[schoolteacher]

Glad to hear from all of you. I think of all of you every day.

I finished my last WBR yesterday. I tried not to take the decadron, but had to after 3 treatments. I will wean off the medicine the next three weeks. He will check my brain in 2 or 3 months. The radiologist oncologist gave me a good prognosis.

I worked 3 days last week for 3 hours. I will work for 2 more weeks the same schedule. Now, I have to give my body a chance to recover from the radiation. School starts back on August 15th. I would like to teach for one more year.

I don't have a hard copy of my PET from last Friday, but the radiologist oncologist said the Abraxane has worked, and the places in my lungs and neck have gone done. I hope most of them are gone. Nothing in my liver. I have a place at the upper part of my right leg and a place in my lower back. The concern now are the bone mets.

My HER2 level was 195.5 almost 3 or4 weeks ago. No, this is not a typigraphical error. My estrogen level is now down to 34. When one goes up, the other goes down. To bad, a mathematical model can not be developed that helps the doctors to balance these two out.

I hope to get Pertuzumuab next week when I go to infusion to bring the HER2 down. I have been on Abraxane 4 1/2 months.

I am so glad to hear from all of you. If any of you have any suggestions about treatment or what to do for the fatique that is going to follow please let me know.

Amelia