Ok. Surgery date April 4th at 1:00. I cannot wait to get this done! I'm glad it's going to be on a friday---it'll give me the weekend to recoup before going back to school. yay!

Good Luck :D

Best wishes, Bri.

Good luck, i'll be thinking of ya! I'm in Friday the 4th at 10am for my chemo/transplant. Stay strong!

Hey, Roosta! I'll be thinking of you!!

thanks,monster and Pie. I appreciate all the good tidings! I know things will be fine!

All the best Roosta! I'll send positive thoughts your way on Friday. @ Bri, almost there m'dear!

Best wishes to everyone! Glad to see you doing so well, Brianna.

See you guys on Monday!! I have to be at the hospital at 11.00 tomorrow and hopefully will be well enough to write more on Mon.


toodle-oos, my Lovely Chickas and Handsome Warriors!

Good luck Bri!
Good luck Roosta!
Se youse on Monday!
Hugs all round :grouphug:

thinking of you both......

*hugs* see ye monday Bri.

Good luck - snag a hottie doctor!

Best wishes to you both.

Another encouraging story: my father may be released from the hospital next week! He's progressing nicely from his bone marrow transplant. (My mom has a blog here, if you're interested!) I'm heading out to Minnesota again tomorrow.

Just saw this thread. Bri you're probably there right now as I type.
Roosta you're probably in the trenches by now. I send good thoughts and wishes to you both.
~be well

Good luck to both of you - get well and get back here posting soon.

Bri, I've been thinking of you today. Hope all is well, but don't post until you feel well enough. Hope they give you some good drugs to get you thru the weekend. Recover first, get well, hope to hear from you when you're able.

P.S. We miss you.

Call me if you want to talk, Bri.
I was thinking of you on the day - didn't get any spooky feelings, so I assume you're okay. Unless you were that fishy burp I did in the afternoon.

Love you lots - hope you have plenty of (real physical) loved ones to look after you over the next few weeks.

My surgery went off just fine! Had the one lump and all the nodes out of my left armpit---I've got a drain in and it will probably be here for the week but easy to take out. Everything is looking good and I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your care and support and love!! More after these painkillers kick in (I really am in "ouch"ville, esp. the underarm part)

yay! welcome home.

Ta daaaaaaa! And the crowd goes wild!

And who needs a bunch of stupid nodes in their armpit? Freakin' nodes all getting swollen and stuff! It wasn't intelligent design to begin with.

Hi! You don't know me. I'm a knew member, but I read all the posts since the beginning of your sickness, and it's like I know you.
You must be a very good person to have that many friends, and now that you are OK, that will give me the chance to become one of your friends to.

Congratulations

thanks (and an especial thanks for UT putting it all in perspective, as usual) and hey, buffalo bill....welcome. thanks for the support and for coming out of lurk mode to congratulate me!! :) but I just laid there. the surgeons did the work!

Great to see you back, Bri! Any chance we can get cool pictures for the Bruises thread? ;)

Naw, she's a bitch... but she's our bitch and we love her. :3some:

Yay for no more lump! Yay for painkillers!
Would a frozen peas ice pack help the painful pit?
PM if you need anything.

Did you get to keep the lump and stuff? Is there a tumor fairy? I reckon it must be worth at least a pony.....

Yeah, you have to crush it under your heel!

We sure do have some badass, tough muthafuckahs here. You two impress the shit out of me with your attitudes. I'm simply not worthy.

Blessed be to you both. You *shall* heal.

Jinx--yeah, the frozen peas in a bag really do help! I don't need a thing except for your continuing friendship and support--you all have been great!

I, too, feel the lump is worth a pony....which I didn't get but i DID get a Vermont Teddy Bear (Coco Chanel) and SG is keeping me busy with Rude UK--a book I look at and laugh and laugh! I couldn't ask for a better bunch of people to help me thru this.

Peace be upon you all!~
Love, Claudette

Add my congrats and yoohoos to the rest. My last chemo is today.

Bri, I'm really glad it all went well. Hope you get out of ouchville soon.

Whew!! finally on the other side. Congratulations, and take it easy you deserve it. You'll be back to up your shitstirring rabblerousing self before you know it.

::huge but gentle hug::

Glad to hear you're doing good!

Spud, good luck to you too. Isn't it nice to see the light at the end of the (chemo) tunnel?

- Pie

@ Bri. That's the best news. Wonderful. You totally nailed that stoopid tumour. :)

@ Spud, Good luck mate, almost there *smiles*

Thanks to all for the good wishes. Chemo is done, and I'm home, feeling like crap, but happy nonetheless. Gonna rest for the rest of the evening, and detox/decontaminate.

yay spud!

