StephN
03-17-2008, 10:40 PM
Hi everyone -
Just wanted to post about a little celebration we had on Sat. night. A good friend just had a major birthday and my hubby will be having the same one very soon. Friend's wife just passed her 10th year since surgery for her breast cancer.
We thought it was a good occasion to dress up and have a good meal together to mark these joyous occasions.
Kathy was the first person (besides my great aunt's daughter, who was an older lady then) I ever knew to have breast cancer. Kathy was then barely 40 years old, working, with 3 children at home. She did her "whole 9 yards" of treatment and took her tamoxafin for 5 years. Walking is something she has been very serious about and she is in great shape.
Seeing her come through her battle and out the other side gave me courage and a real life role model when I got my diagnosis shortly after she got back a full head of hair and a sparkle in her eyes. I saw that she was "herself" again and I would be too.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening!
Just wanted to post about a little celebration we had on Sat. night. A good friend just had a major birthday and my hubby will be having the same one very soon. Friend's wife just passed her 10th year since surgery for her breast cancer.
We thought it was a good occasion to dress up and have a good meal together to mark these joyous occasions.
Kathy was the first person (besides my great aunt's daughter, who was an older lady then) I ever knew to have breast cancer. Kathy was then barely 40 years old, working, with 3 children at home. She did her "whole 9 yards" of treatment and took her tamoxafin for 5 years. Walking is something she has been very serious about and she is in great shape.
Seeing her come through her battle and out the other side gave me courage and a real life role model when I got my diagnosis shortly after she got back a full head of hair and a sparkle in her eyes. I saw that she was "herself" again and I would be too.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening!