HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I would like to start off the new year, getting back into the swing of things here on this website!! It is of Great importance to me to give you info or discussions on what you want and need to know about Breast Cancer. I have much that needs to be said, about my Breast Cancer fight, as I am sure others have also. It has been difficult to get some of these on track and through my mind, and to keep up with the site, as I should be doing. The past few months have not been easy for me, and I have been very sick after I take my treatments. Also, Christmas has taken up much of my time, and have been trying to enjoy that, while I was feeling good, after I was sick from treatments at the beginning of the month. I turned 50 years old on the 12th of December, which I am very proud of. I was first diagnosed in April of 2004, so you have to realize that 50 is a big thing to me, and had a wonderful celebration with friends, and a surprise party from my family and friends...and I was feeling so very good that weekend. Then, there was my sons birthday the next week, and then Christmas, and then New Years!! I received another of my two treatments on 12/28/09. It was most brutal of all. I was so very sick, I was thinking, is this worth it?? Are the treatments working??? Got a call the worst day I was having, which was the next day, and found out my tumor markers were going back down, after they had kept rising over the past 4 months, so, that made me feel better, brought tears to my eyes, and I thought, ok, if it's working, I can go on. I really have never given up my faith or my hope. But, sometimes it get's so hard, and more so, since this battle has been so long. I do have faith in my doctors and will be talking to him about, perhaps, another way to do the same thing we are doing now, but, w/out so much sickness. As of now, I take "Aredia" for the healing of my bones, and the "Faslodex" which is working on the 2 tumors I have left on my bones at this time. So, here is to a Bright New Year, and may it bring new and wonderful things to all, in all aspects of life...and hopefully a much healthier year for all who suffer. Thank You, Susie Lyn Tucker