Oh flori, you are aglow!
DEAREST SWEET FLORI,
What a Woman! Look what you created at Cedar's to touch the lives of so many Warrior Survivors! As you give, so will you reap. Your generosity of Spirit and creativity are a blessing to all.
I am so proud of your accomplishment in becoming a Bat Mitzvah! Look where you are on your Life's journey! Wiser, stronger, deeper, ever reaching for new heights full of wonder and joy.
Your life has special meaning to you and to all who will bear witness. I will be with you Friday night, from down South and across the country, but with you nonetheless... You are a unique and wonderful young woman. May your future be blessed with good health, good fortune and happiness.
In canserland, we can take one of two paths. We can have a breakthrough, or we can have a breakdown. You are full of all the right choices, Flori. Your Spirit guides you and grants you grace and fortitude extraordinaire! I just love the power of your thoughts and acts. I love you. "Yasha koach". May you go from strength to strength... What a time of jubilation!
I am certain you will continue to be a force, full of vigor and might, growing, evolving as we are all meant to do with each new day. Shabbat Shalom, Flori! It is an honor to know you.
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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...
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