Half Way There

Sweet ones, I am so proud of you.  We are half way through this yucky.  Last weekend was so hard, it was rainy- super duper rainy and we were stuck in the house - and Mommy felt sick.  I think you had just both had enough because for the first time since all this stupid cancer started you asked for everything to just be normal again.  That is my biggest wish babies, that is why I am fighting so hard. I just want everything to be normal again more than you can imagine.

We are just about half way there.  I am halfway through the "yucky" chemo (my regimen is Taxotere, Carboplatin, Herceptin, and Perjeta.  My treatment plan is called neoadjuvant chemotherapy.  I get 6 infusions of the TCHP cocktail in an effort to shrink or eradicate the tumor, then surgery to remove it.  I will then receive 7 and a half months of targeted chemotherapy.  It is a still going to be a long year, but we have come so far. Only 3 more treatments until surgery.

Yikes! Only 3 more treatments until surgery.  I know that the healing from that will be a different kind of uncomfortable than I am dealing with now.  It is my hope that I will feel more like me, but just be ouchy.  Daddy and I met with a wonderful plastic surgeon.  He and my breast surgeon both feel that I would be a good candidate for the DIEP Flap tissue surgery.  There are many benefits to the DIEP flap surgery, but we will continue to way all of the options carefully and make the best choice for all of us.

As long as everything goes as planned and mommy stays healthy my last of the TCHP treatments will be December 2nd.  After that my hair will begin to grow back, and I will start to feel like me again.  I can't wait for that to happen.  Surgery will be either the last week in December, or the first week in January.

There is also so much good news!  The lymph node that I was so worried about has completely gone away:)  and the surgeon confirmed this week that I will not need radiation.  I am so thankful.

Remember that it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, continue to spread love and joy everywhere you go.  Know your body, perform self checks, encourage others to do the same.