Re: Trisha/Janet/DEBORAH

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Hi Deborah and thank you for your note. I have just come from my oncologist and I start my chemo treatments next Monday. Four treatments...one every 3 weeks.. Followed by 33 treatments of radiation. I sought the opinion of another oncologist and he followed the recommendation of the first one 100%. It is recommended because it was a high grade aggressive tumor and I am hormone receptor negative.

You are so right.... The ill effects will be temporary. Life is too short to guess and guess wrong. I shall heed the advice of the professionals..... And you. lol

Thank you again, Deborah

God's blessing to you

Trisha

-- Trisha

Hi. I am almost at the stage you are. I had biopsy in November and found out the night before Thanksgiving. You have had it a lot worse than I. My lumpectomy, on Dec 20, healed great. But I was very scared going into this. My radiation Dr explained what the schedule would be and I was very well satisfied with that. Then I saw my Breast Cancer Specialist for my follow up and he explained the risks in a way that was a lot clearer. You have a lot of information and that is a very good thing. I thought maybe I would skip chemo since I had Stage I, invasive DC, that and the sentinel node had no cancer cells. And the blood cells around the clear area found no cancer cells, either. So I was supposed to start chemo Friday the 20th. But I was so confused about which one was the most important to start, I was thinking of doing chemo after radiation. I postponed my chemo for one week and had an appt with my oncologist. He explained a lot of stuff to me. I took a friend along and that was enough to make my blood pressure go back to what I normally have. I also have diabetes. And now am having another Shingles attack (18 mo. ago I had the first attack) Last April 1st I had to have rotator cuff surgery on my left arm and I have finally got my range of motion back just before the surgery. One thing my oncologist said that decided me was that you cannot depend on the sentinel node or the blood cells being negative. That is due to a false-positive ratio. The pathologist may have just missed a cancer cell. Also, he was offering me a chance to have three months of chemo (CMF) and then have radiation 33 days, and afterwards have another three months of chemo. I have decided to go that way and will call his office tomorrow to let him know. So I am scheduled to start chemo on next Friday.I don't know if this helps you any, but I can tell you that I am so relieved that I had another chance to talk with my oncologist so that I could make a decision. Very relieved.God bless you and God bless us all.JanetIDC

Deborah aka

Deborah Page

deborah_ann_page@...

"A woman is like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Trish, I appreciate the feed back. I was afraid I sounded too aggressive, but I really believe that we can get through what we have to and sometimes we make our life harder by thinking there is another choice out there that won't be as bad. God knows, I would not wish what I have been through on anyone, but I did make it through and so will you. And in the grand scheme of our lives, chemo is just a bad minute. I have a herceptin treatment on Monday so we can be infusing long distance together. I hope your bad side effects are few and tolerable. I will keep you in my thoughts.Trisha wrote: Hi Deborah and thank you for your note. I have just come from my oncologist and I start my chemo treatments next Monday. Four treatments...one every 3 weeks.. Followed by 33 treatments of radiation. I sought the opinion of another oncologist and he followed the recommendation of the first one 100%. It is recommended because it was a high grade aggressive tumor and I am hormone receptor negative. You are so right.... The ill effects will be temporary. Life is too short to guess and guess wrong. I shall heed the advice of the

professionals..... And you. lol Thank you again, Deborah God's blessing to you Trisha -- Trisha Hi. I am almost at the stage you are. I had biopsy in November and found out the night before Thanksgiving. You have had it a lot

worse than I. My lumpectomy, on Dec 20, healed great. But I was very scared going into this. My radiation Dr explained what the schedule would be and I was very well satisfied with that. Then I saw my Breast Cancer Specialist for my follow up and he explained the risks in a way that was a lot clearer. You have a lot of information and that is a very good thing. I thought maybe I would skip chemo since I had Stage I, invasive DC, that and the sentinel node had no cancer cells. And the blood cells around the clear area found no cancer cells, either. So I was supposed to start chemo Friday the 20th. But I was so confused about which one was the most important to start, I was thinking of doing chemo after radiation. I postponed my chemo for one week and had an appt with my oncologist. He explained a lot of stuff to me. I

