Hi, new to group

January 2, 2006

Hi,

My name is Gloria and I had my mastectomy on 12-13-05. I had my

yearly mamogram in Oct. it found density(?). I had an ultra sound

which found three spots. The radiologist said immediately it looked

like cancer. Of cource there were biopsies. On last years mamogram

there was nothing. This year I had three spots of cancer. It is in

the early stages and they were small. There was no way I could have

felt them at that point. The MRI showed a fourth the ultrasound

didn't pick up.

The extender is in and two onces has been added (ouch) that is a once

a week deal for reconstruction.

Next week I will have a port put in, and start five months of chemo.

My onc said at about day 16 my hair will fall out. I am triple negative.

Can someone tell me what to expect about having a port put in. Will

they put me under? Is anyone else triple negative? I am having

trouples finding much information about it. I must admit, I am really

worried about chemo. I really hate that I do not know what to expect.

Thanks,

Gloria

January 3, 2006

Hi Gloria

I had a mastectomy as well.

I also had a port put in because I have a year plus of chemo.

I'm er/pr neg., her2 pos. I know the negatives respond well to the

chemo, that statistics show that chemo helps improve your odds of being

recurrence-free.

The port was very uncomfortable the 1st week, but I've slowly gotten use

to it, but not forgotten it. It was put in at the time of my mastectomy.

I think if it's put in later they don't put you completely under.

I'm annoyed with my port at times, but very glad I have it. No looking

for veins, and I have small veins.

January 3, 2006

I don't know what triple negative is.

No one knows what to expect with chemo. Everyone is different and many have completely different experiences. And some of us have different experiences each time. For instance, I went through he first 2 rounds with very little problems, didn't feel the least bit sick, just a little fatigue and could do most ever thing I normally do. The 2nd 2 knocked me for a loop in the first week. I had the 4th round last Wed and just yesterday afternoon could I get vertical for more than an hour at a time. Thur., Fri., Sat., Sun., and Mon. morning I was a blob in my recliner for most of the day and night, so I read. Everything smelled awful and tasted awful and my stomach just felt like it had blobs of congealed animal fat in it the whole time. Anyway, I can't emphasize enough that this is MY experience. Some women never have any more than a twinge of feeling ill or fatigued. You won't know what it will be like for you until you have it. and each time might be different.

What I do to scare the scary part away is think real hard on the fact that thousands upon thousands of women go through this, have gone through this, and make it. Years ago they didn't have the anti nausea meds they have today so thousands went through it with the full blast of sickness and vomiting and they made it through and survived. You have to be a survivor and the best way to do that is to converse at places like this list with other survivors. You have to plant it in your brain that other people made it through treatments and you can too. If I didn't force myself to think this way I swear there are some days when I'd just give up and stop all treatments. I can't think that way, I need to move forward, even on the worst days of treatments and move forward.

But again, I cannot emphasize enough that you might breeze through treatments without serious side effects. You might not even need chemo and even if you do your early stage will mean less than some of us with later stage cancer have to go through. I'm stage 3 with cancer in the nodes.

Just hang on, it's a bit of a wild ride.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

Hi,My name is Gloria and I had my mastectomy on 12-13-05. I had myyearly mamogram in Oct. it found density(?). I had an ultra soundwhich found three spots. The radiologist said immediately it lookedlike cancer. Of cource there were biopsies. On last years mamogramthere was nothing. This year I had three spots of cancer. It is inthe early stages and they were small. There was no way I could havefelt them at that point. The MRI showed a fourth the ultrasounddidn't pick up.The extender is in and two onces has been added (ouch) that is a oncea week deal for reconstruction. Next week I will have a port put in, and start five months of chemo. My onc said at about day 16 my hair will fall out. I am triple negative.Can someone tell me what to expect about having a port put in. Willthey put me under? Is anyone else triple negative? I am havingtrouples finding much information about it. I must admit, I am reallyworried about chemo. I really hate that I do not know what to expect. Thanks,Gloria

January 3, 2006

I don't know what triple negative is.

No one knows what to expect with chemo. Everyone is different and many have completely different experiences. And some of us have different experiences each time. For instance, I went through he first 2 rounds with very little problems, didn't feel the least bit sick, just a little fatigue and could do most ever thing I normally do. The 2nd 2 knocked me for a loop in the first week. I had the 4th round last Wed and just yesterday afternoon could I get vertical for more than an hour at a time. Thur., Fri., Sat., Sun., and Mon. morning I was a blob in my recliner for most of the day and night, so I read. Everything smelled awful and tasted awful and my stomach just felt like it had blobs of congealed animal fat in it the whole time. Anyway, I can't emphasize enough that this is MY experience. Some women never have any more than a twinge of feeling ill or fatigued. You won't know what it will be like for you until you have it. and each time might be different.

