Tag: invasiveductalcarcinoma
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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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Chemo Comfort Bag
Chemo day 1 is complete! I will post a longer run down later after my nap, but I wanted to share this sooner rather than later. For my first chemotherapy appointment today, I was given this beautiful chemo comfort bag! I was not expecting this at all and I was overwhelmed by the items inside!…
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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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Phase 3: Chemotherapy
I will tell you something that can possibly be attributed any away that you believe… fear, paranoia, intuition… I have for most of my life always “known” many things before they came to fruition. If you’ve intimately followed my life the last 2 years, you know that my faith in the universe and our inner…
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Phase 2 Complete: Egg Retrieval
If you’ve been following along, then you know that part of this process is doing an egg retrieval as a combination of things concerning my treatment plan will damage potential eggs, shut down my ovaries, and not allow me to carry a pregnancy to term without risking a recurrence of the cancer. So 2 days…
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Those pics
“The devil whispered in my ear: ‘You’re not strong enough to withstand the storm.’ I whispered back: ‘I am the storm.” One of the things going into this that bothered me was the idea of looking sick. I hated the idea that at some point throughout this process, especially if I have chemo, it will…
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Lymph Node Pathology Results
Phase 1 Complete: I had my post-surgery follow up appointment with Dr Kelemen today. He said I am healing nicely! He told me that he removed all of the cancer, the margins were negative and lumpy was sent off for its Oncotype test to determine if I need chemo or not. I will get those…
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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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