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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: farfallina on August 10, 2010, 10:01:57 pm
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Dear Friends,
I will go to Istanbul this Thursday so I won't be available for a while
I am coming back in September
I won't be able to reply in case you have some questions about my posts :-[
I try to do it as soon as I am back
In my blog you will see some new recipes. I had some recipes that I tried, noted and scheduled some time ago
Unfortunately I don't have time to post them here at the moment
I will do it when I am back. Promise :)
Just wanted to let you know ;)
See you soon
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Hi Farfallina, we will miss you but have a good time in Istanbul.Take care,Denise :-*
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Have a safe trip, look forward to more of your recipes when you get back. :)
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Have fun and Stay safe farfallina. Look forward to you getting back to us here.
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bye farfallina, thanks for popping in and letting us know why you will be absent for a while. It will save us sending out a search party :D :D Enjoy your holiday.
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Thanks for telling us farfallina, we seem to get in a bit of a spin when one of our own is missing for a while. Enjoy your break. :P
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Farfallina, have a great time. Thanks for letting us know that you will be away, and we look forward to hearing from you when you get back.
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Elveda Farfallina, catch up soon when you come back :)
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Safe travels farfallina! We look forward to your return. :-*
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Have a wonderful time in Istanbul Farfallina. You deserve a break after all your hard work posting recipes on here and on your blog.
I'm sorry I don't thank you enough for all the recipes that you contribute - you have made some wonderful posts and I really do appreciate each and every one of them. :-* :-*
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Hope you are having a great time in Turkey :-* :-* :-*
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Hi everyone
Thank you all for your posts :-* :-* :-*
I am back!
I am hoping to go back to my routine soon so I could be more active also here
I have some recipes to post.
I do it asap. Maybe from the next week. I still have some stuff to take care of
See you around
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Welcome back Farfallina.I hope you had a good holiday.
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Welcome back Farfallina. Hope your holiday was fabulous and you rested and ready to get back into you cooking.
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Farfallina, good to see you are back ;D
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(sound of quickened footsteps and door closing)
oh! here, you left your sunglasses (madly running after her) 8) alright, hear from you next week... :-*
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Oooh I did notice you weren't posting your wonderful recipes.
Glad you are back and ready to get back into it! ;)
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Welcome back Farfallina - all rested up and ready to get back into the kitchen I'll bet ;)
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Thank you girls
I won't neglect you anymore :D :-* :-*
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I see you have been busy posting recipes farfallina. I hope your holiday was wonderful.
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My holiday was great cookie. We were in Istanbul going around to be able to see everyone, all friends and family
When you have limited days they tend to pass so fast!
We stayed with mom longer this time. Last February she had an operation, breast tumor. They removed her left one. She had chemo 8 times afterwards. She was tired but seemed like getting better. She might have also radiotherapy
When I was back here my sister in law's mom died because of tumor. It happened so fast. It was too late when it was discovered
Just half an hour ago I heard another relative of ours got brain tumor
There are 3 others, all happened this period
It is like someone pushed some button and everyone got it all the same time. It sounds like an epidemic almost
I have got very depressing news recently.
I wasn't gonna mention about all this but then I changed idea to tell you this:
You, yourselves and your mothers and relatives must have regular mammography and pap smear tests at least. We often don't care enough when we are in good health.
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I am truly sorry to hear about your family health problems Farfallina.I agree with you it's important to keep up with regular tests to make sure we are in good health.My best wishes to your Mum for a speedy recovery.
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We have a saying here in Australia 'bad news comes in threes' and yours certainly has farfallina. All the best to all concerned and thank you for reminding us all of what we know we need to do and often put it off. :-* :-*
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farfallina that is terribly sad. for me, personally,i will make my overdue pap smear appointment next week. i do think our forum is helping to prevent cancer tho as it promotes avoiding additives and preservatives (and lots of other dietary issues) which is in my opinion a big contributor to cancer. unfortunately it is very hard to avoid pesticides in our food. i wish in the latter, i could afford to buy more organic food.
