Start from the beginning.....

Well let's do some quick review to catch everyone up to speed. This journey of mine began almost a year ago. I found a lump in my right arm pit region while making "chicken wings" with Jane. After my OB/GYN confirmed the lump, a monogram, ultrasound and core biopsy confirmed the lump. My Cancer was official on Monday August 29th, 2005. The race then began.... I have "invasive ductile carcinoma" in my right breast, it is "highly differentiated". It has spread to my lymph nodes. (#uncertain) but cancer has not shown up elsewhere through the tests. All my receptor nods are negative do hormone treatment is not an option for me. I am receiving 6 treatments of chemotherapy first, once every three weeks. (TAC Taxotere, Adriamycin, and Cytoxan.) . So Chemo began and it sucked! But it shrunk the lump( originally 3.2 down to 2.6 cm). Surgery took place Feb 16th 2006. They removed a lump of 4 cm (yikes!) 33 lymph nodes, 3 of which were found cancerous. Then it was 35 treatments of radiation. A daily routine. I survived with slight burn or decoloration under my arm pit. No worries. Then due to growth factor and # of lymph nodes removed I was going to finish up treatment on an oral chemo (pill form) called Xeloda. There was a 3 week cycle: 2 weeks on, one week off, for 6 months. That was plan A...