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I am five weeks out from surgery following seven months of chemo and I am so tired. The surgery has been much harder to bounce back from than I expected. I hope three more weeks will make me feel as good as some of those women must have. I am trying to be positive but I am not dealing with this as well as I had hoped I would. I read a study some where that suggested that it was healthier for cancer patients to express their feelings, all of them, not just the positive ones, than to hold them in and try to appear positive all the time. I should be healthy if that is true. I am so not a happy camper.
Andi, I hope I can get to where you are. Right now I am a long way away.
Leslie
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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