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StephN · 10-03-2012, 06:57 PM

Oh dear! Laurel has seen me twinkletoeing all over San Antonio, so the idea of me in a wheelchair was tough to take!

I am not ALWAYS in a wheel chair - only when I have to go to the medical center, which is too much walking for me using my walker. (These appointments are the ONLY outings I have had since coming home from the hospital.)

In our house I am using the walker, and holding on here and there, when I need to take a step or two in a tight spot. However, my left leg has lost some muscle mass and strength, which is WHY I try to stay on my feet with the walker. Pain pills DO help!

As nice as it might be, I have not done a lick of shopping on line. I also do not paint any more, so books and movies have kept me company, as well as a few friends and family members.

10-03-2012, 06:57 PM	#12
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: Visit to neurosurgeon Oh dear! Laurel has seen me twinkletoeing all over San Antonio, so the idea of me in a wheelchair was tough to take! I am not ALWAYS in a wheel chair - only when I have to go to the medical center, which is too much walking for me using my walker. (These appointments are the ONLY outings I have had since coming home from the hospital.) In our house I am using the walker, and holding on here and there, when I need to take a step or two in a tight spot. However, my left leg has lost some muscle mass and strength, which is WHY I try to stay on my feet with the walker. Pain pills DO help! As nice as it might be, I have not done a lick of shopping on line. I also do not paint any more, so books and movies have kept me company, as well as a few friends and family members. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018. Last edited by StephN; 10-03-2012 at 07:01 PM..