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I appreciate what Janet just posted. I finished all the treatments I needed to do not that long ago. This whole past year, PLUS, has been very consuming for me in regards to breast cancer. It is good having everything behind me, but at the same time it feels a bit vulnerable. Maybe that is one subconscious reason why I don't leave the HER2 site along with wanting to help others with my experiences. I know I still spend a considerable amount of time reading a lot of what is posted at the HER2 site. I feel like i am in that transition period of freeing my mind of being so consumed with breast cancer and all that it entails, yet not quite ready to let completely let go, feeling very relieved that it is pretty much behind me, yet having an underlying fear of what may be in store for the future. I think as time goes on, I will be out of this "transition period" and things will feel more settled down.
Does anyone out there know what I mean?
Harrie
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*** MARYANNE *** aka HARRIECANARIE
1993: right side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads
1999: left side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads, tamoxifen
2006:
BRCA 2 positive
Stage I, invasive DCIS (6mm x 5mm)
Grade: intermediate
sentinal node biopsy: neg
HER2/neu amplified 4.7
ER+/PR+
TOPO II neg
Oncotype dx 20
Bilat mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction
oophorectomy
2007:
6 cycles TCH (taxotere, carboplatin, herceptin)
finished 1 yr herceptin 05/07
Arimidex, stopped after almost 1 yr
Femara
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