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linn65 · 11-07-2013, 07:50 AM

Ksgal I never knew what I wanted to be but when I became a Mother it was everything! I have always been a happy go lucky kind of person but last Thursday.....I actually thought I can not push thru this and IT is bigger then me if that makes since.

It seemed liked the movie, "Honey I shrunk the Kids". Cancer was HUGE and then I was shrunk and have felt so incredibly lost on different days.

I did what you did and made a list and did lots of self talk.....Like, 1 thing at a time, what you don't get done today you have tomorrow, the things I was facing would not kill me and cancer could have. I put things into perspective, regrouped and 7 days later I am still smiling. Yes, by the end of the day it is burning on the side of my breast and under my arm and then back to the self talk.....UHM I don't have any drains attached to me!! I got this!!!

Isaiah 43;4.....You are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you.

11-07-2013, 07:50 AM	#12
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Re: Being Sad and Vulnerable makes you Brave Ksgal I never knew what I wanted to be but when I became a Mother it was everything! I have always been a happy go lucky kind of person but last Thursday.....I actually thought I can not push thru this and IT is bigger then me if that makes since. It seemed liked the movie, "Honey I shrunk the Kids". Cancer was HUGE and then I was shrunk and have felt so incredibly lost on different days. I did what you did and made a list and did lots of self talk.....Like, 1 thing at a time, what you don't get done today you have tomorrow, the things I was facing would not kill me and cancer could have. I put things into perspective, regrouped and 7 days later I am still smiling. Yes, by the end of the day it is burning on the side of my breast and under my arm and then back to the self talk.....UHM I don't have any drains attached to me!! I got this!!! Isaiah 43;4.....You are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you. __________________ 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