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Re: Finished - Now What?
YAY, we are both done with HERCEPTIN!! I had mine 8/20, and I am thrilled its over!! My forearms have the usual rash, my hands are tingly/burning/feeling like an arthritis attack. BUT once it is out of my system to feel healthy again I just want to sit and cry about that!
I have my reconstruction surgery next week, August 28th, and I am not the least bit worried about the pain of surgery because I am done with treatment.
I never appreciated my health before and this year AS BEEN HELL ON EARTH! Now, I mean today, I am planning a trip with my sister and niece to Chicago to see a play, ride a Segway and walk Navy Pier!!! I cried it seem daily the first quarter, then maybe weekly and if I did really good bi-weekly. Now, I want to cry because I am DONE, and I can plan and do something fun!!
I don't want to live in fear, and I have twinges of it, but I cannot control my future. I am ready to live again and do things on the spur of the moment without this garbage....I know the stuff that saves lives (but I still don't like how it makes me feel).
Anyway, you and me Starwishin we made it!!!
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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
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