Hey all, sorry for the delay in posting. I was waiting for my appointment with the medical oncologist so I’d know more about what treatments I would need now that surgery is over. What I thought would be maybe an hour and a half appointment turned into four and a half hours, a headache and a general, overall feeling of WTF.

It’s confusing and overwhelming but so many of you are checking in (thank you for that) and asking how it went so I figured the best thing to do is to post it here Download videos in firefox. I’ll try to make it as simple as possible, but trust me, by the end of the appointment, the oncologist was drawing a chart, we were calculating and back tracking weeks on calendars and taking mental notes of our immediate “to do” list that is now a mile long before I start this whole process. Here we go:

The alphabet has 26 letters, and it seems about half of them will be involved in some part of my treatment plan.

The first two months will be what is called AC chemo huawei p smart apps herunterladen. They are two different drugs given together and are the ones that cause the most side effects. Prior to getting these infusions, I need to go to the lab for blood work, then meet with the oncologist, then get my chemo treatment. The day will be about 5-6 hours. They first give you big doses of anti-nausea medicine, then a saline IV, then the chemo. This is the sucker that is going to make me feel like crap and cause my hair to fall out, most likely right after the second treatment download minecraft for free for pc. There is a huge WARNING label on the pamphlet about what could go wrong, including little things like, ohhhhh, heart failure, lowering of ability of my bone marrow to make blood cells, tissue damage, etc. I was told if I develop a fever to get to an ER right away because it could be a sign of a blood infection. Then there’s the dreaded nausea, increased fatigue and other side effects zombie games download.

In the middle of all of this, I will need to get an echo and an EKG periodically to monitor my heart to make sure it isn’t damaged and I can continue with chemo. In between these chemo treatments, I will also have to give myself a shot of another drug to help my bone marrow along in recovery and prevent any infections aus iclouden. This also comes with side effects. If insurance doesn’t cover this at home treatment, I will need to make my way back to the hospital the following day after chemo so they can inject it at the facility and it will be covered as a hospital session. I will be calling my insurance company Monday to see if they cover me sticking myself at home. I will also need to take anti-nausea meds in pill form at home in between since the nausea likes to linger for a bit gta 5 free download voor ipad.

When that lovely song and dance is over, I then move on to the T-H-P infusions. This should be sometime around April. The T is chemo which comes with its own side effects. The H & P are antibody therapies to fight against the HER2. This will be once a week for 3 months. The T-H-P combined will be every 3 weeks, then the other weeks are just the T why can't I audios from whatsapp. The side effects of the T chemo can include feeling tired and weak, upset stomach and throwing up, mouth sores, muscle and joint pain, and losing your eyebrows and eyelashes. I will need to take steroids during this time as one of the side effects can be a rash. So that goes on for 3 months.

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While that is going on, I will also be continuing on with the HP antibody therapies. These will cause fatigue, nausea, insomnia and possible dizziness, numbness, depression, runny nose, among others. This will be ongoing every three weeks and ending in…drum rollllll…
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So that will be the schedule (so far) for the next 1.3 years. No vacations, no supplements, no antioxidant red wine…just chemicals after chemicals, after chemicals pumped into me in order to kill any possible cancer cells that may be lurking in my body and hopefully prevent a recurrence of the breast cancer.

But all of the above being said, I know this is what needs to be done. And I also know there are millions of women who have undergone these treatments and survived. I have had the honor to speak to a few of them who are giving me their best tips for getting through it day by day. I bow to them and their courage and will use them as my inspiration.

And now since we’ve gone through most of the alphabet, let’s move on to numbers.

Start date for chemo treatment #1 – 2/12/2016.

Went for a follow up appointment with my breast surgeon/primary doctor yesterday. Not the best news, unfortunately.  When I had my surgery, the surgeon injected a blue dye that then travels to the lymph nodes office powerpoint kostenlos herunterladen. The nodes that the dye goes to first are called the sentinel nodes and are where the cancer would travel to if left untreated. Four of them got hit, so she removed them anschreiben muster herunterladen. The pathology came back that one of those four lymph nodes contained cancer, so this now makes my cancer a stage 2.

So based on the pathology that also was done on the mass (which includes being positive for HER2) I will definitely need chemo, radiation and medication netflix series download windows. I meet with the medical oncologist next Friday and will have more answers then. On the plus side, having triple positive breast cancer (ER, PR & HER2)  is good, because they have the medications that work well for treating this type of breast cancer java programm herunterladen.

*An important note: I asked my surgeon about the new recommendations for women to wait until 50 years old to be screened. She highly disagrees with this herunterladen. Then I asked her where my cancer would be by the time I got to 50.  Her reply was instant, “Oh, you wouldn’t have gotten to 50 before this would have become a very large lump.”

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If you’re new to this blog, please read my first entry “CANCER DOESN’T CARE.”

