end of treatment celebration

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disneyfan2008
disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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Just curious if others like myself treated themselves to anything special when treatments were over????!

I planned my first "GIRLS ONLY" trip to Disney World! As you can tell from my sign in I LOVE DISNEY...soon as all my BC started I planned this trip (LONG OVER due with friend) Each day I was at radiation I would lay and think MICKEY MICKEY...it helped me to have a goal at the end. I know mine was a big thing-but curious how others CELEBRATED BIG OR SMALL?!!!!

It helped me through with something special at the end...

Denise

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  • survivorbc09
    survivorbc09 Member Posts: 4,374 Member
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    I think celebrations are the
    I think celebrations are the perfect way to celebrate all that we go thru. My husband took me to the Caribbean where we just relaxed, drank, ate, soaked up the sun and just enjoyed being with each other.


    I didn't know he had it planned, so, it was a huge surprise and just what WE needed.


    Jan
  • Gabe N Abby Mom
    Gabe N Abby Mom Member Posts: 2,413
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    I signed up to do the local
    I signed up to do the local Relay for Life. The survivors dinner is on my last day of rads...you bet I'm going!

    Hugs,

    Linda
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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    survivorbc09 said:

    I think celebrations are the
    I think celebrations are the perfect way to celebrate all that we go thru. My husband took me to the Caribbean where we just relaxed, drank, ate, soaked up the sun and just enjoyed being with each other.


    I didn't know he had it planned, so, it was a huge surprise and just what WE needed.


    Jan

    wow nice surprise...
    I am the only planner in my family....so if I dont'....we dont' go anyplace..hehe..
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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    Gabe N Abby Mom said:

    I signed up to do the local
    I signed up to do the local Relay for Life. The survivors dinner is on my last day of rads...you bet I'm going!

    Hugs,

    Linda

    NIce....
    I did my first walk ever on my first cruise ever...cancer walk on the ship deck...many joined in...
  • joannstar
    joannstar Member Posts: 403 Member
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    Doing Relay for Life
    Like Gabe N Abby Mom, I will be walking as a SURVIVOR and having dinner at our Relay For Life in Plantation FL on April 1st--which will be my first day post treatment (as a triple negative I will only be scheduled for quarterly checkups after I complete rads on 3/31/11)!
    I'm sure there will be other celebrations (like dinner out with my hubby), but the RFL event is the demarcation line for me of "graduating from treatement".
    JoAnn
  • Hippiechick58
    Hippiechick58 Member Posts: 320
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    joannstar said:

    Doing Relay for Life
    Like Gabe N Abby Mom, I will be walking as a SURVIVOR and having dinner at our Relay For Life in Plantation FL on April 1st--which will be my first day post treatment (as a triple negative I will only be scheduled for quarterly checkups after I complete rads on 3/31/11)!
    I'm sure there will be other celebrations (like dinner out with my hubby), but the RFL event is the demarcation line for me of "graduating from treatement".
    JoAnn

    My husband has a Panama
    My husband has a Panama Canal Cruise planned for October. Hopefully I will be finishing up tx by then. I am soo excited to travel again! We are stopping in Aruba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Columbia.

    I hope everyone who finishes tx gets to have a special trip to celebrate!

    Dianne
  • disneyfan2008
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    Hippiechick58 said:

    My husband has a Panama
    My husband has a Panama Canal Cruise planned for October. Hopefully I will be finishing up tx by then. I am soo excited to travel again! We are stopping in Aruba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Columbia.

    I hope everyone who finishes tx gets to have a special trip to celebrate!

    Dianne

    NICE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    NICE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  • KAlford
    KAlford Member Posts: 2
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    My Mother Did!
    My mother recently finished treatment and we suprised her with a trip to Siesta Key with her best friend. I will say we were a little worried with it being so early after she had completed Chemo. But, she has always been a fighter and she was so excited! We did get her an alert one medical alert just in case something were to happen. Luckily she had an amazing time with no issues, but it was nice to have the piece of mind that a system was in place if something were to happen. Just an idea for those of you with elderly parents.
  • beetle25
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    disneyfan2008 said:

    NICE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    NICE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    I actually went on a
    I actually went on a shopping trip three days before the end of my treatment to celebrate the end of radiation. I am now training for a 1/2 marathon which I am going to run at the end of April in Nashiville. I am doing the ACS DetermiNation run.
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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    KAlford said:

    My Mother Did!
    My mother recently finished treatment and we suprised her with a trip to Siesta Key with her best friend. I will say we were a little worried with it being so early after she had completed Chemo. But, she has always been a fighter and she was so excited! We did get her an alert one medical alert just in case something were to happen. Luckily she had an amazing time with no issues, but it was nice to have the piece of mind that a system was in place if something were to happen. Just an idea for those of you with elderly parents.

    very nice...
    I am sure she'll have the time of her life....
  • DianeBC
    DianeBC Member Posts: 3,881 Member
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    disneyfan2008 said:

    NIce....
    I did my first walk ever on my first cruise ever...cancer walk on the ship deck...many joined in...

    We went to the mountains and
    We went to the mountains and stayed in a beautiful log home! It was absolutely breathtaking! My husband planned the whole thing for me.

    Hugs, Diane
  • cahjah75
    cahjah75 Member Posts: 2,631
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    Denise
    congrats on finishing and boy do I wish I had planned something like a girls only trip to Disney. Alas, I'm watching my 3 & 5 year old granddaughters Mon - Fri while my daughter is student teaching....... a trip will have to wait )-:
    Char
  • missrenee
    missrenee Member Posts: 2,136 Member
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    cahjah75 said:

    Denise
    congrats on finishing and boy do I wish I had planned something like a girls only trip to Disney. Alas, I'm watching my 3 & 5 year old granddaughters Mon - Fri while my daughter is student teaching....... a trip will have to wait )-:
    Char

    Two Special Events
    Went on a 12-day trip to Kauai with my husband--the love of my life. Had the time of our lives.

    Then about a month later did a Race For the Cure walk here in Phoenix with my husband, son, daughter-in-law, local girlfriend and husband and two girlfriends flew in and surprised me--one from NJ and the other from FL. Very meaningful and emotional.

    Hugs, Renee
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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    cahjah75 said:

    Denise
    congrats on finishing and boy do I wish I had planned something like a girls only trip to Disney. Alas, I'm watching my 3 & 5 year old granddaughters Mon - Fri while my daughter is student teaching....... a trip will have to wait )-:
    Char

    Char:
    I can relate with grandsons...mine our 4 & 6 ! They moved in with us just over year ago with their mom. She was working 2-3 part time jobs and part time college. She just got full time work and college part time nights. SO I do much of child care. I drop one daily am sitter for bus and then after work I pick up at day care and then another stop at family member. They go on most every vacation with us! (mainly want them and sometimes mom has no one else to watch) so we plan our vacations around them....but LOVE IT...

    At the time of my BC etc..she was living in her own apartment so I was not tied down quite as much..

    Disney girls trip was the best...(First time ever) it was so much fun year later did one with different friend!

    (grandsons have been 2x Disney & ask daily -when are we going to see Mickey?)

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