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Re: Lucky streak didn't extend to me :-(
Amanda,
I'm so sorry you have had this worry added to your heart.
Please, please don't let this news keep you in that "dark place".
Try to force your mind back to envisioning that wedding and the stunningly beautiful mother of the groom...cancer-free, and loving life! Our cure is just around the bend my friend. We all have to stay strong, and keep fighting until then.
You can do it.
You will do it.
I know it in my heart.
There's something about your posts that tells me this stupid cancer doesn't stand a chance...You'll never let it take your kids' Mum away from them.
So, Dear Amanda, hopefully, the PET will allay some of your fears. But barring that...you have good doctors, and lots of great treatment combos out there. If they don't get you back to NED right away, at the very least, they'll keep you feeling well until that cure is ours.
Until then...avoid sappy musicals. (I watched Annie with my two young nieces recently...and it had the same effect on me. The only highlight was the song "Tomorow". Those lyrics lifted my spirits quite a bit.)
Enjoy feeling well.
And rest easy, knowing all of us here are praying for you, sending warm thoughts, and knowing in our hearts, that our cure is on the way.
Love, and a big hug,
Denise
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1/11-needle biopsy
2/11-Lumpectomy/axillary node dissection - Stage 3c, ER/PR-14/17 nodes
3/11 - Post-op staph infection,cellulitis, lymphedema,seroma,ARRRGH!
4/12/11-A/C x 4, then T/H x 4, H only,Q3 weeks
8/26/11 finished Taxol!!!
10/7/11 mastectomy/DIEP recon
11/11 radiation x28
1/12/12 1st CANCER-VERSARY!
1/12 Low EF/Herceptin "Holiday" :(
2/12 EF up - Back on Herceptin, heart meds
4/2/1212 surgery to repair separated incision from DIEP recon
6/8/12 Return to work :)
6/17/12 Fall, shatter wrist,surgery to repair/insert plate :(
7/10/12 last Herceptin
7/23/12 Brain Mets %$&#! 3cm and 1cm
8/10/12 Gamma knife surgery, LOTS of steroids;start H/Tykerb
8/23/12 Back to work
12/20/12 Injure back-3 weeks in wheel chair
1/12/13 2nd CANCER-VERSARY!
1/14/13 herniate disk in back - surgery to repair
1/27/13 Radiation necrosis - edema in brain - back on steroids - but not back to work - off balance, poor cordination in right arm
5/3/13 Start Avastin to shrink necrosis
5/10/13 begin weaning steroids
6/18/13 Brain MRI - Avastin seems to be working!
6/20/13 quarterly CT - chest, abdomen, pelvis - All Clear!
7/5/13 finally off steroids!!
7/7/13 joined the ranks of the CHEMO NINJAS I am now Tekuto Ki Ariku cancer assassin!
7/13/13 Symptoms return - back on steroids
7/26/13 Back on Avastin - try again!
8/26/13 Not ready to return to classroom yet :( But I CAN walk without holding onto things! :)
9/9/13 Brain MRI - fingers crossed
“ Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you, and you alone, to decide. ” – Cavett Robert
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