02/03/2006...6 years later and I'm still here!!!!

karen1956
karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

6 years ago (02/03/2006) I heard the dreaded words, "you have breast cancer"....the start of the BC journey.....I endured all the Tx and I'm still here!!!!  Of course, I'll do the real celebration in 3 weeks, when I see my onc for my 6 month check up and get confirmation that I'm still dancing with NED!!!

 In the past 6 years, I've had the pleasure of seeing my DD#1 graduate college and get married, DS leave high school, work and go to college and be a part of DD#2 Bat Mitzvah and watch her grow into an amazing teen-ager.....and thats just the beginning of things to look forward to.....

I've been thinking of the date all week, but it was not the first thing on my mind when I woke up....the snow storm in Denver was.....watching the weather, GMA and previews of superbowl commericals...it wasn't till I came to the computer and on fb and saw something about the anniversary of fb starting that the date hit me in the face....so that is good!!! 

Looking forward to growing into a cranky old lady (instead of a cranky middle age lady)......Karen

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  • dutchgirl6
    dutchgirl6 Member Posts: 673
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations Karen!  May the dance never end.

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

    Hey Karen -- sending Hugs your way!!  I'm trailing behind you at 4/18/2006 and will get my mammogram done end of April.  I always hold my breath until after that month is over....

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited February 2012

    Congrats Karen!!! We love these encouraging stories!

    --The Mods

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

    Congratulations!  Being there for your family is everything!  Nowadays when I look at my 2 year old grandson and 6 month old granddaughter it makes me want to be around for many, many years.  I hope you have many, many more years ahead.  That you get to be a cranky and really, really old lady!

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  • PlantLover
    PlantLover Member Posts: 622
    edited February 2012

    My goodness!  I love it when good news comes in bunches!  There's a lot of you celebrating your six year mark.  Congrats!!!

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  • kittymama
    kittymama Member Posts: 139
    edited February 2012

    So happy for you!!!!

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  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 16,818
    edited February 2012

    Congrats Karen!!! May they be the first six of the next forty!!

    Love n hugs. Chrissy

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  • lexi4
    lexi4 Member Posts: 1,074
    edited February 2012

    Yay Karen! Congratulations on your 6 year milestone! I am so happy that you are doing well and I wish you many many more happy and healthy years ahead!!

    Hugs,

    Lexi

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  • KSteve
    KSteve Member Posts: 486
    edited February 2012

    Yay, Karen! Great reason to celebrate. By the way, I'm in Arvada, so I know what you mean about the snow. We have 15 inches now and they're saying up to 15 more by morning. So stay warm and enjoy the peace that snow brings! So happy for you.

    Kathy

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  • sugarplum
    sugarplum Member Posts: 318
    edited February 2012

    I was right behind you on 4/28/06! What a journey it's been, right? I too am happily surprised to still be on this planet - my first goal was to hit my 25-year wedding anniversary in 2009, then to see my driver's license renewed in 2010, and now - well, I'm shooting for age 60 in 2016!

    Love to all - Julie

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  • clariceak
    clariceak Member Posts: 752
    edited February 2012

    So awesome!  I hope all the wonderful women posting anniversaries are also sticking them in the pinned thread - 5 years out.  It's my "go to" thread if I'm feeling scared. 

    I appreciate you coming back and encouraging all of us.  

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  • tenaj
    tenaj Member Posts: 1,052
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations!!!! It is so encouraging to hear the success of you women celebrating anniversaries. Many more happy & healthy years are wished for you!!

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

    May you celebrate many more family milestones and dance with NED forever!

                Cheryl

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  • diana50
    diana50 Member Posts: 2,134
    edited February 2012

    so happy for you*  congrats and hugs*

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  • MaxineO
    MaxineO Member Posts: 555
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations Karen!  Thank you for sharing and giving hope to those of us behind you in the journey.  Wishing you many many more healthy years!!

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  • pupfoster1
    pupfoster1 Member Posts: 1,484
    edited February 2012

    OMG, I am SOOO in love with these anniversary threads!!!!  CONGRATS on 6 fabulous years!

    Love,

    Sharon

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  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited February 2012

    Hey Karne,

    Congrualtions and welcome to the sixers club. So happy you've joined us. You have come a long way! Wonderful isn't it?

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  • Angelfalls
    Angelfalls Member Posts: 849
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations and here's to many more! Hope you'll be celebrating in style this weekend... ;0)

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited February 2012

    Yippeee, Karen!  YOU were the first person I thought of this morning!  Congrats, sistah...we'll be celebrating many many more years to come.

    Love you! 

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited February 2012

    Thanks everyone for the well wishes and congrats....no one in my house mentioned the date.....I have mixed feelings....do I say something...or just leave it be!!!  @Bugs....can't believe how long we have "known" each other....LKC too....and some of the other gals....You have all been a wonderful support...."friends" old and new.....

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

    Congratulations to you....wonderful news!  I hope you have many more years and many more milestones to see.

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  • Gitane
    Gitane Member Posts: 1,885
    edited February 2012
    Great news, karen1956.  I'm so happy for us, and love reading that you're doing well.  I know what you mean about the date not being part of the family lore or anything.  I'd tell them... or at least ask for a special dinner out or something.  It's a big deal to us.  Someday we'll be a bunch of very old ladies together, and I bet we won't forget the date even then... well then maybe we will forget, but then who cares???  Hugs and congratulations.  G.
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  • LindaLou53
    LindaLou53 Member Posts: 929
    edited February 2012

    Congratulations Karen!  By all means celebrate this milestone and look forward to many, many more to come!  You should definitely drop the hint to your family and let them treat you like Queen for a Day!  Smile

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  • SharonMH
    SharonMH Member Posts: 353
    edited February 2012

    Hi, Karen  Love hearing a 6 year milestone. and we all love that NED  SharonH

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  • Thatgirl
    Thatgirl Member Posts: 276
    edited February 2012

    Congrats!

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited February 2012

    Last night just before we sat down for Shabbat dinner, I asked my DH and DD#2 is they knew what the date was.....and DH came over and gave me a hug and kiss....and DD goes, look I made you a card....she has such a sense of humor...its the card she made me last year that has been hanging up on the kitchen wall....she decoared notebook paper and wrote "wishing you love on the anniversary of the most dreadful news" ...there is no date on it, so it is applicable for every year.....

    Thanks for all the well wishes...you gals are the best!!!!

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  • Ihopeg
    Ihopeg Member Posts: 399
    edited February 2012

    Karen,

    Congratulations on SIX years!!!  Best wishes for many, many more milestones to come!! 

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited February 2012

    Karen,  I'm betting my DS and your DD would get along famously...he sure keeps me laughing.

    Gabe has a very interesting take on this 'anniversary'.  He says "why celebrate on the day you got diagnosed with a horrible disease?...I choose to celebrate on the date they took it all out" (my surgery came first).   I tried explaining that they use the date of diagnosis and he just said "nope, I'll say happy anniversary on Feb 9th".

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  • JacquelineG
    JacquelineG Member Posts: 282
    edited February 2012

    Karen,

    Wonderful wonderful news!!! So happy for you!! many many more healthy years to you!

    Jackie

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  • caaclark
    caaclark Member Posts: 936
    edited February 2012

    Yay, Karen!!!!  I love seeing a bunch of us hit milestones!!!!!!  Enjoy the Superbowl and if you could send some snow to NJ I would love that.  We have had NONE this year.

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