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12-24-2008, 09:48 PM
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Location: LI, NY
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Happy holidays from madubois63
Happy holidays to everyone - no matter what your celebrating!!
I had the greatest time in San Antonio and felt great. I just about kept up with everyone. My mom picked me up from the airport coughing. I woke up with the flu. I've been totally knocked out for the last week. I haven't moved from my bed. The only time I've been out was to see the doctor the other day. My mommy has been taking good care of me (thank God for mommy). This thing has been horrible and I hope no one else gets it. If by chance you do, I really feel sympathy for you. Lots of coughing, dizziness and lack of appetite (I lost all the Genentech cookie weight I gained on the trip).
It took all day, but I did wrap all the presents for the kids. Thank you so very much (you know who you are). My daughter will be very happy with the stuff under the tree!! All our plans have changed, but we will make do.
I am grateful for the many blessing that have come my way, but I'm holding out for the big cure and wish that it comes through for all of us this coming new year.
Love to you all...
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Maryann
Stage IV Inflammatory BC 1/00
Mod Rad Mastectomy 24nod/5+
Adriomycin Cytoxin Taxol
Tamoxifen 4 1/2 yrs
Radiation - 32 x
Metastatic BC lung/liver 10/04
thorocentesis 2x - pleurodesis
Herceptin Taxatiere Carbo
Femera/Lupron
BC NED 4/05
chemo induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia 5/06
Induction/consolidation chemo
bone marrow transplant - 11/3/06
Severe Host vs Graft Disease of liver
BC mets to lung 11/07
Fasoladex Herceptin Zometa Xeloda
GVHD/Iron overload to liver
Avascular Necrosis/morphine pump 10/10
metastatic brain tumor
steriotactic radiosurgery
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12-25-2008, 06:54 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: San Antonio, TX
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 Be blessed, Maryann! Christmas is in the hugs and smiles! And no one shines better in that category than you! Get well, girl! I got it too, but am on the mend today! Thank goodness I did all the grandkid shopping early!!!!!
Hugs, ma
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MA in TX.
Grateful for each and every day....
Diag. 12/05 at age 60
Stage II, Grade 3, 4.5 cm primary tumor
ER/PR- Her2 +3 strongly positive
Her2 by FISH 7.7 amplified
vascular invasion
Ki67 20% borderline
Jan - March '06 Taxotere/Adriamycin X 3 to try to shrink tumor - it grew
April '06 Rt Modified Radical Mas, 7 of 9 nodes positive
April - Aug. '06 Herceptin/Taxol/Carboplatin X 8 (dose dense)
Sept - Dec. '06 Navelbine/Herceptin x 8 (dose dense)
Radiation & Herceptin Jan. 22 - March 1, 2007
Finished Herceptin Dec. 10 '08! One extra year.
Port removed August, 2012.
8 1/2 years since diagnosis! 5 1/2 Years NED!
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12-25-2008, 04:08 PM
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Location: Ireland
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Hi Madubois!
I just came down with the flu two days ago so can relate and have been up the past two nights coughing ugh...hope you're feeling better by now and like you, I hope 2009 is so much better for all of us 
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Tricia
Dx July '05 IDC 1.9cm Triple positive 3/9 nodes positive
A/C X 4 ..Taxol/Herceptin x 12 wks then herceptin 1 yr
Rads x 36 ..oophorectomy August '06
Currently taking Arimidex..
June 2011 osteopenia/ zometa x1 yearly- stopped Zometa 2015 as Dexa show normal bone density.
Stopped Arimidex July 2014- Restarted Arimidex 2015 for a further two years on the advice of my Onc.
2014 Normal Dexa scan
2018 Mammo all clear, still NED!
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12-25-2008, 07:34 PM
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Maryann, you deserve a break! But if anyone can bounce back, it is YOU! I know you'll be up and running soon. Meanwhile, best wishes for the holidays.
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Bonnie
Post menopause
May 2007 Core biopsy, Rt breast
ER+, Pr-, HER2 +++, Grade 3
Ki-67: 90%
"suspicious area" left breast
Bilateral mastectomy, (NED on left) May 2007
Sentinel Node Neg
Stage 1, DCIS with microinvasion, 3 mm, mostly removed during the biopsy....
