:grouphug: Sarah,so sorry your having to go though so much. Your very brave and your attitude sounds good.. Glad to hear your doing all the right things to beat this regardless of how unpleasent they are. Bless you and may God keep you.

Hi Sarah
 

I've been checking your blog-you've been through a lot in such a short time. I remember when my brother was going through treatment for Non-Hodgkin's, and thinking that the cure was worse than the disease! :(

Your attitude has been so positive, and I'm sure your partner's love and support must make things easier for you. I'm already praying for your bone-marrow biopsy result. God is still in the miracle working business.

Keeping you both in my prayers :grouphug:

Hey there Sarah,
Just popping in to tell you I think about how you are doing and pray for you often. I'll be off line for a few weeks but will be back as soon as I can. Take lots of care of yourself!!!!!! You are so amazing and I really admire you. xxx

Sarah had her port implanted yesterday (see her blog for further details) and today finds out the results of her bone marrow biopsy. Please everyone keep positive thoughts and prayers headed her way.

I just took a look at Sarah's blog. The cancer is NOT in the Bone Marrow! I just wanted to share that with you all who don't read the blog and are thinking of Sarah. Tomorrow she starts her chemo.

Thanks Tammy I hadn't read her blog today. I'm so so happy Sarah!!! Sending you lost of warm fuzzies or is it fuzzy's lol :)

That IS wonderful news, Tammy - thanks for posting! That knowledge should really ease her mind as she heads into the true healing process. Poor thing, chemo won't be a walk in the park, but I'm sure she'll put a determined and high-spirited spin on it, bless her.

Whew! What a huge relief!

That's great news. !!!

That is good news Sarah. I had not been to your blog to see that.

YAY!! You guys are SO EXCELLENT, sharing updates!!! :cp: <---that was a happy girlyclap there! Yep, no cancer in the bone marrow -- WOO WEE!! So that's great for all kinds of obvious and important reasons.....and ALSO because now I don't have to have ANOTHER BONE MARROW BIOPSY to make sure it's OUT! Great God in Heaven, that was a miserable experience -- apparently I have verrrrrrry tough bones. 'Nuff said. (I KNEW I shouldn't have been eating all that nonfat yogurt!! ;) )

So the port is in, and chemo starts tomorrow morning at 7:30. Ick. I'm ready for the chemo, but NOT for the 7:30! They recommend eating beforehand -- and of COURSE I want to look pretty for the big event! -- so it's going to be an early one! I predict that I will be positive but stupid. :)

I am feeling really glad about starting. I'm ready. For those of you who don't know and care about the particulars, my form of chemo is very high dose and aggressive -- it's frequently given to Hodgkins Disease fighters. I will have a treatment of ABVD every other Thursday, 12 times, over 6 months. Often, in advanced cases like mine, it has to go to 8 months --- but many times the 12 treatments are sufficient, so that's what I'm hoping for, while preparing myself for the worst.

I'm ready. I am going to knock down the treatments one by one until first the cancer is gone, and then the treatments are over. I'm now on disability -- I had to go on short term disability (to be followed by long term disability) from work in order to keep my benefits, since I won't be able to maintain 30 hrs./week of work and am also going to have to avoid exposure to germs as I progress in the treatment. So I'm going to be doing a lot of reading -- I'll get to read all the books I never had time to before!

Lorraine's holding up really well. She's right by my side, and while she's of course worried, she's hearing the same assertions of a good prognosis as I am, and she knows what a fighter I am. She's one too, so I really believe it will all work out ok, even if the road to wellness is going to be a hard one. We're getting a wig next week, hopefully, and I've already got an eyebrow kit for when they start to go. (I'm toying with a Joan Crawford look......no? You think too much?)

Love to you all....I'll be by in a couple of days to let you know how my first treatment went. And Jen and Tammy, you guys are so sweet to me, I don't even know what to say. All of you, and your support, mean so much to me. I feel such gratitude and love, truly. :goodvibes :goodvibes :goodvibes

Here's to good health for us all in the new year!! :high:

That is such great news!! Hugs to you for tomorrow!!!

Oh, thank goodness! I'm so happy to hear that it's not in your bone marrow. Sarah, you and Lorraine will certainly be in my thoughts tomorrow and the days following this and the rest of your treatments. I'm glad the big day is finally here because the quicker you get started, the quicker you can be done with this whole unpleasant ordeal! Good luck tomorrow and please update us as soon as you feel up to it.

Take care,
Beverly

Love Amanda x

Sarah! Thank God for healthy marrow!! Howie and I are praying for you and Lorraine. I'm so glad it's not in your bones, girl. Like I wrote, my mom had a port when she had chemo for BC, and it was a real blessing. ((((hugs))))