Tag: warrior

• 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…

  Erika Sherek

  September 22, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #fuckcancer, breast cancer, cancer, mastectomy, oncology, radiation, radiology, warrior

• 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…

  Erika Sherek

  September 21, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #DEXA, #diva, #fuckcancer, Arimidex, breast cancer, cancer, Lupron, lymphedema, masectomy, mastectomy, Osteophenia, tamoxifen, warrior

• Iconic – BITCH Get Off My Pole!

  As I was sitting here the last few days I’ve realized all the things that have gone on the last few years.  Two years ago on September 17th I had my hysterectomy.  I have a whole theory about how this is what threw my body into a hormonal frenzy which brought me to where I…

  Erika Sherek

  September 20, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates, General Update

  #diva, #fuckcancer, #hormones, #iconic, #madonna, #NYC, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, mastectomy, warrior

• 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…

  Erika Sherek

  September 11, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #diva, #fuckcancer, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, hairloss, masectomy, mastectomy, seroma, warrior

• Finding Inspiration

  I just got back from my weekly poking at the drs. I’m down to 5ccs now…I mean really? We are going to truly ride this out til the very end aren’t we. Whatever. So I go back in 2 weeks.  I’m starting to just accept that every week (now two) I’m going to get a…

  Erika Sherek

  September 6, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #diva, #fuckcancer, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, hairloss, masectomy, mastectomy, seroma, warrior

• DEXA scan and French Fries

  We went to Spokane this past weekend.  Boy did I walk.  Friday hit over 11K steps. I haven’t done that since January.  So needless to say I was hurting a bit the next few days. We had a really good time visiting with relatives and seeing the sights.  Another state checked off my list. Well…

  Erika Sherek

  September 6, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates, Health and Nutrition

  #CT, #DEXA, #DIET, #fuckcancer, #worrying, breast cancer, cancer, warrior

• Physical Therapy Begins!

  It’s so nice to move onto something…anything at this point! After 9 weeks of sitting doing nothing I am so motivated for this!  They gave me some exercises to do and did some massage.  Felt pretty darned good.  But she was explaining how because of the pectoral muscles that were cut and the effect that…

  Erika Sherek

  September 1, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #fuckcancer, breast cancer, mastectomy, physcial therapy, warrior

• NED!!!!!

  After reading several medical papers and treatment guidelines, I finally figured out the correct question to ask and how to ask it.  I may have more useless knowledge in my head that I hope to never use again. So this leads me to the exciting news that I am in NED!  No Evidence of Disease!!…

  Erika Sherek

  August 31, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #fuckcancer, breast cancer, cancer, mastectomy, NED, No evidence of disease, warrior

• ….The Wrong Diva

  Erika Sherek

  August 23, 2016

  Early Cancer Updates

  #diva, #fuckcancer, breast cancer, cancer, chemo, hairloss, masectomy, seroma, warrior

• Battle And The Amazon Warrior

  

  If you do not want to see what a double mastectomy scar looks like stop now! People do not like to see the reality of breast cancer. Everyone sees happy pictures on Facebook and how everything is going right in the world.  While that happy face is on, what lies beneath is sadness and anxiety…

  Erika Sherek

  August 21, 2016

  About Cancer, Early Cancer Updates

  #fuckcancer, breast cancer, cancer, mastectomy, warrior