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Andrea Barnett Budin · 06-09-2007, 11:56 AM

Vickie, Re-read it today. It is so sublime. Every sentence. To be lingered over time and time again. So many truths within. Spell-binding to me! And beautious!

“Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone”, Elizabeth Cady Stanton bravely noted. She was a leading suffragette back in the 1800s who fought for equal rights for women and for slaves as well. Was she ahead of her time? Groundbreaking information, while standing at the threshold of a New Era, sounds ludicrous, unheard of by definition. It’s groundbreaking, after all. New and yet old. Ms. Stanton had an Insight. A KNOWING. It is my prayer to not keep what I have found to be true from the world. I share w/my heart open. I dare. Got bitten a few times, but overall I feel the love. And I pray those who snarled a bit will reconsider such groundbreaking, new and yet old, ideas.

The Aborigines, the American Indians, Eastern culture KNEW these things, as did Plato and others.

Sending love and many thanks for AN INVITATION. I printed it out to save. Thinking good thoughts of you Vickie, and all my Soul Sisters/Warrior Women... ANDI

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Andrea Barnett Budin Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: LAND OF YES! w/home in Boca Raton, Florida Orig from L.I., N.Y. Ever hovering IN THE NOW... Posts: 1,904	An Invitation Vickie, Re-read it today. It is so sublime. Every sentence. To be lingered over time and time again. So many truths within. Spell-binding to me! And beautious! “Every truth we see is one to give to the world, not to keep to ourselves alone”, Elizabeth Cady Stanton bravely noted. She was a leading suffragette back in the 1800s who fought for equal rights for women and for slaves as well. Was she ahead of her time? Groundbreaking information, while standing at the threshold of a New Era, sounds ludicrous, unheard of by definition. It’s groundbreaking, after all. New and yet old. Ms. Stanton had an Insight. A KNOWING. It is my prayer to not keep what I have found to be true from the world. I share w/my heart open. I dare. Got bitten a few times, but overall I feel the love. And I pray those who snarled a bit will reconsider such groundbreaking, new and yet old, ideas. The Aborigines, the American Indians, Eastern culture KNEW these things, as did Plato and others. Sending love and many thanks for AN INVITATION. I printed it out to save. Thinking good thoughts of you Vickie, and all my Soul Sisters/Warrior Women... ANDI __________________ Andi BB '95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive... '98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!) + good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either... Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...