My sister-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer last week. At first they thought she would only have to have a lumpectomy and possibly radiation and chemotherapy but she went in for a mammogram last Friday morning to figure out just what was going on and the results were not good. They had to go back and see the doctor later that day and they scheduled her for an MRI yesterday morning. At that point it was looking as though she might have to have both breasts removed and chemo and radiation. They had the MRI yesterday morning and luckily it doesn't appear that the cancer has spread to her lymph nodes. One breast is completely full of tumors and there was a suspicious lump in the other. They went back to the hospital yesterday afternoon for a biopsy of the suspicious lump and they're waiting for the results. She'll definitely have to lose one breast and go through chemo and radiation, but nothing is for sure yet. They want to fly down to Dallas to meet with my dad's first oncologist and have him look at everything they've gotten back from the tests they've had before they decide on anything.
I am so sorry to hear that Paints
Thanks.
We should know more tomorrow because I think the biopsy results were only supposed to take two days.
The good news is that the cure rate for breast cancer is really high. The tumors she has are technically non-malignant, the last I heard, but it does make her 50% more likely to develop malignant breast cancer later in life and she'll have to have a mammogram at least once a year for the rest of her life. Thanks for the well-wishes everyone. It's been tough on my family, especially since we've already done the cancer thing a lot. We just hoped that as far as cancer was concerned we'd done our time. I've fallen back into the habit of responding "fine" when people ask me how I am. I learned when my dad was sick that people don't really care about the answer they just need the assurance of hearing "fine" when they ask you how you're doing.
Yeah there have been many advancements in the cure for breast cancer, so that is good.
Thanks everyone. The doctor in Dallas has been a family friend for a long time. My parents were friends with him and his wife when we lived in California. They were friends before my dad's diagnosis and thanks to this man my dad's life was saved many times. When we moved away from California, after he and his wife had moved to Dallas, my parents flew down to visit for a weekend and he put my dad in the hospital immediately. He said that if my dad hadn't gotten the treatment he did that day, he would have been dead the next. It was because of the incompetence or just not caring of my dad's two doctors he was currently being cared for by that he was so close to death. So this good friend pulled a string and got my dad on the patients list of one of the best oncologists in our state. Which again saved his life. So many strings he pulled and so many miracles he paved the way for. That's the reason my brother and sister-in-law want to go see him and get his opinion on everything. And then he could always pull another string and get my sister in to see the same oncologist that he sent my dad to after that weekend in the Dallas hospital. (She's head of breast cancer at the best cancer hospital here in the state. She wouldn't be able to do the surgery but she could oversee the chemo and radiation and all that and we'd definitely feel comfortable with her being my sister-in-law's oncologist.) OK, now I have to stop talking about it.
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I feel like I just found out that my favorite love song was written about a sandwich.
There is something to this breast cancer stuff. There's got to be some kind of common denominator. My coworker had it, my friend had it ... my cowoworkers sister had it ... What's with this??? Is there somethign that's causing it that we can do something about or change? In the past year I've heard of more women getting this than I have over my entire lifetime. What's going on here???
yeah! i am the one that let them move back in here! they seem to have forgotten that little fact!
and i pull my weight around here, i do the dishes, i clean up what i can around the house, which isn't much because my stuff is now only on my side of the bedroom, but i do want i can. i ask if they need help with dinner when they cook, i bring dinner back from my parents house when they cook for us, i take out the trash sometimes, i help clean up the yard. i don't keep them up at night by staying on my computer really late, i don't hog the bathroom, i keep my part of the sink counter clean, i don't turn the tv up loud when they are on the phone or trying to sleep, i don't play music loud.
i'm a good roommate darn it!!!!! i don't need the crap they've been giving me
Wow, you do a lot! I can't imagine what they would give you crap about!
i try, i really do
Well it sounds like they are the ones who need to try. I know it's frustrating. My sister and her boyfriend get on my nerves a lot. He and I aren't really speaking at the moment. It's difficult when everyone has their own ideas of how they want things to be. Especially when you are the only one who is trying to be respectful and live in harmony.
they do alot around here too, things i can't do because it's become more of their house instead of my house now. they can change things around, move things, paint. but they still give me crap that i don't help with that stuff, even though i can't unless they tell me want to do.
everyone here gets along for the most part, it's just days like this that suck for me at least, i think they are just amused when they annoy me
There is something to this breast cancer stuff. There's got to be some kind of common denominator. My coworker had it, my friend had it ... my cowoworkers sister had it ... What's with this??? Is there somethign that's causing it that we can do something about or change? In the past year I've heard of more women getting this than I have over my entire lifetime. What's going on here???
they do alot around here too, things i can't do because it's become more of their house instead of my house now. they can change things around, move things, paint. but they still give me crap that i don't help with that stuff, even though i can't unless they tell me want to do.
everyone here gets along for the most part, it's just days like this that suck for me at least, i think they are just amused when they annoy me
Well that's not fair for them to make a decision to move stuff or paint or whatever and then expect you to help. It was something they decided to do, they should do it.
