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Andrea Barnett Budin · 09-17-2007, 02:09 PM

Loved your poem, Marie. Love you. And your Spirit. And your Mighty Oak. Happy Cancerversary. Wishing you many decades more, soon to be dancing w/NED... You have inspired me in a hundred ways. I think I'll call my book that is on ongoing saga, a work of passion and it feels like 100 yrs -- DANCING WITH NED. Would that be plagerism? It has come to exemplify my life. Getting there is chock full of Life Lessons I am hoping to share, for any one facing any adversity. And who isn't? Everyone you meet if fighting their own battle. So, let's all be extra kind to pp...

LOVE YOU MARIE AND ED, ANDI

09-17-2007, 02:09 PM	#9
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	Dancing With Ned... Loved your poem, Marie. Love you. And your Spirit. And your Mighty Oak. Happy Cancerversary. Wishing you many decades more, soon to be dancing w/NED... You have inspired me in a hundred ways. I think I'll call my book that is on ongoing saga, a work of passion and it feels like 100 yrs -- DANCING WITH NED. Would that be plagerism? It has come to exemplify my life. Getting there is chock full of Life Lessons I am hoping to share, for any one facing any adversity. And who isn't? Everyone you meet if fighting their own battle. So, let's all be extra kind to pp... LOVE YOU MARIE AND ED, 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...