Success Stories!

Thank You Sunshineinky ~ May we all tell our own story someday.

My wife recently celebrated 1 year since she rang the bell at the place she did chemo.  She is doing well.

We attended a funeral recently for my dad's mom----she was a great lady and was just a few months shy of her 93rd birthday.  She lived a wonderful, full life.  Many years ago, she was treated for breast cancer.  I dunno.  Maybe 15 years ago.  It never came back.  And her passing had nothing to do with her once having has breast cancer.

My dad's cousin was there at the service. She had breast cancer at age 32 in 1986. 28 years later, she looks fantastic.  She had a mastectomy and chemo almost 3 decades ago and her hair and skin and shape and vitality were INCREDIBLE to behold.  She is doing wonderfully at 60.

Bless you all on your way to a full recovery.

Colt, info babe couldn't have said it better.  I have a husband like you and I don't know how I would've gotten through this without him.  And thanks for sharing the stories about your dad's mom and cousin.  My grandpa who passed last year at 98, his girlfriend is going to be 99 and she had breast cancer like 20 years ago.  She fell down some stairs recently and only ended up with bruises!  Docs credit her no broken bones to the years of tamoxifen, which strengthens bones, so there are some positives to be found in this diagnosis.  She still lives independently.

Bumping in honor of Colt45 because he ROCKS ! !

bumping for Tracy ~

My paternal Grandmother had a full mastectomy about age 45...no chemo, rads, drugs......she just died of old age at 96.  And after surviving my own TNBC this past year using only holistic methods, I'm hoping to be added to this list someday too ~  

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Bumping in honor of Srh242 because she knows how important this thread is ~

Love hearing this!!!

Shirley Temple Black had a mastectomy in 1972 (age 44) and talked about it publicly -- somewhat unusual at the time. She was one of the first celebrities to talk openly about breast cancer. She died in February of this year of natural causes at age 85.

I remember hearing a few years ago that her doctor was one of the first (if not the first) to recommend removal of ovaries for pre-menopausal breast cancer patients.

BC Sisters ~ Thank You so much for posting your inspiring stories !

Thank you so much for this thread. I have recently just finished treatments and desperately needed these stories to get me out of that dark feeling. I recently read up about a lady who lives in my hometown that was diagnosed back in 1994 while she was pregnant with a grade 3 tumour with 3 lymph nodes involved and that child she was expecting has just recently turned 20. She's doing really well. Occassionally she comes back and blogs about what she's been up to but she's mostly just out there living her life now.  My sister-in-law lives in a disability home and one of her carers was diagnosed with stage 3 with nodal involvement and that was 10 years ago, she's doing great also. My great-grandmother lives in a retirement village and there's at least 5 ladies that had mastectomies many years ago when they were younger and they're all going fine and enjoying their golden years, so they tell me. Keep the faith.

This thread is just what I needed. Hearing the stories of lengthy survivals after breast cancer does the soul good.

Love this inspirational thread! I'm nearly a year out from multifocal ER+ 3 tumors and 1DCIS. It was reading info and stories here that enabled me make informed tx decisions.

BCO helped me througth the darkest times(things you can't say to your family so you don't hurt them) - I had the tab always open no matter what else I was browsing. You helped me when I was scared:)

Thank you everyone 

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