Not Her2

Good news! Dr. Barone took 4 sentinel nodes during surgery and had it tested with pathology. All 4 nodes came back negative from cancer....

Any miniscule size of cancer left in my breast will be removed and the lymph node will be removed and sent to pathology. To help Dr....

So much has happened since my last post. Rather than updating what’s happened in between, I want to inform everyone that I am scheduled...

A few weeks ago, I got an infection in one of my eyes. That infection caused half of my face to swell up. I felt like I lookled like Two...

This week’s chemo treatment with Taxol #6 and #3 Herceptin-Perjeta has been skipped due to low ANC. Hey Siri/Alexa what’s ANC? Absolute...

Now that I’m on a weekly treatment I have to remember to put some numbing cream (lidocaine) on the handy dandy port. If you haven’t read...

I have to get my blood drawn every Wednesday (day before chemo) to check several things to make sure my body can take and process the...

WONDERFUL NEWS TO SHARE... MRI results showed about 65% decrease in the size of the tumor in my left breast. MRI on 1/17/19 (before...

It’s time to take some measurements. I am praying that the AC treatment did some damage to the cancer lumps in my left boob and armpit. I...

THP is an acronym of the new set of chemo and targeted treatment drugs that I just started on 4/25. T - Taxol (chemo) H - Herceptin...

Last week’s AC treatment #4 was postponed due to some insurance issues. Soooo when I received the positive cancer diagnosis, I started a...

What the heck do those letters and numbers mean? Accounting nerd here does not recognize them as GL codes. Ohhhh but my genetic studying...

AC chemo treatment #1 with my #1 💕 went fairly well. I didn’t fall asleep and I think mostly because I was curious and wanted to know...

This is where I’ll be found on most Thursday mornings in the next 14 months. Why 14 months? - Round 1 Adriamycin (Doxorubicin) and...

Early Friday morning Mark dropped me off and I checked in to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearny Mesa. It was early for Mark but normal for...

First what’s a PET scan - A procedure in which a small amount of radioactive glucose (sugar) is injected into a vein, and a scanner is...

This is a sample of what my echocardiogram was like today. One serious side effect of Herceptin, which is one of the antibodies in my...