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03-17-2007, 10:36 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Morris, IL
Posts: 3,507
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Happy St Patrick's Day Tricia Keegan & ALL
Tricia...and all the other Irish Folk who meet here!
Wanted to wish you a Happy St. Patricks Day...I am cooking Corned Beef and Cabbage...smells so good. May have a guiness or too with it. My Mother is a McCormick....so although I am part American Indian, I have enough Irish in me to enjoy the tradition...and a son named Patrick!
Hope everyone who celebrates enjoys the day!
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"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
Hugs & Blessings
Sheila
Diagnosed at age 49.99999 2/21/2002 via Mammography (Calcifications)
Core Biopsy 2/22/02
L. Mastectomy 2/25/2002
Stage 1, 0.7cm IDC, Node Neg from 19 nodes Her2+++ ER PR Neg
6/2003 Reconstruction W/ Tissue Expander, Silicone Implant
9/2003 Stage IV with Mets to Supraclavicular nodes
9/2003 Began Herceptin every 3 weeks
3/2006 Xeloda 2500mg/Herceptin for recurrence to neck nodes
3/2007 Added back the Xeloda with Herceptin for continued mets to nodes
5/2007 Taken Off Xeloda, no longer working
6/14/07 Taxol/Herceptin/Avastin
3/26 - 5/28/08 Taxol Holiday Whopeeeeeeeee
5/29 2008 Back on Taxol w Herceptin q 2 weeks
4/2009 Progression on Taxol & Paralyzed L Vocal Cord from Nodes Pressing on Nerve
5/2009 Begin Rx with Navelbine/Herceptin
11/09 Progression on Navelbine
Fought for and started Tykerb/Herceptin...nodes are melting!!!!!
2/2010 Back to Avastin/Herceptin
5/2010 Switched to Metronomic Chemo with Herceptin...Cytoxan and Methotrexate
Pericardial Window Surgery to Drain Pericardial Effusion
7/2010 Back to walking a mile a day...YEAH!!!!
9/2010 Nodes are back with a vengence in neck
Qualified for TDM-1 EAP
10/6/10 Begin my miracle drug, TDM-1
Mixed response, shrinking internal nodes, progression skin mets after 3 treatments
12/6/10 Started Halaven (Eribulen) /Herceptin excellent results in 2 treatments
2/2011 I CELEBRATE my 9 YEAR MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7/5/11 begin Gemzar /Herceptin for node progression
2/8/2012 Gemzar stopped, Continue Herceptin
2/20/2012 Begin Tomo Radiation to Neck Nodes
2/21/2012 I CELEBRATE 10 YEARS
5/12/2012 BeganTaxotere/ Herceptin is my next miracle for new node progression
6/28/12 Stopped Taxotere due to pregression, Started Perjeta/Herceptin
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03-17-2007, 11:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Misty woods of WA State
Posts: 4,128
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Hey Sheila -
Top o' the mornin' to ya!
Got my corned beast simmering as well. Hubby is French, but was manager of a swanky restaurant called The Dublin House in his early 20's. He developed a habit of the Irish Fare ever since!
Been over to see the "Green River" running through Chi-town? We have a Green River here is well, but it is known for a killer, rather than a fun holiday!
Time to get down to the hospital and see with sort of Irish goodies they put on Dad's diet today. They had a delicious Irish lamb stew yesterday!
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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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03-17-2007, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 1,516
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STOP you guys...
I HAVE my corned beef in my freezer (sniff sniff) and wanted it today  , but being that we only have meat once a week and it was Tony's week to choose the meal, I get sloppy joes and tator tots (whoo, whoo), but NEXT weekend, got the corned beef and hope I can save enough of my cabbage (I am currently slicing it on my salad), but I can smell yours through the computer...other than lobster, corned beef and cabbage is my FAVORITE (have it for Christmas dinner since I am allergic to eat fowl). At LEAST have a slice for me.
Rhonda
(I'M not Irish, but my half brother and sister in Chicago are on their mothers side ALL my neices and nephews...Colleen, Erin, Patrick, Thomas and Joe) and MANY of my cousins are as well...as Sheila knows well, Chicago is a VERY Irish city and many of my in law relatives came from there.)
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Rhonda
Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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03-17-2007, 05:01 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Ireland
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Thanks Sheila:)
..and a Happy St Paddys Day to everyone here!!
Sheila the corned beef sounds delicious and is making me hungry but it's almost midnight here now so I'll have to wait and make do with some toast lol!!
Everyone in Dublin at the parade today was amazed at the lack of rain as it's usually pouring down on St Patricks day,a great day was had by all.
Best part of course was the pub crawl afterwards
Thanks again for your good wishes and I hope you enjoy that guiness!!
(Or two  )
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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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03-17-2007, 05:42 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 77
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Sheila and all,
Hope you had a great St. Patrick's day. To me it's such a fun day celebrating the Irish and every one else ... I'm not a big fan of guiness but will celebrate with my cheap wine...
Cheers and good health.
Carol
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03-18-2007, 03:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Ireland
Posts: 3,463
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Anyone else???
Anyone else from ireland here??
I also post on the kome board and have yet to meet anyone from
nearer to home than the States.
Please get in touch if anyone reads this and lives in Ireland.
Tricia
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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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