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StephN · 10-10-2007, 06:41 PM

Could not resist this. How many little girls do you see and think "I hope they never have to go through what I have with this d*mn disease"?

My trip to the local Safeway was an eye opener this afternoon. I know they are having a big barbeque cookoff on Sat to raise money for Komen.

The young man checking my line, was enthusiastically wheedling a donation from everyone in front of me. When he processed a donation he would ring a bell and give a hooray. He told me that last year in the month of October they raised a bit over $30,000 for breast cancer research. Of course they are trying to top that this year. Break it out - that is ONE THOUSAND dollars a day!

Some generous neighbors I have!

10-10-2007, 06:41 PM	#1
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	DON'T let her down, please! Could not resist this. How many little girls do you see and think "I hope they never have to go through what I have with this dmn disease"? My trip to the local Safeway was an eye opener this afternoon. I know they are having a big barbeque cookoff on Sat to raise money for Komen. The young man checking my line, was enthusiastically wheedling a donation from everyone in front of me. When he processed a donation he would ring a bell and give a hooray. He told me that last year in the month of October they raised a bit over $30,000 for breast cancer research. Of course they are trying to top that this year. Break it out - that is ONE THOUSAND dollars a day! Some generous neighbors I have! __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau* Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018. Last edited by StephN; 04-05-2008 at 01:13 PM..