One year ago today

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nitewind
nitewind Member Posts: 64
edited June 2014 in HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer
One year ago today, I got the dreaded phone call, "you have cancer". I really didn't think I would see this day and without a lot of help and support from the ladies here on this board, I probably wouldn't have. I didn't think that I was strong enough to go through it, but you wonderful women showed me that I was wrong. I went thru all the tests, the needles, the surgery to remove the lump, the surgery for the port, the awful chemos, the terrible Neulasta shots, the changing of oncologists and the radiation, and here I am. I continue to get herceptin until at least December. I finally have a little hair and glory be.....I have eyelashes!! I've put away my wigs and scarves.

I've been feeling good and taking one day at a time. All of my tests as of late, Colonoscopy, endoscopy, heart scan and nuclear stress tests have all come back good.

I'm getting ready to leave for my herceptin infusion this morning but I couldn't let this day go by without offering my heart felt thanks to all of you.

I love you all
Susan
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  • mccarroll
    mccarroll Member Posts: 360
    edited May 2007
    Susan, Congrats on your anniversary! Do the Happy Feet Dance on the way to Herceptin. I had my one year on 5/9. Weird coincidence ... I spent the day at the hospital getting a barage of tests! All mine came back clear except the cat scan ... showed something on my thyroid so I have another ultrasound next Wednesday.

    I know how you feel about the hair and eyelashes. I don't feel so much like "Cancer Lady" anymore ... just an old lady with a really short, bad hair cut. But it blows in the wind.

    Karen
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  • lexi4
    lexi4 Member Posts: 1,074
    edited May 2007
    Susan,

    Congrats on your one year anniversary! I couldn't have gotten through this journey without all of you either. You are halfway done with your herceptin txs! Yippee!!!

    Hugs,
    Lexi
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  • lkc
    lkc Member Posts: 1,203
    edited May 2007
    Hi Honey,
    Congrats on your 1 yr, I am exactly @ 2 yrs, and I can tell you it just gets better.
    Enjoy the holiday weekend.
    God Bless,

    Linda
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  • maryannecb
    maryannecb Member Posts: 1,453
    edited May 2007
    Susan,
    wow, a year has passed. You did it. The last half of Herceptin is usaully not too bad at all.

    Glad to hear you are feeling strong and happy.

    Fists up!
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  • Chelee
    Chelee Member Posts: 513
    edited May 2007
    Susan, Big Congratulations on being a year out. I can totally understand how you felt when first DX. I felt the exact same way. I had all doom & gloom doctors. I swear...I thought I would be lucky to be alive 2 months after DX. They gave me no hope & gave me these "looks" like I didn't stand a chance. Here I sit at 1 yr & 5 months out from DX and I am doing pretty darned good all things considered. (Knock on wood.) So I can imagine how you must be feeling. Like you...WITHOUT THESE fantastic & awesome women here to save the day for me...I would of never gotten through all it of it as YOU said. I am so glad God guided me to this board.

    You will find the herceptin is a piece of cake compared to all you've been through. I am just thrilled all your scans and tests came back clear. Now its time you go out and celebrate and enjoy yourself...you certainly deserve it. Wishing you well and may you have a nice time walking down the road with NED for endless years to come. (You two will make a good couple.)


    Chelee
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  • mickey53
    mickey53 Member Posts: 6
    edited May 2007
    Yes it is quite a milestone to look at the calendar and remember that dreadful day one year ago (mine was May 18) and the whirlwind of medicine that assaults your body and mind for the next 8 months and then there's still Herceptin til November. Once that one year day was over I have done quite well to keep it together the rest of the month of May but the tears seem to be flowing quite often for no apparent reason other than I let them and feel better after. This year has been such a rollercoaster of emotions etc that I am never surprised by how I respond to anything anymore. I laugh, I cry, I vent but most of all I am hopeful and thankful to be alive. I am a changed person but it is a challenge not to slip back into some of those old patterns. I laughed the other day at Chemo, one of the other patients who is 74 and sadly a repeat BC after 12 years and I were chatting and I said I don't swear anymore and she retorted "Well I have started swearing". Each to his own but we certainly should rejoice to hit the 1 year mark and then the 2 year mark and on and on.

    Cecile
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