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StephN · 07-20-2006, 01:55 PM

This was sent to me by a fellow cancer survivor. Rather appropriate for this thread.

>Subject: The Lord's Visit to Earth
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>
>One day in heaven, the Lord decided He would visit the earth and take a
>stroll. Walking down the road, He encountered a woman who was crying.
>
>The Lord asked the woman, "Why are you crying, my daughter"? The woman said
>she was blind and had never seen a sunset. The Lord touched the woman and
>she could see and she was happy.
>
>As the Lord walked further, He met another woman crying and asked, "Why are
>you crying, my daughter"? The woman was born a cripple and had never been
>able to walk. The Lord touched her and she could walk and she was
>extremely
>happy.
>
>Further down the road, the Lord met another woman who was crying and asked,
>"Why are you crying, my daughter"? The woman said,
> "Lord, I work for the government .".............and the Lord sat down >and
>cried with her.

07-20-2006, 01:55 PM	#14
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	You are not alone ... This was sent to me by a fellow cancer survivor. Rather appropriate for this thread. >Subject: The Lord's Visit to Earth > > >One day in heaven, the Lord decided He would visit the earth and take a >stroll. Walking down the road, He encountered a woman who was crying. > >The Lord asked the woman, "Why are you crying, my daughter"? The woman said >she was blind and had never seen a sunset. The Lord touched the woman and >she could see and she was happy. > >As the Lord walked further, He met another woman crying and asked, "Why are >you crying, my daughter"? The woman was born a cripple and had never been >able to walk. The Lord touched her and she could walk and she was >extremely >happy. > >Further down the road, the Lord met another woman who was crying and asked, >"Why are you crying, my daughter"? The woman said, > "Lord, I work for the government .".............and the Lord sat down >and >cried with her. __________________ "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.