Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Only 3 more radiations to go and ultrasound

Today's ratification is done so I have only 3 more to go. My tech said goodbye to me as her last day this week is today. She wished me well! These ladies in there have been so caring, nice and comforting. I will be sure to send them thank you notes. 

Blistering and peeling is the current state of my right breast tissue along the mastectomy scar. Ouch! 

Today I am having an ultrasound on my liver. We found a spot on my liver that is of concern. Dr. Rooney hopes it is consistNt with a cyst and not a lei soon or tumor 


Thursday, May 5, 2016

Day 16 of radiation done. Sunburn skin

They call it sunburn, I call it painful! 

The camera doesn't really show the burn setting in. I don't want to post a full frontal to compare sides. 

Thankful I am done with 16 days. Skin is tight. I am doing exercises and stretching, but it is rightening up as expected. My lymph node removal scar is very thin, but the radiological oncologist is saying this is normal and it shouldn't split open. I am blessed this is going well.

I see my oncologist on Momday. I believe I will be starting my preventive cancer maintenance meds that I will be taking for the next 10 years. Yes, 10. Many take maintenance drugs for 5 years, but due to my grade of cancer being stage 3 (very aggressive), I am taking them for 10. 

I will be participating in a 1/1 placebo drug study for 2 years also. This is for an additional maintenance drug that helps with recurrence. I'll post more about it later. 

Next focus is on our daughter. She has had strep throat 4 times since November so we are taking her to the ENT doc next Wednesday. 

Monday, May 2, 2016

Crazy eyelashes

This week I had a weird experience with my eyelashes. I kept having a feeling like I had something in my eye so I went and looked in the mirror and found two  of the craziest eyelashes ever. There were two super super long eyelashes that were growing back that were gray and they were curling into my eyes. I have never seen this happen or heard of it. I had to get the tweezers out and pluck them suckers. Crazy! 

My hair is starting to grow back pretty thick