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Re: NOW this IS ASTOUNDING!!!!!
Lani...
Of course you aren't "tooting your own horn"!!! Anyone who knows you...knows that!
Put PLEASE...allow us...your humble fans...to BLAST AWAY on your behalf! Wow! Amazing! Just stop to calculate the number of people you've touched with all the information you've posted here. Staggering. Thank you! From me...and from all the others we may never even know about!
And...yay for Joe and Christine! Their vision makes us possible!
And, yay for all of us too! For finding HER2 Support...and for being active "posters, lurkers, searchers, readers..." It takes all of us to make this the community it is.
I, for one, can't imagine what this nightmare would have been like for me without this forum and my friends here. It's even possible that without the information I've gleaned from HER2 support...I might not even still be alive and kicking today. Knowing what to ask, when to ask it, on which things I should insist...and equally importantly, which things were absolutely out of the question...all that info and confidence comes from here.
Plenty to celebrate! Thanks for letting us all know!
Denise
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1/11-needle biopsy
2/11-Lumpectomy/axillary node dissection - Stage 3c, ER/PR-14/17 nodes
3/11 - Post-op staph infection,cellulitis, lymphedema,seroma,ARRRGH!
4/12/11-A/C x 4, then T/H x 4, H only,Q3 weeks
8/26/11 finished Taxol!!!
10/7/11 mastectomy/DIEP recon
11/11 radiation x28
1/12/12 1st CANCER-VERSARY!
1/12 Low EF/Herceptin "Holiday" :(
2/12 EF up - Back on Herceptin, heart meds
4/2/1212 surgery to repair separated incision from DIEP recon
6/8/12 Return to work :)
6/17/12 Fall, shatter wrist,surgery to repair/insert plate :(
7/10/12 last Herceptin
7/23/12 Brain Mets %$&#! 3cm and 1cm
8/10/12 Gamma knife surgery, LOTS of steroids;start H/Tykerb
8/23/12 Back to work
12/20/12 Injure back-3 weeks in wheel chair
1/12/13 2nd CANCER-VERSARY!
1/14/13 herniate disk in back - surgery to repair
1/27/13 Radiation necrosis - edema in brain - back on steroids - but not back to work - off balance, poor cordination in right arm
5/3/13 Start Avastin to shrink necrosis
5/10/13 begin weaning steroids
6/18/13 Brain MRI - Avastin seems to be working!
6/20/13 quarterly CT - chest, abdomen, pelvis - All Clear!
7/5/13 finally off steroids!!
7/7/13 joined the ranks of the CHEMO NINJAS I am now Tekuto Ki Ariku cancer assassin!
7/13/13 Symptoms return - back on steroids
7/26/13 Back on Avastin - try again!
8/26/13 Not ready to return to classroom yet :( But I CAN walk without holding onto things! :)
9/9/13 Brain MRI - fingers crossed
“ Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you, and you alone, to decide. ” – Cavett Robert
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