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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Breast Cancer / February 2008Last visit to surgeon's clinic
was yesterday. After ten years I'm being kicked out :-) It's a wrench, I enjoyed building relationships with the nurses and consultants and when I saw the man who removed my cancer it was always a special pleasure. In April I go for the last visit to the medical oncologist's clinic. That will be sad too. End of an era. But I did remember to ask the consultant about my cancer, I've always forgotten before. Just for the record it was: invasive ductal carcinoma grade 2 there was also a very small amount of low grade ductal carcinoma in situ which (apparently) is normal round breast cancers. seventeen lymph nodes were removed, no evidence of cancer in any. But I think I'll still hang around here :-) Mary >was yesterday. After ten years I'm being kicked out :-) > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >In April I go for the last visit to the medical oncologist's clinic. That >will be sad too. End of an era. Fantastic. But I know what you mean about the end of an era. For me it has been five years and I was able to stop taking Arimidex on New Years Day. Like letting go of a life preserver. Anyway, I'm part of the Arimidex study so I go for a checkup once a year, but that is just a breast exam and some chit chat about calcium. It is at a major cancer center in another city and sitting in the waiting room for a couple of hours is always a reminder of how lucky I am. I've been away for almost nine months because my mother was run over by an SUV. First the hospital, then therapy, and then a nursing home and closing her apartment. I could read here but was too exhausted and distracted to post. The nursing home is wonderful, clean and friendly and homelike, and my mother has progressed from a wheelchair to a walker to walking on her own. Even her brain damage is somewhat better. So I've been able to move back home. There is nothing like having your own stuff around you! Marilyn Congratulations, Mary! My oncologist kept me twenty years, and I thought I would always have a yearly exam with him. It was wonderful to be released, but also a bit of a shock. My gratitude to my "team"continues, so that I send a Christmas greeting still. Here's to still being "around"!! I hope we have no need for their professional services ever again! Barb > Congratulations, Mary! My oncologist kept me twenty years, and I thought > I would always have a yearly exam with him. It was wonderful to be > released, but also a bit of a shock. My gratitude to my "team"continues, > so that I send a Christmas greeting still. Indeed. I think of them every day. > Here's to still being "around"!! I hope we have no need for their > professional services ever again! > > Barb I'll drink to that! But I still love them :-) Mary > was yesterday. After ten years I'm being kicked out :-) > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Mary I'm glad for you! Congratulations!! BIG, BIG HUG!!!!!!!!!!! >> was yesterday. After ten years I'm being kicked out :-) I was kicked out earlier this year. After a much shorter time (2 1/2 years) >> It's a wrench, I enjoyed building relationships with the nurses >> and consultants and when I saw the man who removed my cancer it >> was always a special pleasure. >> >> In April I go for the last visit to the medical oncologist's >> clinic. That will be sad too. End of an era. I am with the medical oncologist till I come off Arimidex, in two or three years' time.  Signature"It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." Rear Admiral "Amazing" Grace Hopper >>> was yesterday. After ten years I'm being kicked out :-) > > I was kicked out earlier this year. After a much shorter time (2 1/2 > years) I was ten years because I was on a research programme. I understand that three years is more normal now. > I am with the medical oncologist till I come off Arimidex, in two or > three years' time. I took pills (don't know what) for five years. Mary me too, I hope, last visit today, just three hours ago. Mine too was IDC but grade 1, a centimeter. I had lobal too, in a different spot. My surgeon wants me to come back but I don't intend to....by the time the implant needs replacing, he'll be retired and I'll have to find someone else. I won't miss ANYONE or anything there!!! The woman who removed my cancer...I hope NEVER to see her again, ever! Seventeen lymph nodes!? Why did they take so many? That many lit up??? poor you! I was upset my surgeon took four because she promised only two (I was so afraid of lymphedema!).....all clear, no chemo or radiation.... I have a long relationship with the oncologist still, I guess. > was yesterday. After ten years I'm being kicked out :-) > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Mary > me too, I hope, last visit today, just three hours ago. Mine too was IDC > but grade 1, a centimeter. I had lobal too, in a different spot. My [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > cancer...I hope NEVER to see her again, ever! Seventeen lymph nodes!? Why > did they take so many? That many lit up??? None of them lit up but I suspect it was part of the research program. I was puzzled and upset at first but trusted the surgeon - a lovely man who is respected by patients and staff alike. I'm sorry when I go to his clinic and see someone else :-) > poor you! I was upset my surgeon took four because she promised only two > (I was so afraid of lymphedema!).....all clear, no chemo or radiation.... I had little touches of lymphoedema but nothing to worry about, it didn't cause me any trouble. I was injured on the affected arm very soon afterwards, fell on gravel in a reconstructed mediaeval village where goats, pigs and poultry did roam freely - depositing what they deposit. The tender skin on the inside of my forearm was scraped and bled but there were no ill effects, I had no idea where the nearest A&E was so trusted that my own good health would take care of it. It did :-) And I have full mobility in the arm - because I did the exercises I suppose. I had no chemo - too old I suppose - but radiation which didn't make me tired as I was assured it would. I still haven't started on the list of Things To Do While Sitting Down :-) If I was asked to go back I would. I CAN go back if I'm worried about anything and I'll continue having mammos despite my age. We're very lucky, living in an age where such treatment is available. Mary My best wishes to you Mary on a ten year milestone. Now funny enough, I saw my oncologist for the last time yesterday.(five years gone like a flash). I let her know that her initial words to me of encouragment and positivity made such an impression on me and stayed with me through those worrying years. Hey, we're both celerbrating !! Kathleen > me too, I hope, last visit today, just three hours ago. Mine too was IDC > but grade 1, a centimeter. I had lobal too, in a different spot. My [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> >> Mary > My best wishes to you Mary on a ten year milestone. Thank you. Trouble is, Life is so full of an ever increasing number of milestones that it's getting hard to remember them all :-) > Now funny enough, I saw my oncologist for the last time yesterday.(five > years gone like a flash). [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Hey, we're both celerbrating !! > Kathleen Keep on doing it :-) Mary |
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