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AnonymousDecember 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Heather:

Congratulations on finishing your radiation! Looks like it was quite the party! Hope you're feeling back to normal soon!

Lynne
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AnonymousDecember 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Heather! I'm so happy for you to be done your treatments! A song comes to mind: Ahem..Ahem.."Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the Music! Celebrate! Celebrate!" May 2010 bring you Health, Happiness,Tons of Hair in all the right places and Free & easy moving body parts! **HAPPY-HAPPY NEW YEAR HEATHER, KEVIN, HANNAH & LUKE!**

Devy & Ron
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AnonymousDecember 30, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Congrats on finishing your treatments. A party well deserved. Looks like everyone is having a blast. What better way to stay young than to party with young people !! Have a great New Years. I am sure you are looking forward to putting 2009 behind, and going forward in 2010. See you soon. HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOURS!!! Elaine Folk
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Heather ADecember 31, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Thanks, Lynne, Ron, Devy and Elaine!

Happy New Year to y'all, too!! I'm so looking forward to 2010 being a MUCH better year!

I hope, Elaine, you're right about partying with young people. It certainly made me feel good that night! Maybe not so good the next morning, though. Oh well!!

Good rendition, there, Devy! And yes, I'm wishing for a BEVY of hair, too! I don't even care if it's the wrong colour or in the wrong places! I have a new appreciation for the musical, HAIR!

Happy New Year again, everyone!
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The Game As It Was

Breast Cancer (booooo) was the opponent. I hope I won. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2009. I had a sentinel node lumpectomy later that month and on June 10, 2009, I started Chemotherapy followed by radiation treatments - the last one being December 20, 2009.

I thought it was all over. The cancer part seems to be over so far but I hadn't anticipated the awful effects of Arimidex (the aromatase inhibitor/estrogen blocker) that I started taking after chemo. The effects were long lasting and really awful. And then both my shoulders became frozen. I see that frozen shoulder is not uncommon for women who have been through breast cancer treatments but nobody seems to know why. And now I'm on Tamoxifen and there are the side effects from that, which are much milder than I had with Arimidex but at this point I don't know what's caused by either of those drugs or what might be the lingering effects of chemo and radiation. It's a much longer haul than I initially understood.

This blog has been my game's colour commentary starting 6 days before the kick-off of my first chemo treatment. I hope I won. That's the funny thing with cancer, though. You don't know for sure. You just have to be cocky enough to act like you've won.

Everyone who visits here has been on my team (because there's no "I" in "TEAM") and this blog was for them to to follow the game plan and the progress. It turned out it's also been therapy for me and a record of so many details I forget because of the also unanticipated "chemo brain". One thing I know for sure is that I wouldn't have made it through this without my team of family and friends. Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!! We're here. We Might Have WON!!

To learn the details about my particular discovery of my tumour and my diagnosis and treatment, please read this.

If you're more interested in my new quilting hobby, visit my blog that's supposed to be JUST about quilting at Peace.Love.Quilt.

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