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Cancer Blog Entries Archived by Date

•  2010 (3)
  
  
  •  March (1)
    •  A Life Of Wishing When we were very young we wished we were tall enough, big enough to reach & do things. Then as we aged we wished we were old enough to date, drive a car, smoke, drink or even vote. Then all of a ...
    
    
    
  •  January (2)
    •  What we do ....... in the wee small hours of the night....... OK.... Only those of us who have or had cancer will truly understand where I'm coming from. Our family, close friends & all of our love ones, stand beside us, hold our hands when we are hurting, hold...
    
    
    
    •  I'm Back Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to all of my BFAC friends. Since last time.... we moved off the MT, lost out TV, computer & our RV had a fight with a pole & the pole won. Then to top it off...
    
    
    
•  2009 (38)
  
  
  •  October (3)
    •  Newspaper Story Just had an interview with the local news paper. Just wanted everyone to know....... there really is life after cancer. It is truly up to us to let others know this & I hope we can spread the word...
    
    
    
    •  We All Dance Alone I have often thought of going thru cancer, like entering a marathon dance. We are told we have this horrible thing growing inside of us & it is going to led us where ever it wants, until we fall or qu...
    
    
    
    •  Fall is here & this mountain is coolin' down! As the season changes, so does how our bodies feel. I know if you are young, you are thinking, "golly that ole lady is crazy" but in truth, if you have had chemo,your body has aged years ahead of wha...
    
    
    
  •  August (3)
    •   The Age Of Worry For A Woman When we are first born, we worried because we got hungry. Then we cry and someone feeds us. Eight years later, we worry about not getting that doll we wanted for Christmas. Santa came & we got our d...
    
    
    
    •  We are at war within our bodies. I remembered when that song came out. "LIVE LIKE YOU ARE DYING" It was about the time I was going thru chemo & radiation. I was at my very lowest. I remember crying my eyes out each & every t...
    
    
    
    •  Looking Over Your Shoulder First of all, I am so very thankful to have survived cancer for almost 9 years now. But there are so, so many things that we have to live with AFTER cancer. At first, you go thru that "can't wait...
    
    
    
  •  July (1)
    •  My Book is finished!!! After over 8 years, I finished my book "LAUGH WHEN I CRY". by Sandra Beard. All of you who have read any of my blogs, know I try to laugh at myself, all the time, instead of cry. So I guess the ti...
    
    
    
  •  June (3)
    •  Doctors, Doctors & more Doctors I have been on this BLOG FOR A CURE for right at 5 months now & what I have heard from most everyone (sooner or later) is a horror story about a doctor. Now don't get me wrong, if I was about 35 or 4...
    
    
    
    •  WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DO?? OK, we all hurt,keep getting bad news at the doctors, have to stay away from so many things & people, can't eat or drink this or that,can't sleep. Like all of you I could keep going,but I'm stopping r...
    
    
    
    •  My Cousin didn't make it. Yesterday we buried my cousin. Over 17 yrs ago she had breast cancer,had a mastectomy & went on with her life. About 3 years ago she started to realize she had a problem. Something was wrong. She went...
    
    
    
  •  May (3)
    •  Be Kind to us..... You could be NEXT It will be 9 years this Sept. when I first found out I had breast cancer. Like many of you, my life hasn't been the same since that fateful day. Don't get me wrong,I thank "THE MAN" everyday when I wa...
    
    
    
    •  I'm OK!!! My computer DIED!!! I have had a TERRIBLE time getting this THING up & going... Every time I put a post on, "IT" dies. Hope this works???? (sorry Teresa.... tried to get you about 5 times too) For weeks I had trouble...
    
    
    
    •  Sorry Guys... My computer died.!!! So Sorry I haven't been in touch ..... My computer just quit on me after we moved. To tell the truth, I think it was the operator more than the comp.!! haha But as Arney says.... " I'M BAAAAAA...
    
    
    
  •  April (3)
    •  More Little Things OK... We talked about bathing & low energy, but what about all the other 100's of other little things? What about crowds? When you have the big "C" you really can not be around lots of people. Adults...
    
    
    
    •  The Little Things In Life We Miss My whole life I always believed there wasn't anything that I couldn't do if I set my mind to it. But in the first 2 years of my dance with cancer, I truly realized so many little things in life I ...
    
    
    
    •  Happy Easter Happy Easter to all..... Today is a day of coming back to life, re-birth, born again. Many of us here can relate to this in many ways. God gave us this day, be it a day of pain, happiness, sorro...
    
    
    
  •  March (4)
    •  Boobs & Tattoos April fools days seems to be a good day to relate this story to all of you out there, since you have BEEN THERE-DONE THAT. My surgeon was just great. The only doctor I have had that I r...
    
