A lot to be thankful for today

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newter
newter Member Posts: 4,330
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
A lot to be thankful for today
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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited November 2007

    Today is Thanksgiving and my birthday.  I have to say that before BC I was a bit caught up in the age thing, dreading that next year that would put me on the downside of my 20s, 30s, etc. Today I turn 44 and am SO SO SO  glad I made it and doing OK so far!!! ((I actually wish I were older, lol).LaughingSmile

    Now I will competely welcome every birthday I get to celebrate.

    Have a great Thanksgiving everyone.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    I too have many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving :)....

    Im just past my one year mark of being dx'd with BC and this time last year I was fresh out of surgery for my lumpectomy to remove the beast and trying to do Thanksgiving dinner here for all my family as it was the original plan b4 being dx'd....what a day...I had to sit back and watch others do all the things that I would have been doing!!!!! So this year Im back in the saddle doing the holiday!!!!

    Not only doing the holiday but finishing off things for my daughters wedding Saturday.....THAT is what Im most thankful for....that I am here for her special day :)....

    Im thankful that I found this website within a couple of weeks after being dx'd...I have found the most amazing group of ladies/men that have supported me through thick and thin.....

    I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL holiday and for those of us not feeling up to par....you are all in my thoughts and prayers today as always...

    Hugs

    Jule

    PS.....Newter-HAPPY B-DAY WITH MANY MANY MORE TO COME!!!!

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  • Member_of_the_Club
    Member_of_the_Club Member Posts: 3,646
    edited November 2007

    I am thankful that all four biopsies I had this fall -- including the one that was expected to reveal a malignancy -- were benign and I can celebrate Thanksgiving without looking forward to more cancer treatment. I am thankful my niece has no signs of the brain cancer she was treated for two years ago. I am thankful my children are doing well, including my son who has an autistic spectrum disorder and has more than exceeded our expectations for his development. I am thankful to be alive and with the people I love.

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  • Caseysmom
    Caseysmom Member Posts: 507
    edited November 2007

    Happy Thanksgiving everyoneSmile!!!!

    Newter:  Happy Birthday and many more!!!

    Laura

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NEWTER!!!! I had mine 2 days ago....and turned freakin' 55! Made me so glad that I dropped my 42-yr old boyfriend and am now seeing a 59-yr old Wink!

    I have so much gratitude today and am especially happy for the health that I've been blessed with, my awesome daughter, my special friends and the fact that I don't want for anything.

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MY SISTERS!!!!

    ~Marin

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  • chemo072
    chemo072 Member Posts: 682
    edited November 2007

    Marin you crack me up!  Way to go on the dating!  Happy Birthday to you all, and I give thanks and thanks and thanks for this day. 

    I plan to eat, drink and be merry and take lots of painkillers for this darn rads burn pain - but I am so grateful that it will only get better from here as I'm done with rads! Woohoo!! 

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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited November 2007

    Thanks Everyone and

    Happy belated Birthday to you Marin, I hope it was a great one.  55 sounds great to me.

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  • celia088
    celia088 Member Posts: 2,570
    edited November 2007

    newter,

    Happy Birthday!!

    Happy Thanksgiving!!!

    newtie, your avatar pic makes you look 23!!!!  See you over in the games forum.

    hugs,

    celia 

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  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited November 2007

    Happy Birthday, Newter!!  I agree with Celia, you look so young.

    Marin, Happy Belated Birthday, I cannot believe you are 55.

    I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.  I'm here and so thankful for that.

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  • Harley44
    Harley44 Member Posts: 5,446
    edited November 2007

    Happy Birthday, Newter!

    Happy Belated Birthday, Marin!  Way to go on the boyfriend switch! 

    I am so very thankful today!  I am finished my chemo tx, and finished my surgeries,  had the recon. 2 weeks ago!, and just recently started the Tamoxifen, and so grateful that I have these treatment options available to me! 


    I am thankful every day that I am alive!  Yes, Newter, I also used to think... oh, no! another year older at my b-day... but this year, April 21st, after being dx'd in March with bc, I was happy to celebrate my b-day... I'm now 44, also!!

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!

    Harley

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  • Jorf
    Jorf Member Posts: 498
    edited November 2007

    I was on a walk up (and down and across) the hill behind our house with my husband yesterday and had lots of thoughts about giving thanks. The last time we did this walk, as much as I'd been working out and walked every day during treatment last year, I got really tired and out of breath. Not now. The last time we did this walk my husband was in a point of not liking me very much. Yesterday he stopped every few hundred feet to kiss me. Not long ago I didn't believe in the future at all. Now, I don't believe in it but not so completely don't believe. I am alive, healthy, my brain works fairly well, my husband and I are working through the problems that BC brought to a head, I love my job even tho I work WAY too many hours, hopefully my sister and I are working through some problems that came up with dueling catastrophes over the past year.

    Anyway, I'm coming out from under the worst two years of my life and I'm so much better than I ever dreamed I could be in the days prior to the two years ago date.  

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited November 2007





    HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU NEWTER!!!!!



    You sound great and look even better

    on your avatar there



    Keep on moving on a

    good path, hugs to you

    and your family




    Belated Happy Birthday to you Marin!!!! Hope this older
    man works out, my pal just told me to get a younger one LOL


    Grateful to be here




    Hugs

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  • LuAnnH
    LuAnnH Member Posts: 8,847
    edited November 2007

    Happy Birthday Newter and Marin!

    See the positive side of bc is we now like our birthdays!!!!

    As for you Marin, you go girl!  You are turning into quite the wild woman!  You met any eligible men that might take a liking to me????

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