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I am ashamed of their behavior. I am ashamed of our healthcare system. One of them told me I should just let my general practitioner handle it. I told her that maybe she should tell all of their patients that and that maybe then she would have no income. If my general practitioner could handle I would be happy to let him. It is stressful and then you wonder if you would be getting better care if you had private insurance. I cannot imagine what it is like for the older people, the people with some mental impairment, and the less educated that are on Medicaid. I wish all of our politicians had to be treated like this at least once in their life. Maybe then they would see how bad the system really is and do something to fix it instead of finding ways to line their own pockets.
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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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