Rena:  

Let me say Yippee!  Yahoooooooooo!  on your anniversary.  Here's to many more.  

Tina    
dx 2/1/11 DCIS
Lumpectomy 2/27 results DCIS/LCIS Stage 0 ER+ PR+
Bi-lateral Mastectomy 4/26 with expanders 
6/3 Surgery to remove contaminated expander due to infection.
7/22/11 Surgery to reinsert the expander. 
10/11/2011 Surgery to replace tissue expanders with implants. 
 

Rena
You sure do give the rest of us "short timers" lots of hope...Congratulations!!!
 
Decided you had enough cats (is that possible??)
Toasting you with a glass of wine!

Bothell, WA
dx 5/07 IDC
lumpectomy 6/14/07 1.5cm
er/pr + Nodes negative
finished rads 9/13
Tamoxfen 9/07- 8/09
Arimidex 8/09-

Thank you!!!  

Pat, wishing you the best for your upcoming eye surgery. 

Rena age 63 California Central Coast
26-year survivor
BRCA2-positive
Dx 1986 IDC ER/PR negative 22 positive lymph nodes
CMFVP chemo weekly for one year, 7 weeks radiation
October 2007: New chassis and spark plugs!

Hi ladies,
Off tomorrow for a 300 mile trip to visit with hubbies mom and brother and family.   Will before we come home stop and visit my parents gravesite. 
Will be so glad when I am done with the arimidex...hoping that some of the joint pain will improve.
Watched the Stand up 2 cancer tonight....sad but inspiring!
Have a good weekend everyone!

Bothell, WA
dx 5/07 IDC
lumpectomy 6/14/07 1.5cm
er/pr + Nodes negative
finished rads 9/13
Tamoxfen 9/07- 8/09
Arimidex 8/09-

Enjoy your trip Julie and the visit to your parents resting place, this is a sad week for me as its Mums second Anniversary on Wed, gets harder rather than easier I think. My sis bil will join us for an early morning Mass, breakfast and then out to lay flowers on her grave. Regarding the Arimidex I was given the generic for the first time this month so hoping I don't have any extra side effects!

Tricia Keegan...From Ireland Dx July '05 IDC 3/9 nodes pos..triple positive..a/c x 4..Taxol/herceptin x 12
Herceptin 1yr ..rads x35 oophorectomy Aug '06
Currently taking Arimidex /Zometa 1 x yearly
Carepage- survivortricia

Have a safe trip Julie.  

Tricia - Hard to believe it's been two years, although I'm sure it seems an eternity to you.  My mum will be gone 20 years!! Oct 8th.  Damn, she must be enjoying that cruise :)

Super windy here this morning -- Texas weather is so weird.   Andreas had a friend sleep over last night.  They were going to sleep in the game room, but I guess they changed their minds and there I was this morning with two 7 year olds in the bed -- so cute when they're sleeping.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Hug
Elaine

 A person's greatness is the power to stand alone;to be able to make her own choice; in action,to write anew her own law; to choose her own sacrifices; run her own dangers; win her own freedom; venture her own destruction; to choose her own happiness 
 

Thanks Elaine and it sounds like you have a wonderful family and I'm so pleased Andreas likes his Grandma so much!:)

Tricia Keegan...From Ireland Dx July '05 IDC 3/9 nodes pos..triple positive..a/c x 4..Taxol/herceptin x 12
Herceptin 1yr ..rads x35 oophorectomy Aug '06
Currently taking Arimidex /Zometa 1 x yearly
Carepage- survivortricia

Julie, I hope you're having a great trip!

Elaine, how adorable is that?! Gotta just cherish those moments, no?

Tricia, thinking about you.

Love to all!!

Rena age 63 California Central Coast
26-year survivor
BRCA2-positive
Dx 1986 IDC ER/PR negative 22 positive lymph nodes
CMFVP chemo weekly for one year, 7 weeks radiation
October 2007: New chassis and spark plugs!

As I commented on the forum for "Living with Stage IV", I am delighted that the Komen Foundation has finally decided to acknowledge via an ad about stage IV.  The Race is for survivors, and please don't say it isn't.  Survivors meaning you had breast cancer were treated and are now fine, living your life.  The organization is named for a woman who died from her stage IV, why the need to play it down when we have come along ways since the day Susan died.  We still have a long ways to go but pretending it doesn't exist won't make it go away.  I am very, happy that I am around to see this happen.


DJ

"Prepared for the worst, hope for the best and, live each day to the hilt"


Stage IV  lungs, lining, ribs - Used all the hormonal drugs - tamoxifen, (progression) arimidex, (progression) , Faslodex 250 mg, (progression) femara, (progression), drug break using own estrogen (progression in 7 months), rebooted femara (progression on next scan) Faslodex 500 mg (progression 11 months) Taxol.

Hi DJ. I don't know what ad that is. Can you tell us more? I tried Googling it and didn't find what I was looking for, but I came across this: http://breastcancersisterhood.com/_blog/Brenda's_Blog/post/Komen_and_Women_with_Stage_IV_Breast_Cancer/
The blog she quotes says exactly what you said about stage IV people not being "survivors." I respect you, DJ, so when I say this, I'm not saying it to argue with you--it's just that it's hard for me to wrap my brain around what it would be like to have stage IV bc. I have always thought of you as the ultimate survivor, but I'm coming to understand why that term does not apply and why you don't want to be so labeled.  

Take care, DJ.

Rena age 63 California Central Coast
26-year survivor
BRCA2-positive
Dx 1986 IDC ER/PR negative 22 positive lymph nodes
CMFVP chemo weekly for one year, 7 weeks radiation
October 2007: New chassis and spark plugs!