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GemmaG · 07-18-2010, 08:07 AM

Hello Bill! Hello PinkGirl!
I'm here :-) still fighting and hanging tight. I get CT scans every three months and always not a good news :-( I kinda isolated myself :-( worrying about the future. I've been switched from one chemo drug every three months. I'm on Abraxane/Herceptin now since June2010.
The last 3 weeks I was very sick and to make it sounds worse, shingles! :-( sob, sob, sob...they're very painful! I'm feeling better now and they're almost gone and totally dry (gross!)
My kids and I together with my sister and family are going to Florida next week. I want to enjoy life with my kids as much as possible and while I'm still here.

Hugs,
Gemma

07-18-2010, 08:07 AM	#4
GemmaG Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bergenfield, NJ Posts: 121	Re: GemmaG? Hello Bill! Hello PinkGirl! I'm here :-) still fighting and hanging tight. I get CT scans every three months and always not a good news :-( I kinda isolated myself :-( worrying about the future. I've been switched from one chemo drug every three months. I'm on Abraxane/Herceptin now since June2010. The last 3 weeks I was very sick and to make it sounds worse, shingles! :-( sob, sob, sob...they're very painful! I'm feeling better now and they're almost gone and totally dry (gross!) My kids and I together with my sister and family are going to Florida next week. I want to enjoy life with my kids as much as possible and while I'm still here. Hugs, Gemma __________________ My love to you all Gemma ____________________________________ Dx July03 at 35 Rt,breast lump.,1 node+ ER+(98%)ER-, grade3 A/C 4rounds,Rad for 38 days Tamoxifen 2004-05 Recurrence Feb.2006, radi double mastectomy canceled bec. of mets, StageIV lungs mets Her2+++, BRCA negative Taxol/Herceptin six rounds of Taxol from April06.then Herceptin alone til May07. Started Tykerb/Xeloda in Jun07-Sept.07 bec of progression of the lympnodes. Navalbine/Herceptin Sept.07 to April 08 due to progression . Gemzar/Hercptin Apr08.June08 Brain MRI showed Brain Mets.CraniectomyAug.1,08, tumor removed completely completed 20 wbrt! Started Doxil 10/31/08 (monthly) and weekly Herceptin Ixempra on 2/13/09 due to multiple hepatic mets will have Herceptin as well. Radical rt.breast Mastectomy June2009. Ixempra/Herceptin 11/06/09--increasing right axillary lymphanenopathy and enlarging left upper lobe nodule :-( Taxotere/Herceptin 3/5/10,more liver mets, lungs, lymphnodes. 2 weeks on, one week off...