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Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Danger Will Robinson...
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Andrea Barnett Budin
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Re: Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Danger Will Robinson...
Denise,
Today's perspective -- your tumor is lashing out in its dying gasps.
And you are surrounded by love.
Hard to feel gratitude at such a cruddy time but you are making your way to normal!
My take, my prayer, sent with hugs galore,
Andi
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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...
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