Rosie's Cancer Journey
Just another adventure…
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I want to begin my post by acknowledging my mom’s passing. She passed away a day after my last post. I’m not feeling up to writing about that here today. But I do have good news to share. Since May 5th, I have been driving from Monroe to Capitol Hill every weekday afternoon for radiation…
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I start radiation next Tuesday. I had a planning session a couple of weeks ago where they gave me three tiny tattoos to mark where the radiation will be targeted. The first appointment is expected to take a bit longer but after that, each appointment will be short – 15 minutes – unless I’m meeting…
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More good news! My pathology report from my surgery came back and they found no signs of cancer. This is great news! It means the chemo worked. I was hoping this would mean I could skip radiation, but it doesn’t sound like that’s the case. I meet with my oncologist next week and will learn…
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I had my lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node removal and biopsy yesterday, and all is well! Before I started treatment last fall, they placed a clip marker inside my left breast and lymph nodes in my arm pit area on my left side so they could locate the cancerous treatment after chemo. Yesterday morning, the…
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I had an ultrasound and mammogram today before my surgery to see how I reacted to chemo treatments and the results are favorable. No evidence of a tumor in my breast or lymph nodes. Hallelujah, it worked! The plan is the same as before… ❤️
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I’m so excited that today was my 6th and last round of chemo. I never thought I’d get here! I am feeling super fatigued. I expect to be okay today, tomorrow, and make it until Thursday afternoon. Then I will probably be down for about a week. On March 2, I have a mammogram and…
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I had my 5th chemo treatment 2 weeks ago. Now I just have one more chemo treatment to go! I haven’t updated in a while because I have had so much going on. Funny, life just keeps happening even when you are sick. God doesn’t give you more than you can handle? Ha! I won’t…
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Our youngest is home from college and came with us to my treatment today. I made it past the halfway point and I started round 4 today. Two more to go! After chemo comes surgery. It’s looking like this will happen in March because they aim to do it a month after my last chemo.…
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I think it is finally safe to say that I am halfway through chemo. I have 3 rounds down, 3 more to go. I still have chemo every three weeks. My next one is on January 5. This round hit me last Friday afternoon. By Saturday, I felt like I had the flu again. It…
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I had my 3rd of 6 infusions on Monday. I am supposed to expect that the effects of this round will be more like round 2, which means I will start to feel lethargic this Thursday through Sunday, then I might have flu-like symptoms for a couple of days, and start to feel better after…
Rosie's Cancer Journey 