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Beating Breast Cancer

THANKS FOR GIVING…

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Hi all,

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you are enjoying being around family and friends and counting your blessings as you over stuff yourself with turkey and all the trimmings logic for free.

And since this is a time of giving thanks, I wanted to use this day and space to say a heartfelt thank you to all of you who have helped me along on my journey youtube wiedergabelisten downloaden.  There is no way to name everyone and everything that was done for me,  but you know who you are and what you did. Somehow saying “thank you” doesn’t seem like enough, but until I see all of you in person, I hope this message gets to you and you know how grateful I am for having you in my corner 3d passed download.

Since the very first day I started treatment, the outpouring of love and support was overwhelming. Calls, cards, texts, emails, blog posts and Facebook mentions continued to roll in for months and months download mahjong game.

Some of you sent flowers, a plant, or snack and wine baskets. Others had local restaurants deliver food when shopping or cooking was too much. There were deliveries of chocolates from a local chocolatier who doesn’t normally deliver, but who had lost loved ones to cancer, so they made an exception and always handed me that special box with a warm, understanding smile candy crush soda saga.
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There were so many gifts like books, healing crystals and oils, adult coloring books, a beautiful angel figurine, a Christmas ornament, bracelets with special meanings or special energy, personalized t-shirts, a beautiful homemade quilt, a homemade fleece blanket,  Red Sox gear, various hats, money, cupcakes, cookies, fun and inspiring magnets, lotions, the much needed Starbuck’s and Dunkin Donuts gift cards, a fun measuring spoon, candy tins, DVD’s, a puzzle, get well drawings from your kids, a spa gift card and a FitBit for when I feel well enough to get back into working out excel formeln herunterladen.

And each time something showed up it was a huge mood booster and it felt like a big hug coming in so many different forms.

Then there were those of you who called asking about doing a fundraiser, or had me backstage after a show for a hug, high five and eyelash check, or who posted on your own blog inspiring messages from your followers so I could see them free video download youtube. There are those of you who came to chemo even though it meant spending hours at the facility, or drove to NJ to help out or just visit.  And you prayed for me, included me in prayer chains and sent only positive energy. You called to offer a pep talk, just at the right time or sent me inspiring memes over the internet or lightened my load at work when I was in the thick of it. These things I will never forget as I continue on this wild ride of fighting every day to stay healthy.

So on all days, but especially on Thanksgiving, I would like to say to all of you reading this, in whatever capacity you stood by me, in whatever way you spent a part of your own life helping me with mine, quite simply…thanks for giving.

Beating Breast Cancer

CLEAR FOR A YEAR…

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Hi all,

Thanks for the posts, emails, calls and texts checking in! Things are going well.  I’m starting to get a little energy back and trying to get back to life as usual as much as I can download ifile.

Of course, when you’re still in treatment for breast cancer, in the middle of life as usual, there’s doctor’s appointments, infusions and follow-up visits, but at least the nitty gritty of Sloan visits is winding down which has been a relief netflix filme auf tableten.

I recently just had two of those follow-up visits. One was with my radiation oncologist and the other with my surgeon after my yearly mammogram auf soundclouden.

The radiation oncologist checked everything over and talked about any issues I was having. He said everything looked great and then said, “Well, unless you need us for anything, we’ll see you in a year.”

Then a few days later I had my mammogram and surgeon follow-up appointment apple music download all songs. The mammogram was a little nerve wracking as you can imagine. They have you wait in the waiting room for someone to come out and either tell you they need more images, or that everything looked ok herunterladen. It was taking awhile for them to come out for me, but finally the technician did. She brought me back to another room and told me all was clear and everything looked great bildbearbeitungsprogramm jpg kostenlos downloaden.

I then went up to meet with my surgeon. At first the nurse came in to check everything and asked some questions about how I was doing. Then my surgeon came in and she also checked me über mobile netzwerk herunterladen. She pushed and pulled and stood back to make sure there was no swelling or anything looked unusual. She then said everything looked great and that she’d see me in a year Download phototan app!
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Before I left I asked her what I should be looking for or what I should be doing through the year. She said with a smile, “Enjoying it.”

I walked out of there breathing a huge sigh of relief, but I’m also a little nervous because for the past year, every couple of weeks I had a doctor examining me and making sure things were going ok. Now, I’m on my own for the most part. I’ll be checking myself over, but it’s not the same as having all those highly skilled Sloan Kettering cancer doctor’s hands on you constantly.

So what’s left? Well, I’m still doing the antibody infusions every three weeks. Since I was HER2 positive, we need to block that receptor from growing. I started these in April when I was doing the Taxol chemo and the treatment is for a year, so I’ll be done with them in April of 2017.

I’m also on Tamoxifen which I will be on for 10 years. It’s a daily pill to block estrogen since my breast cancer was also estrogen positive. I may get switched over to another pill down the line, but for now this is the one I’m on. It is wreaking havoc on my sleep because it is causing super painful muscle cramping and charley horses which keep waking me up. And it’s also giving me pretty intense hot flashes and night sweats. I have named it my newborn, Tamoxifen Cote! Kind of dragging me down, but I’m now getting acupuncture to try to help with those side effects and doing all the tips and tricks I can to stop the cramping. Hopefully it subsides the longer I’m on it, we will see.

But for now, I will take it one day at a time, get back into as much of a regular, daily routine as I can and keep doing self exams.

And I will most definitely, and most importantly, enjoy being clear for a year.