What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

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Beckster
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby Beckster » Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:44 am

Shana wrote:Congrats on your new grandbaby and your good health news! I just had my 1 year DX anniversary and yes, what a difference a year makes!

Wishing you continued clear scans and NED.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!

Shana



Thanks Shana! Wishing you continued success and shrinkage. Hoping you have a healthy and happy New Year!
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED :D
CEA- 6/17- 3.6, 9/17- 2.8 12/17-2.8, 3/18-3.1, 6/18-3.0, 9/18 2.8, 12/18 2.5 3/19 3.1 6/19 3.1 9/19 2.6 12/19 2.8 6/20 3.0 12/20 2.7 6/21 2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21 :D

Beckster
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby Beckster » Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:45 am

Robino1 wrote:Fantastic Christmas present! Enjoy your Holiday!! :D



Thanks Robino1! Keep kicking ass! Hoping you have a healthy and happy New Year!
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED :D
CEA- 6/17- 3.6, 9/17- 2.8 12/17-2.8, 3/18-3.1, 6/18-3.0, 9/18 2.8, 12/18 2.5 3/19 3.1 6/19 3.1 9/19 2.6 12/19 2.8 6/20 3.0 12/20 2.7 6/21 2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21 :D

teacher2017
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby teacher2017 » Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:18 pm

So happy for you! I am hoping for any good news this new year! I don't think I can take another horrible year like the last. Chemo #4 done and it is not easy. I found your post uplifting and so hopeful that we all can find NED one day. Enjoy every day, Becky! You are blessed!

Lydia
50 yo mom of 2 (15, 18)
DX stage 3c - 12/17 LN. T3
8" colon resection 9/22/17
6.1cm tumor
folfox 11/17-4/18
CEA -1.4 11/8/17
Colonoscopy- 5/18-CLEAR!
Cea -1.8 6/18
Cea -2.1. 8/18
8/10/18 Stage 4
1cm met in seg.8 liver
Liver resection-9/18
Cea -1.5/1.2
Port removal-9/19
Cea -1.2 10/19
Cea -1.1 02/2020
Cea - 1.2 5/20
Cea-1.1 9/20
Cea- 1.3 2/21
Cea.1.3 5/21

Lee
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby Lee » Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:44 pm

Beckster wrote:.....fast forward this year.....My first grandchild was born at 6:01 this morning. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES!
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Wishing all of you on this forum, a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with positive thoughts and outcomes!


That is so totally AWESOME on the birth of your grandchild. May 2018 bring you the same good fortune.

Lee
rectal cancer - April 2004
46 yrs old at diagnoses
stage III C - 6/13 lymph positive
radiation - 6 weeks
surgery - August 2004/hernia repair 2014
permanent colostomy
chemo - FOLFOX
NED - 16 years and counting!

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ocstacy
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby ocstacy » Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:38 pm

Congrats to you and Happy New Year! We got the new a couple weeks ago that my mom is cancer free too! Yay! I never thought I would hear the good news after what my mama went through last year. She is getting stronger and stronger each day post surgery, it's been 2 months since her surgery. Today, I dragged her to a religious event and all my mom's friends were shocked to see her there! Cheers to a wonderful new year to you all!! :mrgreen:
Caregiver/daughter to dear mother age 78, dx 5/09/17 because of me!! :wink:
Rectal CA Stage 3 low-grade adenocarcinoma- 6 cm
Neoadjuvant start 7/10/17 ended 08/16/17
3D Lap. surgery @ Keck USC, Dr. Sang Lee 10/17/17 temp ileostomy
11/1 hospitalized abscess/hernia - home 11/06/17 antibiotics
NO LYMPHS INVOLVED! NEAR PATHOLOGICAL RESPONSE! YAY! :shock:
Took her last chemo med 05/10/18! Ileo reversal 07/24/18
1st BM after reversal 07/25/18 Anal Fissure 8/15/18
Me:1st Colonoscopy age 38. 08/17 Benign polp.

