Nine Years from Stage IIIC!!!

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  • oddducklady
    oddducklady Member Posts: 58
    edited June 2014

    My husband was dx with Stage III C in March this year. Your post gives me hope although complications from the chemo have caused them to stop treatment right now. Thanks for sharing some positive thoughts.

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  • hopefour
    hopefour Member Posts: 459
    edited June 2014

    Ikc...thank you for sharing so much of your story..it was like you pulled up a chair and shared a cup of tea in hopes to encourage us all!! Thank you! What you wrote was a comfort to me and left me more hopeful as I daily live. Please stop by again!!

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  • victoriasecret
    victoriasecret Member Posts: 333
    edited June 2014

    HEY ! big congrats !! you know you were one of my lights when I arrived here. I will forever be grateful for your kind words letting me know I would be OK ...much love and light Cheryl !!!

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  • StefS
    StefS Member Posts: 157
    edited June 2014

    Congrats Linda! :)

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  • SpunkyGirl
    SpunkyGirl Member Posts: 1,568
    edited June 2014

    I have always been inspired by your heartfelt and healing posts, Linda.  To go through that walk with your mom, and then deal with it yourself, tells us volumes about your character and strength.   I would love someday to have a weekend with you to muse over it all.  My DH was diagnosed with cancer first, and then I hit the unlucky lottery three years later, so I can identify a little.  Life is a beautiful, magical journey!

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  • NancyD
    NancyD Member Posts: 3,562
    edited June 2014

    Wonderful to hear your anniversary has come YET AGAIN. I love to read it every year. Don't stop letting us know how you're doing, OK?

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  • Naomi12475
    Naomi12475 Member Posts: 253
    edited June 2014

    I am sooooo very happy for you!  I can't wait to be a gramma.  I hope to be posting for 20 years and out.  :)

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  • Naomi12475
    Naomi12475 Member Posts: 253
    edited June 2014

    Hey here is my new pic....from my daughters wedding in Hawaii :)

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  • Lovemyboysandlabs
    Lovemyboysandlabs Member Posts: 83
    edited June 2014

    This was good for me to read! I was dx HER2+ Stage IIIA and just had my last chemo on Monday. Now I am on to surgery. While I am so happy to be finished with chemo, I am a bit nervous of the future due to the aggressiveness of the tumor I had. My mind is wandering back to that dark place it visited when I found out I had cancer. I am scared of recurrence, which I've heard is very normal at this stage in the game. I told myself I would focus on survivor stories now and that will inspire me not to spend my days worrying. Thank you for sharing!

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  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited June 2014

    Thank you  for your kind responses. Especially "the old timers". I remember you all and am so happy to " see"  you again. To the new ladies:

     It all gets better. There are LOTS of us out there living life to the max!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2014

    lkc, that is simply awesome!  Congratulations!

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  • Carolehebert
    Carolehebert Member Posts: 14
    edited June 2014

    You just made me cry I was diagnosed 3a and felt my life was over I felt so alone so angry Thanks for giving me hope!

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  • Sherriebrundage
    Sherriebrundage Member Posts: 11
    edited March 2015

    hi I'm new to here and a little scared I have finished all my treatments and have talked to my doctor about my BC. She has told me that more then likely it will come back if it's not some place already as it is fast growing !! I have told my kids and husband so they all no what mite happen in the next few years it was prob the hardest thing I have ever done in my life !! I asked my doctor if there are anymore tests that they will do on me and she said no just a check up every 6 months !! But I have to watch for signs till then as the cancer if there is to small for them to see right now !! I have just finished radiation March 9 and have been dealing with head aches every day really bad ones now I am and alway have been prone to head aches all my life !! But a little worried that it has spread to my brain or something !! I guess we are all a little nerves that it's some place else after we are finished treatment !!! Please any one else going through this or has been through this let me know what you have done !! Feeling mad, sad and very scared Breast Cancer Sucks !!! It's been a long 9 months !!!!

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  • Deblc
    Deblc Member Posts: 479
    edited March 2015

    Sherrie welcome to BCO, it is a great board for support. I am a little confused about what your doctor has told you. You haven't put in your stats so I don't know what stage you were diagnosed. But from my understanding, unless you are Stage IV, no doctor can be sure that "more than likely" the cancer will recur. What is her reason for saying that?

    We all worry abut it coming back. I just finished treatment too, and every little ache and pain, I worry it's cancer. I have no words of wisdom as to dealing with it, as I struggle with it too. All my doctors tell me the same thing "live your life", but it's really hard not to worry.


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  • Sherriebrundage
    Sherriebrundage Member Posts: 11
    edited March 2015

    I'm stage 3 grade 3 high risk by the looks of thing we have the same BC it's just hard and find it yarded every day !!!

