10 years gone.

[rmd]

it's been 10 years since my hysterectomy. since i became a cancer survivor.

10 years ago today, i was laying in a hospital bed, looking at one of the ugliest floral arrangements i'd ever seen in person -- it was fabulous, arranged in a horseshoe, with clashing flower colors, and a ribbon reading "BEST WISHES ON YOUR NEUTERING".

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[wotw]

Congratulations, Regis. And thanks for the smile.

[sapphira-altair.livejournal.com]

"BEST WISHES ON YOUR NEUTERING"

Thank you for making me laugh.

And here's to remaining cancer free!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

well, it took another round for it to stick. (december, i have my 5 year anniversary of becoming cancer free from the ovarian cancer...)

THIS TIME FOR SURE, THO.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to have had another ten years of you and look forward to decades yet to come!

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

best flower arrangement EVER

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

Yay! Can you do ten more years a bunch more times?

[tikvah.livejournal.com]

What whipartist said.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Yay! May you have many more decades!

Fuck cancer right in the ear.

[solarbird]

So far, she's told it to fuck right off - and it has! Yay 10 years and counting!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary. :D

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

w00t ! and many more to come....

(and a prize to the people who sent the arrangement)

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

HUGS! Love you!

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a pic of that flower arrangement! and Yippee! 10 years going strong.

[drwex]

Let me just say I hope you have many happy returns of this day.

[coraline]

who was responsible for that bit of awesomeness???

and congrats -- i hope by now you've showed those internal organs who's boss, and the rest of them are properly cowed into submission :)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

kathrynt, poodlgrl, harridanp, and a few others, i believe.

and so far, things have been mostly cowed into submission. i did have to kick things around and remove some more organs nearly 5 years ago, but hopefully that settled things.

[beccane.livejournal.com]

Awesome flower arrangement! Wish I could have seen it :-) So glad you stuck around to meet me! ;-)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

You showed that cancer and those pesky organs who's boss!

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Oh my dear little marketing god, but if I'd woken up and seen that, I would have laughed so hard I'd bust every stitch they put in me. That reminds me of the morning after my mother died, my brother and I went to order some flowers for her funeral. We were looking through the book of arrangements and saw a heart made of white flowers, with a jagged line of red flowers going through it. Clearly it was meant to symbolize a broken heart, but it looked like nothing so much as a chart showing someone's vital signs dropping to zero.

Cue my brother and me snorting like two bad little kids in church. He looked at me and said, "We can bring her back from the dead. All we have to do is buy this and display it prominently at the funeral, and she'll come back from the dead and beat our butts with a hairbrush."

Me: "She can't do that, she's already been cremated. But nice try."

I think the flower guy wanted to laugh really hard.

Best wishes on your neutering and a stick in the eye to cancer,

[gayathri.livejournal.com]

oh man, you just made me squirt soda out of my nose laughing...

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

yay!
Congratulations!

[cutieperson]

hooray for catching it early enough!

[lara68.livejournal.com]

congratulations! here's to many more years of NO FUCKING CANCER!

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

YAY! Thanks for surviving and doing so with such grace and humor.

*hugs*

[miss-bowtruckle.livejournal.com]

W00t!!!

*counting 12 years here*

Hi-5, friend...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

woo!

i did not know you were a cancer survivor. whadja have, if i may ask?

[miss-bowtruckle.livejournal.com]

You may...;)

Cervical, grade 3 and 4, diagnosed on my 6-week checkup after my oldest son was born.

T'was rather scary, but well and truly cured.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Absolute awesomeness, all around.

[tb]

And good riddance! Here's to many happy returns (of the day, not the disease, and I think it's only one neutering per customer).

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Yay you!

And what a wonderful flower arrangement. I *almost* wish you'd disclosed this a month and a half ago. (I know someone. Chemo doing well. Yadda yadda...)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!

[cme]

Happy anniversary! Also, that flower arrangement is so awesome that it's one of those things that I wish I would have thought of even though I wasn't there.

[kjc.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH!

Now, let's get through DECEMBER! YEAH BABY!

[smcmullan.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'll join the chorus of cheers and hopes for your continued health.

Hugs!

[babasyzygy.livejournal.com]

Yay! Next project: LIVE HAPPILY FOREVER!

[lioritgioret.livejournal.com]

Hey, sorry this is a couple of days late, but I am really happy you are still here! Congratulations seems like sort of the wrong word for what I wish you about it; it's sort of more like "whooping dance of victory!"

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's an awesome story. And congratulations! Wow, ten years. *Wow*!