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StephN · 09-29-2009, 09:28 PM

Thanks, ladies. Hubby just set down some herb tea with raw honey and rum for me! Is that considered holistic? I am marginally better tonight.

Brought back the money as the day we had some time in our schedule for shopping we were hunkered down in our apartment trying to stave off the start of this crud! The airport koisks did not have what I wanted so we bagged the souvenirs for the family routine! I think they are just glad we are home alive ...

We did not get to St. Petersburg. Flew in and out of Moscow, with a flight all the way across to the Russian far east city of Khabarovsk. I know - why go all the way around the world?? Because the routes that used to go from Seattle to Anchorage to the far east cities no longer fly. Otherwise we had to go through Korea and spend a night since the connection does not coordinate. Plus it was more expensive to go via Korea and we could see Moscow for the same money.

Gluttens for punishment!

09-29-2009, 09:28 PM	#9
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: I am home and coughing my brains out ... Thanks, ladies. Hubby just set down some herb tea with raw honey and rum for me! Is that considered holistic? I am marginally better tonight. Brought back the money as the day we had some time in our schedule for shopping we were hunkered down in our apartment trying to stave off the start of this crud! The airport koisks did not have what I wanted so we bagged the souvenirs for the family routine! I think they are just glad we are home alive ... We did not get to St. Petersburg. Flew in and out of Moscow, with a flight all the way across to the Russian far east city of Khabarovsk. I know - why go all the way around the world?? Because the routes that used to go from Seattle to Anchorage to the far east cities no longer fly. Otherwise we had to go through Korea and spend a night since the connection does not coordinate. Plus it was more expensive to go via Korea and we could see Moscow for the same money. Gluttens for punishment! __________________ "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.