April 2nd, 2019 Mood: Anxious 🙄 CT scan yesterday....MRI tomorrow....I should have all of the results back by this Friday. Crossing my fingers that they are both clear other than the cancer we already know about. Good news! My surgery has finally been scheduled for Thursday, April 18th. I have never had major surgery in …
Oncologist & Surgery
March 25th, 2019 Mood: Hopeful 🙂 My Oncologist ordered a PET scan & MRI after we met with him last Friday. I will have both scans next week. My doctors need to see if there is any additional cancer in my body and brain. I am not having any symptoms that there is, but the …
Oncologist
March 22nd, 2019 Mood: Scared 😥 My oncologist, Dr. Peacock, is very nice and explained a lot to us. As I said in a future entry, he feels that even though my cancer is hormone fed and chemo has proven to not be very effective, I should probably have it anyway. I will end my …
2nd Biopsy
March 20th, 2019 Mood: Frustrated 😕 The biopsy was pretty easy all things considered, but the recovery has been rough so far. I am badly bruised and in decent pain. I thought about taking pictures but it is just too horrific. It looks like my breast has been beat up as it is black and …
Diagnosis
March 2nd, 2019 Mood: Scared 😫 Dr. Schwartz called me today which was a complete surprise considering that it is Saturday. I have been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma stage 2b. I am terrified of everything I will have to go through to get the 3 tumors out of me! I have an appointment Wednesday …