Introduce yourself!
Whether you're a new member or an old member, I'd like to get to you know a little better. If you've been here a while, we may know a bit about your diagnosis and your journey, but you are much more ...
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Hi Cosette,
I'm Marina and have just turned 35. I was diagnosed last year (ER/PR/HER2+ve) when I was 37 weeks pregnant with my first baby and only 10 days after moving into our first home with my husband.
Since then, we've had a gorgeous baby girl! In her first few weeks of life I had a sentinel node biopsy, axillary clearance (1 node positive) and egg retrieval as a means of potentially having another child down the track, although I'm umming and ahhing about this, knowing it was in pregnancy that the cancer initially developed.
After 6 months of chemo, I recently had a mastectomy and pathology showed no remaining cancer cells!!! I am still on herceptin and I just started zoladex. I see a radiation oncologist in the first week of May to plan radiotherapy.
I haven't had genetic testing yet but have been advised to consider having my ovaries removed once we've completed our family so am currently thinking about that, knowing it means I'll likely go through menopause before I turn 40 - I'm somewhat concerned about more poor bones!!
I enjoy cooking and also love playing with my little girl who is now 8 months old and starting to develop her own personality - which, unfortunately for this week is somewhat grumpy (she's teething though, poor thing!) I also like playing Scrabble when time allows and one day, when things calm down a bit with treatment and having a baby, I would love to get a dog.
Well, that's her now, waking up from her nap (well before she was meant to) so I'd better go!