Illinois ladies facing bc
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Vanmama/Laura, apparently I had forgotten your 'story' and what made 2015 such a disastrous year for you. I hope I responded appropriately at the time of original mention.
At any rate, today I picked out a random quote -- often, I run through a long list of new daily quotes that come in my e-mail and this one just seemed "the one". It certainly looks like you will be planting some new seeds and embarking on a whole other life, even though one you would not have willfully chosen save for the life circumstances that were sadly presented to you. I hope this new journey will see you filled with grace and able to find encapsulated within your seeds many beautiful and worthwhile flowers with all the power necessary to keep your sails waving high in the winds of life.
Your attitude makes me want to reach a little higher. Hoping this new year and new start will see you filled with healing energies.
Jackie
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thanks, Jackie
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Laura, good to hear from you. You have been thru far to much in one year, but your resilience shows you have true survivor spirit. God bless you....always.
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I made it through surgery and woke up, yay!
I'm home now and all went well. Surgeon was able to get both areas wth one incision near the bottom outside corner of my breast so scar shouldn't be too visible. They also took 5 lymph nodes. Pathology takes 5-7 days come back. Thanks for the good thoughts! Amy
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Yay! So glad it went well.
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Fantastic Amy -- positive energies to you for good report.
Jackie
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We may think that happiness is a result of happy circumstances.
A more mature view of happiness is that it is a by-product of
sharing our good and serving others. It is a sense of doing a
job well, honest communication with another, visiting someone
who may be ill, or sharing a sense of humor. Happiness is a
spiritual principle that we can lay hold of and use, regardless
of outer conditions or circumstances.
It isn't necessary to wait for circumstances to bring happiness.
When we try to give it to others, it returns to us multiplied. We
can make our own joy, and let it act upon circumstances! One
of the great paradoxes of truth is that a happy heart draws to
itself what it needs for happiness.John Marks Templeton
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What is age but a number.
What you can dream, you can become, at any age.
Live your best life, not your age.
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Hello all
Thank you so much for your welcome. Vanmama you have had a load to carry. For that I am so sorry. I have been married for 25 years. We are close and I cannot imagine my life without him. What a blow for you. But we must keep living right? What choice do we have. This will be your year! You never know what is in store and you certainly have had your share of bad news.
I went to both onocolgist and rad MD this week. STILL waiting oncotype....
Trying to stay positive but afraid of the BIG decisions ahead. To do 3 or 6 week rads. If oncotype is unclear say low or mid range how do I decided what to do. I calculated by "risk" of getting BC and it was 5% soooo percentages don't really mean much....0 -
Brimton my risk of getting BC when I did was less than 2%! So yes I get that. You need to ask your doctors what they recommend and why. Then you can evaluate properly. If they won't answer the why then get a 2nd opinion for sure. Don't be afraid to call back with questions. It's their job to talk to you if you are their patient.
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I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation—for being alive to have this particular moment. -Jean Shinoda Bolen
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My surgeon called with the very good news that she was able to get clean margins and that all my lymph nodes were cancer-free! Yay!! Tumor was 2.5cm, so that makes me stage II, but it hasn't spread outside my breast. I am so relieved!!! My next steps will be with a medical oncologist and radiation oncologist. They will determine my treatment protocol. I feel like I'm walking on air! So unbelievable happy!!
Amy
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Good News Amy. We share your sense of relief and hopefully you will be able to find with your Oncologists a program that will bear wonderful results so you can continue to be able to see the bright side of working with this disease.
Jackie
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Awesome Amy!!! You are now dancing with NED!
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Human beings are a part of the whole, called by us "the universe," a
part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts
and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical
delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our own personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.Albert Einstein
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Fantastic Amy! thanks so the kind reply lago.
I'm hoping that the oncotype comes back this coming week. then another week of waiting until I see the onocolgist again
ILlady What your are writing is how I am trying to live. Appreciate the moments in life. Awaken.
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A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
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Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love--for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.
Ram Dass
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When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last. -Barbara Johnson
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People are buffeted by circumstances so long as they believe themselves to be creatures of outside conditions.But when they realize that they are creative powers, and that they may command the hidden soil and seeds of their being out of which circumstances grow, they then become the rightful masters of themselves. . . . Circumstances do not make the person; they reveal the person to him or herself. -James Allen
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Hi! Christine here from the south suburbs of Chicago! I'm done with most of my treatments now (just finished Herceptin), except for Tamoxifen.
Hope everyone is doing great!
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Welcome KillTheCancer, and glad you found us here. I hope I didn't miss you if you did come before this. Good to hear you are through a good deal of your txs. Always good to check a lot of these things off the list. The ladies here are fantastic. It has been a while for me, but this was home for me in the beginning of my journey and I never left. I hope you will continue to come and share. I leave a quote every day so there is always something to read.
Jackie
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KilltheCancer - I'm from the south suburbs too - Homewood!
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction.
We get lots of information about life but little education
in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures,
who should know better from their experience. Information
is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge
of how to love and survive. But no matter how much advice
you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board.
As you pass through life, pay attention to the signs and stations;
if you don't like the scenery, pull the emergency cord and
get off the train. There is no other conductor in charge.
There is no one who needs to give you permission to transfer.
This is your life. Your journey. Your trip to conduct.
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I have always disliked the idea that we are being "tested" by God when something awful happens to us. Bad things happen, and none of us are exempt from the possibility that they will come to us as well. I have pondered a different possibility inherent in crisis that in no way changes the fact that it is a genuine disaster: perhaps the events that devastate us carry within them seeds of spiritual "initiation" into a level of knowing we would not otherwise achieve. -Sallirae Henderson
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I thought about this one for a bit. I have put in very similar quotes before. It is only that I happen to concur so much with it. If everything in life is good we don't find fault and complain. Too often we may even forget to give thanks in gratitude for our bounty. It always is the adverse events that bring out who we are and what we can REALLY do. How we can stand strong and overcome.
Jackie
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It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.- Irish Proverb -
Seek out that particular attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says " This is the real me ", and when you have found that attitude follow it.
William James
It is two for one day here, enjoy.
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When one begins to practice simplicity, the ego is deprived of the very strategy by which it sustains itself. Nothing will deflate the ego more effectively than to be recognized for what it is. It lives by pretension. It dies when the mask is torn away and the stark reality is exposed to the gaze of others. Simplicity also avails in braking the tyranny of things. Ostentation, artificiality, ornamentation, pretentious style, luxury--all require things. One requires few things to be one's self, one's age, and one's moral, intellectual, or spiritual stature. What one is does not depend on what one has.
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Just a little note here. We finally are seeing the first snowflakes of the winter season here. Weatherman says not even one inch. It sure feels cold and un-inviting out of doors ( morning outdoor chores ) and frankly, I actually like snow -- of course within reason -- but I wouldn't mind 6 inches or so. I don't think it will happen.
Otherwise, it is just cold air to be an annoyance for the outdoor activities. We will be ok, but still am disliking this winter season for the fact that a few short days ago it was 55 and today the wind chill gives us a minus reading. Overall a very mild warm winter, but when it plunges, it does so overnight. I'm more of a fan of having it creep up so we all get a chance to build up some tolerance in advance.
Jackie
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Education is more than schooling. It is a cast of mind, a willingness to see the world with an endless sense of curiosity and wonder. If you would be truly educated, you must adopt this cast of mind. You must open yourself to the richness of your everyday experience--to your own emotions, to the movements of the heavens and the languages of birds, to the privations and successes of people in other lands and other times, to the artistry in the hands of the mechanic and the typist and the child. There is no limit to the learning that appears before us. It is enough to fill us each day a thousand times over.
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