Breast Cancer - All People Who Are Interested In "chemo"

sherreeb

I am a 7 year survivor and breast health nurse navigator

posted 10/30/2008, comment (1)

An emotional rollercoaster!

So many women (me included) are amazed at the emotional rollercoaster called breast cancer. There is a wonderful drama by Nicole Johnson called "Stepping into the Ring". She states that having breast cancer is like going to bed and waking up in the ring against the heavy weight champion of the world. You are in your pajamas and... Read more Chevron

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Judith Rosenthal Schwartz

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posted 08/21/2008, comments (7)

Long-term side effects of chemo with Taxol

For the last year-and-a-half I've been really suffering with painful feet. Now I'm not the sort of person to run to the doctor every time I sneeze, so I tried to figure it out myself. I tried orthotic-like supports: nothing. I tried 800 mg. of ibuprofen: nothing. In April I took my son on a college road trip to... Read more Chevron

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Vickie

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posted 06/04/2008, comment (1)

Welcome to the world of "LIfe after breast cancer"

Laura Congratulations on making to the other side of breast cancer. It feels great! I can't remember how many months after all the reconstructive surgeries that it took me to quit feeling my breasts all the time. I don't know why I did it all the time I just know I did. I know everyone deals with the words "you have breast cancer" differently but... Read more Chevron

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posted 05/29/2008, comments (20)

Breast Reconstruction After Masctectomy and Radiation - What's Next with Lipo, Implants

Hey everyone! I wanted to tell you guys about my recent visit to a plastic surgeon to discuss my breast reconstruction. I had a mastectomy in January of this year and I also had 7 weeks of radiation that I completed at the end of March. I knew that I can't have a reconstruction until about 6 months after my radiation, but I went ahead... Read more Chevron

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Gigi

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posted 11/23/2007, comments (4)

How can I be everything to everyone and still support my sister?

Today is the day after Thanksgiving. I must preface this post by saying how grateful I feel to be healthy and living here in the US. My only living sister was diagnosed with infiltrating intraductal carcinoma with local metastasis (8 of 10 nodes), stage IIIA in July of 2006. My sister was 59 at the time, never married, no... Read more Chevron

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