Postcard from the edge of ten years out....

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited October 2012

    Celtic Spirit: Love your post!! Let's all give pinktober the finger!!  I too am guilty of being a slough Weesa.  Am glad you can come on the boards and let us all know that we are not alone when it comes to letting loose.  My onc says you can't quit living and everything in moderation!  I have not drank a beer in about 2 months.  (YIKES, I know)  I am getting my house ready for a Halloween extravaganza in a couple weeks and plan on getting ripped!!! RIP'd... ha ha.

    It seems that even the healthies most active people can have a reoccurence so why deprive ourselves of little vices now and then.  And good food!! 

    I love this site and I am glad I found it and all of you!!  Hugs to everyone!!  Cheers!!!!!!

    Ok well I had a cute picture but I can't figure out how to paste it.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2012

    Weesa!!!!  Hey you, I love your style girl. Congratulations on living it up ten years out. You are an encouragement to us fellow slouchersWink

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  • dreidteacher
    dreidteacher Member Posts: 53
    edited October 2012

    Weesa thank you for showing me ten years is able to be done with a normal lifestyle. You go girl and can't wait for your 20 yearversary.

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited October 2012

    Good to hear from you Weesa.  Excellent news and encouraging for the rest of us stage IIIs out here.  Thanks for sharing!

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

    Rock on Weesa, you make me feel better about some of my own personal slouching.  I've actually gained about 20 pounds since my dx which I KNOW is not good.  Gotta get back on board.  But SO glad to hear you are doing well!  CONGRATS on almost 10 years!

    Love,

    Sharon Laughing

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  • YATCOMW
    YATCOMW Member Posts: 664
    edited October 2012

    OMG.....what a wonderful post.....congratulations weesa......

    comforting to know someone else not doing all the right things but still kicking cancer's butt.....love it.

    Jacqueline

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited October 2012

    Weesa,

    You always make me smile. So, thanksgiving as a debauchery celebration.... I am thinking that a cranberry - orange-ginger marghuerita or martini would be seasonally appropriate. Have a few of those, and you won't care if the turkey breast is dried out.

    Congrats on 10 years of living life!

    *susan*

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  • maryannecb
    maryannecb Member Posts: 1,453
    edited October 2012

    hahaha...Fists up!...and bottoms up!

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  • Timbuktu
    Timbuktu Member Posts: 1,906
    edited October 2012

    Thanks so much for letting us know that even imperfect, humans, can survive this thing.  You made my day and here's to another 10 (20 and 30) healthy years of eating, drinking and hanging out!!!

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

    Will be thinking about you this ThanksgivingSmile !!  Ten years, how fantastic is that!!!  

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

    Weesa....congrats on 10 years!!! 
    I don't come to stage 3 very often, so it was nice to see you post...it put a smile on my face and I sure needed it tonight!!!!  And I'm another gal who gave up the AI's.....3 1/2 year was way more than enough......look forward to celebrating 10 years in 2016!!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2012

    Thank you for your hilarious, upbeat post, and for the hope. I am crying after reading it.

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  • kar123
    kar123 Member Posts: 273
    edited March 2013

    Bump

    I think this post deserves a good bump every once in awhile. 

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  • patti13
    patti13 Member Posts: 89
    edited March 2013

    Love it!  Congrats!  I am right there with ya on the bad patient list!  Rock on lady!

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  • diana50
    diana50 Member Posts: 2,134
    edited March 2013

    You go girl! Got your back!!!

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  • lovujja
    lovujja Member Posts: 119
    edited March 2013

    Awesome! You are our hero, please keep coming and give us inspiration. Wish you many many happy and healthy life.

    I hope i can come in this blog and post inspiring story just like you.

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  • overjoyed4life
    overjoyed4life Member Posts: 239
    edited March 2013


    Where's my invite to the next party. Lol. You are my twin at heart. I can't keep track of all those, (do right things) either.  It is, what it is and whatever will be, will be. Its all in Divine order. Keep living your life. You are my kinda gal!!!! 

    Love and Blessings

    Sharon

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  • SpunkyGirl
    SpunkyGirl Member Posts: 1,568
    edited April 2013

    Bump...mandatory good read for a Monday morning!

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  • chatsworthgirl
    chatsworthgirl Member Posts: 288
    edited April 2013

    Finished chemo just before Christmas 2011, rads finished May 2012 and been on Arimidex since then.  Just had my first follow-up - yeah nobody ever called me to schedule one - I called them.

