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I have to start out by saying, any and all help will be greatly appreciated but this is a hard step to take (asking for help). In some ways, it's an even a harder step to take than the steps I need to take to save my life. But I'm swallowing my pride!
My story starts on November 2, 2013, when Karl found a lump in my right breast. Of course I scheduled an appointment with my primary who in turn ordered a mammogram.
At that time, we thought there was only the one spot. However, the mammogram revealed that there were 4 (2 at 9 o'clock, 10 and 12 o'clock).
Then I got a call for an ultrasound to confirm what the mammogram found. However, the ultrasound revealed that there were the 4 spots in my breast but that there was indications of something in my lymph-nodes.
When I left, I left with orders to return the next day for an ultrasound biopsy.
The next day, I went in and they removed 8 core samples (5 from 2 spots in my breast and 3 from the spot in my lymph-nodes).
The following week (December 10, 2013) I got the results that I have State 1 and Stage 2 invasive Breast Cancer.
On January 8, 2014, I had a single Mastectomy with some lymphnodes removed. Even though surgery was 3 1/2 hours long, all went very well and the doctor feels they got everything..
My pathology report came back a week later and the final diagnosis is "t2n2mx Stage 3 Breast Cancer". There were two tumers in my breast (one was 1 1/2" long and the other about 3/4" long) and out of the 12 lymphnodes they removed, there was cancer in 5 of them.
Chemo is scheduled to begin on February 28, 2014 with the first cycle of two drugs every 3 weeks for 4 sessions and the next drug will be administered every week for 12 weeks.. After that I will have radiation but I don't have details on that yet.
I'm sure it goes without saying, but we have already began to struggle with money as I have not worked since January and as of right now, any work I can do will be very limited.
Ok - so that's it in a nut shell...
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