|
Pam - The medical field is starting to look at bc as a chronic disease (along the lines of diabetes). You do treatments until you are NED (no evidence of disease) or until the treatment stops working. Then you go on to the next treatment. That is what many of us have been doing. After 3 months of treatment, the mets to the lung were gone (took the liver a little longer). 2 years later, the mets came back to my lung, but they are small. I am being treated with Herceptin and responding very well. Almost gone!! Believe me, I do know how you feel (as do many others). Try to pick yourself up as soon as possible and don't dwell. Do what you have to do to fight this so that you can be NED again. Do not put your life on hold just because of this setback. Try to laugh as much as possible and spoil yourself too. Smell the flowers in the grocery store, play in the snow, get a manicure, eat chocolate chip cookies...what ever it takes.
__________________
Maryann
Stage IV Inflammatory BC 1/00
Mod Rad Mastectomy 24nod/5+
Adriomycin Cytoxin Taxol
Tamoxifen 4 1/2 yrs
Radiation - 32 x
Metastatic BC lung/liver 10/04
thorocentesis 2x - pleurodesis
Herceptin Taxatiere Carbo
Femera/Lupron
BC NED 4/05
chemo induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia 5/06
Induction/consolidation chemo
bone marrow transplant - 11/3/06
Severe Host vs Graft Disease of liver
BC mets to lung 11/07
Fasoladex Herceptin Zometa Xeloda
GVHD/Iron overload to liver
Avascular Necrosis/morphine pump 10/10
metastatic brain tumor
steriotactic radiosurgery
|
Threaded Mode