5 year survivors, post your screen name here!

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  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,634
    edited November 2013


    Congratulations to all of you on your milestone anniversaries - inspiring!

  • sloyd66
    sloyd66 Member Posts: 51
    edited November 2013


    This is very inspiring reading!! Cause when you hear the "C" word it's always initially associated with death. And although my own mother is 25yrs, she's like my blueprint that I can do it. Thanks ladies

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited November 2013


    Will be 5 years on December 10th. Don't want to forget to post, so I'm doing it a bit early....

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2013


    Congratulations BARBE!


    Also so good to see you. I've only been able to keep up on a few threads these days. I miss your humor.

  • soriya123
    soriya123 Member Posts: 384
    edited November 2013

    Congrats Barbe1958! Thank you so much for posting.

  • ahdjdbcjdjdbkf
    ahdjdbcjdjdbkf Member Posts: 188
    edited November 2013

    Yay Barbe, I'm interested to hear if any 5 year survivors have had any genuine recurrence scares and what happened. I'm living with it now.

  • Moremusic3
    Moremusic3 Member Posts: 3
    edited December 2013


    It's 17 years since the first cancer, with 8 lymph nodes affected, and 13 years since cancer in the other breast- no lymph nodes.

  • katyand4
    katyand4 Member Posts: 32
    edited December 2013


    Congrats to Barb and MoreMusic3! Wishing you many more years of continued health and happiness.

  • ziggypop
    ziggypop Member Posts: 276
    edited December 2013


    Wow. Congrats to all of you, looking forward to posting here in about 3 and a half years. LoopyThanks to the moderators, y'all are terrific.

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited December 2013

    Hi, I am a 5 year survivor!!! Smile 

  • soriya123
    soriya123 Member Posts: 384
    edited December 2013

    Congrats Marlenet on your 5 yrs!  Thank you for checking in.  Wishing you many more yrs.

  • marlenet
    marlenet Member Posts: 114
    edited December 2013

    thank you soriya123 !!!!!!!

  • celia088
    celia088 Member Posts: 975
    edited December 2013

    Nine years and one month!!

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,634
    edited December 2013

    celia088, and all of you who post here to encourage others with your anniversaries, congratulations, and thank you, thank you, thank you!

  • soriya123
    soriya123 Member Posts: 384
    edited December 2013

    celia088, wow congrats on your 9 yrs & one month.  thank you for posting.  may you have many many more yrs . :)

  • ahdjdbcjdjdbkf
    ahdjdbcjdjdbkf Member Posts: 188
    edited December 2013

    Love this forum. Looking forward to getting to my 2 year mark! :-) Thanks for the hope.

  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 506
    edited December 2013

    Last week was my 9-year anniversary of dx.  My mom is also a bc survivor -- 33 years for her and her 86th birthday was last month. 

  • jojo68
    jojo68 Member Posts: 336
    edited December 2013

    CONGRATS, Althea! Did your mom have ILC as well?

  • cd1234
    cd1234 Member Posts: 40
    edited December 2013

    Hi Everyone,

    Today marks the day 5 years ago that changed my life forever. On December 30, 2008, I went in for a mammogram because I found a very strange lump in my left breast. I was 37 years old, no family history, an avid runner, healthy eater...no reason to have breast cancer. My mammogram showed nothing, but luckily, my Obgyn scheduled me for an ultrasound as well. The ultrasound clearly showed a large mass. On January 15, 2009, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was shocked to say the least. Anyhow, I am a few weeks early, but I have already began celebrating 5 years cancer free!!

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,634
    edited December 2013

    Congratulations everyone! Your celebrations of the end and beginning of a new year must seem extra sweet as they're tied to your anniversary. Thanks for sharing your news with all of us!

    • The Mods

  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 1,927
    edited December 2013

    I was dx 6 years ago today and I'm still here!  Happy New Year's to ME!  Happy

  • soriya123
    soriya123 Member Posts: 384
    edited January 2014

    congrats althea, cd1234 and natsfan!! wishing you all many many more year!!!!  thank you for sharing.

  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 398
    edited January 2014

    Done, done, done...(and I do knock on wood) almost finished  my 5 years of arimidex and that's it..........out in to the land of no arimidex. My onc says no proof that 10 yrs is better, yet, so she's now more concerned with cholesterol, bones, heart...must say it makes me a bit nervous, taking away the last support. I know it can take a distant clump of br ca cells a long time to grow enough to be seen - feels a bit mysterious. I'll start investigating things like DIM or indole 3 carbinol. the last few boxes of anastrozole are lying on the table, I'm a couple weeks to go till 5 years and not quite ready to put them away. they just sit there. not quite able to say the final goodbye. I used to be a pessimist. Br Ca changed me - I thank my gift of no nodes despite a huge tumour as my gift from the universe. I'm now a mostly happy optimist. and I love my short, choppy, beautifully silver hair. I like it better than my straight auburn jaw-length bob I had for oh - 40 years?

  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 125
    edited January 2014

    It is 5 years for me today!!!  Life is awesome!!


  • LizA17
    LizA17 Member Posts: 102
    edited January 2014

    Congrats Kim40!! 

  • soriya123
    soriya123 Member Posts: 384
    edited January 2014

    congrats flannelette and kim40!!!!

  • ahdjdbcjdjdbkf
    ahdjdbcjdjdbkf Member Posts: 188
    edited January 2014

    Kim40, you're a star. Any advice for all of us? Did you get treated with Herceptin?

  • BethIsrael1010
    BethIsrael1010 Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2014

    How come you received breast implants reconstruction two times in 2/15/2013 and 7/9/2013 after your both side tissues surgery?  

    I had finished two different types of FLAP surgeries in 10/28/2010 and 5/23/2011. Then I received  breast  implants reconstruction  surgery (both side) in 5/25/2012.  Now my both breast's size still look different. 

  • BethIsrael1010
    BethIsrael1010 Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2014

    How come you received breast implants reconstruction two times in 2/15/2013 and 7/9/2013 after your both side tissues surgery?  

    I had finished two different types of FLAP surgeries in 10/28/2010 and 5/23/2011. Then I received  breast  implants reconstruction  surgery (both side) in 5/25/2012.  Now my both breast's size still look different. 

  • Jasminn
    Jasminn Member Posts: 4
    edited January 2014

    5 years today...yippeeeeeee!