A Consultant's take on Fighting Breast Cancer
I made it through my first week of my new treatment plan. Overall it wasn’t too bad, but I did have a fever/flu like symptoms on Wednesday. Drs said this is common with the first round of GemCARBO so fingers crossed it was isolated. I also got my appointment scheduled with the Cleveland Cancer Clinic. I fly to Cleveland on Read More …
Alrighty, it’s round 2. Unfortunately, it feels like just yesterday I rang the bell at chemo and here I am again. The hat came back today and again brought some smiles. My favorite chair was taken but I still got a good corner spot. My new friend behind me is practicing guitar so it’s not a bad day so far. Read More …
My new treatment plan is in the works: GemCarbo Chemo Therapy: 6/24 – 8/12: 3 cycles (2 weekly doses followed by 1 week off – They sometimes call this Day 1, Day 8 cycle) Will start with 3 cycles and pending testing may add in more Dates of Chemo – Mondays (6/24, 7/1, 7/15, 7/22, 8/5, 8/12) Because of a Read More …
Alrighty, my third chemo training. By this time I’m an old pro. Here’s some highlights: Switched my first chemo to Monday 6/24 since I figured waiting another week until Friday 6/28 was too long. My chemo infusions will be Mondays. Infusions will be done via IV – no port. They will be very careful as it’s a more delegate situation Read More …
I met with my radiologist and we talked through some questions. He looked at the sight and confirmed the reoccurance was in the field of radiation (which is not great, that means the cancer “beat” the radiation the first time). He then explained that we’re looking to do the chemo followed by surgery to remove the skin, then we’ll use Read More …
So I spoke with my doctor on Thursday. It was a quick 10 minute conversation, but I’m hoping to sit down with them again this week to further discuss and ask more questions. They spoke with MD Anderson (two doctors) and the consensus is for me to do another round of intravenous chemo for 3 months (2 drugs I haven’t Read More …
Pathology came back and it was all cancer and we still don’t have a clean margin. In the quick conversation I had the nurse, she mentioned my Surgical Oncologist spoke to my Medical Oncologist and they are going to reach out to MD Anderson to review the case and next Wednesday will run it through their panel. The thinking is Read More …
Surgery today went well. It was a bit later at noon with a check in time of 10am so it was quite a bit busier, but it was good because I got to drop off Grace on her first day in her new primary class! After checking in they got me all prepped. It took two tries and a pediatric Read More …