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StephN · 10-14-2012, 02:53 PM

Jen - Please don't lose faith. That is not how your mom has behaved during all the time I have known her on this board (7 or more years!).
She has been steadfast for others, even in their darkest hour. She has been steadfast for her family, and taken on huge responsibility for your grandparents, and your children.
Questioning is a real part of the grief process. Anger and other emotions are normal. No one has wished ill to Sheila.
The research is turning up more and more subtle, but very important, differences in our disease. HER2 has many subcategories now. I am a lucky one so far, and I do not know why my disease was treatable.

Listen to your mother as she is extremely wise. She knows how to handle and get through tough times; her love is pure and strong. Try to find that place.

Loving hugs to you, Jen.

10-14-2012, 02:53 PM	#2
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: I'm helplessly Drowning in a Sea of Pink Jen - Please don't lose faith. That is not how your mom has behaved during all the time I have known her on this board (7 or more years!). She has been steadfast for others, even in their darkest hour. She has been steadfast for her family, and taken on huge responsibility for your grandparents, and your children. Questioning is a real part of the grief process. Anger and other emotions are normal. No one has wished ill to Sheila. The research is turning up more and more subtle, but very important, differences in our disease. HER2 has many subcategories now. I am a lucky one so far, and I do not know why my disease was treatable. Listen to your mother as she is extremely wise. She knows how to handle and get through tough times; her love is pure and strong. Try to find that place. Loving hugs to you, Jen. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.