Joanne...
No, you are not. I TOO thought I was and it wasn't until recently (over 2 years since dx) that I found that I am not thinking about it as much. You TOO will get past it and not think about it as much, but it will take time. I know that probably your family and friends don't understand it (mine haven't), but then I tell them that they have not been where I am AND everyone deals with it differently, I have a friend at the cancer center who has been stage 4 for 6 years and she has NO obsession w/ cancer...just goes in weekly for Herceptin. Curious, where in Michigan are you located? I'm in Grand Rapids.
Rhonda
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Rhonda
Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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