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Re: Good News / "Bad" News
Oh Denise - you are so brave. I've often wondered how you can be so positive and joking about what you are going through. I admire that quality in you. I on the other hand "pretend" to accept the cards I have been dealt but I am far from accepting. I HATE cancer and I HATE how we all suffer from it! I do not understand why this happens and I can't even pretend to understand. You are a remarkable person for being so accepting of what you are going through. You are in my prayers. Hope your test results are good. You deserve it! My next PET scan is November 5th. Dreading it already. Take care!
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Cathy
Routine mammogram 6-29-11
Ultrasound 7-5-11
Biopsy 7-11-11
Right modified radical mastectomy 7-18-11 with 7 out of 24 lymph nodes positive
Stage IIIC, Grade 3, Estrogen + 100%, HER2 +
Had 5 tumors in right breast, none of which showed up on the mammogram (What showed up on mamm was a lymph node)
Lymphatic vascular invasion
Lymphedema right arm (started shortly after surgery)
TCH started August 15, 2011
Finished Taxotore and Carboplatin 11-28-11
Radiation x 36 - finished Feb. 3, 2012
Herceptin weekly for 1 year - finished 8-13-12
Arimidex started Feb. 2012 for 5 years
Left prophylactic total mastectomy March of 2012
Arimidex stopped August 2014 due to side effects
Aromasin started Sept. 2014
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