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Re: Re: Kassy

All I can is Bullshi* to that. Men have ALWAYS been allowed to walk.

In a message dated 10/15/2006 7:19:49 PM Central Daylight Time,

1littlehead@... writes:

My friend told me how years ago, not that long ago, he wanted to do a BC

walk for Komen and they wouldn't let him because he wasn't female. K

Vicki K.

Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

_Our Fur Kid's_ (http://www.picturetrail.com/yorkies4times)

Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 w/ 3 cm tumor

MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5 cm, and 6 cm (right side)

5+/16 nodes

Stage III A

ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++

Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense, 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)

28 Rad's ended October 13, 2005

Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year, will be done this August

2006.

Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed increased

micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.

October 15, 2006

Well, my friend Craig of Aspen Colorado is the one who wanted to join

in and was denied. This used to be the case. You can contact Komen foundation

and ask them. Sad but absolutely true.

JVK105@... wrote:

All I can is Bullshi* to that. Men have ALWAYS been allowed to walk.

In a message dated 10/15/2006 7:19:49 PM Central Daylight Time,

1littlehead@... writes:

My friend told me how years ago, not that long ago, he wanted to do a BC

walk for Komen and they wouldn't let him because he wasn't female. K

Vicki K.

Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

_Our Fur Kid's_ (http://www.picturetrail.com/yorkies4times)

Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 w/ 3 cm tumor

MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5 cm, and 6 cm (right side)

5+/16 nodes

Stage III A

ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++

Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense, 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)

28 Rad's ended October 13, 2005

Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year, will be done this August

2006.

Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed increased

micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.

October 15, 2006

Well its about time that they allowed men to walk and let it be known that they

too are patients/survivors!

hugs

nne

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Re: Re: Kassy

> > >

> > > I think some of you took my statement wrong or

> > maybe not...i

> > > appreciate and welcome as i said that its good

> > that cancer

> > > research and awareness is in the forefront but i

> > leave the

> > > house to stop these tears put my mind elsewhere

> > and it just

> > > happens to be the pink month...its so fresh in my

> > mind having

> > > the diagnose surgery and treatments all this past

> > month so i

> > > guess im a bit touchy. There are many people i

> > know

> > > personally becuz of cancer hitting hard in their

> > homes they

> > > have become researchers and work tirelessly to

> > find some type

> > > of reasoning as to why this disease occurs which

> > they have

> > > said is like an alien but is becoming clearer as

> > time goes

> > > on. I spoke with one of the researchers and

> > friends who are

> > > fund raisers and they too said it must be hard to

> > have a

> > > constant reminder when you turn on the

> > tv..drive..etc etc. I

> > > also concur with the thought if someone is

> > compelled to get a

> > > mammogram becuz of all this bombardment of adds

> > and so forth

> > > that would be a wonderful thing

> > > and certainly worth all my buckets of tears. Hugs

> > to those

> > > who are having a hard time and also to those who

> > have

> > > finished and are on the road to recovery. take

> > care kassy

> > >

> > > r18252000 wrote:

> > Much of the

> > > research is being done of the genetics of the

> > cancers,

> > > which is great. That will help identify who is

> > more likely to get

> > > cancers and help figure out why some cells mutate

> > and turn into

> > > cancer while others that mutate do not.

> > >

> > > This will help with more specific treatments for a

> > particular genetic

> > > type of cancer.

> > >

> > > Thank goodness for the research and all the

> > amazing people working to

> > > find a cure.

> > >

> > > > >

> > > > > I feel just to opposite about the pink

> > ribbons! I am so gald

> > > that

> > > > > they are there!!!! We need all the money and

> > help we can get to

> > > find

> > > > > a cure, There are to many women and so young

> > that are getting

> > > Breast

> > > > > Cancer!!! I am proud that there is someone

> > fighting in our

> > > cornor!!

> > > > >

> > > > > The pink ribbons don't remind me of what I

> > have got!!! I wake up

> > > > > everyday knowing that I have Breast Cancer!!!

> > > > >

> > > > > Actually I need to start telling myself I had

> > breast Cancer! I

> > > start

> > > > > radiation MOn, and will be done the 2nd of

> > Dec. So I am assuming

> > > I am

> > > > > cured!!! Afer all of us going through chemo

> > radiation and all

> > > the

> > > > > side effects We should be proud we were strong

> > enough to make it

> > > > > through and the pink ribbon stands for that

> > strength!!

> > > > >

> > > > > Steph

> > > > >

> > > >

> > >

> > > ---------------------------------

> > > Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr.

> > We'll help.

> > > Yahoo! Small Business.

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > removed]

> > >

October 15, 2006

I am not sure what state it was that Komen refused to let the men walk but as I

said before I heard it from a Komen Affiliate president so unless she was lying,

it was true as of that time.

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Re: Re: Kassy

Well, my friend Craig of Aspen Colorado is the one who wanted to join

in and was denied. This used to be the case. You can contact Komen foundation

and ask them. Sad but absolutely true.

