We’ve come a long way baby! How grateful are you?

Wonderful post Chris! Thank you for your message of hope! And the success of breast cancer research and treatment.

I am very grateful for being alive 30 years after breast cancer diagnosis, being able to see my children grow up!

I am super grateful for the almost 18 years for myself. Also very gratified when I read about women who only had lumpectomy and endocrine therapy. No chemo, no radiation…………………fantastic!

I'm grateful for everyone working to stop this cancer from affecting 1 in 8 women in their lifetimes. So I'm grateful for the researchers from myriad disciplines sharing what they learn to try to decode, prevent, fight and treat breast, and other, cancers. And grateful for the medical practitioners who chose this area of medicine to specialize in.

I'm very grateful for the thousands of people willing to participate in studies that advance understanding of cancer, many of whom did so at great inconvenience and often while ill themselves.

I'm also grateful for those fighting for a less toxic environment and soils as I believe that both are factors that can negatively affect our immune systems and will be found to play a role in U.S. cancer rates.

I'm grateful for the wonderful care I got that ended about a year ago. The caregivers for my chemo and radiation were wonderful. My oncologist was also.
I'm grateful for the daughter who came and stayed with me for 2 months when I felt so horrible she kept looking in on me to see if I was still alive.
I'm grateful for my 4 children who take care of my property , buy my groceries for me and invite me to parties.
I'm grateful for my two cats that snuggle with me all the time and my parrot who shrieks when the Ride-On bus arrives to take me somewhere, to let me know they are there.
I'm grateful for the Cancer Society that pays for my bus rides to medical appointments.
I'm grateful for the 22 beautiful oak studded acres I live on, and will, until I can no longer live alone.
I'm grateful for the elation I felt 3 days ago when my grocery cart got away from me in the parking lot and I sprinted after it like a 40 year old. (I'm 80 and not long ago I was propping myself up against buildings when I went on a walking tour in Seattle.)
I'm grateful for everything and everyone that has helped me on this journey. For you guys here too, whose wonderful advise I look for.

Thank you for posting all of this! What a wonderful exercise in gratitude for life. I also have a few parrots that shriek at me when something is amiss. It warms my heart to read your story.
Are you feeling mostly healthy again now?

I feel great now! My only real problem is the neuropathy in my feet that keeps me from driving. I'm working on it. My parrot is now 30 years old. Kind of a little monster, but real smart. He doesn't talk, but at night he climbs into his cage and closes the door with his foot.
Chris, you are one of the people that I am grateful for!

And grateful to you too, auntieoakley.

I forgot to mention one thing I feel very thankful for; my new curly hair. They are chemo curls, but the best hair I have ever had in my 80 year old life. I'm getting my first haircut this week!

I am grateful to be 2 1/2 yrs out from treatments from advanced breast cancer and still here to greet each sunrise, hug my hubby, love on my family. So grateful !