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02-07-2008, 09:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Wellington, FL
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Off Topic-Need your votes
Hello everyone,
I am participating in my second half marathon in about a week in Ft. Lauderdale. They're running a contest titled "why I run" sponsored by JetBlue. I was picked as one of the ten finalist which the public gets to vote on.
If you could please go to www.a1amarathon.com and scroll down to the JetBlue heading you'll be able to vote for one of the 10 stories. Of course, I would be grateful if you vote for mine. Voting ends 2/13 at noon.
Thanking all of you for taking time to do this and to Joe for allowing me to post this request.
Sincerely,
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02-07-2008, 09:30 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Marengo, IL
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I am proud of you Ita. Going to vote for a sister right now! I hope many from the site will support you.
Donna
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Donna
Crystal Lake, IL
Diagnosed 8/4/06 at age 54
Lumpectomy 8/30/06
Stage llA, grade 3, ER/PR-, Her2++
1.7 cm tumor, 1+ lymph node out of 9
Completed 4 A/C, & 4 Taxol with Herceptin
36 rads completed 5/16/07
Mammograms, 7/07 clear
fractured ribs in radiated area 10/07
Finished Herceptin 12/27/07
Mammogram,CT,tumor markers 1/08 - small lung nodules in radiated area, repeated tests 3/08 stable
Mammogram,CT ,tumor markers 6/08 stable
NED 2 years!!
3 years !!!
4years!!!!
4 years, 10 months and 8 day NED, calling it 5 years!!!
Official 5 years 8/30/2011
8/31/ 2012 - 6 years!!!!!!
Last edited by DonnaD; 02-07-2008 at 09:34 AM..
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02-07-2008, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Wellington, FL
Posts: 68
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Thank you Donna. That's one thing I have to admit. If it wasn't for BC I wouldn't have gotten into running. When life give you lemons, make lemonade. When life give you breast cancer, go running! See how far behind I am. Oh well, it's worth a try.
Ita
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02-07-2008, 09:48 AM
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#4
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: RHODE ISLAND
(Ed getting me a latte on 2nd Cancerversary Cruise 2008)
'BELIEVE': To accept as true or real, To have faith in, To presume
ALWAYS BELIEVE
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You Go Girl
Thanks for sharing your adventure with us, I too am so proud of you Gricel. I read them all an of course, voted for your touching story. Enjoy the race and I will be keeping tract of who wins. The truth is YOU have already won in my eyes so do not look how far behind you are. You are a winner no matter what the reasons are for running. Eat your Wheaties.....LOL>>Believe51
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9/7/06Husband 50yrs=StageIV IBC/HER2+,BoneMets10/06TaxotereX10,'H'1X wk,Zometa,Tamoxifen4/12/07Last Tax5/18/07Pet=Rapid Cell Activity,No Organ Mets,Lytic Lesions,Degeneration,Some Bone Repair5/07ChemoFail6/01/07Pleural Thoracentisis=Effusions,NoMalignantCells6/19/07+7/2/07DFCI
6/25/07BrainMRI=BrainMets,Many<9mm7/10/07WBR/PelvisRad37.5Gx15&Nutritionist8/19/07T/X9/20/07BrainMRI=2<2mm10/6/07Pet=BoneProgression
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NoProgression,Stable4/7/08BrainPerfect5/16/08Last A/C8/26/08BrainMets=10(<9mm)9/10/08Gamma10/30/08Met=5mm12/19/08Gamma5mets5
12/22/08SpinalMets1/14/09SpinalRads2/17/09BrainMRI=NoNewMets4/20/09BoneScan5/14/09Ixempra6/1/09BrainMRI=NumerousMets6/24/09DFCIw/DrBurstein6/26/09Continue
Ixempra/Faslodex/Zometa~TM now lower7/17/09Stop Ixempra By Choice9/21/09HOSPICE10/16/09Earned His Deserved Wings And Halo=37 Month Fight w/Stage 4 IBC, Her2+++,My Hero!!
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02-07-2008, 09:48 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Portage, IN
Posts: 198
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Ita
I just voted for you. Good Luck!
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02-07-2008, 10:01 AM
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#6
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 215
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Vote
You go girl, you have my vote, jeanette
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02-07-2008, 10:11 AM
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#7
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Poland Ohio just a little south of Youngstown.
Posts: 473
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I enjoyed reading the stories and yours especially. I put my vote in for you,too.
Hugs
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Susan
Age: 61
dx: 5/25/06
2 cm/ 0 nodes
Lumpectomy rt breast on 7/26/06
ER/PR- / Her2+++
A/C x 4
finished taxotere 2/07
finished 33 rads
Herceptin finished 12/07/07 Yippee!
