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Re: feeling negative
Venting to others that understand without judgement, guilt or worry is worth more than a word I can come up with.
I have a cyber friend whom I have emailed, watched her documentary and she sent me a chemo tips book. Her name is Ann Murray Paige, and I have never met her in person, but I just love her. She has been fighting cancer for 9 1/2 years and is simply amazing.
I recommend her blog to everyone for inspiration and at the same time keeping it real. Today she is having WBR. She is spunky, spirited, funny sarcastic and she is my hero in the cancer world. I want her to come thru this and be okay, and I don't want to lose her. I don't want her to lose herself!
My point in writing this is cancer sucks! And today might suck but tommorrow is a new day and it takes a village like all of us to pull together on a forum with a common bond that we have never asked for but got. So Cat we got you today and hang tough...
I don't want anymore people to die, have treatments that change the person they are, and I hope and pray that a cure not just NED is in the very near future. But until that day we are blessed to have one another in all the good, bad, positive, negative and anything else that comes along our path !
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myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my
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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