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i was mistaken for a man today!
well this is a first! i was at the check-out in the grocery store just now and the guy bagging groceries asked "do you have your own bag, sir?"
"SIR!??" i responded in astonishment. my god, did he not see my 38D's or my chanel lip gloss or my Lash Blasted lashes? i started to laugh, i wasn't insulted, i was just shocked and told him that aside from once getting compared to the guy/girl in "The Crying Game" in the 80's, this was a first. he apologized profusely anyway, but i hope i put him at ease. he said "when i looked up all i saw was the hat". OK, grant you, i was wearing a red felt hat pulled down over my ears, no wig, and my sweater pretty much hid my gender under my raggedy barn coat. even if i take the hat off i only have quarter inch hair, a rare site for one of any gender, so i guess i can expect to be mistaken for a man again in the coming months unless i increase the eyeliner and use red lipstick next time!  but then maybe i might just be mistaken for a drag queen.  wait.... a drag queen would have been dressed better....
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8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast
10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin.
1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010.
2/10 began 7 wks of radiation
6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer
8/10 got my last remaining ovary out
10/10 mammogram all clear
3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US
needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew!
7/10 switched to Arimidex
8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex
Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin
Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much.
back on Tamoxifen 1/2013.
blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen
tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer.
cancer's screwing with another man i love
2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!
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