Update

It’s been awhile since I last posted, but wanted to give an update. I had a bilateral mastectomy in June and started the reconstruction process at the same time with tissue expanders. The surgery went fine (the drains were really annoying) and the following week I received great news. The pathology...

Surgery next week

Next Wednesday I will be going in to have a bilateral mastectomy and the start of reconstruction with the implantation of tissue expanders to stretch the skin. For a few days I thought about whether or not to delay reconstruction. My oncologist had told me that I may need to have radiation after surgery...

Latest

I spent a 3rd time in the hospital at the end of April due to passing out at home.  I was sitting on the couch watching TV when the room went completely black for a few seconds. I had been throwing up for 3 days and couldn’t keep anything down, so off to the hospital I went and was treated over the...

Out one day – in the next

Last Tuesday, I was discharged from the hospital.  About an hour before I left the hospital my tempertature was 98.2.  After being released I had to go over to the infustion center to learn how to give myself antibiotics through my port.  When I got there a few minutes after being discharged my...

Admitted to the hospital

I finished the AC part of my chemo a week and a half ago and it has taken a toll on my body.   I am finally done with chemo!  I have lost about 25 pounds, which I am going to try and keep off, but I have experienced shortness of breath and rapid heart beat for about a month.  I’ve had another MUGA...

Side Effects Continue

This second phase of chemo using Adriamycin, Cytoxan and Avastin sucks!  Last week, I ended up in the hospital twice.  The first time to do tests to make sure I did not have a pulmonary embolism because I was experiencing shortness of breath and an EKG because my heart kept racing. The second time to get...

Last Week

Last week was one of the worst weeks of my life.  In my previous post, I wrote about my mother’s accident and brain surgery.  She was doing amazingly well after surgery and recovering very nicely.  She had not lost any mental capabilities (she even remembered what happened), was able to move her...

Round 13

This week has been a week from you know where.  I am sitting in my mother’s hospital room where she is reovering from brain surgery to remove a large bood clot after a fall face first on her concrete driveway.   From the look of her hands, I don’t even think those were used to break her...

In Good Company

Jennifer Griffin, Fox News Correspondent, spoke about her battle with Triple Negative Breast Cancer on the Today Show.  I’m glad she is bringing attention to this type of breast...

5K Run for TNBC

The Collaboration of Scientist for Critical Research in Biomedicine, Inc. (CSCRB) at the University of Florida will be having a 5K run for Triple Negative Breast Cancer on February 27, in honor of their dear friend NuNu Miller who died of TNBC in 2008 (sometimes their website is down, so check back).  I...