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Old 02-11-2013, 05:18 PM   #6
Deb33
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Re: Starting 5th week of rads next week.

I am very fair skinned and was red after my first radiation treatment. I was recommended an herbal burn sauve by an Acupuncturist that truly saved me. It is brown and smells like dead leaves and kind of stains your clothes BUT it really does the trick. I would use it twice a day and I never blistered or became itchy. Check it out online - Springwind Herbs www.springwind.com.
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11/19/10 Identified swollen lymph node
1/24/11 Mammogram showed microcalcifications - no mass
2/4/11 Diagnosed ER/PR- HER2+++
2/23/11 Began TCH protocol every 21 days 6x
5/23/11 Ultrasound of originally diseased lymph node shows normal
7/25/11 Lymph node dissection - 8 of 14 show disease
7/29/11 Double mastectomy with reconstruction (expanders)
8/29/11 Begin follow up chemo - Adriamycin 4 treatments every 2 weeks and Xeloda. Self inject Nupogen shots
1/6/12 6 weeks of Radiation finished
2/13/12 Last Herceptin/remove port
3/27/12 PET/Brain Scan NED :)
8/15/12 Final reconstruction - hello nipples, good bye expanders
9/14/12 Rejected implant/infection. Implant removed
5/6/13 Latissumis Dorsi surgery left side with expander

PS - my photo was taken 5 days after my double mastectomy surgery and 6 weeks after my TCH was completed
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