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dawn · 03-18-2007, 04:49 PM

Thank you guys all so much, I had a wonderful weekend. My oldest sister showed up with a birthday cake to surprise me, so the "Haire" sisters went to a local bar to celebrate. Of course, it was in full swing being St. Paddy's Day. My younger sister had a song played for my birthday, just as they finished announcing it, my one and only brother shoed up and walked out to have the dance with me. Another suprise, as I didn't know he would be home either. So out of four siblings, three managed to get here to help me celebrate. One thing I learned in the last year, was how important family and friends are to get you through times like this. My husband must have been very busy this week arranging everything and keeping it quiet too!!! I'm going to keep a positive attitude for the next year, a try to live my life as normal as possible. Starting with my cruise in May.

As great as my family and friends are, this site and everyone in it has helped me calm that raging beast, breath better and have a good nights sleep, when everything felt like it was falling apart. Someone always made me see I wasn't the only one. Chelee, I remember you posting to one of my early posts, when I was having an extremely hard time coming to grips with everything. Janis(fitztwins) was another one at the same time who helped me breathe again. Different times throughout the year many of you have helped me. Christine and Joe thank you so much for this site. You guys must be amazing for everything you do.

THANK YOU EVERYONE

Dawn

03-18-2007, 04:49 PM	#20
dawn Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 153	Thank You Thank you guys all so much, I had a wonderful weekend. My oldest sister showed up with a birthday cake to surprise me, so the "Haire" sisters went to a local bar to celebrate. Of course, it was in full swing being St. Paddy's Day. My younger sister had a song played for my birthday, just as they finished announcing it, my one and only brother shoed up and walked out to have the dance with me. Another suprise, as I didn't know he would be home either. So out of four siblings, three managed to get here to help me celebrate. One thing I learned in the last year, was how important family and friends are to get you through times like this. My husband must have been very busy this week arranging everything and keeping it quiet too!!! I'm going to keep a positive attitude for the next year, a try to live my life as normal as possible. Starting with my cruise in May. As great as my family and friends are, this site and everyone in it has helped me calm that raging beast, breath better and have a good nights sleep, when everything felt like it was falling apart. Someone always made me see I wasn't the only one. Chelee, I remember you posting to one of my early posts, when I was having an extremely hard time coming to grips with everything. Janis(fitztwins) was another one at the same time who helped me breathe again. Different times throughout the year many of you have helped me. Christine and Joe thank you so much for this site. You guys must be amazing for everything you do. THANK YOU EVERYONE Dawn __________________ Dawn Mar 2006Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu 3+++, Er & Pr positive, 8 of 18 pos 03/14/06: Mastectomy 04/19/06 started Chemo adriamycin, chlophosphamide, taxotere 25 rads Nov 1, 06: 3 years Tamoxifen, Herceptin (1yr) Jan 2009 Femara mets to bone aromasin and aredia June2009: Full Histerectomy 2/22/2010 6 spots in liver 2 mm-10 mm: switched to xeloda and Herceptin will continue with Aredia J Scan February 2011 new onc, switch to abraxane April 2011 NED clear organs, 3 spots on bone scar tissue. Scans August 2mm spot on liver and lungs. now on to tykerb/xeloda Dec 2011 scans nothing on lungs, liver down to 1 2 mm spot. j une 2012 another spot on liver on to cisplatin/gemzar.