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  • dixchi
    dixchi Member Posts: 431
    #22
    Shout
    That is wonderful news....remember when I heard NED,
    I hung up the phone and shouted as loud as I could...
    several times......it felt so GOOD....then I danced
    around the house.....it is such a great emotional
    boost after going through surgery, and chemo and
    all the lousy stuff that goes with that. Congrats.

    Barbara
  • Glv49
    Glv49 Member Posts: 206 Member
    #23
    That is great news! I got
    That is great news! I got my good news today too. Isn't it wonderful to be dancing with NED. .. lol go out and celebrate you deserve it.

    Love,
    Gail
  • kmygil
    kmygil Member Posts: 876 Member
    #24
    So happy!
    I'm so happy for you! NED is a wonderful name!!!!

    Hugs,
    Kirsten
  • Hatshepsut
    Hatshepsut Member Posts: 336 Member
    #25
    kmygil said:

    So happy!
    I'm so happy for you! NED is a wonderful name!!!!

    Hugs,
    Kirsten

    Thank You.
    More than you can know, I have appreciated your many notes of congratulation and encouragement.

    As many of you counseled us in those notes, we seized the opportunity to celebrate our good news. After three years of ever-present stress, we had a bottle of champagne, ate our favorite Indian comfort food and enjoyed an early bedtime--sleeping for hours and hours without the bad dreams that have marred so many nights.

    Personally, it has been an awful three years since my husband's diagnosis, made more difficult for me by the fact that I lost my father to cancer (multiple myeloma) many years ago. For my father, there were few treatments, very little hope and no insurance. His death devastated my family. Because of that experience, it has been very difficult for me to embrace the fact that cancer treatments and/or complementary treatments make hopeful prognoses possible--even for people who are diagnosed with stage IV disease.

    To be honest with you, though, I posted our news with a certain amount of guilt and reluctance. I am acutely aware that everyone on this board needs good news. Everyone on this board (and every family member of people on this board) desperately wants to sit in their oncologist's office and be told that they are NED. This time, it was my husband's turn, but I truly believe that many of you who are fighting valiantly will have your turns, too.

    Thank you for celebrating with us yesterday but know that my husband's good medical news is good medical news for us all.

    Thank you, too, to the American Cancer Society and the members of this board for insisting that this board be a safe, comforting, and informed place where anyone in our diverse world who suffers from this awful disease can feel welcome and accepted. Colon cancer does not discriminate; it's ravages transcend our differences.

    Hatshepsut
  • qwe
    qwe Member Posts: 124
    #26
    Hatshepsut said:

    Thank You.
    More than you can know, I have appreciated your many notes of congratulation and encouragement.

    As many of you counseled us in those notes, we seized the opportunity to celebrate our good news. After three years of ever-present stress, we had a bottle of champagne, ate our favorite Indian comfort food and enjoyed an early bedtime--sleeping for hours and hours without the bad dreams that have marred so many nights.

    Personally, it has been an awful three years since my husband's diagnosis, made more difficult for me by the fact that I lost my father to cancer (multiple myeloma) many years ago. For my father, there were few treatments, very little hope and no insurance. His death devastated my family. Because of that experience, it has been very difficult for me to embrace the fact that cancer treatments and/or complementary treatments make hopeful prognoses possible--even for people who are diagnosed with stage IV disease.

    To be honest with you, though, I posted our news with a certain amount of guilt and reluctance. I am acutely aware that everyone on this board needs good news. Everyone on this board (and every family member of people on this board) desperately wants to sit in their oncologist's office and be told that they are NED. This time, it was my husband's turn, but I truly believe that many of you who are fighting valiantly will have your turns, too.

    Thank you for celebrating with us yesterday but know that my husband's good medical news is good medical news for us all.

    Thank you, too, to the American Cancer Society and the members of this board for insisting that this board be a safe, comforting, and informed place where anyone in our diverse world who suffers from this awful disease can feel welcome and accepted. Colon cancer does not discriminate; it's ravages transcend our differences.

    Hatshepsut

    Congratulations on the good
    Congratulations on the good news.I also got good news today I made
    a post same title as yours you can read it if you want it has been a long
    fight and still healing.
  • dmdwins
    dmdwins Member Posts: 454 Member
    #27
    Hatshepsut said:

    Thank You.
    More than you can know, I have appreciated your many notes of congratulation and encouragement.

    As many of you counseled us in those notes, we seized the opportunity to celebrate our good news. After three years of ever-present stress, we had a bottle of champagne, ate our favorite Indian comfort food and enjoyed an early bedtime--sleeping for hours and hours without the bad dreams that have marred so many nights.

    Personally, it has been an awful three years since my husband's diagnosis, made more difficult for me by the fact that I lost my father to cancer (multiple myeloma) many years ago. For my father, there were few treatments, very little hope and no insurance. His death devastated my family. Because of that experience, it has been very difficult for me to embrace the fact that cancer treatments and/or complementary treatments make hopeful prognoses possible--even for people who are diagnosed with stage IV disease.

    To be honest with you, though, I posted our news with a certain amount of guilt and reluctance. I am acutely aware that everyone on this board needs good news. Everyone on this board (and every family member of people on this board) desperately wants to sit in their oncologist's office and be told that they are NED. This time, it was my husband's turn, but I truly believe that many of you who are fighting valiantly will have your turns, too.

    Thank you for celebrating with us yesterday but know that my husband's good medical news is good medical news for us all.

    Thank you, too, to the American Cancer Society and the members of this board for insisting that this board be a safe, comforting, and informed place where anyone in our diverse world who suffers from this awful disease can feel welcome and accepted. Colon cancer does not discriminate; it's ravages transcend our differences.

