Living on God Time

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VAY
VAY Member Posts: 29
edited June 2014 in Bonded by Breast Cancer

Hello all! I am an IBC survivor of six years this October! I had chemo, mastectomy, rads, tram flap reconstrucion, hysterectomy and am now on Arimidex for another six months. I had visited this website many times throughout my treatments but never used the chat rooms or discussion boards until now. Silly me! It has been great. Lots of information, fun and I feel like I have helped some women through my own experiences. Also, I know how important it was for me to talk to women who were still surviving so I keep chatting, but it is also important that as we finish our treatments, we stay in touch and continue to encourage each other so that is why I am posting. I would love to hear from all of you who have finished treatments, surgeries etc and are getting on with life. No one else can truly understand unless they have been there. Hope to hear from you soon! God Bless!

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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007
    I love this subject line, "Living on God Time"...isn't that true? We always are/have been/will be...we just didn't realize it as much until we had the cancer journey to make.
    I'm just over two years out and starting to live life again, without having this hanging over my head all the time. It's a new challenge as well, but one that is most interesting and rewarding.
    Thanks for starting this conversation and for the subject line...it made my day!

    C.
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited July 2007

    Good to see you posting! We can all use a little more help from our friends.

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  • LiveForToday
    LiveForToday Member Posts: 311
    edited July 2007
    I was just thru Gulf Breeze three weeks ago, going out to Pensacola Beach to eat at Flounders!! Love it!!
    Seen any UFO's lately??

    So happy you are able to move on and begin living your life again!! Thanks for sharing, we need hope daily!!

    huggs, Sherry

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    I will stand my ground....and I won't back down
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  • VAY
    VAY Member Posts: 29
    edited July 2007

    Love Flounders and Peg Leg Pete's! Things are really getting back on track after Ivan. No UFO's but I have run in to a few aliens in my travels!

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  • VAY
    VAY Member Posts: 29
    edited July 2007
    EachDay:
    Glad to have made your day! Life is so worth living and we should never take any of it for granted. Thanks for the reply and lets stay in touch!
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  • biondi
    biondi Member Posts: 223
    edited July 2007
    HI EACH DAY,
    ONE YEAR FOUR MONTH SURVIVOR! ONCE I PUT MY LIFE IN GOD'S HANDS, IT REALEASED MY FEAR. WHAT WILL BE WILL BE. AND I TRUST HE WILL BE THERE FOR ME, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
    HE GAVE ME THE COURAGE AND STRENGTH TO GET THROUGH THIS LAST YEAR AND MY FAITH IS STRONGER THAN EVER. HUGGS, BIONDI
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  • EachDay
    EachDay Member Posts: 400
    edited July 2007
    So much to learn through this disease, and most of it was good. I didn't love chemo or rads, but...I didn't hate them either. I embraced them and as with any difficult challenge, I made them as good as they could be. I had a great support system around me, strengthed myself with prayer and spirit and found that I was enjoying my life better than I had been before. Now, 2 years and growing from diagnosis, I am living a life I never dreamed I could but always wanted to. Believing in something other than yourself, believing that we have a path to follow makes such a difference...whether we have had breast cancer or not. I've come to appreciate each day, I wake knowing this one will be good, this is "the" one day where I can make a difference, discover a joy, hug my children, smile at a stranger. This was always within me...I just hadn't turned the key.

    My wish for everyone experiencing this journey and everyone who is not, is that they realize...every day is living on God time. One of my best friends sings this every morning...and now I understand why "this is the day the Lord hath made..."

    Wonderful to hear stories of people finding and strengthing faith and spirit on this journey!
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  • 2468
    2468 Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2007

    26 oct 2007 8;37am hello' I am a breast cancer survivor.This october it's been five years thank God. When i found out about my cancer i wanted it out of my body right away.four days later i had a part of my breast removed. with the cancer out of my body i felt like i could beat this diease . i had chemo and radiation for two years . it was the worst two years of my life. but everything that i went through God was holding my hand every step of the way. he let me survive this so i can give hope to other women who will get this disease God bless each and every one of you who has this disease.we all are living on God's time.

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  • rumoret
    rumoret Member Posts: 685
    edited November 2007

    I'm trying to live in the moment, because today is all I have a guarantee of. I want to cherish each day to the fullest....before it becomes a yesterday. I still set goals....but I don't want to forget to LIVE each of the many days that come before my goal. So often we are remembering yesterdays and thinking and planning our futures....that we forget how to live in the moment. I have learned only today can I count on, and I refused to waste the many MOMENTS of my day!



    Love to All,



    Terry

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  • karluway
    karluway Member Posts: 22
    edited December 2007

    I  four years ago have a lumpectomy on my right breast, now I have a recurrence,  invasive bcis.   January 2nd I am going for a mastectomy, I am very scare but my husband is not taking it very well.  He does not want for me to have my breast removed, he wants another option.  He doesn't want to believe I have cancer, the doctors are wrong, it is a conspiracy, he said .As painful as it is for me to loose my breast I am more concern with surviving and it hurt me to see him suffering.  It also upset me when he put doubts in my mind that perhaps I don't really have cancer and all of this is a mistake. Can anybody advise me, can tell me how can I confort him.   

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  • TenderIsOurMight
    TenderIsOurMight Member Posts: 4,493
    edited March 2008



    I'm sorry Karluway, that you have a recurrence after DCIS and that it's invasive.



    Typically after an initial lumpectomy when an in breast recurrence occurs, a mastectomy is then advised.



    Your situation is slightly different if I understand your two posts, but then your doctors need to give you their best opinion, as we don't have your facts.



    I'm sorry too for you and your husband, going through the loss of a breast. It is difficult, and causes mourning... Perhaps your husband might accompany you to your doctor, prior to surgery, so that he or she may share the medical details directly with him.



    It's especially important to try to clear up any "conspiracy" issues prior to your surgery. That should not be left unaddressed.



    Good luck to you and your spouse. Again, sorry this recurrence has happened.

    Tender

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  • logical
    logical Member Posts: 10
    edited January 2008

    The best moments of my life have been when I am living on God Time.

    Thank you

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