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My father and stepmother were visiting recently. My hair had just started to grow out and was still very short. I have worn it fairly short for years but nothing drastic. She looked at me and said that she guessed I would probably start keeping it short like that. I smiled and told her that I really didn't think so, since I had no choice in this.
When I was voting last week an older women that I have know for years, a little catty, was one of the volunteers at the poll. Her granddaughter and my daughters have been friends since childhood. She got this smirky little smile on her face and said, loud enough for all the workers to hear her, "I guess its a cute haircut, but isn't it the wrong time of year to get it cut so short? Aren't you cold?" I smiled, and told her just as loudly, that since I had been having treatments for cancer since March, I was just glad to have hair. I left her stnding there with her mouth open. I look like I have a crew cut gone wild, I don't see how these people could think it was fashion choice.
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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