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StephN · 08-31-2008, 07:13 PM

Once again our buddy Bill is on the job!

My younger sister has been working in skyscrapers in downtown Seattle for many years now. She has had a backpack survival kit in her car and taken in to work every day for several years.

She recently showed me her "NEW" survival pack - a rolling pack - so she doesn't have to carry it any more. Just roll it with her.

For the past few years she has been working for Amazon.com and they are located in an old art deco Veterans hospital building made of brick. It has been completely earthquake proofed, etc, as much as possible. But they are very big on employee safety.

She also has half the trunk of her car filled with emergency stuff for her 2 daughters. We don't go THAT far, but have some supplies here at home gathered into a couple of medium size plastic bins.

They tell us that another one of our mountains may blow its top, so even without hurricanes, they find something to warn us about.

08-31-2008, 07:13 PM	#2
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Once again our buddy Bill is on the job! My younger sister has been working in skyscrapers in downtown Seattle for many years now. She has had a backpack survival kit in her car and taken in to work every day for several years. She recently showed me her "NEW" survival pack - a rolling pack - so she doesn't have to carry it any more. Just roll it with her. For the past few years she has been working for Amazon.com and they are located in an old art deco Veterans hospital building made of brick. It has been completely earthquake proofed, etc, as much as possible. But they are very big on employee safety. She also has half the trunk of her car filled with emergency stuff for her 2 daughters. We don't go THAT far, but have some supplies here at home gathered into a couple of medium size plastic bins. They tell us that another one of our mountains may blow its top, so even without hurricanes, they find something to warn us about. __________________ "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.