I don't want to jinx myself, cuz you know how I feel about that...everytime I say something is good news sometimes turns around on me, so I want to be careful....maybe that's called superstition? Who knows. I do know that when speaking with my oncologist yesterday they "think" and are "pretty sure" they got the cancer that was inside of me. So I am considering that remission and I am going to call myself cancer free...please no jinx!!!!
Since I have TNBC (triple negative breast cancer) I do not respond to any long term drugs such as hormone therapy or tamoxafin. Chemo and radiation are the only things that work on my type of breast cancer. Those with hormone positive receptors can continue their treatment past chemo and radiation. They take a pill that can keep treating them. I cannot do chemo for the next 5 years (and thank goodness!) But since we zapped everything and I had the mastectomy the oncologist feels that we have done well on getting rid of the cancer....hopefully for good! I am petrified it will come back...not going to lie to you. But I can't live my life scared to death of it, so I have to just put it out of my mind. I am on the last home stretch and cannot wait to be done and live like a normal person....even though I was never really normal before.
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