Amy's Cancer Story

June has been a busy month for me and I am glad to say that because it is a blessing to be able to feel healthy and live life fairly normally in between chemo and radiation. My family had the opportunity of a lifetime to go visit my sister in Greece. We had had some assistance with Frequent Flyer miles that we had banked and mounting for about 10 years and some other amazing circumstances. It is a funny thing that I used to get frustrated that circumstances would never work out to use these miles up but if I had used too many of the frequent flyer miles prior to this trip, I may have not had enough to fly my whole family to Greece. But all in all we had a wonderful time, took over 2300 photos. If you are on Facebook with me you should be able to see the 150 photos that I have up already. I will be posting more as I have time.

A couple of days after returning from our trip, I went to see Dr. Ellis, my oncologist. He said everything looked good with all my counts. He started me on Tamoxifen a hormone pill that I will be taking for 5 years. This is one thing that helps prevent the breast cancer from returning. So far I have had not noticeable side effects.

He also set me up an appointment to meet with the radiologist. I met with Dr. Jones the following week on June 16th. She went over everything. I did not have any real concerns. I can explain more in detail about that later.

Last week I went for photos, CT planning scan, tattoos and measurements. The doctor has to apply the radiation around specific calculations to avoid damaging your heart and lungs. I have to go back tomorrow for a few more photos and measurements and talk with the doctor. While on the phone with them this morning, they told me I will be starting radiation on Tuesday.

I am really happy to say that my hair is growing in nicely. It is still peach fuzz but not enough for me to feel comfortable with out anything on my head. Maybe another month or so. I am generally wearing a bandanna or scarf because the wigs is just too darn hot (other than when meeting clients).