Good results from today's checkup
Love to all,
Jill
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So wondeful to hear the good
So wondeful to hear the good news of your continued good health! May this go on and on!
Thanks for sharing this!
Annie0 -
Thank you, Annieupsofloating said:So wondeful to hear the good
So wondeful to hear the good news of your continued good health! May this go on and on!
Thanks for sharing this!
Annie
I appreciate your good wishes.
When are you leaving for vacation? Have you had your birthday yet? You are such a kind person, and I wish you good health and much, much happiness. Happy birthday!
Jill0 -
Jill
emailed you a long New York congrats.
YOU IS MY HERO.
YOU IS SMART.
YOU IS BEAUTIFUL.
YOU IS DETERMINED.
YOU IS MY FRIEND, and you help me grow. Can never thank you enough for your kindness you---
the rest rhymes. see next email.hehehehehhe0 -
Thank you, Jill, for kindRewriter said:Thank you, Annie
I appreciate your good wishes.
When are you leaving for vacation? Have you had your birthday yet? You are such a kind person, and I wish you good health and much, much happiness. Happy birthday!
Jill
Thank you, Jill, for kind words and birthday wishes! The Big Day is next week and actually after I return from trip - I leave tomorrow. I just noticed that not only are we almost exactly the same age, we joined this discussion board only a few days apart! As well, in my 'productive' years, I worked in publishing and actually authored/co-authored a few books the company published - nothing fantastic, just noting common threads ;-)
Annie
PS Love the new photo!0 -
Enjoy your trip, Annie!upsofloating said:Thank you, Jill, for kind
Thank you, Jill, for kind words and birthday wishes! The Big Day is next week and actually after I return from trip - I leave tomorrow. I just noticed that not only are we almost exactly the same age, we joined this discussion board only a few days apart! As well, in my 'productive' years, I worked in publishing and actually authored/co-authored a few books the company published - nothing fantastic, just noting common threads ;-)
Annie
PS Love the new photo!
Have a terrific time!
It does not surprise me that you are a writer, as you are very skillful at expressing yourself. I'd be interested--if you'd care to share--in knowing what types of books you authored/co-authored.
Also, is the picture you commented on the one that is up there now? I had a picture of myself and a friend but changed it.0 -
I just wanted to clarify Claudia's reference. I had shared that in the book (and movie) The Help, Aibileen speaks these words every day to her young charge Mae Mobley:california_artist said:Jill
emailed you a long New York congrats.
YOU IS MY HERO.
YOU IS SMART.
YOU IS BEAUTIFUL.
YOU IS DETERMINED.
YOU IS MY FRIEND, and you help me grow. Can never thank you enough for your kindness you---
the rest rhymes. see next email.hehehehehhe
"You is kind.
You is smart.
You is important."
How many kids (or adults, for that matter) would benefit from having these words spoken to them on a regular basis?0 -
great news
Dear Jill
So pleased to hear your news - it inspires the rest of us!
Thanks for letting us know
I'm stage Ia MMMT (uterine carcinosarcoma) currently NED and doing a lot of things recommended on your nutrition thread. Next checkup October 18 and I am already a little anxious I must admit.
Susan0 -
SusanSusanna23 said:great news
Dear Jill
So pleased to hear your news - it inspires the rest of us!
Thanks for letting us know
I'm stage Ia MMMT (uterine carcinosarcoma) currently NED and doing a lot of things recommended on your nutrition thread. Next checkup October 18 and I am already a little anxious I must admit.
Susan
I understand feeling anxious weeks in advance of your checkups; unfortunately, there is no real way around this. You are, however, incorporating nutritional approaches to combating this beast. I believe those approaches work! Best of luck to you, and thank you for your good wishes.
Jill0 -
Great news, JillRewriter said:Susan
I understand feeling anxious weeks in advance of your checkups; unfortunately, there is no real way around this. You are, however, incorporating nutritional approaches to combating this beast. I believe those approaches work! Best of luck to you, and thank you for your good wishes.
Jill
Hooray and all that.
