Re: Bone biopsy update
Yes, Tricia, we do, but it is so easier said than done! I wrote those fighting words as much for me as for you. Those endlessly haunting what ifs....! I tell myself that my future is no less certain than it was pre-cancer, meaning that none of us holds our futures in our hands. Those who have not yet survived a serious illness are no more assured of a tomorrow than the rest of us. It just seems as though our futures are more murky shrouded with the dread of a recurrence, but in truth the odds are in our favor that the loathsome cancer will not return to darken our lives yet again.
I find the mental game of staying positive tedious at times and very wearing on my resolve to live in the NOW. How I wish I could just be like the sparrows and not worry. It really is an utter waste of time when you think on it!
Ah well, I do so hope you have a peaceful and lovely Christmas and that God grants you freedom from the hounding what ifs. I wish that for all of us. May God Bless Us One And All!
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Smile On!
Laurel
Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08
7mm invasive component
Partial mast. 5/08
Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH
0/5 nodes
4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08
Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09
Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09
Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08
Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08
Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard!
Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara
15 Years NED
I think I just might hang around awhile....
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