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What I have learned...
This week has been one of reflecting / thinking about the time since diagnosis and how life has or has not changed. I posted this on Facebook and will here as well. It'd be great to hear from some of you and what you have or are learning. [I can't think/thank all of you enough for the important info/care that has come through this forum...]
Melanie
What I learned:
- - I know less than I thought
- - Life can be fragile
- - Death is real, just ahead
- - Better to fight for the positive than to avoid the negative
- - It's impossible to have cancer and be modest
- - Lots of people have had cancer
- - It's good to be loved
- - A smile can change an entire day
- - I like having hair on my head
- - I hate Taxol
- - There's no such thing as a boring bird
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Diagnosed: 7/13/07 (or 7/7/07)
Surgery: 8/15/07 Modified Radical One Side with Lymph Node Dissection
Pathology Report: ER/PR-, HER2+ with FISH at 8.4 copies, Grade 3, Stage IIIa, 3.2 cm tumor plus 4/19 positive lymph nodes
Portacath: 9/7/07
Chemo: 9/14/07 with AC (every three weeks) for four rounds
Physical Therapy for ROM Loss / "Cording" (but not Lymphodema)
Taxol + Herceptin weekly (started 12/2007 with 8 of 12 Taxol)
Radiation: (28 rads from 3/07 to 4/07)
Reconstruction (silicone implant)
Herceptin done (10/08)
Cognitive Remediation (11/08 - 12/08)
Lymphedema Diagnosed 5/10/10 (almost 3 years post cancer diagnosis)
Lymphedema Rehab 9/10/10 - 11/10/10
Six years NED...7/7/2013!
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