Tag: genetic testing
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Today was a lot.
“No suspicious mass, suspicious microcalcifications, or other sign of malignancy is identified.” Today was a lot. As you know I have attempted to mentally prepare myself for each step of this journey. For some reason, I thought today would be easy. No mental preparation needed. For self preservation, I have spent the last year ignoring…
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1 in 8. 1 year later.
1 in 8 women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. 1 year ago today, I had the mammogram and ultrasound that showed the lump in my breast had “irregular margins”, “skin thickening”, and a bi rad score of 5… indicating that a biopsy was needed as all signs pointed…
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World Cancer Day
A little Saturday morning pearl of wisdom from me on World Cancer Day. I’m a highly empathetic person. I understand a lot. I understand why a person behaves the way they do. I can trace a behavior back to the way their daycare situation was handled as a baby and give you a whole life…
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Active treatment is done!
Active treatment is done. It feels like yesterday I sat in the room at MRI and the doctor told me I needed a biopsy… I remember sobbing in my car for a good while before scheduling the biopsy… a week later, “it’s cancer”… another sobbing session… then in a flash I switched into survival mode.…
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Ring the bell!
RING THE BELL!!!!! Phase 1: Surgery ✅Phase 2: Egg Retrieval ✅Phase 3: 16 rounds of Chemotherapy ✅Phase 4: 33 rounds of Radiation ✅ It. Is. Done. I’ll be ugly crying on and off all day at Hudson’s Mill if you want to stop by and give me a squeeze! There’s a lot of emotions and…
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My hair…
When I decided to share this journey the way that I have, I made a promise not to sugarcoat it and not to omit the hard stuff. As a person who has spent a good portion of their life shoving feelings aside, putting on a brave face, pushing emotions deep down, and training myself to…
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Chemo #2 update
Chemo treatment #2 update: A lot of hair came out in the shower Friday morning… and continued to do so all weekend… there were lots of tears and breathing exercises, Jacqueline O’Kane (why can’t I tag you lol) came to my rescue and cut it for me so I didn’t have to keep pulling these…
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Chemo #2
Chemo Treatment #2 Yesterday I got my 2nd infusion. I was a bit over confident in my “feeling well” and did a little shopping on the way home. Needless to say that meant I hadn’t drank water or used the bathroom for longer than I should have which meant the nausea kicked in Friday night.…
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Chemo #1 review
Chemo #1 Review:0 stars. Do not recommend. To go along with my positive attitude and transparent truth about this whole thing, I will share that this was not my favorite part of the process. I felt ok Friday evening after treatment and Saturday as well. I was tired, but mostly ok. I began the anti-nausea…
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Chemo Day 1
Chemo DAY 1- A/C 1 of 4. Today was a long day, very eventful. I met everyone at the infusion center, they were all super nice and caring. You saw the video about the awesome bag of treats! We got lunch and snacks and drinks if we needed. I talked to the nurses, the social…
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