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Old 06-10-2009, 07:29 AM   #381
Colleens_Husband
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Yesterday, my youngest son Qwerty graduated from the sixth grade. He has had recruiters from Eastern prep schools offer him scholarships. I am very proud of his academic achievements.

Mostly, I am proud of the fact that our family provided a stable home for him and have given him the opportunity to thrive. He was able to go from kindergarten through sixth grade at the same school and he never had to move and say goodbye to his friends and make new friends somewhere else. That was very important to me. I have probably lived in fifty different places during my school years. It got to the point that we stopped making an effort to make new friends because we knew we were going to move in a few months anyways.

So Qwerty had a better more stable home life than I had, and as a parent, what more could you want than that?
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This happened to Colleen:

Diagnosed in September 2007
ER-/PR-/HER2 Neu+++ 2.1 cm x .9 cm spicluted tumor with three fingers, Stage 2B
Sentinal node biopsy and lymph node removal with 3/18 positive in October 2007
4 TAC infusions
lumpectomy March 2008, bad margins
Re-excision on June 3rd, 2008 with clean margins
Fitted for compression sleeve July 16, 2008
Started the first of two TCH infusions August 14, 2008
Done with chemo and now a member of the blue dot club 9/17/08
Starting radiation October 1, 2008
life is still on hold
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