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Farfallina, you have my deepest sympathy.
It is important for every woman to have regular checkups and tests for cancer.
I have been incredibly lucky or was favored by serendipity twice in my life. When I was 29 I had what was diagnosed as an ovarian cyst on my right ovary. This was prior to ultrasound and all the newer tests which are much more accurate. MRIs were not even on the horizon.
I went to a general surgeon because the first doctor, an OBGYN, wanted to do the vaginal approach but if someone was going to be looking around in my abdomen, I wanted them to be able to see what was there and it is a very good thing I did.
In addition to the cyst on the right side, I also had a significant amount of endometriosis in the abdominal cavity and while removing that the surgeon examined the left ovary and found a tiny tumor that turned out to have pallisade cells, a sign of early cancer. I had a total radical hysterectomy and my doctor, who did lot like to do it because of my age, told me it was better to be on the safe side, rather than take a wait and see track.
I recovered quickly and although I had to take replacement hormones for twenty-five years, I had no other problems following that surgery.
In 2005 I changed insurance plans and my new doctor asked about my last mammogram and although it was only 8 months since my last one, he ordered one because at my target date he was going to be on a month's trip to the middle east (Doctors without Borders volunteer). That mammogram showed positive and I was able to have just a lumpectomy because it was caught so early and all of it was removed. Follow-up films at 6-month intervals have been entirely clear. After the one this November it will again be annually.
See, lucky, twice.
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I am happy you have been lucky andiesenji
You have also been enough cautious. You were doing your tests. Your luck was they were able to catch them at very early stage.
Generally speaking, our problem is when we are in good shape we feel like it is gonna last forever. These kind of things sound like news. They can happen to others but not us!
My mom wasn't cautious. She didn't do regular tests. She noticed by hand and then went to see doctor. Since my aunt had benign cists on her breast several times she thought it was something like that. Besides, we never had tumor in family history
When doctor was doing biopsy he understood that it was malign but to be sure waited for pathology results. It was called something like invasive dual cardinoma if i am not wrong. Then she had 2nd operation and they removed that left breast of hers
By the way I also hear other cases where people make regular tests but tumor occurs almost right after test and then when they do it again its too late. I guess for these matters luck and cautiousness go hand in hand
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Farfallina you have certainly been saddened with all this and we all feel for you. Many of us here have had cancer ,including myself , and we fully understand what you are going through.
Every time someone tells their story we all scream "get those tests". It is important to share and I thank you for doing so.
There may be someone here who is reluctant to go for a pap smear or mammogram and many of us live in remote places where the health services are few and far between. I say MAKE A PLAN. Get it done.
We are all survivors here.
Gretchen
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Farfallina that has all been so very sad for you and your family. You are very correct about the importance of keeping up with our tests. :-*
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Farfallina so sorry to hear about your families news. You are right, we need to very vigilant about these things. My Grandmother was also one who didn't have things tested out when she knew something was wrong, and within months from memory (I was only about 8 ) she died.
I wish your family all good health from now on. :-*
Andisenji, so glad that you have over come the tumors too :-*
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Thanks for reminding me that my pap smear & mammogram are overdue. It's so easy to let it slide with one excuse or another.
So sorry to hear your sad news Farfallina
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Welcome back Farfallina. I hope you had a good break.
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Thank you all for your support :-*
Gretchen, I am so happy to hear you overcame it.
I must confess that I didn't do tests so regularly until what happened to mom.
In Turkish it is said do what imam says, don't do what he does ;)
I am told that now i have to be even more careful with mammogram because of mom
So now I got regular
I didn't do mammography in fact because of my age, they did something like ultrasound.
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I didn't do mammography in fact because of my age, they did something like ultrasound.
Lucky you!! I had to have my first mammogram recently - OUCH!!!!! (and I'm only 32) Also the ultrasound which is much less painful. >:(
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You are 32 and you've made mammogram already??
