5 year survivors, post your screen name here!
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Dharmamama aka Jessica 5 year metastatic breast cancer survivor! Yay me!
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dharmamama (aka Jessica) 5 years and counting. Congratulations! Keep it going.
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YAY dharmamama! May you have many more "5year" blocks of time!
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so happy for you dharmamama! wish u many more years of good health and happiness..
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I reached 5 years on March 20th!
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Awesome Alaina!
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Yay Jessica!!!
Congratulations Alaina!!
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Dx May 2005 no recurrences thus far
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DLB122, welcome to the community and congrats also on no recurrence!
The Mods
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Hello from England,
The sun is shining and I am just over 5 years from dx locally advanced triple positive--- thanks to herceptin and just finished hormone therapy.
Lisaxx
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Fantastic Roseamy
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Today is the 8 year anniversary of my diagnosis. I am doing great.
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dx over 5 years ago, watched my son graduate med school 2 weeks ago, his wife will graduate this Sat. From another med school. Starting clinical trial next week w/palbociclib. God has been faithful & I am sure he will continue to be.
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DX July 7, 2008 and doing GREAT!
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DATO, Sue and kfinnigan, congratulations on all your milestones!
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kfinnigan - wow 16 positive nodes and a 5 year warrior - keep rocking on!
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Thanks!! Woohoo!!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO US ALL!
On Mothers day we had the breast cancer walk! The celebration after was wonderful. There were ladies at the celebration who were 40 + year survivors!
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congrats to all the survivors. It is really very inspiring to all of us here especially the young moms in their 30s and early 40 s. I read someone wrote she had a walk with 40+ survivors!!!! That is absolutely so inspiring. Since my original diagnosis is less than a year now id like to ask all the survivors what do you really believe made you " beat" this nasty disease. I hear about positivty but i am a super anxious person. I cannot change. Thats me. My oncologist said i should manage my anxiety bcos this is his concern. Im trying to take healthy life measures. Eating organic,supplements,etc. sometimes i wonder if all what im doing and all the "food pleasure" im dipriving myself is really good or useless in order to beat cancer. You know i still want to live and have a dessert once in a while. Its so frustrating trying to beat this monster. Please tell us " we the new ones here" what is your "weapon". What do you think gave you the strength to go on. I appreciate inspiring feedbacks. Thank you.
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Hope14 the most important things you can do is exercise daily (ideally an hour but if only 30 minutes it will help) and keep a healthy weight. Of course don't smoke and eat poorly. I personally feel keeping your stress level down is important as I do believe it was the final trigger that got my breast cancer started (they don't seem to research this). Exercise actually helps with that.
I always ate healthy. I don't go overboard though. I don't eat organics because of cost but I also eat very little red meat. Really I haven't changed my diet but in general I stay away from processed foods if I can. Sure I cheat, you gotta live but things I eat all the time like salad dressing… I make my own. I'm not 5 years yet but 4 years from diagnosis, August 31 will be 4 years NED.
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thank you Lago ! I appreciate your feedback. I agree with you , we still want to live ! And processed food is the worst. Long time ago there was no huge amount of processed food like now. I make most my meals for me and husband and kids most of the time from scratch. I avoid lots of stuff from a can that sit on the shelf for a longtime. I am starting walking recently as im not a big fan of the gym. Hate to be forced to do something. View the fact im ER + too i keep hearing about keeping a healthy weight. Im trying to lose 8 pounds. Im not really heavy just average woman but the less fat i guess the best is for us. I wish you live a very long happy life and you be a 5 x 10 year survivor
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Six years this month since my diagnosis. Doing well. Take care of yourself physically and emotionally, enjoy your life, and live with gratitude and enthusiasm. The rest is in the lap of the gods.
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Jan 2009 was my diagnosis and June 18 2009 was my last chemo.....That puts me in the 5 Year Club. I have spent many hours on here reading and learning from so many but never posted.
To all the newbies out there......these discussion boards are a wealth of information, that will help you through !!!
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septembersong and momof2canada, we hope you're celebrating your anniversaries with appropriate gusto. Congratulations!
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10 years ago i got my dx .... dh and i are retired now and doing well ....
congratulations to all on their own milestones !!
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jenni_ca, we're delighted for you in your happy post-BC retirement!
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kgpfield
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I met a 17 year stage II IDC survivor last week from my hometown at a party who had DMX, chemo, and radiation. She has had NO recurrence and no real lingering SEs from treatment other than mild lymphedema! She was wearing a small fitted jacket and her lymphedema was not at all visible; but she said she is vigilant in her self-care. So inspiring!
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17 years! Wow, Mariasnow - we love to read about an experience like hers. Thanks for posting!
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Maria..any idea what was her exact diagnosis..as in hormone receptor wise
lovely to hear survivor stories
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