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Andrea Barnett Budin · 10-09-2012, 11:39 AM

Dear Sheila, Just want you to know I haven't stopped streaming a multitude of loving, healing energy to you!!! May all that you have given for all these many years be returned to you -- 100-fold...

My love to you too Jen, as what you are going through has to be so very hard. Your Mom is such a special Spirit. I know she is trying her best to stay positive which is truly a challenge when in pain and feeling overwhelmed with all that she has been going through. It can overtake you, if you aren't on guard. May she soon find her footing again. Really really really soon!

Still, if anyone can do it -- I believe in Sheila! Warrior Woman extraodinaire. A shining Light in our lives, and in your family's life I have no doubt!

I am always so touched by and proud of Sheila's grace and tenacity. You just can't keep that Woman down!

Stay strong Sheila, please. I am deeply sorry you have to go through all this. It's too much. Hard to keep your chin up. So, I pray for your strength and resolve to persevere, anyway. Cause that is who you truly are.

Please stay focused on healing, darling Lady! Not so simple to reject all other thoughts as they are in your face and in your head, but that is what you must do my Sister.

With Love and Light, and a giant hug,
Andi

10-09-2012, 11:39 AM	#103
Andrea Barnett Budin Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: LAND OF YES! w/home in Boca Raton, Florida Orig from L.I., N.Y. Ever hovering IN THE NOW... Posts: 1,904	Re: Prayers needed for Sheila Dear Sheila, Just want you to know I haven't stopped streaming a multitude of loving, healing energy to you!!! May all that you have given for all these many years be returned to you -- 100-fold... My love to you too Jen, as what you are going through has to be so very hard. Your Mom is such a special Spirit. I know she is trying her best to stay positive which is truly a challenge when in pain and feeling overwhelmed with all that she has been going through. It can overtake you, if you aren't on guard. May she soon find her footing again. Really really really soon! Still, if anyone can do it -- I believe in Sheila! Warrior Woman extraodinaire. A shining Light in our lives, and in your family's life I have no doubt! I am always so touched by and proud of Sheila's grace and tenacity. You just can't keep that Woman down! Stay strong Sheila, please. I am deeply sorry you have to go through all this. It's too much. Hard to keep your chin up. So, I pray for your strength and resolve to persevere, anyway. Cause that is who you truly are. Please stay focused on healing, darling Lady! Not so simple to reject all other thoughts as they are in your face and in your head, but that is what you must do my Sister. With Love and Light, and a giant hug, Andi __________________ Andi BB '95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive... '98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!) + good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either... Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...