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edited June 2014 in Stage II Breast Cancer
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  • momand2kids
    momand2kids Member Posts: 1,508
    edited October 2013


    It was 5 years ago this weekend that I was searching madly in bookstores for information about breast cancer. After having the lump discovered in my annual PCP appointment and having an ultrasound, I was scheduled for a biopsy. I just knew it was not going to be good news, and I spent the weekend before making myself completely crazy.... sure enough, on October 29 I did get the call--- I will always remember the kind radiologist who said, at the biopsy, "I am pretty sure this is something, but I am also cure that it is early and very treatable".


    She was also the one who first used the "chemo" word when she called me with my dx. I was freaked out at the time, but so glad she had later, because when we decided on chemo, I had had time to absorb it.


    I was dx before Halloween, had my lumpectomy surgery in Thanksgiving week and started chemo right after the new year. As bad as it all felt, it went fairly well overall.


    I am in the last 6 months of my AI--and I am going off--no matter what!! My hair is as full as it was before, and I generally feel great. I know that 5 years out offers no real guarantee, but I choose to think that it is a huge milestone!!!!


    I don't think about bc too much and I sleep well knowing I picked the best treatments available at the time for me. So Happy Anniversary to me (and to KerryMac!!!)

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


    I was diagnosed this month as well. Five years is indeed a huge milestone. I've got 2 more years to go and will be more than happy to not have that small daily BC reminder everytime I swallow that pill. Happy Anniversary and here's to many more! :)

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  • ahdjdbcjdjdbkf
    ahdjdbcjdjdbkf Member Posts: 645
    edited October 2013

    Great news, Mom! Thrilled to hear this. My sister who was stage IIa recently passed 11 years cancer free and 20 years since her initial diagnisis.

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  • sloyd66
    sloyd66 Member Posts: 202
    edited November 2013


    moman2kids thank you for that inspirations story. you hear ppl talking real positive after their ordeal, but no one really talk about yes I felt like this (crazy, scared, loosing my mind) when I was first dx. I'm awaiting my oncologist appt on Tuesday, and this ocontytpe test #. I hear the positive stuff, but still driving myself crazy on the unknown.

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  • sloyd66
    sloyd66 Member Posts: 202
    edited November 2013


    susan how did you do on the tamoxifin? I hear so many negative stuff about it i'm afraid if I have to take it. just think 5yrs is so long,

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  • msphil
    msphil Member Posts: 1,536
    edited November 2013

    sweetie, each year, each day cancer free is a miles stone, so Congrats, and many many more,claim it, I did in Jesus Name, am now a 19 yr Survivor, going into 20 yrs(Praise GOD) so speak it each and every day. msphil(idc,stage2, L mast, chemo and rads and 5 yrs on tamoxifen).

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  • whitbyjet
    whitbyjet Member Posts: 23
    edited November 2013

    Congrats! This week marks my 5 years out, too. I will continue on Tamoxifen for another six months, at least. I've had a horrible time on it, and have taken a few breaks (with oncologists OK). I was 41 at diagnosis. Even though I know this is a milestone, and am grateful for being here today, I can't help but feel a bit panicky about the whole thing. Anyone else feel this way? I will soon stop seeing the oncologist, I'm guessing after I stop the Tamoxifen. Maybe I'm having some PTSD, as it seems I'm reliving the dreaded phone call-after the biopsy-which I knew, too was going to be positive for cancer.

    At any rate, I wanted to say congrats to you and everyone else out there fighting this $#$## disease.

    D.

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  • ilovemykids
    ilovemykids Member Posts: 83
    edited November 2013


    I am five years out as well! I haven't been in this site in so long. I am off tamoxifen. It feels so great to feel normal again. I was dx in August 08.my last chemo was mid December 08. I heard that I can finally say I am in remission on the fifth anniversary of my last chemo treatment. Two weeks to go!

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