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  • Srh242
    Srh242 Member Posts: 139
    edited March 2015

    bump

  • shelleym1
    shelleym1 Member Posts: 111
    edited March 2015

    Heidi and Carmelle both great stories!!

  • Nico1012
    Nico1012 Member Posts: 1,152
    edited March 2015


    Hi Songbird68 ~ doing great here! Thanks so much for keeping this thread 'bumped up' !

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited March 2015

    How are you lovely gals this fine day? :)

    x x

  • Wanderer_11
    Wanderer_11 Member Posts: 3
    edited April 2015

    Bump!

  • ladyb1234
    ladyb1234 Member Posts: 1,239
    edited April 2015

    stumbled on this thread last night and love it. Needed to hear some inspirational stories last night.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,691
    edited April 2015

    Just 'passed' my yearly oncology checkup; so I am officially still in the clear, happy and grateful, 8 years out!

  • Lucy55
    Lucy55 Member Posts: 2,703
    edited April 2015

    Woo-Hoo Ruth.. That is great.!!

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited April 2015

    CONGRATULATIONS Ruthbru:)

    Thank you for sharing inspiration

    x x

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,691
    edited April 2015

    Heart

  • TeriMP
    TeriMP Member Posts: 10
    edited April 2015

    they really do need a "like" button on this website. Congrats to all the ladies who have made it through treatment and those with wonderful success stories of long time NED!!!

  • ladyb1234
    ladyb1234 Member Posts: 1,239
    edited April 2015

    Ruth Woot! Woot! Congrats! Where is the love button? Oh here it is.Heart. Or my version! Big smile.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,691
    edited April 2015

    Thank you!!

  • Nico1012
    Nico1012 Member Posts: 1,152
    edited May 2015


    bump

  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 527
    edited May 2015

    my great aunt Josie was diagnosed with breast cancer in her mid 50s and lived to be 99. So I would say she lived for 45 years after cancer removal. I don't know if she had a lumpectomy or mastectomy, but she always had her boobs, so I assume lumpectomy. Not sure about chemo or radiation.

    My great aunt Jenny was diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 60s and lived to be 92.

    My grandfather was diagnosed in his 30s with lymphoma, had cobalt, and lived to be 75.

    I hope I can be as fortunate as they were!

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited May 2015

    Thank you Italychick, just the sort of inspiring news I needed today:) Your family are awesome! You will be as fortunate - it's in your genes:)

    Big Hugs

    x x

  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 527
    edited May 2015

    I can only hope. No cancer on the other side of the family, so keeping my fingers crossed

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited May 2015

    Italychick

    That is what your post gave me. Hope.That you reached out and thought to share your story with others, when you are so newly dx is wonderful:)

    Thinking of you and hoping that you are doing well on your treatment.

    x x



  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 527
    edited May 2015

    Songbird68, thank you! Treatment so far going well, coming up on round 4 Wwdnesday! Then I will be 2/3rds of the way done. Someday hopefully this will all just be a memory.

  • Tinkerbells
    Tinkerbells Member Posts: 53
    edited May 2015

    I would like to tell you all about my friend who was diagnosed with triple-negative, BRCA positive breast cancer 15 years ago!!!!!! She had mastectomy, chemo, oopherectomy and is doing just fine! Think she was stage 1.

    My friend's mother just celebrated her 20 years cancer free! She was ER/PR+, Her2- with "lots of nodes". She had mastectomy, chemo, rads and is active in the Breast cancer 2020 deadline campaign.

    I'd love to hear if someone has a long term survivor example for ER/PR-, Her2+ with nodes - I never get tired of reading those!!!!

  • bc101
    bc101 Member Posts: 923
    edited May 2015

    Wow - That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

    I have a friend who had IDC and is a 20+ year survivor. Also, my hubby's aunt who had bc in her 50s just celebrated her 100th birthday.

    I'd love to hear from long-time ILC survivors.

  • sandie1973
    sandie1973 Member Posts: 39
    edited May 2015

    Great stories ladies :) hope I get to post my story in 20 plus years xx

  • ladyb1234
    ladyb1234 Member Posts: 1,239
    edited May 2015

    Great stories ladies. Keep them coming.

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited May 2015

    Hey Sandie, it's a date!

    :)

    More stories please!

    x x

  • ALHusband
    ALHusband Member Posts: 342
    edited May 2015

    When my wife was going through chemo, there was a volunteer at the cancer center who would come around with coffee, juice, cookies, etc while they were administering chemo. This volunteer told her story to us one day. She had been diagnosed with a stage IV cancer (It was NOT bc). When she was diagnosed the doctor said, "We can do chemotherapy...but if I were you, I wouldn't do it. Even WITH chemo you realistically probably have around a year to live." She then told us her response to the doctor was "Gimme the chemo". That was 9 YEARS prior and she had no current evidence of disease. And she looked as healthy as anyone else! There is definitely always hope! No one knows what God has in store for us!

  • ALHusband
    ALHusband Member Posts: 342
    edited May 2015

    And while I'm at it. My neighbor was diagnosed with an aggressive, malignant brain tumor that was terminal. THAT was 27 years ago!

  • Deblc
    Deblc Member Posts: 154
    edited May 2015

    So happy to hear these stories. It's so easy to get caught up with the posts that deal with recurrence, progression etc. Thanks to everybody who post here, it's where I go when I'm feeling especially fearful.

  • Tinkerbells
    Tinkerbells Member Posts: 53
    edited May 2015

    just to give hope to my triple positive sisters, my dear friend is 14 years out from a triple positive, grade 3 cancer with 9 positive nodes! She did reoccur initially shortly after initial diagnosis because she was not given herceptin.

    When she recurrenced, she had the full Monty- mastectomy, full axillary dissection,chemo, herceptin, rads. She had been NED since then. Lymphaedema is her only concern.

    She looks and feels great!

  • Nico1012
    Nico1012 Member Posts: 1,152
    edited May 2015

    Thank You Tinkerbells ~ It gives us all hope . . .

  • shelleym1
    shelleym1 Member Posts: 111
    edited May 2015

    anyone here diagnosed in their 30s and is many years out now? feeling kind of hopeless since I'm 35.

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