Today is two years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer in the lymph. Two nodes. Four chemos, radiation, 17 treatments of herceptin and now on tamoxifen. And fine..... Got annual Mammogram and ultrasound on wednesday - and so nervous that brought it forward by a few days cos can't bear the tension, keep thinking: if the result is bad, if the cancer is back, I'm doomed cos 90% of my treatment has been preventative - chemo took cancer away 100% - but meanwhile, got other things on my mind. Lol!!! Woke up covered in bumps. Been to doctor, been for blood tests - might have german measles! Hilarious!
PS: Watch this video. First watched it on Daria's livingwithcancer.blogspot.com blog
I live in Johannesburg, South Africa, where I was diagnosed with breast cancer on Thursday January 15 2009. This is my journey with cancer and other musings as surveyed - initially temporarily hairless - from under my hats.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
about having heart
Julie Goodale is admirable. I don't know her as such, have never met her - for starters we live in different continents although I have missed the US about three times I think, but long before I had cancer and read Julie's blog.
Read fitness for survivors - the day before nerves and see what I mean. It's all about having heart.
Some people are just plain inspiring.
Read fitness for survivors - the day before nerves and see what I mean. It's all about having heart.
Some people are just plain inspiring.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Rather Rattled
Apart from the fact that I was playing with the layout and colours of this blog last night and have now messed it up big time, which is annoying me no end, I am getting rather peeved with being told I am a hypochondriac.
It's the damn tick bite fever, you see. It is not getting better. Well, it's better but not gone, and have inconsistent sharp, burning pains in spots on my head, on the side just above where the tick bit me behind my ear.
Now I am not imagining this pain. And considering I have been on two sets of antibiotics, twice (had to get more meds when I was in Lesotho as the pain got so bad), surely something is wrong? Surely the antibiotics are strong enough to wipe out whatever infection is there?
I also get so angry when told I am a hypochondriac, that I am over-reacting kind of thing, 'cos when I think back to when I first found the lump, almost two years ago in fact - sjoe, can hardly believe that - well, if I had decided that I had had a mammogram and scan barely two months before and so decided to ignore it, instead of going to see the doctor the same day, well, I hate to think about what would have happened. I would most probably have been riddled with cancer.
So I happen to think it's a good thing that I am so body-aware, and that I act on things, instead of pretending they don't exist.
It's the damn tick bite fever, you see. It is not getting better. Well, it's better but not gone, and have inconsistent sharp, burning pains in spots on my head, on the side just above where the tick bit me behind my ear.
Now I am not imagining this pain. And considering I have been on two sets of antibiotics, twice (had to get more meds when I was in Lesotho as the pain got so bad), surely something is wrong? Surely the antibiotics are strong enough to wipe out whatever infection is there?
I also get so angry when told I am a hypochondriac, that I am over-reacting kind of thing, 'cos when I think back to when I first found the lump, almost two years ago in fact - sjoe, can hardly believe that - well, if I had decided that I had had a mammogram and scan barely two months before and so decided to ignore it, instead of going to see the doctor the same day, well, I hate to think about what would have happened. I would most probably have been riddled with cancer.
So I happen to think it's a good thing that I am so body-aware, and that I act on things, instead of pretending they don't exist.
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