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v-ness · 01-11-2010, 08:32 AM

hm, no i don't think i was premature, though i was a sickly scrawny thing until they figured out i was allergic to milk. i had seriously painful periods from the get-go when i started at age 11. i believe i always had endometriosis but the nurse practitioner i saw always pooh-poohed the degree of pain i was in. when i finally saw a real doc in my 30's she recognized what i had. i'd get cold sweats, doubled over in pain, pass out, the whole nine yards. it pissed me off that i had to suffer so much when i never even used those reproductive organs. the best thing i ever did was get rid of them. i wish i did so 25 yrs ago!

so i am curious what you mean by poisoned by roofing tar? it just so happens that i spent all last summer on my back porch roof patching it with tar and cleaning my skin off with gasoline, then showering.

yes, i did the boston marathon course 2x for the dana farber jimmy fund. that's me in the cap and my late husband beside me. he was my 'team'. who'd ever imagine that 6 yrs later he'd have esophageal cancer and die. he wore a t-shirt during the marathon that read "Eye On Survival" just by happenstance. the one he has on in this pic is from the first JF marathon i did the year before. i might have run slowly, but i ran.

i think we raised over $3K.

valerie

01-11-2010, 08:32 AM	#10
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Test Inconclusive hm, no i don't think i was premature, though i was a sickly scrawny thing until they figured out i was allergic to milk. i had seriously painful periods from the get-go when i started at age 11. i believe i always had endometriosis but the nurse practitioner i saw always pooh-poohed the degree of pain i was in. when i finally saw a real doc in my 30's she recognized what i had. i'd get cold sweats, doubled over in pain, pass out, the whole nine yards. it pissed me off that i had to suffer so much when i never even used those reproductive organs. the best thing i ever did was get rid of them. i wish i did so 25 yrs ago! so i am curious what you mean by poisoned by roofing tar? it just so happens that i spent all last summer on my back porch roof patching it with tar and cleaning my skin off with gasoline, then showering. yes, i did the boston marathon course 2x for the dana farber jimmy fund. that's me in the cap and my late husband beside me. he was my 'team'. who'd ever imagine that 6 yrs later he'd have esophageal cancer and die. he wore a t-shirt during the marathon that read "Eye On Survival" just by happenstance. the one he has on in this pic is from the first JF marathon i did the year before. i might have run slowly, but i ran. i think we raised over $3K. valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!