This is a diary of my breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. I've been adding it in reverse order so the most recent information is at the top.

Thanks for the cards, e-mails and flowers. I do appreciate being in your thoughts and hearts and prayers.

Nancy

June 1, 2007

This week we have been in Truckee (going back to Kona on Monday). I am finally feeling like I have some energy after the bout of strep and bronchitis. My sisters Jo and Mary were here and they got me up and walking in the woods. It was a little tough to breathe in the dry air at altitude but I think it helped clear out the remaining gunk. I wonder if that DanActive stuff they advertise on TV really does anything for the immune system. Mine could use a boost.

I wasn't expecting this, but I'm starting to get restless and want to do some programming work. I've sent out a couple emails to my "network" and even returned a phone call I got from a recruiter at Google. We're now playing phone tag.

I started working on redoing our farm web site with a whole new shopping cart system. I figured out the rudiments so far and it has been good to use my brain. I wish I were more artistic. "Chemo brain" is getting better and that I attribute to reading a lot and to doing sudoku puzzles. For quite a while there I had trouble calling up words, even simple ones, though I'm told this could just be age :-) I haven't had the problems like that much lately and hope it is because I finished treatments over two months ago now.

Jo is doing better than I am at training for the marathon in December, but I'm back to walking. My support group friends have talked me into trying tai chi with them. The first time I will be back in Kona and able to go is Wednesday. It's something I've thought about trying for a long time and they are giving me the nudge I needed.

The weather in Truckee has been beautiful in the low 70s and sunny. It is very very dry since they had a low snow year so fire danger is a concern. It seems more like August than June with lots of dust. We're having the area around the house raked and cleared for our "defensible space" since there are lots of dry pine needles and tree branches lying around. We got a little shower of rain the other afternoon but the lightning that came along with it is of concern.

Jonathan heads to Tokyo Monday and I head back to Kona where Tom is farm sitting. He and I will have a few days there before he has to head home.

Stage: IIb DX date: 10/13/05 IDC 2.1 cm. multifocal, Her2+++, ER-/PR-, grade 3, 2 of 6 nodes pos Treatment/dates: lumpectomy 10/18/05, re-excision 11/10/05, DD EC 12/05/05-1/17/06, 33 rads 01/31/06-03/17/06, weekly Taxol/Herceptin 04/04/06-6/27/06, Herceptin only starting 07/06 to be completed 03/07

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