No more hormone suppression

 

I saw the oncologist yesterday. She said her main concern is quality of life versus being on a hormone suppression drug that gives me terrible side effects.

So, for now I am not on any hormone suppression meds and I see the oncologist in 3 months.

We still don’t know what causes the speech difficulties and they are ongoing at this point.

Since I received a complete pathological response (meaning I had no cancer in my body after the mastectomy), the oncologist feels that there is no reason to try any hormone suppression meds for the little gain in reduction of chances of recurrence.

Sleepless days & Sleepless nights

 

Well, I just got done with my sleep study. I saw the pulmonologist and they ordered a split sleep study that had to be done at the clinic(I don’t rememberwhat a split sleep sudy is as opposed to a regular sleep study). The pulmonary office told me they were booking 6-8 weeks out. When I called the sleep lab, they just had some spots open up so I grabbed a spot for last night.

Everything went well. I only remembering getting up once to use the bathroom and other than that I slept all night. I had to use my essential oil blend for insomnia to get back to sleep, it worked like a charm!

I wasn’t able to book another pulmonologist’ appointment until January so Dr Google will have to tell me my results when they show up on the app.

Ups and Downs

 

I saw my plastic surgeon on October 30 and he said I was doing well. I no longer have to wear my abdominal binder, yay! He also siphoned off 500 cc’s of fluid from my abdomen. It would have come out on its own if I had the drains still in place, but I don’t, so here we are, lol.

I stopped the Anastrozole, again, due to side effects. The month of October held nearly daily headache and/or migraines for me. I only had 3 headache free days and a lot of the other days I had 2 headaches. So, my oncologist had me stop the Anastrozole until I see her again on November 21st. I stopped on October 29th and have yet to see any real improvements but I know it just takes time.

I have still been having difficulties with talking as well as confusion and forgetfulness – more so than my usual. My MRI was essentially normal so we do not know what is causing it. It could be due to stress in general or something else.

The incision is healing well. When I saw Dr Pierce (my plastic surgeon), he said that there was some granular tissue that shows I am healing. It was white and looked like pus but apparently was this granular tissue. It also appears like it’s re-opened but that’s just the healing going on.

I see my oncologist, De DeYao on the 21st for a follow up and lab work.

We are hoping to go to the Veteran’s Day parade this year. Kenn will be having surgery for his hand November 22nd and we are praying for a successful surgery & recovery. Other than that November looks to be pretty calm with me just healing and making Christmas cards.

Thanks for all your support! This has been a long journey but hopefully we are nearing the end.