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Yesterday, we asked the doctor some hard questions and received honest answers. My next scan is on the 25th. If it shows tumor growth, I have other options, most are hard chemos, but there's only a 20-30% chance that they will work. The miracle drug Herceptin that's used on my type of aggressive breast cancer doesn't work in 30% of patients. I'm in that 30%. I most likely will try at least one more chemo but I don't look forward to the harsh side effects. The treatment I'm on now has been fairly easy so I pray that the scan shows it's working.
When I decide to stop all treatments, she told me that liver failure is pretty painless. I would just fall asleep, be in a coma for a couple of days, and then pass away.
Not the kind of answers I wanted, but it is what it is.
"Help me. I know Jesus loves you very much and that you deserve it, so talk to him on my account..." - Saint [Padre] Pio de Pietrelcina (1887-1968), Capuchin
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Dear Penny, so so sorry that anyone has to be in that 30%. Decisions are easier made in the light of truth, and honest answers from your doctor will assist you to make better decisions. May God guide all the decisions you make and support you and your loved ones. He has promised to be with you always. Love and prayers, SusannaXXX
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Penny of course PRAYERS for u.
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Penny, prayers for you and your family!
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Hello
Thank you all for your messages of support.
Penny at mass tonight I thought of you and said a prayer just especially for you. I hope that you get good results from your next scan.
Last Wednesday I started cycle 4 of this drug trial and so far all is going well. The side effects are either gone or under control. As I said above because of that I am able to go off on a holiday. I am going to a place called Nerja in Southern Spain. Unfortunately I have to get up at 4 30am tomorrow morning to go to the airport for a 7 30am flight. Going for a week. Last Friday number 1 princess flew off to Florida for a week and next Friday princess number 2 flys to Cuba for 2 weeks.
Waitingforthenextstep did your mum and sisters emigrate from Ireland and if so where where they from?
Susanna how's the weather down there? it's absolutely cracking up here, in fact a bit too hot. Did you watch the hurling tonight Dublin v Wexford? What a finish. Scoring in the dying seconds to even the score.
Take care all and chat soon.
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So glad I found this forum! God bless everyone. I have been asking the Lord to let the late Fr. Stefano Gobbi, founder of the Marian Movement of Priests, to intercede for me. Fr. Gobbi died a couple of years ago. My prayers were answered when the pathology report said there was no malignancy or atypical cells found from the lumpectomy. The MO said they don't see this very often but sometimes the biopsy removes the lesion. I never would have the chance to ask Fr. Gobbi to pray for me were he still alive.
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Corky I'm so glad u found good results--prayers are power.
Frank enjoy u'r well deserved vacation.
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Frank, it's been gorgeous here, blissful. Have a lovely holiday in Nerja. Forget chemotherapy ever existed.
Corky, what wonderful news.
Penny, thinking of you, like Frank I prayed for you at mass today. I have a friend here in Ireland also dealing with advanced stage 4, and like you she has a family. I pray for both of you every night, I pray you will receive many graces.
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I have been AWOL form this forum and just wanted to say my CONGRATULATIONS to Frank!!! I have been praying a decade on my rosary every day for you that the new drug trial would work and that others in your condition would benefit from what you are going through. Perhaps God called you to be the trailblazer. I continue to pray for you, and also that you have a wonderful holiday in Spain!
Penny, you're also included in that daily decade of the rosary....everyone on here is but you two are the ones I mention specifically to pray for and a young woman who sings in church choir with me who has uterine cancer round two. Penny please know so many of us are praying for you and whatever the outcome, we are here.
Cheri
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Thank you all for your continued prayers. Frank - I always look forward to hearing from you.
Corky60 - interesting that you mentioned Fr Stefano Gobbi. I just bought his book, "To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons".
My recent bloodwork shows liver still functioning as it should. Thank You, Lord! I've made a decision that I can only have positive attitudes. Fear is of the devil. So, as far as the scan I have coming up on the 25th, I am looking forward to hearing great news on the results! Praise God!
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Praying and praising with you, Penny!
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Penny, you are so right.
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www.taylormarshall.com/2012/03/if-you-have-health-problems-keep-this.html
Intercessor saints for everything from abdominal problems to venereal disease and more-- The intercessor for breast diseases is St. Agatha and for cancer is St. Peregrine.
Corky
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Marie-Azélie Guérin was born in Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon, Orne, France on December 23rd, 1831. She was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux ("The Little Flower"). Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin, a watchmaker.
"Zélie" wanted to become a nun, but was turned away by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul due to respiratory difficulties and recurrent headaches. Zélie then prayed for God to give her children and that they would be consecrated to God.
She and her husband would have nine children, though only five (all girls) would survive childhood; all became nuns. Marie-Azélie died of breast cancer on August 28th, 1877 in Alençon, Orne, aged 45. She was survived by her husband and daughters.
