...it would fly and paint the sky PINK!
Has it been almost a week since I have blogged here? Time flies when you are having fun...and when you are in radiation. The weeks just zoom, wish chemo had gone this fast. Anywho...2 more rounds and I am DONE. It just so happens to end on St. Patrick's Day, soooo, we will be celebrating with a green beer (or 2) at Buffalo Wild Wings if anyone wants to join us! Whomp, there it is...
Met with the lovely Dr. Jennings last Thursday. Thank you for all the calls, many of you wanted to know what he said and I apologize for being in the slow lane on the information highway (I was really in the fast lane which is why I couldn't write)...anyway, he was most informative and it basically came down to this. He would NOT recommend a hysterectomy at this moment. In a nut shell there are 2 camps of meds to go on after one finishes treatment (1) pre-menopausal, or (2) post-menopausal. By age I am considered the first, but because my course of treatment, my body is more than likely in the latter camp. Of course we want to be sure, so blood work and test are being done to be confirmed on this as we speak. In the meantime, he suggest that I definitely do the Tamoxifen(start NOW), but hold off on the Lupron/Zumeta at least until June. He wants to see where my blood work is to confirm what camp I am in. Once I fall into Camp B (post meno), I would take another type of drug (although, it would have the same effect). It all comes down to shutting down any estrogen made in my body, since the cancer I had was estrogen driven.
I said to him, "What would want you to say YES to a hysterectomy?" He said if I had tested positive for the brca gene or if I had the "r" word...which I can't or won't even say. He also said, that the drugs do their work and that there are other benefits to keeping them(ovaries) at this point. Having had breast cancer doubles my odds for ovarian cancer (bringing it to a whopping 2 %), that my body had been through enough for the time being...AMEN. We will be meeting and getting blood work done every 3 months and can decide differently on surgery if we need to...right now, it is one this I don't need to put on my calender...another AMEN!
Many of you know about this, but in case you don't...we are having our first
WARRIORS WEAR PINK JAM!!
I am so excited! Many people are working their fanny's off to host a benefit for us! All the money raised will be going to help us pay down our mountain of medical debt (I mean we call it Cancerminjaro around here)...the goal is to do this every year, next year we will pick another family or organization to raise money for. Maybe by then Warriors Wear Pink might even be it's own foundation...mmmm! All in all, it's most important that we continue to pay it forward one way or another. Our intentions are that blessings come and go full circle.
Anyway, we hope if you are around you can make it...it's going to be a BLAST!
April 8th, 2010
5-10pm
Dunleavy's Pub on Sullivan's Island
You can also go onto Facebook and become a fan and get all the details!
We are so excited and grateful...it's beyond words. It goes to show the kind of amazing support we have had...a HUGE shout out to many people especially-Mr. Dunleavy, Ed and the
Not So Serious Band, and Matt with Trick Knee!
I will be thanking people for the rest of my life I am sure...
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
It takes many soldiers to fight in the war against cancer and I am winning the battle because of people like YOU. People who didn't think twice about gearing up in PINK, right along with me. Speaking of pink...did you know that the color light pink means breast cancer and that you are fighting breast cancer? Dark pink or fuchsia means that you are a survivor of breast cancer?
If you are looking for me...I will be the one at the party with the DARK pink dress ON!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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