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dawn · 07-11-2006, 08:20 PM

Thanks everyone, I knew I could count on you guys to make things sound realistic. My Onco is the greatest and very honest and Im sure he's trying to tell me things are looking good right now as opposed to before the test results and pathology report. As for a cure, I think he's trying to tell me that Im very treatable. But of course, my next appointment Im going to ask him to clarify in laymans terms. AS all of us know, we can only hope that we wont have a recurrence and if so thats its treatable. I think I can live with a treatable disease as long as I can watch my kids grow up. Right now, Im not have any side effects from the chemo as such, it just gets a little wearing every couple of weeks seeing doctors, keeping appointments and having treatments. but then again I guess thats something you have to get used to. Thanks for keeping my feet on the ground.
Dawn

07-11-2006, 08:20 PM	#8
dawn Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 153	Thanks everyone, I knew I could count on you guys to make things sound realistic. My Onco is the greatest and very honest and Im sure he's trying to tell me things are looking good right now as opposed to before the test results and pathology report. As for a cure, I think he's trying to tell me that Im very treatable. But of course, my next appointment Im going to ask him to clarify in laymans terms. AS all of us know, we can only hope that we wont have a recurrence and if so thats its treatable. I think I can live with a treatable disease as long as I can watch my kids grow up. Right now, Im not have any side effects from the chemo as such, it just gets a little wearing every couple of weeks seeing doctors, keeping appointments and having treatments. but then again I guess thats something you have to get used to. Thanks for keeping my feet on the ground. Dawn __________________ Dawn Mar 2006Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu 3+++, Er & Pr positive, 8 of 18 pos 03/14/06: Mastectomy 04/19/06 started Chemo adriamycin, chlophosphamide, taxotere 25 rads Nov 1, 06: 3 years Tamoxifen, Herceptin (1yr) Jan 2009 Femara mets to bone aromasin and aredia June2009: Full Histerectomy 2/22/2010 6 spots in liver 2 mm-10 mm: switched to xeloda and Herceptin will continue with Aredia J Scan February 2011 new onc, switch to abraxane April 2011 NED clear organs, 3 spots on bone scar tissue. Scans August 2mm spot on liver and lungs. now on to tykerb/xeloda Dec 2011 scans nothing on lungs, liver down to 1 2 mm spot. j une 2012 another spot on liver on to cisplatin/gemzar.