help a BTer battle cancer (Page 4)

Hey there Terri...today is the first day of the rest of your life! I am a 26 year cancer survivor and want you to know that I am rooting for you! Stay positive and make sure you get second and third opinions. Never say never! Hope today is a good day and you are out enjoying it with loved ones! Happy New Year!

BunnyRunner - 2008-01-23 5:03 PM

Disney Half Marathon Finish! 

WAYTOGO!!

betsy - 2007-12-14 4:21 PM It is great to be riding Trixie again I bet

hehe I'm always glad when she's riding trixie. I hope she's not gonna get too mad when I start riding pete

love you, bunny

(For all you sickos.....she named her bike trixie...I'm naming my new bike pete. )

BunnyRunner - 2008-01-23 4:03 PM

Disney Half Marathon Finish!

That is a great picture!! (as proof of your strength and will). Congrats! 

Thank you B!  I couldn't ask for a better group of friends to share that moment with.  I am so proud of your strength and perseverence at attacking your PT test at the fire academy the way those chemo soldiers are attacking my cancer!  A big GRRRRRR to both of us!

One more chemo infusion to go on March 13th and then I am done for hopefully a VERY LONG TIME! 

ONE MORE WEEK AND COUNTING!!!

Thank you so much to my BT family for all of your strength and support over the last 9 months (and many of your have been with me for over the last 2 years). 

Your words of love and encouragement, your prayers and thoughts have traveled to me over many miles to strengthen me and get me where I am today.  Thank you to those you have sent inspires, worn Team Terri to races all over the world, to those who have checked into this thread or to my blog just to read and say a prayer for me, and to those who have been there right by my side in the hospitals and at all my finish lines.   All of that has meant so much.

I have a long road of healing and recovery ahead of me, but I know I can do it because I have people like you surrounding me and championing for me.  Thank you for all of the love you have shown Pete as he literaly picked me up from one of the darkest chapters in my life.  He is an amazing man.

I wouldn't have made it through without my friends and BT family (again thank you to Trixie for starting this thread).  I owe this victory to you as well.  Thank you and keep on trucking with Team Terri and the Irish Scrapper! 

Lucy - 2007-08-17 9:23 AM

Dumb butt me stared at this for 5 minutes until the light bulb went off.  Great shirt.  Fight on Terri, Go get ya some!!!!  Buckeye hug from me to you.

Lots of great new to report. My last tumor markers were down to 26, which is a nice relief as I come off chemo. My last treatment was March 13 and now I go on a monthly maintenance plan. I will still be getting Zometa (bone strengthener) and Lupron (hormones) and now they have added Faslodex (estrogen zapper). I will also have tumor markers drawn once per month in order to be monitored very closely. Sometime in the next few weeks I should be scheduled for a CT Scan.

In other good news, Pete (Klondike) and I got married on April 6th. It was spectacular! It was very emotional and a great celebration. I looked like a pretty pretty princess with my wedding hair and fake eyelashes Thank you for all your well wishes. We honeymooned in Disney for a few days and it was nice and relaxing.

Now I will try and return to training. I have a few tentative races on the schedule. I don't know how my training will actually pan out. My body just doesn't want to do what I tell it to do anymore and it takes me twice as long to recover from simple workouts. My big goal is to complete the Half Iron Duathlon in November at MiamiMan (I was supposed to do this last Nov. but had to defer because I was too sick). We'll see how it goes. Team Terri marches on!

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/02/4u-miles-to-run-before-she-slows/

the print version had pictures though. 

Great article!