Re: What has cancer given you? The good and the bad?
Cancer has caused me to not sweat the small stuff. Now, when faced with a problem, I think about whether or not it is worth fighting for/about or just to let it go.
I take much better care of myself and have finally dropped (almost all) the weight I have been lugging around for so many years.
Echoing Becky, I have a group of friends that I never would have met. Oddly, even though we have never met, I really do feel a connection to all of you.
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Gerri
Dx: 11/23/05, Lumpectomy 12/12/05
Tumor 2.2 cm, Stage II, Grade 3, Sentinel Node biopsy negative
ER+ (30%) /PR+ (50%), HER2+++
AC X 4 dose dense, Taxol X 4 dose dense
Herceptin started with 2nd Taxol, given weekly until chemo done
then given every 3 weeks for one year ending on March 16, 2007
Radiation 30 treatments
Tamoxifen - 2 yrs (pre-menopausal)
May 2008 - Feb 2012 Femara
Aug 2008 - Feb 2012 Zometa every 6 months
March 2012 - Stop Femara, now Evista for bone strengthening
********** Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault
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