May I ask: Were you started on it straight away aftrer your successful cancer treatment? I presume you have not been put on any of the others. I certinly found it an easy one to take - no side effects.
@SusanDoris Glad to hear the good news. May it remain so.
Thank you. It's no problem having these little lumps removed under a local anaesthetic. I shal always be grateful to Galilit for recommending it. I hope she is stil okay - I haven't seen her post recently.
@SusanDoris Glad to hear the good news. May it remain so.
Thank you. It's no problem having these little lumps removed under a local anaesthetic. I shal always be grateful to Galilit for recommending it. I hope she is stil okay - I haven't seen her post recently.
@Galilit decided to go ashore. I hope she’s well, too.
I’m very glad to hear from you; I’d been wondering how you are doing.
I started on extemasene but it made me depressed and gave really bad joint pain. Changed to anastrozole and there's still joint pain, but much milder, and vaginal dryness. But much better.
@SusanDoris Glad to hear the good news. May it remain so.
Thank ou. Now you mention it, I do emember seeing @Galilit's post
Thank you. It's no problem having these little lumps removed under a local anaesthetic. I shal always be grateful to Galilit for recommending it. I hope she is stil okay - I haven't seen her post recently.
@Galilit decided to go ashore. I hope she’s well, too.
I’m very glad to hear from you; I’d been wondering how you are doing.
Thank you, and now you mention it, I do remember seeing @Galilit's post.
Well, hells bells. I had the hospice nurse refill some pain pills for Mr. Image, I asked two weeks in advance to give plenty of time, as it always takes a while to get a delivery. After 10 days of no delivery, I was down to 3 pills and the weekend was coming up. Thankfully he does not always need them. I called his nurse to check on the order and we received a special delivery overnight arrival after her re-request. This seems to be an ongoing issue, and if I try to re-order too soon they will not refill because it is too soon! Their answer is there is a problem with the supply chain, pills are imported from China!!! Surely we can manufacture them stateside. I suspect I can buy some illegal drugs just up the street made in the good old USA. Meanwhile, even though I have not reordered I am automatically getting boxes and boxes of rubber gloves wet wipes, pads, and body wash, We have enough to supply a small hospital and we live in a mobile home with not a lot of storage space. I keep requesting them to stop until further notice, but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. The good news is that non of this is costing us anything as it is covered by our medicare, and my neighbors are all getting free body wash/shampoo.
Mr. Image just had his second stroke in two weeks. No major full-time damage so far. Some loss of vocabulary and one leg is a bit numb. Meanwhile, it was 109 here today and our air cooling went out. Thankfully he is not hot and although it is 84 in the house he wants no fan and a blanket. I checked with his nurse and she said to give him what he wants. We had a friend drop off a small air cooler this evening so we are set for tomorrow. The repair man is booked up until next Wed. and two other repair shops have not even answered the phone.
Today was better, still, no repair but a little air cooler is working in Mr. Image's bedroom. It helps to be able to laugh. He said he wanted a sandwich. I said we have PBJ, Tuna, or Deli Turkey. He said turkey. So I said do you want lettuce and mayo on that. He said yes but no deli. I said, you don't want any turkey? He said I want turkey, lettuce, and mayo but no deli. So I made his sandwich without the deli. LOL. When I gave him the sandwich he said, you did not put deli on it, did you? I said no, No deli. The only thing I can guess is he might have been thinking of dill pickles, but I have no idea. He wanted some toast about a week ago and said the square thing you spread the stuff on. As it was early in the morning and I was about to fix his breakfast, that one was easy to guess. It helps to have raised a couple of toddlers I think.
My cousin Mary Rita died last week. She had been having some gastrointestinal issues but scans showed nothing in the liver/pancreas, etc. Docs were still concerned so they did exploratory surgery. Basically opened her up, looked, and closed. Her liver was riddled with hundreds of tiny tumors, all too small or hidden to be picked up on a scan. She had had "the talk" with her surgeon and other docs before hand. Forty years as a nurse left her with no illusions. She went directly into hospice care and passed about a week after the surgery. For those who have read my earlier posts, she was the sister of my two male cousins who died, also from cancer.
I do our family geneaology. All I can say is thank God that my folks decided to stay in LA and NOT return to Scranton after my dad got out of the Seabees in WW2. All of my relatives who stayed/grew up there have succumbed to cancer. All. Of. Them.
Hello lovely Shipmates. Mrs Vole has her mastectomy tomorrow. She is well supported by friends (both church and others). I pray that, for all the 1 in 7 women who (statistically) get breast cancer, a prevention or cure will be found that doesn't involve drastic surgery or drugs.
Thank you. Just want to say how much kindness she experienced at the hospital. There are volunteers who make little V-shaped cushions that fit under the arm and help keep the arm from rubbing the wound ,particularly where the drain tube comes out. Completely free and anonymous. Similarly, pretty little cloth bags to hold the vacuum bottle (which containing blood is quite ugly!).
Some good news for a change. Mr F, after 8 years of assorted treatments for myeloma, has finally clocked a 100% remission (paraprotein count = 0). It will come back of course, because it does, but it opens up a prospect of maybe a year or so free of both treatment and disease.
Can I add some more good news? Mrs RR has, these past weeks, been investigated for possible throat cancer or a lymphoma. The latest results indicate it is neither of these. What is responsible for her distressing symptoms we still don't know for sure (she will have an MRI scan) but the direst diagnosis is apparently 'off the table'.
Miss RR feared a recurrence of her breast cancer, but she too, has been given the all clear.
Our chief cat is also doing well.
I should be rejoicing, but in truth, I'm emotionly exhausted keeping a stiff uper lip ....
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I’m very glad to hear from you; I’d been wondering how you are doing.
And from here, too!
Glad today was better!
Amen
I do our family geneaology. All I can say is thank God that my folks decided to stay in LA and NOT return to Scranton after my dad got out of the Seabees in WW2. All of my relatives who stayed/grew up there have succumbed to cancer. All. Of. Them.
Even now some years after retiring it still troubles her at what she saw.
Prayers for all
Miss RR feared a recurrence of her breast cancer, but she too, has been given the all clear.
Our chief cat is also doing well.
I should be rejoicing, but in truth, I'm emotionly exhausted keeping a stiff uper lip ....
To our prayers ....
Very pleased it's good news for once.