    Anyway, for some reason I have been having some anxiety and a bit of depression - not like me - and I was wondering if it's the Arimidex or if it's just the follow up and thinking about this crap.

    I have skipped a day or two here and there with the drug and some days I think what the hell wny do this to myself. But then I think I have to otherwise I will get crap from my husband and from the onc.

    Anybody else get the c-blues from time to time?

    Kathy


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  • kar123
    kar123 Member Posts: 273
    edited April 2013

    Kathy,

    Everyone of us does.  The important thing is to acknowledge it and move out of it.  Try not to linger there.  Feel it for a little bit and then go do something you enjoy and read threads like this one that give us hope and humor all in one.  I am on arimidex too and it makes me feel older than I am which can be frustrating, but I try to ignore it and push on. 

    Kelli

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  • jenni__ca
    jenni__ca Member Posts: 461
    edited April 2013

    i found that the year i was in treatment i was too busy to think about the future'

    the year after treatment i thought "i just finished treatment so all is well"

    the third year i felt anxiety cuz now treatment was two years ago .... then reminded said self that arimidex was treatment and tried to move on

    after that things better Laughing

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  • TectonicShift
    TectonicShift Member Posts: 752
    edited July 2020

    Cool  Weesa, I love you!!

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  • chatsworthgirl
    chatsworthgirl Member Posts: 288
    edited April 2013

    Thanks Kelli. I do try to just push the negative thoughts away.  Best toi keep busy.  It does aggravate me however that the loss of estrogen is wreaking havoc on my skin.  Vanity makes me want to quit Arimidex.   Silly but true.  I plow on however.

    Weesa is my hero.

    Jenni love your 8.5 years! 

    Kathy

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  • kar123
    kar123 Member Posts: 273
    edited July 2013

    bump

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited July 2013

    So Weesa....do tell how was your party!!!!

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  • weesa
    weesa Member Posts: 707
    edited August 2013

    I am always so touched and surprised when this topic gets resurrected! I hope it gives hope back as a small return for all the hope I have received here.

    First my Thanksgiving: I did not get together with my girlfriends last year but had Thanksgiving with my family. As we all assembled to sit at the table I noticed champagne flutes at every place. My older son did a wonderful toast to me and my survival, noting that that Thanksgiving was my tenth cancerversary. (I didn't know they remembered!) There wasn't a dry eye when he sat down. Then we ate a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner that my children and their significiant others prepared, and I never thought of my reprobate girlfriends and our rowdy celebrations (which no doubt will be relaunched next year.)

    When I composed my diagnosis line many years ago I wrote "5 cm" because that is what the path report said after my mastectomy. However, I had had two lumpectomies without clean margins prior to that and also a surgical biopsy. My oncologist believes it was originally at least 8 cm. My nodes were surrounded by tumors, extranodal extension, matted and clumped. My sentinel node had a 2 cm tumor wrapped around it. My ki-67 was a staggering 70%. I have done well and have been free of legitimate scares. (Have invented a few that have turned out to be nothing thru the years.)

    I had dose dense AC, then dose dense taxotere, 6.5 weeks of radiation and very sketchy attempts at all 3 aromatase inhibitors. I am just now getting over thinking about my breast cancer (which evaded annual mammograms for at least ten years) and my treatment-- on a daily basis! How neurotic is that.

    Oh, well, love to all of you. I am so proud of the longevity we are amassing here. weesa (Louisa)

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  • wintersocks
    wintersocks Member Posts: 922
    edited August 2013

    weesa,

    We have similar dx's . I just read your post and imagined Thanksgiving with your lovely children. It sounded magical. 

    I am a little down today thinking on my dx, and how on earth I will ever get through it (although I have actually finished tx). Just don't feel like I have.  

    Thank-you for reminding me that I might be ok.

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  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited August 2013

    Great to " see" you Weesa. I passed my 8yr mark a few months ago, and I LOVE your spirit and joie de vive!

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  • sugarplum
    sugarplum Member Posts: 318
    edited August 2013

    Weesa: this has been one of my favorite posts EVER - just haven't gotten around to thanking you for it until now. You sound like someone I would love to know in real life - so refreshing!

    Please keep on dosing us with a hearty helping of HOPE whenever you get a chance...

    Julie

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  • Shari0707
    Shari0707 Member Posts: 448
    edited August 2013

    Bump..

    I love this!

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