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Two tests...Scan Anxiety just a little.
Today I will find out if my ankle has poor circulation or continued side effects from chemo, tamox and I just have to deal with it until done. It does feel better because I can walk on it. And maybe I will no nothing about my ankle after this test. I want to know so I know what I can try to do to fix it if anything. My sister gave me some compression socks and I wore those all day yesterday at work. I took them off when I got home from work and had some throbbing but it was okay.
But all of a sudden I thought last night when I put my hand on my bump, and I haven't been rubbing it to try and make it worse like the advice given on this board. Then out of no where I thought OMG what if this is a local reoccurance??? It just hit me out of no where, and I don't know why because all this time I really have just thought it was inflamation and weirdness from my diep flap and that is why I have done nothing (trying not to overreact about every little bump on my body). The ankle problem spurred me to call with my sisters pushing.
It really doesn't seem possible because I was radiated the crap out of all in that area. So I am like others last night I started having scan anxiety......Surely, this is not going to happen already. Like all lumps are 80% benign. Now, I am a little unsettled today. However, I am at work until 1:30, so I will stay busy until my test.
On a positive note Nurse Ratchet (onc nurse) did tell me radiologist will be there to tell me if cells look abnormal by the super sonic ultrasound. Then I will know if all is okay.
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IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant
9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.
12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.
12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+
2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished
2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.
8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.
BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative
August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.
3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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