Not Her2

Acupuncture has been one of the things that has been helping me with the various side effects from chemo. With the 2 surgeries within 2...

The surgery went well. I ended up with a Jackson-Pratt drain again with the same recovery instructions from my mastectomy: -No driving...

Halloween was quite an eventful day. I had my targeted therapy treatment of Herceptin and Perjeta. And yes I went to my infusion in...

Last week I had a couple of post surgery follow up appointments. The first one was with my plastic surgeon,Dr. Halls, on 10/22. He took...

I started going to Chere’s yoga studio - http://obyoga.com to get some more Iyengar Yoga practice before surgery. Little did I know that...

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...

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Mark and I are sponsors (Godparents) for his lovely niece (Kristin) and her soon to be hubby (Alex) on their nuptials this weekend. We...

I was born with a lot of hair. I could’ve been a muppet with Bert and Ernie. So before learning about waxing, I had a unibrow. That hair...

My ANC is still a bit low - 1.4 I‘m getting my Taxol #6 along with Herceptin and Perjeta #3 treatment today. Typically if my ANC (WBC)...

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...

What did I do the Saturday before Mother’s Day? I celebrated that 65% tumor shrinkage with a spin class! Thank you Cheryl Plahy for the...

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...