Louis and Marie-Azélie Martin were declared "venerable" on March 26th, 1994 by Pope John Paul II. They were beatified on October 19th, 2008 by Jose Cardinal Saraiva Martins, the legate of Pope Benedict XVI in Basilique de Sainte-Thérèse, Lisieux, France. For Louis and Zélie to be canonized, the Church must find that God worked a miracle at their intercession.
Since Zelie died of breast cancer (when her youngest, Saint Therese, was only four), I have decided to pray to her to ask her to intercede for me to cure me of my breast cancer. I hope you will join me. I found out about her in an interesting way:
After Mass last night at St. Michael's in Atlantic City, my family and I said good-bye to my friends Marie and Kathy, had a few departing words with Fr. Caesarone, and then started walking to our truck. As we were getting into the truck, I noticed a woman with a child on her hip running down the street towards us, waving a book. I remembered her from Mass - she and her husband and, I think her dad, and their 3 small children sat in front of us at Mass. As I watched her run, I thought "please God don't let her fall, she's carrying a child". She stopped abruptly at our truck and said to me "are you Penny?" I said yes and she handed me a little book explaining Zelie's life. She introduced herself as Eileen and said her children have been praying for me ever since they found out about my situation from Nancy, a mutual friend from Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Linwood. She was so sweet and hugged me a couple of times throughout our conversation and said she strongly felt the need to give me the book and tell me about Zelie. The other interesting thing I found out was that her husband, Derek, grew up across the street from my husband in Northfield (my husband was a teenager when Derek was still a small child, though).
Small world, yes? I chalked this up to another way God intervened in my life. Blessings all around!
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Penny,
Thank you for posting this!
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Will do Penny.
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Penny that is a wonderfuly beautiful story and so meaningful (((PRAYERS)))
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Hi everyone, it's been a really really really long time since I've been on the boards at all, but I miss this one. I definitely see some familiar names, and lots of new ones! Just wanted to share with you all the realization I came to this week.....this is what I wrote.
"when I was in treatment, I was at such great peace because nothing mattered more than my relationship with God and staying in His grace. So allowing myself to let nothing matter more than my relationship with God is my answer to my own peace."
This is my new daily goal.
Catch you all later!!!!
~gina
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Gina like that.
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HI Camillegal! nice to meet you!!
Frank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How are you doing?
Hi SAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Redwolf!!!!!!!!!
Hi Cheri!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi everyone that I have been missing.
I am helping form a middle school youth group at my parish. Any ideas?
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Gina that's so nice to do that---but I have no ideas for u--but I'm sure someone will. (I hope)
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I like that Gina. Maybe that will be my new mantra as I get scanned.
- Penny
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Thank You, Lord for advances in modern medicine and for today's MRI of my liver. Of course I pray that the results are good, for Your Glory, but most of all I pray for the Grace to accept Your Will for me and my family. Please send your Holy Spirit upon this building, upon everyone here, and extend your merciful Blessings upon all. Again, all for Your Glory. Thy Will be done. In Jesus' name I pray.
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Amen!
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Scan looks good. Only 1 remaining tumor and it's smaller than before. Doctor is thrilled and says to keep "storming the gates of Heaven" with our prayers. Thank You, Lord! Thank you Mother Mary and Blessed Zelie Martin and all the angels and saints! Love you all!
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Penny, that is such great news. Praise God. Thank God.
Sadly my 75 year old next door neighbour dx last fri, going for surgery next thur. Prayers for her recovery. Thanks.
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Hello everyone, Sorry I have been absent lately. It has been a very hectic couple of months at work and at home. I pray for you all every day and get notification of the posts via email so I can try to keep up with everyone's news.
Penny and Frank, I am so happy to hear your good news. Praise and thanks to God.
Gina, my daughter just turned 13 and actively participates in our parish youth group. The leaders do a great job of keeping the kids engaged. They meet every second Friday evening from September to June for faith sharing. Sometimes they start with Mass, but if the priest is not available, they do bible readings and discussion. Then they do games and have snacks. They do a couple of movie nights every year and a couple of bigger outings. In the winter they go snow tubing and this weekend they're going to Canada's Wonderland. They also do community work and volunteer at parish events. They do a 30 hour famine every year to raise money for our St. Vincent de Paul Society and our parish misison to Mexico. She LOVES it. I find it's a really good blend of faith-enhancing activities and fun stuff.
As I may have mentioned in the past, I sing in one of our church choirs. Our leader just stepped down so I have volunteered, along with our keyboard player, to keep things going by helping to pick the music and assist with running the practices. Please pray for me that I will be up to the job.
God bless you all! Please know that even when I don't post, I am thinking of and praying for you all!
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Penny!!!!
WHAT GREAT NEWS!!! I have been praying so hard for you and Frank - everyone let's not stop now, KEEP PRAYING!!!
Hi Gina!!!! I've not been on much myself, welcome back after a long absence!
Cheri
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Always praying Penny and /frank.
Michelle u'r DD's activities sound wonderful for her in so many ways. Great for both of u.
And I wouldn't worry about stepping up in the choir, I'm sure u r more than ready.
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