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Re: Ugh Brain Mets!
Thanks for the replies Jessica and RolePaul. Love the idea of mediation and the sleep advice, I'll give that a whirl Jessica!
Your reply gave me a good teehee RolePaul, I am definitely a Dex Monster right now. I have been cleaning my house like a crazy woman. Good idea to do some crap jobs while I'm like this. Seriously this house has never been so clean.
Thanks for the sage advise, you all help make this less scary. I'm still on for gamma knife next week Tues and Thurs. After that, a couple of weeks and they will taper dex. Hopefully I'll go back to non monster mode. Doc told me MRI every 3 months for the foreseeable future.
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2009: dcis rt side, mastectomy, no chem or rads
2009: rt recon implant.
Jan 2014: stage 4. pain right side, found "too many to individually account for" liver mets. Found right axilla lymph nodes and nearby mass (source). Lung, lymph and bone mets. Brain clear by MRI. Er and pr neg, HER2 +++
Feb 2014: herceptin, perjeta, taxol
July 2014: no active disease, only bone scars and 1 liver scar! Tumor markers all normal again.
Dec 2014: seizure, 3 brain mets (15, 5 and 3 mm)
Feb 2015: Linac Stereotactic Radiation for brain mets
June 2015: no new brain mets, old ones greatly reduced in size. Bod still no active disease
October 2015: New brain Met, zapped by Stereotactic rads, watching another spot
Jan 2016: The other spot grew, zapped again. Still on herceptin and perjeta every 3 weeks
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