|
Re: I have to gripe
I know I am just vain and from a small town, and I have never went in public bald. I just can't do it and I have scarves but I just don't want to draw attention to myself even though I am sure people know.... I know it's stupid. I lost my hair 16 days after my first treatment, and I miss my hair soooooo bad. Now, losing a breast just sucks! They gave me a post op camesol but it has no support for the right breast. The left side incision goes from middle of chest to all the way under arm, and I don't know if I should get a special bra or what to be more comfortable? I don't like leaving the house because of this, but I don't like being home all the time either. 6 months in and it's a long way to go. Then I thought oh one good thing I can get a free tummy tuck......Well the more I read about DIEP thing it sounds like its a nightmare. How is a person to know what to do?.
__________________
myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my
IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant
9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.
12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.
12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+
2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished
2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.
8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.
BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative
August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.
3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
|