SIX YEARS!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    I also had 6 nodes positive but stage II. I can't tell you how much your 6 year post means to me!  Thank you! Congrats!  We are all right behind you!!

    Claire

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  • krcll
    krcll Member Posts: 343
    edited January 2012

    WOW! Fantastic!!! I'm just going to follow in your footsteps, I guess....3 1/2 more years for me before I can post 6 years! Thanks for posting and showing us it can be done!!

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  • LindaLou53
    LindaLou53 Member Posts: 929
    edited January 2012

    Congrats Carol! Welcome to the 6 years NED Club! I Love to see our group growing and adding more years under their belt! Wishing all of us many, many more healthy years to celebrate! :)

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  • caaclark
    caaclark Member Posts: 936
    edited January 2012

    Ali- I decided not to reconstruct because it just was not important to me.  After all the treatment I just wanted to get back to "normal".  Not that I would base the decision on my husband, but he did not care one way or the other (actually encouraged me NOT to do recon) and since I really did not want to do it I skipped. 

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  • Gitane
    Gitane Member Posts: 1,885
    edited January 2012
    This is such inspiring news.  I love to hear that you are at year 6 now.  Yes, our 6+ year group is growing, isn't it?  Hope you celebrated in your own way and have many more anniversaries.  Thanks for sharing.  Smile 
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  • kameli16
    kameli16 Member Posts: 10
    edited January 2012

    Wonderful.. wonderful news.. sooo inspiring.. I will have my mom read all of this .. she is on here (Jennyruth) and she is stage III with 8/11 nodes positive. All these positive stories give so much hope and encouragement. She just had her second chemo and she is truly amazing. I love her with all my heart<3

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  • kenyohunt1
    kenyohunt1 Member Posts: 53
    edited January 2012

    Congrats Carol your good news is an inspiration to all of us.

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited January 2012

    Carol, I am so happy for you!! Congratulations.

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  • DCMom
    DCMom Member Posts: 624
    edited January 2012

    Carol,

    I am so excited for you.  Every year just feels better and better.  Your book also has an extra benefit of being so encouraging because people who google the author will see you are still alive and doing awesome things.  You are influencing so many and giving us all hope.  I'll be watching for you next year at this time when I post five and you get to 7! 

    I just have to post when I see those who wo encouraged me when I was diagnosed.  Keep it up because I'm following in your footsteps.

    Susan

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  • cp418
    cp418 Member Posts: 7,079
    edited January 2012

    Thank you so much for your post!!  Wishing you many more blissful years to come!  Hugs from another NJ girl.  Joann

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  • cheryl1946
    cheryl1946 Member Posts: 1,308
    edited January 2012

    Congratulations!

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  • mcsushi
    mcsushi Member Posts: 174
    edited January 2012

    Wonderful news! Congrats, Carol, and hoping for many, many more healthy years for you.

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  • Rachel1
    Rachel1 Member Posts: 363
    edited January 2012

    Six years. Congrats!!! Here's to 6x6 more!! 

    I really needed to read this right now. Thank you for posting.

    Rachel 

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  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 2,439
    edited January 2012

    Carol, thanks so much for sharing this!  I am so much more encouraged by your single post than all the survivor books given to me by well-meaning friends (those "hey, I had breast cancer, did the surgery etc, held a full-time job, raised 5 kids, kept the house & chickens up, and YOU CAN TOO!" ) 

    When I was first diagnosed, the mammograms had missed it - found it when it was over 5 cm, over a rib so I must have mistaken it for that, as must my PCP.  Did the treatments, had recurrence less than 6 months after last chemo, pathology diagnosis came back IIIc.  Did more surgery, no further chemo for me because I have already been on several drugs with major SEs, so now it seems like a "take tamoxifen, wait and see." 

    I have been quite scared, try to never show my fear to DH, family, friends.  Taking 1 day at a time, trying to find joy each day, but this crazy fear in the back of my mind has taken its toll.  Your post brought me to tears of relief.  I am ready to start new things, enjoy new things, and not worry that I won't be able to finish them.  Thank you thank you thank you!!!

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  • tmetz1616
    tmetz1616 Member Posts: 21
    edited January 2012

    Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    thank you for posting :)  When I lose hope, I read things like this and feel much better. 

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  • JadeGirl
    JadeGirl Member Posts: 35
    edited January 2012

    Yay for you and Yay for us!  May you continue to enjoy great health!!

    Please keep such inspirational stories coming - they help my sometimes dark world seem so much brighter!

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  • sushanna1
    sushanna1 Member Posts: 764
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations Carol and also to Linda Lou.  

    Sue 

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  • sundermom
    sundermom Member Posts: 463
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations! Your post is really inspiring to a new survivor like myself.

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  • Ihopeg
    Ihopeg Member Posts: 399
    edited February 2012

    Carol,

    Congrats on Six years and many, many more!!!!! 

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  • AnacortesGirl
    AnacortesGirl Member Posts: 1,758
    edited February 2012

    I missed this!  Congratulations! And I hope you have many, many more!  Thanks for you support on the boards.

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited February 2012

    I somehow missed this too.  Sorry!  Wooooot wooooooot woooooooooooot!

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  • SharonMH
    SharonMH Member Posts: 353
    edited February 2012

    Hi, Congratulations on your 6th year.  SharonH

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  • financegirl
    financegirl Member Posts: 114
    edited March 2012

    Just finished treatment and put on Arimidex.   I am stage III with a lot of node involvement so Arimidex is to prevent recurrence and hopefully it works.   Congratulations, may you be here 6 years from now with a 12 year anniversary!  (actually be here for a 20th or more anniversary would be great)!

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  • Rachel1
    Rachel1 Member Posts: 363
    edited March 2012

    Carol,

     Congratulations!!! You were one of those that reached out to me when I was first dx.  I can't tell you how happy I am for you. Yippeeee!!

    Hugs,

     Rachel 

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  • lifelover
    lifelover Member Posts: 553
    edited March 2012

    Congratulations Carol!  May you have many, many more years to enjoy.

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