Tag: taxol
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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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Childless Mother
Trigger Warning Infertility/miscarriage/child or infant loss This one is really deep, devastatingly personal, and raw… but I wanted to share it because I know someone will read it and say me too, and I’ve scoured the internet to find something, someone who can say “me too” to me. Childless Mother. I have processed and accepted…
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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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Chemo complete.
Phase 3 complete. My final round of chemo was completed Friday. We couldn’t go out without a bang I suppose… I went all 20 weeks of chemo without any additional illness… this week I went in with a head cold which just got worse as the weekend went on followed by a visit from a…
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And just like that…
And just like that…One more sleep… then phase 3 ends!!!! I remember lying in my bed the night before chemo started wondering how this was all going to go… nervous… worried… scared… I remember sitting in the waiting room the first day reminding myself that this would fly by and before I knew it, I…
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Phase 3 & 4 update!
Breast Cancer messed with the wrong witch! Phase 3 & 4 update! This week was eventful in the treatment department. Today was my 11th taxol, 15th chemo treatment… which means 1 MORE CHEMO and I’m done! Yayyyyy!!!! Monday I met with the radiation Dr, Dr Knoll, to discuss Phase 4. Phase 4I will have 33…
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Happy Birthday, me.
Happy Birthday, me. You beautiful, bald, bad ass, you. Look at you. Look at how far you’ve come. How much you’ve grown. I’m so proud of you. You learned to love yourself. You learned to count on you. You learned that at the end of the day, you are your biggest champion. Your strongest warrior.…
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