5-year cancerversary

wallycat
wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
edited June 2014 in ILC (Invasive Lobular Carcinoma)
5-year cancerversary
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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited April 2012

    Hi ILC gals!!

    I want to thank all of you who talked me offthe ledge when I first posted here.

    I cannot believe it is 5 years today that I got the icky call!!!!  Just thought I would shout out since there are so many new gals and always, the fear is like drowning.

    I know some people think Eagles are special, and so I will share this little experience we had today:

    we decided to make the 2 hour schlep into IKEA  ..we are 1/2 way to IKEA when we see this bird (ha!)---HUGE bald EAGLE, swoop in front of our truck, make a u-turn and swoop back so it could pick up..we think it was a wood chuck ...bigger than a FAT guinea pig and bigger than two rabbits, so we think wood chuck---right in front of us...I swore if it waited any longer we would have hit it---and it lifted the prey up in his talons and poof....gone. WOW. 

    This really happened today....so maybe this is a good omen!!

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  • Gitane
    Gitane Member Posts: 1,885
    edited April 2012

    WOW, wallycat,  I'm sure glad I came online and saw this post.  Fantastic news.  You are a special ILC girl in my book.  We'll probably never forget the call we got, but we also will not forget the special  bc.org friends we've made since.  I thought I was drowning, too, and you all saved me.  (and I wasn't newly diagnosed, just scared)  That eagle must have been a sign.  All the newbies need to know that good stuff happens, too.  Very, very good news! Thanks,  G.

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  • toomuch
    toomuch Member Posts: 901
    edited April 2012

    Wallycat - Congrats. It's always nicer to see an encouraging post. Thanks! I'd take the eagle spotting as a good omen too.

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  • ck55
    ck55 Member Posts: 346
    edited April 2012

    Hi Wallycat. I am from Seattle but we have a weekend place up in La Conner and I swear Eagles are always around me, and I take it as an omen that I will be OK. They fly by our house here in Seattle and they sit in trees and on the beach at our place in La Conner (we are on the water next to the Hope Island Inn). I believe the Native Americans believe we all have animal totems and I always felt the Eagle was mine.

    This weekend we had a grey whale out in the water in front of our place! It was pretty amazing. He/She spent most of Sunday out there eating whatever they eat. The sound the blow hole made when it surfaced for air was really something.

    Cyndi

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited April 2012

    Thanks for the well wishes, ladies!

    And Friday is my last day of Arimidex...woooooooooooohooooooooooooo!

    I will be 2.3 months shy of the full 5 years, but consider it a nit (and hope I and my onco are right!).

    Every day, I check the research section and hope they have come up with a cure.  Here is to all of you, making it day by day.

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  • IllinoisNancy
    IllinoisNancy Member Posts: 722
    edited April 2012

    Hey Wallycat,

    Congratulations on five years!!  I pray you are cancer free for the rest of your life. I value your friendship and am comforted by having you on my ILC team.  Let's continue to kick cancer in the butt!

    Take care,

    Nancy

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  • gracejon
    gracejon Member Posts: 972
    edited April 2012

    My feet never touched the ground on my nickel anniversary.  Congratulations and ENJOY!

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  • DeeLew84
    DeeLew84 Member Posts: 28
    edited April 2012

    Congrats Wallycat! I am so happy for you!! Today marks one year since my bilateral mastectomy. It gives me hope to see other survivors of ILC. 

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  • Hood1980
    Hood1980 Member Posts: 537
    edited May 2012
    Congratulations Wallycat!  I so remember you on these boards.  I came on a year after you & you were the one talking me off the ledge!  Smile  I'm still a uni & the one I have is still giving me problems!  I wish they would just go ahead & take the dang thing.  I have to go every 6 months for some king of monitoring....I have an US later this month!
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