours, but no buds! But if I remember right those things flower til frost so I still have a chance for some blooms. Thanks for posting the pic.

 

[jjthink]

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Hey Ginny - Glad you got some rain!. Not so much as 1 drop here in Mercer County

. Had so hoped...and there's none on the long range forecast either....... At least lovely cool air is on the way for a few days - enjoy

JJ

 

[Lunachick]

Yes Coyote - scary stuff. I remember my older sister and brothers running behind the mosquito truck when it came down our street spewing a chemical fog - they thought it was funny and even took our dog through it with them!

I always worried about things like that, even as a little kid.

Plus that stuff STUNK you'd think that was a clue...

I went for my consultation with the radiologist yesterday. Got another exam - I guess each Dr needs to see for himself

Anyway, they showed me all the mega tech stuff and all the equipment

Very high tech. This place is right down the street from our house and across the street from my oncologist, so it will be easy for me to go for treatments with this one too. The Dr said I should have 30 treatments of radiation. Five days a week for six weeks. My next appt to get things going will be on 9/13 and I have to do the CT scan again so they can see exactly where they have to buzz me and give me my tattoos (not the kind I was thinking of but...) to mark where I'm to be zapped. I have to drink the shake and all that, and while I'm there they will make a mold for my cast for my hip area, so it will be exact each time. I saw all these black casts hanging on the rack with peoples names on them

I'll have one of those soon with my name on it. The nurse was funny, she said if there is a large enough gas bubble in my lower intestines - it will mess up my "alignment" for zapping with the radiation, so make sure I fart before hand.

um OK. Then I got some homework, a folder titled: "Radiation Therapy & You" I'll read that with my coffee tomorrow morning.

I keep checking for hair growth. I still look like a cue ball. The fuzz I feel on my head is so soft I'm not sure anything is really happening yet. I'm sure it is, but.......

I picked up some soothing eyedrops because with no lashes or brows I'm getting all kinds of fibers or hairs or pollan or something in my eyes constantly, it's great when your driving and a "thing" gets in your eye. I haven't had to pull over yet........

My one baby chick is definitely a boy.......he did his version of "cockadoodledo" with a "squeaka squeaka squea!" so cute, and not loud at all.

I have to say goodbye to him though, on Sunday I'll bring him back and switch him in for a girly version. He got so used to me giving him a little cheese and other goodies he probably won't enjoy back at the farm. He's a good little roo.....I'll post a pic of him in a little while.

This is Ben a week after we got him home around the 2nd week of Aug (he's the yellow/white chick covered in sand):

This is him now around 6 weeks old:

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Wow he's gonna be a big roo by the time he is all growed up!! What your feeding him?

I remember the mosquito trucks. Was one of the big thrills of the summer, chasing the "skeeter" truck. (I lived in a small town, lol) Wonder how many of the kids that did that have gotten sick. I know one had a child that "challenged" but I think he is CP. I know of 5 people who lived on the street where the truck would run into the dead end have come back and give them a double dose have all died of one form of cancer or the other. Makes you think

You are going to do fine with radiation! I find it interesting how every type of cancer has it's own set of rules on how to fight it. Some of the stuff I saw people getting during my treatments was interesting. One guy had something that had to be in a dark container as it was light sensitive and wouldn't be any good if exposed even to floresent lights. One lady had stuff that would make her sick as soon as they started it and would heave for an hour. Even then, my center didn't do all forms of cancer. They didn't do lukemia or cancers in children which is a whole other specialty

I chose not to go the radiation route with my breast cancer. Could have gone with less drastic measure followed by radiation, but there was a chance it could come back even faster. Also a chance that the reconstruction wouldn't be a good as it is. They look better now than when I got out of college, lol. Smaller and perkier, lol.

 

[Lunachick]

I was away for a few days, we took some much needed vacation time and went down to Delaware. The weather was perfect and we had a good time. We stayed at a little condo on the beach (Paul always has to be on the beach) and I don't mind. Anyway, I brought a magnifying mirror in my makeup bag and sat by the window with the bright sunshine and checked for hair growth every morning. Pathetic, no?

Well, lo and behold I'm seeing teeny tiny eyelashes sprouting! And my head is getting a slight shadowy fuzz going on.

(nothing to write home about though

) This morning I spotted a few eyebrow hairs coming in.......so it's finally happening!

You know, it's a very strange feeling having absolutely no hair on your head, not even the peach fuzz on your face, but I'm even getting some of that back too. My face doesn't feel like a hard boiled egg anymore.

Tonight I drink some of that chalk drink and two more times tomorrow morning in prep for the CT scan on Monday. blech I get fitted for my "cast" and tattooed for my alignment for radiation. Then I guess in around two weeks I start my routine for the next 6 weeks. There's no looking back now.

This month is ovarian cancer awareness - they call it the silent killer. I'm very thankful that mine was spotted so early, must be the luck of the Irish.

Coyote -

I think you did good on your choice for no radiation. And you've got perky now!

JJ - you getting the rain today?

 

[lurky]

Hey Ginny, I was just thinking of you yesterday and thinking how i had not seen your updates lately. I was going to email you, and here you are!!!!!
I'm so happy for you to have hair sightings!!!!!!!

 

[jjthink]

Ginny, been checking in on your thread more often than I write - been at work long hours and BYC doesn't recognize me from that computer....
I am very glad you could get away for a respite and that the weather was so kind! (we did finally get some rain yesterday, first time since August 22 and that was the first time in something like 2 months, or more). Unfortunately it was a day my mom and I planned to spend together doing a great outdoor flea but we made do by going out to eat instead! And we had a great day in Ocean Grove yesterday where the weather could not have been more blissful, my first time at the shore in eons.
Hope your appointment today goes smoothly. Sorry you have to drink that crud

Coyote - hugs to you too

JJ

 

[deerman]

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Don't you just love drinking chalk water

I just had my CAT scan next is the PET scan.

Can't wait to see how your hairs comes in, mine was almost all grey and very thin....came back in darker(still some grey) and thicker.

Glad you got thru the Chemo.......

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Well @#$&%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CRUD!!


Just got back from asthma doc. CT scan showed the spot on the lung unchanged in the last 2 years. That's a good
thing!!!

However, they picked up 3 lymph nodes in my left armpit that don't loook so hot.

Getting in contact with all the docs again to find out where we go from here. Oncologist on Thursday. Have to see a Cardiologist(9/27) because of test results. It's called Autonomic Dysfunctional Syncope=they don't know why it happens. HONEST!! Look it up on the internet!! Didn't have this problem pre-chemo/herceptin. Herceptin is known to damage the heart but one of the only things out there for my type of cancer!

Could use some good thoughts and prayers thrown up. Lurchie is ready to have a meltdown.