As it turns out I will need chemo treatments also. I am waiting for results from the oncotype dx test and the oncologist is talking with my hear doctor to see if my heart can with stand herceptin treatments. He said as it stands right now I am need at least 24 chemo treatments. I have not shed a tear from all this cancer stuff until he said chemo and that I would likely loose my hair and then I cried like a crybaby pee pee pants lol. But now that I am getting use to the idea, I have decided to go tomorrow and get my long hair cut into a short cute new do. I look for cute hats and scrafs and in a couple of weeks I will look at wigs. I thought my goodness why am I letting loosing my hair bother me so much, it isn't painful to fall out and it will grow back some time. I know I can, with the Lord's help and this support group, get though the treatments. I don't want this cancer to come back. So I will do what I have to do. After chemo then the rads and then at some point the AI drugs. I am ER positve, PR negitive and Her-2/neu positive, grade 2 and at stage 2, so it was caught early, and it is invasive ductal carcinoma. I am healing good from the lumpectomy. Thank you all for being there for me and the millions of others with cancer. God Bless each of you. Judy
Judy, it's great that you are being proactive about getting your hair cut short. Taking steps like that will help you feel in control when everything seems to be falling apart.
I'm not surprised that the news about chemo was what tipped you over into tears. Although the ways doctors manage chemo side effects has changed for the better, most of us have heard horror stories about what someone went through with chemo a long time ago. The one side effect that no one has been able to make better is hair loss. Just keep on the way you have been--taking each new step in faith. You will get through all this and will know that you did everything possible to increase your chances of living to be an old lady.
Thank you for the kind words. I will post a picture of my new doo this weekend. I will get though it all and I will be tough as millions before me. I will keep praying for a cure for the future women need not go though what we are going though. The medical field has come a long ways in the 20 since my mom died from breast cancer. Women are the toughest angels on earth, we can and do survive terrible hardships. God Bless you. Judy