nervous nelly
anyone have a lump where their lumpectomy scar is a year out from surgery? maybe it's just that my 'cancer-versary' (date of diagnosis for me) is coming up on 8/27, but i've been feeling my chest a lot and i feel this bump under my incision. of course, that's exactly what i was doing last year at this time! hence my diagnosis! i keep telling myself 'chick, you have a dent in your chest, chill' but it'd be nice to know if anyone else has/had lumpy scar tissue. i just can't remember if it was there a month ago!
i do have a gyno appointment monday morning to discuss getting my other ovary out and i can't wait to get a pro doing the breast exam!
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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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