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Old 08-31-2006, 01:01 PM   #18
StephN
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Unhappy Situations -

- bring out all sorts of talents besides fighting cancer here.
Nicola just had some great suggestions.

Sandy - having seen the photos at San Antonio last December, I KNOW what a cutie Yoda is and how much you loved him from the moment you laid eyes on him.
Life can be SO sweet and sour. First, the great news that you got Tykerb, then this huge worry over your puppy. GIVE US A BREAK, please!

Maybe you can makeshift some sort of way to pull him around on a little rug or something with a rope so you don't have to lift him all the time, except for stairs. Is 21 pounds a bit heavy for a Pug?? (I did have a cat reach 19 pounds!)

Let us know what the vet says, OK?
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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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