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02-07-2008, 01:36 PM
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#8
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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
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 Gricel! Love your Spirit! 
Cheering for you from the sidelines -- Every Day! YOU GO GIRL! Warrior Woman rocks.
I voted for Ita! Ita could not be sweeta'...
Andi 
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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...
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02-07-2008, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Sheboygan, WI
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Go Go Go
Go Go Go Gricel (Ita) - What a fantastic story and what a fantastic life you lead. How awesome to run the way you do and then to envision those cancer cells exiting your body through your pores. I LOVE that.
Come on ladies. Go Vote for Gricel. She's catching up in votes but she isn't in the lead. WE can put her their.
GO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy your marathon. God Bless you "sister."
Mary Jo
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"Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10
Dx. 6/24/05 age 45 Right Breast IDC ER/PR. Neg., - Her2+++ RB Mast. - 7/28/05 - 4 cm. tumor Margins clear - 1 microscopic cell 1 sent. node No Vasucular Invasion 4 DD A/C - 4 DD Taxol & Herceptin 1 full year of Herceptin received every 3 weeks 28 rads prophylactic Mast. 3/2/06
17 Years NED
<>< Romans 8:28
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02-07-2008, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Oregon
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You've got my vote!
<3 Lolly
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Sept.'99 - Dx.Stage IIIB, IDC ER/PR-, HER2+++ by IHC, confirmed '04 by FISH. Left MRM, AC x's 4, Taxol x's 4, 33 Rads, finishing Tx May 2000. Jan.'01 - local/regional recurrence, Stage IV. Herceptin/Navelbine weekly till NED August 2001, then maintenance Herceptin. Right Mast. April 2002. Local/Regional recurrence April '04, Herceptin plus/minus chemo until May '07. Gemzar added from Feb.'07-April '07; Tykerb/Abraxane until August '07, back on Herceptin plus Taxotere and Xeloda Sept. '07. Stopped T/X Nov. '07, stopped Herceptin Dec. '07, started Avastin/Taxol/Carboplatin Dec. '07. Progression in chest skin, stopped TAC March '03, started radiation.
Herceptin has served as the "Backbone" of my treatment strategy for over 6 years, giving me great quality of life. In 2005, I was privileged to participate in the University of Washington/Seattle HER2 Vaccine Trial.
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02-07-2008, 06:53 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Wellington, FL
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thank you
Hi ladies,
Thank you for the votes you've already given. I'm getting there. Keep those votes coming!!
Ita (gricel)
www.a1amarathon.com/poll |
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02-07-2008, 07:57 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Stockton, NJ
Posts: 4,179
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I just voted for you. I am not at the half marathon part yet although I run better at longer jaunts. I am in three 5Ks (March 13 - Construction Challenge in Las Vegas, March 29 - Delaware & Raritan Canal Watch 5K Fun Run in Titusville, NJ and June 1 - Run of the Mill 5K for the Makara Foundation in Stockton, NJ).
Run, run, run - I run for the same reason as you - I won't let it catch me!
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Kind regards
Becky
Found lump via BSE
Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45
1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side)
2 micromets to sentinel node
Stage 2A
left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg
lumpectomies 9/7/04
4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol
Used Leukine instead of Neulasta
35 rads on right side only
4/05 started Tamoxifen
Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to
trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations
Oophorectomy 8/05
Started Arimidex 9/05
Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06
Arimidex Only
Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia
NED 18 years!
Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"
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02-08-2008, 12:38 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hilo, Hawaii
Posts: 1,867
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I voted for you!!! Go for it Ita!!! Good luck and I'm proud of you!!
Harrie (maryanne)
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*** MARYANNE *** aka HARRIECANARIE
1993: right side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads
1999: left side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads, tamoxifen
2006:
BRCA 2 positive
Stage I, invasive DCIS (6mm x 5mm)
Grade: intermediate
sentinal node biopsy: neg
HER2/neu amplified 4.7
ER+/PR+
TOPO II neg
Oncotype dx 20
Bilat mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction
oophorectomy
2007:
6 cycles TCH (taxotere, carboplatin, herceptin)
finished 1 yr herceptin 05/07
Arimidex, stopped after almost 1 yr
Femara
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02-08-2008, 01:05 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Detroit Metropolitan Area, Michigan
Posts: 592
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 I put my vote in too!
Ita, Is there a limit to the number of times we can vote?
Thanks for sharing your story.
Best to ya!
