Last Friday, we saw the oncologist. No new news there, pretty much as expected. I plan on starting tamoxifen after the radiation and will continue for 5 years. Unless the medication doesn't agree with me and then we'll do something different. So the plan is that I start radiation on 23 Feb and end on 3 April. Mind you, that is a perfect world ( Read more... )

I must be feeling better--I'm getting spunky ( Read more... )

I saw the radiation oncologist today--I'm meeting all kinds of people I never wanted to meet! The plan is to start 4-6 weeks after the surgery (1/23) and it will be 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Each treatment will take about 15 minutes. Side effects are : fatigue and skin irritation. I can drive myself to the center and there are no restrictions ( Read more... )

I saw the surgeon today. She said that the margins were clear i.e. they got it all and the cancer was estrogen & progesterone positive. She is referring me for radiation for probably 6 weeks, every day and to an oncologist who will probably put me on tamoxofin or an equivalent for 5 years ( Read more... )

The surgery is done & I'm at home. I still have two breasts but I really lie drugs. And my throat hurts from the tube. *whine*

I just talked to the doctors office and we are scheduled for Friday. There go *my* plans for the weekend! They will put a guidewire in my poor boob at 0700-via yet another mammography--and the surgery is scheduled for 0900. Which means I need to go to the hospital tomorrow and preregister and have bloodwork repeated that I had done on the 9th ( Read more... )

I saw the surgeon today and the plan is lumpectomy followed by radiation. This plan could change when the actually surgery takes place which will probably be Friday the 23rd.

Thanks for all the thoughts. At this point about the only the thing you can do is send positive energy.

I think I'm going to need to journal. This is not going to be as fun as the last time ( Read more... )

20 June ( Read more... )

19 June ( Read more... )