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last day of Herceptin
well this is it. 3:15 today is my last Herceptin appointment and from here on out it's "look ma, no hands". i have been OK about it but started getting weepy monday. oct 8 was a year since i started chemo, it's been sinking in that mom's really dead now that we closed on her house and i don't go there anymore (it's been run run run since she got sick then died), herceptin's ending, i'll be getting my port out, and our last day of innocence in 2006 was halloween, the day bob's doc felt his enlarged liver and sent him for bloodwork. after that i entered Cancer World. again and again and again.
i feel kind of like the day you put your kid on the schoolbus for the first time. like i'm both the parent and the kid.
valerie
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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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