Class of 2005, just saying hi

I'm in the class of 05 as well. Diagnosed 12/23/04 surgery March of 05, finished chemo 6/05 and revisions were complete 8/05 - what a difference a year makes. Thank you all for your help - and Saskia, welcome back.

Margaret

I'm a class of 2005 member, also.

I found the lump in 2002, but had a rotten hot-shot Boston doctor who told me it was nothing but a fluid filled cyst and made me feel like I was a whiner. Stupid me, I believed him or at least wanted to believe him.

It wasn't until we moved back to TN that I got the correct dx. That was in Feb. 2005. It was no fluid filled cyst...never was one. I still think of ways I can torture that *&^% Boston dr. But I stay more mad at myself.

I had a mastectomy on the 25th. AC started on March 31 and ended on May 30. No radiation. I'm on Arimidex and my little happy pill (Effexor). Like a lot of you I never thought this would happen to me. I pull my prosthesis out every morning and still wonder what happened. And look in a mirror, no thank you. I can't stand the sight.

I have a wonderful DH who has cared for, cried with and loved me through it all. He deserves better.

I'm still mad, sad, hurting from the SE's of Arimidex, losing my hair (again) and gaining weight. I'm always waiting for the other shoe to fall. People don't understand. It's something you just don't get over even if you look normal. All of you are the ones that really get it.

I've been on the boards sparely, but feel the need to participate more. And it's because ya'll (as we say in the south) "get it."

Thanks,

Betty

Havent been on this site much in a long time, and it is great to see familiar names!
I was dx Jan 2005, Stage I, 2 cm HER@ and ER +, had lumpectomy 2/7/05, 3 courses of A/C (which ruptured my appendix so no more A/C!) a year of Herceptin.. elective bilat mast with DIEP Jan 2006, going for final stage of DIEP (tatooing) Dec 19. Am in my 2nd year of Arimidex ( I have found TURMERIC capsules really help the joint pain from aromatase inhib!) Effexor helps keep my depression in check. but I still have hot flashes on Arimidex, even tho I went thru menopause before BC.

Two year anniversary coming up!! It's still scary sometimes... but, know what? I think of it as a mostly positive experience! It was my "sabbatical" from a crazy job and a lot of changes and stress (I am back to the crazy job.. for better or worse).. and I met so many womderful women like all of you! During Tx, had time to reflect and enjoy the simple pleasures in life... Now Im getting so busy, I fear I have lost that calm cenetered place I lived in during active treatment..
Do you experience this too?
Thanks to this website and to you all for the life saving support and comraderie during that crazy year of 2005.

Good for you!!!

I only had to work up the strength to write a check to the kid who shoveled ours...

Just found this thread.
I'm class 2005. DX March 2005 on St. Pat's Day. Mast & Recon on April 18th, Weekly chemo June~Nov(or was it Dec?).
But everything has been great since. I can't get onco to say remission yet-told me I had to wait until Feb 2007.
But everyhting else is good-I was lucky and got the nice curly hair which came in darker with less gray!
Linda I know what you mean about shoveling snow-I made the mistake of using the lawn mower one time this past summer-BAD IDEA! I was lucky the swelling went down without any extra problems. So I am staying away from the shovel-but then again I did fly to florida at the last minute when my father-in law died-didn't even think of the sleeve! No swelling at all. So who knows!
Bev

Wow...what a difference a year can make. Merry Christmas 05, you have cancer, Happy New Year, you get chemo, Happy Easter, you get a bilateral mast, happy Birthday you get 6 weeks of rads. Lets hear it for 2007 and moving upward and onward.
Hugs all
Vickie

Agreed! I hope 2007 is better for all of us!!!