Last visit wih oncologist today

Options
wallan
wallan Member Posts: 1,275
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

hey everyone:

   In March I will be 6 years out from my bc nightmare beginning!

Today, I had my last physical with my oncologist. I stop taking Aromasin now. I am cut loose. From the oncologist, from any treatment, from the cancer center.

If I have any problems down the road, I will have to be referred back to the cancer centre thru my family doctor.

I must say I have come a long way. A long way!

Am I elated? Am I celebrating? No. I feel unreal, like I can' t believe I went thru all that and am still standing.

Today really is the first day of the rest of my life.

I wanted to share with my breast cancer sisters, because absolutely no-one understands like you all.

Wendy  

· Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Comments

  • jan508
    jan508 Member Posts: 1,330
    edited December 2010

    Wendy:

    BRAVO!!! Congratulations!!!!! That is just wonderful news!!!

    I can't wait for my 5 years to be up to be in the same shoes as you - I only have 4 years 8 months to go!!!

    I'm sure you have helped so many of us during your time on the forum here and for that you can be very proud!

    I wish you continued good health and a long long life filled with love and happiness.

    I hope you will check in from time to time to help with us newbies!

    Jan

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • beergirl
    beergirl Member Posts: 334
    edited December 2010

    Congratulations Wendy! I hope to reach that point. I think I will feel a great release of tension. I am a retired teacher and now work sometimes as a substitute teacher in a small school district. Most of the students (high school) heard about my cancer. Some asked questions. One boy talked with me several times about his grandmother who had bc. He was so happy when he came to me after class one day and told me the doctor had told his granny she no longer had cancer. She was 5 years out. A girl heard us talking and said "What? I though if you got cancer, you died." He proudly told her "No, you don't need to now."

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • AmyIsStrong
    AmyIsStrong Member Posts: 1,755
    edited December 2010

    Wendy - Congratulations. I wish you a long, happy, healthy wonderful life with very few and far between visits to the doctor (for check ups only!).

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Mom3
    Mom3 Member Posts: 170
    edited December 2010

    Wow, that is so wonderful! Congratulations!! I pray that I post the same thing one day.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • SusieMTN
    SusieMTN Member Posts: 795
    edited December 2010

    Wendy, gosh what a wonderful post to read!  How great is that!  Wishing you many more and hope one day I will be there! 

    Susie

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • kimber3006
    kimber3006 Member Posts: 586
    edited December 2010

    Wow, that is wonderful!  Thanks for sharing.  We all hope and pray we're able to make that statement some day and it's such a boost when we see someone get there ahead of us.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • YATCOMW
    YATCOMW Member Posts: 664
    edited December 2010

    Just fantastic.......that is sooooooo wonderful.
     
    My oncologist still keeps me on a tight leash......I am jealous!!!!
     
    Enjoy your new freedom!!!!!!!
     
    Jacqueline 
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ShelMel
    ShelMel Member Posts: 207
    edited December 2010

    Congratulations!!! What wonderful news and today has to be the best feeling in the world!!!!

    Go start your new journey and be blessed! - Shelle

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Hattie
    Hattie Member Posts: 414
    edited December 2010

    congrats to you and a great future!  when my onc released me, i literally ran out the door.  (i only run from fire, and oncologists, apparently, no matter how much i love them!).

    take care, and many happy days in your future !

    --hattie 

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Gitane
    Gitane Member Posts: 1,885
    edited December 2010

    Yes, Wendy, you are still standing, going forward without having the leash to that treatment center. 6 years is huge; I'm glad you are feeling so good.  We are all very happy for you!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited December 2010

    Jacqueline...what does your screen name stand for?

