5 year survivors, post your screen name here!

Congrats and wishing you continued good health.

Congrats Redbud......

Congrats Ellie D on 5.5 yrs!!!

Embrasing life after cancer and enjoying it.....I love how you put it!

Be blessed

Im pretty sure there is a thread for religious expressions on this board that you might be interested in!

Great posts everyone. Keep them coming to help those of us below the 5 yr mark get through.

It seemed so horrible around my birthday in 2007 to hear those horrid words -- you have cancer.  My life flashed before my eyes as I wondered where I was headed -- far too afraid to look behind me and a bit terrified of what was in front of me. 

Thought five years sounded like such a very long time and it was hard to imagine it, but here I am, not really all that worse for wear.  A little foot neuropathy decided to hang around, and a few aches....at my age they would likely be there anyway -- they may be getting a slight boost from the Arimidex I still take.  Well, if its this or the alternative....I'll take this and be thankful every day.  We are all destined for bumps in the road -- it is a sign of being wholly alive.

Jackie

Thanks for sharing Jackie! It's so inspirational to hear positive results!......poor choice of words but I'm inspired!

Chachamom I took 1/2 a norco when I got shingles and it F'd me up so much that I never took anymore and suffered with only Aleve! Yup you can blame it on the Norco.

7 years and better than ever!

Congrats to Sherox13 & Susan3!  Wishing you continued good health.

Getting ready to start 5 years of femara

Jo-5

Congrats

You are an inspiration, Denny!

I just passed my "5 years since diagnosis" at the end of November. I discovered my spinal mets a year and a half ago, but I'm looking forward to many more years- maybe 10, like you, Denny!  I'm also on Faslodex, as well as Xgeva.

12.5 years out from a Stage 2A IDC right breast with 2/7 positive nodes.  Now also 7 years out from a Stage 3C ILC left breast with 23/23 positive nodes.  Still NED and grateful for every day!

As scary as a cancer diagnosis can be, remember we are not statistics!  Inform yourself to the best of your ability so you become an active participant in your treatment decisions, then just take it one day at a time.  Recognize that no human on earth today has a guarantee they will be here tomorrow, cancer or not. That is the human condition and fragility of life for us all.  BUT don't let that keep you from LIVING each and every day you are given!  Days turn into weeks, months and years before you know it!

Make each one count!