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Old 07-05-2013, 04:24 PM   #1
KirisMum
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Re: How can they know this?

LOVE the Jay Gould article! Such a great man - one of my personal heroes. Thanks for the link. I'd misplaced it. :-))

Cool Breeze, how are you doing? Waiting for an update. <3

Steph, you are my hope and my lodestone; you can't know how many times I turn to your profile for reassurance in my darker days. I probably wasn't clear in my post - the mets in Kiri's bones are GONE. When I referred to new growth, I meant bone growth where the cancer used to be, not cancer growth. At least that's what K told me. She's a scholar not an oncologist, but I think she got that one right. ;-)

I just put my other child, K's younger brother on a flight to Europe for a month. He's never been abroad and will be part of a group at some point, but on his own a lot too. The Almighty is having a field day with me. :-/
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Old 07-05-2013, 07:06 PM   #2
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Re: How can they know this?

Update: my 16 year old is spending the summer across the country in Stony Brook NY. He's studying on a college campus, doing a scientific research project. Only 50 kids were selected to do this so he's in an elite group, but like you, I am not happy with my kid so far away.

Healthwise hasn't been so good for me. They inserted the fiducials in prep for SBRT and I went downhill. Tuesday I have another prep appointment and we'll see if they still want to do this on me. I got really sick Saturday night and was barely conscious for the next 4 days but hey, here I am, bounced back, out of bed, even left the house today. Just not bouncing too high. I'm on orders to take it easy but I have my nephew and his baby coming to visit me and nobody to clean the house but me, so easy? What's that?
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08/17/09 Dx'd.
Multifocal/multicentric IDC, largest 3.4 cm, associated ADH, LCIS, DCIS
HER2+ ER+/PR- Grade 3, Node Negative

10/20/2009: Right mastectomy, reconstruction with TE
12/02/2009: Six rounds TCH, switched to Taxol halfway through due to neuropathy
03/31/2010: Finished chemo
05/01/2010: Began tamoxifen, the worst drug ever
11/18/2010: Reconstruction completed
12/02/2010: Finished herceptin
05/21/2011: Liver Mets. Quit Tamoxifen
06/22/2011: Navelbine/Zometa/Herceptin
10/03/2011: Liver Resection, left lobe. Microwave ablation, right lobe - going for cure!
11/26/2011: C-Diff Superbug Infection, "worst case doctor had seen in 20 years"
03/28/2012: Progression in ablated section of the liver - no more cure. Started Abraxane, continue herceptin/zometa
10/10/2012: Progression continues, started Halaven, along with herceptin and zometa.
01/15/2013: Progression continues, started Gemzar and Perjeta, an unusual combo, continuing with herceptin and zometa
03/13/2013: Quit Gemzar, body just won't handle it. Staying on herceptin, zometa and perjeta.
04/03/2013: CT shows 50% regression in tumor, so am starting back on Gemzar with dose reduction, staying with perjeta/herceptin/zometa. Can't argue with success!
05/09/2013: Discussing SBRT with Radiology due to inability of bone marrow to recover from chemo.
06/07/2013: Fiducial placement for SBRT
07/03/2013: Chemo discontinued, on Perjeta, Herceptin and Zometa alone
07/25/2013: SBRT (gamma knife) begins
08/01/2013: SBRT completed
08/15/2013: STABLE! continuing with Perjeta, Herceptin, Zometa
06/18/2014: ***** NED!!!!***** continuing with Perjeta, Herceptin, Zometa
01/29/2014: Still NED. continuing with Perjeta, Herceptin. Zometa lowered to every 3 months instead of monthly.
11/08/2015: Progression throughout abdomen and lungs. Started TDM-1, aka Kadcyla. Other meds discontinued. Remission was nice while it lasted.

5/27/18: Stable. Kadcyla put me right back in the barn. I have two teeny spots on my lungs that are metabolically inactive, and liver is clean.

I’m beating this MFer. I was 51 when this started and had two kids, 22 and 12. Now I’m 60. My oldest got married and trying to start s family. My youngesg graduates from Caltech this June. My stepdaughter gave me grandkids. Life is fantastic.
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