A Consultant's take on Fighting Breast Cancer
It was a crazy week logistically, but –spoiler– everything works out! We had planned to be in NJ for Thanksgiving to see family, so we were flying 11/21-11/25. Unfortunately, my Grandmother passed away on 11/20 after 94 amazing years! The funeral was scheduled for Monday 11/26, and I, of course, wanted to be there. I was supposed to get my Read More …
I had my meeting with the radiation oncologist to map my body and create the molds for radiation. All went well and they should call me next week with my radiation schedule. Here’s the low down: Mold – I changed from bottom up and then they had me lay on the machine (looked like a big MRI machine) and made Read More …
It was a busy week – not only was I back at work, I had a trip to NY/CT and 3 Doctors appointments. Overall I’m feeling pretty good. Here’s the break down. Monday – Medical Oncologist Just a conversation (no exam) and he said we could consider 2 more treatments since I only had partial success from chemo. It’s common Read More …
Had an appointment with the plastic surgeon: Fill: we added another 100ccs to each side (we’re at 340/350). We are done with the right one for now and the left we’ll add some more next week as we need to over inflate it in case it shrinks during radiation. I need to see how much bigger to go in general. Read More …
Recovery is going well. Tomorrow (Tuesday) I start back at work. Physically I’m doing well. Mentally another week would be great 🙂 I’m still sore and I still have some limited range in my arms but nothing too bad. My chest is mostly numb and it feels strange to touch – it feel like if you were hugging a pillow Read More …