Really, like 2 YEARS since I've updated? Wow, I'm slacking... no seriously, that's terrible! So a lot has happened since my last post. Finished chemo, double mastectomy, reconstruction first with expanders then with implants, oopherectomy, brain surgery, radiation and cyberknife... wait, what? Rewind please? Brain surgery?
Yep, brain surgery. In December of 2012 I was having a lot of neck and shoulder pain, so they sent me for scans. PET scan showed no new lesions, and no new growth. Yay! However, my brain MRI showed a small spot on the right side of my cerebellum. Docs wanted to remove it to see what it was, so in January I had brain surgery. Crazy! It turns out that it is in fact mets from my breast cancer that found it's way into my brain. The following day they did a follow-up MRI where a second lesion was spotted on the LEFT side of my cerebellum. Seriously? WTH? So they decided that since they already have an idea of what it is they would just do cyberknife therapy on that side. Basically it's radiation that's focused on a single spot so they can rid my brain of the spot without surgery. They followed this up with rads to the right side (the hole now in my head) to ensure that all the cells there were gone. Phew.
At the end of March, a new MRI showed that while the spot on the left side grew, it did look like it was probably dying, but only time will tell.
I lost many good friends since my last post, too many to even begin to mention.
I'll try to keep up better from here on out, but let's face it, between chemo, surgery, and radiation, I'll probably forget tomorrow. Lol!
To anyone actually reading this, thanks so much for all y'all have done for me these last 2 years... it's been a wild ride, but I'm far from done!!
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