My cancer story | metastatic triple negative breast cancer
MY BREAST CANCER STORY I feel it in my soul that “Warrior Women Portraits” will be my life legacy!
My Cancer Story – Timeline
My Story GOFUND ME: https://www.gofundme.com/f/breast-cancer-fight-funds My journey: July 5th, 2022 MammogramJuly 13th, 2022 UltrasoundJuly 25th, 2022 BiopsyJuly 26th, 2022 Breast Cancer DiagnosedAug 4th, 2022 First Oncology Appt (ZZ Topp)Aug 5th, 2022 First Breast Surgeon Appt (Dr Walcott)Aug 9th, 2022 Echo (all clear)Aug 10th, 2022 Genetics BloodworkAug 11th, 2022 MRI & CT Scans (Newberg)Aug 15th, 2022 Pelvic…
When the fear of metastatic become reality
My life has been shattered into a million pieces with my latest diagnosis. At the end of 2023, my voice started going hoarse. We did everything to rule out the ‘scary’ stuff. 1.) We did an ultrasound on my thyroid. – negative 2.) Had two different ENTs scoped my throat. – negative 3.) Did a…
Chest Tattoos After a Mastectomy
Chest Tattoos After a Mastectomy Surgery Breast cancer takes a lot from a woman. Very often, they feel less feminine because society has told them that without bests, they are less of a woman. Many don’t want a constant reminder of the surgery they had to save their life. Often, women decide to reclaim their…
Approaching my one year anniv
A bitter sweet 4th ofJuly It’s been several months since I wrote. Today seems like a good day as any for a quick update. QUARTERLY DOCTORS VISIT: Every 3 months I go in for an exam and blood work. Generally, it’s a quick in and out. I had that appointment yesterday. My blood work came back…
Fighting Cancer is Expensive
Now that 2022 is behind us I was able to tally up all the medical bills for the year. $131,976.07 Holy cow! Thank god for insurance. There is absolutely no way we could have paid for this out of pocket without going bankrupt. After insurance and the amazing folks who donated to our GoFundMe our…
End of Active Treatment
Tomorrow is my final surgery for 2022. I’m not sure what to think about it. Obviously, it’s a very simple procedure of taking out my chemo port, doing a small skin revision on my left side, and perhaps a revision on the right. It’s the final part of my treatment. Really to tie my cancer…
Remission, NED, Cancer Free
Treatments are DONE!!!! I’M IN REMISSION!!! As of yesterday no more infusions or injections are needed to say I’m in remission!!! Wednesday was my last chemo infusion and yesterday was my last Neulasta injection. You might be asking, now what? Now I heal! I still have a lot of that to do. My mastectomy incision…
Infection after surgery
**** GRAPHIC WARNING **** The struggle is real – GRAPHIC IMAGES INFECTIONS I’m 3 months post-surgery and still dealing with infections. Wed I was put on my 3rd round of antibiotics. Things clear up and a short period later it comes back. The day before Thanksgiving had to be my worst yet. The swelling was…
Taste changes during chemo treatment
Taste of Food Let’s chat about how your taste changes while going through chemo. Prior to beginning treatment, the doctor’s made a strong point of the importance of hydrating. I didn’t think it would be an issue because I drank water and iced tea constantly every day. What I wasn’t expecting was the taste of…
