How many years have you been a Survivor?
Comments
-
4 years if I count from the last day of treatment. If I count from the day of diagnosis, it will be 5 years in October.
0 -
Well... 11yr survivor from my first DX... Just DX with a second primary on my opposit breast...
Here we go again!
0 -
2 years ago today I had my lumpectomy, still NED
0 -
6yrs 2 mos since first dx, local reoccurance 3 yrs ago
0 -
5 yrs. 7 mo since surgery and treatment for BC. 2 yrs 10 mo. for bladder cancer. NED on both.
Best wishes to all as always,
Marilyn
0 -
1 year since end of treatment! 4 more years of tamoxifen to go!
0 -
Just read this whole thread, inspiring!!!! I can't WAIT to put up my future milestones!!!!
Love and hugs to every one of you!!!!!!! :0)0 -
My Onc doesn't seem to believe in this "survivor" theory. He says it depends upon how aggressive your bc is. He feels I cannot consider myself in the "survivor" game for at least another 8 years. He put a 15 year theory on my bc according to my diagnosis. Since I have been diagnosed in 2003 that gives me another 7 or 8 years to go before I can breath a sigh of relief! It also means he wants me to continue on (ugh!!) Arimidex for another 8 years as long as my bones don't deteriorate on me. He doesn't seem to be concerned about what it is doing to me emotionally. So even if I make it to the 15 year mark and am still surviving, it will have been a horrible 15 years!
0 -
My Dr said... each and every one of us are survivors.
0 -
I am sure I probably put my stats on here when the thread started up, but if that was last year, I get to up the years now. I was lst diagnosed and had a mastectomy in 1990 so that was 21 YEARS ago....I have been stage lV since 98 so that was 13 YEARS ago. I don't know if the chemo I am on now is working or not, but I plan on being able to add a year to each of these days in 2012.
0 -
Hello Everyone!! Getting nervous here, skimmed through posts didn't see any Er- Pr- Her2- (triple negative gals...tell me I missed them!!!
I consider myself a one year survivor, found the lump june 3.
Hooray for each day!!
0 -
I think of myself as "surviving"....it's been a year since diagnosis.
0 -
NED today: Aug. 9th , 2011.
It's been 5 years since the journey began.
As I sit in the waiting room in my gown, waiting for the radiologist to read my report, my heart pounds faster and faster as the last 5 years replay in my mind. Ahh, finally, great news is reported! What a relief! Tears fill my eyes. I am so thankful. My husband takes me out for breakfast for the best blueberry pancakes ever! Okay, only 243 pills (tamoxifen) to go, but who's counting? It will be another important day when I swallow that last pill. Peace and Blessings!
0 -
aner18,
First, CONGRATULATIONS on still being NED. But what really caught me was your description of your emotions. I was there with you in the exam room feeling it just as you so eloquently described. I am three years out, and for the most part bc is no longer my every waking thought, BUT, every time there is a test we go through all the emotions once again....................and the relief of a good report is sweeter every time.
Continued good health and keep dancing with NED....................Caren
0 -
Eight and a half years for this triple negative gal!!! So much for the poor prognosis of the dreaded triple negative
0 -
Thank you so much Caren.
And Congratualtions to you being 3 years out.
It really helps me to describe my experiences in the present tense. It brings it to life and to the present moment. I actually have a writing collection of many of my bc experiences and most of them are about my return for a follow-up dr. visit/test.
And I will keep dancing and perhaps do a dance on behalf of NED (I love to dance!)
To health and healing and all the best to you.
Aner18
0 -
Thank you ladies for posting! I am 5 days PFC and am looking forward to a bright and long future! I especially appreciate your post, MAYWIN. As a fellow TN, I intend to follow in your footsteps!
0 -
You will!!!
0 -
Wow these post are inspiring.
I am 10 months since lumpectomy. But will feel better when my BMX with reconstruction is done later this year.
My MIL is a 42 year survivor and she is now 82
0 -
Dx in 2003 Pleomorphic lobular, 2.5 cm, ER and PR +, 1/7 nodes + Age 44 at dx
7 years and 8 months
Every day is a great day!
0 -
I'm just booking marking this forum!
I read somewhere that we can call ourselves survivors as soon as we are dx'd. I suppose that's one way to think of it, but I also know that the 5 year mark is a significant one in the life of a bc survivor. I'm looking forward to that one!
0 -
Thriving - NED 17 years
0 -
These positive threads I love to see! I am a 2 and 1/2 year survivor of bilateral BC and am doing great. My grandmother is my inspiration on this journey...her birthday this October will be her 90th and she had a radical mastectomy for breast cancer in 1968!!! 43 years. Best wishes to all of you:)
0 -
My BS counts NED. Aug.31st will be my 1 year NED (and 1 year from my BMX). I'm going to play the lottery. Something I never do.
Hauntie nice to see 17 years NED with a big tumor/grade 3 tumor… gives me hope. BTW I grew up outside of Boston.
0 -
First of all congratulations to you all! This site is great!
Nov 14,08 I received the call that changed my world. I suspected it was due to the biopsy. My lump was so small, I, nor the surgeon could feel it. Thank god for today's technology, the mammo found my lump.
Love, Luck and prayers to us all who already received the awful news that they had B.C and unfortunately there will other's to join us. A co-worker was just dx with stage 3 a couple of months ago.. Prayers to you all
Marlene
0 -
Congrats to all you wonderful ladies! I agree with marlenet, since mammogram was how my <1 cm tumor was found. Encourage others to continue with yearly mammos! Have a wonderful day, everyone!
0 -
congrats to all! I'm out 4 years from my 2nd bc. (1st one was 2001, DCIS), they had to do it from a mammo only and apparently missed a tiny bit which came back after I got off the tamoxifen.
However, MRI found it, 2007 and now it's 4 years. I don't use "survivor" as to me, that implies that it might have won, which I won't contemplate. I use "veteran". I fought a war, have some battle scars.
Congratulations to everyone! A triple neg buddy of mine is going to be very happy to see other triple negs doing well.
0 -
Annie,
Thanks for sharing the term "veteran"...I like that image too. I also struggle with the term "survivor" because to me, it somehow implies "victim." I've always thought of myself as a "thriver" and that image has helped me a LOT through my treatment.
Cheers!
Martha
0 -
Thanks for the inspiration!!! Maywin, thanks for the post aout TN, yahoooooo!!
And Hooray to everyone!
0 -
Just got the all clear from 2nd annual mammograms and ultrasounds. Don't think of BC every day but always anxious just before scans and tests. My nieghbor is 10 yrs. out and still does;t sleep the night before a mammo, so the anxiety is apparently always there. The sense of relief after getting clear results is still so amazing!
0
