Beating the Beast

Had another mammogram today and all was clear!!! Answered prayers!!

Praise report!!! No cancer! Mammogram was clear!! I go back in 6 months!!

I haven’t updated here lately. I’m feeling good and gaining my strength back. My hair is coming back very dark and gray 😆. I’m just glad to have some hair back. I have been taking Tamoxifen which is a hormone blocker, since I finished radiation in February. It makes my joints ache some. That seems to be getting better with exercise. Please pray for my upcoming appointment that is June 30th. I will have my first mammogram since everything has happened and I will visit with my cancer doctor. Thanks for all your prayers!!!!

Finished my last radiation treatment today on my birthday so that was a good gift. I’m really red and sore but this was still easier than chemo by far! I pray that chemo and radiation did the job they were designed to do! I will see my chemo onocologist next week for blood work, have my port flushed and to begin a hormone blocker pill for at least 5 years. Please pray I tolerate it with no side effects. I will follow up with my radiation onocologist in about 6 weeks and my plastic surgeon in a couple of months. My first mammogram since everything will be in June. I can’t thank everyone enough for your love and support for me and my family. Please continue to pray as my body has a lot of healing to do now!

It has been a while since I updated. I have 4 more treatments left!!!! Pray that chemo and this radiation has taken care of any trace of cancer that could have been left after surgery!

3 down, 17 to go!

Today was my first radiation instead of Tuesday. It was no problem. 1 down 19 to go!!

My radiation is supposed to begin January 18th. I will have 20 treatments. I go every weekday for these treatments. Please pray that I handle these treatments ok. Thanks!!!

Happy to say that today was my last chemo treatment!!! No reactions today and I got to ring the bell!! Pray for mild side effects. I will begin radiation in a few weeks. I will know more of a starting date once I meet with my radiation onocologist. Please pray specially that the chemo and radiation with kill/zap/destroy any tiny sign of cancer cells that might have been left in my body and pray it NEVER returns again!!! I don’t have enough words to thank everyone for your thoughts, prayers, food, texts etc.. my journey is still ongoing but I’m hopeful that radiation will not be as hard on my body.

It was a long day but finished number 7 of 8 chemo treatments today. Since I had reactions with this drug on the last two, they slowed it way down to see if that would help and it did. No coughing attack! However, we were there for a long time.

My family has been awesome through this journey. My mom came today and cooked me chicken and dumplings which is one of my favs. She also had peas and cornbread! She and Olivia made Christmas candy today. My KK sent a pie with mom.
Mom has been with me to many appointments among too many other things to list!!
My in laws have helped so much with Olivia and made trips back and forth with her. My mother n law has been to appointments and helped in many ways. Both of my sister n laws have been helpful throughout this as well! My sister was so kind to do the T-shirt sales which was extremely helpful!!Couldn’t have made it this far without them!!!

Treatment 6 of 8 was today. They gave me extra Benadryl and decadron in my pre- treat meds because I had the reaction last time. However, I had another coughing episode and they had to stop the chemo for a while. They checked my BP, oxygen, etc and all was good. After stopping for over 30 minutes I stopped coughing and they were able to start back at a slower rate for a while before finishing at regular speed. The episode happened about half way through. I was able to finish thankfully with no more coughing episodes. Got there at 8 this morning and didn’t leave until about 3:20 so it has been a long day. Feel ok now. I can also see the light at the end of the tunnel. ONLY 2 more!! Thanks again for your prayers and support!

I had treatment number 5 on Thursday. Starting with this one and the 3 final ones, it is the drug Taxol that I receive. I had a little reaction to it while it was being administered. I started coughing constantly and had itchy and burning in my throat. They gave me another round of Benadryl and decadron. I had already had both of these in the pre- treat meds but after more, it stopped the cough. Felt good on Friday, but today (Saturday) my body aches all over. Different from how the first four made me feel. Thankfully I’m on the down hill slide!! Chemo 6 would fall on Thanksgiving day but is scheduled for the Monday after! Thanks for continued prayers and support!!