Tag: breast cancer
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The Home Stretch
Tomorrow is the last full dose of radiation treatment. It’s the last one to my lymph nodes. The remaining 5 are boosts to the tumor site. I’ve been very emotional the last week over all this. I mean I’m ecstatic that I’m down to the end. I’m excited about rebuilding myself both physically and mentally.…
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Transition
Still going through good days and bad days. They are a little different than before. Prior treatment was more physical bad days. Now I’m going through more mental bad days. (Physically I’m exhausted and adjusting to a lot of things that have changed.) It’s more of a “what happens next?” panic. This usually happens after…
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Radiation Explained.
I was going to start out with “I had radiation today” but then was like…duh, you have radiation every day! I was thinking about how they do it and started to freak out about frying my lungs and heart and stuff. Now I know they went over everything with me but they didn’t have pictures.…
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Hooray for Boobies (part 2)
The last time I had this title I was announcing that my breasts were trying to kill me and I had Breast Cancer. Today, I’m celebrating the new ones I have. (and am getting) So I”m not just settling for one size any more! I want it all!!!!! I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion…
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ZAPPED!!!!
Welcome to the last phase of treatment!! Yes I will be starting an additional anti hormone drug in November. But this will be the last treatment I have to physically go in and have something done to me over time. And to commemorate this I will be parking in front of the “Fire tree” in…
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Keeping up with trends
This week is quite the week. I meet with ALL the Doctors! (AND PT) Of course the song You Wanna Piece of Me runs through my head. But I’ve been noticing I am doing pretty good keeping up with the latest trend in everything. Seems all the cool kids are doing the breast cancer thing..so of…
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Scan Day!
Yesterday I got all the calls for the round of procedures today. I was okay until I got off the phone with the CT scan nurse. Then I was looking at my calendar to make sure I had all my times right. And it started to hit me. What if the scan doesn’t come back…
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Battle
Its’ amazing how you get a dose of normalcy and then something happens to remind you that you are still fighting. I have to keep reminding myself that I still have a long way to go here. I am getting stronger to be able to do radiation. I have no idea how that is going…
