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After I told my MIL that I had bc and was going to have a mastectomy in a couple of days and then chemo, she said "Do you have to have a mastectomy? Or are there too many tumors? Because I was a nurse and all the mastectomy patients were in HORRIBLE pain for weeks." I went on to say the only bright side to mastectomy was I probably wouldn't need radiation (little did I know, I had a wad of + nodes) and she said "Well, that is good because if you have radiation, your hair will fall out and that will be just AWFUL!"
She never once asked how I was doing.
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Are we there yet?
Dx 10/05 IDC, multi-focal, triple +, 5 nodes+
MRM, 4 DD A/C, 12 weekly taxol + herceptin
rads concurrent with taxol/herceptin
finished herceptin 01/08
ooph, Arimidex, bilateral DIEP reconstruction
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Univ. of WA, Seattle vaccine trial '07
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