<p>DTE, just wanted to say there are a lot of us cheering you on!</p>
<p>thank you so much-getting a little worn out so i appreciate the lift.</p>
<p>finished 4th AC not easy but done!!! How is everyone else?</p>
<p>downtoearth, all the best to you. Hugs.</p>
<p>still have another kind to do but one milestone passed!</p>
<p>Yeah! Good for you - treat yourself to some pampering. It’s been a long time but I remember that relief when the last one is over.<br>
Just keep repeating to yourself “I am strong!”</p>
<p>And while I have a very hard time remembering this: Don’t look back look foward. And to quote my late mother, “The longer you live…you’ll live longer.” The last, in her convoluted speech meant: Everyday there are new medicines, new treatments and new ideas. Hopefully none of us will ever need treatment again, but for those who have treatment and for those who come after us: many our children’s children read about cancer and know that it is an extinct disease.</p>
<p>You are on my prayer list DTE!!! You go Girl!</p>
<p>How is everyone? I kind of hate to be the one to bump this. Had a minor issue about a year ago. Clean mammogram in April. Had another one two weeks ago. Gotta go back in for a follow-up. Just feeling kinda sorry for myself.</p>
<p>If you haven’t been there (with the"bad" mammogram) no one understands. You are hit smack dab between the eyes with your mortality. It is scary and sad. But I pray that all the rest of your mammograms are clean and this is just a little bump, a one time bump.</p>
<p>I got so used to being called back, I now try to schedule my appointments around the times a radiologist is available to review the images, so I do not make another appointment to learn that another benign cyst has appeared out of nowhere. MYLB, I wish you all the best, and I’m keeping fingers crossed that your follow-up will be OK.</p>
<p>BunsenBurner: You are absolutely correct: ALWAYS schedule appointments when there is someone to read the films. I go to a place where the radiologist is in at all times. And I always have someone with me, just in case. I also admit to taking “something” to keep me from an anxiety attack. And, if it is available I have the"special" mammogram, enlarged images etc. with the extras available right away. My only “comfort” is that I am on 3 month recall with my oncologist and my gyn. The blood work does, in theory, indicate if there is a problem.</p>
<p>Well–this would be the second bump. The timing was almost identical a year ago. Ended in an excisional biopsy in early December. Really thought I was done with all this, at least for a while. </p>
<p>Part of my annoyance is it had been two weeks since the mammo. Really, I’d almost forgotten about it, but then realized I hadn’t gotten the results. Called the doctor. “Oh. We have the report right here. You need to come back for a follow-up.” Same side as a year ago.</p>
<p>And one kid came home early with what I hope is not swine flu. Another threw up on the way home from soccer practice, although seems much better. I’m supposed to leave for a business trip on Sunday (that I was kind of looking forward to–always a little down time). I’m about calf-deep in self-pity.</p>
<p>It all seems to happen at once. probably because you had the biopsy, things look different and they just want to be sure its ok. But once youve gone through it to any degree it takes a while to sort out the emotion/fear. it brings it all back. If this makes sense. I agree to make sure you get the result that day so you dont have to deal with this again. Hopefully you can take your trip, enjoy it.</p>
<p>So I re-read some of these posts and I feel like a big, fat baby. DTE–can’t believe you are trying to comfort me. What a kind soul. I will now shut up until I find out that there’s something to fret about.</p>
<p>Hope all who are dealing with diagnosis scares, treatment woes, friends and family with troubles have a peaceful Friday afternoon. We had some weirdly warm weather where I am the past few days. A little cooler, kind of gray, and just a light mist today, but I am deciding to find it beautiful.</p>
<p>Bless all of you for talking about these things. It helps during the scary times. I wish you all well. DTE, you ARE such a compassionate person and I think of you often and am glad you are making your way through this treatment. I started the Tamoxifen 3 weeks ago because I knew if I didn’t I would always wonder. I had some real fatigue the first week and some insomnia but I really think the insomnia was due to anxiety. I’m sleeping fine now, still some fatigue but not nearly as bad as that first week. Had a little scare this week. We had a birthday dinner for daughter and youngest son last Sunday. She had been sick but was better but I got a call from her Tuesday and her fiance (who was at dinner) tested positive for H1N1. He was contagious when he was here so we waited it out but none of us got it. I actually think she had it first but they didn’t test her since at the time they saw her she didn’t have a fever. Everyone’s on the mend now but she says their apartment has just been a cesspool of disease. Makes it hard to keep up college classses but thankfully they have made arrangements for students online since they don’t want them on campus. I have a full social calendar next week, 4 drs appts.</p>
<p>(please read in a sing song nyah nyah tone) I got you beat! I am seeing FIVE doctors in the next two weeks.</p>
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<p>ellebud, I am humble in my defeat. You win the prize. What the heck is it anyway?</p>
<p>Sixties…I don’t want to win this prize. However since you asked I am seeing: orthopedist, dentist, gyno, oncologist, radiologist, and internist (flu shot). Did I mention that I truly dislike doctors? Oh…and at some point (I “forget” because I don’t want to remember) I am having my mammogram and a bone scan. Someone PLEASE outdo me.</p>
<p>I just checked in, thanks for all the nice words. I cant beat you ellebud, but i guess just get it over with all at once. I know I have become such a germaphobe. D’s school has swine so I did not go to her conferences. I am at my low point in White blood cell count. not that it would protect me from swine anyway, but I guess Ijust feel vulnerable. I dont want to get it while my count is low I guess. I saw my friend and 3 days later she had swine flu I didnt get it. My pedi made it a priority for my D2 to get vaccinated I am so grateful. As far as this thread we are all here to support each other, no matter the magnitude of the problem. Many people have written and given wonderful insight, not just with breast cancer, and it has really helped me. I am grateful.</p>