Our dear sweet Melodee passed away last night after a 10 year battle with cancer! We will be having a celebration of life on Saturday 12/10 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Hobbs at 11:00 am mountain standard time.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
One Last Party - CANCER SUCKS!
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Detour
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Enhertu #26
We had some snacks and chicken fajitas for lunch, and then it was time to head out and accomplish the 4th goal of the day--dropping off donations that we've been collecting for the month and challenging each other to do more to win a lunch from the losing side. Dana has BY FAR been the winner for October. The next infusion is mid-November. We'll see if I can tie it up!
ps. The Covid booster I had on Monday really knocked me out yesterday. Feeling much better today.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Here Comes the Sun
Monday, October 17, 2022
A Fresh Biopsy
Thursday, October 13, 2022
The GOAT + Dr. Tafur + PET Scan Results + Fluids
In these weeks of waiting and healing and baby stepping my way back into the real world of life, I had an amazing experience. My favorite oncologist of all time, the GOAT, as far as I'm concerned, had me on her mind. This amazing human, Dr. Fleener, from my cancer past, reached out to me to give me some of her thoughts. We spoke on the phone for nearly an hour, something that helped me greatly in my recovery.
Dr. Fleener gave me so much joy on being able to share my experiences with whole brain radiation and give this other patient (one with a very similar diagnosis to mine) the courage to move forward. She is now doing well, where before talking with me, she was so unsure and wanting to avoid it. One of my main goals in this journey is to continue to live for information for future patients like me.
This HER2+ is still fairly new. In 2006-2007 days, this diagnosis was a death sentence because there were no treatment options. If you pay attention to adds promoting drugs that extend the lives of metastatic breast cancer patients these days, all of them say "for HER2- patients." It's important to me to be a patient that lives and leaves information for the future care of patients like me.
This news about helping another patient now was a great blessing to me. It gave me so much joy that I teared up.
Dr. Fleener asked questions and gave me her thoughts:
I should have an updated biopsy on my tumors to check for new genetic mutations which might open up possible new treatments. I could also go back to a former treatment that I never finished because I hated it, but lower the dosage and add Herceptin again.
The call was uplifting, strengthening, and secured her always and even more as The GOAT oncologist.
My BP and heart rate had been quite a bit off today, so I did have an infusion of fluids, and I'm feeling so grateful for answers to prayers and so many positive plans on my behalf.
I'm so ready to keep taking the baby steps to get to the next thing in this journey!
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Enhertu #25 + Zometa #20 + ECHO