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LOTTERIES A CARING COMMUNITY SATURDAY, NOV. 9 FRIDAY, NOV. 8 NEW JERSEY Midday Pick-3: 424 Aimee’s story: 1 month after surgery Midday Pick-3: 310 Straight: $174.50 Straight: $197.50 Box: $58 1 Box: $32.50 Pair: $17 and 2 ⁄2 months after baby’s birth Pair: $19.50 Midday Pick-4: 7620 Midday Pick-4: 5318 Straight: $2,771 Straight: $3,347 Box: $115 Box: $139 Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories document- Evening Pick-3: 979 Evening Pick-3: 635 ing Aimee Parani’s experiences with breast cancer. We will Straight: $308.50 Straight: $206 continue to update her recovery progress in subsequent in- Box: $102.50 Box: $34 stallments. For previous stories, visit http://mycj.co/1f3F300. Pair: $30.50 Pair: $20.50 Evening Pick-4: 2689 Evening Pick-4: 0699 By Cheryl Makin Straight: $2,080.50 Straight: $2,704.50 @CherylMakin Box: $86.50 Box: $225 Jersey Cash 5: 5, 22, 28, 37, Jersey Cash 5: 8, 21, 22, 23, One month ago, Aimee Parani underwent a bilateral 38 36 5 of 5 pays $65,011 mastectomy and reconstruction surgery at Robert 5 of 5 pays $148,351 4 of 5 pays $752 Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. 4 of 5 pays $601 3 of 5 pays $12 A year ago this month, she felt a lump in her breast for 3 of 5 pays $11 the first time. A move from St. Thomas to Florida took NEW YORK NEW YORK place in December and the discovery that she was preg- Midday Daily: 539 Midday Daily: 288 Lucky Sum: 17 nant with a baby girl came in February. A day later, so Lucky Sum: 18 Midday WinFour: 4797 did a diagnosis of breast cancer. Midday WinFour: 8548 Lucky Sum: 27 In Florida, the physicians were not optimistic about Lucky Sum: 25 Evening Daily: 419 Aimee Parani successfully delivering her daughter Evening Daily: 034 Lucky Sum: 14 while in treatment for breast cancer. In shock, the Para- Lucky Sum: 7 Evening WinFour: 5098 Evening WinFour: 5835 nis — Aimee, husband Chris and 4-year-old Gregory — Lucky Sum: 22 Lucky Sum: 21 came home to New Jersey, as both were brought up in Lotto: Late drawing Take-5: 2, 18, 30, 37, 39 the Pt. Pleasant/Brick area. The Paranis felt home in the Take-5: Late drawing Pick 10: 4, 5, 7, 12, 16, 17, 22, form of family, friends and expert medical practi- Pick 10: Late drawing 23, 30, 35, 39, 42, 45, 46, 49, tioners was the place for to be — emotionally and phys- PENNSYLVANIA 51, 62, 64, 73, 79 ically. They connected with the Rutgers Cancer Insti- Cash 5: 1, 2, 8, 17, 42 PENNSYLVANIA tute of New Jersey in New Brunswick and it was there A week after her bilateral mastectomy and breast Midday Daily: 627 Cash 5: 10, 16, 30, 35, 39 she found support for herself and her unborn baby. reconstruction surgery, Aimee Parani feeds her newborn Midday Big 4: 5363 Midday Daily: 227 The past year has been a whirlwind of emotions for daughter, Paige, on Oct. 17 at her parents’ Point Pleasant Midday Quinto: 81525 Midday Big 4: 7317 JASON TOWLEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Evening Daily: 209 the Paranis and their family. On one end of the spec- home. Midday Quinto: 70485 Evening Big 4: 2931 trum, there was fear and nervousness for Aimee and Evening Daily: 645 Evening Quinto: 99813 her unborn child as she navigated chemotherapy treat- sense to drive an hour up to New Brunswick for 15 min- Evening Big 4: 4625 Treasure Hunt: 4, 12, 15, 19, ments in conjunction with a pregnancy. At the other end utes and then an hour to come home. The hospital in Evening Quinto: 70227 28 was the joy of Paige’s birth on August 23 and Aimee’s Neptune is only 15 minutes from the house.” Treasure Hunt: 1, 16, 20, 25, MULTISTATE 28 sister’s wedding in September. Then came the surgery “Dr. Briggs was actually recommended to me by my Powerball: Late drawing Oct. 10. aunt,” she added. “She went to him for her brain cancer MULTISTATE therapy. He was a very nice guy and it was comfortable Mega Millions: 41, 42, 51, Surgery recovery because he already knew who I was.” 57, 65; Mega Ball: 7 On Dec. 2, Aimee Parani will have her initial session As the year which none of them will ever forget with Briggs, who she consulted with