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Re: I Need a Pep Talk...Very Discouraged Today
Denise, We have all felt the fear that you are feeling right now. I try to look at it this way. There is a 50% chance that I will develop diabetes. There is a 50% chance that I will develop heart disease, there is a 50% chance that I will die in a car accident and the list goes on. I don't think we worry so much about stage but the word of cancer itself. We immediately think that our days are numbered when we hear that we have cancer. We are just so much more conscience of what time we have left cuz we have had a life altering experience. I worry about recurrence all the time but try to tell myself that I will deal with that when it happens IF it happens and our chances that it won't are pretty good. You will see your children graduate and you will be telling your grandchildren this sorry someday. Good luck and stay strong. God Bless. Darlene
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DX Sept 30 2010 at the age of 49. Oh crap! 1.5 cm idc, stage 1 grade 3 er/pr+, her2+ no lymph nodes, mastectomy Oct/10. Started 6 rounds of TCH Dec/10 and will continue herceptin until Nov /11 and just started femara.
Stray kitten found my lump while I was playing with it. It is now my pet and my dog is not real happy about that.
Mammo good
last herceptin 11/21/11 YAY
reconstruction 12/09/11
Chapter closed 12/10/11, hopefully, fingers crossed
Bone scan, chest xray, clear
04/27/12 Expander removed, implant put in, ahh sigh of relief, much more comfortable
Sept 30, 2014, 4 years NED
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