Triple positive, just found out!
ER 3+/PR 1+/HER 3 +! Still trying to get over the shock! Met with the Nurse Navigator today and got the results.. Am scheduled with the surgeon for April 20 and the nurse is trying to schedule an MRI for next week and see about moving the surgical appointment up. Sounds like Chemo before surgery (the tumor is sitting on the chest wall). I am supposed to leave April 4 for 10 days to visit my new grandbaby and now it all seems up in the air! I would love some encouragement if anyone has some! I am having my husband handle telling anyone who needs to know! I have an identical twin and she will be the hardest to tell (we are supposed to have an early birthday lunch next week)!
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@livinglong we know this is all very overwhelming, given all the other events taking place in your family right now… take a deep breath, one step at a time. If you do go in for an MRI this week, let's see what those scans say, and then take it from there. Sending you gentle hugs. This waiting for the unknown is one of the hardest aspects of this journey. We hope others who've been through similar circumstances can share their experiences and chime in for some encouragement.
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Thank you! I am just so torn about delaying any appointments and know if we don't take this trip now treatments will it probably won't be possible for the year! I know this is an aggressive diagnosis just not sure about the urgency and if 2 weeks would make a difference.
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When I was diagnosed triple positive in April of 2022 we had to cancel our daughter's HS graduation trip because I had to start chemo. We ended up going on the trip a year later, and for a variety of reasons (not cancer related) it ended up being a far better trip than it would have been originally. It's not the same thing as seeing a new baby, though. The important thing to remember is that you want to be there to see this baby for many, many years in the future. They won't remember that you didn't see them when they were a baby, but they'll remember all the times you were there when they were older.
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