Cancer Support and Caregivers Who Are Trail Blazers!

[deb_U_taunt]

Been a great day!! Day two after chemo and feeling great this time. I cleaned house with the wonderful help of my 10 and 12 year old nieces. Tired but happy. Bald and strong.

[Novelafemme]

Please keep my friend Amy's little boy Ben in your thoughts as he has surgery to remove another tumor in his brain. This little guy is only 6 and his brain cancer is back for the second time. Let's pray this is the last time he will ever have to go through this!

[deb_U_taunt]

Originally Posted by Novelafemme

Please keep my friend Amy's little boy Ben in your thoughts as he has surgery to remove another tumor in his brain. This little guy is only 6 and his brain cancer is back for the second time. Let's pray this is the last time he will ever have to go through this!

lots of hugs, prayers, love and peace your way to you and your's

[Dominique]

Originally Posted by Debby

Been a great day!! Day two after chemo and feeling great this time. I cleaned house with the wonderful help of my 10 and 12 year old nieces. Tired but happy. Bald and strong.

This is good news. Fight the fight!

[deb_U_taunt]

Originally Posted by Yellow band

This is good news. Fight the fight!

Thank you Been tired today, but its our support groups tonight and I will drag myself out, if need be. I am having a hard time putting on hats and scarves in this heat, so going bald and strong to the meeting.

[Novelafemme]

Originally Posted by Debby

Thank you Been tired today, but its our support groups tonight and I will drag myself out, if need be. I am having a hard time putting on hats and scarves in this heat, so going bald and strong to the meeting.

YAY!!! It's WAY too hot here in AZ to do anything but go bald! Have a great session tonight!

[deb_U_taunt]

Originally Posted by Novelafemme

YAY!!! It's WAY too hot here in AZ to do anything but go bald! Have a great session tonight!

Sunscreen!!!! Didn't think at first. Could have been a bad look. A peeling baldhead. OOPS

[Andrew, Jr.]

Debby,

I used to take Dino, my mini pin, in his stroller, and I would roll him around in the outdoor garden at NIH with my sister. She had a ball with Dino, and that stroller! I will always treasure that memory.

[deb_U_taunt]

Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

Debby,

I used to take Dino, my mini pin, in his stroller, and I would roll him around in the outdoor garden at NIH with my sister. She had a ball with Dino, and that stroller! I will always treasure that memory.

Andrew, that just had to be the sweetest sight.

I have to say, its been great being home a lot more with the dogs.

[deb_U_taunt]

Even bald, I don't look remotely butch. At least, it could have made me look like I had even a little street cred, instead of an old bald woman. lol

[Andrew, Jr.]

Hi Debby,

There is an organization called "Hope in Bloom". It is located in Boston, but I believe there are other folks associated with them in other states. What they do is go out and create gardens, laberinths, etc. for those who are enduring breast cancer (mainly). They go out and do everything start to finish. It is all a gift for the patient. Most of the volunteers are those who lost someone they loved to cancer. I haven't had time to research this group online, but hope too. Let me know what you find out. They were on TV this afternoon, and it was just so heartwarming.

I hope you are feeling good. I am sending you positive energy, and only goodness your way. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Much love and peace,
Andrew

[deb_U_taunt]

Thank you! What a wonderful site: http://www.hopeinbloom.org/index.htm
They currently are only in Mass, but WOW. I have a friend who landscapes and I think her and I need to talk.
I have worked with United Way to paint and clean up yards over the years for disabled, but nothing as pretty as some of these gardens.

They currently are only in Mass, but WOW. I have a friend who landscapes and I think her and I need to talk.

Thank you Andrew to you and your's

Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

Hi Debby,

There is an organization called "Hope in Bloom". It is located in Boston, but I believe there are other folks associated with them in other states. What they do is go out and create gardens, laberinths, etc. for those who are enduring breast cancer (mainly). They go out and do everything start to finish. It is all a gift for the patient. Most of the volunteers are those who lost someone they loved to cancer. I haven't had time to research this group online, but hope too. Let me know what you find out. They were on TV this afternoon, and it was just so heartwarming.

I hope you are feeling good. I am sending you positive energy, and only goodness your way. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Much love and peace,
Andrew

[DapperButch]

Hi, Debby. I am glad to hear that your chemo is manageable. I was lucky in that regard too and for the first several treatments I would go to work afterwards!

At some point along the way I decided that was not the best thing. I had a decent amount of agitation due to the steroids in the chemo, so I wouldn't go back to work after my chemo in the morning.

Andrew - I have heard it called "chemo fog". Even though I finished my chemo 2 months ago, it is still hanging around. Yesterday and today it was especially bad, for some reason. It is getting better though, as you said.

Hang in there, Debby! One day at a time!

[deb_U_taunt]

Dapper,

I heard the chemo fog/chemo brain can hang around for as much as a year afterwards. Its frustrating to forget midsentence where I am going. lol It feels like its a bit harder for those close to me, sometimes.

Didn't think about the steriods associated and why I felt like I was being such a bitch yesterday. hmmmm I was having a low day yesterday, too.

And I made the decision, if it gets too much working that I will stop, too.

Prayers to you too Dapper

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Hi, Debby. I am glad to hear that your chemo is manageable. I was lucky in that regard too and for the first several treatments I would go to work afterwards!

At some point along the way I decided that was not the best thing. I had a decent amount of agitation due to the steroids in the chemo, so I wouldn't go back to work after my chemo in the morning.

