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STRESS...OH my...
My dad (who lived 100 miles awat from me) was dx w/ a terminal heart condition (calcified arteries...the doc said he would continue to have strokes and heart attacks until...). My father lived alone and I was his only child (his lady friend and his sister helped when they could, but his lady friends dad was 103 and she was caring for him as well as she is a 3 time bc survivor and my aunt has her own health problems), so I don't know HOW many times I drove down there for health emergencies, while taking care of my 72 yo mom and 3 yo son up here, working full time etc. I LITERALLY was on my way to see a psychiatrist for panic attacks I was having (my mom felt I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown) the day of his last hospitalization. My feeling is that stress changes our DNA.
Rhonda
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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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