Life gets back to normal....or does it?!
Well, after a long absence from blogging I'm back. Where have I been? Just getting life back on track and having much needed down time. Not sure life will ever be back to 'normal'. My idea of normal has changed over the past year, but I think for the better. There's nothing like a cancer scare to make you appreciate life and all it has to offer. The phrase 'don't sweat the small stuff' is my new mantra.It's now a few months since I finished chemo and I feel great. My hair is growing back, my energy is returning and all things considered life is pretty good. On the subject of hair....I said way back that my biggest dread was my hair growing back grey and curly....well it has and guess what? I don't care, its hair and I love it. Another added bonus is that my eyelashes have grown back thicker and much longer-not suggesting chemo as an alternative to mascara but it did it for me. I've even tried taking a spoonful of manuka honey every day but I'm not sure it's doing me any good.
I'm now on Herceptin and more than half way thro' my years course. Doesn't seem to have much in the way of side effects for me so can't complain and have even relaxed a bit about cannulation! I get my Herceptin at home and its all very relaxing compared to hospital.
I had my first annual review with my surgeon this week and was quite uptight about it although I didn't really understand why. Then it hit me....the dreaded waiting room and just being in the same clinic where I heard the worst news of my life was enough to turn me into a jibbering idiot.
Anyway, after a chat with my surgeon I have decided on a left mastectomy and bilateral reconstruction where fat and muscle is taken from my abdomen ( yes, a tummy tuck, how cool!) and shaped into breasts ( even more cool!) Can't wait.
Oh, nearly forgot. Treated myself to a black lab pup. She is ten weeks old and is causing chaos. Shes eating her way around the garden, chewing the carpets, terrorising my older dog but guess what-we're all crazy about her.
Marjory
Labels: about-marjory, herceptin, living-with-cancer, mastectomy, reconstruction
posted by Marjory @ 8:59 AM
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Hi, I have been diagnostiqued 8 year ago, then surgery and chemo, 2 y. zoladex, then oophorectomy and hysterectomy(laparoscopic). I have taken very special Chemo with transplantation of the steam cells. That means, ten times stronger chemo with zero imunity in the end of therapy. Then steam cells extracted before from your blood are by infusion get back to the body and the imunity is going back to normality. This is made during a month in isolation. Now I am healthy (OK) and I work in a magazin for architecture - www.casopisasb.cz. I practise sport - bikeing and walking. I wish you were very healthful
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