Rooting for you, flower. Seriously, let us know if there's any practical help we dwellars can provide. You know we're already here for the other stuff :D

Wait a sec... "National... Breast and Bowel Project"?

I'm real sorry babe, but, isn't that a porn site?
Ask Els, I'm sure he'd know...

I like breasts, have only half the normal amount of bowel, and must have missed that web site.

Bri, this sounds really exciting and promising. Just remember that no matter what trial you are in, *you* are the single most critical ingredient to success. Now is the time to start doing some meditation coupled with visualization. Get into your zone, and start visualizing that fucker shrinking, cringing before the onslaught of your will and the meds coursing through your blood stream. Visualize it dissolving, melting, vanishing. Do this upon rising and again upon retiring. Program your body to manifest your will.

Faith is not the belief in something that you cannot see. Faith is the belief that *you* control your reality, your body...your piece of the universe.

Now go kick that motherfucker's cancerous ass.

Not in the slightest. I am relieved, because you know what you are getting into! :thumb:
I'm sorry if I sounded like I was second-guessing you. Go get 'em!

PS: one last question (!) -- does this mean that you have decided against surgery for now? The tumour is "operable" but it looks like chemo-only in the trial. Interesting.

I didn't read the trial details (I will, but later), but the gist i understood was that the trials is about which shrink it better? Beiung part of the trial doesn't rule out surgery once it's shrunk -am I mistaken? My only experience is talking to sufferers -I'm no medic-, but I understood that if surgery can be delayed while the tumors are shrunk, then the chances are that the surgery will be less serious and is more likely to be successful?

Right, monster.

This trial is about what best shrinks the tumor so that a lumpectomy can be performed instead of a mastectomy. They want to save as much breast tissue as they can to make reconstruction either minimal or completely avoidable. If I had a lumpectomy now, half my breast would be gone; a mastectomy would require a total reconstruct. By shrinking and THEN doing what little reconstruction is needed, I imagine all sorts of insurance money is saved (see? I'm not completely naive ;)
Surgery is in my future--they just want to deal with a smaller demon.
I appreciate everyone's input, etc. There is so much for me to think about and decide I need this kind of dialog--don't feel bad at all, Pie. I am glad you asked those questions--I hadn't thought of the points you brought up and it made me do some research!

Thinking of you chicken.

I am glad you have people like Pie and Monster asking and probing.....I will just be here sending well wishes and FUCK OFF CANCER thoughts your way.

What ducks said!

What Dana affirmed about what Ducks said. Other people knowing what to say helps me to get information I otherwise wouldn't have known because I don't know enough to know what questions to ask (huh? what kind of sentence was that?)

Thinking of you, Bri! :)

Did I already tell you guys this? My PET and CT and MRI all came back negative. Yessss!

I get the port put in thursday and start chemo oct. 8th---I just don't know what arm of the trial I'll be in. I'll find that out on the 8th I guess. NO METZ! That's some damn fine news. Thanks for all the good wishes and vibes, ya'll.

AWESOME.

You are the ass-kickingest ass-kicker I know. Keep bashing that sucker's face in.

I can't tell you how happy this makes me for you and yours!
You FULLY deserve this!
YAYYYYY!!!
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Excellent Bri! That's fantastic news!

Fan-Dabby-DOZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!:thumb: :thumb2:

Limey I think it's actually now a criminal offence to reference the Krankies.