What I do to scare the scary part away is think real hard on the fact that thousands upon thousands of women go through this, have gone through this, and make it. Years ago they didn't have the anti nausea meds they have today so thousands went through it with the full blast of sickness and vomiting and they made it through and survived. You have to be a survivor and the best way to do that is to converse at places like this list with other survivors. You have to plant it in your brain that other people made it through treatments and you can too. If I didn't force myself to think this way I swear there are some days when I'd just give up and stop all treatments. I can't think that way, I need to move forward, even on the worst days of treatments and move forward.

But again, I cannot emphasize enough that you might breeze through treatments without serious side effects. You might not even need chemo and even if you do your early stage will mean less than some of us with later stage cancer have to go through. I'm stage 3 with cancer in the nodes.

Just hang on, it's a bit of a wild ride.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

Hi,My name is Gloria and I had my mastectomy on 12-13-05. I had myyearly mamogram in Oct. it found density(?). I had an ultra soundwhich found three spots. The radiologist said immediately it lookedlike cancer. Of cource there were biopsies. On last years mamogramthere was nothing. This year I had three spots of cancer. It is inthe early stages and they were small. There was no way I could havefelt them at that point. The MRI showed a fourth the ultrasounddidn't pick up.The extender is in and two onces has been added (ouch) that is a oncea week deal for reconstruction. Next week I will have a port put in, and start five months of chemo. My onc said at about day 16 my hair will fall out. I am triple negative.Can someone tell me what to expect about having a port put in. Willthey put me under? Is anyone else triple negative? I am havingtrouples finding much information about it. I must admit, I am reallyworried about chemo. I really hate that I do not know what to expect. Thanks,Gloria

January 3, 2006

I don't know what triple negative is.

No one knows what to expect with chemo. Everyone is different and many have completely different experiences. And some of us have different experiences each time. For instance, I went through he first 2 rounds with very little problems, didn't feel the least bit sick, just a little fatigue and could do most ever thing I normally do. The 2nd 2 knocked me for a loop in the first week. I had the 4th round last Wed and just yesterday afternoon could I get vertical for more than an hour at a time. Thur., Fri., Sat., Sun., and Mon. morning I was a blob in my recliner for most of the day and night, so I read. Everything smelled awful and tasted awful and my stomach just felt like it had blobs of congealed animal fat in it the whole time. Anyway, I can't emphasize enough that this is MY experience. Some women never have any more than a twinge of feeling ill or fatigued. You won't know what it will be like for you until you have it. and each time might be different.

What I do to scare the scary part away is think real hard on the fact that thousands upon thousands of women go through this, have gone through this, and make it. Years ago they didn't have the anti nausea meds they have today so thousands went through it with the full blast of sickness and vomiting and they made it through and survived. You have to be a survivor and the best way to do that is to converse at places like this list with other survivors. You have to plant it in your brain that other people made it through treatments and you can too. If I didn't force myself to think this way I swear there are some days when I'd just give up and stop all treatments. I can't think that way, I need to move forward, even on the worst days of treatments and move forward.

But again, I cannot emphasize enough that you might breeze through treatments without serious side effects. You might not even need chemo and even if you do your early stage will mean less than some of us with later stage cancer have to go through. I'm stage 3 with cancer in the nodes.

Just hang on, it's a bit of a wild ride.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

Hi,My name is Gloria and I had my mastectomy on 12-13-05. I had myyearly mamogram in Oct. it found density(?). I had an ultra soundwhich found three spots. The radiologist said immediately it lookedlike cancer. Of cource there were biopsies. On last years mamogramthere was nothing. This year I had three spots of cancer. It is inthe early stages and they were small. There was no way I could havefelt them at that point. The MRI showed a fourth the ultrasounddidn't pick up.The extender is in and two onces has been added (ouch) that is a oncea week deal for reconstruction. Next week I will have a port put in, and start five months of chemo. My onc said at about day 16 my hair will fall out. I am triple negative.Can someone tell me what to expect about having a port put in. Willthey put me under? Is anyone else triple negative? I am havingtrouples finding much information about it. I must admit, I am reallyworried about chemo. I really hate that I do not know what to expect. Thanks,Gloria

January 3, 2006

If I had it to do over again I would have insisted on the port first thing, before anything. They could not use the veins on my right arm because that's the breast they took. The veins on my left arm are very small. Now one hurts all the time from the chemo, they say it will get better, it's been 7 weeks since they used that one. The others they have a hard time finding most of the time. It hurt the first time they used it but that was because it was just put in the week before. I am going to request keeping it in for a year. They'll want to do blood tests each week with radiation, I don't want them poking my veins anymore. If I have to go through any of this again I will have the port put back in if it's been removed by then.