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  • YATCOMW
    YATCOMW Member Posts: 664
    edited March 2015


    Sherrie.....

    Hang in there and don't listen to that doctor.....seriously.  Mine was worse than yours.......twice the size (mine 8 cm) and 17 nodes positive..... plus a bunch of other bad things.....grade 3.

    In two more months I will hit 11 years.  I had some of those same doom and gloom doctors and I ran from them.....finally settled on one that my cancer didn't scare him.

    Live your life like it's never coming back......never......and only deal with it when or if it does. 

    I know it is very hard......it was very hard for most of us......but once you get more time on your side things will start to look up and you will believe you can be 11 years out too.

    Hang in there.

    Jacqueline

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  • Deblc
    Deblc Member Posts: 479
    edited March 2015

    Jacqueline......so happy to hear your news, it's stories like these that we newbies have to hold on to.

    I was just about to reply to Sherrei to say:

    I think it's pretty irresponsible for your doctor to say for sure that "more than likely it will come back". NO ONE can predict who will recur, or when. Stage III does not mean that it will automatically go to Stage IV. There are other people who are more knowledgable than me who can explain all of this. Hopefully they will chime in. My doctor told me that she has seen Stage I progress rapidly to Stage IV, Stage III's who never recur and, more and more, Stage IV's who live with good quality of life for 10 years....and that NO ONE can predict what will happen for each individual person, no matter what the stats are. Please look up the long term survivor threads on this board, I go to those for hope when I'm feeling down.

    I know I was severely depressed when I was diagnosed with Stage III, a large tumour (7cm)and 12 nodes positive. I felt the same as you, that it was guaranteed to recur. I still worry about it, but trying not to, although it's very hard. I am trying VERY HARD to live with the mindset that I am and will be OK.

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  • sugarplum
    sugarplum Member Posts: 318
    edited March 2015

    Sherrie - I will be hitting 9 years next month - and just look at my stats! Luckily I had a fantastic surgeon who did not seem horrified by my path report. To be honest, I have wasted lots of precious time & energy obsessing about recurrence - but that's where these wonderful posts come in.

    I hope in 9 years you will be reading these from where I am, and posting your encouragement to other newbies!

    All the best, Julie 

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  • Sherriebrundage
    Sherriebrundage Member Posts: 11
    edited March 2015

    thank you so much for all you that have commented it sure makes a person feel way better about life !!!

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  • lexi4
    lexi4 Member Posts: 1,074
    edited March 2015


    Yay lkc!! I am so happy to see your inspirational post!! We were on this stinky walk together and you always gave me hope!

     

    I wish you many more happy and healthy years ahead!!

     

    Hugs,

    Lexi

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  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited March 2015

    HEY LEXI, SO GREAT TO 'SEE YOU'.

    Ladies. I am so happy to see my post has helped some of you.

    Please don't overlook all of the "old timers' that chimed in too. There are many many of us out there.

    and It's a glorious club.

    In only 2 short months.I will be back CELEBRATING MY TEN YEARS!!!!!!! (to think back in 2005 I prayed to make it to one year)

    LIFE IS GOOD !


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  • Ninja6812
    Ninja6812 Member Posts: 31
    edited April 2015

    Thank you for sharing :) 11 years is wonderful news and I signed on tonight to find some encouragement.


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  • goutlaw
    goutlaw Member Posts: 283
    edited April 2015

    Are u on any hormonal therapy now or are u off of it?

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  • Deblc
    Deblc Member Posts: 479
    edited April 2015
    • IKC you don't know how inspiring this is, as I seem to have the exact diagnosis as you. Hoping I will be posting 10 years (at least) from now !!
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  • AnewBeginning
    AnewBeginning Member Posts: 536
    edited July 2015

    Ninja

    I sent you a Private Message.

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  • 123JustMe
    123JustMe Member Posts: 385
    edited July 2015
    IKC you are an inspiration! Thanks for sharing and please help find the cure for this horrific disease.
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  • JenPam
    JenPam Member Posts: 176
    edited July 2015

    What an encouraging thread--it's wonderful to read!

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  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited July 2015

    Thanks to all. I am now in the 10 years club! see you all there!

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  • Deblc
    Deblc Member Posts: 479
    edited July 2015

    Was waiting for your 10 year post IKC...... GREAT GREAT GREAT, keep them coming every year !!!!!

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  • AliceS
    AliceS Member Posts: 98
    edited August 2015

    To IKC---ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!!!!!!!! Makes us all feel good!!!

    Life is good---ENJOY and be thankful!!

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