I wonder how my stage III gals are doing?

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  • weesa
    weesa Member Posts: 707
    edited July 2013

    Diana! So good to hear from you, I think of you often. Like Claire in Seattle, I know you will stay with stable.

    As for me, I am still pretty wicked, not a poster girl for how to avoid recurrence. The other day I dug out my path report which I had crumpled into the back of my desk drawer and reread it for the first time in 8 years. I had extracapsular extensions--glad I didn't know what that was at the time. And a KI-75%, which also went over my head at the time. Yikes, I have been so lucky, for a reprobate. Am going to turn over a new leaf, start taking a few supplements with my margaritas.

    Please keep coming back here to your stage 3 home--you are always suich a soothing presence. Love you, Weesa

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

    Wessa. Good to hear from you. Doing good with the mets. Had a clear pet scan last week. So far the letrozole and zometa is working. You are doing great. And yes , I drink my wine. Lol. Life is good. People need to know that life is about relationships and not about cancer.

    Keep on stage 3 sisters.

    Love

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  • melmcbee
    melmcbee Member Posts: 1,119
    edited July 2013

    Hi Diana and thanks for checking in nd giving inspirations. I know you will be stable for a long time. Im o impresed with all of you ladies with your exercising and bike riding. That notion hsnt hit me yey. lol Maybe soon. I just finished my reconstruction and will be returning to work soon. healing hugs to all

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited July 2013

    Diana, always good to hear from long timers!! Hope you are well dear!! I am in the middle of 3rd year and hope to see 5!! Have been staying super busy with my horses and don't really think about bc at all. SOmetimes at night it hits me like a punch in the stomach but it passes quickly, more quickly than it used to. I kept reading how peopel said you think less about it with time but I didnt really believe that but ...it's true. If it weren't for these pesky implants I would never think about it!! Glad to hear from you and everyone else!!!

    xoxoxox

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  • Sparkytheimp
    Sparkytheimp Member Posts: 54
    edited July 2013

    I just found out mine was stage 3a. I have a ton of questions. Just had mastectomy on one side.

    I am wondering what the chances of recurrance are in my other booby. This really sucks.

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  • fredntan
    fredntan Member Posts: 1,821
    edited July 2013

    I can't remember what the chances where. but I kept my "good" one until recon and then I got rid of it. wanted a matching set. no more mammo's for me. welcome to the club sweetheart

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited July 2013

    @ But wait, how about coffee enemas. I sure hope you are doing those.

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited July 2013

    Sparky, howdy and welcome. I am guessing you started with a DCIS diagnosis? As far as I know, the risk of contralateral disease (other boob disease) is low. Some of us have razed the rack anyway, for various reasons: better recon, less surveillance etc.

    In my case, it was initially because there were a few calcifications in the "good" boob. The docs swore up and down that it was benign (after mammo, U/S, MRI, CT). Then they told me that follow-up would be mammo every quarter and biopsy of anything suspicious. I have mammo and needle phobia, so this sounded extremely unfun to me. Then I found out that ILC is more likely to appear on the other side (although this is controversial and may not be the case after all, but that was the info I had at the time), and I just had a bad feeling about the whole thing. So I insisted on a BMX and changed docs to make it happen (first doc refused, and it is NOT considered good doctoring to take off a healthy body part). My "good" boob had LCIS and other pre-cancerous changes all over the place, so I feel I made the right choice. However, it is not to be done lightly, and my guess is that most docs would advise against it.

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  • ali68
    ali68 Member Posts: 1,383
    edited July 2013

    Had my 18 month check up with surgeon. All good but my stats are shit BUT I know I will be fine. I'm starting to look better people are saying " best I've seen you since the chemo" Tamoxifen is getting better too so all together I feel on top of the world.



    I know stage 3 grade 3 is a crap shot but we are fighters!!!!

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  • fredntan
    fredntan Member Posts: 1,821
    edited July 2013

    Momine-did I miss something? crystals for underpants? will this help the menopausal vajaja?

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  • jpsgirl96
    jpsgirl96 Member Posts: 240
    edited July 2013

    Diana - Thanks for asking.  I'm 7 years from dx and will be 7 years from finishing treatment this coming September.  Have my annual scans on 19 July - find that a little tiresome, but since I went the lumpectomy route, that's part of the price.  Not doing an especially good job of taking care of myself - back at work after a wonderful two year eight month sabbatical, and actually enjoying it.  Lost my baby brother to a massive heart attack, age 47, in June - we are all still in shock.  Enjoying my niece - his oldest daughter - and her first baby, born in late April.  Was wicked stepmother + wedding planner for my husband's oldest, also in June - it was just magical, if I do say so myself.  Who is it on the boards whose tag line is "Enjoy every sandwich"? - well, that's my motto.  Sending good thoughts to all who are on this road, at whatever entrance or waypoint.  Leigh

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  • sugarplum
    sugarplum Member Posts: 318
    edited July 2013

    Leigh - that "sandwich" tag is for the incomparable Fitztwins, who is still flourishing on the Stage IV boards!

    Julie

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2013

    Hahaha!  Love my stage III sisters!!  Weesa,  I've been just as bad as you!  I myself am rebelling against Aromasin. Just don't want to take it anymore.  My onc was not happy and wants me to go back on it.  He says " you are stage III !!"  Um I do get that but......Wink

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  • pupfoster1
    pupfoster1 Member Posts: 1,484
    edited July 2013

    Hi Diana and girls!



    Haven't visited in quite awhile, so I'm glad to see this post! I'm doing pretty well all things considered. I am attempting to live life to it's fullest and in the process while skiing back in March, I fell, completely severed my ACL, tore my lat meniscus in 2 places and severely bruised my tibia. So I'm now a bit over a month out from surgery, getting around OK but have A LOT of trouble sleeping at night. That said, I feel fortunate to be here and to have hurt myself having fun! Sadly, I have been recently visiting an old friend nearing the end of her journey and had a very similar dx as me, so it does bring back up all those fears of a recurrence. Praying for her, and for the rest of us for our continued health.



    Will visit again soon!



    Sharon

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