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Colleen · 05-10-2016, 06:16 AM

@Benk I also kept "moving" thru out treatment. I swam, did yoga, and walked a lot. I was slower but I never stopped these things helped to heal along with a good accupuncturist (she was a god send). I also meditated and used visualization for the cancer to leave my body. My visualization was gentle and loving, no ninja warriors, I used butterflies. During meditation as I took a breath in I envisioned butterflies coming to my body and touching all the places where the cancer was, as I exhaled the butterflies left my body taking the cancer away. I also turned to an alkaline diet and started monitoring my ph first thing in the morning along with my basal body temperature. This combined with the "gold" standard for treating HER2 got me to NED in six short months. Now it's like living with chronic disease, an infusion every 21 days. I always believed I would be fine and that's what your wife needs to do. Yes this diagnosis is scary but keep your chin up and believe.

05-10-2016, 06:16 AM	#9
Colleen Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Monarch Beach, CA Posts: 88	Re: Looking for hope @Benk I also kept "moving" thru out treatment. I swam, did yoga, and walked a lot. I was slower but I never stopped these things helped to heal along with a good accupuncturist (she was a god send). I also meditated and used visualization for the cancer to leave my body. My visualization was gentle and loving, no ninja warriors, I used butterflies. During meditation as I took a breath in I envisioned butterflies coming to my body and touching all the places where the cancer was, as I exhaled the butterflies left my body taking the cancer away. I also turned to an alkaline diet and started monitoring my ph first thing in the morning along with my basal body temperature. This combined with the "gold" standard for treating HER2 got me to NED in six short months. Now it's like living with chronic disease, an infusion every 21 days. I always believed I would be fine and that's what your wife needs to do. Yes this diagnosis is scary but keep your chin up and believe. __________________ October 2013 mammogram suspicious lump right breast Oct. 2013 Breast MRI reveals 2.5 cm tumor right breast 6-7 nodes positive Nov 2, 2013 PET/CT tumor right breast, 6-7 nodes include right axilla and one above clavicle, 3.5 cm lesion on dome of liver Nov 4, 2013 meet oncologist: schedule port placement Nov 5, 2013 baseline echo 65% Nov 13, 2013 start THP six cycles every 21 days Nov 20, 2013 blood counts now coming back quickly start neulasta following next treatment, no pain and it worked! Jan 19, 2014 syncope, ambulance ride to hospital, cracked a tooth and chipped three, six stitches in chin, CT scan shows brain is ok but am required to follow up with neurologist. Jan 28, 2014 PET/CT shows great response to THP Jan 28, 2013 echo, all is good 60-65% Feb 2014 brain MRI, no missing parts and no extra parts, all clear Feb 27, 2014 last treatment with taxotere Apr 22, 2014 PET/CT shows complete pathological response to THP amen! Apr 22, 2013 echo 60% continue vitamin H and P every 21 days until...eternity? May 2014 emotional melt down, demand port be removed. May 22 2014, biopsy of original tumor rt. breast, no cancer cells in 8 tissue samples, amen June 2, 2014 Port removed, happy dance! Just couldn't tolerate the port any longer; it never worked properly and was extremely uncomfortable July 24, 2014 echo 60% August 28, 2014 PET/CT all clear NED Oct 29, 2014 echo 65% Feb 4, 2015 PET/CT NED!!! Feb 4, 2015 Echo 65-70% May 19, 2015 mammogram all clear May 19, 2015 Brain MRI all clear! August 18, 2015 PET/CT NED!!! amen! March 8, 2016 CT w/contrast NED March 10, 2016 Echo normal June 2016 Echo normal September 7, 2016 CT scan w/contrast NED September 8, 2016 Echo normal still receiving infusions every 21 days of Perjeta and Herceptin with no end in sight...... March 2017 CT scan NED and echo normal May 2017 mammogram all clear! November 2017 CT scan NED and echo normal May 2018 echo normal *December 2018 ct scan with contrast and nasty drink-all clear! "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."