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StephN · 02-12-2008, 06:57 PM

Bringing this up for anyone else who would like a visit from our "itinerant healers."
We have three spaces till May when they go to Massachusetts.

I need to add in Lily as she expressed interest - she gets her choice.

2. Feb 15 - from Marlys to LAURIE(Ohio - for her end of treatment party)
3. End Feb to 10 March - Laurie to JONES (Mich.)
4. Mid March to 25 Mar - Jones to ??
5. Early to Mid April - ?? to STEPHN (Washington)
6. Mid April - early May - someone back east or midwest?
7. Early to mid May - HAZELJOYCE (Mass. - for her end of treatment shindig on May 15th)
8. End of May to June 1st - ??

02-12-2008, 06:57 PM	#15
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Anyone Else? Bringing this up for anyone else who would like a visit from our "itinerant healers." We have three spaces till May when they go to Massachusetts. I need to add in Lily as she expressed interest - she gets her choice. 2. Feb 15 - from Marlys to LAURIE(Ohio - for her end of treatment party) 3. End Feb to 10 March - Laurie to JONES (Mich.) 4. Mid March to 25 Mar - Jones to ?? 5. Early to Mid April - ?? to STEPHN (Washington) 6. Mid April - early May - someone back east or midwest? 7. Early to mid May - HAZELJOYCE (Mass. - for her end of treatment shindig on May 15th) 8. End of May to June 1st - ?? __________________ "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.