So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[3goodeggs]

I have spent the day thinking of her and her family. It seems so wrong for children to have to grow up all at once and deal with these things. I am hoping that they have made as many strides in that area of cancer as they have others.

 

[deerman]

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You know Miz Red....every time you pop in with a hug - it means so much! No words are necessary, just that hug will do.

Yes it does.........

 

[HeatherLynn]

I know you guys have your down days but the fact that you keep marching on with such great attitudes is amazing. Just know you are all in our thoughts and prayers. A few extra special ones for Heaven right now too.

 

[deerman]

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Oh last year they removed cancer cells from my liver, so she thinks it is cancer.

Really don't know much yet about this infusion, I feel better about this drug as i have been reading about how target drugs work. the way i understand them , they mark the cancer cells so the chemo drugs and my own aitibodies can kill them. Not harming as many good cells(reason no hair lost)

 

[broodytood]

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I didn't have breast cancer, so not so sure about those chemo drugs......each cancer situation is different and needs different chemo drugs. *** I know what you mean about those Drs all getting there look- see

Personally I get annoyed. Isn't that weird??

Are they recommending radiation first, then chemo?? Saying they aren't hip on mastectomy........might mean a good thing? BTW - it all sounds scary until you look into it and realize how many people have to do this

That made me feel better - knowing I wasn't alone....

Thinking of you broodytood!!

EEEEEEGADS!! the multiple Dr thing drives me crazy!!

I never took Tamoxifen, mine isn't hormone driven. I was first on Taxotere, Carboplatin, and Herceptin for 4 treatments and then Herceptin for a year after surgery. I went with a double masectomy. My tumor was way up close armpit and chest muscles, the other was showing early calicifications=possible formation of tumor. So Thelma and Louise left and Tizzy and Lizzy came to be!

There was no sign of cancer outside of my breasts, nothing in the nodes. Was done treatment October 2009, thought it was gone. October 2010 it was back in the nodes. This time Abraxane and Herceptin. Removal of the nodes wasn't possible because of where they were located. The Abraxane knocked it out, Herceptin now every 3 weeks indefinately.

Have they given you any information on Stage or Grade of your cancer? I didn't do radiation. Could have and gone with a lumpectomy but with my cancer the likelyhood of it coming back were greater.

Read read read everything you can about your type of cancer and it's treatments. Don't be afraid to question your doctors choices, you are in control, not them.

Hang in there we are here for you.

I'm stage 2 DCIS, ER/PR+,HER2-0 on the right and have UDH on the left. My cancer is non-aggressive and slower growing but likes to reoccur as an aggressive kind. My biggest battle is the fact that mine is hormone driven with me being premenopausal.
The re-excision will include a sentinel node check because that hasn't been done yet.
I have read thru Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book(700+ pages) twice in the last month and a half. I totally understand what the Drs are saying and why they are saying it. They are giving me the book answer for what I have.
I, by nature, question everything. So I guess that's what I'm doing. Some people take offense to that but I can't help it. It's who I am.
It's not like I am trying to tell them their job or that I believe that they wrong. I know that they have studied for yrs and deal with this stuff daily.
I guess I just hate feeling like I am a number. Like I have a tag in my ear with a number on it. Like I have no brain and just need to continue through the chute behind the other poor beast in front of me and let them do the thinking for me. Sorry for the rant! I just needed to verbalize that.
I have always had a problem with submission... must be the Irish in me!!!

We, too are praying for Heaven daily. Poor thing... but sounds like she is being a trooper! Bless her heart!
We are praying everyone here who is fighting.
All I can say to all who are dealing with this is to be sure you know where you will spend eternity. This life is very short in comparison.

 

[broodytood]

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You know Miz Red....every time you pop in with a hug - it means so much! No words are necessary, just that hug will do.

Yes it does.........

X2!

 

[deerman]

"It could always be worse"
This is something i will always remember.....


A old true story......I lost my job i had over 23 years.....few month later my wife of also 23 years left.....a few friends ask how i was doing...I said "couldn't get any worse" I will never forget that statement.......because I lost my son in a car wreak few days later.

I know I have it so much better than so many other people, other than this cancer i have had a great health life, with great sons and grandkids all it great health.
Even this cancer and treatment i have to take........have not been as bad as alot of others had to go thru.

So for anyone thinking things in their life can't get worse....it alway can. and if you think you have it so bad look around you will see many that have it alot worse.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

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You are such an inspiration. You & all the others on this thread. Ya'll keep the faith. I'll keep sending prayers & positive vibes & everything else I can think of to send your way.

 

[broodytood]

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Oh my, you have had quite the road, haven't you.
Lost my mom very suddenly when I was 13. I remember thinking some hateful thoughts about her at times (seeing how I was a teenie bopper who knew it all).
I now try to look at my kids in light of that terrible experience. A person can be gone in a microsecond. I try not to say anything that I would regret if I didn't have the chance to oppolagize. and I try to prepare myself for their teenie bopper moments!

It matters less how we starts as how we finish!

to you, deerman. Hang in there!

 

[RoeDylanda]

Deerman, thanks for the update. The newer chemo drugs are better targeted to the cancers they're used for, so hopefully fewer side effects. If there's a nurse practitioner associated with your oncology team she may be the best person to speak with about managing any side effects-- they tend to look at the whole picture of what you want to do with your time and treat accordingly.

Broodytood, never took tamoxifen but I'm glad you're questioning. Good doctors don't mind it and hacks get all offended.

My father's back home, meeting with the oncologist tomorrow and making a plan for the next round of chemo. He's feeling good and we're grateful. Love to the thread!