Actually this would have been officially my first day back at work after maternity leave and instead I have chemo number 1 – ohhh, I am nervous! I have a large müsli (ask they told me I should), drink a lot of ginger water (as Elke recommended), pack snacks, the Headspace meditation app activate3d (as …
Category Archives: Chemo
11 September 2017
Markus is off to Cincinnati for 4 days, but Mom will be here, as I will be radioactive and should not go near the kids the next day….ahhh….Today I should find my way to the pioh center, where the oncologist, Dr. Reiser, meets me for a first chat before the chemo – I was still …
5 September 2017
Holweide – what a welcoming site… NOT! I feel like I accidently ended up at some rehab center judging by the scary figures, who stand outside smoking. Well, inside they are actually really nice. I have to do all the paperwork, then go to the cancer station B5 to have a talk about all that …
4 September 2017
The rest of the pathologic results are there – the tumor is a little bit hormone receptive, which is good, but a little bit more would be better (ER-ICA almost 10%, PgR-ICA 5%, HER2-neu 0%) and the amount of cells, which divide themselves arbeiten any time is 80% – WOW that is what I call …
31 August 2017
It is my cousin Sylvie‘s daughter Jule‘s 1st day in school! I join the ceremony and rush to mammography before the lunch with the family! Even before the mammography, Kindergarten call us that I need to pick up Leo, as he has some little pox! Well i am at the doctor‘s and need a while… …
29 August 2017
Lea is looking after the kids and I rush to Prof. Dr. Breidenbach. She tells me that she will do a punch biopsy, where a needle takes 5 samples out of the lump and that I will get the results two days later. While looking at the ultrasound, I tell her that I just stopped …