Hi everyone. Thanks for all hellos.
I am brest cancer survivor. It metasesized to my liver.
I had Xeloda pills temporary(temporary because it was toxit to me.
Herceptin infusion once a week. And take femara 2.5 once a day.
The mets were seen on CT scan last Nov. My marker was 172 is now 8.5.
So I am in remission for second time.
Holly I am new and I just had mt 3 year anniversary Mary
Angel Hugggsssss Hollie
Just letting you know im answering the roll call.... i may not be very active
but i do read avidly ..my love to you all... now and always..
I will be in touch more soon... jus not to bright right now.. my love reaches
out to each of you.
Jess
aka Galina Darii
Just want to do a roll call and see how everyone is doing.
Holly
Stacy,
I think it is absolutely wonderful that you want to help your friend
so much. So many people repell instead of helping. You are doing
all the right things. I had radiation 2 1/2 years ago. They most
likely will tell her that she needs to use a extremely good
moisturizer to her skin and not to wet the area that is radiated
because the techs draw on you. You also get tatoos where you are
being radiated. Little black dots so in the future doctors know
exactly where you were radiated. This is important. I had radiation
when I was a baby and no one bothered to tatoo the spot, so doctors
had no idea what area had already been radiated and it caused a
problem with my first treatment. They didn't give me radiation but
the next time I did have radiation. The period in which I had Stage
2 back in 1996 was before a study showing that radiation does truly
help the bc patient. Before that they weren't sure, so they decided
not to give it to me. When I had my recurrence, I was told that it
probably was because I had no radiation the first time around.
Radiation is different for everyone...I didn't burn and sometimes
even skipped moisturizer for days. I had no burning of the skin. I
was very lucky. I was lucky because it was an area of my body that
had been radiated before when I was a child and rad doc's couldn't
believe how extremely well it went. I am glad to hear that your
friend is going to join here and that you are here too! Taking her
kids for a time is good, but cooking a dinner for the family is good
too. God Bless you. You are an angel.
Take Care,
You and your friend are in my prayers,
Holly
I had just heard about the use of Faslodex for treatment of advanced breast
cancer when Tamoxifen fails.
By the way, if any of you are still addicted to fried french fries, try to break
the habit. There is a chemical produced during the preparation of certain fried
foods, such as french fries, that is a powerful carcinogen. It's a simple step
we can take to give our bodies an advantage.
Also remember to eat processed (go figure) red tomatos, red grapes, drink red
wine, etc. Something in the pigment that acts as an effective anti-oxidant.
Sorry Burger King and McDonald's, no more french fries for me....
Food And Drug Administration Approves Additional Breast Cancer Therapy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday
approved an additional therapy for advanced breast cancer
patients whose disease continues to progress following other
treatment.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/20776/349267.html
Stacy, you're on the right track. Perhaps you could pull together some other
friends to help out with the cooking and child-care relief. I think shampooing
and styling your friend's hair is precious.
As for how she is going to feel physically with her chemo and radiation, I can't
tell you. My chemo was over 10 years ago and it made me very sick. I don't
think people are getting as sick as they did years ago, or there are things
people can take to fight the nausea. I was exhausted from the chemo, but that
is treatable. I had two rounds of radiation about three years ago and I really
didn't feel anything from the radiation, but it does wear you out, and it's not
always obvious that it's the radiation that is making you feel weak. The best
thing is to let your friend journal her own experience and share that with you.
You'll have to adjust to her needs as she goes along with her treatment. That's
the best advice I can give you. Any chance she would join our group and come
here to talk about how she's feeling?
Come back again, Stacy, and thanks for your commitment to your friend. Every
survivor needs an angel like you.
Hugs, Doris C.
I just wanted to thank everyone here for their responses on how I
could help a friend that was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
Last weekend I was able to go out to her house for a couple of hours
and help with her kids, cook a few meals for the week and wash and
dry her hair. And then today I went out to pick up her kiddos to
come to our house for the weekend. I wish there was more I could do
but it is hard when I have three little ones at home myself. But I
am going to do what I can until this is all over for her.
She did go to the doctor today and she found out her cancer was a
stage 3 (I don't know if it's "a" or "b"). They also found out that
the size was 7cm. and not 10 cm. and only three of the nodes were
involved. Unfortunately she is going to have to go back in for more
surgery because the borders weren't clean. So that should be done
sometime in the next week or so.
Her next stage of treatment is chemo. and then radiation. Can
someone here clue me into what her feelings physically might be
during her treatments?
Any thoughts that you all can share would be wonderfully helpful to
me as I have never been through this myself or with anyone else that
I know.
Thanks,
Stacy
Kathy,
I hope you have a wonderful time. Talk to you when you return.
Hugs
Marianne