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I have some updates...
I am back in Texas! YEA!
My boyfriend's mother was diagnosed with esophagus cancer and has 1-2 years left to live they say. With that news, he pretty much said I was wonderful - but he couldn't handle a relationship with me. So the house got cancelled, and I am trying to find a way to make it work.
I found a nice paying job here in Dallas, and then 5 weeks later they say "you're great, but we had to lay off 7 people and you were one of them". I was devestated. So now I am on unemployment and still living with my parents. Sucks!!! But at least, I have a roof over my head.
I am on Tykerb/Gemzar after a massive liver infestation. The largest mass is about 5cm. There were so many others that I had him stop counting after we were in the teens. I am so scared.
I finally get back to Texas, I lose my man my job and my health all in the same month. Some days I just feel so damned sorry for myself! I just have to remind myself it could always be worse. I can still walk, breathe, and think.
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Jan04: Bilateral Mastectomy at age 28
Initial DX: Left Breast: IDC 2cm, Grade 3, HER2+3, 0 Nodes +, ER/PR-. Right Breast: Extensive DCIS ER-/PR+; Stage 1-2a
Feb04-Apr04: 4 AC, dose dense
Aug 04: 4 Taxotere
Dec 05: Bone and Liver METS; Stage 4. Carboplatin/Taxol/Herceptin. DX with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Apr 06: NED, maintenance Herceptin
Apr 07: CA1503=14; masses in liver; Xeloda/Tykerb
Nov 07: NED, Tykerb maintenance
Sept 08: Liver mets again, on Tykerb/Xeloda again, CA=19 and 27
Nov 08: Progression, Tykerb/Gemzar, CA=25
Dec 08: Progression, Herceptin/Navelbine, CA=40, 57, and 130
Jan 09: Progression in bone, recession in liver, Herceptin/Carbo/Abraxane CA=135
June 09: CA27/29=24, chemo break
Sept 09: Progression, CA=24, waiting on clinical trial (4 weeks no treatment)
Nov 09: now have brain mets, trial "on hold", getting 14 WBR treatments starting 11/2/09
Dec 09: possible start on p53 trial
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