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Finding your power...!
I just had to bring this thread back up. There's so much empowerment in here. Midst our struggle we tend to forget what we really need to focus on.
I hope this entire thread, which includes a post from our beloved Chrisy and refers to the loss of Brenda, our dear Sister, will lift someone on this board up!
NedDenise once asked me if I was a cheerleader. Well, yes in high school. But as a kid at camp, playing baseball, when my team was up, and sitting on the bench, I was working. Jumping up and down and rooting for the next batter up! You can do this! I know you can! Just relax. Focus. I was 8 yrs old.
Now, I've come to think we each need a Life Coach. Wouldn't that be cool?????!!!! Well, what I've learned is that your Inner Voice is your Spirit, and it coaches you through the big and little things that come up each day, throughout the day.
It is wise and loves you more than you love yourself. It guides and protects you (kind of like the big brother I never had). It nurtures and boosts your morale. It supports you, inspires you, helps you heal -- and, if you allow it, can bring you to be The Master Of Your Fate...!!!
With Love, as always,
Andi
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Andi BB
'95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive...
'98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!)
+ good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either...
Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...
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