Yes survivors do rock!!!! yeah I still have my curls and its been 1 1/2 years since treatment. I also am growing my hair out. I notice that if i just wa**** and do nothing to it it is very wavy. The top part id more curly. I usually use a scrunch spray and scrunch my hair to have more defined curls. It is beginning to grow on me and I am liking the curls. Still sad that my blonde hair is gone but I had blonde highlights put in, they are very subtle but I think I will get more highlights for summer. Funny what chemo does to our hair. When I was on chemo I lost all of my hair including body hair. Now my eyelashes came back but they are very short and thin - I hate them. And they are still blonde, go figure. My hair on my head came back brown. I wish my eyelashes had come back brown so that I wouldn't have to wear mascara. I also have very little underarm hair and I no longer have to shave my legs. My hair is also a different texture. It is very thick and somewhat coarse. It used to be very fine and silky. I am glad to have hair though. I had uterine and ovarian cancer and am just happy to be alive. Hoping to have RNY next month.

 That's the whole reason I am having the surgery.  I am eliminating one of the factors for cancer recurrence.  I tried to get a full hysterectomy but my oncologist said it's too early & there would be too many side effects from that & it would outweigh the benefits.  I don't think the surgery is the culprit, I feel like if it was in there to begin with the surgery wasn't the culprit.  

 If one is a breast cancer survivor, and had underarm lymphnodes removed during the cancer surgery, can they later have the excess upper arm skin removal surgery? Is it done? Can having this elective surgery  increase your chances of developing lymphedema? Anyone know?

What oral chemo are they talking about?

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I am post op Gastric By passs revison 2 years. I am having some issues with distended fluid fill remnant stomach . I have had a G tube in place since 2/1/2011 , My question is what are complications to this, and what function does the "old stomach" really have; and what kind of quality of life does one have if they have to remove the "old stomach". I have been on this internet for the last 3 weeks trying to research all this and it is driving me crazy.