Something cooky's going on with my computer. It tells me half the pages I try to load aren't found ...Server not found
This site was doing that to me yesterday.
Hmmm I haven't had any issues with this place in ages. Granted my limited time here wouldn't say much about it either, but I can't tell ya what's wrong.
grrrr! seriously! how many times do i have to tell them that i don't want any alcoholic drinks! i've told them i don't know how many times and yet they still ask! and then they question my reasons for not wanting to drink, and give me crap when i tell them A. i am underaged, and B. i just don't want to
KIL, I hate to ask, but isn't there a place in the other house you could go to be away from them, and have some space of your own again? You really shouldn't have to oblige them with everything since your bro left, and you took the place over. Then they move in after that. It shold be as much yours as theirs. Sorry it's a pain in the arse.
The issue was with every site but this one. I couldn't go anywhere but here ... even the banner had a server not found error message in it . :laughing. I just rebooted. That seemed to have solved it.
Snootch, are you still wanting to be listed as a mod on LFM?
KIL, I hate to ask, but isn't there a place in the other house you could go to be away from them, and have some space of your own again? You really shouldn't have to oblige them with everything since your bro left, and you took the place over. Then they move in after that. It shold be as much yours as theirs. Sorry it's a pain in the arse.
I was thinking the same thing. Kate, would you have your own bedroom and bathroom in your parents house? How long before the new house is built?
KIL, I hate to ask, but isn't there a place in the other house you could go to be away from them, and have some space of your own again? You really shouldn't have to oblige them with everything since your bro left, and you took the place over. Then they move in after that. It shold be as much yours as theirs. Sorry it's a pain in the arse.
I agree! And with the alcoholic drinks, I'd go straight to the parents because that's just not cooth.
Something cooky's going on with my computer. It tells me half the pages I try to load aren't found ...Server not found
This site was doing that to me yesterday.
Hmmm I haven't had any issues with this place in ages. Granted my limited time here wouldn't say much about it either, but I can't tell ya what's wrong.
grrrr! seriously! how many times do i have to tell them that i don't want any alcoholic drinks! i've told them i don't know how many times and yet they still ask! and then they question my reasons for not wanting to drink, and give me crap when i tell them A. i am underaged, and B. i just don't want to
Hmmm... yeah that's not good. You shouldn't have to put up with that. I'm glad you stand firm though!
It's funny how I feel like I should be working on something new (like LFM) right now. Like there's something I'm suppposed to be working on. I really like the Battlebud place, and don't want to step on toes, but I feel like a gaming page/site is what's next for me. I am trying to figure out a coupe things.
1. How to keep it intergrated with BB, but still it's own thing. 2. How I can find out if the B.A.R. name is trademarked or if I can slide in and take it. I know that JB isn't doing anything with the name, and I'd like to have the control of it. It's such a great name.
B elow A verage R eflexes
Even a few guys from BUD have talked about what a cool name it is. I just don't know what i'm supposed to be doing right now.
KIL, I hate to ask, but isn't there a place in the other house you could go to be away from them, and have some space of your own again? You really shouldn't have to oblige them with everything since your bro left, and you took the place over. Then they move in after that. It shold be as much yours as theirs. Sorry it's a pain in the arse.
well, right now i am in the bedroom (where i normaly am when on my computer) and they are in the livingroom playing video games, so i do kinda have some space to myself the only space at my parents house that i coule go is my old bedroom, but that is now full of boxes and other stuff
It's funny how I feel like I should be working on something new (like LFM) right now. Like there's something I'm suppposed to be working on. I really like the Battlebud place, and don't want to step on toes, but I feel like a gaming page/site is what's next for me. I am trying to figure out a coupe things.
1. How to keep it intergrated with BB, but still it's own thing. 2. How I can find out if the B.A.R. name is trademarked or if I can slide in and take it. I know that JB isn't doing anything with the name, and I'd like to have the control of it. It's such a great name.
B elow A verage R eflexes
Even a few guys from BUD have talked about what a cool name it is. I just don't know what i'm supposed to be doing right now.