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Andrea Barnett Budin · 08-27-2013, 07:30 PM

Andi

Today I felt traumatized as I agonized. Emailing as a last ditch effort got action. The report was received. Seems to go to main hospital FAX not back office! Gotta fix that!! And the nice and new secretary seems to have forgotten to check her messages. Onc said she was shocked when he brought my email info to her attention. What does she mean I didn't return all her phone calls?? Oh dear... So not good. In an onc's office especially!

So my 5 o'clock hail mary got me 3 calls and an e... carrying good news!

My sister just pointed out that it is like my birthday present! (Next Tuesday.)

Now I am going to sleep. Soon, I will par TAY...

Flori -- my love -- what are you being infused with these days?

Play the cancer card. It's yours, use it. I do... Gets you lots of hugs and bless you's... 0000000 BLESSINGS...

08-27-2013, 07:30 PM	#14
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: B 9 ... !!! Biopsy is benign...!!! Andi Today I felt traumatized as I agonized. Emailing as a last ditch effort got action. The report was received. Seems to go to main hospital FAX not back office! Gotta fix that!! And the nice and new secretary seems to have forgotten to check her messages. Onc said she was shocked when he brought my email info to her attention. What does she mean I didn't return all her phone calls?? Oh dear... So not good. In an onc's office especially! So my 5 o'clock hail mary got me 3 calls and an e... carrying good news! My sister just pointed out that it is like my birthday present! (Next Tuesday.) Now I am going to sleep. Soon, I will par TAY... Flori -- my love -- what are you being infused with these days? Play the cancer card. It's yours, use it. I do... Gets you lots of hugs and bless you's... 0000000 BLESSINGS... __________________ 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...