My Journey with Triple Positive Breast Cancer

  This random blossom thinks it's summer.  Obviously, I need to turn the plant so it can see outside! 😁 I thought I'd provide a quick update regarding my recovery from radiation therapy and other pertinent news...like hair growth! After my last radiation appointment, I started using the Mepitel on the area my radiation oncologist considered of greatest concern. I'm so glad I did; I should have slapped it on everywhere! 😖 I ended up getting radiation dermatitis on other parts of the radiated area, specifically, where skin rubs against skin. I did use Mepitel on most of the radiated area once I realized how much it was helping.  Thankfully, the pain was easily controlled; I think I only took Tylenol twice, and that was just for the night.  What I did experience and am still experiencing is itchiness. This is a good thing, as it means that I'm healing, right?  Unfortunately, I do look a bit like a flea-ridden dog as I scratch away! 😊 Radiation dermatitis is grad...

  It's funny how celebrations so often mean a trip to the Duchess Bakery. 😋 Having completed the worst of my treatments, my mind is now a jumble of thoughts. Rather than trying to make sense of them all (Ha...good luck!) I thought I would just lay them out here, Q&A style. So you're done! That's so exciting. How do you feel and what are you going to do with your time now? Well, I'm not entirely done, but I'm certainly through the worst of things. I had an echocardiogram yesterday and have my usual Herceptin infusion on Monday. The echo is because the Herceptin (and chemo) can damage the heart. It's just a precaution; my last echo was normal. According to the people in the know, the next two weeks will be spent giving myself saline soaks and creaming my skin, since apparently, radiation continues to work, damaging cells for at least 10 days post-treatment. 😳  At my last visit with my radiation oncologist, she warned me, "Things will get worse over the ...