Showing posts with label breast cancer. chemo. embroidered tp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breast cancer. chemo. embroidered tp. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Yesterday was just another day at Sarah Cannon


I have breast cancer, I was diagnosed March 2003 with Stage 4 Her2+++ Breast cancer. Had my first chemo on March 28th, and stopped those meds the end of July that year. I think my longest remission was 18 months. I have been on some kind of chemo on & off since then, I have had one surgery throughout all of this, and that was a tad over a year ago, when I had a large mass removed which used to be lymph nodes under my right arm, To say the least, I had to spend 5 days in the hospital after that day surgery. Within 2 1/2 months, I had a new 5-6 cm mass in the same area, along with the whole front of my chest lighting up like a Christmas tree. I was on different chemos starting last Aug. Seems like nothing was really doing the trick this time. In April. mydoc sent me to Sarah Cannon in Nashville. I have been on a trial every since.

Every 3 weeks I go to Sarah Cannon for tests, as well as a treatment. I am usually there all day, while the treatment lasts 3 hours. So, a L-O-N-G day! My husband, Mike, usually goes with me, which makes life a bit easier.

A few years ago, while I was looking through some sites, I found out that you could embroider on TP! Now, I could never have figured that one out on my own, but I did find out, and todays picture is of just that, a monogrammed tp! I have a friend in LA, and I sent her some tp with a leaf of poison ivy embroidered on it...kind of an inside joke, I had told her all we had for tp in the backwoods of Tennessee was poison ivy. I have a listing in my ebay store with 3 different designs. Take a peek!
Dede's Designs A Time To Sew

Pax Christi!