What a difference a year makes

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2012

    Karina ... you look fantastic!  Congrats for making it through all your treatments!!

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  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited January 2012

    Thanks for posting Karina, now I don't feel so alone. :)  You look great, so healthy and happy.  I hope it's a great year for all of us.

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

    Anyone else up for posting before and after photos?

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  • momof3boys
    momof3boys Member Posts: 896
    edited January 2012

    You look stunning! Thank you for this. Heading into my 2nd TC treatment this week

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  • quiche
    quiche Member Posts: 262
    edited January 2012

    windlass: I'd be game, but can't figure out how to do it. Do you know the trick?

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

    Hi, quiche:  You have to first post the photos on another website, and then link to them from there. It can be any other website, as long as it has a URL.

    Jenny's photo, for example, is posted at https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xrHMljmszgk/Twxl4FI2Z5I/AAAAAAAABOI/1p8CRfe_e3w/s576/pic2.jpg  and then BCO gets it from there.

    Once you have your photo on another website, click the gree tree icon above to insert an image. It will ask you for the URL. Once you fill it in, you can change the size if you like, and voila!

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  • quiche
    quiche Member Posts: 262
    edited January 2012

    Thanks Windlass! I'll give it a shot when I have time to play later.

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

    Jenny, thank you so much for this! I just found it today - have had a pretty rough few days and your radiant smile just lifted my spirits. 

    I am so tired of the pain and fatigue - would give anything to be able to begin training for a marathon like some of the BC survivors - but that is not in the cards for me right now.  But what IS available is the hope that I can do this for another day and that each day will bring some joy with it.  Those moments of joy and grace are gifts to be treasured.

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  • antonia1
    antonia1 Member Posts: 135
    edited January 2012

    Jenny, your hear looks great as it is, you look marvelous.

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  • faithfulheart
    faithfulheart Member Posts: 544
    edited January 2012

    You are a beautiful strong women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Good for you sister, it does get better! There is life after BC!!! You are living proof!!!!  someday that awesome hair of yours will be gray, and you will be a happy old women, with a great survivor story of strength to tell your grandchildren!

    May God continue to bless you jenny,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    Steph

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  • quiche
    quiche Member Posts: 262
    edited January 2012

    OK, so here goes . . .

    This is me half way thru chemo. This was pretty much my standard position once the steroids wore off.

    This is me today, 14 mos post treatment . . . Cheers!

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited January 2012
    Here I am just mid treatment in Aug 2007.
    The next pic is of me on vacation Novemeber 2011.
     
     
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  • quiche
    quiche Member Posts: 262
    edited January 2012

    pip57: You look fab! That must have been a very relaxing vacation, the look on your face is so serene.

    Karina: Loved your pics too! Your smile makes me smile :-)

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  • Momof2inME
    Momof2inME Member Posts: 683
    edited January 2012

    I am just at the beginning. Had my BMX 12/21 and first chemo last week. All you ladies are so inspiring!!! Thank you is not enough for what you have shared with us. You give us HOPE!!!

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited January 2012

    Thanks. You look amazing too.  To go from lumps on the couch to vibrant, glowing women is amazing.  Come on everyone.  I want to see more of your transformations! By the way, I am on my way back to that same bench in Florida next month.  

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  • CharB22
    CharB22 Member Posts: 310
    edited January 2012

    Thank you. Thank you for this! I really needed it today.  You look fantastic!!

    I'm a newbie - just got my 1st treatment on Thurs and I'm getting so sad, even though I have so much to be grateful for. Thank you for helping me see the light at the end of this tunnel!!

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  • Claire_in_Seattle
    Claire_in_Seattle Member Posts: 4,570
    edited January 2012

    This was me towards the end of chemo February 2010 (wearing yellow jacket).  Wig under my helmet.

    This was me last Saturday after a makeover at Nordstrom.  This time, my real hair.

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  • KSteve
    KSteve Member Posts: 486
    edited January 2012

    All of you looks so awesome!!  I love that we're all finding our "new" normal and going on with life.  Yes, it is different than before cancer, but, in a lot of ways, even better than before.  Mainly because we appreciate things differently than we did before.  I just had a wonderful long weekend in the mountains in Colorado with my family and friends and I feel so happy to have been able to do it.  Last year at this time I had just finished chemo and was recovering from a BMX and getting ready for rads.  Yes, what a difference a year makes!  To those of you just beginning treatments, you can do it!!

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  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited January 2012

    Yay us!  Thanks for posting pics ladies....ya'll look wonderful, healthy and strong.  I'm glad others figured out how to post pics, it was not that easy.  I seem to have started a trend, more pics please!!  This shows what BC looks like, it's not bubbly bubblegum pink and marching smiles.  It's a quite battle deep within us, we fight in private everyday but it can be done and you can win.  Keep on keeping on newbies. 

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

    This thread makes me cry tears of joy. Every set of pictures is like a victory and a shout of celebration of live over cancer.

    Today is my one-year cancerversary.

    Love to you all, my sisters!

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  • Pure
    Pure Member Posts: 1,796
    edited January 2012

    You look beautiful! SOOO happy for you:) You are here for the LONG LONG haul!

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  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited January 2012

    Congrats Windlass...it only gets better from here :)

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited January 2012
    Windlass, as I approach my one year I am glad to see that we are making it! Congrats to you! I hope we r both posting our 5 year as well!!  Have a great day everybody!! Laughing
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    bump

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  • vivirasselena
    vivirasselena Member Posts: 278
    edited January 2012

    Absolutely, amazingly beautiful! 

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  • quiche
    quiche Member Posts: 262
    edited January 2012

    Oh no Windlass . . . did I miss the party?!? Congrats on your cancerversary! Wishing you many more years of good health, good fortune and good times!

    To those beginning down this road, I'm so glad you found us. BC.ORG has been my lifeline through every phase of cancer and beyond. No matter what, there will always be someone here for you. I wish I could give you some sage advice, but truthfully, cancer is like childbirth, everyone has their own story and every story is different. The only thing for certain is cancer sucks! One thing I did hear recently from someone in mid-treatment was that she didn't focused on what the treatments were doing TO her but what they were doing FOR her. Wish I would have heard that one a little sooner. I didn't have that perspective when I was going thru treatment, but looking back I can appreciate it now.

    When I think of you all I can't help but touch my heart. Kind of weird, huh? My hand just goes right to my heart and I get a weird rush of emotion. Seems too soon to say I Love You ha! but know you are always close at heart and I will keep you in my thoughts. (((hugs hugs hugs)))

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  • quiche
    quiche Member Posts: 262
    edited January 2012

    Hey, I do have a little piece of advice . . . MAKE PLANS! You're not going to be down and out on the couch every day. On the good days, make the best of it. When I look back on 2010 its not defined as "my year of cancer". I remember rooting my brother on at his first triathlon, the weekend in Pismo, the day trip to San Diego. Those memories are much more vivid than any of my cancer days.

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  • SusanHG
    SusanHG Member Posts: 655
    edited January 2012

    Wow! So glad I found this thread on my own 1 year cancerversary!  You ladies are beautiful and courageous, and you all just made my day.  I didn't have chemo, so I don't have before and adter photos, but my struggle was more internal and emotional.  What a difference a year makes!

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  • Karina121293
    Karina121293 Member Posts: 370
    edited January 2012

    Pip, Clair, Quiche- you all look fantastic!!!! 

    I, for one, love going through my "cancer year' photos. It makes me cherish the "today" ...

    Hugs and love to all. 

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited January 2012

    Let us see too Karina!!

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