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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited January 2014

    Hi All, just a reminder that the purpose of this thread is for those to post who have made a 5 year anniversary.  I appreciate how easy it is to get off topic but I ask you to please move treatment discussions to a different thread.  

    This is not a treatment thread but a place to post anniversaries and to celebrate hope.

  • carol1949
    carol1949 Member Posts: 48
    edited January 2014

    I am five plus years out from all surgery and treatment and chose to go holistic.  I take only herbs, and supplements and  feel great!  I took femara for a few months and decided it was not for me!  

    If statistics were correct, I should have been dead by now!

  • Bec65
    Bec65 Member Posts: 84
    edited January 2014

    Thank you, Carol, for sharing such great news!  Congratulations!

  • peacestrength
    peacestrength Member Posts: 236
    edited January 2014

    Carol-thank you for sharing!  Your post = HOPE.

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 35
    edited January 2014

    I just realized I'm five years out from my first diagnois with breast cancer. Yet it wasn't until April that I was actually staged following my axillary node dissection.

    Oceana

    marvelous-nicole-rodriguez.jpg (180×119)

  • peacestrength
    peacestrength Member Posts: 236
    edited January 2014

    Oceana-you also = HOPE!  Thanks for sharing.

    March 19 will be one year since my dx.  I thank God for getting me through all the treatment.  I'm trying to learn how to live again - not sure how to do this yet.  

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Member Posts: 8
    edited January 2014

    Carol, that is great news!  Thanks for sharing!

  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 1,418
    edited January 2014

    Carol & Oceana.....YEEHA ! Thx for sharing......

  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 4,632
    edited February 2014

    Stopped by to say that today marks 8 years since I heard those dreaded words that no one ever wants to hear!!!  I see my onc the middle of next month and will get confirmation then if NED continues to be my bff.....

    I'm 8 years older and have gotten to see many milestones with my children....DD#1 graduate college and marry...DS finish high school, travel to Hawaii and Israel and go to college and DD#2 finish elementary and middle school, become a Bat Mitzvah and get her learners permit.  Plus I'm still Mom and wife to my DH of 36 years.    I've travelled to Israel 4 times and have met several dear bco sisters.....I walk at least 12K steps/daily and hope to start running....

    There is life on the other side of treatment!!!  

  • Bec65
    Bec65 Member Posts: 84
    edited February 2014

    Thank you for sharing your great news, Karen...congratulations!

  • peacestrength
    peacestrength Member Posts: 236
    edited February 2014

    Karen - Awesome! Beautiful story and encouragement.

  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 1,418
    edited February 2014

    Karen, your news is inspiring....Thanks for sharing & continued good health...

  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 183
    edited February 2014

    Dear Karen, Congrats my friend!

  • katyand4
    katyand4 Member Posts: 32
    edited February 2014

    Yeah for the milestones, congrats Karen, Carol & Oceana!  Wishing you continued health and happiness.

  • mkibbetson
    mkibbetson Member Posts: 40
    edited February 2014

    Yesterday was 5 years from my last radiation treatment.  Diagnosed on 6/5/2008 stage effin' 3 and for those who say that we should go by last day of treatment...well, then...I am starting YEAR 6!

    I still think about cancer every day but I don't always think pre/post cancer anymore, I think more about how wonderful my life is and has been, how lucky I am. The past 5 years has been full of things I am so glad I haven't missed and hope to have many more years to add to them.  

    After I was diagnosed, I looked at pictures prior to diagnosis and thought "that was when I didn't know"  This picture, taken right after I finished treatment, you see the "I know" in my eyes...

    Feb 2009:

    image

    And here, now, I just see ME again.

    image

  • Bec65
    Bec65 Member Posts: 84
    edited February 2014

    Just beautiful, Everyminute...thank you and congratulations!

  • maggs09
    maggs09 Member Posts: 74
    edited February 2014

    everyminute, THANK YOU! 

    I needed to hear something positive today!

    Hugs! 

    Maggs

  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 1,418
    edited February 2014

    Everyminute...Beautiful photos, & yes I agree, you have "that look", of intensity, grief and determination in your first photo. 2nd photo is lovely...

    Today was my last radiation tx. Hope to be posting here in 5 years...

    Congratulations & continued excellent health

  • peacestrength
    peacestrength Member Posts: 236
    edited February 2014

    Everyminute - Thank you for sharing.  You gave me hope and encouragement today!  I appreciate your pictures too.

  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 4,632
    edited February 2014

    Mary...you are amazing :)

  • Fitzy
    Fitzy Member Posts: 55
    edited February 2014

    Congrats on your 5 years, there will be many more. I love the photos, they depict the emotional states of cancer dx, tx and recovery so well. 'Keep on keeping on', Warrior Princesses.

  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 21
    edited February 2014

    Mary, Karen & all, congrats on all these wonderful milestones!  I had my 8 year on Feb 1 and meant to come here to post, but life got in the way :D   Doing great and loving life!

  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 1,418
    edited February 2014

    Bugs, 

       Congrats...thanks for posting & continued good health...

  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 4,632
    edited February 2014

    Hey Bugs....itsn't it nice when life gets in the way....love ya sistah!!!!

  • ziggypop
    ziggypop Member Posts: 276
    edited February 2014

    I'm very behind here - just wanted to say congrats to all who have passed a milestone (LOL - just wrote 'molestone' - that won't work). Everyminute - those pictures really say it all. You are beautiful in both, but the difference is dramatic. 

    Hugs to all you stage 3ers. 

  • shelly56
    shelly56 Member Posts: 142
    edited February 2014

    Everyminute - lovely photos!!  I passed my 5 years out last month, but that would be from dx, not from end of treatment.  It's confusing -- some docs say 5 years is from first dx, some say from end of treatments.  I'm celebrating it anyway !  Here's to us all being here a loooonnnnnnnnggggg time.  Shelly

  • Holeinone
    Holeinone Member Posts: 1,418
    edited February 2014

    Shelly, YEEHA, continued good Health ! 

  • Bec65
    Bec65 Member Posts: 84
    edited February 2014

    Shelly, my MO says it's from dx -- congratulations!  Thank you for dropping in!

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited February 2014

    Congratulations to all these wonderful anniversaries and milestones.  Lovely pictures!

  • shelly56
    shelly56 Member Posts: 142
    edited February 2014

    Bec:  I'll take your onc's word for it !!   

    Karen:  You do not take any AH therapies?  Just wondering....

    Huggzzz

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