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Re: I Am New
I can only speak for my experience but it helped me tremendously that my husband verbalized that having a masectomy did not change him thinking of me as a beautiful and desirable person...or to put it blankly...that he was after all not in love with my boobs :-) but with me. That helped a lot dealing with the emotional aspect.
Physically she will not be able to do much for herself for about the first 1-2 weeks, depending on how long she needs the drains etc. Being cared for i.e. cooking, cleaning does wonders for recuperation.
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4/09 suspicious lump in left breast
5/09 biopsi lead to diagnosis ER/PR -
Her2+.Grade 3,full masectomy left breast,sentinel nodes clear,Stage 1
6/09 Adriamycin + Cytoxan 4 treatments (every 3 weeks) followed by Taxol + Herceptin, 1 treatment weekly for 12 weeks, followed by Herceptin for 40 weeks
MRI Brain 4/10 clear
CT Body 4/10 clear
PET Body 2/11 clear
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