Femara (discontinued 7/07) Resumed 10/07
OncoType score 36 (July 07)
Began THC 7/26/07 (d/c taxol and carboplatin 10/07)
Began Herceptin alone 10/07
Finished Herceptin July /08
D/C Femara 4/10 (joint pain/trigger thumb!)
5/10 mistakenly dx with lung cancer. Middle rt lobe removed!
Aromasin started 5/10
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12-25-2008, 09:31 PM
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Location: Cordoba, Mexico
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Dear Maryan,
A big hug and my best wishes for you an your family during this Christmas. Hope you start feeling better in the comming days. I also hope that next year something more develops to find the cure for breast cancer. All my love,
Paty
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Dx. June 30th, 2006 at age 43
Lumpectomy rt breast
2.2 cm tumor, 13 nodes all negative
ER-PR+,her2+++
6 FAC
32 Rads
Dx. Lung fibrosis due to radiation
Ended 1 year herceptin in March, 2008
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12-25-2008, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Thornhill, Ontario
Canada
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Hey Maryann,
I hope you will feel better really soon. TGFMoms - I don't know what I would have done without mine when the DH and I were both very ill within months of each other - he had his brain aneurysm (dx Jan. 30, 2006) and then 10 months later - my BC.
Try drinking some of my all around sickness "concoction" - apple cider vinegar (organic with the "mother" if possible), lemon juice, honey and hot water. Can't do any harm, possibly some good.
Hoping for the CURE in 2009 ...
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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12-27-2008, 12:23 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 3,142
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Happy Holidays from madubois63
I hope you and everyone else who is under the weather feels better soon !!
A happy and healthy 2009 to all !!
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12-27-2008, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hilo, Hawaii
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MA,...hope you get over the flu quickly! Glad it didn't spoil your time in SA.
MA
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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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12-28-2008, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: northshore suburb of chicago
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Unfortunately Maryanne, I know just how you feel. I too caught the flu despite having the flu shot. Coughing fever body aches congestion....the whole shabang. To top it off, I was even too sick to take my poor husband to the emergency room last night. He ended up having an emergency appendectomy at 2am. Fortunately my son, brother in law and sister in law were around to take him and be with him. I felt so bad that I couldn't be there. This has been a rough year for my husband. He suffered a heart attack in April right after his tax season ended. If you saw him, you would never think he was a candidate for a heart attack. He works out 5-6 days a week, is not overweight at all and eats relatively healthy. Genetics definitely played a role for his father died at the age of 42 of a massive coronary and high cholesterol is in his family and he has it as well. You know that if I couldn't be with him at the hospital I must have been pretty sick. This flu has wiped me out. My hubby comes home tomorrow. Hope you are feeling better Maryanne.
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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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12-29-2008, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 3,142
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Happy Holidays from madubois63
Hope you are feeling better madubois63.
Wow rinaina you and your husband have had your fill of illness too. Hope 2009 will be better for madubois63, rinaina and your husband and everyone else.
I have come down with my annual bronchial cough thing. Good think it is time for my check up tomorrow !! Maybe I can leave some of this thing on the doc's doorstep. Ha ha. Back to hot soup, warm beverages, honey, tea, and all the usual home remedies for me.
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12-29-2008, 01:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: LI, NY
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Wow Rinaina, I am so sorry about your husband. I was feeling bad because I couldn't take my daughter to a concert. Now I feel stupid and thankful. I'm so glad your family was there to go to the hospital with your hubby. I hope all is better and you both have a quick recovery.
Thanks everyone. I am finally starting to feel better. I cooked dinner last night and actually did a load of laundry. I am still very tired and coughing a whole lot, but I am feeling human again.
Love to all...and Happy New Year too!
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Maryann
Stage IV Inflammatory BC 1/00
Mod Rad Mastectomy 24nod/5+
Adriomycin Cytoxin Taxol
Tamoxifen 4 1/2 yrs
Radiation - 32 x
Metastatic BC lung/liver 10/04
thorocentesis 2x - pleurodesis
Herceptin Taxatiere Carbo
Femera/Lupron
BC NED 4/05
chemo induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia 5/06
Induction/consolidation chemo
bone marrow transplant - 11/3/06
Severe Host vs Graft Disease of liver
BC mets to lung 11/07
Fasoladex Herceptin Zometa Xeloda
GVHD/Iron overload to liver
Avascular Necrosis/morphine pump 10/10
metastatic brain tumor
steriotactic radiosurgery
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12-29-2008, 04:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Great news!!!
