5 year survivors, post your screen name here!

Then I am a SURVIVOR, almost 2 years since dx.  Have not had a full body scan, but a MRI to brain and back.  I have reached the point that it doesnt consume every moment of every day.  But I do wish that I coould get my doc to do a scan so that I was reassured that I am NED.

Love all the positive feedback!!!!

Thanks Pip, sometimes I feel that I am the only one.  However, it doesnt bother me like it use to only when someone asks,....then I get to thinking.  My onc is very popular in the area where I live.  I know many that get the scans from him but he must have a reason for not wanting to do them for me.  I look at it this way:  He must be pretty sure that the treatment is doing what it is suppose to.

Very active with working in the special ed dept. and farm life.  I occationally even exercise   Eating better than ever and trying to sort out all the information in regards to dairy, red meat, soy, sugar and alcohol.  If you have an opinion about any of it please PM me.

I had a neighbor ladyfriend that passed from BC and she never drank alcohol or smoked.  Another friend that did the same but she was a little overweight.  I dont think they can blame just one thing.  There is no family history for me when it comes to BC....so why me?

Congrats on your NED (can we say that if there are no scans?)

Yes, we can say NED even without scans.  No evidence...right?  I know what you mean about people asking though.  

bctx is 9+ years and just getting older. 

Thank you ladies so much for sharing this!  I've been struggling lately but this really lifted my spirits.  

XOXO,

Melissa

Six years and 5 months here. I was diagnosed at 41. Just had mammo last month and so far all is good and I'm lovin life!

hello sbelizabeth

have a look at this link..

http://community.breastcancer.org/topic_post?forum_id=135&id=786103&page=8 where only recently on

the above post i have asked the exact question -  very conflicting answers.

ive gone with when i was diagnosed which makes me 9 months now.

good luck.

Five years today from my dx! It took awhile to get all of the specifics, of course, but Jan. 18 was the date of "the" phone call. I made it through two lumpectomies (no clean margins), a uni mastectomy, 6 x Taxol, Carboplatin, Herceptin, and then finished the year of Herceptin. I also participated in the Neratinib clinical trial (one year.)

Feeling great at age 59 - hike, take a weight class twice a week, and looking forward to my first grandchild, another daughter's wedding in July, my son's high school graduation, and RETIREMENT after 36 years of teaching high school English. Life is good!

Edited to say ooops! Apparently, according to my dx line, I was dx on Jan. 15! I never thought I'd forget that date.

Thanks, liv! I'm going on a "girls' " weekend (OK, old ladies' weekend), and I plan to resemble that smiley!

excellent curlylocks, another 100 to go.

congratulations.

xx

Just clocked up my 21 years!

6 years last December. Great to see so many survivors.

jezza babe, you little warrior, well done 22 years.

was looking at mums path, got it when i did the genetics test. 1994 - it says 9 nodes examined - no evidence, axillar apex  & 5 nodes cross section also examined, no evidence. ductal carcinomao -15mm grade 1.

so in todays standard she would not have had a mastectomy, perhaps just rads.

do remember at the time her saying "want it off" they sure took it off, nothing like my clean neat scars, she looked like she had been butchered,  radical.. just a bit of trivia for you love. lol

xx

I hope it is ok to add to this thread. I wanted to honor my Warriroress Mom. She was diagnosed in 1983 and then in 1992 had mets to the bones. She died in 2004. So she survived 21 yrs!! She is my heroine.

Cleomoon, you are a beautiful daughter. Thanks for sharing with us. xox