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Secondaries
I am dealing with secondaries...I'm not going to lie to you it is shit! planning your own funeral...crap! Telling your kids you won't see them grow up! totally, utterly gut wrenching crap! Dealing with the fact that cancer is going to kill me! utterly, completely CRAP! People telling me I should just stay positive "wanting…
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So it begins again
Well my worst nightmare has come true :( Saw my Doc today and it appears I now have mets to my lung and liver and have to start chemo again,I'm numb,but I will fight with all my might,it's not going to win!!!! It's been caught very early and I have alot of options left,this is by no means the end......
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Shades of Grey
Now I haven't actually read shades of grey but I am sure my past week, while a feel a week in shades of grey was not as "riveting". Once of the things that stands out to me since I began this journey on 22nd February 2011 is how grey everything in Breast Cancer is. I expected medicine, science to be black and white. You…
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Milestones
My dear Alex is now 8 - my funny, sweet stubborn little girl - who has a grateful list most nights that is so long I sometimes have to say - enough now - keep something for tomorrow night! Finished Year 2 and onto year 3 next year - a fashion plate, you were not happy this afternoon as I brought to wrong bathers for you to…
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Secondary breast cancer
September 2010 I met the love of my life to only find out his Mum had breast cancer. In September 2011 she was cleared till 3 months ago it became secondary cancer in her neck and brain. They did radiotherapy on her brain for a week with success and chemotherapy on her neck still ongoing. Now yesterday they found 3 tumours…
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Organic/Vegan Main meal ideas
Just want to invite people to share meal ideas/ recepies that work for them. Many of us have families with children and transitioning to this new life style is very difficult while adapting to many other aspects that come with being diagnosed with breast cancer. I thought we could start separate one for breakfast and lunch…
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Latest scan results
Hi all, more good news today, thank God! Some lung tumours have shrunk slightly, one larger one in particular is now no longer visible at all and some tiny tumours have remained the same! No new growths anywhere in my body - bones and organs :) . Today's results also confirmed further healing in my bones, so I'm rapt with…
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Being a Voice
It's been a while since I blogged but I have been thinking lately about the small voice of those of us who are living with advanced BC. So I thought I would try to blog a little more regularly to be another little voice, another way of making a small contribution. I recently celebrated turning 40 and found loads of great…
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Organic/Vegan Breakfast Ideas
Inviting people to post ideas for breakfast that are vegan.
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Metastatic breast cancer
Hi Anne Maree, My name is Sam and I was diagnosed with metastases in Feb. I thought my cancer had disappeared back in 2000 after initial diagnosis and conventional treatment so it was a huge shock! My diet, qigong, good headspace and supplements have all contributed to my lungs clearing and the bone mets regressing. Long…
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Happy 11th Birthday
Dear Micky, Yesterday you turned 11! Woohoo another one - only 2 more and you are a teenager. You were peeved off you had sports day on your birthday (you hate sports - or more likely you hate the sports teacher - don't a lot of us non-sporty types?) but you were overjoyed when I picked you up that your house had won the…
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One year on
Today is a day of mixed emotions for me. One year ago today I got the news that my breast cancer had returned, 3 years after my initial diagnosis! I was shocked beyond belief…. my whole world came crashing down yet again. I had fought so damn hard first time around, the treatment was gruelling, and I remember thinking back…
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Well...crap
How much crying can one person do?? Without the headaches that follow?? I know there is a song called "I don't like Mondays", but I've now found my own reasons to not like Mondays. It was a Monday that I found the lump, a Monday that a diagnosis to cancer was confirmed, a Monday that I had all my chemo treatments, and this…
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TDM1
I started the Th3resa clinical trial on Thursday - I was randomised to receive the study drug (thank GOD) which is TDM1. This is a drug for Her2 Positive women - currently it is mainly being researched in women with ABC but I believe there are some adjuvant trials happening in the US. It is being put up for FDA approval…
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Just felt like blogging...
Today I'm having a blue day...feeling very much alone on this journey :-(. I am yet to meet anyone like me (a young 44 yr old) in Adelaide with secondary BC. And while this is a good thing (hopefully there aren't too many of us around in Adelaide), it saddens me to know that at the moment I am on this journey 'alone'.…