Need Advice
As you see from my info below, I have been battling breast cancer for 6 years. I have continued to work with the exception of 2 months in 2003 and a month in 2006. Of course, I missed days here and there but I worked. I am a technology coordinator for a very large high school. My mom and my husband want me to come out on disability. I am having a hard time with this decision. I feel like I am admitting defeat. But then other times I think if this were my last year on earth (which no one knows when) would I want to spend my time at work or home with my family. Have any of you struggled with this decision or is it just me?
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Hugs and Smiles,
Angela - NC
Dx May 2003 at age 39
Lt mastectomy, no nodes
DCIS, PR- ER- Her+++
4 rounds AC
Recurrence Dec 2006 Rt lung
2/07 - 3 Brain mets - Radiation
3/07 - Carboplatin and Herceptin
8/07- mets stable. Finished Carboplatin-remain on Herceptin
12/07 - Herceptin only
5/08 - Lung mets grew - tykerb and Navilbene. Reaction to Tykerb -9/08 Herceptin again
12/08 - Lung mets growing - xeloda.
8/09 - Given Zometa for precaution
10/09 - Lung mets back plus new ones. - Put back on Xeloda.
1/10 – Began short-term disability
2/10 –Lung mets growing - Gemzar
9/2010 – Scan show tumors in lungs growing. Put on Ixempra (every 3 weeks). MRI of the brain showed a brain bleed but it had stopped bleeding.
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