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In reply to the discussion: How is everyone doing? [View all]

dmr

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4. Happy 60 to your husband. I'll be 60 this month, too!
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:36 PM
May 2012

A momentous birthday if I do say so myself. (my dad use to say that "if I do say so myself&quot not sure what it means or how it fits here!

But I figure if I'm going to turn 60, I might as well make it monumental, you know, like turning 13, 16, or 21. Shoot, I remember my 13th birthday, a newly minted teenager & a Beatlemaniac who was grounded because I spent all my babysitting money on a Beatles' album & a Sixteen magazine & my mom was mad! It was a cold & rainy Saturday, to boot. I remember that day because I was so excited to finally become a teenager; and I decided that I wanted to be 15 and in 10th grade because our newspaper had a picture of 10 graders in it & they looked so cool to me that I knew I just had to be 15, too. Silly kid.

I'm in the middle of having some serious dental work done so I can begin Bisphosphonate Infusion Therapy to try & save my bones. Metastasized breast cancer found it way to my bones, amongst a few other places. I've been having a rough time with some pretty awful bone pain. I've lost a quarter inch of height since last November, & that's not good. And, today, I'm also fighting a miserable cold & cough.

Well, I've gone down memory lane, anyone else have any good memories?

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How is everyone doing? [View all] Irishonly May 2012 OP
Happy to still be here ... slipslidingaway May 2012 #1
I am glad to hear it. Irishonly May 2012 #2
Thanks ... slipslidingaway May 2012 #3
Happy 60 to your husband. I'll be 60 this month, too! dmr May 2012 #4
I hope you are feeling ok Irishonly May 2012 #7
And Happy 60th to you as well :))) slipslidingaway May 2012 #12
Still enjoying my vacation from chemo cmd May 2012 #5
It sounds like a perfect day Irishonly May 2012 #8
Almost 3 years away from my last operation. Tracer May 2012 #6
Great news Irishonly May 2012 #9
6 years out of breast cancer surgery, chemo, mwdem May 2012 #10
That is a great place to be Irishonly May 2012 #11
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