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MA in TX.
Grateful for each and every day....
Diag. 12/05 at age 60
Stage II, Grade 3, 4.5 cm primary tumor
ER/PR- Her2 +3 strongly positive
Her2 by FISH 7.7 amplified
vascular invasion
Ki67 20% borderline
Jan - March '06 Taxotere/Adriamycin X 3 to try to shrink tumor - it grew
April '06 Rt Modified Radical Mas, 7 of 9 nodes positive
April - Aug. '06 Herceptin/Taxol/Carboplatin X 8 (dose dense)
Sept - Dec. '06 Navelbine/Herceptin x 8 (dose dense)
Radiation & Herceptin Jan. 22 - March 1, 2007
Finished Herceptin Dec. 10 '08! One extra year.
Port removed August, 2012.
8 1/2 years since diagnosis! 5 1/2 Years NED!
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12-30-2008, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: New Jersey
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I really have chemo brain because I can't even remember what posts I replied to. Sorry to hear you were ill MaryAnn. Hope the New Year finds you feeling better. Thought I had replied here, but I guess I didn't. Silly me!
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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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01-01-2009, 05:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 329
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Dear Mayann,
I hope a wonderful year for you in 2009. You deserve it so much my dear.
Big hug,
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01-02-2009, 10:19 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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Big hug to you Madame Dubois, sending special love to you today. Wishing your 2009 will bring all your desires to reality!>>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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01-02-2009, 03:52 PM
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Location: Connecticut
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I'm glad you're feeling a little better, Madame DuBois. You are such a go-getter, I knew you wouldn't be down for long. Rina, I'm sorry to hear about you and your husband. Hopefully, you will bounce back quickly, too. You all have our thoughts and prayers.
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For Nicola
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01-02-2009, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: san luis obispo, ca
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Maryann, A happy, healthier (no flu) 2009 wish for you! My grandkids all have the flu, and my daughter has strep throat, so we are steering clear of the nasty germs and missing them so much. I'm sincerely thrilled that you had a chance to go to Texas and my prayers are with you. Get well, honey pie, and break out those cookies! Love and Hugs, Vickie
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Love and Hugs, Vickie
Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass,
It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Feb 04 IBC IIIC/IV er-/pr- her2+++
3/04 TCH X4
7/ 04 MRM 9/04 Taxol/herceptin wkly 1 yr 33X rads
11/04 skin mets 33x rads,10/05 Avast/Herc. 11 mos.
8/ 06 PET mets lymphs, neck
9/ 06 Navelbine/herceptin
11/ 06 PET NED
2/ 07 skin mets, 4/07 Xeloda, 5/07 add Tykerb
2/ 08 Tykerb failed. Doxil /Herceptin 6 months
8/08 PET skin mets, 8/08 Abraxane/Avastin
11/ 08 PET prog., skin mets
1/09 PET/CT progress, 1/09 Ixempra, 2/09 add Xeloda and low dose Naltrexone
2/09 off Ixempra/Xeloda
3/09 navelbine/herc/cytoxin 4/09 PET shows regress.7/09 start Topotecan. Failed.
8/09 extensive mets rgt brst, back and torso. starting Pazopanib clinical trial.
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01-03-2009, 08:38 PM
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Location: indianapolis, indiana
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so far so good here, just colds. my son who had mono a couple years ago is getting a sore throat so i'm worried. and the baby has pink eye, hope i don't get that i hate putting drops in my eyes. hope everybody else gets better soon!
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dxd 9-04, lumpectomy,
st 1, gr 3, er,pr-, her2 +,
2 tac,33 rads,6 cmf
1 yr herceptin,
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01-04-2009, 12:19 AM
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Location: Connecticut
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Madame DuBois, without a doubt, if we were to hold a "best Avatar contest", you would win, hands down. Maybe it's just me, but I get really hungry everytime you post.
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