SUE'S ESCAPE FROM CANCERLAND: Pretty places I have been to

Friday, February 24, 2012

Pretty places I have been to

Gegenbach

Sacre Coeur, Paris

Staufen castle

Cimitere, Paris

Colmar

Kaufhaus, Freiburg

Freiburg

Gegenbach

Metz

Riquewihr

Street of the Jews somewhere in Alsace

Steve and Bacchus, Staufen

Verdun

Zell

Strausburg

Steve and I took a trip in April 2003 to France and Germany. We flew into Paris, rented a car and headed east traveling through Champagne, Lorraine, and Alsace crossing into the Black Forest Region of Germany.
We spent most of the time in Alsace driving La Route de Vin. Unfortunately all of Steve's digital photos were lost since he lent the card to Naomi before saving the contents(!!!!). But we have the non-digital pix I took and scanned today.

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I am a mother of 3, wife of 1, and grandmother of 6. For years, I had been a medicinal chemist. Not long after I was retired early, I found myself with triple negative breast cancer. My struggles with it are in this blog along with the joys and trials of being a mother and grandmother. I love to be physically active, travel, read, and garden. Although my degrees are in chemistry and cellular biology not medicine, I keep up with the medical literature and report herein watching closely for good news against this deadly disease. As time goes on, my stay in Cancerland has become more a bad memory than a reality. This blog has since morphed into a photo blog in which I try to capture moments of beauty in my life.

TIMELINE

9-10-08: 1.6 cm tumor discovered by routine mammogram confirmed by ultrasound

9-21-08: Biopsy confirming Grade 3, triple negative invasive breast cancer

10-7-08: First surgery and sentinel node biopsy.

10-9-08: Tumor had grown to 3 cm plus an additional tumor was found. Poor margins but the 3 sentinel nodes were negative

10-16-08: Follow-up mammograms: lots of microcalcifications that could be DCIS

10-29-08: Second surgery removing 3x the tissue as the first: Good news: no sign of cancer in any of it.

12-2-08: First dose dense treatment with Adriamycin and Cytoxan followed by Neulasta the next day

12-16-08: Second dose

12-19-08: Hair began falling out. In 2 days I would be completely bald.

12-30-08: Third dose

1-13-09: Fourth dose

1-27-09: First of 4 doses of Taxol

3-10-09: Last dose of Taxol

3-31-09: First of 16 radiation treatments (so-called hypofractionated Canadian study)

4-21-09: Last radiation treatment

Early May: All eyelashes and eyebrows suddenly fall out but see evidence of stubble on head

Mid July: Have an inch of curly salt-pepper hair vs straight blondish-white of before. Officially retire the wig.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Pretty places I have been to

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