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Just a note.
I haven't been here in a while. I think about you all often but just haven't visited. I still hear from Pink and Andi occasionally. I am doing well, still NED. I have been really busy trying to promote my art, trying to rebuild my life and I guess I am a bit of a wimp. It hurts so bad when we lose someone. For a while there I was having one small problem after another but they seem to be resolving. I am considering reconstruction, I hate this prosthesis. Every time I wear it I get angry again with my first oncologist. Now they think that if he hadn't screwed up, I could have gotten be with a slightly larger lumpectomy. A little post treatment depression has crept in, but it will go away. I am doing great though and I will try to check in more often.
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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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