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Old 02-05-2009, 10:52 AM   #1
Jean
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Fight

FIGHT
BUT OF COURSE YOU ARE AFRAID
IT ISN’T EVERYDAY YOU ARE MADE
A MEMBER OF THIS SPECIAL CLUB
REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED AND NEEDED
AND YOU WILL FIGHT THIS DEVIL
WHO DARES TO SNEEK INTO OUR LIVES
SAY NO TO THIS DEVIL AND BEAT IT BACK
HOW DARE THIS DEVIL THINK IT WILL WIN
WITH EVERY BREATH AND STRENGTH OF WILL
WE SHALL FIGHT AND DEFEAT THIS ENEMY.

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Ki-67 40%
Arimidex 5/05
Radiation 32 trt, 5/30/05
Oncotype DX test 4/17/06, 31% high risk
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Old 02-05-2009, 01:54 PM   #2
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Jean,

I am going to post this at my desk at school and at home. Thank you for the war cry you have presented.

Amelia
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Old 02-05-2009, 01:56 PM   #3
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Thumbs up

Thank you Jean, I love it. Did you write that??>>Believe51
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Old 02-05-2009, 04:07 PM   #4
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Thank you Marie and Amelia,
Yes, I wrote the poem.
I had taken a freind's sister to chemo treatment the other day. As I sat with her and looked around the treatment room into the faces of the other patients and care givers I felt this emotion of fighting back.

When I got home I sat down and just started to jot down my feelings.

Kind Regards,
Jean
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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
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Old 02-05-2009, 10:02 PM   #5
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well said, Jean!!!
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age 54 at diagnosis
5/05 suspicious mammogram-left breast
5/05 biopsy-invasive lobular carcinoma with LCIS,8mm tumor,stage 1 grade 2, ER+ PR+ Her2+++
6/14/05 bilateral mastectomy, node neg. all scans neg.
Oncotype DX-high risk
8/05-10/05 4 rounds A/C
10/05 -10/06 1 yr. herceptin
arimidex-5 years
2/14/08 started daily self administered injections..FORTEO for severe osteoporosis
7/28/09 BRCA 1 negative BRCA2 POSITIVE
8/17/09 prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy
10/15/10 last FORTEOinjection
RECLAST infusion(ostoeporosis)
6/14/10 5 year cancerversary!
8/2010-18%increase in bone density!
no further treatments
Oncologist says, "Go do the Happy Dance"
I say,"What a long strange trip its been"
'One day at a time'
6-14-2015. 10 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!
7-16 to 9-16. Extensive (and expensive) dental work done to save teeth. Damage from osteoporosis and chemo and long term bisphosphonate use
6-14-16. 11 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!!
7-20-16 Prolia injection for severe osteoporosis
2 days later, massive hive outbreak. This led to an eventual dx of Chronic Ideopathic Urticaria, an auto-immune disease from HELL.
6-14-17 12 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!!
still suffering from CIU. 4 hospitilizations in the past year

as of today, 10-31-17 in remission from CIU and still, CANCER FREE!!!
6-14-18 13 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!! NED!!
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Old 02-05-2009, 10:34 PM   #6
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Awesome, Jean! You have a real gift, and a heart of the sweetest gold. Thanks for being you.
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