    Hatshepsut

    No guilt
    What a beautiful thank you note.Please do not feel guilt(we have enough of that already)Not only am I so happy for your husband and yourself but it gives hope to me that NED is possible for years after a Stage iv diagnosis. My scan is in 2 weeks and each NED story gives me hope that I might be there also.


    Celebrate,Celebrate,Celebrate!

    Dawn
  • daydreamer110761
    daydreamer110761 Member Posts: 487 Member
    #28
    Hatshepsut said:

    Thank You.
    More than you can know, I have appreciated your many notes of congratulation and encouragement.

    As many of you counseled us in those notes, we seized the opportunity to celebrate our good news. After three years of ever-present stress, we had a bottle of champagne, ate our favorite Indian comfort food and enjoyed an early bedtime--sleeping for hours and hours without the bad dreams that have marred so many nights.

    Personally, it has been an awful three years since my husband's diagnosis, made more difficult for me by the fact that I lost my father to cancer (multiple myeloma) many years ago. For my father, there were few treatments, very little hope and no insurance. His death devastated my family. Because of that experience, it has been very difficult for me to embrace the fact that cancer treatments and/or complementary treatments make hopeful prognoses possible--even for people who are diagnosed with stage IV disease.

    To be honest with you, though, I posted our news with a certain amount of guilt and reluctance. I am acutely aware that everyone on this board needs good news. Everyone on this board (and every family member of people on this board) desperately wants to sit in their oncologist's office and be told that they are NED. This time, it was my husband's turn, but I truly believe that many of you who are fighting valiantly will have your turns, too.

    Thank you for celebrating with us yesterday but know that my husband's good medical news is good medical news for us all.

    Thank you, too, to the American Cancer Society and the members of this board for insisting that this board be a safe, comforting, and informed place where anyone in our diverse world who suffers from this awful disease can feel welcome and accepted. Colon cancer does not discriminate; it's ravages transcend our differences.

    Hatshepsut

    everyone love good news
    It's always encouraging to hear another person is NED - so congrats on the great news!
  • mom_2_3
    mom_2_3 Member Posts: 953 Member
    #29
    So happy to hear
    So happy to hear such wonderful news!! What a loving wife your husband has!

    Amy
  • CherylHutch
    CherylHutch Member Posts: 1,375
    #30
    Hatshepsut said:

    Thank You.
    More than you can know, I have appreciated your many notes of congratulation and encouragement.

    As many of you counseled us in those notes, we seized the opportunity to celebrate our good news. After three years of ever-present stress, we had a bottle of champagne, ate our favorite Indian comfort food and enjoyed an early bedtime--sleeping for hours and hours without the bad dreams that have marred so many nights.

    Personally, it has been an awful three years since my husband's diagnosis, made more difficult for me by the fact that I lost my father to cancer (multiple myeloma) many years ago. For my father, there were few treatments, very little hope and no insurance. His death devastated my family. Because of that experience, it has been very difficult for me to embrace the fact that cancer treatments and/or complementary treatments make hopeful prognoses possible--even for people who are diagnosed with stage IV disease.

    To be honest with you, though, I posted our news with a certain amount of guilt and reluctance. I am acutely aware that everyone on this board needs good news. Everyone on this board (and every family member of people on this board) desperately wants to sit in their oncologist's office and be told that they are NED. This time, it was my husband's turn, but I truly believe that many of you who are fighting valiantly will have your turns, too.

    Thank you for celebrating with us yesterday but know that my husband's good medical news is good medical news for us all.

    Thank you, too, to the American Cancer Society and the members of this board for insisting that this board be a safe, comforting, and informed place where anyone in our diverse world who suffers from this awful disease can feel welcome and accepted. Colon cancer does not discriminate; it's ravages transcend our differences.

    Hatshepsut

    Wonderful Note!
    Awwww Hashepsut!! That is one of the most beautiful, if not THE most beautiful, thank you posts I have ever read on a forum.

    There is absolutely no need to apologize or feel guilty because your husband has received the News we all dream about. As you know, through the long three years of stress, treatments, appts, disappointments, fear, terror, anger, etc.... one of the things that keep us all going (including you and your husband) were hearing stories from others who were Stage IV, who had been told there was little to no hope... and they came through with flying colours and took the time to tell us their good news. Every wonderful NED story is one more story that proves the statistics to be wrong... that no one is a statistic and the data that made those statistics is not applicable to everyone, no matter what stage cancer they have.

    There was a time if you were told you were Stage IV, then that meant there was absolutely no hope and no need to even discuss treatments because there were none. A lot has changed and we all are living proof to show that, yet doctors/specialists still go by the "statistics". Not only do they go by the statistics but the majority of them believe them. I don't know what anyone can do to show them that statistics are not the be all and end all of reality.

    I would love to take you and your husband by the hand to meet all these doctors who believe that Stage IV means the end is not too far off. For every doctor who tells their patients to get their affairs in order because they have 2 months - 2 years maximum left. And I would like these same doctors to look us all in the eye and explain why your husband refused to follow the statistics. And then I'd like to take all the other Stage IV folk here and crowd them in the same room and have the doctors explain why all of us are still here?

    They can't... and anything they can't explain they just push to the side. They are not evil people, but they are trained day and night that statistics don't lie. Well, they might not lie, but they are far from accurate and I'd rather push the statistics to the side than a very much alive human being :)

    Congratulations for joining the NED club!!! This is one club where one more can always be squeezed in :) The more the merrier!!!

    Hugggggs,

    Cheryl

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