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Andrea Barnett Budin · 04-10-2014, 04:22 PM

Thanks, Ceesan. Always great to hear from you, all these many years! Your husband is a very wise man. Picture what you want. Cope with what you have. Deal. Respond, don't react. Be thoughtful. Use the power of your thoughts!

So so so glad you are where you are. And yes, cancer has enriched my life, as crazy as that sounds. I have taken a path I otherwise wouldn't even thought to seek. I've met so many wonderful people!!!!! Life is sweet. Enjoy each day.

No one but pp in our position understand the joy of each day! It's a gift. And we appreciate it wholeheartedly!!!

Love,
ANDI

04-10-2014, 04:22 PM	#3
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: KNOWINGS, Expectations and Assumptions Thanks, Ceesan. Always great to hear from you, all these many years! Your husband is a very wise man. Picture what you want. Cope with what you have. Deal. Respond, don't react. Be thoughtful. Use the power of your thoughts! So so so glad you are where you are. And yes, cancer has enriched my life, as crazy as that sounds. I have taken a path I otherwise wouldn't even thought to seek. I've met so many wonderful people!!!!! Life is sweet. Enjoy each day. No one but pp in our position understand the joy of each day! It's a gift. And we appreciate it wholeheartedly!!! Love, 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...