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Old 01-18-2013, 07:57 AM   #5
linn65
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Re: Radiation week

Irvine....LOL, his PHD becomes and MD that is hilarious to me!!!

I know 6 months in, and I think people become bored with the cancer. Oh to be bored!!

With us cancer patients it seems like it is always something and when the doctor asked at the beginning of the radiation treatment would you say you are a 100%?? Well, that is a loaded question I am thinking because I am not pre-cancer 100%!! My answer is no I am not a 100%, and she says well 90%, and I am still thinking. She said well if you are below 80%.....I did not let her finish and said okay I am 90%. However, it is always something! My bald head will randomly break out in a complete sweat, and I have weird little twinges of pain here or there, My energy can bottom out, I can be be emotionally weak, uhm and now my shoulder blade feels likes it is bruised!! Oh and I now feel like a chronic complainer so had some guilt and shame in there because I should do my best to act completely normal around people now because who would want to be around me the cancer, chronic, crazy person if I said what I feel or the pain I might be having all the time!!

This board is now becoming my friend and the people on it because they get it!!

And my ex-husband and his trophy girlfriend in the beginning wanted to help!! Now, cancer is old news, so back to the people they were before cancer started!! Now, I need to work on putting them on the shelf with my brain or move to the west coast, so I never had to see them again!
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IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant

9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.

12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.

12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+

2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished

2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.

8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.

BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative

August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.

3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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