Positive stories, please come out of the woods

[Deborah Phaed]

I haven't posted here since '05, but lurked today and saw this thread.

This month marks my 7th year out from DCIS, lumpectomy and 33 rads. It also marks my 5th year out from Stage 1, Her+++, bilateral mastectomy, Taxol (8 tx only) and Herceptin (7 mths only). August marked my 4th year out from thymoma (thorascopic resection only).

I also have inspiration for life from my best friend who's in her 6th year of living with Stage IV SCLC.

Both of us decided not to give this disease the power to take hope or the lust for life from us. We are still who we've always been and don't define ourselves by our diagnoses.

Live life and love your friends and family to the very fullest each day. No one, with or without this disease, is guaranteed life in the next moment.

[Carol Carlson]

Was diagnosed in '04,with 2.2. cm. tumor with 4/18-- positive nodes- her2 positive. er neg. 2 surgeries, 4 doses A/c dose dense, 4 rounds Taxol, 38 rads, 1 year herceptin
6 years out and feeling fine. due to celebrate my 70yr birthday Oct. 11th with husband, children and grandchildren..
Am so busy with life right now, hardly have time to think about that damn CA
All my best , Carol Carlson