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StephN · 12-10-2006, 07:04 PM

Hey, Michele and SandyH -
I will sure miss not going to the symposium in San Antonio this year. I know you are both getting packed and ready for next week.
No, not any extra rest as things are hopping, and bad weather after Thanksgiving snarled things up for a few days.

Sherri - Yes, it is a "gift" not to be facing brain MRI the first week in Jan as has been the case for the last 4 years! My sister in Florida is asking me to come see her, so I may do that instead of "the usual!"

Hubby and I are working on Christmas cards and will go out and get a couple of books to give as gifts.

Have any of you read "French Women for All Seasons" by the author of "French Women Don't Get Fat?" The author is a long-time acquaintance of ours. She did a talk and book signing in our neighborhood last month. It was great to surprise her and see her. Her latest book makes a great gift with some sensible advice and recipes. She IS a real doll, by the way!

12-10-2006, 07:04 PM	#8
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Thanks for the good thoughts, everyone! Hey, Michele and SandyH - I will sure miss not going to the symposium in San Antonio this year. I know you are both getting packed and ready for next week. No, not any extra rest as things are hopping, and bad weather after Thanksgiving snarled things up for a few days. Sherri - Yes, it is a "gift" not to be facing brain MRI the first week in Jan as has been the case for the last 4 years! My sister in Florida is asking me to come see her, so I may do that instead of "the usual!" Hubby and I are working on Christmas cards and will go out and get a couple of books to give as gifts. Have any of you read "French Women for All Seasons" by the author of "French Women Don't Get Fat?" The author is a long-time acquaintance of ours. She did a talk and book signing in our neighborhood last month. It was great to surprise her and see her. Her latest book makes a great gift with some sensible advice and recipes. She IS a real doll, by the way! __________________ "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.