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Re: Last chance to talk me out of it (?)
Thanks everyone for all your encouragement and warm wishes. Surgery was a piece of cake! Pain is super minimal, I took the narcotics for a day, but now am on only high dose ibuprofen. I did go home the same day- so glad I had the surgery. They let me eat within a few hours of surgery, no nausea this time, and the incisions are tiny! Turns out it was not robotic, only laproscopic- the surgeon looked around inside and said everything looked normal and healthy. Did have some weird shoulder pain which resulted from the diaphragm nerve getting irritated by the air they used to inflate my abdomen- but they said that will go away.
So much easier than the mastectomy and reconstruction surgery.
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[B]Kristin
Aug 2010: diagnosed stage 3b, 4 mo. after birth of son. 29 yrs old and breastfeeding, ER/PR-, Her-2+ started Neoadjuvant therapy: 4x FEC, 10x abraxane & Herceptin
Feb 2011: L mx with recon. Path. showed only DCIS but 4/10+ nodes.
March 2011: 6 wks rads.
Mother passed, lower back pain.
Late May 2011: Bone mets but organs clear; Tykerb, Xeloda, Xgeva. Stopped Herceptin. Implant infected: removed implant.
October 2011: Bone progression; Gemzar and Carboplatin & restarted Herceptin.
Jan 2012: Progression, re-classified as ER+; Tykerb, Herceptin, Zoladex & Femara. Anti-E is working!
May 2012: ovaries out, markers stable but elevated. Cont. Herceptin, Tykerb, Xgeva & Femara.
Dec 2012: aromasin
Jan 2013: faslodex, herceptin, tykerb
Jun: Kadcyla
Aug: Rads to hip, then Perjeta, Herceptin & Taxotere
Nov 2013: Perjeta, Herceptin, Halaven
Early 2014: Affinitor, Aromasin, Perjeta, Herceptin.
June 2014: Estradiol, Perjeta, Herceptin
Aug 14: Tamoxofin, H & P
http://kristin-notdying-blog.blogspot.com/
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