Hi All!

Armywife

It's been a long time since I've visited, and I find myself very nostalgic and missing you ladies who kept me company on this journey. I'd love to hear from my beautiful "old-timers" who are still here on the boards, and hear news about those who aren't.

I also want to encourage y'all that miracles really do happen. I celebrated 8 years NED last month, from Stage IVB, Grade 2 endometrioid endometrial adenocarcinoma. What a blessing.

Let me hear from you!!!

Forherself

So nice to hear from you Army wife. AND congratulations on your NED! I am 7 years NED after an early serous carcinoma. The board has been so quiet after they upgraded it, but I think of all the women here who have helped each other deal with this disease. You are an inspiration!

NoTimeForCancer

I love this post! It is so nice to hear from you and I miss some of our ladies SO much so this warms my heart.

For all the new women, please know we love that we are here for you.

cmb

Armywife and Forherself - I’m very happy to read that both of you are still doing well years after your treatments ended. I, too, am still NED nine years after diagnosis and eight years after treatment ended. I hope that other long-time members with equally good news have just been too busy with daily life to post an update (a situation I also found myself in the past couple of years!).

Forherself

https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/comment/1725309#Comment_1725309

SO NICE to hear from you CMB and ARMYWIFE. I think of all our friends here on the boards so often and hope all is well. Thank you for updating.

jan9wils

It’s so wonderful to read about peoples’ really very good news. While I haven’t been without cancer I am still here and doing fairly well. It’s 11 years for me, after first being diagnosed. I keep recurring and keep fighting back. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

cmb

https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/comment/1725408#Comment_1725408

You really have been through the ringer with your recurrences and many different types of treatments. But I’m glad that you checked in with us and let us know that you are still moving forward (even if they're small steps sometimes!).

Your experience reminds me of my mother. Her story started as cervical cancer in the early 1980s, for which she had surgery and chemo. As a nurse’s aid for many years, she had seen the injuries that radiation in the 60s and 70s caused, so she declined that treatment.

But over the next decade or so, she had several recurrences, more surgeries and more chemo. Although she had finally decided against any more surgeries, her new oncologist wanted her to try a recently approved chemo. All these years later, I don’t remember the drug’s name, if I ever even knew it. Obviously, there was no internet in those days and no paperwork like you get today from doctors and hospitals.

But fortunately, that last chemo worked when so many others hadn’t. When she died some years later from a bowel obstruction, she was still cancer free, which we know from the autopsy we had done.

So I hope that advances in cancer treatments will finally be able to put your recurrences behind you as well.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

MoeKay

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It's so nice to hear from members we haven't heard from in quite a while, especially around this time of year! Wishing you all the best. I find it reassuring that the negative experience of receiving a cancer diagnosis can come with many positives, including crossing paths with a great group who are willing to share and support each other!

Be well all,

MoeKay