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Believe51 · 07-16-2009, 11:42 AM

Hello Jo, I am sending you a welcoming smile and letting you know there are many happy endings. Cancer in 2009 is treated like a cronic condition and not the death sentence it was once perceived. Learning what you can on your part will not only pleasure Mom but it will help with many decisions and rally up questions for doctor's visit. Her2 is more aggressive but the list of options to control this disease is comforting. Keep the faith and with the knowledge you gain and the strides Mom takes, hope will replenish itself. I am looking forward to watching Mom recover. The information you will get filtered through the upcoming months about Mom's cancer will let you get to know it better because each cancer is individual. That too, will help make the right choices for what she has going on at the time. Take care of yourself and come to us with whatever you may need.>>Believe51

07-16-2009, 11:42 AM	#4
Believe51 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: RHODE ISLAND (Ed getting me a latte on 2nd Cancerversary Cruise 2008) 'BELIEVE': To accept as true or real, To have faith in, To presume ALWAYS BELIEVE Posts: 3,000	Hello Jo, I am sending you a welcoming smile and letting you know there are many happy endings. Cancer in 2009 is treated like a cronic condition and not the death sentence it was once perceived. Learning what you can on your part will not only pleasure Mom but it will help with many decisions and rally up questions for doctor's visit. Her2 is more aggressive but the list of options to control this disease is comforting. Keep the faith and with the knowledge you gain and the strides Mom takes, hope will replenish itself. I am looking forward to watching Mom recover. The information you will get filtered through the upcoming months about Mom's cancer will let you get to know it better because each cancer is individual. That too, will help make the right choices for what she has going on at the time. Take care of yourself and come to us with whatever you may need.>>Believe51 __________________ 9/7/06Husband 50yrs=StageIV IBC/HER2+,BoneMets10/06TaxotereX10,'H'1X wk,Zometa,Tamoxifen4/12/07Last Tax5/18/07Pet=Rapid Cell Activity,No Organ Mets,Lytic Lesions,Degeneration,Some Bone Repair5/07ChemoFail6/01/07Pleural Thoracentisis=Effusions,NoMalignantCells6/19/07+7/2/07DFCI 6/25/07BrainMRI=BrainMets,Many<9mm7/10/07WBR/PelvisRad37.5Gx15&Nutritionist8/19/07T/X9/20/07BrainMRI=2<2mm10/6/07Pet=BoneProgression 10/24/07ChemoFail11/9/07A/Cx10,EndTam12/7/07Faslodex12/10/07Muga7512/13/07BlasticLesions1/7/08BrainMRI=Clear4/1/08Pet=BoneImprovement, NoProgression,Stable4/7/08BrainPerfect5/16/08Last A/C8/26/08BrainMets=10(<9mm)9/10/08Gamma10/30/08Met=5mm12/19/08Gamma5mets5 12/22/08SpinalMets1/14/09SpinalRads2/17/09BrainMRI=NoNewMets4/20/09BoneScan5/14/09Ixempra6/1/09BrainMRI=NumerousMets6/24/09DFCIw/DrBurstein6/26/09Continue Ixempra/Faslodex/Zometa~TM now lower7/17/09Stop Ixempra By Choice9/21/09HOSPICE10/16/09Earned His Deserved Wings And Halo=37 Month Fight w/Stage 4 IBC, Her2+++,My Hero!! Last edited by Believe51; 07-16-2009 at 12:44 PM.. Reason: mispelled and caught it before... I won't give names..LOL