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		Hi everybody!   
I've been on quite a bumpy ride since my double mastectomies with free flap surgery on 10/3/14!  Septic 11/4 with emergency surgery and wound vac.  Crazy drug reaction last week!! Back in Hosp for 3 nights.  I have been on vancomycin and sossan (sp?) then switched to rocifen (all infusions by port).  On Thurs I went in for my herceptin infusion.  An hour later I started breaking out in a rash around the port, it went on the front of my trunk and then to my back. Awful!!! 
I have also been on oxycodone and dilaudid which cause me to wheeze and itch when I don't take with benedryl.  My plastic surgeon thinks it is a herceptin rash.  My oncologist says, come back in 2 weeks to take my next infusion.  I've been on herceptin since 3/14. She says if I develop another rash, we will know its herceptin. 
What do you ladies think??? If I'm allergic to herceptin, how vulnerable am I to a recurrence of Her2 CA? 
Thanks in advance! 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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				Loren 
11/3/13  mammogram age 50 
11/27/13 follow up mammogram and right breast ultrasound.  Radiologist showed me image of 3mm nodule. He said to wait 6 months for a follow up mammogram. I advocated for myself and requested a biopsy. 
12/11/13 core biopsy with clip placed 
1/6/14 Duke consult BC Treatment 
1/30/14 partial right mastectomy, sentinel node biopsy 2 setinal nodes clear. 1.1 cm IDC, close margins.  
3/13/14 met Dr Heather White in Greenville, NC. She is wonderful and my new oncologist. 
3/18-19/14 Dr. White ordered pet scans, full body ct, bilateral MRIs and BRCA TEST. 
3/20/14 5/15/14 chemo taxol/Herceptin  1x/week 
3/25/14 port placement 
4/17/14 BRCA2+ 
5/22/14 Herceptin only 1x every 3 was for a year. incomplete Taxol(neuropathy of hands and feet) 
7/2/14 oopherctomy, salpingoopherectomy, hysterectomy at Vidante with Dr. Marie Rowe. 
10/3/14 BMX/trams flap with Georgaide and Zenn at Duke.
			 
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
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