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

[#1California Chick]

Lunachick

You have LOTS of hair!! And it looks great!


Cindy

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

Your hair looks terrific!

 

[dewey]

Your hair looks great! Love it!

 

[Lunachick]

Hey thanks everyone! I keep touching it....

i can actually run my fingers through it now.

Coyote - it came in darkish grey/brown. I couldn't stand it anymore so I dyed it a light auburn so it looks like my natural colour. The pic was kinda dark. And for some reason my eyebrows & eyelashes did a second molt, so now they're coming back in again

Deerman, thanks for your kind words, it helped me to not worry too much. How are YOU? I think of you a lot these days.

Well, I had my colposcopy today. I had to take a xanax before I went. Right away the Doc said he doesn't like these pap tests - the way they report things - he explained how broad they are, and how they always sound worse than they are, so that made me feel better. I watched on the screen as he was in there and he said that everything still looks good, no dysplasia......and anything that looked different was just thinning of the tissue, which is typical for my age. *whew* and dewey you were right, the radiation made the readings look "atypical, high grade". He didn't scrape anything out for biopsy, cause it looked good in there

I go back the end of April and he'll give me another pap & colposcopy only if there is anything strange looking in there, otherwise I'm good right now. And if there was anything in there precancerous, it has nothing to do with the other cancers I had. Just one of those things we girls have once in awhile, just have to take care of it and keep on top of it.

I'm breathing a bit easier now.

 

[Damummis]

Luna,
Glad to hear your update. Love the hair.

 

[dewey]

Congrats on the good news, Lunachick! Sounds like a celebration is in order!

 

[3goodeggs]

whew. thanks for letting us know.

 

[jjthink]

Ginny!
JJ

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Fantastic new Luna!!! I called and asked a friend of mine and she told me again that hers always comes back suspicious since she has had radiation for her colon cancer almost 10 years ago.


Don't know where I left off, saw the neurologist last week. He thinks my headaches are being caused by the stiffnes in my neck. Possilbe arthritis in the area where my neck was fused in High School thanks to a car accident. He's not sure if the neuropathy is being caused by the chemo or more arthritis in my lower back. I do know that I have a disc down there (it's so far down it's in my butt not my back!) that gets wonky from time to time. I can usually take care of it with some yoga poses. I went yesterday for a test were they first put electrodes on your legs to see what kind of nerve responce you get. Then the do the whole thing over again but this time they sick needles in your legs and zap those. Didn't really feel anything until they were above my knees with the needles. I don't find out the results for any of it until March 10th!!! I have very little patience for having to wait!

At least tomorrow I get to go have a massage of my neck shoulders and upper back. Rehab place is $75 copay plus 20% of what my insurance doesn't cover. I have a friend who is a massage therapist, $35 for a half hour $55 for an hour TOTAL!! Guess where I'm going.

Hope everybody is doing well.

 

[verthandi]

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