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v-ness · 03-25-2010, 08:50 AM

thank you! i just got a beautiful card from Kitty Motel at Best Friends, where wrigley lived before he got cancer, telling me how much they and the cats missed me. needless to say i cried, but happy tears. adriana - i drew those eyebrows on and worried that they were too dark! i have to thank Look Good Feel Better for teaching me to draw them. phew... cuz they're next to invisible at this point. so far the cat in my avatar, Tiger, is still holding his own against intestinal cancer. those animals taught me so much about adapting to what life throws at you. i am glad you all enjoyed the stories. valerie

03-25-2010, 08:50 AM	#19
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Me & the Chemo Kitty Wrigley at Best Friends Sanctuary thank you! i just got a beautiful card from Kitty Motel at Best Friends, where wrigley lived before he got cancer, telling me how much they and the cats missed me. needless to say i cried, but happy tears. adriana - i drew those eyebrows on and worried that they were too dark! i have to thank Look Good Feel Better for teaching me to draw them. phew... cuz they're next to invisible at this point. so far the cat in my avatar, Tiger, is still holding his own against intestinal cancer. those animals taught me so much about adapting to what life throws at you. i am glad you all enjoyed the stories. 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!