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ocstacy
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby ocstacy » Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:52 pm

Congrats to you and Happy New Year! We got the new a couple weeks ago that my mom is cancer free too! Yay! I never thought I would hear the good news after what my mama went through last year. She is getting stronger and stronger each day post surgery, it's been 2 months since her surgery. Today, I dragged her to a religious event and all my mom's friends were shocked to see her there! Cheers to a wonderful new year to you all!! :mrgreen:
Caregiver/daughter to dear mother age 78, dx 5/09/17 because of me!! :wink:
Rectal CA Stage 3 low-grade adenocarcinoma- 6 cm
Neoadjuvant start 7/10/17 ended 08/16/17
3D Lap. surgery @ Keck USC, Dr. Sang Lee 10/17/17 temp ileostomy
11/1 hospitalized abscess/hernia - home 11/06/17 antibiotics
NO LYMPHS INVOLVED! NEAR PATHOLOGICAL RESPONSE! YAY! :shock:
Took her last chemo med 05/10/18! Ileo reversal 07/24/18
1st BM after reversal 07/25/18 Anal Fissure 8/15/18
Me:1st Colonoscopy age 38. 08/17 Benign polp.

Beckster
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby Beckster » Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:52 pm

teacher2017 wrote:So happy for you! I am hoping for any good news this new year! I don't think I can take another horrible year like the last. Chemo #4 done and it is not easy. I found your post uplifting and so hopeful that we all can find NED one day. Enjoy every day, Becky! You are blessed!

Lydia


Lydia,

I think of you often...you are a quarter of the way through! You can do this and this time next year, it WILL be DIFFERENT! Hang in there, keep the faith, and 2018 will be better.
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED :D
CEA- 6/17- 3.6, 9/17- 2.8 12/17-2.8, 3/18-3.1, 6/18-3.0, 9/18 2.8, 12/18 2.5 3/19 3.1 6/19 3.1 9/19 2.6 12/19 2.8 6/20 3.0 12/20 2.7 6/21 2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21 :D

Beckster
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby Beckster » Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:55 pm

Lee
That is so totally AWESOME on the birth of your grandchild. May 2018 bring you the same good fortune.



Thanks Lee...Wishing you and your family a HEALTHY and Happy New Year!
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED :D
CEA- 6/17- 3.6, 9/17- 2.8 12/17-2.8, 3/18-3.1, 6/18-3.0, 9/18 2.8, 12/18 2.5 3/19 3.1 6/19 3.1 9/19 2.6 12/19 2.8 6/20 3.0 12/20 2.7 6/21 2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21 :D

SurvivorsSpouse
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Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby SurvivorsSpouse » Tue Jan 02, 2018 11:11 am

A little hope for you, my wife went through the same journey. We thought it was stage 1 from the scans, but it turned out she was stage 2 after surgery.

5 years NED in Sept or 2017!!

Good luck on your journey.

Beckster
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Location: New Jersey

Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby Beckster » Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:39 pm

SurvivorsSpouse wrote:A little hope for you, my wife went through the same journey. We thought it was stage 1 from the scans, but it turned out she was stage 2 after surgery.

5 years NED in Sept or 2017!!

Good luck on your journey.


Awesome...thanks! Looking forward to the same thing!
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED :D
CEA- 6/17- 3.6, 9/17- 2.8 12/17-2.8, 3/18-3.1, 6/18-3.0, 9/18 2.8, 12/18 2.5 3/19 3.1 6/19 3.1 9/19 2.6 12/19 2.8 6/20 3.0 12/20 2.7 6/21 2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21 :D

teacher2017
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Facebook Username: Lydia Clark

Re: What a difference a year makes! UPDATE

Postby teacher2017 » Sat Jan 06, 2018 2:41 pm

Becky-
All these posts give me hope! I try to not read anything negative because it doesn’t help me in any way. I’m approaching chemo 5- cold sensitivity and that great metal taste lingers but I’m pushing through. Hoping it all works! I have dreams of smashing my removed port with a mallet. They say a positive attitude is everything but it’s very hard. Stage 3c feels very 50/50.

Enjoy your grand child! A blessing from above for sure!
L.
50 yo mom of 2 (15, 18)
DX stage 3c - 12/17 LN. T3
8" colon resection 9/22/17
6.1cm tumor
folfox 11/17-4/18
CEA -1.4 11/8/17
Colonoscopy- 5/18-CLEAR!
Cea -1.8 6/18
Cea -2.1. 8/18
8/10/18 Stage 4
1cm met in seg.8 liver
Liver resection-9/18
Cea -1.5/1.2
Port removal-9/19
Cea -1.2 10/19
Cea -1.1 02/2020
Cea - 1.2 5/20
Cea-1.1 9/20
Cea- 1.3 2/21
Cea.1.3 5/21


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