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02-07-2007, 06:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: indianapolis, indiana
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winter
I am sick of cold. And even though we just got our first big snow of the year yesterday, I am sick of snow too. Had a flat tire tonight and had to stand outside and hold the flashlight for my son to change it for me.
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02-07-2007, 09:47 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: northshore suburb of chicago
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So sorry Juanita. I live in the Chicago area so i can relate to your complaint. Our winters are so darn long. We have been in a deep freeze since the weekend. Difficult to get motivated to venture out when it is like this. Try and keep warm.
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Dx:3/06 had a lumpectomy April 19, 2006
Her2+ er/pr- Stage I Grade 3 tumor size 1.4 cm, node negative
AC 4 dense doses
34 radiation treatments including booster doses
receiving herceptin every 3 weeks since late August 2006 for 12 months
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02-07-2007, 11:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: West Virginia
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You're not alone with the winter blues! My 3 sons, whom I love very much, have been home with school closings for the last 3 days. If I had some hair, I'd pull it out. My water has been frozen and had a bathroom pipe burst, so I've sucked 8 gallons of water out of the carpet. I hate to drive in the snow and ice so I'm home bound. I've brought the neighbor's outside dog and cat into the house so they won't freeze (I couldn't live with myself if they did), then the kids griped about what I cooked for dinner and wondered if I'd washed their jeans. DUH, NO WATER!!!....and did I mention I have cancer? It could be worse, but thanks be it's not!
I did however, have some sunshine today. My aunt sent some pictures of my dad as a baby and as a child that I had never seen. I'll take whatever little light God wants to send my way.
Ok, so now I'm just going to whine and go to bed til spring thaw...it's been a helluva week
Waiting for the daisies,
Stephanie
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02-14-2007, 05:55 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: indianapolis, indiana
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I thought I was sick of winter before, but this really takes the cake now. We had over 16 inches of snow in less than a 24 hour period, with lots of blowing and drifting. Some of the drifts were well above waist high. We had no school yesterday, today or tomorrow. some roads around here still have not been plowed.
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02-15-2007, 03:13 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Posts: 144
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Hot here - come visit if your runways thaw out!
What is it with these weather patterns? Here in Adelaide, Capital of South Australia, the driest state in the driest continent on Earth, we're heading into yet another heatwave - 37 deg Celcius today and up to 41 in the next few days (thats 98.6 to 105.8 F according to the conversion program), and getting all the way down to about 27 degrees (80.6) overnight. We're having the worst drought in decades and they are trying to build an emergency weir to try and stop our main river (the Murray) flowing to the sea to keep more water available in case the drought doesn't break this year. My car is constantly hot even with the aircon going, and I have to put a towel over my 5yo's chest when I strap her into the car after school because the black restrainer straps heat up and are very hot through her clothes. Perhaps we should all just be a little closer to the equator...hmm..a nice distraction to daydream about...Bx
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Belinda
- Diagnosed 3 Jan 2007, Stage IIb, Mastectomy and axillary clearance 10 Jan 07, 6 of 19 nodes affected, multi-focal cancer, HER2 positive. Second mastectomy (prophylactic). Chemo - AC 3 months, Taxol 3 months - then radiation 5 weeks.
- Aug 2011 - Diagnosed with Stage IV mets to lung, sternum and 12 or so thoracic nodes - Rads to Sternum, then weekly abraxane and herceptin for 12 weeks.
- May 2012- good scans - all nodes still about normal size, hole in sternum repairing, lung tumour 'obliterated'.
Ongoing herceptin every 3 weeks. Bloods still all good! Life good!
- March 2013 - recurrence - tumours in lungs and mediastinum (coughing up blood) - immediate radiation treatment to right lung and mediastinum, still on Herceptin, and 3 months of Vinoralbine - stable for a little while!
- Coughing and breathlessness started again September 2013, treated as radiation-induced fibrosis (which can be seen on scans - albeit stable). ie puffers, steroids
- January 2014 - cough becomes bloody again, scans show big mediastinal tumour wrapped around and choking the life out of my right main bronchus, radiation deemed off limits as my lungs are hypersensitive to radiation (measured by existing damage from 2013) .....................- ie I am in the 5% of people likely to suffer severe radiation damage to the lungs that they warn you about before starting treatment! (so special! :) )
- Started chemo Feb 2014 - continuing Herceptin (continuous since Aug 2011), with Carboplatin and Gemcitabine. Discontinued Gemcitabine because of se's. Starting cycle 5 Herc/Carbo 5 May 2014.
- Meantime.....coughing and breathlessness increased to SCARY levels with racing heartbeat that won't slow down, breath that won't come back, even just walking to the bathroom or up 3 or 4 steps.
- ICU from May 5 2014, collapsed right lung due to tumour, small pulmonary embolism (left), tumours growing in mediastinum left and right, dvt lower right leg
- Plan seems to be bronchoscope next week to see if tumour can be lasered and stent inserted in right bronchus to reopen air access to lower parts of right lung. If that is successful might be able to have brachytherapy to worst tumour, otherwise no more options for external radiotherapy.
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