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02-19-2007, 08:31 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Norridgewock, Maine
Posts: 778
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Happy Birthday JoJo!
Wishing you a great day! You deserve to do something special for yourself. Sending you a big hug, Sandy
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Dx. 03/01, Rt. IBC
AC/Taxatere
Rt. MRM-with graft Lt. simple
5 rads-skin mets
Herceptin, taxol, carboplatin (taxol seem to be the magic drug)
Navelbine & xeloda (did not work)
topical miltex for skin mets
Tykerb/xeloda
thoracentesis x 2 left lung fluid shows cancer cells
Port removal (4 years) with power port replacement
Doxil
Updated 05-07 Scans show no bone or organ involvement we shall see!
I shall not pass this way again. Any good I can do or any kindness that I can show let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
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02-19-2007, 11:06 AM
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Webmaster
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Home of the "Flying Tomato"
Carlsbad, CA
Posts: 2,036
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JoJo,
Happy Birthday !!! to one of our long time members. Making plans for the next Olympics yet?
Regards and Hugs,
Christine and Joe
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A Proud webmaster to the internet's most informed, educated, COMPASSIONATE and caring group of breast cancer survivors.
Illegitimi non carborundum
My Album
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02-19-2007, 11:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 624
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I hope you have a great day.
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02-19-2007, 03:06 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Northern Calif.
Posts: 981
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JoJo!
Happy Happy Birthday!! I hope you have a wonderful day with your family!! I wish for you many many happy birthdays ahead!!
Love,
Lexi
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02-20-2007, 01:28 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: northshore suburb of chicago
Posts: 1,093
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Wishing you a very happy birthday with many years of good health to come.
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~Rina~
Dx:3/06 had a lumpectomy April 19, 2006
Her2+ er/pr- Stage I Grade 3 tumor size 1.4 cm, node negative
AC 4 dense doses
34 radiation treatments including booster doses
receiving herceptin every 3 weeks since late August 2006 for 12 months
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02-20-2007, 02:03 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ft. Collins, Colorado
Posts: 546
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happy birthday to an inspiration
hope you treat and treat and treat yourself!
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with love and gratitude,
joy
dx stage I 2/2000*er/pr+; her- per IHC*lumpectomy*4 rounds A/C*30 rads*tamoxifen*dx stage 4 5/2002*huge mets to liver*tiny mets to lungs*stopped tamoxifen*5/02 taxotere/xeloda*her 2 checked with FiSH-her2+++herceptin *2/03 stopped chemo femara w/herceptin*zolodex*04 switched to aromasin w/herceptin*05 high estrogen tx*11/05taxol/carbo*7/06 stopped chemo; megace/herceptin*9/06navelbine/herceptin*5/07tykerb/xeloda great response*4/08 progression in liver; ooph/ faslodex /herceptin
6/08 began Herceptin DM-1
9/08 progression
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02-20-2007, 02:26 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Misty woods of WA State
Posts: 4,128
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Hi Jojo -
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!
Hope you and your family found something special to do since it was a school holiday.
Did you start a new treatment yet??
Big hugs to you.
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"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.
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02-21-2007, 09:09 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: San Francisco Bay Area in California
Posts: 176
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Thank you very much! :-)
Wow! I can't believe that my big 4-0 is just around the corner (in 2008).
My actual birthday was a quiet day, but I feel blessed to celebrate an early birthday luncheon with a small circle of friends whom I have grown up since our high school days. We are more of "old friends" rather than very close friends. What a nice blessing! And the delicious vanilla cheesecake was the "extra icing" to the luncheon. Yum, yum, yuuuummmyyy! :-)
Thanks again for ALL of your wishes :-) I feel very touched in my heart...
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Blessings & Peace,
~jojo~
1st Dx: May '03 at age 35
Stage 3b
6cm IDC tumor
17/18 + nodes
Neoadjuvant: 4x A/C dose dense; 12x weekly Taxol & weekly Herceptin
Left Mastectomy: Nov '03
27x Rads
Stage 4 since June '04
Still on maintenance Herceptin since the very beginning
Currently on Abraxane (3 weeks / 1 week off)
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02-23-2007, 09:58 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 943
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Happy Birthday Kiddo And Many More!
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Robin
2002- dx her2 positive DCIS/bc TX Mast, herceptin chemo
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