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Andrea Barnett Budin · 12-09-2007, 02:36 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRICIA! You are one incredible woman, a fabulous role model and a beautiful Spirit... I love your posts, full of pith and wisdom and so many yrs enjoyed as a 4th stage SURVIVOR! I just love you... So I plan on following in your magnificent footsteps.

Keep feeding us whatever it is that you nurture your Soul with, please! Enjoy your whole 78th year and then some!!!! Expect to see you on the Today Show's Smucker's jar celebrating your 100th one fine day! You are beyond special, dear Sister...

With loving, happy energy sent to you,
Andi

12-09-2007, 02:36 PM	#5
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	HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRICIA! You are one incredible woman, a fabulous role model and a beautiful Spirit... I love your posts, full of pith and wisdom and so many yrs enjoyed as a 4th stage SURVIVOR! I just love you... So I plan on following in your magnificent footsteps. Keep feeding us whatever it is that you nurture your Soul with, please! Enjoy your whole 78th year and then some!!!! Expect to see you on the Today Show's Smucker's jar celebrating your 100th one fine day! You are beyond special, dear Sister... With loving, happy energy sent to you, Andi __________________ 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...