Success Stories!

The mother of one good friend of my fiancé had cancer when she was young, got treated, and delivered the friend of my fiancé. She is now still alive

Bumping for Toni . . .

Hieveryone, need to hear updates from long time survivors again ... please keep on updating this wonderful thread .. it gives a lot of hope to us newly diagnosed people !!

Michelle you are such an encouragement. Thank you.

Carmelle aka Michelle thank you so much for posting and congratulations on your success!

Bumping for Linda . . .

Hi everyone! Just wanted to pop on this thread and quickly share my story for those new here! I know reading through these posts in my days after diagnosis really helped calm me down.

This past Tuesday, May 21, was the first anniversary of my double mastectomy. It was also the first anniversary of me being cancer free!

January 2018 I noticed I was constantly tired, no matter how’s much sleep I got I was exhausted, like I had a new born again exhausted. Then in March I went in for my yearly gyno appointment (which I was 7 months late for), and that’s when my doctor said the words “this spot on your breast feels funny to me”. I knew in that moment it wasn’t good, I had this feeling in my gut that things were going to get bad. I thank my lucky stars my dr made me go get a mammogram (which showed nothing) and then a ultrasound (which found the spot and led to a biopsy) right then and there. I was only 33 at this time so many doctors would have been like come back in 6 months we’ll see if it changes. April 18, 2018, diagnosis day. The same dr who delivered my baby not even two years prior called to deliver this news, breast cancer. The next month was a whirlwind of tests, scans, bloodwork, and dr appointments.

I chose the surgery I did because I had to give myself the biggest peace of mind going forward. Can it come back? Sure. Hopefully it doesn’t, but I’m getting to the point where it isn’t the first thing I think about every morning and the last thing at night. I also did not need radiation and my oncotype score was a 14 so it took chemo off the table. I’m one year into tamoxifen and doing well.

I remember being in your shoes, scared, angry, anxious. And trust me all those emotions come flooding back all the time. I wanted to make sure to come back here, now a year later, to share my story because most survivors are out there living life so since we don’t often hear from them we don’t think they exist! But we do!

I got through this and you will too!

Bumping for Vicki . . .

Ladies (and any gentlemen too)

It was the posts from long-term survivors such as MsPhil and Chrissy B and people a few years ahead of me such as Special K that kept me going - and people such as Moonflower and Farmer Lucy who were going through it with me that kept me going in 2012. We all still post from time to time.

It would be wonderful to hear from even more long-term survivors.

Best wishes to everyone going through this.

Alice x

SGreenarch

Thank you so much for giving other people hope.

Alice

I just passed 10 years since diagnosis and feel better than ever. I was on Tamoxifen for 5 years, and have been on Femara for 4 years. One more year on Femara, then I'll fly solo. Best wishes to all the wonderful ladies on these boards.

Bumping for Stacie . . .