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Dear Kevin,
I'm so sorry to hear your news-- we don't want anyone else to join our club!!! Please keep holding onto each other, and to the extent that you can, take it one day at a time. For me, the newly diagnosed stage was the most frought with anxiety, and once you have a game plan in place, and learn more about your foe, you'll start to feel more power over the situation.
Please know that there is a lot of hope for us Her2 patients. It is a bad news/good news diagnosis. It is an aggressive type of bc to have, but it is now one of the most treatable becauase of Herceptin. Plus there are other drugs in the pipeline that hopefully will one day lead to a cure.
I'm finished chemo just over a year ago, and life is largely back to normal. I think it will always haunt me, but I'm back to living my life, traveling, spending time with my loved ones...all the good stuff that life offers.
I wish you all the best.
Namaste.
Jen
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dx 4/05 @ 34 y.o.
Stage IIIC, ER+ (90%)/PR+ (95%)/HER2+ (IHC 3+)
lumpectomy-- 2.5 cm 15+/37 nodes
(IVF in between surgery and chemo)
tx dd A/C, followed by dd Taxol & Herceptin
30 rads (or was it 35?)
Finished Herceptin on 7/24/06
Tamox
livingcured.blogspot.com
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." -- Helen Keller
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