HIP HIP HOORAY-SIX YEARS TODAY!
Every year I wonder if I'll get to post next year's cancerversary - but I'm sure glad to be posting this one!
These are things I don't have:
Long blonde hair - for some reason it grew in brunette and I keep it VERY short (I got lazy being bald!)
Nipples (don't miss 'em-but I sure do love my silicone implants!)
Ovaries (never used 'em - didn't want to have kids)
Can't sleep through the night without waking up every 2 hours from hot flashes
No longer look MUCH younger than I really am (which I took for granted most of my life!)
These are things I do have:
Lymphedema in my right arm (a hassle, but not too noticeable visually)
Thinning bones (from the Arimidex - remedied by annual infusions of Reclast)
Arthritic right hip (probably also courtesy of Arimidex, although my mother had both her hips replaced without a BC diagnosis)
But wait...I also have 6 YEARS OF REMISSION - that wins out over everything!
All the best to all my sisters....
Julie
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Congratulations!!! Yippeee!
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Julie Congratulations--this is a wonderful new year for u. happiness to u---and i love u'r pros and cons.
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Congratulations!! Wonderful for you!!
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congratulations!!
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Congratulations! Thanks for letting us know.
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Thanks for the perspective.
Congratulations on the milestone. Hoping you have many, many, many, many more!!!
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You just gave hope to many ladies out there!! Thanks for sharing!!
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Congratulations Julie! Thanks for the hope, inspiration and posting.
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Happy Dance for you* awesome. when and if you go off the arimidex; your bones will improve...if you walk and do some weight bearing stuff. my bones were bad by the time if finished the arimidex but a year later my bones had improved signigicantly. the arimidex is very important and really does help the estrogen pos peeps. you are doing so great***
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Yay!!! Congrats!
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Congratulations!!!! So very happy for you! You just gave me such a boost of hope. I just finished treatment. xo
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Bravo Julie!
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Congratulations!!!!! Thank you for posting at just the right time. You've given me happy tears of hope!
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Jullie, thank you for the hope post!!!! We have such a similar dx, you just put a big happy tear in my eye!!!!
God bless you on being an old ladie!!!!!!!
Steph
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Congratulations Sugarplum! Today is my one year anniversary date! I hope we both have many, many more years ahead to celebrate.
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I'm sure glad you posted, too. The list is great. Mine is similar. Happy life!!!! G.
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Thanks so much for posting with this great news. Love your perspective about what is lost and what is gained. Wishing you many more check-ins. It means more to us than you know.
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What a great post. CONGRATS Julie!
Sharon
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Congratulations.
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Sugarplum, that is a wonderful milestone. Congratulations, and celebrate big.
You are right, we learn to live with the minor stuff.
You are yet another living example that TAC is a very effective chemo. (I had it too).
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Yay Julie!! Here's to many, many more years! Thanks for sharing your joy.
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Julie....I love your list!!!! Share some of the same things....Congrats on 6 years....looking forward to growing old with you......Karen
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Julie
I love your list and can identify with much of it. It is very encouraging to see another stage III live years after diagnosis. Here's to many, many more. -
Dear Julie, Love the list! Can't wait to see how it evolves. Congrats on 6 years. It's stories like this that keep me going!!! Thank you and many blessings to you.
Rachel
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Bloody fab!!!!
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Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Congrats on 6 years! Thanks for posting.
Annie
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Congrats on the 6 years!! Many more to come your way! Thank you for sharing some of us really need to hear these!
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Hip hip hooray indeed!
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Fantastic, Julie!! 6 years (and more) is worth every side effect. Congratulations!!!
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