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05-13-2013, 06:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Madison, Connecticut
Posts: 638
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Re: Eight years
YAHOO for YOU Karen Z!!! Who woulda thunk - 8 years ago that you would be mothering and nurturing your beautiful daughter all the way out the door to college?!? You gave her roots and now she will stretch her wings. What a wonderful and bittersweet time. How lucky she is to have you. She has learned more about hope and love and life under your watch, than most kids have learned in a life time. God speed and loads of wishes for another 8 (PLUS) good ones! Get your running shoes on!
Love and Hugs,
Kim (from CT)
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2001 - Stage 0, lumpectomy, radiation, tamoxifen
2004 - Stage 4, mets to 4 lobes of lungs and liver, lumpectomy, er/pr -, her2 neu+++, Herceptin and Navelbine then Herceptin only.
2005 - Breast Ca vaccinations with the Tumor Vaccine Group in Seattle
2011 - Still Herceptin only and NED
2011, June - STOPPED Herceptin and kicked up my heels!
2012, February - 1 small tumor came back to haunt me in my lungs - back on Herceptin only, tumor stable.
2015, November - tumor on lungs removed (Segmentectomy), back on Herceptin only
Received U of W vaccine clinical "booster" Vaccine
2022 On Herceptin and NED continues - WOOT WOOT!
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05-14-2013, 02:57 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
Hey Laurel,
I don't know the expression "Cool Beans" but it sounds like something good.
K
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05-14-2013, 03:02 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
Hi Kim,
Thanks so much. Your words are very meaningful to me and I appreciate them. I have been feeling like this is going to be a tough time (for a couple of years....I am sort of a wimp) but I need to concentrate on how lucky I have been to be with my daughter, watch her grow and develop to this point and see her on to her way to the next set of adventures (my college years were among my happiest- except for having my daughter- that will always be the best for me). Thanks for the reminder about exercise ! I need it !
Best,
k
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05-14-2013, 06:09 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,173
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Re: Eight years
You sure know how to make are day! Gods blessings to you Karen!
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dx 11/12/09 IDCI
Stage 3a
ER 98% PR 80%
Her2 +3
4/12 nodes
6 rounds TCH
Herceptin 12 months 3weeks
Rad. 30 tx
Tamoxifin 6 months stopped
Arimedex stopped 9/12 (side effects)
Aromasin 10/12
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05-14-2013, 01:52 PM
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#25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
To Pray,
Many many thanks.
k
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05-14-2013, 05:50 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Hershey, PA. Live The Sweet Life!
Posts: 2,005
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Re: Eight years
Never heard "cool beans?" It's an oldie but a goodie! Loosely translated it means "terrific." Your 8 is great years will inspire many who first come here newly diagnosed and scared to death.
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Smile On!
Laurel
Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08
7mm invasive component
Partial mast. 5/08
Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH
0/5 nodes
4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08
Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09
Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09
Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08
Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08
Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard!
Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara
15 Years NED
I think I just might hang around awhile....
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05-14-2013, 08:04 PM
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#27
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
Laurel,
I have not heard the expression but will start to incorporate !!!
Thanks,
K
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05-15-2013, 07:12 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 415
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Re: Eight years
Congratulations, on a great 8!
And for your daughter's achievements.
Enjoy your summer and savor every new experience -
including road tripping to her college in the fall, moving her in
and celebrating the next stage of life for you both!
Much hugs to you both!
Keep the Faith~
Jessica
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05-15-2013, 04:07 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
Jessica,
Thanks so much for your wise words. Will try very hard.
K
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05-16-2013, 11:10 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,173
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Re: Eight years
Karen, I'm humbled by you thanking me when it is all of you women who continue to check in and give updates! I am ever so thankful for each and everyone of you here. The good and the bad all keep us going. I think we all are continually looking for encouragement and seeing the many ways to fight. Just look at Jessica's pic there is a woman in full battle mode. Most of my encouragement kindness and fight the good fight has come from the stage four sisters. For this I am ever greatful Thanks again lil Sis. We are so blessed for knowing all of your!
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dx 11/12/09 IDCI
Stage 3a
ER 98% PR 80%
Her2 +3
4/12 nodes
6 rounds TCH
Herceptin 12 months 3weeks
Rad. 30 tx
Tamoxifin 6 months stopped
Arimedex stopped 9/12 (side effects)
Aromasin 10/12
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05-17-2013, 05:33 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
Thank you Pray. I feel blessed to have found this incredible group of strong, highly intelligent, funny and brave women. And you are right. The good posts (and the bad ones perhaps) keep us grounded and fierce in our fight against the set of diseases we all share. I know I have laughed much and cried much on this site.........and learned many important lessons (if I would just listen) on how to live one's life.
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05-17-2013, 12:24 PM
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#32
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 216
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Re: Eight years
Karen,
Very happy for you.
I will be 8 years at the beginning of next year and feel so positive through this site that I intend to be here. As Tricia says "time does fly"
Janie
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05-17-2013, 09:09 PM
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#33
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,477
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Re: Eight years
Hi Janie,
Thanks so much. The site is wonderful and so helpful to all of us. I look forward to viewing your Eight is Great posting soon. Time does fly by a very strange way (especially the older one is!) but I know that for all of us..........some aspects still feel a bit "raw".
Best,
k
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