Suzanne0 -
So Happy For you!Rewriter said:Susan
I understand feeling anxious weeks in advance of your checkups; unfortunately, there is no real way around this. You are, however, incorporating nutritional approaches to combating this beast. I believe those approaches work! Best of luck to you, and thank you for your good wishes.
Jill
Jill:
I am soooo happy for you. I know
how waiting for an appointment can be. I am happy
for your good news and for sharing it with us!
Keep smiling!
Kathy0 -
I believe with all my heart that you have this beat, Jill.Fayard said:Great news!
Great news!
WONDERFUL NEWS! You did (and are doing) everything you can to beat this thing, and I believe and hope YOU can believe that you are IN THE CLEAR, CURED. Even at Stage 1a, you did aggressive adjuvent chemo and brachy, and then followed that up with rigorous attention to a healthy diet. You've read the statistics; your chances of recurrence are so so tiny that you shouldn't waste a single moment of worry on that.
LIVE, Jill! Allow yourself to take it in that you have BEAT THIS, and feel that joy and bliss to the bottom of your soul. In your shoes, I would SOOOOO turn my back on my 'cancer girl' personna and recapture my old life with all the vigor I'd invested in my cancer battle. I wouldn't wait a year, two years, 3 years, waiting for the other shoe to drop, unable to let it go. I'd slam that door shut and RUN and jump for joy, and start being the 'old me' again NOW.
Please take that as heartfelt from someone in a very different place in this journey. I see you ladies in remission, and I am in WONDER that you are here posting, when you are healthy enough to be doing ANYTHING YOU WANT! I spent my brief remissions running around Europe and the Caribbean like a half-crazed fool in my dilerious bliss of recaptued health, too busy LIVING to even check in here. I got my heart broken again when my cancer returned, but I would NEVER trade those months of intense joy for anything. I BELIEVED; and I want YOU to believe, so that days and weeks and months go by and cancer never enters your mind.
The women that started my cancer journey with me in 2008 and never recurred after their initial adjuvant (Deanna, ShortMarge, & Peggy Albers) never post here anymore. They're back working and living; cancer a distant memory easily shoved aside for the more immediate things that life brings. I still hear from them when they have their check-ups, letting me know they're still cancer-free. But their lives aren't dominated by cancer at all anymore. THAT's what I want for you ladies in remission: LIFE. I want that for all of us, but for those in remission it is so acheivable that it just seems WRONG to not reach out and accept your prize. ((((Hugs))))0 -
Thank you!lindaprocopio said:I believe with all my heart that you have this beat, Jill.
WONDERFUL NEWS! You did (and are doing) everything you can to beat this thing, and I believe and hope YOU can believe that you are IN THE CLEAR, CURED. Even at Stage 1a, you did aggressive adjuvent chemo and brachy, and then followed that up with rigorous attention to a healthy diet. You've read the statistics; your chances of recurrence are so so tiny that you shouldn't waste a single moment of worry on that.
LIVE, Jill! Allow yourself to take it in that you have BEAT THIS, and feel that joy and bliss to the bottom of your soul. In your shoes, I would SOOOOO turn my back on my 'cancer girl' personna and recapture my old life with all the vigor I'd invested in my cancer battle. I wouldn't wait a year, two years, 3 years, waiting for the other shoe to drop, unable to let it go. I'd slam that door shut and RUN and jump for joy, and start being the 'old me' again NOW.
Please take that as heartfelt from someone in a very different place in this journey. I see you ladies in remission, and I am in WONDER that you are here posting, when you are healthy enough to be doing ANYTHING YOU WANT! I spent my brief remissions running around Europe and the Caribbean like a half-crazed fool in my dilerious bliss of recaptued health, too busy LIVING to even check in here. I got my heart broken again when my cancer returned, but I would NEVER trade those months of intense joy for anything. I BELIEVED; and I want YOU to believe, so that days and weeks and months go by and cancer never enters your mind.
