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StephN · 07-02-2007, 12:54 PM

Dear Grace -
Your post was a good boost for me as I face a new week. As you say, the news on this board can affect us, as we have a well of understanding for each other.
NO evidence of brain mets is a real weight lifter, which enabled you to take other action.
And the news on the preferred house is really excellent. Now you can settle in and have some peace and quiet to dive back in to the next inspector Cenni book.

BTW, I really enjoyed "The Last Enemy" and especially the fact that the story really TAKES you to that part of Italy with place details and Italian phrases tossed in here and there. Art history was one of my "minors" in college, so your story has some particular interest for me. Hope you are finding a way to get Cenni out of the small burg to which he has been relegated. And that some of the characters will resurface in the next books to get their just desserts in some interesting fashion! This book left me wanting more - so get busy! Ha, ha...

07-02-2007, 12:54 PM	#2
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Good feelings! Dear Grace - Your post was a good boost for me as I face a new week. As you say, the news on this board can affect us, as we have a well of understanding for each other. NO evidence of brain mets is a real weight lifter, which enabled you to take other action. And the news on the preferred house is really excellent. Now you can settle in and have some peace and quiet to dive back in to the next inspector Cenni book. BTW, I really enjoyed "The Last Enemy" and especially the fact that the story really TAKES you to that part of Italy with place details and Italian phrases tossed in here and there. Art history was one of my "minors" in college, so your story has some particular interest for me. Hope you are finding a way to get Cenni out of the small burg to which he has been relegated. And that some of the characters will resurface in the next books to get their just desserts in some interesting fashion! This book left me wanting more - so get busy! Ha, ha... __________________ "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.