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StephN · 07-14-2008, 10:10 AM

Dear Maryann.
MY! You have been a busy bee, as if you had nothing else to do. Hassle those years of records out of hiding.
I can't see how they would turn you down after your history! They had BETTER not!

I had a friend tell me when I was just starting (she was 7 years into her fight) that she had an entire two drawers of a file cabinet with her records. So, that gave me the idea that I needed to get another file cabinet and make room for my records as I collected them.

That was a nice idea for a while, but I am quite behind on the filing and sorting out of what I need to keep and bills paid, etc.

P.S. Found the filing cabinet at a local garage sale for $15.00. It is heavy steel, 4 drawers and came from an insurance office where they had been very nice to it!

07-14-2008, 10:10 AM	#4
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Dear Maryann. MY! You have been a busy bee, as if you had nothing else to do. Hassle those years of records out of hiding. I can't see how they would turn you down after your history! They had BETTER not! I had a friend tell me when I was just starting (she was 7 years into her fight) that she had an entire two drawers of a file cabinet with her records. So, that gave me the idea that I needed to get another file cabinet and make room for my records as I collected them. That was a nice idea for a while, but I am quite behind on the filing and sorting out of what I need to keep and bills paid, etc. P.S. Found the filing cabinet at a local garage sale for $15.00. It is heavy steel, 4 drawers and came from an insurance office where they had been very nice to it! __________________ "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.