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Steve,
Sorry to hear that Sarah is in the hospital. That's a place that we all want to avoid! When she had her surgery did they give her a breathing aparatus to bring home? I don't know what it's called but it's made of plastic and you just blow into it and try to keep the little ball up. I was given one in order to prevent pneumonia from setting in. It helped to keep the lungs expanded I guess. After having a mastectomy a lot of times you don't breath as deeply as you normally do because you are afraid of pain. I'm praying that everything goes well and that she'll be out of the hospital soon.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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