in October. At the draws to a close, Aimee Parani is still recovering from December appointment, she expects a Styrofoam mold the experience of breast cancer. In true Aimee Parani to be created for the ensuing radiation. A week after Today In History fashion, she is upbeat and focused on the positives. this fitting, Aimee will begin the radiation treatments. “I am great. I feel great and am doing great,” she The therapy is expected to end mid-January, she said. Today is Sunday, 1942: Winston Chur- said. “I’m doing almost everything, but since I’m just a “I was told the mold would mark the exact location Nov. 10, the 314th day of chill delivers a speech in couple weeks out of surgery, I still need to be careful where they would be shooting the radiation. That is just 2013. There are 51 days London in which he says: with things like lifting. I really have to keep that in my the chest area,” she said. “Then we start the radiation left in the year. “I have not become the mind, because I just forget and do things. For me, It’s and I know I have off Christmas and New Year’s. So six On this date: king’s first minister to just normal to just pick up and go. My neighbor who had weeks of radiation and then, hopefully it is all over.” 1775: The U.S. Ma- preside over the liquida- breast cancer just can’t get over it — that I really have According to the information Aimee Parani has re- rines are organized un- tion of the British Em- no pain. It’s just great. I don’t know what they did, but I ceived about radiation therapy, she was told that she der authority of the Con- pire.” am pretty pain-free.” would not feel anything during the daily appointments. tinental Congress. 1951: Customer-di- “Aimee has been great,” Chris Parani said. “She has “I was told it is like X-rays. There are beams that are 1871: Journalist-ex- aled long-distance tele- been her normal self, not stopping for anything. As sent out to specific targets and I won’t even know it is plorer Henry M. Stanley phone service begins as much as we support her, she is supporting us.” happening,” she said. “I won’t glow in the dark and I finds Scottish mission- Mayor M. Leslie Den- According to the proud parents, baby Paige is grow- don’t have to worry about my exposure to anyone. I was ary David Livingstone, ning of Englewood calls ing and getting “chubby” while Gregory “has been try- told that my skin may feel like a bad sunburn. That is who had not been heard Alameda, Calif., Mayor ing to be as good as he possibly can.” Remembering that the main side effect. If it is too much, then they will re- from for years, near Frank Osborne without “mommy has a boo-boo” has become a mantra for Greg- duce the amount of radiation and do less for longer. Dr. Lake Tanganyika in cen- operator assistance. ory. Briggs also told me that since I don’t have the expan- tral Africa. “I can’t lift Greg. He is way too heavy. He knows I ders and do have the ‘gummy bear’ boobs, it is better for can’t pick him up, so he will come sit with me,” she said. the radiation. Hopefully, it will be as nice and easy as it “I can lift the baby and hold her. I just can’t lift her out of sounds.” the crib.” Another plus is that Aimee Parani has been upgrad- Disappointment ed to the “sports bra” level of undergarments. CIRCULATION & HOME DELIVERY “I had that special corset bra on for a while. It’s very Aimee Parani admits to some initial disappointment A member of the Group CUSTOMER SERVICE: tight,” Aimee Parani said. “The sports bra is much more when her team of doctors at the Cancer Center said she 92 E. Main St., Suite 202, Somerville, NJ 08876 Toll-free: comfortable. I think in two weeks, I’ll get to go to the needed to have radiation. There had been talk of per- 1-800-777-3455 next level.” haps forgoing the traditional treatment. Vol. 135, No. 242 November 10, 2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.- 7 p.m. Sun. 7:30 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. While Aimee Parani considers the bulk of the after- “I’m not sure exactly why I have to have it, but it is THOMAS M. 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