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Re: Survivors
I use the date my dr told me my biopsy was positive for breast cancer. Not long after my diagnosis I was at our local American Cancer Society office looking at wigs. The wonderful lady who was helping me referred to me as a survivor and I said "I'm not a survivor yet - I haven't even started treatment." She replied - "The minute you decide to fight you are a survivor". And that's what I've used ever since. The minute that radiologist told me I had cancer, I was fighting. But the whole month of March is a struggle for me every year. 3/1-found a lump; 3/4 had biopsies and there were two lumps; 3/9-told I had cancer; 3/25-sentinel node biopsy all clear; 3/31-bilateral mastectomy. Dates I try to ignore but can't seem to stop letting them bother me. If it weren't for a couple of good dates in March -just celebrated our 42 wedding anniversary on 3/14 and a dear's friends birthday on the same day - I'd just hide under the bed the whole month.
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Joni -64 yrs old -
3/01/10: found lump in rt.breast
3/12/10: mammogram/ultrasnd/biopsy-invasive bc & DCIS; 2 tumors (2cm er-/pr-/HER2-& 1.8 cm er-/pr-/HER2+); grade 3;poorly differentiated
3/24/10:sent.node biopsy clear
3/31/10:bi-lateral mx.;atypical ductal hyperplasia-lft side
4/21/10:wound revision-infection/scarring 4/28/10:seromas both sides
5/21/10:port installed,TCH chemo (6 x 3 wks); Herc,-1yr; 33 rad tx after chemo
07/2010: port not working-2nd port didnt'work;3rd port opposite side.
07/2010: 2 weeks after 3rd port surgery, threw 3 pulm. emboli-IVC filter installed; warfarin
08/2010: hospitalizations w/3 of chemos; decision to stop after 4th-on to radiation in Oct 2010;Herc cont.
12/03/2010 - finished 33 rads Hooray!! cont. Herc. every 3 wks
4/2011 - pneumonia ??? Nope-radiation pneumonitis. No more Herc.
5/2011 - NED!!! port out.
8/2011 - clean PET & CT scans.Still NED
7/2012 - Still NED/very blessed.
2/2013 - 6 mos checkup-all clear. CA2729 down frm 13 to 11.
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