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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Breast Cancer / February 20092009
Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so belatedly, Happy New Year everyone. Tim Jackson > Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so belatedly, > Happy New Year everyone. ---------------- And the same to you. Hope everyone's still alive and kickin'. I'm grumpily shoveling snow and trying to figure how I can watch our new President's speech on my lunch hour tomorrow. Eva > > Happy New Year everyone. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Eva Since Usenet has been pulled by many American ISPs it is painful to find this group, and the best to everyone, Alex > Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so belatedly, > Happy New Year everyone. > > Tim Jackson Hello Tim, and happy new year to you too. Hope you and your daughter are well and happy. I'm doing ok, thankfully. It is very, very cold and snowy in Pennsylvania these days, but I'm now retired and don't have to go out in it unless I want to! Hope that 2009 is kind to you and yours. Barb > Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so belatedly, > Happy New Year everyone. Tim, I've been without a news server for about 6 months or more. Finally got on one for a reasonable cost (as long as I keep my job !!). I suspect that may be the cause of the drop in volume on the ngs. Here's a genuine post from a happy NED poster: dx BC 04/06; surgery 5/06; chemo delayed when 2nd primary (adrenal) found; adreanal surgery 07/06; chemo for BC started 08/06 16 weeks; rad started 11/06 for 6 weeks. I've been NED so far. Last Oct. (08) Rad Onc switched me from 6 mo to 1 yr follow/up; Last Dec. BC Onc switched me from 3 mo to 6 mo. follow-up. One scare last Sep.; BC Onc sent me for MRI of torso because he had noticed a slight enlargenment of the bile ducts for 2 successive C/T scans but results were not alarming to anyone, with a Dr. degree, that is. Scared the crap out of me! It did make me change my diet, though. Now I need to get some exercise to get off the weight I gained back from before this mess began. Fortunately I have not gained ALL of it back. It has shifted, though to my middle, which is likely age (55) but I wonder if some of it is not due the side effect of Arimadex (sp?). Cheers to everyone in 09 -- may the economy come back so I can quit worrying. Of course, it does take my mind off cancer! God Bless, Marsha >> Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so belatedly, >> Happy New Year everyone. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > God Bless, > Marsha Nice to here you are still NED Marsha. It can be hard to tell over the years what is drug side effects and what is the ageing process or changes due to other causes. I guess there's no way to know, really, we only live once, and a sample of one is no good to statistics. I suppose you could see it as a silver lining of the recession that it takes your mind off other worries, but rather in the way that a broken arm takes your mind of a chipped fingernail. I guess if you are going to worry you are going to worry, it doesn't really matter what about. Tim >>> Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so belatedly, >>> Happy New Year everyone. [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > arm takes your mind of a chipped fingernail. I guess if you are going > to worry you are going to worry, it doesn't really matter what about. Tim, Actually I've been doing well in the worry category. I have always felt that any stress meeds to be mitigated. Just my personal opinion, but I believe it to be a major contributing factor to ones physical health. I think that more than average "concern" is an issue that cancer (or any other serious medical condition) patients deal with but I'm happy to say that I don't have even a frequent preoccupation with it. I rely on faith more than anything else. Since my treatments I have a much more calm reaction to stressful situations, except possibly recently in my job. I keep telling myself that I am blessed to have the work and the health to be able to do it. While my employer falls into the Type B management style (benevolent) I have seen evidence in the past that the physically weak get lumped into the same category with the older workers when staff reduction time comes. I wouldn't dare admit any weakness, miss many days or complain. Economic concerns comes to bear on it when one considers the possibility of losing their job, ergo their insurance. I have a very good job: now. Today is beautiful, albeit cold, day in my little corner of the world and I plan to enjoy it. Marsha >>>> Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so >>>> belatedly, Happy New Year everyone. [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > Marsha I'm sure stress levels have a lot to do with health, and probably longevity. A lot of it is to do with having control of our lives, obviously illness and poverty are things that tend to wrest control from us. Ageism in work is something that concerns me. I find it hard to believe that although I have a highly saleable skill and the world beats a path to my door, were I not self employed, at my age (57) I would probably be unable to get a job, and if I had one I would probably be forced to quit at age 65. And yet at the same time we are struggling to pay pensions and health benefits to the ballooning class of the elderly. It's daft. Tim >>>>> Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so >>>>> belatedly, Happy New Year everyone. <snipped> > I'm sure stress levels have a lot to do with health, and probably > longevity. A lot of it is to do with having control of our lives, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > at age 65. And yet at the same time we are struggling to pay pensions > and health benefits to the ballooning class of the elderly. It's daft. Tim, I know you have posted here a lot but I don't remember where you are (I can chalk that up to mild chemo brain). If you are in the US I think you'd find that you'd probably be forced to quit at your current age. My husband was forced out at 57 in 2000, a victim of right-sizing after the tech bubble burst. The company paid a firm to help them with job hunting, networking, etc. I went to one of the spouse sessions with him and it was awful. My own boss was among the group so that was made the session all the more depressing. Their idea of helping that age group was to send them to a job fair at a local university. You can only imagine how interested the company reps at the fair were in workers of their age. One actually told him: "Well, gee, uh, we're like really more interested more in young people right out of school". He reminded them that what they had just said was blatant age discrimination. But, what can you do? The company postured the bloodletting in advance by leaking to the press that they were getting rid of dead wood and predominately those that didn't have the new programming and design skills when in fact most of them did. So that pretty much shot any local interviews they would have, well in advance. I understand a corporation needing to cut costs in bad times but they virtually committed character assassinations. I know any number of people my age and up that are still a viable group of techs and actually like change and the challenge that new technologies bring. What's daft to me is that they don't keep some of them on and beefing up our higher education standards to bring in our own young work force rather than importing so much of it. The government likes to claim the current and upcoming smaller work force is the problem (as compared to we boomers) when what they need to admit is that it's the shrinking number of trained legal workers. I don't think any US politicians are capable of changing healthcare in this country for the better until they experience what we have now. As long as they have their own cushy benefits and healthcare that differs from their constituents, they will never understand the issues. Oops, you made me break my resolution again! Marsha >>>>>> Looks like we've had no "genuine" posts so far in 2009, so >>>>>> belatedly, Happy New Year everyone. [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > > Marsha Actually I'm in UK, but it's not much better here. Under British law your husband would probably have been entitled to a sizeable redundancy package if the company wanted to avoid a court case for unfair dismissal. (Or "constructive dismissal" if he was pressured into retiring "voluntarily".) Whereas workers reaching 65 can legally be dismissed without reason or compensation. And of course while the British National Health Service may leave a lot to be desired, I don't think anyone can argue that it doesn't provide better care for the poor and the chronically sick than the US insurance system. Apart from those points, I would agree that everything else you say also applies here. Tim <snipped> > Actually I'm in UK, but it's not much better here. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Apart from those points, I would agree that everything else you say also > applies here. I thought you were in the UK that's why I asked. Actually another guy found a lawyer that agreed to a class action suit and asked if my husband wanted to join as one of the original litigants which would have meant we'd receive a larger judgment if the case had won (don't know what happened and am presuming after 9 years that nothing came of it.) However, because I worked for the same company he was afraid they might fire me out of retribution. I don't think that would have been the case since that would make the company look very aggressive, which as I said earlier is not the nature or our management. We just didn't want to take the chance. His doctor told him it was probably the best thing that ever happened to him. After he "retired" his high blood pressure was much more manageable. Still psychologically it was quite a blow for him (and me as well to some degree.) Marsha |
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