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  • CandDsMom
    CandDsMom Member Posts: 68
    edited April 2011

    Jezza - wow!

    Keep these stories coming!!! Fantastic ladies. I wish you all many many more birthdays!

  • Thatgirl
    Thatgirl Member Posts: 34
    edited April 2011

    Bump...bump...bump....

  • heathermcd
    heathermcd Member Posts: 21
    edited April 2011

    Yay Jezza!!! So awesome!! How old were you when you were diagnosed (if you don't mind me asking).

  • bookgirl
    bookgirl Member Posts: 6
    edited April 2011

    Thanks for this reminder...I really needed a boost today. Waiting for MIR results has me in a funk.

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited April 2011

    bookgirl-I will be praying for good results for you !

  • lisa1313
    lisa1313 Member Posts: 2
    edited May 2011

    Thank you all so much. I am so scared. I have 3 children that I want to be upbeat around. This thread is just what I need.

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited May 2011

    Glad is helps Lisa. There's so many doing well. Keep the faith.

  • jezza
    jezza Member Posts: 295
    edited May 2011

    Heather I was 41 when dx....had a 16 month old baby boy. He will be celebrating his 21st birthday in September! Lisa...I know thats the hardest part trying to be upbeat for your kids (((hugs))).And yes Carmelle there are so many doing well who have move on and don't come to the boards.

    jezza

  • NSWTD
    NSWTD Member Posts: 34
    edited May 2011

    My grandmother was diagnosed and had a mastectomy at around age 80 - she recently died at age 95 and it was not of breast cancer.   Heart trouble. 

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited May 2011

    Sunday was our Susan G. Komen for the Cure walk.  At the survivor's ceremony there was a 65 year survivor!  Not to mention a lot of 20, 25 and 40 year survivors!

  • heathermcd
    heathermcd Member Posts: 21
    edited May 2011

    Yay Marlenet!! A 65-year survivor? I'd sure love to know her secret!!! So, at the NBCC conference this year, I met a 9- year HER2+ survivor with 19 positive nodes!!! How awesome is that!?

  • heathermcd
    heathermcd Member Posts: 21
    edited May 2011

    oh...and BUMP!!!!!

  • lisa1313
    lisa1313 Member Posts: 2
    edited May 2011

    Not meaning to sound stupid....but what is BUMP?

  • heathermcd
    heathermcd Member Posts: 21
    edited May 2011

    Bump just adds another post so that this board will remain on the active boards (so that more people will come read and share)

  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 1,421
    edited May 2011

    I had an eye doc appointment with a new optometrist in my new relocation.

    We started chatting and he mentioned his wife is also a BC survivor.  8 years....and going.

    He told me she stopped all antihormonals early on and is still doing very well!

  • scooter-12
    scooter-12 Member Posts: 26,606
    edited May 2011
    My mom had a mastectomy in 1975 and just celebrated her 91st birthday last week.  Might I add that she is a very spry 91.   Smile
  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited May 2011

    Scooter-12 How cool! -happy birthday to your mom! 

    Yes 65 year survivor at the breast cancer walk.  Everyone when nut and cheered when they announced it and she stood up!   

  • Survivorwoman
    Survivorwoman Member Posts: 70
    edited May 2011

    Thank you Ladies for the wonderful and inspiring stories. This is a great thread. I really needed to read these stories. Thank you.

  • jezza
    jezza Member Posts: 295
    edited May 2011

    So...how old was the 65 year survivor?......amazing!

    jezza

  • Nico1012
    Nico1012 Member Posts: 1,152
    edited May 2011

    This thread deserves to be bumped often!

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited May 2011

    The 65 year survivor I would say was in her 80's.  She didnt give her age, just that she was 65 year survivor!  

  • DebRox
    DebRox Member Posts: 141
    edited May 2011

    I'm am so glad that I found this thread!  How uplifting!

    I'm about to start chemo next week, phase 2 in my treatment plan.  I often jump ahead and worry about recurrence etc.  But this thread is so encouraging!  Thanks to all!

  • Nico1012
    Nico1012 Member Posts: 1,152
    edited May 2011

    Bumping!

  • heatherbless
    heatherbless Member Posts: 55
    edited May 2011

     I AM A THREE YEAR SURVIVOR!  I WAS IN A BREAST CANCER AWARENESS CALENDAR AND MET A WOMAN THAT WAS 90 YEARS OLD:  SHE HAD BREAST CANCER WHEN SHE WAS 20 YEARS OLD AND I THINK A MASTECTOMY- THAT WAS IT!  SHE MADE MY YEAR!!!

    HEATHERBLESS

  • thomasj
    thomasj Member Posts: 9
    edited May 2011

    I am a 22 year survivor this week!  I had two little boys when I was diagnosed and now I have two little grandsons.  I feel so fortunate for every awesome day!

  • mkibbetson
    mkibbetson Member Posts: 40
    edited May 2011

    I run an exercise group for survivors - one of my "girls" is a 33 year stage 3 breast cancer survivor and another is a 19 year stage 3 breast cancer survivor! rock on

  • littlemelons
    littlemelons Member Posts: 23
    edited May 2011

    thomasj - Congratulations on being a 22 year survivor!  I also have two boys and would just love to have two grandsons (or grandaughters).  Do you mind if I ask you what type of treatment you received 22 years ago?  Did you have a mastectomy or lumpectomy plus radiation?  Did they give you tamoxifen then?

    I know two long-term breast cancer survivors.  One died in her mid-eighties of other causes after being a heavy smoker all her life. The other woman is still doing well at...ninety-eight years old!!

  • carmelle
    carmelle Member Posts: 134
    edited May 2011

    Bump..

  • h0petoBC
    h0petoBC Member Posts: 2
    edited June 2011

    hi, I think the idea of a compilation of success st0ries are great. Just by reading on how they fought and won the battle in breast cancer in any stage esp. stage IV relieved a part of my body. I hope soon they will discover the permanent cure for every type of cancer because it sucks. Every person deserves to enjoy their life to the fullest so cancer go away and be gone forever. God does not create you, He will not create something that are harmful to peaople. Hopes and Prays..:)

  • h0petoBC
    h0petoBC Member Posts: 2
    edited June 2011

    hi, I think the idea of a compilation of success st0ries are great. Just by reading on how they fought and won the battle in breast cancer in any stage esp. stage IV relieved a part of my body. I hope soon they will discover the permanent cure for every type of cancer because it sucks. Every person deserves to enjoy their life to the fullest so cancer go away and be gone forever. God does not create you, He will not create something that are harmful to peaople. Hopes and Prays..:)