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linn65 · 03-05-2013, 12:47 PM

Thank you for the encouragement everyone!

. I did call the onc office and ask if I could delay Herceptin until next Wednesday. She called the doctor and he agreed I can go next Wednesday!! I am so thankful he did not push and say I had to come because if he would have then I would but I truly feel 1 week off won't kill me in the long run. But emotionally, mentally and physically I just need a whole week off with nothing but getting better, so I can feel better and continue. I know it won't be perfect but each day my radiated area is improving, and I just didn't want to feel radiation problems and throw on herceptin SE.....oh and here in Indiana it just started snowing and a winter storm warning. Now I don't need to worry about driving in snow for the cure...lol.

03-05-2013, 12:47 PM	#13
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Re: I think cancer treatment can be in humane Thank you for the encouragement everyone! . I did call the onc office and ask if I could delay Herceptin until next Wednesday. She called the doctor and he agreed I can go next Wednesday!! I am so thankful he did not push and say I had to come because if he would have then I would but I truly feel 1 week off won't kill me in the long run. But emotionally, mentally and physically I just need a whole week off with nothing but getting better, so I can feel better and continue. I know it won't be perfect but each day my radiated area is improving, and I just didn't want to feel radiation problems and throw on herceptin SE.....oh and here in Indiana it just started snowing and a winter storm warning. Now I don't need to worry about driving in snow for the cure...lol. __________________ myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my IDC breast cancer 7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions 7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2 9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant 9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo. 12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj. Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow. 12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9 Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma Areas of angiolymphatic are identified Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep Margin of excision Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes. Size of largest node 1.5 cm Extracapsular ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+ 2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished 2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years. 8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks. BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast. February 2014 Nip & Tuck March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port. August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in. 3/18/15 stopped arimidex. 3/18/15 progression....Tdm1