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v-ness · 01-16-2010, 11:19 PM

thank you for the reassurance. i just didn't know, i never had a CT scan and it seemed awfully much. that, combined with pam going into hospice at only 35, and julierene's history frightened me. i am glad to know i should only fear an MRI.

i've had a good attitude through these 18 wks of chemo - which end next week, yay!!! - so i have to slap myself back into sense. the anniversary of my husband's death to cancer only 10 wks after diagnosis also influences me, though i try not to let it. cancer does not equal death, though it did for him. so i have to think like the survivor i plan to be.

by the way, i loved the cat shots - lynx, are they? i used to summer in Thunder Bay and loved it. saw my first mountain lion up in canada. to this day my sisters and i call beautiful, dry, blue sky days "canada days".

thanks again, valerie

01-16-2010, 11:19 PM	#3
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: ct scan for sinuses? thank you for the reassurance. i just didn't know, i never had a CT scan and it seemed awfully much. that, combined with pam going into hospice at only 35, and julierene's history frightened me. i am glad to know i should only fear an MRI. i've had a good attitude through these 18 wks of chemo - which end next week, yay!!! - so i have to slap myself back into sense. the anniversary of my husband's death to cancer only 10 wks after diagnosis also influences me, though i try not to let it. cancer does not equal death, though it did for him. so i have to think like the survivor i plan to be. by the way, i loved the cat shots - lynx, are they? i used to summer in Thunder Bay and loved it. saw my first mountain lion up in canada. to this day my sisters and i call beautiful, dry, blue sky days "canada days". thanks again, valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!