    
    
    •   Queen Cancer and the 7 Dwarfs My mind really is out there on some cloud far, far away. I guess cancer does that to all of us. But I look at stuff from a weird-er view than most. Again we all need a laugh to keep us going. I...
    
    
    
    •  Mammograms-What's next after the waiting room.... OK, I went in, gave my name,went into that waiting room, And finally they called me. Wearing a dollar store, butt freezing gowns, I tried to walk as "lady like", as I could down the hall to "THE ROOM"...
    
    
    
    •  Mammograms - The Waiting Room MAMMOGRAMS = Yea, Yea, I know, we need these things to help save our lives & detect tumors early.....BUT... Let's look at what happens when we go for one of THOSE things. My last mammogram was ab...
    
    
    
  •  February (7)
    •  THE FAT LADY - PART 2 You thought I was thru! hahaha What I didn't tell you was all the other problems, with this fat arm. When I was going thru therapy, they pushed lots of fluid up my arm to my arm pit. From there they...
    
    
    
    •  THE FAT LADY OK, I'm only half fat, but even that causes problems. The word for the day is LYMPHEDEMA. The saying , cures need cures, should have this in mind! I got thru the hard stuff (chemo) & lived as normal a...
    
    
    
    •  Read & Read I have read and read so many blogs from all of my new friends, but it makes me so sad. I feel so guilty. I made it thru 8 years,even tho they were hard. I'm still here, laughing, crying, praying,& hop...
    
    
    
    •  HAPPY VALENTINES DAY I love my new friends, boys and girls, Some are bald and some have curls, Can't wait till the day we all are well, Cause we have many many a bad tale to tell, Tumors, stitches, and chemo hel...
    
    
    
    •  Problems with Problems We have all said this- The cures need cures!! When you find out you have cancer, you are in shock. We, like Judy, follow that yellow brick road. First road to all those test. Second road to "OR" for ...
    
    
    
    •  Driving Miss Daisy I hate to complain,BUT.... I'm gonna do it anyway. Many of you are in a REALLY bad place now. I know, because lots of us have been there... I hear many of you talk about how bad you felt & how hard it...
    
    
    
    •  "H F H" When I first started this journey with cancer, like many I cried lots..LOTS. We were living on the beach in FL. at that time. All my family & friends were back in Va. It was just Harry (my man) & me....
    
    
    
  •  January (11)
    •  THIS WAY OUT Well, here I am again. I told you about the day I was told I had breast cancer. As we all think back to that day, it makes me wonder if anyone else felt like they were in that song "hotel calif." re...
    
    
    
    •  MRI From Hell Over the years I have had many MRI's. Since cancer,THEY have given me a different type of MRI. It was an MRI with a biopsy on my breast, during the MRI. OK, I am 6 months from being 70 yrs. young...
    
    
    
    •  Chicken Noodle Soup Just a quick note to all out there who are on CHEMO. Odd as this may sound, one of the best things you can do for yourself or someone you love, taking chemo, is CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP !! Yep!!! for "som...
    
    
    
    •  Going against the grain. Ok, I already vented about radiation. What I went through was mild to what many of you went through. So lets go to CHEMO...I am here, but at what cost & side effects. Loss of hair, loss of taste, lo...
    
    
    
    •  1 week As of today I have had this blog for 1 week... I have vented, talked cried, laughed, but I have also gone on other blogs to read what is happening to others...I am touched by all... I have cried man...
    
    
    
    •  The Bright Side Ok, I made it thru surgery, chemo, radiation & more chemo.And I'm so thankful to still be here. I knew there would be problems to follow. Over the years, we have all heard about Radiation fall out... ...
    
    
    
    •  Radiation Burns There were no blogs in 2000, that I knew of, when I got cancer. I just want to share what happened & ask about all the after effects. It seems the cure was, in some ways, worse than the ill, or almo...
    
    
    
    •  medical degree PHT The only degree I received from college, was a "PHT". At least that's what we called it when we "PUT HUBBIE THROUGH"... I'm not like most of you. I truly admire you all for being able to remember all...
    
    
    
    •  Treatments Well, here I am, in the middle of a nightmare and I can't wake up.... Chemo....Radiation... more Chemo...... Being poked.... prodded..... burned..... poisoned...... One day you have hair..... a week ...
    
    
    
    •  Merry-Go-Round Now it is right in your face. You know you have cancer!!!! Right here is where you begin to feel like you are on a wild Merry-Go-Round and can't find your way off.... First "They" tell you what treatm...
    
    
    
    •  Living Proof For all of you who have been touched by cancer, you will know where I'm coming from. Once you are told you have that terrible thing growing inside you, you are deft to all words that follow. Your sur...
    
    
    

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