Cancer "LITE"

I guess if you are going to get cancer, this is the kind you want to get! My metastatic work-up (which totaled $8,290) was all negative! WOO HOO!

Next step is surgery to remove any remaining cancer tissue and to do a sentinel node biopsy. Not sure how many nodes that includes but I am sure I won't miss them too much. SO, if the biopsy is NEG then they will send a part of my tumor off to sunny California for a spa day..no just kidding. IT goes off for an oncotype, which is an assay of the tumor to see the likely hood of recurrence. If that test is still NEG then, probably NO CHEMO :) So, I cut my hair off for nothing :) Naa, I love my new summer doo!

If the nodes and or oncotype are POS, then chemo is for sure :( I have already mentally told myself I am going to have it so if I don't then that is even better.

I will still get radiation and the Dr. even mentioned a pill called Tamoxifen for 5 years. When I told her I did not like what I had read about this drug and it's side effects she basically said, "too bad". It reduces the chances of your cancer spreading and reoccurring by 30-50%. It also gives you the nice menopausal side effects such as hot flashes, joint pain, weight gain, and I'm sure some other fun things as well.

I really like my Doctor! I think that it is so important to trust the person who you are basically given your life to and saying ...here ya go, take care of me! She has a fabulous sense of humor and she is from TEXAS! Now, that was the real deal sealer right there. YEEE HAWWWWW

Mastectomy is still a ?, I am going to go to a support group and talk to some other club members and see what has worked for them. I definitely don't want to have to go through this again. OH and get this, instead of implants....she could take tissue out of my stomach to reconstruct a new BOOB(s)! WHOA, how cool is that.
Much better than the thought of implants for me.

SO, today was good :) I am so thankful for the news today. My husband is the best support in all this. He makes sure we have the "folder" and takes all the notes for me. I could not do this without him.
Thanks toots :)

TO everyone who called and wrote to me today....thank you so much. It means the world to me to have so many that care about me.