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Tomorrow is chemo round 3 of 6! So before that starts and I go through several more days of being tired, I thought I would give a bit of an update. Round 1 was relatively smooth. I have responded well to treatment. It makes me tired and makes my tummy rumble in unpleasant ways, but that’s the worst of it. Shortly after round 1, I did a PET scan and that confirmed that there is no other cancer present anywhere else in my body. So that is fabulous news! I rebounded well after round 1 and had good energy for...

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I hung up the phone in pure shock and disbelief. November 28th, 2023 is a day that will forever live burned in my memory. The doctor called late in the afternoon as I was getting my daughter ready to go to dance class. This was the type of call they didn't like making, the news they didn't want to deliver. The biopsy came back and I was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the coming days, I would learn the tumor was estrogen positive, progesterone positive, and Her2 positive also; and it looked like it had spread already to my lymph...

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