The women that started my cancer journey with me in 2008 and never recurred after their initial adjuvant (Deanna, ShortMarge, & Peggy Albers) never post here anymore. They're back working and living; cancer a distant memory easily shoved aside for the more immediate things that life brings. I still hear from them when they have their check-ups, letting me know they're still cancer-free. But their lives aren't dominated by cancer at all anymore. THAT's what I want for you ladies in remission: LIFE. I want that for all of us, but for those in remission it is so acheivable that it just seems WRONG to not reach out and accept your prize. ((((Hugs))))
Linda, thank you! Your post to Jill could not have come at a better time for me, as I wait impatiently to leave for my 4 month checkup with my oncologist. I realize I have been wasting so much of my life waiting for the "other shoe" to hit the floor when I could be enjoying my remission with abandon. I'm going to print out your message and post it on my refrigerator where I can see it every day!
God Bless You!
Laura0 -
Lindalindaprocopio said:I believe with all my heart that you have this beat, Jill.
WONDERFUL NEWS! You did (and are doing) everything you can to beat this thing, and I believe and hope YOU can believe that you are IN THE CLEAR, CURED. Even at Stage 1a, you did aggressive adjuvent chemo and brachy, and then followed that up with rigorous attention to a healthy diet. You've read the statistics; your chances of recurrence are so so tiny that you shouldn't waste a single moment of worry on that.
LIVE, Jill! Allow yourself to take it in that you have BEAT THIS, and feel that joy and bliss to the bottom of your soul. In your shoes, I would SOOOOO turn my back on my 'cancer girl' personna and recapture my old life with all the vigor I'd invested in my cancer battle. I wouldn't wait a year, two years, 3 years, waiting for the other shoe to drop, unable to let it go. I'd slam that door shut and RUN and jump for joy, and start being the 'old me' again NOW.
Please take that as heartfelt from someone in a very different place in this journey. I see you ladies in remission, and I am in WONDER that you are here posting, when you are healthy enough to be doing ANYTHING YOU WANT! I spent my brief remissions running around Europe and the Caribbean like a half-crazed fool in my dilerious bliss of recaptued health, too busy LIVING to even check in here. I got my heart broken again when my cancer returned, but I would NEVER trade those months of intense joy for anything. I BELIEVED; and I want YOU to believe, so that days and weeks and months go by and cancer never enters your mind.
The women that started my cancer journey with me in 2008 and never recurred after their initial adjuvant (Deanna, ShortMarge, & Peggy Albers) never post here anymore. They're back working and living; cancer a distant memory easily shoved aside for the more immediate things that life brings. I still hear from them when they have their check-ups, letting me know they're still cancer-free. But their lives aren't dominated by cancer at all anymore. THAT's what I want for you ladies in remission: LIFE. I want that for all of us, but for those in remission it is so acheivable that it just seems WRONG to not reach out and accept your prize. ((((Hugs))))
You have given me very good advice, and I WILL heed it in time. I have never stopped embracing life. Even when I was sitting in the cancer center hooked up to chemo drugs, I was thinking about where I wanted to have dinner afterwards and who I should invite to join me. On my good days between treatments, I walked for miles and explored all of the neighborhoods in Brooklyn. And now, almost three and one-half years since my surgery, I am almost completely back to my usual activities. My time on these boards now is mostly for the purpose of checking in with friends, to try to give support to people just starting this journey, or to share information with women who are interested in an anti-cancer diet approach.
How I wish, though, that I were easily able to push cancer aside and have it be only a distant memory. Yes, I am in remission, with a good chance of being cured; but the cancer experience turned my world upside down too and scared me to my core. I KNOW that I am one of the lucky ones, that statistics are in my favor; and often I feel that I have no right to be afraid. But I am still dealing with the fallout, and I still need time to find the delirious bliss of recaptured health. I KNOW that I am coming to the end of my grieving process; but this process has phases and takes time no matter what the ultimate prognosis. We are all different in how long it takes us to process experiences and put them behind us.
I'll never be the old me, but that may not be a bad thing. Because of my diagnosis, I have found ways to become healthier than I have ever been in my life. I am a better friend, more compassionate, and with more life-affirming priorities. I will always enjoy my life. This grieving process, which I hope to end soon, has been absolutely necessary for me; and I am glad that I was able to go through it in my own time.
