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When they wrapped my arm my blood pressure started climbing so that pretty much eliminates the sleeve. So far, it is better. I believe the swelling and pain in my arm may have been something else. I am taking coumadin now and that may help. I really had made my mind up to stop the arimidex and my oncologist talked me out of it for now.
MJo, The garden is worth the bugs, isn't it. My bite is getting better. I hope yours is. We are gardening on a shoestring this year but I had a lot of plants that I had rooted and some to divide so we made a new bed anyway. We put up a Martin house last year but a Great Crested Flycatcher moved in instead. Shes back this year with friends. And we have lots of tiny tomatoes. I LOVE our garden. A garden teaches delayed gratification so well. The world would be a better place if everyone gardened.
Leslie
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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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