JVK105@... wrote:

All I can is Bullshi* to that. Men have ALWAYS been allowed to walk.

In a message dated 10/15/2006 7:19:49 PM Central Daylight Time,

1littlehead@... writes:

My friend told me how years ago, not that long ago, he wanted to do a BC

walk for Komen and they wouldn't let him because he wasn't female. K

Vicki K.

Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

_Our Fur Kid's_ (http://www.picturetrail.com/yorkies4times)

Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 w/ 3 cm tumor

MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5 cm, and 6 cm (right side)

5+/16 nodes

Stage III A

ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++

Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense, 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)

28 Rad's ended October 13, 2005

Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year, will be done this August

2006.

Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed increased

micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.

October 15, 2006

Thanks ,

At the time I was founding out everything I was looking to know about this

disease, the options etc.. I did more reading online and in books about

treatments and health, that left little time for " chats " . I could have used

this group during my ordeal. I kept wanting to join one but there weren't any

in my area and the ones sort of close were all at bad times for me, just after

chemo for example. I know there are women out there younger than me but I

didn't know how to find them, so thank you. The critical part about being my

age is I am on the cusp. If I had known the first time I found the lump it was

cancer, I was only 31, (it was about the size of a grape or a little bigger) it

wouldn't be such an issue. My body would have more time to bounce back. But

having been 35, plus having to wait a couple of years after chemo and then hope

I have any eggs and my periods of course exist. My neighbor had cancer at 28,

and had 2 healthy children later. Unfortunately I

don't have that cushion of years. I guess I could do it in my 40's but that

seems old to have kids, they require so much energy. It's okay though, whatever

happens happens. I'm okay with that. It would be nice to have someone who

understands what that feels like though. Maybe I'm in the wrong group? I'll

check it out! K

" S. " wrote:

> >

> > I feel just to opposite about the pink ribbons! I am so gald that

> > they are there!!!! We need all the money and help we can get to

find

> > a cure, There are to many women and so young that are getting

Breast

> > Cancer!!! I am proud that there is someone fighting in our

cornor!!

> >

> > The pink ribbons don't remind me of what I have got!!! I wake up

> > everyday knowing that I have Breast Cancer!!!

> >

> > Actually I need to start telling myself I had breast Cancer! I

start

> > radiation MOn, and will be done the 2nd of Dec. So I am assuming

I am

> > cured!!! Afer all of us going through chemo radiation and all the

> > side effects We should be proud we were strong enough to make it

> > through and the pink ribbon stands for that strength!!

> >

> > Steph

> >

>

October 15, 2006

WOW!!! That's so cool!!! I did not know that, of course one of you ladies

would though! That makes me feel better because I have wondered about our men

BC survivors. Thanks for the uplifting facts... K

Elaine wrote: ---Did you know that there is a

special ribbon for male breast

cancer surviors? It is half pink and half blue. I was on a Delta

airplane the first weekend of October, and Delta is doing a special

breast cancer awareness promotion this month. Not only are they

selling pink lemonade and pink martinis (with all proceeds going to

Breast Cancer research), but the flight attendants are wearing

special tee shirts. On my flight from Hartford CT, one of the flight

attendants was a 2 time breast cancer survivor, and he was a man. He

was wearing a gray survivor teeshirt, made especially for male bc

survivors. I was wearing a breast cancer awareness shirt, and we

complimented each other on our choice of apparel.

Then, at the Komen race I recently did in St. Pete FL, I saw a man

wearing a Komen Race for the Cure Survivor shirt,they look just like

the pink ones we ladies wear, but are gray.

It is so nice to see that men breast cancer patients/survivors are

being encouraged to go public about their experiences, and not be

left out because they aren't women.

Here's to all BC surivors...Men and Women.....

Hugs, Elaine

In breastcancer2 , a Kleczko

wrote:

>

> The only thing that bothers me about the pink ribbon is how men

with breast cancer must feel. They aren't even acknowleged. My

friend told me how years ago, not that long ago, he wanted to do a

BC walk for Komen and they wouldn't let him because he wasn't

female. K

>

> Marisa Steffers wrote: i don't think you

did...the pink ribbons came about

> after the red ribbons, (for AIDS)...and sometimes it

> just seems a fashion statement to me...even before I

> started this particular journey

>

> marisa

>

> --- Margery Allcock wrote:

>

> > I'm sorry if I came out as anti-BC-awareness. I

> > didn't mean to put down the

> > people who put loads of effort into raising

> > awareness, getting more

> > mammograms, raising more money for research. More

> > power to their elbows.

> >

> > It's just that some people, companies, etc, I've

> > come across seem to wear a

> > pink ribbon without thinking what it's all about.

> > 8-(

> >

> > Margery.

