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12-22-2009, 08:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Thornhill, Ontario
Canada
Posts: 2,320
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Re: Changing My Signature - Now 3 Years NED!!
Laurel, how sweet of you to remember my "touch of lymphedema." It actually has been pretty well under control. I wear my sleeve and gauntlet when I fly, and of course I am extra careful now not to injure it.
I was seeing a lymphedema massage therapist throughout the summer, but since the fall I have been okay. I do some self-massage every couple of days. I've been lucky in that it has been contained to my right hand. If this is the worst that it gets, I'm thankful.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
all the best
caya
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ER90%+/PR 50%+/HER 2+
1.7 cm and 1.0 cm.
Stage 1, grade 2, Node Negative (16 nodes tested)
MRM Dec.18/06
3 x FEC, 3 x Taxotere
Herceptin - every 3 weeks for a year, finished May 8/08
Tamoxifen - 2 1/2 years
Femara - Jan. 1, 2010 - July 18, 2012
BRCA1/BRCA2 Negative
Dignosed 10/16/06, age 48 , premenopausal
Mild lymphedema diagnosed June 2009 - breast surgeon and lymph. therapist think it's completely reversible - hope so.
Reclast infusion January 2012
Oopherectomy October 2013
15 Years NED!!
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12-23-2009, 07:16 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 889
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Re: Changing My Signature - Now 3 Years NED!!
What great news on your 3 years. Wishing you a zillion more.
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dx aug 03 invasive dcis 1 cm
er/pr/her2+
bcs 8/4/03
bcs 8/21/03 0/16 nodes
tx 4x ca 36 rad tam
postmenopausal 06 aromasin
sept 07 biopsy node in neck
muga/pet/cat/bone mets to lungs nodes and liver stage iv
tx hki-272
tx not working switched to taxol herceptin
Taxol not working switched to navelbine
navelbine is causing bad neuropathy
starting gemzar
gemzar quit on me now on Ixempra due to increasing number and size of liver mets
another progression starting tykerb/xeloda
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12-23-2009, 08:10 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Hershey, PA. Live The Sweet Life!
Posts: 2,005
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Re: Changing My Signature - Now 3 Years NED!!
Caya,
Glad to hear you are able to manage the lymphedema so easily. I know it can be quite difficult in many cases. I'm glad you are not encountering a real struggle! Have a wonderful holiday season up in the hinterland of the north!
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Smile On!
Laurel
Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08
7mm invasive component
Partial mast. 5/08
Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH
0/5 nodes
4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08
Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09
Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09
Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08
Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08
Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard!
Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara
15 Years NED
I think I just might hang around awhile....
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12-26-2009, 05:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Thornhill, Ontario
Canada
Posts: 2,320
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Re: Changing My Signature - Now 3 Years NED!!
I'm really in the Hinterland of the North - We're in Edmonton, Alberta for an impromptu family reunion- A gang of cousins (one cousin lives here) along with my aunt and uncle (in their early 80s)...
Thanks again for all your nice wishes.
Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season.
all the best
caya
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ER90%+/PR 50%+/HER 2+
1.7 cm and 1.0 cm.
Stage 1, grade 2, Node Negative (16 nodes tested)
MRM Dec.18/06
3 x FEC, 3 x Taxotere
Herceptin - every 3 weeks for a year, finished May 8/08
Tamoxifen - 2 1/2 years
Femara - Jan. 1, 2010 - July 18, 2012
BRCA1/BRCA2 Negative
Dignosed 10/16/06, age 48 , premenopausal
Mild lymphedema diagnosed June 2009 - breast surgeon and lymph. therapist think it's completely reversible - hope so.
Reclast infusion January 2012
Oopherectomy October 2013
15 Years NED!!
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12-26-2009, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Hershey, PA. Live The Sweet Life!
Posts: 2,005
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Re: Changing My Signature - Now 3 Years NED!!
Oh Caya! Alberta is one of those "before I die I gotta see...." places for me! I have cousins up there, too. Old Order Mennonites who still are horse & buggy folks like the Amish. Met some of them a few years back, well actually, many years ago now when they came by rail into Pennsylvania to visit. They were very lively despite their conservative ways. I enjoyed them enormously.
Well, Nanook-of-the-North, have a totally fun time in that beautiful countryside. I am sure you are up to your eyeballs in snow!
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Smile On!
Laurel
Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08
7mm invasive component
Partial mast. 5/08
Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH
0/5 nodes
4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08
Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09
Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09
Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08
Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08
Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard!
Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara
15 Years NED
I think I just might hang around awhile....
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12-28-2009, 01:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: northshore suburb of chicago
Posts: 1,093
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Re: Changing My Signature - Now 3 Years NED!!
Mazel Tov Caya on reaching this milestone. Here's to many more cancerversaries.
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~Rina~
Dx:3/06 had a lumpectomy April 19, 2006
Her2+ er/pr- Stage I Grade 3 tumor size 1.4 cm, node negative
AC 4 dense doses
34 radiation treatments including booster doses
receiving herceptin every 3 weeks since late August 2006 for 12 months
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