12 years Stage 4 - Still A-OK
Bringing my happy dance to this forum of old friends and pals - and God willing a small bucket of hope to the newly diagnosed. I remember well the sky high anxiety that I felt when I first heard those dreaded words - metastatic cancer - and how I clung to the stories from others who made it past the 5 year mark with mets. Today I am feeling so grateful for the calm counsel and sage advice I got from StephN, Al from Canada, Lolly, Christine and Joe, lani, Becky, Karen, Kim in CA, Ellie F, Pam - old timers for sure - and of course many others. I have no doubt that our Her2 Angels who have passed before us are storming the heavens on our behalf and that the cancer moonshot will work for us and our daughters.
Happy birthday to me and God speed to you old friends!
Kim (from CT)
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2001 - Stage 0, lumpectomy, radiation, tamoxifen
2004 - Stage 4, mets to 4 lobes of lungs and liver, lumpectomy, er/pr -, her2 neu+++, Herceptin and Navelbine then Herceptin only.
2005 - Breast Ca vaccinations with the Tumor Vaccine Group in Seattle
2011 - Still Herceptin only and NED
2011, June - STOPPED Herceptin and kicked up my heels!
2012, February - 1 small tumor came back to haunt me in my lungs - back on Herceptin only, tumor stable.
2015, November - tumor on lungs removed (Segmentectomy), back on Herceptin only
Received U of W vaccine clinical "booster" Vaccine
2022 On Herceptin and NED continues - WOOT WOOT!
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