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Surgery tomorrow so I'll be gone for a bit...
I've went thur heck and back trying to get all the pre-ops done for this femur surgery tomorrow. (Wednesday 18th) I've had so many obstacles thrown in my way to prevent this from happening!! (It was unreal and CRUEL.) Another LONG story that I won't bore you with.
But tomorrow at 1:30 PM I should be having my femur surgery and I'm a bit nervous. I pray everything goes ok because if not it will DELAY my chemo again. He said 14 days and I should be fine as long as a bone doesn't break during the surgery or any number of things that can happen. (Sometimes I wish they didn't have to tell you all the risks prior too the surgery...just more to worry about.)
I had to see the City of Hopes doctors today for pulmonary check, lung function test, etc. Pulmonary doc did feel my clavical node I was worried about and he did say YES it feels full in there. (Great!) Plus when I got home the node in my rt. axilla that showed on PET scan is now larger! It feels really big today and it hurts to touch it. Now I'm really worried about doing this surgery. Its going to be OVER 2 months since I was told of my recurrence with NO chemo. (Just herceptin/Zometa) Obviously herceptin alone is not doing it...which I knew it wouldn't. My onc and everyone still says I should do the surgery first...but I now I feel like I should of done chemo first. 
I'll be away from the computer a few days...stuck in hospital. Not sure if I can have my small laptop up there..but I will ask.  All good thoughts and prayers will be much appreciated. You guys all take are of yourselves and behave till I bet back. lol
Hugs to all of you!
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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