Hi! I am a 55 year old woman that has just undergone a bilateral mastectomy following my TNBC diagnosis. My tumour was 18mm with two other DCIS lesions in my right breast. The sentinel lymph node was clear, much to my relief! No evidence of disease in my left breast but I had had a biopsy of suspicious areas in that breast 15 months ago (where nothing showed up in my right breast!), so I decided to remove all breast tissue and have an immediate reconstruction. That was performed on 18th October and I will start chemo (FEC-D) on the 19th Nov. I will have 3, 3-weekly rounds of FEC, followed by 3, 3-weekly rounds of the Docetaxel. As I have had a full mastectomy, I will not need radiotherapy. I have been reading others' blogs and am keen to find out when the side effects begin after the first round of chemo. I have a couple of events with my kids 6 days after the first treatment and wondered if I will be up to attending these?
I know the next few moths are going to be rough, but feel it is a small price to pay for doing everything possible to ensure that the cancer doesn't return. This will just be a speed bump along the path and Iam confident I will come through it just fine!
