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12-18-2008, 08:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ft. Collins, Colorado
Posts: 546
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Marie!
I ALWAYS pray for your strength as well as Ed's health. You two need each other. So consider it all covered. Ed-kick those buggers out of there! Marie-stay strong and find what makes you happy-you do it for others all of the time!
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with love and gratitude,
joy
dx stage I 2/2000*er/pr+; her- per IHC*lumpectomy*4 rounds A/C*30 rads*tamoxifen*dx stage 4 5/2002*huge mets to liver*tiny mets to lungs*stopped tamoxifen*5/02 taxotere/xeloda*her 2 checked with FiSH-her2+++herceptin *2/03 stopped chemo femara w/herceptin*zolodex*04 switched to aromasin w/herceptin*05 high estrogen tx*11/05taxol/carbo*7/06 stopped chemo; megace/herceptin*9/06navelbine/herceptin*5/07tykerb/xeloda great response*4/08 progression in liver; ooph/ faslodex /herceptin
6/08 began Herceptin DM-1
9/08 progression
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12-18-2008, 09:30 AM
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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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My wonderful friend, I am keeping you in my prayers. Depression is a terrible thing, I went thru a very serious bout with it and that was long before my cancer diagnosis. Please talk to your doctor. With everything that's going on, you don't need this. Don't be afraid of taking a drug, I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't reached to my doc for help.
Love you and Ed, sweetie, and you both will be on my mind tomorrow.
Big 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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12-18-2008, 11:15 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Misty woods of WA State
Posts: 4,128
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Dear Marie -
Now that my porches are cleared of snow, I can visit my friends here.
Having never taken an antidepressant until earlier this year, I can tell you what a difference it made to get me out of my funk after the long ordeal with my Dad last year. I became the caregiver and it was a long, tough run.
A small dose of Celexa did wonders for me. Plus keeping my diet in the really healthy zone.
All the positive and loving thoughts are combining to get you and Ed through this chapter.
Wear your bracelet, OK?
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau
Live in the moment.
MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~
Found suspicious lump 9/2000
Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement
Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR -
Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds
36 rads - very little burning
3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum
Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED!
2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa
Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18
All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET
Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying
Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa
Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?)
2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava
2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec.
Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011
STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer
7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones
Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED
2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED.
Same news for 2016 and all of 2017.
Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.
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12-18-2008, 11:54 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
Posts: 2,999
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Well, well
There have been times throughout my life that I have been on antidepressants for short periods of time. Looking at this original post and the replies I can see clearly now that I should reconsider this option again. It has been harder and harder to fight off these feelings. These feelings through this journey have always been addressed as they came and never 'pushed under the rug'. Guess part of it is just the "journey" itself in general! Maybe the other part is I am so used to doing something concerning this journey that when things are set and waiting I get antsy. (Not a doctor even though I play one in real life..LOL) Right now I am kind of sad just thinking about his brain being touched for the third time.
And then....and then there are all you. Jumping to my rescue. Pushing me to recognize what I might have missed. Sending love and prayers my way. With each post I find more strength to make it another day so I can mend myself. You all have not only helped him on his journey, you have helped me on mine. It is so hard to watch this happen to your best friend. No matter what happens these feelings are tough. I have been depressed for some time and I thank you for reminding me that I may need more!
At first I felt so selfish after posting this thread but I stopped thinking that way. You understand like no other friends. I am wearing not only my bracelet now, but will wear it with my 'green shoes' tomorrow!! I am playing Mrs Claus. I will be carrying a huge grapevine basket full of chocolate covered pretzels, sugar cookies and gifts to pass out to all 3 of our facilities; doctors, surgeons, nurses.....whole nine yards. We are due for 12-14 inches of snow. Hey, we are fighting brain mets, Ed and I are not afraid of a little snow.
Love To All and Thanks Again!!
BRING IT ON 'CAUSE AWAY WE GO!!
>>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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