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Old 02-14-2013, 06:01 AM   #5
linn65
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Re: Herceptin/Radiation Today

I made it through Herceptin Day...Now, just get through until Friday and can rest Friday night!!! It is really hard getting up because I am just so tired. After my Herceptin I can almost feel it go through my body real or imagined I do. My joints ache, and 5th week of radiation I am burnt and really do not want to even where a bra, get dressed and come to work.

I hope some day I am on the other side of this, and I can lend encouragement to others on here like I have been encouraged!!

In the last two weeks I have even let my dishes sit in the sink for the week.....It has come to this I now wash my dishes once a week! LOL...

When I get home I end up reading on my Ipad, and I think about what I should be doing, and I don't. I even tell myself if I would spend 30 minutes or an hour on this house it would help....However, like Scarlet from Gone with the Wind, I will think about that tomorrow.

The general population think you are doing just fine because I am dressed, makeup on, dress clothes on, I can laugh and be posititve. No one really knows or even gets what a person goes through with this and how could they I had no clue!!

This board helps me so much to just vent, ask questions when I don't feel like figuring it out, encourging, and in the trenches right with me. I am thankful for all of my HER2 people here!!!

Happy Valentine's to everyone!!! May we all get through another day with treatment or another day living NED.
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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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