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Old 02-04-2009, 12:19 PM   #11
fauxgypsy
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Thanks. I do have a bit of the winter blues. I am beginning to look into reconstruction. Jackie, I never showed what cleavage I had but this half a cleave business just sucks. I went shopping for some new things the first of the year and I phoned one of my friends and asked her was this the year of the boob, or what? Everything I saw was v-necked, scoop-necked, cleavage showing, boob hugging, or transparent. I miss the old girl much more than I thought I would. I do think that if I was sure had been necessary I might not be as bothered. I keep thinking that if I could just lose weight and shrink maybe the prosthesis would not be as bad.

Art is slow right now and I am hoping the economy picks up. Someone gave me a kiln recently and I am looking forward to getting it set up. I was worried that working with clay might not be good but I found the website of a potter who has had a mastectomy and she has no problem with it. It will be better when spring gets here. If you get a chance check out my website or my blog on wordpress. I'll put them in my profile.
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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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