Right on, Spud! Here's to the start of a cancer-free life. Here's a little story for you all...please, next time I start bitching about something, remind me how insignificant my problems are compared to other people's?

A guy I've just started working with this week asked me how I was today, so I started pissing and moaning about work stress, my kids, poverty, crappy cars and such. He was *so* nice, smiling, telling me about how his kids were at that age (he's about 65), listening to my concerns, and obviously trying to make me feel better.

Then, while talking about how great his kids turned out, he casually mentioned his wife's terminal cancer, and her dire prognosis, and all the chemo and radiation and surgeries she'd been through fighting it. I felt about two inches tall. I mean, who the fuck am I to whine about the stupid shit I was laying down, while this guy stands on the verge of losing his wife of 40 years, and still has a smile and a kind word for a relative stranger? I have a healthy family, a nice house, cars that usually run and food in the cabinets, and this man is going to lose everything that means anything to him someday soon...

I've got to try harder to be a better person. :headshake

No you don't.

1) you're one of the most empathetic people I've come across
2) If Selene was terminally ill, would you really want people to pussy-foot around you and not mention anything that wasn't perfect in their lifes, just to try and spare you further pain? Or because they felt your pain made theirs unimportant? By telling him your woes and minor(ish) greivances, you probably gave him a few minutes to forget his own pain.

^ what the monster said, 'Spode ^

He sounds like a decent man, but you are too, so don't beat yourself up.
A man who needed to be a better person wouldn't even have got to hear about the ill wife!

Still, if it got you to count your blessing it was a positive encounter.

Spud - lots of love sent to you, hope the detoxing goes as well as it can. At least it's another milestone passed.

Glad it went well for ya! I'm late getting in here to pass on my best wishes - my good lady only dropped the laptop off yesterday and i'm having to connect through a mobile at a massive 9.6kbps! It akes an age! Everything is going ok, not feeling too bad. Having the cells returned to me tomorrow. Apparently, i'll smell heavily of sweetcorn for three days due to the preservatives they added to them!
Anyway, stay cool everybody!
The journey's long but i'm clingin' on!!!

We're rootin for ya roosta :)

Here's to nice, clean cells being shoved back in, Roosta! Go for the gold, bro.

I've *had* my own crises, and crises with my eldest child in more than adequate measure, that's for sure, so it isn't as though I don't know true despair and pain. Its just that, all things considered, my life is probably the best it has ever been right about now, and that's saying a lot...yet still I fall into these bummer moments. Then, when someone who has *real* problems comes around, it just jolts me.

I don't know how the guy can be such a cheerful, open fellow with all he's got going on in his life. I'd be such a basket case if Selene was in the condition his wife is in. Just considering the prospect of her no longer being with me on this plane almost makes me cry.

I just wish Life didn't have to make people suffer so much, you know?

Best wishes, Roosta! Smelling like sweetcorn is an aphrodisiac in some areas of the world.

I"m pulling for you and the spud!

Great news Bri !!!!!

Good luck and keep the good attitude Roosta. Despite the junk you're going thru, it gets better. And don't worry about smelling like corn, I have a friend who farts a lot and smells like corn, but everyone still loves her.;)
Get better quick, ya hear?

P.S. Thanks everyone for good wishes.

My anti-depressants made me smell of meat for the first few months - you get used to it after a while!

Just think, you'll be the only Roosta pursued by real chickens!

Good luck and best wishes and keep doing what you're doing to all those ill or beginning recovery.

Hey Roosta, my dad just finished his stint smelling like corn (mini-allo). He's doing quite well -- we just brought him home from the transplant ward. Hope things go just as smoothly for you!

Spud, Bri -- glad you've both made it to the end of this trial. Hopefully, every day from here on out will be better than the last!

Thanks Pie, every day is better if I allow it to be.

Brianna,
I leave the nets for a while and this is what I come back to?
Jeez, that'll learn me.

I am so glad you are doing well. I've missed you.

Oh yeah, sorry about the...

Welcome, Mr Sun!

You heartless bastard. You know Rainbow Pony's colors ran on 9/11.

*applauds* That's just brilliant.

Well, we agree on that. :D
Do you still weigh 55kg?

Well, i'm out at last. Not the best experience of my life but it could have been worse. Tiredness and no energy to do anything are against me at the minute. I can't wait to get back to normal - no sense of taste, constant aches and endless visits to the hospital for blood tests are doing my head in. Thanks to everyone who supported me.