It's Cancer - Page 3

Aliantha · 09-02-2007, 12:17 AM

Cancer is very beatable these days. You'll kick it. You're young and healthy otherwise, so get positive and start fighting. I know it's shocking. But give yourself a little time to get over the news and get your head in the right place and you'll have a better chance. One of the most important things you can do for your own mental health is not to take on other people's grief and shock when they find out. Let them deal with it and don't be afraid to tell them to get the fuck out if they get all weepy. You don't need that shit. You need to surround yourself with positive people.

Don't worry about your mum. She'll come to grips with it and she'll be the best damn nurse anyone ever had when you're recovering from surgery. Mothers have a hard time dealing with knowing there's really nothing they can do to fix their kids other than to love them. You might even find it's good to have someone around you who just treats you like normal.

Just remember, you don't need to lose this fight.

Elspode · 09-02-2007, 01:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucksNuts

Bri, honey, I idolise you, you know that....and I dont do that willynilly....so I know you are going to kick the snot out of this biatch, and you will do so in a very Bri-like manner. Youre awesome, I have complete faith in you.

This sucks, I wish I was closer to help....like....take you out on a girlie nite out to get plastered and make oodles of guys fall in love with us

Too late. I am oodles of guys all by myself, and I'm already desperately in love with both of you.

I want to bear your children. Either that, or feed your children to bears.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-02-2007, 03:54 AM

Shit.

Well I didn't buy the "maudlin gush", 'cause I know when you're put upon, you're meaner than a junk yard dog. The only reason you won't beat this with sheer will, is you don't want to pass up the chance to meet some hot doctors and male nurses.
But I'll still be waiting when you've gone through those boy toys.

skysidhe · 09-02-2007, 02:58 PM

You know we all love you and believe in you.

Sheldonrs · 09-02-2007, 03:18 PM

Add my good thoughts to the pile here. (HUGS)

richlevy · 09-02-2007, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

I think we need to get cancer to register as a dwellar

From some of the posts on this board, I think it already has.

But if you mean that she's a tough grrrrl, than I agree. The body of an angel, and the guts of a harbor chick.

Go Bri!

Rexmons · 09-02-2007, 05:55 PM

Give yourself whatever gifts of time and rest you need to feel better and know that you're surrounded by caring thoughts and prayers and heartfelt wishes. Rest easy. Get well.

TheMercenary · 09-02-2007, 11:39 PM

Good luck. My thoughts are with you.

For you and everyone else check out:

http://www.savethetatas.com/

My wife and I bought t-shirts today.

A number of very close people in my life have delt with Breast Ca.

Bullitt · 09-03-2007, 01:07 AM

Hang in there Bri, you've gotten through life this far don't let some damn little cells stand in your way!

Undertoad · 09-03-2007, 07:18 AM

Tru B - it's just a stupid bunch of cells! Once it's outside your body you could stamp on it in the street and reduce it to nothing but a pile of goo!

Trilby · 09-03-2007, 07:57 AM

that's a good image, that.

Dammmm this holiday weekend. I'm so antsy---I want to know if this has metzed, what we're going to do, if I should cut my hair short and who can make a wig out of my own hair, how many tests do I have to have: CT? MRI? Nuc Med?...all these things. Plus, I need to clean my house, get new pajamas (the kind that button up the front) and yet I feel paralyzed to do anything. I'm jumpy.

glatt · 09-03-2007, 12:41 PM

Fuck. This sucks.

Bri, let me jump in with everyone else and tell you that you will beat this. Only personal experience I have is my aunt, and she beat this too. That was like 15 years ago and she's doing great. Medicine has only gotten better since then.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

Dammmm this holiday weekend. I'm so antsy---I want to know if this has metzed, what we're going to do,

The waiting is the hardest part. Once you get all the results back, then you can attack this thing. Feel like you are doing something, etc.

You want to be doing something now, right? I'm no expert at all in this, but there are probably a few thing you could be doing now to begin to prepare for the fight. Two things come to mind. Depending on your treatments, you may have no appetite later, so start packing in the calories today. Eat healthy. Eat a lot. Second is that you should try to start thinking positive. Say out loud to yourself that you are going to beat this. Come back and keep reading this thread over and over. We are here for you, and you will beat this.

