Monday...

On Monday April 3rd, I'm scheduled for a diagnostic mammogram, on Wednesday April 5th I am scheduled for my final round of chemo and it fucking better be or I will lose my damned mind. 

I know few folks aside from myself who keep score of this stuff but for the record. 

24 rounds of chemo (including immunotherapy and targeted chemo as well as systemic)

21 rounds of radiation

7 echocardiograms

6 mammograms

2 ultrasounds of the breasts

7 months of hormone blockers (53 more to go)

1 needle biopsy

1 port insertion 

1 lumpectomy

Update! 1 port removal! 

Things I know now -

For me the antinausea drugs were not as effective as medical marijuana, same for the anti diarrheals. 

Happy Anniversary to the stump

A year ago today I had my lumpectomy. At the time I was bald as an egg and done with systemic chemo not quite having realized I had 18 treatments remaining for a grand total of 24. I knew I would be undergoing radiation therapy once I recovered from surgery. I had only had one previous procedure involving anesthesia (the installation of the porta Cath). I anticipated a great deal more pain than I experienced I think I took 2 Tylenol with codeine after surgery and 2 regular Tylenol the following day. This was not a massive procedure, less than 50 grams of cancer and margins were removed.  Surgical glue meant no need to remove sutures, and 1 week later we started throwing in the hatchet league.