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I've always said that I would not have been a very good pioneer. How those people must have suffered from diseases of all sorts... and aspirin didn't come along until, when, around 1900?
I think too, of how many young women would have suffered from cramps every month with no relief available...childbirth...oh, my! I don't know how they survived.
Your grandma's letter from 1933...not much was known about cancer, much less how to treat it or how to handle pain etc etc.
I am very thankful to be living during this time...
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Blessings and Peace,
Barbara
DX Oct 02 @ age 52 Stage 2B Grade 3 Mastectomy
"at least" 4.5 cm IDC 1+node ER+61% /PR-
Assiciated Intraductual component with Comedo Necrosis
Her2+ FISH8.6 IHC 2+
5 1/2 CEF Arimidex
Celebrex 400mg daily for 13 months
Prophylactic mastectomy
Estradiol #: 13
PTEN positive, "late" Herceptin (26 months after chemo)
Oct 05: Actonel for osteopenia from Arimidex.
May 08: Replaced Actonel with Zometa . Taking every 6
months.
Accepting the gift of life, I give thanks for it and live it in fullness.
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