Oh, and while we all may have ooh-la-lahed over your pictures on the bike, that's not what defines you. You're boobs aren't what make you hot. Having a mastectomy won't change that at all. Els probably said it better than I could, because he has more practice, but he's got the right idea.

You're going to beat this.

Flint · 09-03-2007, 01:18 PM

I still say "at least you're not living 100 years ago..." . . . I know you can't see it at the moment, but you know you'll be okay (because you have to)

DanaC · 09-03-2007, 03:45 PM

Bri, I spoke to Sundae Girl today and she asked me to relay her support and well wishes to you. She's as stunned as everyone else and feels equally sure that you, more than anyone, will beat this thing. Unfortunately she doesn't have internet access to post herself, but she wants you to know she's thinking of you.

Trilby · 09-03-2007, 04:33 PM

Thanks so much, Dana---that means a lot to me

09-02-2007, 12:17 AM	#31
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Cancer is very beatable these days. You'll kick it. You're young and healthy otherwise, so get positive and start fighting. I know it's shocking. But give yourself a little time to get over the news and get your head in the right place and you'll have a better chance. One of the most important things you can do for your own mental health is not to take on other people's grief and shock when they find out. Let them deal with it and don't be afraid to tell them to get the fuck out if they get all weepy. You don't need that shit. You need to surround yourself with positive people. Don't worry about your mum. She'll come to grips with it and she'll be the best damn nurse anyone ever had when you're recovering from surgery. Mothers have a hard time dealing with knowing there's really nothing they can do to fix their kids other than to love them. You might even find it's good to have someone around you who just treats you like normal. Just remember, you don't need to lose this fight. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

09-02-2007, 03:54 AM	#33
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Shit. Well I didn't buy the "maudlin gush", 'cause I know when you're put upon, you're meaner than a junk yard dog. The only reason you won't beat this with sheer will, is you don't want to pass up the chance to meet some hot doctors and male nurses. But I'll still be waiting when you've gone through those boy toys. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-02-2007, 03:18 PM	#35
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Add my good thoughts to the pile here. (HUGS) __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

09-02-2007, 05:55 PM	#37
Rexmons - Kavkaz United - Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 613	Give yourself whatever gifts of time and rest you need to feel better and know that you're surrounded by caring thoughts and prayers and heartfelt wishes. Rest easy. Get well. __________________ "Life's a bitch but God forbid the bitch divorce me..."

09-02-2007, 11:39 PM	#38
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Good luck. My thoughts are with you. For you and everyone else check out: http://www.savethetatas.com/ My wife and I bought t-shirts today. A number of very close people in my life have delt with Breast Ca. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-02-2007, 02:58 PM	#34
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	You know we all love you and believe in you.

09-03-2007, 01:07 AM	#39
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Hang in there Bri, you've gotten through life this far don't let some damn little cells stand in your way! __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

09-03-2007, 07:18 AM	#40
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Tru B - it's just a stupid bunch of cells! Once it's outside your body you could stamp on it in the street and reduce it to nothing but a pile of goo!

09-03-2007, 07:57 AM	#41
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	that's a good image, that. Dammmm this holiday weekend. I'm so antsy---I want to know if this has metzed, what we're going to do, if I should cut my hair short and who can make a wig out of my own hair, how many tests do I have to have: CT? MRI? Nuc Med?...all these things. Plus, I need to clean my house, get new pajamas (the kind that button up the front) and yet I feel paralyzed to do anything. I'm jumpy. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-03-2007, 01:18 PM	#43
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I still say "at least you're not living 100 years ago..." . . . I know you can't see it at the moment, but you know you'll be okay (because you have to) __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

09-03-2007, 03:45 PM	#44
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Bri, I spoke to Sundae Girl today and she asked me to relay her support and well wishes to you. She's as stunned as everyone else and feels equally sure that you, more than anyone, will beat this thing. Unfortunately she doesn't have internet access to post herself, but she wants you to know she's thinking of you.

09-03-2007, 04:33 PM	#45
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Thanks so much, Dana---that means a lot to me __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

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