I hesitated to share these feeling here, given the experience of many of the women on this board. However, I want women in my shoes to know that it's ok to be scared, to grieve the loss of innocence, and to be comfortable coming here for support. Our chances for remission may be pretty good, but that doesn't mean that recovery from the experience is always lightning quick.
You will likely see less of me here now. I have pushed aside many things that I need to return to now. Heartfelt thanks to everyone kind enough to respond to my news.
(((Hugs)))
Jill0 -
I hear you, Jill.Rewriter said:Linda
You have given me very good advice, and I WILL heed it in time. I have never stopped embracing life. Even when I was sitting in the cancer center hooked up to chemo drugs, I was thinking about where I wanted to have dinner afterwards and who I should invite to join me. On my good days between treatments, I walked for miles and explored all of the neighborhoods in Brooklyn. And now, almost three and one-half years since my surgery, I am almost completely back to my usual activities. My time on these boards now is mostly for the purpose of checking in with friends, to try to give support to people just starting this journey, or to share information with women who are interested in an anti-cancer diet approach.
How I wish, though, that I were easily able to push cancer aside and have it be only a distant memory. Yes, I am in remission, with a good chance of being cured; but the cancer experience turned my world upside down too and scared me to my core. I KNOW that I am one of the lucky ones, that statistics are in my favor; and often I feel that I have no right to be afraid. But I am still dealing with the fallout, and I still need time to find the delirious bliss of recaptured health. I KNOW that I am coming to the end of my grieving process; but this process has phases and takes time no matter what the ultimate prognosis. We are all different in how long it takes us to process experiences and put them behind us.
I'll never be the old me, but that may not be a bad thing. Because of my diagnosis, I have found ways to become healthier than I have ever been in my life. I am a better friend, more compassionate, and with more life-affirming priorities. I will always enjoy my life. This grieving process, which I hope to end soon, has been absolutely necessary for me; and I am glad that I was able to go through it in my own time.
I hesitated to share these feeling here, given the experience of many of the women on this board. However, I want women in my shoes to know that it's ok to be scared, to grieve the loss of innocence, and to be comfortable coming here for support. Our chances for remission may be pretty good, but that doesn't mean that recovery from the experience is always lightning quick.
You will likely see less of me here now. I have pushed aside many things that I need to return to now. Heartfelt thanks to everyone kind enough to respond to my news.
(((Hugs)))
Jill
My longest remission was 5 1/2 months; for me this journey has been one of almost constant treatment. So from my perspective, remission is a place of bliss, perhaps because I have so little personal experience with it. In my longing eyes, remission is the BEST, a 2nd chance, and quite possibly the VICTORY for so many of you who will never recur. I want it to be like that for you; that's all. I want you to have come through this unscathed, wiser but LESS afraid of anything life can throw at you, because you've walked through hell and back already and lived to tell about it. My advice comes from a sincere place. In my eyes you seem whole and strong and capable of leaving this awful chapter of your life behind. I know you're close. I have such immense respect for you, and confidence in you. ((((Jill)))0 -
And I havelindaprocopio said:I hear you, Jill.
My longest remission was 5 1/2 months; for me this journey has been one of almost constant treatment. So from my perspective, remission is a place of bliss, perhaps because I have so little personal experience with it. In my longing eyes, remission is the BEST, a 2nd chance, and quite possibly the VICTORY for so many of you who will never recur. I want it to be like that for you; that's all. I want you to have come through this unscathed, wiser but LESS afraid of anything life can throw at you, because you've walked through hell and back already and lived to tell about it. My advice comes from a sincere place. In my eyes you seem whole and strong and capable of leaving this awful chapter of your life behind. I know you're close. I have such immense respect for you, and confidence in you. ((((Jill)))
immense respect for you, too, Linda; and I understand your perspective. Thank you for advice that I KNOW was absolutely sincere.
With caring,
Jill0
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