All Done! All of my radiation have been finished. Sadly, they had another setback. I honestly wouldn't have beem bummed so much, except they made me go back come back to the hospital, and wouldn't let me leave for days ( Read more... )

Actually written approximately June 25, 2011On June 15, I had my first radiation treatment, and everything seemed to be going well. I lay down on the sofa to read email for a bit. At 6:30, I had an excruciating headache. I attempted to eat dinner at 7, and took my steroid pill (protecting my brain from swelling after radiation) - but immediately ( Read more... )

Had my trip, and it was lovely...except for the fact I was in pain 10-15 hours a day, and the pain kept wandering around, so I never knew what to expect the next morning. I *think* I'm glad we went; we really did see some beautiful sites, but I more than once can close to just flying home, and letting B decide whether to come with me, or just drive ( Read more... )

I just learned about the Army of Women, a project of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, funded by the Avon Foundation, to help recruit both healthy women and women with breast cancer for research studies that aim to learn more about how to prevent or curtail the disease, or how to ease survivors' post-treatment symptoms. (Men who have been ( Read more... )

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I've had a hard time getting my oncologist to do scans. She's afraid there won't be enough change to show anything, apparently. But I finally got the CT scan and MRI...and wow, *everything* is better. My brain tumor is less than 1/2 its previous size. My adrenal gland is back to normal; my bone mets show nearly normal density (!!YES -- THAT MEANS I ( Read more... )

Anyone know of a good comm/message board/forum for people with metastatic breast cancer? (Pls. no standard (non-metastatic) breast cancer comms -- we really have amazingly different issues. sigh.)

Thanks so much for the many food suggestions last week -- you guys saved my sanity, if not my life. Mind you, I'm now sick of *those* foods, and need to ( Read more... )

The biopsy results are back (two painful hours late), and it's definitely a recurrence of my old cancer. (We've spent the last week praying for TB, but no such luck ( Read more... )

Do they have any idea how hard the last 38 minutes have been?

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We met with the doctor this afternoon, and he says he says it's a 95% chance of recurrence of my breast cancer. We're in the process of scheduling a biopsy to confirm--hopefully Friday, but probably next Tuesday. (Sadly, the 95% seemed like a concession -- when he mentioned the biopsy, he said, "you could go ahead and get a port put in while you' ( Read more... )