5 year survivors, post your screen name here!
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Lago yeah still dancing to that catchy tune
here's to many many years of NED for us all 
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Way to go Sandie. Love hearing good news!!!!!0 -
Congratulations Sandie! Yes..... We all kicked "it" to the curb!
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Five years from diagnosis and also finish of radiation. I did not continue with the Femara past a couple of weeks. I had a rough time with the lumpectomy and rads and by that time I was 66 and not ready to spend 5 years with more possible problems(it made my Tinnitus worse). I developed Irritable Bowel Syndrome from stress and eventually tried multiple antidepressants with bad side effects to all of them. I now have found a great therapist( after one that was useless) and am so much happier. It was difficult to ask for help but it has been definitely worth it. I'm caring for my nearly 98 yr old mother and the therapist has helped me deal with that also. I attend a support group and those ladies are just great. Sometimes we really need an army to get through the rough spots and it's so wonderful to find those sisters to help us.
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Congratulations SoCalSue! So glad you found the support you needed.
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Yes Andrea.... Sometimes we need more than a Village... We need an Army... Or caring women on here... Glad you are "better" now! Wait! You said it was the Femara that made your hearing worse? It was the Tamoxifen for ME! I lost my hearing after 1 1/2 years... I quit taking it... Been wearing hearing aids for 3 years now.
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5 yrs and 7 months since diagnosis. Am posting today, because I had my annual mammogram at 12:30 this afternoon and at 3:00 my radiation oncologist called to say that everything looked perfect- I hardly had time to worry. I was standing in the freezer section of the supermarket with my unemployed son and his unemployed girlfriend buying them food to fill their empty pantry and ALL WAS GOOD. My RO calls the minute he gets my results - for my MRI in May he usually catches me in my kayak and I speak with him while bobbing on the Hudson. I am so grateful to him and his caring staff. my only bump along the way was a hysterectomy necessitated by endometrial cancer which caused me to stop taking tamoxifen at 4 years 5 months.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Jelson, congratulations!! Once you had your hysterectomy were you able to go back on Tamoxifen?
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No because my body may have over-reacted to tamoxifen? although the gyno-oncs were confident that the cancer was well contained My Med Onc felt if there were any stray endometrial cancer cells left, they might have flourished on the tamoxifen?? (My take on this). Only tamoxifen is currently prescribed for DCIS and my Med Onc follows the guidelines precisely. Perhaps another Med Onc would have switched me to an Aromatase Inhibitor. Mine said 4 years 5 months, a good run. Also I am in my 60's, maybe if I were younger he would have been more aggressive. I did not push to take an AI due to possible side effects I didn't really want to experience.
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lmt040914
Moline, IL
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Great news Sandie !!! Congratulations to all the fellow sisters checking in and making milestones, One day at a time. xo
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Hi
Best wishes for the feast days and all the best in 2015!
Usha
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My cancer free date is December 16, 2009-the date of my surgery.
That would make today 5 years.
Mary
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Mary, congratulations on the 5 year cancer free anniversary.
Such good news.
dsgirl
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Congrats Mary!!!!
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Yay Mary! Here to tell the tale!!! Congrats.
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Thanks! I won't consider it official until my oncologist visit in January. Then I'll start telling people(besides on here).
Mary
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I passed my ten year mark last month. Life goes on and I intend to make every day count. Love and laugh every day. No regrets allowed.
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Woo -Hoo Jillian 😃 That's wonderful.!
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congrats Jillian777....such wonderful news to hear others are doing well and getting on with life
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Congratulations from me too Jillian:)
Live laugh love everyday - good advice, thanks
x x
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Well today is 5 years exactly from the day I received the phone call letting me know I had invasive breast cancer. I remember so well thinking it would be my last Christmas with my family. Now it's 5 years later and I'm still here experiencing life to the fullest with my family. I am so grateful for every single day.
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Congrats Susie123 and Merry Christmas. So happy for you and your family. Thank you so much for taking the time to share...it means so much to hear success stories. Wishing you many, many, many, many more years of good health!!!
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Yes! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS!
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It's been 18 years since my diagnosis. I wish all of you many many happy years and a merry Christmas.
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Congrats and Merry Christmas agapornis....thanks for sharing. It is so inspiring to hear from other women who have remained cancer free for so many years.
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Thank you and Merry Christmas to all.
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Thank you Nash.
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Seven years today I got the official news that I had b/c. Not a great way to start the new year!
But 7 years later I'm still alive and kicking, NED, and loving life. Happy New Year to everyone and may we all celebrate many many more New Years in the years to come!!
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Copngratulations, Mary!
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