Andrew - I have heard it called "chemo fog". Even though I finished my chemo 2 months ago, it is still hanging around. Yesterday and today it was especially bad, for some reason. It is getting better though, as you said.

Hang in there, Debby! One day at a time!

[clay]

Warm hugs to all you GORGEOUS, sexy women with the lovely bald heads! What an incredibly beautiful group you ALL are! Isn't it amazing how wonderful YOU ALL are!! Such a lovingly, positive group!
I lost my own lovely wife March 16, 2009 to Stage IV breast Cancer with Mets. to Liver/Lung/Bone/Brain. She was diagnosed at Stage IV Jan. 08, 2007 and told to "get affairs in order, make last plans, etc. Well the big C just didn;t know whom it had chosen to mess with..she hung on 26 months. Initially she had 40 rad. tx's. to shoulder,hip, neck, and breast. Then Chemo...she was also a pioneer for the drug Tykerb! Chemo went on the entire 26 months. Rad was with another 18 tx.'s July 2008 after FOUR brain tumors were found. Liver failure is what took her. She was never hospitalized excpet one night when the tumors were found. Both of us are Nurses! She wanted to be home and to die at home, with me with her. That was possible and I cherish those 26 months. She asked to be cremated and our ashes be together when I die. Her one wish was that when I gave her eulogy at her Memorial Service that I play Bagpipes version of Amazing Grace, I hope You Dance, and Wind Beneath my Wings. She asked that I tell the folks when I played the Amazing Grace song that she would be in heaven smiling down on us as she had had to endure that sad song over the years and cry...now she could laugh at us...!!
Anyway she was one amazingly incredible trooper...positive from the start to end...never once complaining, always upbeat, happy....and so full of life and joy! She was a brilliant RN...had Mensa intelligence! We had 15 years of a wonderfully healthy, happy, loving life! I have taken the last two and a half years to heal..and I am ready to be in love again....with the right woman! I am in no hurry...and I want to have a healthy, happy loving relationship again!
I send each and every one of you a very special hug....and FIGHT the GOOD fight, folks!!! Her one wish was that I NOT tell people she lost her battle with cancer, but that she passed her torch on to another!!! So to those of you who now carry that torch....do so proudly and FIGHT! In memory of my lovely wife, Cathy! Clay

[deb_U_taunt]

Thank you.

Originally Posted by claybabytwo

Warm hugs to all you GORGEOUS, sexy women with the lovely bald heads! What an incredibly beautiful group you ALL are! Isn't it amazing how wonderful YOU ALL are!! Such a lovingly, positive group!
I lost my own lovely wife March 16, 2009 to Stage IV breast Cancer with Mets. to Liver/Lung/Bone/Brain. She was diagnosed at Stage IV Jan. 08, 2007 and told to "get affairs in order, make last plans, etc. Well the big C just didn;t know whom it had chosen to mess with..she hung on 26 months. Initially she had 40 rad. tx's. to shoulder,hip, neck, and breast. Then Chemo...she was also a pioneer for the drug Tykerb! Chemo went on the entire 26 months. Rad was with another 18 tx.'s July 2008 after FOUR brain tumors were found. Liver failure is what took her. She was never hospitalized excpet one night when the tumors were found. Both of us are Nurses! She wanted to be home and to die at home, with me with her. That was possible and I cherish those 26 months. She asked to be cremated and our ashes be together when I die. Her one wish was that when I gave her eulogy at her Memorial Service that I play Bagpipes version of Amazing Grace, I hope You Dance, and Wind Beneath my Wings. She asked that I tell the folks when I played the Amazing Grace song that she would be in heaven smiling down on us as she had had to endure that sad song over the years and cry...now she could laugh at us...!!
Anyway she was one amazingly incredible trooper...positive from the start to end...never once complaining, always upbeat, happy....and so full of life and joy! She was a brilliant RN...had Mensa intelligence! We had 15 years of a wonderfully healthy, happy, loving life! I have taken the last two and a half years to heal..and I am ready to be in love again....with the right woman! I am in no hurry...and I want to have a healthy, happy loving relationship again!
I send each and every one of you a very special hug....and FIGHT the GOOD fight, folks!!! Her one wish was that I NOT tell people she lost her battle with cancer, but that she passed her torch on to another!!! So to those of you who now carry that torch....do so proudly and FIGHT! In memory of my lovely wife, Cathy! Clay

[clay]

YOU are so very welcome! March on in your fight..carry YOUR torch very high! Smoke a Swisher Sweet and have a dark beer in HONOR of my wife, Cathy!!! YOU are beautiful, Debby!!!! right back at ya!! Clay

Originally Posted by Debby

Thank you.

[deb_U_taunt]

Originally Posted by claybabytwo

YOU are so very welcome! March on in your fight..carry YOUR torch very high! Smoke a Swisher Sweet and have a dark beer in HONOR of my wife, Cathy!!! YOU are beautiful, Debby!!!! right back at ya!! Clay

Clay, so will a Swisher and merlot work?

[clay]

Originally Posted by Debby

Clay, so will a Swisher and merlot work?

Oh MOST definitely. She loved Merlot as well!!! I still have a half a carton of Swisher sweets packs of hers..... THANKS! Clay

[Andrew, Jr.]

I am so happy that we can support each other in this. It is wonderful!

Have a wonderful day!