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Re: Chemo first and surgery after
Hi @JuneXie...I was diagnosed in September 2016 with Stage 3, Grade 3, Triple Positive (so Her2, ER and PR +), multifocal and with at least 1 node involved. I was (and still am) a public patient, and when advised to do chemo first, to be honest I was quite sceptical of their explanations. I thought their surgery lists were very long and that they were fobbing me off by doing the chemo first to keep me occupied and in a 'holding pattern' until surgery could be done. My instincts were to chop them both off now...give me a weedwhacker and I'll do it myself... Well, as it happens, when I did have my bilateral mastectomy with axillary node clearance on the left (the known to be feral boob), and sentinel node on the right. The pathology report on all the removed tissue, breasts and nodes, showed a complete pathological response, with no live cancer cells found at all, only the (quote) empty tumour beds. I remain NED (No evidence of disease) almost 7 years on. I was 58 at the time. Good luck with your treatment, and remember, this is the first time you've had breast cancer, but to your medical team, this is their bread and butter. They've treated hundreds if not thousands and are very up to date in the ever changing treatment protocols for different types and stages of breast cancer.

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Re: Our Gardens
This chap has been roaming around our block for years. He has now decided that our back verandah and garden is a better home.
I still, after all these years, not got used to him grinning at me when I step out of our back door.

The Kimberley name for him is "Bungarra". He is approximately 1.5 metres from tip of nose to tip of tail.
Totally unafraid of us, can't say the reverse!

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Re: Our Gardens
Bob The Builder - Year Two
Last year I wrote of our resident Greater Bower Bird and his antics on our Kimberley block.
Bob is at it again. Only this time he has competition. A second Greater Bower Bird has built his bower less than 50 cm from Bob. The two bowers are 5 metres from our front verandah.

The two bower birds spend much of the day building, wrecking, decorating, strutting, running through each others' bowers and thieving from each other.
Many "decorations" have been stolen from the shed. A bucket of reticulation fittings in the pump shed has been raided.
Whenever we required any building fittings, washers, nuts, bolts and sundry other bits, we in turn raid their bowers.
Over the past two weeks a female bower bird has been interested. She too has been strutting her stuff. Bob and Ben have been too interested in demolishing each others bowers and so have ignored her.
The female bower bird hormones must have been raging, in the end she gave up interest and a few days ago she was observed paying attention and strutting her stuff to a different male Greater Bower Bird who has a magnificent bower, beautifully decorated at the back corner of our block where I suspect tbe deed was done, she is no longer around and the third male bower bird is looking most pleased with himself.
The third bower and resident male we discovered two days ago when we were clearing the fire breaks. And so, smack bang in the middle of the block's perimeter fire break is a bower and two back hoe bucket runs on either side of it! God only knows what the Shire Ranger will say.

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Happy birthday wishes to @arpie
Happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear @arpie
Have a lovely day & thank you for all the care you show to the online group through all your lovely messages of support 🧡💛💚🩵

happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear @arpie
Have a lovely day & thank you for all the care you show to the online group through all your lovely messages of support 🧡💛💚🩵


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