Jo |
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02-08-2008, 06:11 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: RHODE ISLAND
(Ed getting me a latte on 2nd Cancerversary Cruise 2008)
'BELIEVE': To accept as true or real, To have faith in, To presume
ALWAYS BELIEVE
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ow yeah.....
.........and heeeerrrre she comes round the corner neck and neck with #3. Rock on Girl!! To think this post started with making us take a look at how far you were behind....huhhh!! Smile>>Believe51
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9/7/06Husband 50yrs=StageIV IBC/HER2+,BoneMets10/06TaxotereX10,'H'1X wk,Zometa,Tamoxifen4/12/07Last Tax5/18/07Pet=Rapid Cell Activity,No Organ Mets,Lytic Lesions,Degeneration,Some Bone Repair5/07ChemoFail6/01/07Pleural Thoracentisis=Effusions,NoMalignantCells6/19/07+7/2/07DFCI
6/25/07BrainMRI=BrainMets,Many<9mm7/10/07WBR/PelvisRad37.5Gx15&Nutritionist8/19/07T/X9/20/07BrainMRI=2<2mm10/6/07Pet=BoneProgression
10/24/07ChemoFail11/9/07A/Cx10,EndTam12/7/07Faslodex12/10/07Muga7512/13/07BlasticLesions1/7/08BrainMRI=Clear4/1/08Pet=BoneImprovement,
NoProgression,Stable4/7/08BrainPerfect5/16/08Last A/C8/26/08BrainMets=10(<9mm)9/10/08Gamma10/30/08Met=5mm12/19/08Gamma5mets5
12/22/08SpinalMets1/14/09SpinalRads2/17/09BrainMRI=NoNewMets4/20/09BoneScan5/14/09Ixempra6/1/09BrainMRI=NumerousMets6/24/09DFCIw/DrBurstein6/26/09Continue
Ixempra/Faslodex/Zometa~TM now lower7/17/09Stop Ixempra By Choice9/21/09HOSPICE10/16/09Earned His Deserved Wings And Halo=37 Month Fight w/Stage 4 IBC, Her2+++,My Hero!!
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02-08-2008, 06:28 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Carmel, Indiana
Posts: 98
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Gricel,
You are an inspiration! I just voted for you. Good luck and keep it up!
Beth
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DX 9-19-07 at age 40
DCIS, Inv. Duct. Car. 3 cm
Positive lymph node biopsy
Er+Pr+Her+++
Carboplatin/Taxotere/Herceptin
10-1-07 -- 1-16-08
Herceptin every 3 weeks until 9/24/08
Lump. and node dissection 2-12-08
BRCA1 and 2 negative
30 rads finished 4-23-08
oophorectomy 5-6-08
Femara started 5/25/08
Zometa for osteoporosis every 6 mo. started 9-24-08
Married 16 years!
3 kids - daughter (10), twin sons (7)
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02-08-2008, 07:55 AM
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#17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: South Florida
Posts: 477
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I just voted. Wow you are in second place!!! We need more votes to get you to the top! Come on folks, let's vote!
Carolyn
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02-08-2008, 09:16 AM
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#18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Wellington, FL
Posts: 68
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You ladies are kicking tushee
Well, now I'm number one. I am truly touched by your outpouring of support.
Thank you, thank you thank you!!
You can only vote once, but for some reason my computer allowed me to vote twice. My DH said it has to do with the IP address. If you can disconnect and reconnect with a different address, which the computer does automatically, then you you vote all day long. But I think most home computers only have one address.
Thank you all,
Ita (gricel)
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02-08-2008, 12:53 PM
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#19
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Wellington, FL
Posts: 68
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Ladies,
According to one of my friends you can vote once a day. My computer won't let me do that.
If you ladies and several gentlemen can try I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Gricel
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02-08-2008, 03:42 PM
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#20
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 3,154
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Ita,
I voted for you and was thrilled to do it. Loved your story and I will vote again for you tomorrow....and ....the next day....you are running neck and neck with another gal...so we your sisters will not let you down.
I am in awe of you!
Jean
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Stage 1, Grade 1, 3/30/05
Lumpectomy 4/15/05 - 6MM IDC
Node Neg. (Sentinel node)
ER+ 90% / PR-, Her2+++ by FISH
Ki-67 40%
Arimidex 5/05
Radiation 32 trt, 5/30/05
Oncotype DX test 4/17/06, 31% high risk
TOPO 11 neg. 4/06
Stopped Arimidex 5/06
TCH 5/06, 6 treatments
Herceptin 5/06 - for 1 yr.
9/06 Completed chemo
Started Femara Sept. 2006
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