The Appointments
At some point, I stopped keeping track. I don’t know why I just couldn’t stand to see it all in writing anymore. Every month now goes something like this, “do we have chemo this week?”, “no, I feel like we just had it.”, “are you going to check your portal?”, “maybe tomorrow”. Every three or four months, I still have scans and an echo (due to the Herceptin), and our conversations are similar but for a very different reason. We can’t stand the stress of knowing exactly when the scans are until it gets as close as possible. The increased stress and lack of sleep is something we like to hold off as long as possible.
Nov 21st -3D mammogram & sonogram
Dec 5th - biopsies
Dec 7th - diagnosis (biopsy results- one involved lymph node, possibly two, three locations IDC, stage 2B, Triple positive, Two locations of IDCIS)
Dec 10th - breast surgeon interview
Dec 13th - PET & Breast MRI
Dec 14th - Brain MRI
Dec 18th - port placement
Dec 19th - radiation onco & med onco meet (PET results -(Stage IV, grade 3, ER/PR positive, left breast, 5-8 tumors & micro calcifications, HER2+ metastatic, Invasive Ductular Carcinoma with lymph node (3-4), liver & bone (right hip, C5-6, T9, T11, T12)involvement.
Dec 20th - EKG
Dec 24th - spinal and cervical MRIs
Jan 2nd - liver biopsy
Jan 3rd - orthopedic oncologist
Jan 7th - meeting with med onco, blood work
Jan 8th - 1st infusion (TCHP)
Jan 14th - first Zometa
Jan 17th - genetics draw
Jan 16th - surgical follow up on port (markers down)
Jan 22nd, 23rd & 24th - radiation of T9
Jan 28th - med onco (Breast tumors and lumps nodes markers gone)
Jan 29th - 2nd infusion (TCHP)
Feb 2nd - fluids, Chest X-ray, labs, cultures
Feb 4th - fluids infusion
Feb 12th - fluids infusion
Feb 18th - med oncologist pre-infusion & labs (get order)
Feb 19th - Third infusion (TCHP)
March 1st - 2nd Zometa
March 4th - full CT
March 5th - breast sonogram
March 7th - double MRIs -thoracic & cervical
March 11th - med oncologist pre-infusion appt
lab work
March 12th - 4th infusion (TCHP)
April 1st - Echo #2
April 2nd - 5th infusion
April 5th - hydration
April 12th - 3rd Zometa infusion
April 22nd - labs & medical oncologist
April 23rd - 6th & final TCHP infusion (delayed)
April 30th - 6th TCHP
May 2nd - Fluids
May 3rd - EKG
May 14th - PET scan (NED)
May 20th - Medical oncologist
May 20th - Nuclear Stress Test & Echo
May 21st - H&P & Zometa infusion
May 28th - Breast ultrasound (NED) & brain MRI (NED)
June 3rd - triple MRI, thoracic, cervical and liver (discovered T5) rest NED
June 5th - Radiation Oncologist follow up
June 6th - Cardio follow up (no issues)
June 10th - Ortho onco follow up
June 11th - Med onco follow up
June 11th - Herceptin & Perjeta infusion & Zoledex injection
June 26th - Gyn surgical consult at MDA
June 27th - gyn surgical consult at UF
July 1st - pre-op Ultrasound & labs
July 2nd - Herceptin, Perjeta & Zometa
July 8th - Med Onco appt. & Zoledex injection
July 17th - breast oncologist appt.
July 22nd - labs
July 23rd - Med Onco follow up, Herceptin and Perjeta infusion
August 5th - Zoladex injection (final, 3 of 3)
August 13th - Herceptin, Perjeta & Zometa infusion
August 23 pre-op appointments
August 29th - surgery - full hysterectomy and bilateral salpingectomy-oophorectomy
September 2nd - labs
September 3rd -appt. with med onco., Herceptin & Perjeta only infusion
September 6th - mammogram, breast MRI, sonogram
September 11th - Dr. Buckley surgical follow up
