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Category Archives: chemo
Good News
I got a piece of good news yesterday. When I went in for my treatment, Dr. Anderson walked in the office (late as usual) with an ‘I-know-something-you-don’t’ grin on her face and handed me the results from my last echocardiogram … Continue reading
Posted in breast, breast cancer, chemo, goals, health, heart, heart function, Uncategorized
Tagged breast cancer, cancer, echo, goals, heart function, herceptin
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Notes from a Mother with Cancer
“Ever since you got cancer you are so mean!” Theses are the delightful words of my teenage son, who truly thinks that because I have cancer I am taking it out on him. That I am just pissed off … Continue reading
Posted in breast caner, cancer, chemo, chemotherapy, family, Uncategorized
Tagged cancer, mothers with cancer, teenager
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Look out World
My friend Karen is amazing. She stared down breast cancer 5 years ago and showed it who was boss, had a kidney transplant 4 months ago, works full time, raises 3 kids and has an amazingly positive attitude. On top … Continue reading
Posted in breast, breast cancer, breast reconstruction surgery, chemo, her2neu, herceptin, mastectomy, mom with cancer, Uncategorized
Tagged breast cancer, chemo, her2 neu, herceptin, mastectomy, reconstruction
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Validation
I have had two disappointing days. Yesterday, I missed my 9 year-old-daughter’s chorus recital. As I approached the school at 3:30 I noticed the smiling children and their parents exiting the playground door. “It’s over,” one of the mother’s said … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, chemo, children, family, herceptin, life, mom, mom with cancer, Uncategorized
Tagged Add new tag, breast cancer, mom
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Mommy Doesn’t Have Cancer Anymore
I glanced down at the clock in my car, saw that it said 5:10, added the five minutes in my head to learn the actual time of 5:15, and announced with bravado to the 4 twelve year old boys crammed in the backseat, … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, breast caner, cancer, chemo, her2neu, life, mom with cancer, recovery, Uncategorized
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Helpful Hints
The next time you are in a park and someone in running clothes asks to use your cellphone to call their husband because that person just ran 3 miles to a soccer field to see her daughter play a … Continue reading
One Down…
…One thousand eight hundred and twenty four to go. Days that is, that I will have to take my new medicine. I started my tamoxifen today The pill that I will take daily for five years to kill the estrogen … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, chemo, menopause, mom with cancer, tamoxifen, Uncategorized
Tagged breast cancer
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