[Jackie07]

[Introduced this thread to one of our new members. Then I noticed SoCalGal's tally (145 years for all 33 members) Thought I'd double check and add the others following her posting. And I came up with 220 years and three months. I also noticed that many other Stage IV sisters are not on the list - the founder of this support group, Christine (12 years) and AndiBB (13 years), to name a few.

And it suddenly downed on me that I myself have survived my first diagnosis of stage I for 8 years. My recurrence in 2007, a Stage IIb, was caused by a series of failures of the medical staff - the surgeon thought she had had a clean margin, she didn't; the radiologist thought the shadow on the mammograms was 'scar tissue', it wasn't; my family doctor thought I was hypochondriac, he was wrong; and the increasingly 'painful' mammagram I'd been experiencing for four years wasn't because 'some women' have painful mammagrams...

Will I have another recurence and become stage IV one of these days? Nobody knows. But just knowing the fact that so many of our stage IV sisters have beat the odds/on maintenance/receiving active treatment gives me confidence that whatever happens in the future, there is hope.

Thank you, stage iv sisters, for sharing your fighting spirit and triumph with us. 6-15-2011]

(Initial Diagnosis) Stage IV Diagnosis _______Triumph years since Stage IV

Trish – (May 2004) Dec. 2006______________4 yr 6 month and counting
Pam P. – (June 2001) Sept. 2002____________8 yr 9 month and counting
Colleen007 – Oct. 2005 ___________________ 5 yr 8 month and counting
Missyw – (Jan 2001) Aug. 2006 _____________4 yr 10 month and counting
Joan M – (Sept 2003) Jan. 2007 ____________ 4 yr 5 month and counting
Kathy T – [Jan. 2003] _____________________ 8 yr 5 month and counting
Nancy L – Feb. 2009 ______________________ 2 yr 4 month and counting
Chelee – Dec. 2005 _______________________ 5 yr 6 month and counting
Lori R – Oct. 2007 ________________________ 3 yr 6 month and counting
Deena H – Jan. 2011 ______________________ 5 month and counting
Barbara H – May 2004 ____________________ 7 yr 1 month and counting
Chrisy – Sept. 2004 _______________________ 6 yr 9 month and counting
Sheila – Sept. 2003 _______________________ 7 yr 9 month and counting
Nsebesta – May 2004 _____________________ 7 yr 1 month and counting
Mamacze – 2004 _________________________ 7 yr and counting
Ceesun – over 4 years _____________________ 4 yr and counting
Hutchibk – Aug. 2005 _____________________ 5 yr 10 month and counting
Emilieb – Jan. 2010 _______________________ 1 yr 5 month and counting
DEBBIE S – Oct. 2004 ______________________6 yr 8 month and counting
Krisvell – Nov. 2010 _______________________8 month and counting
SuThorn – Sept. 2007 _____________________ 3 yr 9 month and counting
CourtneyL – April 2008 ____________________ 3 yr 2 month and counting
Hema – March 2011 ______________________ 3 month and counting
Schoolteacher – Dec. 2007 _________________3 yr 6 month and counting
SoCalGal – March 2007 ____________________4 yr 3 month and counting
MaryL – July 2004 ________________________ 6 yr 11 month and counting
PatE – Oct. 2007 __________________________3 yr 8 month and counting
KDR – June 2010 __________________________1 yr and counting
Flossie – July 2008 ________________________ 2 yr 11 month and counting
Marilyn – Jan. 2001 _______________________10 yr 5 month and counting
Kim in CA – Sept. 2001 ____________________ 9 yr 9 month and counting
Adriana Mangus – July 2003_________________7 yr 11 month and counting
Kim in DC – Feb. 2008 _____________________ 3 yr 4 month and counting
Fauxgypsy – Feb. 2007 _____________________4 yr 4 month and counting
DianaMK – June 2010 _____________________ 1 yr and counting
Tonya – Aug. 2006_________________________4 yr 10 month and counting
Asahizuru – 2002 _________________________ 9 yr and counting
Vivienne [Mom of] – March 2011____________ 3 month and counting
Radiant – 2010 ___________________________1 yr 6 month and counting
Ahoff – 2010 _____________________________1 yr 6 month and counting
Sherryg683 – Dec. 2005 ____________________5 yr 6 month and counting
Kavy – Nov. 2005 _________________________5 yr 7 month and counting
DQ1 – 2011 ______________________________ and counting
Unregistered – Jan. 2007___________________ 4 yr 5 month and counting
[DMWARN] [wife] – 2000 __________________ 11 yr and counting
Linda b – Jan. 2007 _______________________ 4 yr 5 month and counting
Angela R – (2009) April 2011________________2 month and counting
Hraby73 – April 2011______________________ 2 month and counting
Kmswilson – (Dec 2010) Jan 2011_____________5 month and counting
Mtngrl – (April 2011) May 2011______________1 month and counting
Vicky – March 2011________________________3 month and counting
tammymarie1971 – (Dec 2001) March 2004____7 yr 3 month and counting
StephN – (Sept 2000) Jan. 2002_______________8 yr 5 month and counting

Total: 53 members (who have posted on this thread) and 236 year 10 months as of June 18, 2011