Re: Good news on cat scan for UPSC - NED - 3 years out from original diagnosis!

Ro10 said:

Congratulations Jane

Celebrate your dance with NED, and may your dance continue for a very long time.  I am so happy for you.   Continue to enjoy each day.

Hi Ro:

  Thanks for your wishes - I really appreciate it.  I am always nervous, concerned and anxious when I go for the cat scan or even see the oncologist.  It is a big worry for me and I am Always diligent and watchful. I don't take anything for granted.  I am just grateful for each day that I have as cancer does change you.  I have changed my eating habits for the better and am eating a lot healthier and I do feel a lot better.  I live for each day as I don't know what next week, next month or even next year will bring. I will continue with my good eating habits.  

  I know that your facing an uphill battle right now with your cancer.  I wish you all the best and you will come to a good decision. Do what you feel is best for you and I know your doctors will advise you and help you to make the right decision.  I know going through chemo is not easy at all.  I will keep you in my prayers.  I have lost 2 people to cancer over the past year or so - my first cousin died from brain cancer back in the fall of 2012 (he was 73) and had it for over 2 years so he lived a pretty long time with it. I will always remember him and will always miss him. He was so good to my family he lived outside of Baltimore, MD and came down a couple of times a year to visit with my Mom and I and he treated both my Mom and I to lunch so he was a very giving person. I have so many good memories of him.

  I just recently lost a friend who I met through going through chemo when I was going through it back in 2011 (she had Peritoneal cancer stage 4) a rare cancer of the stomach lining and the doctors only gave her a year or two to live and she lived almost 4 years and outlived the doctors' prognosis so I guess the doctors don't know everything. She went through chemo several times. She was young by today's standards only 63 about a year older than I am.  She had an infectious laugh and a great personality, and I will always remember her and miss her.  We kept in contact via telephone.  She lost her sister to breast cancer at age 53 back in 2005 and her dad had colon cancer many years ago so she has lost other family members to cancer.

  I am meeting a cancer friend of mine tomorrow for lunch for the first time - she also has Stage 3(c) of UPSC and has had one reoccurrence. She is going through chemo and it came back on her a few months ago. She was done with her initial treatment about a month after I finished mine back in Nov of 2011. She lives in my area about a 15 minute drive from where I live and just by an ironic coincidence last year I had contacted her regarding a legal position at the firm she is working at and I found out through talking with her that she was diagnosed with the same kind of cancer (UPSC). it is so coincidental and ironic so we are keeping in touch.

Jane