> > ============================================

> > margery@... in North Herts, UK

> > ============================================

> >

> > > Re: Re: Kassy

> > >

> > > I think some of you took my statement wrong or

> > maybe not...i

> > > appreciate and welcome as i said that its good

> > that cancer

> > > research and awareness is in the forefront but i

> > leave the

> > > house to stop these tears put my mind elsewhere

> > and it just

> > > happens to be the pink month...its so fresh in my

> > mind having

> > > the diagnose surgery and treatments all this past

> > month so i

> > > guess im a bit touchy. There are many people i

> > know

> > > personally becuz of cancer hitting hard in their

> > homes they

> > > have become researchers and work tirelessly to

> > find some type

> > > of reasoning as to why this disease occurs which

> > they have

> > > said is like an alien but is becoming clearer as

> > time goes

> > > on. I spoke with one of the researchers and

> > friends who are

> > > fund raisers and they too said it must be hard to

> > have a

> > > constant reminder when you turn on the

> > tv..drive..etc etc. I

> > > also concur with the thought if someone is

> > compelled to get a

> > > mammogram becuz of all this bombardment of adds

> > and so forth

> > > that would be a wonderful thing

> > > and certainly worth all my buckets of tears. Hugs

> > to those

> > > who are having a hard time and also to those who

> > have

> > > finished and are on the road to recovery. take

> > care kassy

> > >

> > > r18252000 wrote:

> > Much of the

> > > research is being done of the genetics of the

> > cancers,

> > > which is great. That will help identify who is

> > more likely to get

> > > cancers and help figure out why some cells mutate

> > and turn into

> > > cancer while others that mutate do not.

> > >

> > > This will help with more specific treatments for a

> > particular genetic

> > > type of cancer.

> > >

> > > Thank goodness for the research and all the

> > amazing people working to

> > > find a cure.

> > >

> > > > >

> > > > > I feel just to opposite about the pink

> > ribbons! I am so gald

> > > that

> > > > > they are there!!!! We need all the money and

> > help we can get to

> > > find

> > > > > a cure, There are to many women and so young

> > that are getting

> > > Breast

> > > > > Cancer!!! I am proud that there is someone

> > fighting in our

> > > cornor!!

> > > > >

> > > > > The pink ribbons don't remind me of what I

> > have got!!! I wake up

> > > > > everyday knowing that I have Breast Cancer!!!

> > > > >

> > > > > Actually I need to start telling myself I had

> > breast Cancer! I

> > > start

> > > > > radiation MOn, and will be done the 2nd of

> > Dec. So I am assuming

> > > I am

> > > > > cured!!! Afer all of us going through chemo

> > radiation and all

> > > the

> > > > > side effects We should be proud we were strong

> > enough to make it

> > > > > through and the pink ribbon stands for that

> > strength!!

> > > > >

> > > > > Steph

> > > > >

> > > >

> > >

> > > ---------------------------------

> > > Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr.

> > We'll help.

> > > Yahoo! Small Business.

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > removed]

> > >

October 16, 2006

Hi M. Laetrile(sp), isn't this the one who's company owner was recently sent to

prison for 63 months, for 1, selling a product claiming a cure ~ being warned

not to sell it with this claim and 2, carried on selling it as a cure anyway,

completely ignoring the directive? This is in the last few days, I believe I

read it on the yahoo news site. Velvet

& nne Svihlik wrote: The only one I

remember is Laetrile (sp) I think that its made from apricot pits or almonds? I

can't remember what the other 2 were taking.

Hugs

nne

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Re: Re: Kassy

There actually are a lot of other treatments that address just this. You need to

do research, the information is out there. I personally know 3 people who fought

cancer without chemo or drugs and they are cancer free. You have to change your

lifestyle and most people are too intimidated by the doctors, don't know enough

about the options or are too lazy to change themselves. It's a very different

lifestyle than most people in the western world live. People love their junk

food, suger, salt, etc...

ruthiema36 wrote: Breast cancer research needs to take a

new direction. Every day our

immune systems are taking out rogue cells that can grow and cause

tumors. The trick is to find out why ours are not workig as well as

they should. I asked my second opinion oncologist why the medical

community is not concentrating on kick starting the immune system.

She said that that was a very good question, but the studies had not

been done on this subject. I wonder why not. Seems it would be a

less toxic way to go for a " cure " . Just my thoughts on the matter.

Kinder, gentler ways have been found to treat other diseases, why not

breast cancer?

Ruth

>

> I feel just to opposite about the pink ribbons! I am so gald that

> they are there!!!! We need all the money and help we can get to find

> a cure, There are to many women and so young that are getting Breast

> Cancer!!! I am proud that there is someone fighting in our cornor!!

>

> The pink ribbons don't remind me of what I have got!!! I wake up

> everyday knowing that I have Breast Cancer!!!

>

> Actually I need to start telling myself I had breast Cancer! I start

> radiation MOn, and will be done the 2nd of Dec. So I am assuming I am

> cured!!! Afer all of us going through chemo radiation and all the

> side effects We should be proud we were strong enough to make it

> through and the pink ribbon stands for that strength!!

>

> Steph

>

October 16, 2006

REAL men wear pink! LOL

October 16, 2006

I hope its him because he sure ruined a lot of families lives.

Hugs

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