I am 33. As far as I know in both Turkey and Italy they don't do it if you are under 40 unless it is needed to make things clear
Because ultrasound doesn't give as clear results as mammogram. If they suspect something they do mammogram
I've never done it but I heard that it is very painful and the pain lasts even for a few days
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You are 32 and you've made mammogram already??
I am 33. As far as I know in both Turkey and Italy they don't do it if you are under 40 unless it is needed to make things clear
Because ultrasound doesn't give as clear results as mammogram. If they suspect something they do mammogram
I've never done it but I heard that it is very painful and the pain lasts even for a few days
There is a genetic test for young women, who have had family members with certain cancers, that determines if they carry a certain gene that predisposes one to breast cancer. If this gene is found, it is recommended that mammograms be done as early as age 20.
I have been a volunteer with the Susan B. Komen For the Cure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure) organization and regularly donate to it and did it long before I had breast cancer.
One of the young women who worked in my office several years ago was diagnosed with breast cancer at 27 and because of the type and because her mother had died of breast cancer, she elected to have a double mastectomy and is still living and is cancer-free.
There is no lower age limit for cervical cancer and caught early it is curable. As I said in my earlier post, I was incredibly lucky to have my ovarian cancer discovered so early because it is a "silent" killer.
I urge all women to at least consult their doctor about when to begin mammography and while it is a bit painful, the pain does not last more than a few minutes and is a small price to pay.
Even men can have breast cancer and if there is a painless lump they too should have it checked. My ex-brother-in-law had just such a lump discovered at an annual physical (he was a police officer) and had to have a mastectomy and several of the lymph nodes under his arm removed. He had radiation and chemotherapy and was cured but was off duty for almost two years.
As the old saying goes, "Forewarned is forearmed" and protecting oneself is a duty to your family as well as to yourself.
Here's some information about:
genetic test for breast cancers (http://www.imaginis.com/breast-health/genetic-risk-factors-for-breast-cancer-1)
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Farfallina that is very good advice from andiesenji. My daughter has her first mammogram and testing for breast cancer at age 32 and every year since. She is now 42. A mammogram is not painful but it may be uncomfortable for a few moments at most.
Your Imman is correct. Although I am not at all religious I do remember my mother using this quote from the Bible. Matthew 23 verse 3.
"All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not"
She especially used it in it's simple form saying " don't be a smart mouth Gretchen just do as I say not as I do."
And I might add, farfallina she used it frequently. I dare say if she lived near me here in Cairns instead of Palm Beach Florida she would still be saying it to me. ;D ;D
Gretchen
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:D :D :D Oh Gretchen, thank you for explaining that quote in it's simple form - I would never have worked it out otherwise. :-*
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Your mother never said it to you Judy? I am afraid, I have in the long not so lost past, that I used it on my children. HOpe they don't hold it against me. ;D ;D ;D
Gretch
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. A mammogram is not painful but it may be uncomfortable for a few moments at most.
I agree. It is a good idea not to have it when your breasts are painful. I am 'well endowed' and some times it is a tiny bit painful for a moment and other times it doesn't hurt at all. What is a moment or two of discomfort?
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Yes she did Gretchen, both parents would have used every phrase under the sun when I was a child - apparently I was a b of a kid.
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Thank you all for sharing such private details from your lives
andisenjie I will hear out about that genetic test. I do hope I'd eliminate that factor since mom was a first in the family, hopefully also last
When I posted about breast canscer I didn't know it was so common also over there. We started hearing about cancers of all sorts much more often. It is either because our life styles and what we eat or because in the past there weren't such detailed tests so they wouldn't know the reason, exact disease, it would be their destiny. I don't know which one. Maybe both
Gretchen I meant exactly what your mother says:) No matter where you are people arrive at same conclusions then :)
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Too true farfallina we are all living in the same world.........only different! :D
Gretchen