Why Get Up?

It’s time for my quarterly Blog post and again it feels like there is more unknown than known. Since I don’t have any symptoms from my cancer, I can’t tell what’s going on by how I’m feeling. Gratefully, I’m feeling fine. My most reliable marker has been my CA 27.29...

Why am I still here?

It feels like time to post an update on my cancer progression and/or regression. After 7 months of my cancer marker numbers going down every month (since I started taking Faslodex), the past two months (August and September) the numbers went up slightly. Not a big...

Effective Treatments

When I started having Faslodex injections in December, my CA27.29 (blood test for breast cancer) was 1379. It has now gone down over 200 points each month for three months in a row, for a current value of 686. That’s still a long way from the normal of 38, but it is...

Averted a Disaster

My monthly CA27.29 blood test last week showed a decrease of just over 200 in my number. This is GREAT news. Not only did it not go up (remember last month it went up 600 points), it also actually went down. My integrative doctor said it looks like we have “averted a...

What I’m Doing Now

After my recent PET/CT scan, I spent a few weeks getting input from the practitioners on my healing team, and consulting my inner wisdom. I am now implementing the treatment decisions I have made. I have stopped taking both Femara and mistletoe. I have started taking...

What’s Next?

The last time I wrote, I mentioned my CA 27.29 cancer marker. It continued to go up for three months in a row, getting up to 785, which led to my getting a PET/CT scan to see what was going on. A couple of hours after the scan, the doctor who was reading it and...