Biopsy Results

The results are in - the nipple is cancerous.

That means that I start chemo tomorrow. I'll be on a cocktail that is different than what I was on before so it's likely that I won't lose my hair and it should be, in general, much easier to tolerate. This is a regime that they sometimes keep people on for a year or more. Whoa.

Logically this shouldn't be significantly worse than the spread that I already knew about to distant lymph nodes but it's really hard to have more added on so quickly after being diagnosed. Emotions aren't always logical.

The doctor is happy that she has some tissue that will be easy to monitor to see how I respond to treatments and is also glad that she could get a biopsy because it would have been very difficult to biopsy the lymph nodes in my sternum. I love how she gave me the hard news and then very quickly shifted to get down to the business of treatment. She promised that I'll feel better within a month.

I went to dance class last night and it felt good to move my body. We'll be doing a flashmob this weekend at Multnomah Falls, which I am really looking forward to.