Ok, I'll spill. I was up late getting stuff together for the Church's Fall Festival Silent Auction this weekend. I am sending one full apron, one Topsy Towel and one frilly 1/2 apron. Now it's after midnight so, it's the morning.
This is going to be a long one....
Before the Good News...
First some background.....Ya'll know I was diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer(a rare and VERY Aggressive form of BC).
Ya'll may or may not know that I am Stage 4. It has gone to my lymph nodes, neck, liver and bones.
Needless to say my doctor visits haven't had much good news....the only course of treatment would/will be Chemo to try keep it spreading more places.
There wouldn't be any surgery or anything like that...just, "as much Chemo as my body can take for as long as it takes". The RadOnc would/will radiate the spots on my bones to keep them from fracture but, she said I probably would never get to the radiation stage of treatment because it is a "quality of life' issue after having been through so much chemo.
The Med Onc was hoping that from the biopsies they might find a protein that would make me a candidate for a 'smart bomb' drug called Herceptin. This drug zeros in on only the cancer cells, kills them and keeps the cancer from coming back. They refer to it as "The Angel Drug" .
For the last 4 weeks or so pathology has been trying to locate a protein and all the tests have come back "too complicated". They didn't want to do more biopsies for fear of infection.
My Med Onc, RadOnc and others pressured pathology to keep at it. They were truly desperate-so were we.
My MedOnc was going to WDW for vacation last week and told me before she left, "I won't leave one stone unturned" (poor thing, she tears up every time she sees me because she is a mom too).
Well, I got a call from my MedOnc, she said she forced Pathology to unstain my biopsies and try again and she was going to stand over them while they did it.
The Good News......
Keep those thoughts for me. There is a 50% success rate with this drug...I know it doesn't sound like much but, when you are in my position, 50% sounds good.
I think I might have some good news for ya'll...well, it's more good news for me but, I think ya'll might have had something to do with it. It will take awhile to explain so I will post in the morning.
The treatment is for 52 weeks along with all the other chemo drugs-I'll have all those details Monday. 
) I told ya girl...we're going to see you on Good Morning America or Dateline or some show where we will see you having overcome the odds. 
. I'm just sayin' 
