five years

Congrats on your 5 years! You are a valued member:) As you said live life to your fullest!

Congratulations NoTime...

you give us hope and it's nice knowing that this battle can end in victory!!!!

Today is the one year anniversary of my first chemo treatment. I remember that I barely slept the night before and was terrified. I cold capped to keep my hair so putting on that first cap felt foolish and scary (and so damn cold) but I had hope. When my nurse started my Taxol my friend and I cried for a while with a mixture of sadness, anger, terror, and much much hope and gratitude. I remember praying "Please God let this work"...when my oncology pharmacologist came by to check on me she said "you can do this"...and so I did...

I wish I had found this site before I had all my treatments...the ladies here would have been a great comfort...

Reading your story NoTime makes me feel so blessed and grateful and very hopeful...hopeful that maybe in 5 years I can also say I have been cancer free...knowing it is possible makes me feel blessed...

(And BTW---there is no more perfect way to celebrate than the Rockettes and the Rainbow Room!)

Congrats on your milestone...I know every step in this journey has not been easy..thanks for sticking around this board to let others know that the warrior can win...

xoxo

Anice

Congrats! I think every victory is worth a celebration!

I think what is so, so frustrating about the rare endo cancers, and probably Stage 3 and 4 of any cancer as well, reading the other boards, is that these cancers are like a pinball machine in your body. You have NO idea where that ball will go next, or if that ball will go somewhere at all. There is absolutely no pattern. Tendencies, perhaps. But no set pattern.

I've accepted that there is no cure for cancer, but I wish there was a way to slow progression down to a snail's crawl and figure out where it could logically go and deal with it proactively BEFORE it gets there. If only we could even do that, we could manage this beast ... not only uterine, but other cancers as well.

Even reading the stories of the ladies here who did not make it ... no pattern. No sense. Most, if not all, did everything right; kept on top of the latest protocol, tried to eat better and live right, etc. Most did not ignore troublesome symptoms and went to their doctors right away if they saw something wrong, only to be diagnosed with a Type 2 and/or Stage 3 or beyond cancer because lucky them got one of the nasty rare ones. 

I do see some glimmer of hope. As I look through the years, I see more ladies with advanced stages living far beyond the two-year death sentence that many of us get when we're diagnosed. Many of the ladies here have had recurrences more than once. Back in earlier days, a single recurrence seemed to be more ominous. Advances in dealing with cancer of other types have helped us as well, as researchers find out how to deal with troublesome nodules in other parts of the body more effectively. 

In addition to the ladies we know did not win this battle, I wonder about those here who posted, then suddenly stopped. Was it because they wanted to move on, or ... or ... ?

But in the meantime, we are all fighting for our lives here. And every year one of us manages to win is a wonderful thing indeed. Again ... congrats on the five-year mark, and here's hoping for many, many more five-year anniversaries, both with you and with those here.

I am glad that you and your sisters got to celebrate.  I do understand the bittersweet.  So many have been lost and there is no rhyme or reason to any of this.  May you be around for many more years to celebratE.

Hugs and prayers, Lou Ann

Thanks for sharing. It is so helpful to hear of milestones reached and the celebrations!

Happy anniversary! Five years seems to be the golden number in cancer survivorship and a milestone to be celebrated.  

You're right, none of us will ever be the same but who's to say that's not a good thing? 

Here's to another five, ten, twenty, h*'ll why not thirty years of good health!

Love, 

Eldri 

Terrific on five years!   I too was in New York and saw the Rockettes!   It was during the first snow fall there.   Thank you for sharing your good news.

Hugs,

Kathy

Thank you for sharing your 5 yrs of living without cancer! No matter how much time passes we are forever changed and so thankful for each and every day. I am sorry to hear that your Mom has passed. She lives on in your memories. So glad you did something special to mark your anniversary! 

I am playing catch up and reading through the posts and saw this one. Congratulations!!!

You give us hope! Love seeing your posts. You have lots of information to offer and constant support. Congrats! Betty-Ann