Tag: warrior
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5 Days Out
My drain holders came today. whoo hoo. How exciting. (feel the sarcasm) I’ve been reading a lot and watching videos of people who have gone though this. I say people because men can get breast cancer too and go though this surgery. I’m trying to prepare myself. Not sure if its helping or hurting at…
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The countdown begins
I’m now one week out before surgery. I have my button down attire and my drain packs on there way. I have figured out my show line up of Netflix and downloaded shows to keep me entertained. I have the book ready once I’m over the show catch up. I’ve got about 2 weeks of…
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Surgery Scheduled!
Went in for blood work, go over MRI and schedule Surgery Blood work is all good…MRI: Tumor and mass shrunk as well as the nodes. So Surgery is scheduled for June 29th. I’m having a Bilateral Mastectomy with left Axillary Lymph Node Dissection. Which means they are removing both breasts and the lymph nodes from…
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MRI Results
MRI BREAST BILATERAL W WO CONTRAST DATE OF EXAM: 6/13/2016 5:19 PM INDICATION: Breast ca s/p neoadjuvant chemo; C50.812 stage III B invasive lobular breast cancer left breast. Status post neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Presurgical evaluation. TECHNIQUE: Bilateral breast magnetic resonance imaging was performed without and with intravenous contrast using high resolution dynamic imaging on a 1.5…
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My journey through pictures…Phase I…Chemo
So from the MRI and the biopsy that confirmed my life through the last day of Chemo…. It was a time. Good days and bad days. But one thing is for sure, I don’t ever want to have to go through any of that again! And I would never wish it on my worst enemy.…
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The First Day of the Rest of My Life
First Chemo session was today. I’m not going to lie. I was a mess this morning. I mean the whole “this could be the last time I wash my hair” but then countered with “this could be the last time I shave my legs” So it kind of evens out a bit. Going in was…
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And So it begins….
Happy Friday! First let me say PET/CT scan pictures are way cool. So the PET/CT scan came back and they didn’t find any cancer any place else. That is a good thing. It is localized. Because there are a few lymph nodes that are positive I have been staged at T4B Stage 3B. So it’s…
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Testing and Shit
Yesterday I met with the Surgeon. No news, but we are just in the stages of meeting the doctors who are on my team and what they do and what role they play. So far I feel very comfortable with all my doctors. So that’s a good thing. Today I had my first PET/CT scan.…
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Zoinks!
Hasn’t been a real eventful day today. I am overwhelmed with all the love and support from everyone. “THEY LOVE ME….THEY REALLY LOVE ME…” Had my appointment with the Radiology Oncologist. Well isn’t radiation therapy long and intensive. Sheesh! Basically this was just to get all the paperwork filled out there and then meet…
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Hooray for Boobies!!!!
I have been a bit busy and haven’t had a chance to update since December! I said I wasn’t going to be good at this. Maybe that will change. New year and all. So where did I leave off. I returned the windows phone. I couldn’t deal and ended up with the Galaxy 6 Active.…
