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Old 02-26-2007, 08:31 PM   #11
Andi
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: IOWA
Posts: 243
I am so sorry to hear of your recurrence. I received my news of the beast rearing its head again right before Christmas. It's like going through the diagnosis all over again.. in some ways it was easier because I had a pretty easy time with the treatments I had taken before, on the other hand it is much worse, because once we recur, they no longer will promise you a cure. In the beginning that is a pretty scary outlook, but because of all of the ladies on this website that have been dealing with mets for a long time and living life pretty good, I have shed that fear and am facing this thing with a whole lot of hope. When I was visiting a patient in our local hospital, there was a sign in the gift shop that caught my eye and it reminds me of the attitude toward life that I read in so many posts on this web site - "Live A Good Life - in the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years" - Abe Lincoln. Of course, I am selfish, I want both. Keep posting and sharing your feelings, this is a great place to work through them. I will say a prayer for you.
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Andi
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Stage IIIC, 17 of 20 Nodes +, E+, Her2+++
Diagnosed 6/30/05
Lumpectomy 7/13/05
Dose Dense A/C x 4
Weekly Taxol + Herceptin x 12
Remainder of year Herceptin Every 3 weeks (completes 9/13/06)
Radiation completed 2/28/06
Currently on Tamoxifen
Dec 06 - Pleural effusion treated with pleurodesis
Now er/pr-, her2++
1/07 started weekly Navelbine plus Herceptin
Discontinued Tamoxifen
4/27/07 CTshowed progression
5/01/07 Began Tykerb/Xeloda + Zometa
5/22/07 Stopped treatment due to great progression
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