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Laurie,
I love the idea of you getting a Henna stencil on your beautiful bald head. When I was going through my chemo I had a ball cap that I wore that said "Cancer Sucks." When the nurses would ask how I was feeling, all I would do is point at my hat -- it says it all. I believe that you must maintain your sense of humor through the horrific process of surgery, chemo, radiation, herceptin, etc. Without a sense of humor I would be in the nut house.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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