But the port is a bit uncomfortable. Wed will be coming on 2 weeks since I've had it in. I can no longer feel it in my neck but the incision isn't healing all that great where the port is. I might have to go on antibiotics. I don't think they'll be able to use it this week for blood tests.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

Hi GloriaI had a mastectomy as well.I also had a port put in because I have a year plus of chemo.I'm er/pr neg., her2 pos. I know the negatives respond well to the chemo, that statistics show that chemo helps improve your odds of being recurrence-free.The port was very uncomfortable the 1st week, but I've slowly gotten use to it, but not forgotten it. It was put in at the time of my mastectomy.I think if it's put in later they don't put you completely under.I'm annoyed with my port at times, but very glad I have it. No looking for veins, and I have small veins.

January 3, 2006

If I had it to do over again I would have insisted on the port first thing, before anything. They could not use the veins on my right arm because that's the breast they took. The veins on my left arm are very small. Now one hurts all the time from the chemo, they say it will get better, it's been 7 weeks since they used that one. The others they have a hard time finding most of the time. It hurt the first time they used it but that was because it was just put in the week before. I am going to request keeping it in for a year. They'll want to do blood tests each week with radiation, I don't want them poking my veins anymore. If I have to go through any of this again I will have the port put back in if it's been removed by then.

But the port is a bit uncomfortable. Wed will be coming on 2 weeks since I've had it in. I can no longer feel it in my neck but the incision isn't healing all that great where the port is. I might have to go on antibiotics. I don't think they'll be able to use it this week for blood tests.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

Hi GloriaI had a mastectomy as well.I also had a port put in because I have a year plus of chemo.I'm er/pr neg., her2 pos. I know the negatives respond well to the chemo, that statistics show that chemo helps improve your odds of being recurrence-free.The port was very uncomfortable the 1st week, but I've slowly gotten use to it, but not forgotten it. It was put in at the time of my mastectomy.I think if it's put in later they don't put you completely under.I'm annoyed with my port at times, but very glad I have it. No looking for veins, and I have small veins.

January 3, 2006

If I had it to do over again I would have insisted on the port first thing, before anything. They could not use the veins on my right arm because that's the breast they took. The veins on my left arm are very small. Now one hurts all the time from the chemo, they say it will get better, it's been 7 weeks since they used that one. The others they have a hard time finding most of the time. It hurt the first time they used it but that was because it was just put in the week before. I am going to request keeping it in for a year. They'll want to do blood tests each week with radiation, I don't want them poking my veins anymore. If I have to go through any of this again I will have the port put back in if it's been removed by then.

But the port is a bit uncomfortable. Wed will be coming on 2 weeks since I've had it in. I can no longer feel it in my neck but the incision isn't healing all that great where the port is. I might have to go on antibiotics. I don't think they'll be able to use it this week for blood tests.

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

Hi GloriaI had a mastectomy as well.I also had a port put in because I have a year plus of chemo.I'm er/pr neg., her2 pos. I know the negatives respond well to the chemo, that statistics show that chemo helps improve your odds of being recurrence-free.The port was very uncomfortable the 1st week, but I've slowly gotten use to it, but not forgotten it. It was put in at the time of my mastectomy.I think if it's put in later they don't put you completely under.I'm annoyed with my port at times, but very glad I have it. No looking for veins, and I have small veins.

January 3, 2006

June

Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we must all know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we can too....just keep the hope alive.

Janet

dcis

January 3, 2006

June

Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we must all know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we can too....just keep the hope alive.

Janet

dcis

January 3, 2006

June

Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we must all know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we can too....just keep the hope alive.

Janet

dcis

January 3, 2006

Welcome to the group Gloria. I didn't have a port but a lot of the ladies did so I am sure they will help you.

I am not sure what you mean by triple negative. You can call your local American Cancer Society and they might have some info to send you.

I will keep you in my prayers.

