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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
day 1vofvchemo
Today i had my first day of chemotherapy. So much to learn! Sleepy now....will tell more in part 2 tomorrow
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Day The News Came
I kind of suspected something...lump in the left breast...breast warm to the touch...im not feeling spunky as usual....Each doctor that I saw all told me the same thing..."Ms. Austin you have a lump in your breast and you need to have it removed".
Finally getting a date at Arrowhead Regional Hospital after a year the doctor ordered a biopsy. On September 19 I was asked to return to the hospital to discuss an abnormal result of the biopsy.
I went to the hospital alone...I knew already it was Cancer...I had the feeling... the doctor walked in and looked at me with this cold glaring expression and said you have breast cancer. Not only that you have an agressive type...inflammatory breast cancer. We will set you up with appts to run other tests and to start therapy because the tumor is too large to operate at this time.
My heart sunk. I wanted it out of me. I was tired of living with this thing that I eventually called my little buddy.
From that day on my mailbox has been packed with appointments to the hospital. But that was not the problem. The problem was how was I going to get back and forth to the hospital to these appts that sometimes ran back to back daily!
Time for a little history...
Due to my health conditions and my medical problems I am unable to work. Therefore I dont have insurance. No hospital will do the surgery without money. Living in the high desert of California there are no county hospitals around for at least 80 miles. The closest was Arrowhead. But even they didnt want to start on me without me applying for their low income program which I did twice.
Now that the cancer has gotten to this stage I was given full medical bebefits! Wow...a little late huh? But better late than never.
My oldest son was my source of transporetation but because of his work schedule I needed to find rides which became increasingly difficult when the appts started running back to back. Not only that paying for rides became ridiculas.
My sister and I put our heads together and came up with a plan. I would come down to her house and spend the week there going to my appts from her house which is about 20 minutes away from the hospital. What a blessing!
I contacted American Cancer Society to see if they had transportation available but instead they offered something even better. Mileage reimbursement. This helped alot.
So today I go back down to Moreno Valley to spend the week with my sister. Tomorrow i have a bone scan and my first chemo treatment. Thursday they put a pump in my chest for the chemo and friday i have an ECG. Geez...so much to do...
Tomorrow I will be back to tell you about the chemo treatment....until then stay blessed!
Finally getting a date at Arrowhead Regional Hospital after a year the doctor ordered a biopsy. On September 19 I was asked to return to the hospital to discuss an abnormal result of the biopsy.
I went to the hospital alone...I knew already it was Cancer...I had the feeling... the doctor walked in and looked at me with this cold glaring expression and said you have breast cancer. Not only that you have an agressive type...inflammatory breast cancer. We will set you up with appts to run other tests and to start therapy because the tumor is too large to operate at this time.
My heart sunk. I wanted it out of me. I was tired of living with this thing that I eventually called my little buddy.
From that day on my mailbox has been packed with appointments to the hospital. But that was not the problem. The problem was how was I going to get back and forth to the hospital to these appts that sometimes ran back to back daily!
Time for a little history...
Due to my health conditions and my medical problems I am unable to work. Therefore I dont have insurance. No hospital will do the surgery without money. Living in the high desert of California there are no county hospitals around for at least 80 miles. The closest was Arrowhead. But even they didnt want to start on me without me applying for their low income program which I did twice.
Now that the cancer has gotten to this stage I was given full medical bebefits! Wow...a little late huh? But better late than never.
My oldest son was my source of transporetation but because of his work schedule I needed to find rides which became increasingly difficult when the appts started running back to back. Not only that paying for rides became ridiculas.
My sister and I put our heads together and came up with a plan. I would come down to her house and spend the week there going to my appts from her house which is about 20 minutes away from the hospital. What a blessing!
I contacted American Cancer Society to see if they had transportation available but instead they offered something even better. Mileage reimbursement. This helped alot.
So today I go back down to Moreno Valley to spend the week with my sister. Tomorrow i have a bone scan and my first chemo treatment. Thursday they put a pump in my chest for the chemo and friday i have an ECG. Geez...so much to do...
Tomorrow I will be back to tell you about the chemo treatment....until then stay blessed!
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