Cancer Support and Caregivers Who Are Trail Blazers!

[clay]

Originally Posted by deb_U_taunt

BRCA came back positive, not sure how I feel.

Well, besides shock.

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Let's brang out the weapons and slay this bitch...again!!!
Time to go to Battle.
I am on YOUR team..always was...always will be...
You know I love you, my bestie!!!... and and and

[deb_U_taunt]

Thank you, you all have been great support.

The plan of action:
First is to share with my daughter her 50/50 chance of having the gene this weekend. Then share with sisters, niece.
I am going to have my ovaries out in the next few months. (at least this surgery will be a band-aid surgery)
Continue to eat all this healthy vegan shit and supplements.
Find a clinical trial with my doctors.

Finally, have fun while working on the bucket list!!!

[deb_U_taunt]

I honestly can say I love you all. Its a very unconditional place to vent, pout and yeehaw.

[Tommi]

Originally Posted by deb_U_taunt

I honestly can say I love you all. Its a very unconditional place to vent, pout and yeehaw.

Yeah, it is, and it is open 24/7.

Some rough stuff comes our way, and fight as we can, tough as we are, and gentle as a lamb at times, we understand.

My best advice came from my Mom's chemo oncologist.

Go have lunch, smile at each other and see if you have anything in your teeth. Other than that, share the good and the bad, and most of all just listen. The words and the tears will come and go.

Lung cancer, then a heart attack took my Mom too early, and she was gone when I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, but I talked it over with her anyway.
Now, I need to look up some stuff....love the internet

[mustangjeano]

Originally Posted by clay

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Let's brang out the weapons and slay this bitch...again!!!
Time to go to Battle.
I am on YOUR team..always was...always will be...
You know I love you, my bestie!!!... and and and

Where do I go to sign up for Deb's team. I'm in.!!!!!

[clay]

Originally Posted by mustangjeano

Where do I go to sign up for Deb's team. I'm in.!!!!!

jean...you have always been on this amazing team here.....we are all chosen family here....I am honored to know you and call you a friend here on thsi Planet.
Your kind words, your warmth, and compassion as a loving human being here in this forum makes you part of each of us...thank YOU, jean. YOU are awesome...Go Team...Rah! Rah!

[mustangjeano]

Originally Posted by clay

jean...you have always been on this amazing team here.....we are all chosen family here....I am honored to know you and call you a friend here on thsi Planet.
Your kind words, your warmth, and compassion as a loving human being here in this forum makes you part of each of us...thank YOU, jean. YOU are awesome...Go Team...Rah! Rah!

Thank you my brother. I am proud and blessed to be your friend. The folks who post on this thread are my adopted family . There are so many good people offering such love and support to each other here.

[Tommi]

This thread....

is such a powerful, hauntingingly thought provoking, compassionate and sometimes sad, sometiimes gloriously wonderful place to see.

All with our own hopes and prayers, friends and families, we have a pkace to come and share, acknowledge, or just support in thought.

Our worlds are just an enter key, an electronic highway away. Driving by to say Love, and Thoughts, and precious memories be with you all.

Tommi.

[deb_U_taunt]

I am counting down the damn days. This is so frustrating. Its been 18 months since my last chemo treatment and while its better, its still a pain in the ass.

Chemo Brain:
While frustrating, the ultimate outcome is very good: symptoms typically disappear in about four years.

[clay]

Had my 15 month Check Up today with my Oncology Practitioner.
My CEA is within normal limits, has come down 1 point....
I go again in June, and again in September. That will be my yearly Re Scan..CT chest/abd/pelvis with IV Contrast.

I am very happy that today she told me my chances that were 59% Survival rate, now bring me up to a 75% 5 year survival rate...and that each 3 month checkup, being within normal ranges, decreases my chances of recurrence.
I am very happy with this, but by same token, I feel a sense of sadness to post my good news here.....a bittersweet kind of feeling..... I know all of us here will understand this...

Know my heart is with each and everyone of us..always...I heart you all...Clay

[kittygrrl]

Originally Posted by deb_U_taunt

I am counting down the damn days. This is so frustrating. Its been 18 months since my last chemo treatment and while its better, its still a pain in the ass.

Chemo Brain:
While frustrating, the ultimate outcome is very good: symptoms typically disappear in about four years.

It's been several years for my sister and she says she is just now feeling what used to be normal. She had lung cancer, had a partial lung removal, chemo that almost killed her three times..she had bone scans every 3 months for years but the last few years twice a year. It's been grueling with a lot of other kinds of heart ache along the way. She is brave, much braver then I would be.