Doctors' Report

Yesterday we met with my surgeon, Dr. Bryden (the best surgeon in the world in my opinion). She examined me and told me that it wasn't necessary to have another mastectomy for medical reasons on my left side, but I could if I wished to, for personal reasons. We will talk about it again next year. She is more concerned with it coming back on the mastectomy side, as I had so many lymph nodes involved with cancer in them. But she said I have good follow-up and if anything was found they would deal with it. And I still have a lot of pain in that area. She said it was because of the radiation. Nothing will be found, amen?

Anyhow, she was pleased. I was pleased. She said that I am on Arimidex and to stay on it; that she went to a conference on estrogen inhibitors and that the people told them to help women stay on these drugs for the five years and to treat the side effects rather than allowing them to quit the drug. I have to keep reminding myself that I am on a drug for breast cancer, and also remind myself that I have GOD on my side -- the God factor, I call it. Doctors are so brutally honest, aren't they? She told me of one patient who had cancer in 15 lymph nodes and was coming to her for 10 years, when she finally told her to stop coming to see her. Pray that it NEVER comes back. NEVER AGAIN. I think I've heard that slogan before, and how fitting, since it is Remembrance Day in two days.

Tomorrow was my diagnosis date, two years ago -- Nov. 10, 2008. I had a hard time flipping the calendar over to the month of November and didn't do it til yesterday, after realizing that I needed to get over that 'fear' and flip the flippin' calendar to November. I love November, yes I do. And I thank God for November -- especially this November! I'm alive and well. And by God's good graces, I will be alive and well for a very long time, considering I'm going to live to 120 years of age. (LOL)