Jun 23, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
Sometimes I feel guilty that I have lived with cancer for over 30 years. Dawn had triple negative breast cancer and fought hard for 3 years. She passed away last week. She gave it her all, emotionally and financially. She knew more about her cancer, and both...
Mar 21, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
Life has changed dramatically since I last wrote in my blog just over a month ago. Even though the Coronavirus is getting most of the attention, cancer is still a looming reality for many of us, and that’s the focus of my blog. In my last post I said I would be doing...
Feb 11, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
My cancer marker numbers went up dramatically for four months in a row, and my oncologist said it was time to do something different. She recommended I take either Ibrance or Megace. If I started to take either of these drugs, I would be making that decision out of...
Jan 6, 2020 | Jan's Blog |
I started the New Year with a Cancer marker up by more than 1,000. Normal is 38 and mine is almost 4,000. There is only one hormone treatment that I haven’t tried (for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer), so I guess Megace will be next. Of course I am on the...
Dec 11, 2019 | Jan's Blog |
I’m on my second month of taking Arimidex, an aromatase inhibitor, after a few months on Tamoxifen which quit doing its job. I just had my CA27.29 blood test and my numbers went up by 800 in the past two months. I didn’t have the test in November because I had just...
Nov 5, 2019 | Jan's Blog |
I often want to wait to post on my blog until I have good news, but who is to say what is and isn’t good news. I will tell you what is happening, trying not to judge it as good or bad. After two months of having my cancer marker numbers go down, they then shot up...
