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Thanks SO much! I just wanted to tell everyone when I got these.
One thing that still sticks out for me is the statement about Survivors. I really thought about a Survivor as someone who SurvivED cancer. For some reason, I guess it just hit me in that moment that I am SurvivING. I am a SurvivOR. That was the thing that my family keeps talking with me about. It seemed like such a small statement, but it meant so much to me. It was like my breakthrough moment how I was just hearing the oncologist's words about "You're terminal" and how mad it made me. After long and frustrating typing at my computer, I turned on my caps lock and said "DAMN IT! WE'RE ALL TERMINAL!" After that, I was so relieved.
What a difference your outlook makes?
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Jan04: Bilateral Mastectomy at age 28
Initial DX: Left Breast: IDC 2cm, Grade 3, HER2+3, 0 Nodes +, ER/PR-. Right Breast: Extensive DCIS ER-/PR+; Stage 1-2a
Feb04-Apr04: 4 AC, dose dense
Aug 04: 4 Taxotere
Dec 05: Bone and Liver METS; Stage 4. Carboplatin/Taxol/Herceptin. DX with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Apr 06: NED, maintenance Herceptin
Apr 07: CA1503=14; masses in liver; Xeloda/Tykerb
Nov 07: NED, Tykerb maintenance
Sept 08: Liver mets again, on Tykerb/Xeloda again, CA=19 and 27
Nov 08: Progression, Tykerb/Gemzar, CA=25
Dec 08: Progression, Herceptin/Navelbine, CA=40, 57, and 130
Jan 09: Progression in bone, recession in liver, Herceptin/Carbo/Abraxane CA=135
June 09: CA27/29=24, chemo break
Sept 09: Progression, CA=24, waiting on clinical trial (4 weeks no treatment)
Nov 09: now have brain mets, trial "on hold", getting 14 WBR treatments starting 11/2/09
Dec 09: possible start on p53 trial
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