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another Newbie
Hi
Thank you for accepting me into your group. My tumor was found in my left breast in March this year(Stage 2a grade 3, oestrogen+ and her2+ ) and I had a nipple sparing Mastectomy 1 week later. Since then I have had 3 rounds of FEC and only one more to go and then a break of 5 weeks (going on holidays to celebrate) before starting Taxol and hercepton.
I choose to just look at the next treatment instead of the whole picture as it seems more manageable that way.
It is so wonderful how much support I have received from my medical team and this website.
Cheryl xxx
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how did you go with the mri?
- Oh dear! Just what you did t need to lose baggage then fall over. You must have been in quite some pain. Hope things improve now you are back home. I had big problems with crutches when i smashed the tibe plateau under the kneecap many years ago - still do sometimes if cold and/or wet Take care , Your pink sister.
Well, back from my overseas holiday and what was supposed to be a break in between chemo treatments has created more problems!
A month in italy with 12 family members started off ok for the first week and then took a turn for the worst. 6 out of the 12 of us had all their luggage stolen and left with only the clothes they were standing in! This meant quite a few days were wasted shopping for clothes and organising emergency passports.Things settled down for a week or so and then I fell over quite heavily on an ironstone footpath and took the skin off my hands, elbows and knees. One knee was injured quite badly and for the remaining 3 weeks I took painkillers and needed assistance to walk.
I arrived back home last weekend and had an MRI straight away which confirmed that I had indeed done damage to my knee and had been walking around with a fractured kneecap!!!!! I am now waiting to see an orthopedic surgeon next week to see if surgery is necessary, but am on crutches and have a leg splint on for at least 6 weeks!
I also started my next lot of chemo (taxol) this week and will continue this weekly for the next 11 weeks. Luckily it is easier than the FEC chemo and the first dose went fine and have had hardly any side effects.
Just want this year to be over with! Maybe next year will be my year!!!!!!!
Hi Carol
How is everything? How did the MRI go?
Hi, hope all is going well..
