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linn65 · 10-27-2013, 06:49 PM

My foot feels kind of better....however my hands just like my feet our Ice cold. I took a hot bath to warm them up. I have wrote all day in my journal, and I wanted to write more but my hands start hurting. Today, was an awesome day. My Dad is doing much better.

I know when all of this started I wondered at times if I could make it to the other side of this. And today I found hope, happiness, returning purpose. Today, mentally and emotionally the tides have started to change. Now, if my body would, get there too that would be utterly awesome!

The lessons I have learned as I am sure everyone on this board have as well are priceless, and I don't know if I have figured it out before. Cancer forced me to understand what happiness is....and self compassion isn't self indulgence! So many things and today I am feel blessed.

10-27-2013, 06:49 PM	#8
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Re: Calgon take me away.....test or not to test. My foot feels kind of better....however my hands just like my feet our Ice cold. I took a hot bath to warm them up. I have wrote all day in my journal, and I wanted to write more but my hands start hurting. Today, was an awesome day. My Dad is doing much better. I know when all of this started I wondered at times if I could make it to the other side of this. And today I found hope, happiness, returning purpose. Today, mentally and emotionally the tides have started to change. Now, if my body would, get there too that would be utterly awesome! The lessons I have learned as I am sure everyone on this board have as well are priceless, and I don't know if I have figured it out before. Cancer forced me to understand what happiness is....and self compassion isn't self indulgence! So many things and today I am feel blessed. __________________ 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