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Mary Anne in TX · 07-06-2007, 02:46 PM

Hi Flori!
What a deal. The pitts! You deserve better!!!!!
But it's what you got dealt and you can do it, girl!
Before I replied, I checked my little sheet that my onc. had done up for me when he gave me my 1st year plan. As I looked at it, I remembered that he had saved gemzar to use in case the Taxol, Carboplatin, Herceptin or Navelbine Herceptin didn't cut it. His little list has given me comfort so many times when the going got tough or I wanted to give up fighting(that hasn't happened very often, but it did for my husband who had trouble seeing me so sick). Anyway, when I got to doubting the "formula" I just looked at my little slip of paper with the plan and the alternates out beside them and decided that I wouldn't stop until all the possible game plans had been tried.
I do think we are all different and our cancer cells take different doses and combinations to work for us!
Flori, hate it, be mad, even be really sad, but do it!!!!!! Fight for all your worth and believe that YOU can get back NED!!! Somewhere inside there is that believing soul that seeks to fight back, just find her and get into action. We'll all be praying for you and believing with you for victory. Thank you so much for your honesty and for sharing your heart breaking news with us, but fight, girl, fight.
Lots of love, mary anne

07-06-2007, 02:46 PM	#8
Mary Anne in TX Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 2,357	Hi Flori! What a deal. The pitts! You deserve better!!!!! But it's what you got dealt and you can do it, girl! Before I replied, I checked my little sheet that my onc. had done up for me when he gave me my 1st year plan. As I looked at it, I remembered that he had saved gemzar to use in case the Taxol, Carboplatin, Herceptin or Navelbine Herceptin didn't cut it. His little list has given me comfort so many times when the going got tough or I wanted to give up fighting(that hasn't happened very often, but it did for my husband who had trouble seeing me so sick). Anyway, when I got to doubting the "formula" I just looked at my little slip of paper with the plan and the alternates out beside them and decided that I wouldn't stop until all the possible game plans had been tried. I do think we are all different and our cancer cells take different doses and combinations to work for us! Flori, hate it, be mad, even be really sad, but do it!!!!!! Fight for all your worth and believe that YOU can get back NED!!! Somewhere inside there is that believing soul that seeks to fight back, just find her and get into action. We'll all be praying for you and believing with you for victory. Thank you so much for your honesty and for sharing your heart breaking news with us, but fight, girl, fight. Lots of love, mary anne __________________ MA in TX. Grateful for each and every day.... Diag. 12/05 at age 60 Stage II, Grade 3, 4.5 cm primary tumor ER/PR- Her2 +3 strongly positive Her2 by FISH 7.7 amplified vascular invasion Ki67 20% borderline Jan - March '06 Taxotere/Adriamycin X 3 to try to shrink tumor - it grew April '06 Rt Modified Radical Mas, 7 of 9 nodes positive April - Aug. '06 Herceptin/Taxol/Carboplatin X 8 (dose dense) Sept - Dec. '06 Navelbine/Herceptin x 8 (dose dense) Radiation & Herceptin Jan. 22 - March 1, 2007 Finished Herceptin Dec. 10 '08! One extra year. Port removed August, 2012. 8 1/2 years since diagnosis! 5 1/2 Years NED!