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Re: How do you feel during the holidays?
Great question!!! And I LOVE your answer MJO!!! I always had trouble around the holidays...bad childhood memories etc. Then when my kids were growing up it was great because it sort of gave me a chance to "do it over the right way!" Then the kids and I lived on opposite coasts for a few years and holidays turned into stress...airports...snowstorms...$$$. Then...breast cancer!!! And I am alive!!! And suddenly I find myself living more"for myself". What a concept!!! I will be working this year on Thanksgiving and Christmas...at Taos Ski Valley. My dear partner, Bette, will also be working with me. We are going to have a small turkey and all the other good stuff. We celebrate together the fact that we are both healthy and strong...we can travel whenever and wherever we want in our groovy Roadtrek camper with all our pets...and visit the kids and grandkids...and our myriad of friends all across this wonderful US of A. Having survived cancer has brought us both to a new awareness of life, love, spirituality that I would not trade for anything!!! Happy Thanksgiving All!!! XO Suzan
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 Suzan W.
age 54 at diagnosis
5/05 suspicious mammogram-left breast
5/05 biopsy-invasive lobular carcinoma with LCIS,8mm tumor,stage 1 grade 2, ER+ PR+ Her2+++
6/14/05 bilateral mastectomy, node neg. all scans neg.
Oncotype DX-high risk
8/05-10/05 4 rounds A/C
10/05 -10/06 1 yr. herceptin
arimidex-5 years
2/14/08 started daily self administered injections..FORTEO for severe osteoporosis
7/28/09 BRCA 1 negative BRCA2 POSITIVE
8/17/09 prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy
10/15/10 last FORTEOinjection
RECLAST infusion(ostoeporosis)
6/14/10 5 year cancerversary!
8/2010-18%increase in bone density!
no further treatments
Oncologist says, "Go do the Happy Dance"
I say,"What a long strange trip its been"
'One day at a time'
6-14-2015. 10 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!
7-16 to 9-16. Extensive (and expensive) dental work done to save teeth. Damage from osteoporosis and chemo and long term bisphosphonate use
6-14-16. 11 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!!
7-20-16 Prolia injection for severe osteoporosis
2 days later, massive hive outbreak. This led to an eventual dx of Chronic Ideopathic Urticaria, an auto-immune disease from HELL.
6-14-17 12 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!!
still suffering from CIU. 4 hospitilizations in the past year
as of today, 10-31-17 in remission from CIU and still, CANCER FREE!!!
6-14-18 13 YEAR CANCERVERSARY!! NED!!
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