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Celebration (Birthday): 12/7/2012 - OK, not my 'real' birthday, but we all get two of them now don't we?
It's been two years since I had surgery to remove the tumor from my shoulder. So far so good. I don't have new scans until February. They are still watching some small lung nodules, but I am not going to be worried unless the doctor says to worry. So, for now I'm cancer free and hoping NED sticks around. -
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Hate Pink?
October was Breast Cancer Awareness month. Friends have asked me if I resent the attention given to breast cancer, the pink ribbons and pink in general. I don’t. Leave politics out. Just for a moment don’t question the amount of money that actually goes towards research for a cure. Cancer used to be a hush-hush topic and [...]
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Procedure or Surgery (CT scan): 08/02/2012-Results of the CT scan done on 07/24/2012 were good. One 6mm nodule increased in size to 7mm over the course of 3 months. This apparently does not concern Dr S so it is not going to concern me either. The other nodules are unchanged. Even better, I don't have to have another CT for 6 months! So, not until January! I'm hanging with NED through the holidays.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy (Chemotherapy): January 2011 - March 2011 Chemotherapy - After I felt nicely recovered from surgery and was moving along on physical therapy train muscles to take over from the missing muscles I was told I needed chemotherapy. I guess it shouldn't have come as a surprise, the surgeon said he was going to send me to an oncologist who specialized in sarcomas. Chemotherapy isn't realy proven to be beneficial in the treatment of sarcomas but the oncologist said the like to use it in case there was residual cells floating around. Again, a better safe than sorry treatment. So off to start rounds of MAID chemo, but before that could begin I needed a port installed and a MUGA scan. Great drugs - one can cause heart damage and the other bladder damage. Chemo was 4 days on three weeks off, began at 8:00 each morning and I left about 5:00 each evening on an overnight pump. Looking back I find it amusing that not only did they pump my full of a drug that nurses handled with two sets of gloves because it causes skin damage they sent me home with it! Long story short, my blood counts tanked over and over again. I had 6 blood transfusions and two platlet transfusions. I kept telling them to give me the blood of a 19 year old soccer player! The plan was four rounds of chemo but I only made it to three. I felt like cr** but only got sick 3 or 4 times. I finally figured out it happened when I ate anything with a high sodium count - boullion or Cup of Noodles. Once I stopped eating anything with high sodium content it didn't happen again. I lost a little weight but not enough and it didn't take long to put it back on. Sad face.
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TubThumping wrote on JAJO25's wall
Our stories are quite similar although mine was in the shoulder and was left with 30 inches of what looks like a shark bite on my back and shoulder. My surgery was in Dec 2010 and chemo in January - March 2011. There are some things that I can't do but I do not allow it to be limiting. From your writing it sounds like we have a similar outlook. Maybe it's because we are strong Iowa women. I just don't live there anymore, but I'm going back o get my FAIR fix in a couple of weeks. Keep writing, I'm interested in the rest of your story. Lori
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