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Re: What has cancer given you? The good and the bad?
Cancer has given me more gifts in general - it has shown me who my real friends are and taught me how to take care of my self and take time for myself. It has given me perspective of what I want to do with my career and what I want to do everyday.
Cancer made me more scared than I ever was in my entire life but also made me strong and brave. It made me speak up for myself and made me realize that you have to know what you're doing and not just go with the flow on real important matters. I am not afraid.
I appreciate everything - even the utterly stupid Christmas gifts I get from my husband - and don't complain as much as I used to.
Most of all, cancer gave me all of you of whom I would never had met otherwise.
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Kind regards
Becky
Found lump via BSE
Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45
1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side)
2 micromets to sentinel node
Stage 2A
left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg
lumpectomies 9/7/04
4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol
Used Leukine instead of Neulasta
35 rads on right side only
4/05 started Tamoxifen
Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to
trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations
Oophorectomy 8/05
Started Arimidex 9/05
Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06
Arimidex Only
Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia
NED 18 years!
Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"
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