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CANCER DOESN’T CARE

Hey you. You over there going about your life, finishing work and hitting the gym. Or maybe you’re on your way to happy hour with friends, or a movie, heading home to your family, or off to volunteer somewhere. Take a quick second and read what I’m about to share with you. It could save your life or someone’s you love.

I’m a person who does everything I can to take care of myself. I pay attention to the latest health reports on food and products. I buy organic as often as I can. I was a three-sport athlete in high school and college and still consider working out to be the best way to relieve stress favicon einer seite herunterladen. I eat healthy foods and cook with healthy ingredients. I don’t eat fast food. I don’t drink a lot of alcohol. If I do, it’s red wine because experts say it’s good for my heart. I don’t smoke and I don’t do drugs. I take a multi-vitamin and get at least 8 hours of sleep a night. I wash my hands a lot. I get yearly physicals and am not on any medications. Does this sound like you or someone you know? Why should you care? Read on.

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I’m a TV producer in NYC. Most TV producers by nature are control freaks. The “OCD/Type A drive people nuts” kind. It’s our job to think ahead, to dot all i’s and cross all t’s, sometimes before we even know what i’s and t’s need to be dotted or crossed. That’s typically how we run our lives too. I have nearly every part of my life mapped out, each day thinking ahead to the next. I figure what I can control on a daily basis makes life a little easier auto spiele kostenlos downloaden pc. It has worked for me so far.

So why am I telling you all this? Why should you care? Because as much as I do all of the above, I was not prepared for the following words from a doctor on the other end of the phone:

“You have invasive ductal carcinoma and DCIS. You have breast cancer.”

You see, cancer doesn’t care. It doesn’t care that you are a good person and do everything you can to stay healthy. It doesn’t care that you love your family and friends and have a lot left to contribute. If cancer wants to invade your body, your soul and your world – it will battlefield herunterladen kostenlos. No one is immune. Do not think for one second that you are. Do not think your mother is, or your daughter, sister, aunt, niece or your insanely healthy friend is either.

You may think, “Well no one in my family has breast cancer” and that you’re okay since you don’t have any of the risk factors. Look them up, you’re probably right. Neither did I. But it doesn’t matter. And just because no one in your family has ever had breast cancer, you’re not immune or “less likely” to get it serien onlineen. One breast cancer specialist told me that 80% of all new breast cancer diagnosis are women with NO family history of breast cancer.

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There are several recommendations on when to get a mammogram and how often. One new one that just came out is to wait until you are 50 years old. It changes depending on different studies or who is doing the recommending. But the only recommendation you need is from your own gut. If you want to get a mammogram before the time your doctor says to get it, fight for it whatsapp downloader kostenlos. Get it. Do not wait for the words to come out of another doctor’s mouth…”invasive ductal carcinoma.”

Cancer only stays contained for a little while. If it’s not detected, it will spread. You need to know it’s there when it first shows up. Don’t wait for a lump or any other symptom to show up. I didn’t have any. Not one. But I missed my chance to keep it at Stage 0 because I waited too long in between mammograms. My last one was in December of 2012 Download 64 bits codec for powerpoint.

In my defense, I tried to go the following year. The gynecologist who was doing my annual exam is the one who would give me my mammogram prescription. On my way there I got a call from her office saying she was going to be late she was delivering a baby. I said I’d reschedule but they said she’d be back shortly. I asked if she was delivering a baby or a pizza. After waiting almost two hours I left because I had to go to to work. This doctor then fell off my insurance plan so I needed a new one dog pictures for free.

I got busy and the months ticked by. The medical community was starting to debate new mammogram guidelines and some experts weren’t pushing for every year. I didn’t feel I needed to rush to get it done. In between, I went to my regular doctor for my yearly physical and everything was perfectly fine. I felt fine. There were no indications at all that cancer was lurking in my body. I finally went for my mammogram in October of 2015. October – breast cancer awareness month.

The pathology from my biopsy confirmed I am positive for the HER2 receptor. HER2 positive breast cancers can be more aggressive than others because the protein makes cancer cells grow faster. Fortunately I have been diagnosed with **Stage 1 because we caught it early from a routine mammogram. But if I had listened to the new recommendations and waited years to get checked, it would have been a lot worse. So if you’re due, go soon. If you’re overdue, go now. Do not wait for the pink ribbon reminders.

Where do I go from here? I have a plan, naturally. I have i’s to dot and t’s to cross. Lumpectomy. Check. Lymph nodes removed. Check. Follow-up appointment scheduled. Check. Determine treatment plan…check.

So please, make your own plan starting with a mammogram. And bring your mother, sister, aunt, niece or friend with you.

Because even though cancer doesn’t care, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.

**UPDATE:  After lumpectomy surgery, it was determined 1 of the lymph nodes removed was cancerous, which moved me to a Stage 2.