    Wendy...congrats!!!  i don't think my onc will ever cut me loose...like Jacqueline, he keeps me on a short lease....I'm still on 3 month check ups....after 4 years and 10 months since Dx!!!  When I see my onc again in Feb 2011, it will be 5 years since my 1st visit with him.  He is the only doc I still see...got tired of them all, so skipped my BS this past year and my PS...if onc is going to see me every 3 months don't need to see anyone else....part of me would love to get discharged from onc, but then again, I think I might miss it...in a weird sort of way, like after having a baby when you no longer see the ob/gyn after weekly visits!!!  Wishing you continued good health and dancing for years to come with NED....to your next stage in life!!!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited December 2010

    Wendy, that is awesome, awesome news.

    Congratulations on your newfound freedom! I bet it tastes very sweet.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • miki
    miki Member Posts: 22
    edited December 2010

    Congrats, Wendy!!!    Wonderful news!

    Enjoy your life and take care!!!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited December 2010

    Congratulations !! I am so happy for you.

    Enjoy Life.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • dreaming
    dreaming Member Posts: 473
    edited August 2013

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!Laughing

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • pupfoster1
    pupfoster1 Member Posts: 1,484
    edited December 2010

    Wow Wendy,

    Congratulations and THANK YOU for being an inspiration for us all!

    Sharon

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Claire_in_Seattle
    Claire_in_Seattle Member Posts: 4,570
    edited December 2010

    Major congrats Wendy!

    Nothing like being let out of jail.  I think I felt that way with last radiation treatment.

    I have 4 years and 4 months, but who's counting!!!  But I don't get free then as I will still have another nine years to go due to a study I am participating in. 

    Hope you have something wonderful planned! - Claire

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • AnacortesGirl
    AnacortesGirl Member Posts: 1,758
    edited December 2010

    Thank you for sharing.  We understand about not celebrating but it is a major milestone.  Congratulations!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Medigal
    Medigal Member Posts: 1,412
    edited December 2010

    Whoa!!  What's going on here??  How could you be released?  I thought this was a lifetime marriage with our Oncs.  I was diagnosed 8/2003 and have been taking Arimidex since 1/2004.  This August I would have been diagnosed with bc for 7 years and this January 2011 on Arimidex 7 years!  My Onc wants me to continue on the Arimidex so does that mean no divorce for me until who knows when?  I see my Onc two times a year and this May's appt. I think I am going to ask him how long this nightmare has to continue.  However, I don't believe that anyone is really a cancer survivor once it gets in their bodies.  But it does take years before a tumor can be felt or found on the mammo so why can't we be discharged and just do our mammos yearly??  Just wondering how this works for the majority of people who got bc.  Thanks.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Medigal
    Medigal Member Posts: 1,412
    edited December 2010

    Sherri:  It dawned on me that if I convinced my Onc to discharge me, I would have no one to check my breasts for possible lumps every 6 months.  I was told I don't need pap smears any longer since I had a partial hyster many years ago and the ovary that was left has shriveled up to a prune!  So I don't have any reason at this point to see a gyn regularly.  I don't trust checking myself so I guess it is better to keep going back regularly to him and he also sets up my annual mammos and bone density tests (for Arimidex SEs).   Sooooo I'll let him decide when it's time to divorce me.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • diana50
    diana50 Member Posts: 2,134
    edited December 2010

    Wendy* doing the Happy Dance for you*  Keep on.....Keep on** hooray**

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • DiDel
    DiDel Member Posts: 1,329
    edited December 2010

    Wendy

    Congrats!! What a feeling it must be!! Always nice to hear good news! Stay well!

    Diane

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • caaclark
    caaclark Member Posts: 936
    edited December 2010

    Yay, Wendy!!! 

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • AsiaYM
    AsiaYM Member Posts: 2,216
    edited December 2010

    Good for you!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • wallan
    wallan Member Posts: 1,275
    edited December 2010

    Thanks everyone!!

      I will keep you posted on my days as I go forward.

    You are all a life line for me. Seriously.

    Wendy  

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • maryannecb
    maryannecb Member Posts: 1,453
    edited December 2010

    Hey Wendy, just checking in,,great to see your post..getting kicked out of the cancer centre is awesome news!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • amlg1
    amlg1 Member Posts: 596
    edited December 2010

    That is great news!You go girl:D

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories