10-15-2007, 05:19 PM
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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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Tiptoe Leaving Boca For R. I....
Tip is all packed and ready to go to the post office tomorrow.
I've alerted Marie and Ed who will be awaiting her arrival with open arms!
I Journalled all day long...!!! Scissors, glue stick, tape, ruler, pencil, pictures, print outs -- and I crafted away, sculpting a little TALE for Tippy to take w/her. Paul bought a MEMORY STICK, so maybe that will work better.
I still haven't figured out how to make my pics have the right # of pixels, even when I type in my directions specifically per instucted. Download fails. Doggone it! I will try to impose myself once again on Pinkie. I CAN email her my pics. Then she must go through the laborious process of cutting them to size, scanning them and draining her overused ink cartridge... PinkGirl is an angel I hope y'all know!
She had scans today (a 5 hr drive to Toronoto or thereabouts). Let's all say a prayer for her for good results! WITH LOVE,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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