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v-ness · 01-27-2010, 05:37 PM

dear john - i have not been on this site long enough to have 'known' irene at all, but i have been following her story for some time now. i know in my heart that irene held on long enough to celebrate her birthday and to come home to be in the place she loved with the people she loved. it must have given her great peace. i lost my husband to cancer 3 yrs ago. he did not make it home from the hospital, but he did hang on long enough for me to make it there when they called me at 4:30 AM as he suffered a heart attack that actually took his life. i know he held on, just like irene, so that i could tell him i loved him and that he was the best thing that ever happened to me. i am SO glad that she got to be with all of you for her birthday and for her last day and that you got to have her close by. i have been very moved by your intense devotion and by irene's spirit. when she slipped from this earth, perhaps she really did fade away from the pure joy of being home and with you.

valerie

01-27-2010, 05:37 PM	#92
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Irene From Tampa dear john - i have not been on this site long enough to have 'known' irene at all, but i have been following her story for some time now. i know in my heart that irene held on long enough to celebrate her birthday and to come home to be in the place she loved with the people she loved. it must have given her great peace. i lost my husband to cancer 3 yrs ago. he did not make it home from the hospital, but he did hang on long enough for me to make it there when they called me at 4:30 AM as he suffered a heart attack that actually took his life. i know he held on, just like irene, so that i could tell him i loved him and that he was the best thing that ever happened to me. i am SO glad that she got to be with all of you for her birthday and for her last day and that you got to have her close by. i have been very moved by your intense devotion and by irene's spirit. when she slipped from this earth, perhaps she really did fade away from the pure joy of being home and with you. valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!