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Old 01-19-2016, 12:26 PM   #26
Andrea Barnett Budin
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Re: Boosting Your Immune System - share your ideas

Thanks for the antibiotic ointment BACTROBAN, Sonya. That is an excellent suggestion! Used to put something else in my nose that kind of disappeared. Originator sold company then didn't like the way they were doing things. And -- seems to be gone. But it worked!

And again, thank you, Sonya, for the post about the zinc ax 4 a day, plus Vit C 1,000 x 3 a day + Echinacea with goldenseal and Astragalus.

It is great at first sign of cold. But if you get sick w/plane travel (petry dish of germs in airplanes where you breathe it all in for hrs) and touch surfaces 100s of pp touch -- try starting a day or two before and of course THE DAY OF. Throw in a day or two after. THAT SHOULD KEEP YOU HEALTHY, Donna!

I was just about to post exactly that Sonya, when I saw it wasn't about motion sickness.

You are a wise and savvy lady. Quick learner. And you SHARE. I love you!

Andi
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'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...
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