{{Cindy}}

Aimee, that threw me for a loop too, even though I hadn't skipped, so I can't even imagine...

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Thanks, everyone.

Trudy, those kind of cigarettes give me anxiety, or they would, had I ever smoked them, and I so have not, but thank you, sweet woman.

Any cancer, they would take the surrounding lymph nodes to check for what stage the cancer is, that's routine. Since she's had cancer already, she probably gets screened regualrly, so the chances of this cancer being found early (like my mom's uterine cancer this summer-she is also a breast cancer survivor--if she hadn't been they wouldn't have been keeping such a close eye on her) are better than for a civilian.

Yes. This is the second instance of tumors on her ovaries though. She had the breast cancer, which was present in ~22 of the ~25 lymph nodes they biopsied. The breast cancer was treated with a mastectomy and chemo. When the breast cancer was found, the doctor did a full body scan, and found a tumor on her ovary. They then decided to treat the breast cancer with radiation.

I do not know what that first ovarian tumor was, except that it was not metastasized breast cancer. They either removed just the tumor, or the tumor and the one ovary at the time. I can't remember for anything. That was all about two years ago. Fast-forward, she was moving back east (although down south, so not near the family) and her doctor wanted to do one last scan before she moved. That's when they found the new mass on her ovary. She'd already sold her house, and was on her way out of town, when she found out. She had to move, find a doctor, and schedule the surgery after her move. To top it off, she had a car accident Saturday, and totaled her car.

Much ~ma to your s-i-l and family, Cindy.

Cindy, I am so sorry for your family, and I hope everything works out. Cancer doesn't mean the end -- my mom had lung cancer, had to get 1/2 a lung removed, and she's doung fine. It can work out.

Tangent re: funny cigarettes: one of the weirdest yet oddly touching moments of my mom's cancer was when she was going through the radiation and was sick and I came right out and said "Mom, if you ever want to try marijuana for the nasuea, just let me know, ok?" and her reply was "Honey, that is so sweet!"

ita, I had a dream and thought of you in it last night! I was at a party and macking out with Vin Diesel and Paris Hilton came up and bitch-slapped me --she was jealous -- and I dropped a lovely spinning kick on her (something I canna do it RL) and went back to kissing VD, who was very inpressed, and I thought "ita would be so proud! And jealous!"

And then I was dreaming about renovating a spooky loft apartment owned by hillbilly Mafia.

That's what i get for reading "Awful Plastic Surgery" before I go to sleep, I guess.

Cindy, it was the substance that came to mind first is all.

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Take your pick...

Aw, Cindy. So very hard on her--and all of you who love her.

Thanks, Erin. It's the three instances in two years that is so scary. And I hear Ovarian Cancer and think Gilda. S-i-l has one little boy. He's 8. She's far away from the family, and she's been through so much, already.

Ah Trudy, now you're talking, honey.

Booze. After cat stacking, it's the best anti-anxiety on the market.

I understand. And I hope for the best.

Thinking of you and yours, Cindy.

"Mom, if you ever want to try marijuana for the nasuea, just let me know, ok?"

Les Invasions Barbares, IJS. Hurty, but so good.