Hugs

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Hi, new to group

Hi,My name is Gloria and I had my mastectomy on 12-13-05. I had myyearly mamogram in Oct. it found density(?). I had an ultra soundwhich found three spots. The radiologist said immediately it lookedlike cancer. Of cource there were biopsies. On last years mamogramthere was nothing. This year I had three spots of cancer. It is inthe early stages and they were small. There was no way I could havefelt them at that point. The MRI showed a fourth the ultrasounddidn't pick up.The extender is in and two onces has been added (ouch) that is a oncea week deal for reconstruction. Next week I will have a port put in, and start five months of chemo. My onc said at about day 16 my hair will fall out. I am triple negative.Can someone tell me what to expect about having a port put in. Willthey put me under? Is anyone else triple negative? I am havingtrouples finding much information about it. I must admit, I am reallyworried about chemo. I really hate that I do not know what to expect. Thanks,Gloria

January 4, 2006

You're welcome. Sometimes it seems like it's the only thing that gets me through and keeps me from just stopping all treatments and saying I'll deal with the consequences. Last March I did the G. Kohmen walk and it was very uplifting to see all those survivors in one place. It was 2 days after my first treatment if I remember right. I only did the one mile but I could have done 3. I think that is what gave me my attitude, knowing that all those women did it and are survivors really impressed upon me the idea that I can get through it too. And some of them were in there 60s and 70s. It was extremely encouraging, so when I'm feeling my worst I try to think of that crowd. ;-)

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of Janet AndersenSent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:14 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: Hi, new to group

June

Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we must all know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we can too....just keep the hope alive.

Janet

dcis

January 4, 2006

You're welcome. Sometimes it seems like it's the only thing that gets me through and keeps me from just stopping all treatments and saying I'll deal with the consequences. Last March I did the G. Kohmen walk and it was very uplifting to see all those survivors in one place. It was 2 days after my first treatment if I remember right. I only did the one mile but I could have done 3. I think that is what gave me my attitude, knowing that all those women did it and are survivors really impressed upon me the idea that I can get through it too. And some of them were in there 60s and 70s. It was extremely encouraging, so when I'm feeling my worst I try to think of that crowd. ;-)

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of Janet AndersenSent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:14 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: Hi, new to group

June

Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we must all know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we can too....just keep the hope alive.

Janet

dcis

January 4, 2006

You're welcome. Sometimes it seems like it's the only thing that gets me through and keeps me from just stopping all treatments and saying I'll deal with the consequences. Last March I did the G. Kohmen walk and it was very uplifting to see all those survivors in one place. It was 2 days after my first treatment if I remember right. I only did the one mile but I could have done 3. I think that is what gave me my attitude, knowing that all those women did it and are survivors really impressed upon me the idea that I can get through it too. And some of them were in there 60s and 70s. It was extremely encouraging, so when I'm feeling my worst I try to think of that crowd. ;-)

LICS June "The best protection any woman can have...is courage." Cady Stanton Secular Breast Cancer Support group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

-----Original Message-----From: breastcancer2 [mailto:breastcancer2 ]On Behalf Of Janet AndersenSent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:14 PMTo: breastcancer2 Subject: Re: Hi, new to group

June

Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we must all know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we can too....just keep the hope alive.

Janet

dcis

January 4, 2006

June, I know exactly what you mean about how uplifting it is to

participate in the G. Komen Races for the Cure. I had gone to

several small ones with a survivor friend before I was diagnosed,

and this year I went to one with over 45,000 participants. It

brought tears to my eyes seeing all those survivor t-shirts. Some

were long time survivors, some were bald from treatents, and a few

were confined to wheelchairs and had to be pushed for the one mile

survivors race. I would highly recommend that you all try to find a

Race for the Cure near you. It is an experience you will never

forget. Go to komen.org and click on the Race for the Cure logo

about half way down the page to find a race. Lorraine

>

> You're welcome. Sometimes it seems like it's the only thing that

gets me

> through and keeps me from just stopping all treatments and saying

I'll deal

> with the consequences. Last March I did the G. Kohmen walk

and it was

> very uplifting to see all those survivors in one place. It was 2

days after

> my first treatment if I remember right. I only did the one mile

but I could

> have done 3. I think that is what gave me my attitude, knowing

that all

> those women did it and are survivors really impressed upon me the

idea that

> I can get through it too. And some of them were in there 60s and

70s. It

> was extremely encouraging, so when I'm feeling my worst I try to

think of

> that crowd. ;-)

>

> LICS

> June

> " The best protection any woman can have...is courage. "

Cady

> Stanton

> Secular Breast Cancer Support group:

> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecularBCSupport/

>

> Re: Hi, new to group

>

> June

>

> Thank you so mujch for your response. This is the one thing we

must all

> know.......others have made it through this tough cancer. And we

can

> too....just keep the hope alive.

>

> Janet

> dcis

>

January 4, 2006