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RhondaH · 01-09-2007, 08:00 AM

I KNOW what you are feeling (have been there) and while yes, it seems like "this" is what your life will be like,no...as time goes on, you DO think if it less and less (people told me this when I was first dx and hesitated believing it, but it IS true). There IS life after cancer. The treatments end, the appointments are farther apart and you get "used to" the aches and pains (not thinking it is a recurrence). SMILE...your life is JUST beginning. Take care and God bless.

Rhonda

01-09-2007, 08:00 AM	#2
RhondaH Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 1,516	Kriss... I KNOW what you are feeling (have been there) and while yes, it seems like "this" is what your life will be like,no...as time goes on, you DO think if it less and less (people told me this when I was first dx and hesitated believing it, but it IS true). There IS life after cancer. The treatments end, the appointments are farther apart and you get "used to" the aches and pains (not thinking it is a recurrence). SMILE...your life is JUST beginning. Take care and God bless. Rhonda __________________ 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