I've already had some uplifting sentiments said to me. I want to say thank you for your thoughtfulness, patience, love and support. I can't imagine going through this journey without you. Seriously, I know many women who have families and friend who are not supportive or loving. It just breaks my heart.
If you are on facebook you probably notice I am posting a lot of information about Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC). We in a challenging position as we are trying to educate a wide audience about Metastatic Breast Cancer. Earlier this week.... we accomplished a lot! The TODAY show is shining the light on breast cancer, our little community on FB actually did get the TODAY show to include MBC. Here is the back story : TODAY Show back story link
UPDATE on my health: My radiation oncologist re-examined my scans and spoke to a few of her colleagues about my case and recommended that I qualify for cyber knife radiation. It's relatively new in the past 5 years. There 2 really good benefits to this procedure :
1) I would only need 1 treatment! 2) the procedure could actually shrink my tumor!
The treatment is so exact by milliliters they usually get pretty good results. I asked what type of criteria made me qualify. She said they were only treating one area and that the area was not scattered everywhere. The edge of the tumor were identifiable enough to treat. The side effects would be the same, fatigue, inflammation to the site. The main risks were the same as all the others: some damage to the nerves and I could end up paralyzed. 🙀 blah blah blah.
Folks to tell you the truth I pretty much made up my mind to go ahead with the previous plan, I told her she had me at 1 treatment😆 haha
Guess what? I already had my treatment, Tuesday, September 23! I did have a couple of really bad days. But I think the worst is over. Yeah! Sorry, I didn't say anything sooner it just went so quick I really didn't have time to do much. I don't want to be premature in saying anything, but I think this treatment did a really good job of reducing my pain. Praise God. There is actually a 6-month recovery period. But it's mostly fatigue and I have to be careful not to lift or doing anything that would hurt my spine. But so far so good! I'm very pleased!
Next stop more scans, labs, tests and then I will be starting the next clinical trial drug on October 13.
Speaking of October 13....please spread the word! October 13 National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
