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12-26-2007, 12:08 PM
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Andrea Barnett Budin
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I just saw this thread! So a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RHONDA!
Just keep on celebrating with each new day! Wishing you multiple decades to come full of joy and health. "Your" day is special though, just like you!
Andi
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Andi BB
'95
post-meno dx
Invasive LOBULAR w/
9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier.
Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF)
.
Borderline ER/PR
. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive...
'98
-- multiple
mets to liver
.
HER2+ 80%.
ER/PR-
Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast.
New PORT
.
9 mnths Taxotere
Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!)
+ good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either...
Added Herceptin Nov '98
(6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08!
Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug!
NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...
Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings)
EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE.
Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle.
Up to
me and God now...
Andrea Barnett Budin
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