CLEAR FOR A YEAR…

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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.

14 thoughts on “CLEAR FOR A YEAR…”

  1. You are a Badass!!! Enjoy your year and have a wonderful Holiday season. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Keep on fighting!!!!

  2. I can feel your weariness but also your happiness in this blog! Positive thoughts and following your new regime is what is best for you. Take time to keep notes as you count away the days, weeks, months into wellness. Enjoy the beauty of the earth. Plan on writing a book about this past year. Your experiences could help others. I’ll be thinking of you. Lavender spray might help when you need to sleep. Best of luck to you! Hugs!

  3. I got leg cramps a lot. Weird about estrogen. Before I had this diagnosis of tonsil cancer, I had some abnormal pap smears, then a bit of enlarged uterus. Then biopsy. It was not cancer yet, it was abnormal cells, dysplasia and excessive estrogen. I was right at peri menopause and it was horrible ups and downs. The gyn said, well, we could just go ahead and do a hysterectomy or we could treat this with the opposite of estrogen. We opted for taking the estrogen block. And all signs of abnormal cells disappeared. It kind of put into full blown menopause but I didn’t even care. that’s when I discovered ginger tea. Enjoy your freedom. Enjoy the heck out of it. Me, I don’t like the constant checking. At first I would look down my throat constantly. But that made me more anxious and a lot of unnecessary trips to the ENT so he said, whatever pops up, give it two weeks. If in two weeks it’s still there, then come in. Best advice I ever got. So far, nothing, gets to two weeks but disappears.

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