Newly Diagnosed
Hi, I was diagnosed in April with mets in bones. After three different cancer journeys with breast cancer over many years had a bilateral mastectomy 10 years ago. Now what? I am just at the beginning ...
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Hi @"Smiley Van Winkle" ,
I don't believe it, you were a 10 minute drive away from where I live,Moonta Bay is not far from me,Moonta is part of the Copper Triangle towns of Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo, I live 5 ks out of Wallaroo at a pretty coastal town called North Beach, what a pity, we could have caught up and had a coffee, bugger!,I have been on bone strengthening injections for 5 years now they are called xgeva also known as denosunab, I have the community nurse come out every 6 weeks to give it to me, hope they explained to you to keep up with good dental health,I am on my 9 days off at the moment, I take chemo tablets for 12 days then have 9 days off then have a blood test to see how things are, I go and have a ct scan on the 21st July the back to see my oncologist on the 26th to get results, the chemo that I am on has so far reduced the 6 tumours in my liver to 2 and the the ones through my spine are stable, so I am pretty happy, well its a beautiful but cold day here and I am still in my dressing gown! so I had better get myself going, so pleased to hear that you are having another break, we need to do that for our selves, we have just had a 3 day break our selves and it recharged my batteries,I had a very dear friend who lived at Nelsons Bay, when my partner and I visited relatives at Raymond Terrace we were able to actually catch up and meet, so lovely to put a face to the woman I had been chatting to!!,
please keep in touch and let us know how you are going,
wendy
I don't believe it, you were a 10 minute drive away from where I live,Moonta Bay is not far from me,Moonta is part of the Copper Triangle towns of Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo, I live 5 ks out of Wallaroo at a pretty coastal town called North Beach, what a pity, we could have caught up and had a coffee, bugger!,I have been on bone strengthening injections for 5 years now they are called xgeva also known as denosunab, I have the community nurse come out every 6 weeks to give it to me, hope they explained to you to keep up with good dental health,I am on my 9 days off at the moment, I take chemo tablets for 12 days then have 9 days off then have a blood test to see how things are, I go and have a ct scan on the 21st July the back to see my oncologist on the 26th to get results, the chemo that I am on has so far reduced the 6 tumours in my liver to 2 and the the ones through my spine are stable, so I am pretty happy, well its a beautiful but cold day here and I am still in my dressing gown! so I had better get myself going, so pleased to hear that you are having another break, we need to do that for our selves, we have just had a 3 day break our selves and it recharged my batteries,I had a very dear friend who lived at Nelsons Bay, when my partner and I visited relatives at Raymond Terrace we were able to actually catch up and meet, so lovely to put a face to the woman I had been chatting to!!,
please keep in touch and let us know how you are going,
wendy