Wonderful, beautiful, spectacular! I am so happy for you, Kathy. You go, girl! Carole --- Kathy Kunz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All--- > > This is just to let all and sundry (hey, Bonnie--who's > this sundry fellow?) > that as of Jan. 26, 2000, yours truly has been diagnosed > as CANCER FREE. > Second look surgery performed that day, consisting of a > laparotomy to > inspect one area on diaphragm and larger incision to > collect 50 other > biopsies and washings showed negative findings on all > counts. Granted, this > gets me up only to the 50% group (50 % sttill free after > 5 years) but I'll > take it. The doc is happy with it because he says, all > along, everything > went better than he thought it would, boding well for > the future. > > I want to thank everyone again for all the prayers, kind > thoughts and > expressions of concern. With support like that, I could > face my weight in > tigers, and speaking of weight, I have to pare off about > 10 lbs. of "build > yourself up" that they recommended during chemo--never > did get nauseated, > never lost my appetite. Au contraire! And sitting here > taking 750 messages > off yesterday and today is not aerobic. But it's great > to be back. > > Kathy Kunz > mailto:[log in to unmask] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com