Tag: brca gene
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One more sleep…
One more sleep… then phase 3 begins! This is my chemo drawer. I have amassed a collection of items from suggestions of others who have gone through this before me in hopes of minimizing the side effects as best I can. We’ll see how it goes. I know I have no control over how my…
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Echocardiogram & Port Insertion
Echocardiogram and Port Insertion I left my house at 8am this morning to get my echo done at 9am… if you’ve never had one of these, it’s where they take ultrasound photographs of your heart… jamming your rib cage, stomach, and neck with an ultrasound… really fun. My port insertion was scheduled for 10:30am and…
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Me & Her
This has been a transformative journey for me in the short time it has been going on. It feels like an eternity that I was waiting for surgery but in reality surgery happened exactly 2 months from my mammogram. 8 weeks. In 8 weeks, I had to process that I had cancer growing in me,…
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What they didn’t tell me…
4 days post op. I did so much research about the cancer when I got my diagnosis. Like I read ALL OF THE THINGS. I read about the surgery and what to expect. So many articles and posts describing it. None of them mentioned I would look like this. There were no pictures. No warning.…
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I am not superwoman.
Humbling is a word I would use to describe this process. You know me… go, go, go… never sit down, never take a break. Always ON! I have since the diagnosis really had to listen to my body, physically and mentally. Asking for and allowing help has been a big one for me, which I…
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Recovery!
Greetings from my bed! Surgery went great yesterday. Phelps is such a nice hospital, everyone was so kind and caring. All the nurses, my surgical team was AWESOME! They wheeled me in right on time, got me all prepped and stuff. The wheel on my bed got stuck on the way and of course I…
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I just took a DNA test…
Turns out, I’m 100% genetically normal! I finally got the results of my genetic testing back. The doctor ordered a full cancer panel which means they tested 84 different genes to see if I had any genetic abnormalities that would indicate I am predisposed to cancer. I do not. So this cancer is a random…
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