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Re: Cancelled reconstruction
I have been reading about the surgeons in NOLA. I am considering lining it up for next summer. It is not the wait that bothered me but the uncertainty. I had to go in an teach for someone last summer that had to have an emergency gallbladder surgery. It is really upsetting to the students to have to change instructors midsemester. If they don't do well in their classes it can affect their lives drastically. Many of them hope to go into nursing and I teach pre-nursing classes, Anatomy and Physiology I and II and Nutrition. It wouldn't just affect my life, it would impact theirs. Thank you for all of your comments. As for the guilt they tried to lay on me. I have "sucked it up" quite a bit ; ). Still don't know if I was stage four or not so every day is a blessing.
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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