Stage IV Good News

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  • kmygil
    kmygil Member Posts: 876 Member
    Such wonderful news!
    Hi Amy,
    I am so happy for you I burst into tears. If I hear of anyone else in this situation I will tell them of MSK and the HAI pump. Congratulations!
    Hugs,
    Kirsten
  • mom_2_3
    mom_2_3 Member Posts: 953 Member
    Thank You
    I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and good thoughts. This site was a lifesaver for me when I was first diagnosed. I remember staying up all night as I read through post after post. In return for that support I hope that I am able to offer hope and assistance to others in the same situation.

    In all honesty, I feel I have had it easy through most of this. Other than having cardiac arrest during one infusion, I came through relatively unscathed. My chemo side effects were minimal. I have been fortunate to have a most amazing sister that helped me and continues to help me even today when I have appointments by watching my children and helping me take care of my home. I remember when I was home immediately after my surgery and I was lying in my daughter's new bed in her new room. (She had just moved out of her toddler bed.) The only thing in her room was the bed and my sister literally painted the walls pink and hung the flowered wallpaper around me as I lay there. My mother-in-law has also been a bedrock of love and support for me and for our family.

    Before I was diagnosed with cancer I led a very hectic life. For my job I would travel around Europe and the British Isles. I went "Down Under." I went to 48 of the 50 states on business trips. I would leave Newark on a 6pm flight to London, land in the morning there, go to a morning/early afternoon meeting and then make it back to the airport to be on a flight back to the US that night. I did this many times. When I told my mother-in-law I was pregnant with our third she had real concerns about our ability to handle it. I had never really contemplated being a stay-at-home mom.

    During my treatments, however, my employer (for whom I had worked for 16 years and for whom I had been a stellar employee) let me go. I was told if I "wasn't ready to come back now, you can't come back at all." My husband and I discussed it and I couldn't really work the way I had, traveling around. So they terminated me. And that became the best thing to happen to me as I discovered how much I loved being there for my children all the time. I know I am fortunate to be in that position, but I don't think I would have, had it not been for my cancer.

    So, in some ways, cancer gave me more than it took away.
  • joemetz
    joemetz Member Posts: 493
    mom_2_3 said:

    Thank You
    I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and good thoughts. This site was a lifesaver for me when I was first diagnosed. I remember staying up all night as I read through post after post. In return for that support I hope that I am able to offer hope and assistance to others in the same situation.

    In all honesty, I feel I have had it easy through most of this. Other than having cardiac arrest during one infusion, I came through relatively unscathed. My chemo side effects were minimal. I have been fortunate to have a most amazing sister that helped me and continues to help me even today when I have appointments by watching my children and helping me take care of my home. I remember when I was home immediately after my surgery and I was lying in my daughter's new bed in her new room. (She had just moved out of her toddler bed.) The only thing in her room was the bed and my sister literally painted the walls pink and hung the flowered wallpaper around me as I lay there. My mother-in-law has also been a bedrock of love and support for me and for our family.

    Before I was diagnosed with cancer I led a very hectic life. For my job I would travel around Europe and the British Isles. I went "Down Under." I went to 48 of the 50 states on business trips. I would leave Newark on a 6pm flight to London, land in the morning there, go to a morning/early afternoon meeting and then make it back to the airport to be on a flight back to the US that night. I did this many times. When I told my mother-in-law I was pregnant with our third she had real concerns about our ability to handle it. I had never really contemplated being a stay-at-home mom.

    During my treatments, however, my employer (for whom I had worked for 16 years and for whom I had been a stellar employee) let me go. I was told if I "wasn't ready to come back now, you can't come back at all." My husband and I discussed it and I couldn't really work the way I had, traveling around. So they terminated me. And that became the best thing to happen to me as I discovered how much I loved being there for my children all the time. I know I am fortunate to be in that position, but I don't think I would have, had it not been for my cancer.

    So, in some ways, cancer gave me more than it took away.

    wow!
    Thanks for sharing your story about your career.

    I feel much like you. I purchased the family printing business with my brother from our dad about 17 years ago. Back then we had about 18 employees.

    Over the past 17 years, we grew the business... worked hard, and thought we were having the time of our life. Became a workaholic and succeeded at growing the business coninuously... today we have a bit over 100 employees and the place runs 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. It's crazy.

    I too was burning it at both ends, and chasing the wrong stuff for the past decade.
    my cancer was dx'd in November 2011... last month my wife (of 23 years) told me that for the first time in our marriage... she felt as though her and my four kids were AHEAD of work.

    that made my day, week, month and year!

    I hate Cancer, but it definately has changed my life.
    and i hope to beat the crap out of this cancer and live a new life where my focus is on the right people... not things.


    thanks again for sharing.

    my best

    joe
  • Eltina21
    Eltina21 Member Posts: 173 Member
    Good News
    Hallelujah, I am so happy for you. Enjoy living.

    Peace and Blessings,
    Karen
  • tko683
    tko683 Member Posts: 264 Member
    mom_2_3 said:

    Thank You
    I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and good thoughts. This site was a lifesaver for me when I was first diagnosed. I remember staying up all night as I read through post after post. In return for that support I hope that I am able to offer hope and assistance to others in the same situation.

    In all honesty, I feel I have had it easy through most of this. Other than having cardiac arrest during one infusion, I came through relatively unscathed. My chemo side effects were minimal. I have been fortunate to have a most amazing sister that helped me and continues to help me even today when I have appointments by watching my children and helping me take care of my home. I remember when I was home immediately after my surgery and I was lying in my daughter's new bed in her new room. (She had just moved out of her toddler bed.) The only thing in her room was the bed and my sister literally painted the walls pink and hung the flowered wallpaper around me as I lay there. My mother-in-law has also been a bedrock of love and support for me and for our family.

    Before I was diagnosed with cancer I led a very hectic life. For my job I would travel around Europe and the British Isles. I went "Down Under." I went to 48 of the 50 states on business trips. I would leave Newark on a 6pm flight to London, land in the morning there, go to a morning/early afternoon meeting and then make it back to the airport to be on a flight back to the US that night. I did this many times. When I told my mother-in-law I was pregnant with our third she had real concerns about our ability to handle it. I had never really contemplated being a stay-at-home mom.

    During my treatments, however, my employer (for whom I had worked for 16 years and for whom I had been a stellar employee) let me go. I was told if I "wasn't ready to come back now, you can't come back at all." My husband and I discussed it and I couldn't really work the way I had, traveling around. So they terminated me. And that became the best thing to happen to me as I discovered how much I loved being there for my children all the time. I know I am fortunate to be in that position, but I don't think I would have, had it not been for my cancer.

    So, in some ways, cancer gave me more than it took away.

    So Happy for you and your family
    I love your story and good news! It really it nice to come on here and read a story like yours. It is so inspiring and uplifting. I am very happy for you and so glad that your life is not so hectic anymore. Shame on any company for firing someone because of cancer treatment but it sounds like it worked out for the best for you. Take good care, Tero