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  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,739
    edited September 2012

    Wonderful words of wisdom Dassi! Congrats to you!!!

  • katyand4
    katyand4 Member Posts: 32
    edited September 2012

    Congrats and wishing you continued good health.

  • redbud
    redbud Member Posts: 1
    edited September 2012

    Diagnosis May 2004, Stage IIIB (did not show on mamogram)

    Chemo, Mastectomy and radiation (failed reconstruction due to infection)

    Arimidex and Zoledex for 6 years

    Very glad to be here to say there is life after cancer. A great life!!!

    I have limitations, but enjoy life despite of them. Ski, swim, garden, do home renovation

    We survivors are the new face of cancer, living life to the fullest and embracing it all

  • sherry67
    sherry67 Member Posts: 370
    edited September 2012

    Congrats Redbud......

  • katyand4
    katyand4 Member Posts: 32
    edited September 2012

    Congrats Redbud!

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,739
    edited September 2012

    Thank you for sharing your story and your optimism, redbud! Congratulations!

  • EllieD
    EllieD Member Posts: 14
    edited September 2012

    5.5 years. Life is good.

  • katyand4
    katyand4 Member Posts: 32
    edited September 2012

    Congrats Ellie D on 5.5 yrs!!!

  • cpjennings
    cpjennings Member Posts: 3
    edited September 2012

    Amen!!!!!  All power is in God' hands!  I'm so happy for you and just reading your inspiring words reminds us that our faith and hope must be in God.

    Thanks for letting Him use you to remind us of this.

    Continued blessings to you.

  • cpjennings
    cpjennings Member Posts: 3
    edited September 2012

    Embrasing life after cancer and enjoying it.....I love how you put it!

    Be blessed

  • cpjennings
    cpjennings Member Posts: 3
    edited September 2012

    Praise God!  So inspiring to read your words of encouragement.

    Be blessed

  • jackboo09
    jackboo09 Member Posts: 780
    edited September 2012

    Im pretty sure there is a thread for religious expressions on this board that you might be interested in!

    Great posts everyone. Keep them coming to help those of us below the 5 yr mark get through.

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,739
    edited October 2012

    So many wonderful milestones! Who else can we add to this inspiring roster?

    • The Mods

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,260
    edited November 2012

    It seemed so horrible around my birthday in 2007 to hear those horrid words -- you have cancer.  My life flashed before my eyes as I wondered where I was headed -- far too afraid to look behind me and a bit terrified of what was in front of me. 

    Thought five years sounded like such a very long time and it was hard to imagine it, but here I am, not really all that worse for wear.  A little foot neuropathy decided to hang around, and a few aches....at my age they would likely be there anyway -- they may be getting a slight boost from the Arimidex I still take.  Well, if its this or the alternative....I'll take this and be thankful every day.  We are all destined for bumps in the road -- it is a sign of being wholly alive.

    Jackie

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2012

    Jackie I think it's awesome you get to celebrate more birthday's on your birthday. Congratulations on 5 years!

  • chachamom
    chachamom Member Posts: 410
    edited November 2012

    Thanks for sharing Jackie! It's so inspirational to hear positive results!......poor choice of words but I'm inspired!

  • chachamom
    chachamom Member Posts: 410
    edited November 2012

    I want to publicly apologize for my posting earlier.....when I said "poor choice of words".....I meant MY poor choice of words "positive results"... Since that often refers to positive vs B-9 results.....I meant NO offense to anyone else's words. Please forgive my bumbling words.....can I blame the Norco?

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2012

    Chachamom I took 1/2 a norco when I got shingles and it F'd me up so much that I never took anymore and suffered with only Aleve! Yup you can blame it on the Norco.

  • chachamom
    chachamom Member Posts: 410
    edited November 2012

    Thanks, Lago!

  • Sherox13
    Sherox13 Member Posts: 1
    edited November 2012

    7 years and better than ever!

  • susan3
    susan3 Member Posts: 2,631
    edited November 2012

    11 yrs this coming march

  • katyand4
    katyand4 Member Posts: 32
    edited November 2012

    Congrats to Sherox13 & Susan3!  Wishing you continued good health.

  • jude14
    jude14 Member Posts: 29
    edited November 2012

    5 years 5 months and 1 month left to go on femara. YEAH

  • janiceb00
    janiceb00 Member Posts: 4
    edited November 2012

    Getting ready to start 5 years of femara

  • sherry67
    sherry67 Member Posts: 370
    edited November 2012

    Susan3,

    Congrats

  • sherry67
    sherry67 Member Posts: 370
    edited November 2012

    Jo-5

    Congrats

  • denny123
    denny123 Member Posts: 1,570
    edited December 2012

    Dx'd 10 years ago today, with Stage 0.  But it was really Stage 4 with liver mets.

    After Gemzar with Herceptin for my liver, I was blessed with 6 years of remission.

    Now I have a recurrence in the lymph nodes behind my sternum, but the growth is being slowed by Faslodex butt shots.

    I have been on Herceptin for 9 years, and will be for life, I hope.

    Yay me!

  • sandilee
    sandilee Member Posts: 436
    edited December 2012

    You are an inspiration, Denny!

    I just passed my "5 years since diagnosis" at the end of November. I discovered my spinal mets a year and a half ago, but I'm looking forward to many more years- maybe 10, like you, Denny!  I'm also on Faslodex, as well as Xgeva.

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,739
    edited December 2012

    Congratulations to all of you as you, and thank you for inspiring us all with your milestones!

    • The Mods

  • LindaLou53
    LindaLou53 Member Posts: 60
    edited December 2012

    12.5 years out from a Stage 2A IDC right breast with 2/7 positive nodes.  Now also 7 years out from a Stage 3C ILC left breast with 23/23 positive nodes.  Still NED and grateful for every day!

    As scary as a cancer diagnosis can be, remember we are not statistics!  Inform yourself to the best of your ability so you become an active participant in your treatment decisions, then just take it one day at a time.  Recognize that no human on earth today has a guarantee they will be here tomorrow, cancer or not. That is the human condition and fragility of life for us all.  BUT don't let that keep you from LIVING each and every day you are given!  Days turn into weeks, months and years before you know it!

    Make each one count!  Smile

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