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Re: Stage III Cancer Survivors .... 10+ Years and Out
Congratulations! Thank you for sharing.
Re: Long term survivor examples.
I always hoped I'd be able to post here. I am ten years out and still kicking. I still take tamoxifen but hopefully that will come to an end soon.
For all those starting your journey, there is hope.
Re: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
Disgraceful Republicans and they seem to enjoy humiliating themselves.
Re: Scares That Turned Out To Be Nothing
I think this kind of post is really valuable. We all need to be reminded that our bodies do weird things that have nothing to do with cancer. Most of my "scares" have been self-inflicted, but I have had one major one.
1) Shortly after beginning neoadjuvant chemo, I noticed while getting dressed that the skin on my affected breast had a pitted appearance. I rushed out of the room sobbing about how my chemo wasn't working and I now had IBC. After hyperventalating for about five minutes, I checked the breast again and the pitted skin was gone. Explanation? I had wrapped my towel too tightly around my body after showering and it had made indentations in the skin.
2) *MAJOR TMI GROSS ALERT* After round 3 of AC, I noticed that I had a small lump below the belt. My first thought was OBVIOUSLY metastasized cancer in the groin lymph node. So I kept poking and prodding the little bump and caused a massive infection that swelled into a huge abscess that was so painful it kept me from walking before it finally started draining blood and pus. (My husband was my fiancee at the time and I knew nothing could drive him away when he checked for me and kept me updated on how the draining process was going.) Turned out it was an infected hair follicle.
3) I have a tiny bump on the top of my head. After flipping out about skull/scalp/skin mets, a dermatologist declared it was a cyst.
4) I had non-itchy, red bumps that came on suddenly and spread all over my stomach, lower back, buttocks and thighs. I was extremely concerned about skin mets. They eventually resolved themselves. Bug bites or an allergic reaction to Zoladex are possibilities but to this day, I don't know what caused it.
5) (This was the bad one. )Found a hard lump on my mast scar under my arm. Ended up having a scary ultrasound and core biopsy. Result: B9 fragments of lymph nodes.