continues to be here for you. Lean as hard as you need.

Wishing you the best with your treatment.

Consider trying Essiac tea. Very de-toxifying (yet mild and pleasant).

All the Best!

I’m sure it’s brought you this far and my best wishes to the finish line. ((hugs))

Otherwise it seems too daunting and frightening. I tell myself I just need to do this one thing and I don’t have to think about the other things.

Triple-negative breast cancer and she has said many times what you say..one day at a time. I’ve known both of them for over 40 years and she is doing fine now..check ups are good but she had chemo and radiation so her journey took some time. I hug her extra tight when I see her 🤗

It’s very sneaky and there’s always that risk.

My oncotype report says if I do the endocrine therapy my risk of distant recurrence (the fatal stuff) is only 3-4% at nine years. Why nine years as a measurement? Heck if I know. But hey here’s to nine more years, anyway.

The chemo seems so awful compared to radiation or even surgery so I was dreading it. I hate being sick to my stomach and the idea of losing my fingernails and toenails as well as all my hair seemed kind of disturbing.

Bless you for hugging her extra tight 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️

Hope she never has a recurrence. Yeah, between surgery, chemo, radiation, that’s most of a year filled with misery. But there’s no other choice, not really.

Blessings to you on your journey.

Happy Thanksgiving indeed! ❤️

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and beyond. I have a friend who has gone through a truly horrendous year with cancer but has emerged with good tests now. So here’s wishing you those same good tests.

Reading, I see people who are fighting cancer saying “fuck cancer” and I thought, how wonderful and cathartic to say that. So now I say that too. Fuck cancer.

Because none of us can know for sure. Just doing the treatments and hoping.

EVERYONE needs help sometimes.....yes INDEED

What a road this has been! I’m happy for your good news. Cancer indeed changes you. Mourn when you need to and celebrate when you can. Happy Thanksgiving. ❤️

Might sound strange, but that’s how I feel about it, they betrayed me and I am angry with them. And now they look ugly with fresh scars and swelling, frankenboobs. So I don’t much like them at the moment. But I’m sure I will come to terms with all of it, with what happened and the appearance of them and the risk of recurrence.

I did buy a nice holiday dress, some kind of faux stretchy green velvet, maxi length, and some cute boots. In defiance of the cancer. No matter how I feel, no matter where I am in the treatment, I am going to go out with friends for a nice holiday meal and I am going to wear my cute new dress and boots and celebrate.

Because life is short, might as well put on a nice outfit and celebrate with friends.

Strength for your journey - we are here to help you "carry on". Hugs.

I’m thinking there is a song that might be useful to me right about now if I can handle hearing it.

Just trying to carry on. We have no choice…

Getting knocked down is part of life,
Getting back up is living.

to see you here!

So glad no chemo!!!

I'm so grateful for you!

Lots of love!

I think a lot these days about the stories I was told as a child about how my body will have no aches or pains or sickness in heaven and I can’t help but think, hey, sounds cool, can I get that body now instead of having to wait?

Feel how you feel. Anger, sadness, grief, all part of the experience.

When I struggle. It’s pretty normal I think.

❤️❤️❤️

Why winning? Well, I've a close friend of ten years who had the same op as you but a more virulent cancer, and has gone through years of chemo and radiation. She never gave up (smoked lots of weed to help her sleep and eat) and is now in remission, with eyelashes and hair finally growing back. By witnessing her hard fight through these past years, I can only imagine how you feel. Maybe it's less like winning, and more like being part of a special club of spiritual strength, and now, longer life.

Long may you run, LiberalLoner. Have peaceful, happy holidays ahead !

Her mountain she had to climb is much steeper than my hill and I do need to count my blessings.

I told my husband, hey, all the women in my family get breast cancer, but they all beat it. Trying to ease his worry some. He tries to hide his worries and sadness from me, and I do the same with him. We try to be strong soldiers in front of one another. We met as soldiers in the same unit. We still behave as those soldiers, with the same values.

Thank you for the long may you run. I appreciate that, and you. ❤️

Sometimes I have a hard time facing my doctors after surgery because I know they have seen me naked and vulnerable, with all my many faults. I feel overwhelming shame when I see them, and the feelings of shame trigger a tsunami of self-hatred because I detest so much letting anyone see me naked. It’s a hard internal struggle I have, and I want to hide but that’s not what is best for me. Other people don’t mind being seen naked so much, but for me, it’s really hard.

to know that you'll soldier through this together. We're lucky to have service members here, and you're both appreciated. I'm glad he's stayed by your side through this. My friend's husband was depressed about his wife's body but he knew none of it was about him; that's when I learned how difficult it is for husbands, who step up to love the you that is not your body.
This naked thing is totally understandable. Maybe (?) try to think of it as temporary. Maybe consider even telling your doctors how you feel; you might be surprised at how they respond, maybe hear some pretty positive things about yourself. They know they're in the business of healing the whole person. (I told something similar to my doctor once before a yearly gynecological exam ( I was in my 50's) and I was surprised and relieved when he said, well, given how good your health's been, let's forget it, then, if you feel that way. So we never bothered with it again. Good guy, that one.)

You are loved as part of the DU family.

I am happy to hear you do not need chemo. Physically, it was the hardest part. Surgery was bad, radiation was tough and Estrogen blocking therapy was tough, but chemo was scary awful.

You will continue to mourn your former body. Please be sure you get evaluated for lymphedema, surgery and radiation are the reason for mine.

Take care of yourself and please check back in.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Alice Beth

Been to physical therapy, my doctor has been right on top of things and no lymphedema but this swelling in the left breast is sure taking it’s sweet time to resolve. I’m doing the lymphatic massages but I guess it’s just going to take more time.

Five weeks tomorrow so maybe I don’t need to panic too much yet about the swelling, maybe it will resolve in a few more weeks. It’s already much better than it was three weeks ago…at two weeks past surgery I had a block of concrete as a breast and I seriously wondered if the blood supply could function in such a grossly swollen piece of tissue. Now it’s feeling like regular flesh again, although still heavier and more swollen than I would like. So I’m telling myself not to worry just yet, let my body have a few more weeks to heal.

I’m sorry you had to go through chemo. Of everything I’ve read up on, that seemed the scariest. So I was relieved when the test showed less than a one percent benefit from chemo. No way they will recommend chemo with that low a benefit because the risks outweigh it. I mean I will wait to hear what my medical oncologist has to say, but there’s no way I could see the doctor recommending chemo.

I hope you never have to go through anything that awful ever again.

I hope you have a good Thanksgiving! I’m glad you beat the cancer. 🤗

Happy Thanksgiving!