No Chemo

Hello everyone. I have completed my radiation treatments and the balloon catheter was removed today. Hallelujah!!! It was cumbersome and they had me in a post surgical bra which had absolutely no support so we bound me up with a wide ace bandage. I then had an appearance of a uni-boob. Very attractive. Anyway, I am happy to be wearing my own bra now and waiting for the incision to coagulate so I can take a shower (24-48 hrs).

The medical oncologist who we met with yesterday, said he is 99% sure we won't have to have chemotherapy. He said we will do homorne therapy which will be a homorne blocker. I need to research the two possibilities as one will cause weight gain and could cause headaches while the other one can promote osteoperosis. Great choices, eh? But I am sure there must be some comparble choices. Time to start researching.

I will appreciate continued prayers and thoughts that this last test the Dr. is running will prove favorable and we can go ahead with the hormone therapy. I will say once again that if you should ever happen to know anyone going through this, please give her my e-mail address or phone number and let me encourage her through it. Thanks for positive thoughts and prayers ~~Sarah

Radiation Upate

Hello everyone...I wanted to update you with how my radiation is going. It is totally not at all like I thought it would be. I go twice a day for one week. So right now I have 4 treatments done with 6 yet to do. I go in and wait for my CT Scan. That takes a total of about 3 minutes. It is not scary at all. The techs are all so nice and will even pop a little joke in every so often. Then I go out and wait to be called for the radiation. There are two other gals who are part of my "team". We are each going through the same thing and wait to be called for radiation after our CT Scan. Radiation is just like a "relax moment". I go into a room called a vault. There is a recliner there where I get myself comfy and they hook up my radiation tubes to the radiation machine. They close the door, have nice jazz music playing, and I close my eyes for the 10 minute treatment. It's great. I let my mind waunder and just enjoy the "me" time. After that, I go to an exam room where a Medical Assistant cleans and re-dresses my wound. We leave and start all over at the next session. I wanted to give you the details in case you might know of someone who might be faced with the procedure. It is not scary and it is always good to know that any part of something that could be scary, isn't. I will be happy to answer any questions you might have about this to help you understand this better. I will talk some more later. Thanks for reading ~~Sarah

My Further Adventure

To continue my Fight Like a Girl, tomorrow I will be seeing my Dr. who will insert a balloon catheter to the area that will need to get radiation. On Friday, I will visit my Radiologist who will get me all set up to start radiation on Monday. Though nothing should hurt, it is a little scary thinking about having the radiation going into my body. It is great, however, that this procedure will only take one week of going twice a day. Then we will be done. So glad for modern medicine. I am working on my vision to help other women who hear the dreaded outcome from their biopsy's. I want to be there for women who need someone to talk to who really understands what they are going through. That gives me the hope to carry on and do what God has intended for me. ~~Sarah~~