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Old 11-05-2013, 06:20 AM   #1
linn65
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Being Sad and Vulnerable makes you Brave

It is Tuesday,

I read that the other day, and I had to share it. I have decided everybody on this board is BRAVE, SUPER HERO BRAVE....

Thursday night I did have a complete meltdown building from being back to work two weeks (and terribly behind) I have worked her for 16 years but this job I started right before cancer started (still learning), house was a mess, my son 7 hours away, bills needed paid, I need to go to the grocery store, my Dad having a stroke.

Friday morning I woke up and had no PUSH left. I called work and said I have to rest today!!

The day of rest changed my outlook! I wanted to come back to work and be "Normal" and felt that was what was expected. I am tired of the cancer deal so everyone else is to right??? I was like on top of the roller coaster excited to come back and full of joy....Ready, for normal!! It lasted 9 days.

Rest does a body good!! I cleaned, paid bills, went to the store on Saturday and Sunday I rested. I made big dents at work yesterday, and thank you Jesus I am starting to feel normal today.

I really want to capture these 4 days in a bottle and have them on reserve or even better......Keep this going!! Today, I have a couple angsts....but no pressure all around that feels likes its closing in and thats just life!

Thursday....I was sad and vulnerable, and I went through it cried and cried, but I made it too Friday! And I just read that yesterday about being sad and vulnerable makes you brave, and by gosh it does!!

Have a TERRIFIC TUESDAY!!
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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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