SUE'S ESCAPE FROM CANCERLAND: Birthday Pawty

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Birthday Pawty

The birthday girl and aunt

Everything had a dog theme

Cupcakes on fire hydrant holder had paw prints or bones decorating them

More decorations. Later kids played put the bone in the dog's mouth

All kids got puppy ears to wear

Birthday girl with her parents

3 comments:

Elephant's Child said...: Very, very cute. And I love those puppy ears...; September 27, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Kat&Chris said...: You have a beautiful family!; September 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM
Sue in Italia/In the Land Of Cancer said...: Thanks Kathy. Heard about your visitor from Ann Arbor. I would love to visit at some point too.; September 28, 2014 at 5:18 PM

About me

I am a mother of 3, wife of 1, and grandmother of 6. For years, I had been a medicinal chemist. Not long after I was retired early, I found myself with triple negative breast cancer. My struggles with it are in this blog along with the joys and trials of being a mother and grandmother. I love to be physically active, travel, read, and garden. Although my degrees are in chemistry and cellular biology not medicine, I keep up with the medical literature and report herein watching closely for good news against this deadly disease. As time goes on, my stay in Cancerland has become more a bad memory than a reality. This blog has since morphed into a photo blog in which I try to capture moments of beauty in my life.

TIMELINE

9-10-08: 1.6 cm tumor discovered by routine mammogram confirmed by ultrasound

9-21-08: Biopsy confirming Grade 3, triple negative invasive breast cancer

10-7-08: First surgery and sentinel node biopsy.

10-9-08: Tumor had grown to 3 cm plus an additional tumor was found. Poor margins but the 3 sentinel nodes were negative

10-16-08: Follow-up mammograms: lots of microcalcifications that could be DCIS

10-29-08: Second surgery removing 3x the tissue as the first: Good news: no sign of cancer in any of it.

12-2-08: First dose dense treatment with Adriamycin and Cytoxan followed by Neulasta the next day

12-16-08: Second dose

12-19-08: Hair began falling out. In 2 days I would be completely bald.

12-30-08: Third dose

1-13-09: Fourth dose

1-27-09: First of 4 doses of Taxol

3-10-09: Last dose of Taxol

3-31-09: First of 16 radiation treatments (so-called hypofractionated Canadian study)

4-21-09: Last radiation treatment

Early May: All eyelashes and eyebrows suddenly fall out but see evidence of stubble on head

Mid July: Have an inch of curly salt-pepper hair vs straight blondish-white of before. Officially retire the wig.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Birthday Pawty

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