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Another Crazy "Cancer Moment" :-)
If I have anymore "cancer moments", my hubby may just divorce me :-). First I traded my minivan in for a convertible. Good God, what was I thinking?! (my girlfriend, who was dx'd within days of me, went out and bought the biggest jet ski that she could find and she had never been on one in her life!) The new moment included getting a tatoo. Did you know that if you don't have a tatoo outlined, that it will disappear in a few years? The colored ink doesn't last. It's the black ink that they use to outline that makes a tatoo permanent. Anyways, I got a pink ribbon on my shoulder. The idea is...(hopefully)... that as the tatoo disappears, that the cancer and fears will diminsh (never disappear of course) also. Kind of symbolic I guess. I actually really like it. It is very "girly" without the black ink and turned out kind of pretty. I should have freaked out the hubby and come home with a big "biker chick" skull and crossbones. :-)
I will try to upload a picture- I might have to put it in the gallery section.
Love, Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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