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Re: Cancer Etiquette: Talking to Someone With Cancer
PinkPeonie, (cool name BTW)
I admit it...I didn't even know what tuckshop was until I read this. I actually googled it and having read some of the tuckshop menus online...YUM! Why in the world would that teacher want your daughter NOT to have a delicious lunch each day? Whether you're sick or not!!
It sounds to me like Tuckshop where you live, is sort of like the school lunches we have where I live...and my two boys buy their lunch every single day...and have for years...long before I got sick! Am I missing something? Tuckshop sounds like a good option to me.
I'm also a teacher...and the vast majority of my student buy lunch nearly every day. Who wouldn't? The food is ready to go...more variety than most parents pack...and there's always a hot option to choose. Heck! I buy it myself some days, it looks so good! (Can't afford to buy it every day...prices for staff are MUCH higher than for students!  )
I'm sure you've reassured your daughter many times by now, but please tell her from us, here at the HER2 forum, that moms and teachers all over America (and the world!) think you are a brave, strong, and devoted Mom! That you make sure she has a good lunch every day, and that sometimes fairly smart people, say really STUPID things.
All the best to you and your beautiful family!
Denise
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2/11-Lumpectomy/axillary node dissection - Stage 3c, ER/PR-14/17 nodes
3/11 - Post-op staph infection,cellulitis, lymphedema,seroma,ARRRGH!
4/12/11-A/C x 4, then T/H x 4, H only,Q3 weeks
8/26/11 finished Taxol!!!
10/7/11 mastectomy/DIEP recon
11/11 radiation x28
1/12/12 1st CANCER-VERSARY!
1/12 Low EF/Herceptin "Holiday" :(
2/12 EF up - Back on Herceptin, heart meds
4/2/1212 surgery to repair separated incision from DIEP recon
6/8/12 Return to work :)
6/17/12 Fall, shatter wrist,surgery to repair/insert plate :(
7/10/12 last Herceptin
7/23/12 Brain Mets %$&#! 3cm and 1cm
8/10/12 Gamma knife surgery, LOTS of steroids;start H/Tykerb
8/23/12 Back to work
12/20/12 Injure back-3 weeks in wheel chair
1/12/13 2nd CANCER-VERSARY!
1/14/13 herniate disk in back - surgery to repair
1/27/13 Radiation necrosis - edema in brain - back on steroids - but not back to work - off balance, poor cordination in right arm
5/3/13 Start Avastin to shrink necrosis
5/10/13 begin weaning steroids
6/18/13 Brain MRI - Avastin seems to be working!
6/20/13 quarterly CT - chest, abdomen, pelvis - All Clear!
7/5/13 finally off steroids!!
7/7/13 joined the ranks of the CHEMO NINJAS I am now Tekuto Ki Ariku cancer assassin!
7/13/13 Symptoms return - back on steroids
7/26/13 Back on Avastin - try again!
8/26/13 Not ready to return to classroom yet :( But I CAN walk without holding onto things! :)
9/9/13 Brain MRI - fingers crossed
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