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StephN · 08-10-2006, 11:14 PM

I feel a little better than I did this morning. Your messages helped a lot!

Yeah - we did get skinned alive by the plumber. They have prices by the job now and it seems they are all in cahoots with their pricing. Outrageous. I think we are going to send a letter to the Better Business Bureau on this one.

At least we have water and the guy did a good job - just the company he works for is a rip off. He was careful with our new landscaping and even put the big rocks back that he moved. The price (moneywise) was a big pill to swallow.

Irene - you are right that the new port is smaller. But it is closer to the center of my chest and I do not have a lot of tissue there so it will be a big bump and probably get a permanent bruise like the other one since it gets accessed so much. (I am tattooed on top of the old port.)

Tomorrow IS another day - and we had better make some money to pay for this plumbing rip off!! Scrimp and save and then your pocket gets picked!

08-10-2006, 11:14 PM	#12
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Thanks everyone - I feel a little better than I did this morning. Your messages helped a lot! Yeah - we did get skinned alive by the plumber. They have prices by the job now and it seems they are all in cahoots with their pricing. Outrageous. I think we are going to send a letter to the Better Business Bureau on this one. At least we have water and the guy did a good job - just the company he works for is a rip off. He was careful with our new landscaping and even put the big rocks back that he moved. The price (moneywise) was a big pill to swallow. Irene - you are right that the new port is smaller. But it is closer to the center of my chest and I do not have a lot of tissue there so it will be a big bump and probably get a permanent bruise like the other one since it gets accessed so much. (I am tattooed on top of the old port.) Tomorrow IS another day - and we had better make some money to pay for this plumbing rip off!! Scrimp and save and then your pocket gets picked! __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.