[rinaina]

I enjoyed reading your post, article and photos. The photojournal looks all too familiar. So sorry you had to have a port placed twice though. My port is in my lower arm and I can shower with it unprotected so it's great. I just finished chemo and rads and have been getting herceptin since late August. So happy to have chemo and rads over and everything that went with them. So far doing well with herceptin but have had a raise in blood pressure since starting it, swelling in ankles at times, and a runny nose....all tolerable, but concerned over change in blood pressure. I use to have incredibly good bp. I am on a diuretic now which has helped a bit. Damned if you don't damned if you do. What a great idea you had to journal by pictures. I journaled on the caringbridge.com site but no pics other than my before and after hair pics. Thanks for sharing your story. It resembles so many of ours on this site.