took a friend along and that was enough to make my blood pressure go back to what I normally have. I also have diabetes. And now am having another Shingles attack (18 mo. ago I had the first attack) Last April 1st I had to have rotator cuff surgery on my left arm and I have finally got my range of motion back just before the surgery. One thing my oncologist said that decided me was that you cannot depend on the sentinel node or the blood cells being negative. That is due to a false-positive ratio. The pathologist may have just missed a cancer cell. Also, he was offering me a chance to have three months of chemo (CMF) and then have radiation 33 days, and afterwards have another three months of chemo. I have decided to go that way and will call his office tomorrow to let him know. So I am scheduled to start chemo on next Friday.I don't know if

this helps you any, but I can tell you that I am so relieved that I had another chance to talk with my oncologist so that I could make a decision. Very relieved.God bless you and God bless us all.JanetIDC Deborah aka Deborah Page deborah_ann_page@... "A woman is like a

teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt Deborah aka Deborah Page deborah_ann_page@... "A woman is

like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt

[Guest guest]

Trish, I appreciate the feed back. I was afraid I sounded too aggressive, but I really believe that we can get through what we have to and sometimes we make our life harder by thinking there is another choice out there that won't be as bad. God knows, I would not wish what I have been through on anyone, but I did make it through and so will you. And in the grand scheme of our lives, chemo is just a bad minute. I have a herceptin treatment on Monday so we can be infusing long distance together. I hope your bad side effects are few and tolerable. I will keep you in my thoughts.Trisha wrote: Hi Deborah and thank you for your note. I have just come from my oncologist and I start my chemo treatments next Monday. Four treatments...one every 3 weeks.. Followed by 33 treatments of radiation. I sought the opinion of another oncologist and he followed the recommendation of the first one 100%. It is recommended because it was a high grade aggressive tumor and I am hormone receptor negative. You are so right.... The ill effects will be temporary. Life is too short to guess and guess wrong. I shall heed the advice of the

professionals..... And you. lol Thank you again, Deborah God's blessing to you Trisha -- Trisha Hi. I am almost at the stage you are. I had biopsy in November and found out the night before Thanksgiving. You have had it a lot

worse than I. My lumpectomy, on Dec 20, healed great. But I was very scared going into this. My radiation Dr explained what the schedule would be and I was very well satisfied with that. Then I saw my Breast Cancer Specialist for my follow up and he explained the risks in a way that was a lot clearer. You have a lot of information and that is a very good thing. I thought maybe I would skip chemo since I had Stage I, invasive DC, that and the sentinel node had no cancer cells. And the blood cells around the clear area found no cancer cells, either. So I was supposed to start chemo Friday the 20th. But I was so confused about which one was the most important to start, I was thinking of doing chemo after radiation. I postponed my chemo for one week and had an appt with my oncologist. He explained a lot of stuff to me. I

took a friend along and that was enough to make my blood pressure go back to what I normally have. I also have diabetes. And now am having another Shingles attack (18 mo. ago I had the first attack) Last April 1st I had to have rotator cuff surgery on my left arm and I have finally got my range of motion back just before the surgery. One thing my oncologist said that decided me was that you cannot depend on the sentinel node or the blood cells being negative. That is due to a false-positive ratio. The pathologist may have just missed a cancer cell. Also, he was offering me a chance to have three months of chemo (CMF) and then have radiation 33 days, and afterwards have another three months of chemo. I have decided to go that way and will call his office tomorrow to let him know. So I am scheduled to start chemo on next Friday.I don't know if

this helps you any, but I can tell you that I am so relieved that I had another chance to talk with my oncologist so that I could make a decision. Very relieved.God bless you and God bless us all.JanetIDC Deborah aka Deborah Page deborah_ann_page@... "A woman is like a

teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt Deborah aka Deborah Page deborah_ann_page@... "A woman is

like a teabag; you don't know how strong she is until you put her in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt