20or more bc survivours

vac
vac Member Posts: 97
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I WAS HOPING TO MEET 20+YEARS SURVIVOUR WITH MORE THAN 10 + LYMPH NODES I WAS AT A BREAST CANCER WALK HAD A GREAT TIME,MEET A LADY THAT HAS SUVIVE 26 YRS IT MADE ME FELL GOOD JUST TO TALK TO THE LADY. I WAS DIANOSE OCT 2002 I HAD 10+ LYMPH NODES I WOULD TO TALKTO THE SURVIVOURS THAT LAST LONGER THAN 20 YEARS WITH 10+ LYMPH NODES

LK

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  • MsKaren
    MsKaren Member Posts: 17
    #2
    Hi LK. Hey, 10 lyph nodes? Wow, that lady's doing great then.

    Me? Well, I made it to 24 years after my first bout with breast cancer. I had 2 or 3 nodes involved. I had a total mastectomy on the right side. Then after my chemo I decided to have a "preventative mastectomy" on the other side. (wasn't as radical, but had reconstructive on both sides) I did have a reoccurance 5 years ago when the cancer when to the bone. This time I did radiation and chemo both. I'm alive to this day obviously. :o) Karen
  • inkblot
    inkblot Member Posts: 698 Member
    #3
    Hi vac:

    I think it would be so great if we had more long term survivors on this site too! Seems that most who do well, past a few years, just don't visit anymore or not nearly as often. A shame too because they're such an inspiration.

    I'm fortunate in that I have two very dear friends who are long time survivors. One is at 15 years and the other is at 22! (I knew them before their dx's) We get together about once a month...girls night out and go out to dinner or whatever. I've brought along some of my new friends who are, like myself, 2 and 3 year survivors and we have a ball. I don't know what I'd do without them. The long term survivor friends were around me like a blanket when I was
    diagnosed and the newer friends, I met during treatment or they were a friend of a friend who needed support too. So, we stay close and plugged into one another lives, yet it's very unique that we have our own little support group by virtue of having been friends for such a long time.

    It's rewarding and I know I'm fortunate to have this circle of friends because we understand one another so well and appreciate where we've all been because we all pretty much went there together, but mostly we focus on where we're going.

    Sometimes we hang out for hours and the subject of bc never comes up at all. That makes sense, since we've been friends for so long but at the same time, there's no subject we cannot talk about with one another. If any one of us is having a problem though, a minor surgery or just ordinary stuff, then we all traipse into the hospital like tin soldiers! I had hand surgery last summer and in everyone marched. My doctor was in there and joking with everyone and asked if we were all attached at the hip and one friend replied that "technically" we were! So that's how it is with our little rag tag group.

    Hope you'll find more, longer term survivors for conversation and inspiration. In the meantime, you're in pretty good company right here. LOL

    Love, light and laughter,
    Ink
  • 3rdtime
    3rdtime Member Posts: 7
    #4
    I have a girlfriend who had 32 positive lymph nodes 15 years ago. That is as close as I can get for you, she is doing great and has had no recurrence. I was diagnosed with her 15 years ago with no nodes but have had 2 recurrences in the lungs. Still Standing though.
  • Queenofdenial
    Queenofdenial Member Posts: 2
    #5
    My mother in law is a 19 year survivor. She had 8 (+) nodes. She was and continues to be my inspiration since my diagnosis in Nov of 02. Her positive attitude and caring personality has been a great support to me.
    I may be the Queen of denial, but its proven very difficult to ignore a diagnosis of BCA.

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