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In September 2020 while moving our daughter to college discovered a dimple in my left breast immediately went in and had an ultrasound to discover I had a 1.5 tumor! Next step I made an appointment to get a port put in. Two weeks of heal time – now I was onto the red devil cocktail. Six rounds of four strong Chemotherapy dark days ahead, losing my hair & appetite, but on the good days, I learned how to garden and be outside having to use gloves because no bacteria could get underneath my nails. I still ended up getting neuropathy very bad in my fingers and feet.
Now it’s March 5, 2021 – double mastectomy and the start of a reconstruction. I woke up to find out that I had some dying breast tissue. I was released from the hospital to immediately go into hyper bariatric chamber dives. We were doing two dives per day. We saved the breast tissue, but I also got the news that I had some lymph nodes that lit up, so now it’s back to 14 more rounds of chemo therapy and I lost my reconstruction. So we put the nipples in a cave and I wore prosthetic boobs for the next few years and I also had to have a second port put in the scar tissue. Was no fun to put back in.
My body handled 13 out of the 14 rounds before it couldn’t take any more chemo – my white red blood cells were off the charts lots of liver damage!
Today I have healed and thanks to doctor Maximilian Malotky I now have my breast back with my own tissue and a shark Cartlidge. I’m getting my health back with each day and I’m grateful that my daughter got her Bachelors degree and that I didn’t have to miss one moment of raising her or missing anyone of her soccer games!
I’m OK to call myself a putter as long as I’m getting better with each day!