My Cancer Journey: The Beginning
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2018
- On December 22nd 2017 I got my diagnosis for Breast Cancer and I've decided to make video diaries of my journey! Here's part one and a little background info about me and my cancer!
I also post daily stories on my Instagram:
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I was officially diagnosed with stage 4liver metistatic terminal cancer and stage 1 endometrial cancer on December 21st 2018, I just turned 36 and I'm very glad I found your channel and have been watching all your videos, I like you was so angry at the beginning because it took from June to December to finally get an answer to my health problems
Twilight Willow how horrible for you!! Wishing you all the best with your treatments x
Thank you for sharing your story. Recently diagnosed and I appreciate all the information and personal experience out there.
I have stage 2 lobular cancer with it in my nodes too, previously had distal cancer 6 years ago bit different this time. Surgery first mastectomy and reduction on right side. For symmetry then chemotherapy and radiotherapy 9 months out of work. I love your sense of humour and whole way of dealing with it with courage I could never do these diaries but glad you are. Thank you from a 65 year old grandma from UK ❤❤❤xxxx
Thank you for making this. I've watched some of your videos already and they've been very helpful with your positve attitude and honest experience. I was diagnosed January 14th2022. I discovered the lump on 12/30/21 ( my 61st birthday) and had it confirmed by touch on December 31st 2021. Immediately scheduled the diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound for January 12th. The radiologist read the ultrasound immediately and said I need biopsies that day as he would be surprised if they were not both cancer. One is in the breast and the other the node. Both the same side.. it is invasive ductal carcinoma stage 2 estrogen-positive with lymph node involvement. I just finished the AC part and start taxol next week. My journey is going to be same as yours with chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, hormone therapy. Both tumors have shrunk 50% after finishing the first part of chemo. They were 3 cm each to begin with.
Chemo has been hard and I'm worried now how it will be with taxol. I'm glad it's doing its job and reducing the size. Your videos give me hope. As I continue on this journey I plan to watch them. I'm glad things are going well for you now. I hope and pray that my journey is successful. Thank you again for sharing your experience
Great video! Thank you once again, I will be following your videos because you are good at explaining what is going on when you have breast cancer.
Thank you so much for putting up the videos . It helped me so much to understand how to help my partner who is going through lung cancer.
I find it ridiculous that drs place so much weight on age and family history for breast cancer. Breast cancer in younger women is becoming more common and is usually very aggressive. Researchers aren’t sure why more young women are getting it, but they are. Also, 85-90% if all breast cancer is in women with no family history so why do you have to have a family history for drs to take us seriously?
It's true that cancer in younger women is becoming more and more common nowadays. However in my case, it's not that women with family history being taken more seriously than the one who don't have.. But because it will have big influence on what further steps my doctors will take. If I have family history, my doctors will strongly suggest double mastectomy and recomendation to take out the ovary too. If I don't, then they will do lumptectomy or mastectomy of the infected breast. Other than that, chemotherapy, radioterapy & hormonal terapy are still being suggested if my lymp node is not clear.
Erika Macaw I so agree with you...well said..very well said...
Hello. I am so thankful you made these videos. In the next few weeks I will start with "Red Devil" and then Taxol. I have ILC and am just starting my journey. God Bless.
Thank you so much for bringing awareness to how important it is to check the breasts! I'm sorry you are going through this. You are a STRONG woman who will kick cancer in the ass! I will pray that this crappy cancer is gone really soon!
Thank you!! x
You’re so right. My mom kept insisting about a lump she had on her breast and the nurses kept brushing it off. That’s so frustrating
Hi, your story is exactly the same as mine, stage 3, and on the left side. but I have to take a pill once a day for 5 years.And I am 53, never check and also just ignored it all for a couple of months. My mastectomy is this Tuesday.
Love to you. I'm so glad I found your channel. I was just diagnosed last week and have no idea what to expect. MRI on Friday, so I look forward to getting this on the road to recovery.
LA Woman68 so sorry!! Some answers will help you figure it all out x you’ve got this 💪
LA Woman68 hope your doing well thinking of you
I'm so sorry to here that, you will be in my thoughs and prayers you seem like a very strong person and that will definitely get you tru this thank you for making the video I think it's very brave and very helpful for other women to see. X
Thank you xx
Thank you for these videos, i just subscribed. My wife was diagnosed yesterday and i'm more scared than she is.
Guapo so sorry about your news! What kind of diagnosis was she given?
Hi Dee! I am exuberantly ecstatic I found you! I am feeling better listening to your transparency on so many topics. I was just diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma HER2 negative and ER positive too. I haven’t received a staging at this point as I need some more biopsies on lymph nodes and other new sites found in both breasts next week. Fingers crossed 🤞. I am ready to get this ball rolling.
Heidi Wehry you are so positive x it’s so nice! You’ve got this XX
I just found your channel as I am facing a mammogram and ultrasound with possible biopsy tomorrow. Found a large mass in my right breast and have family history of BC.
You’re so funny and I look forward to following you!
I just seen this and I do hope and pray that you are doing well, my wife had breast cancer she is two years cancer free, thank God, it’s a long tuff journey she still gets lumps had three removed from her arm three weeks ago, wishing all with any kind of cancer well and cancer free!!!
Hi Dee what is the lovely music you play in your diaries the one where you went for a break to cork...beautiful place it is on my list. I love music and it helps me on my cancer journey and surgery tomorrow with my playlist being created so that tune will be on it. Love and hugs to you lovely lady xxxx
Been watching your videos helping to prepare myself for Chemo and it is great to get your insights, will be doing 12 rounds of Folfox with a 46 hour pump via a port. had a Colon Tumor removed with cancer in the lumph nodes. it is a scary time and having your perspective helps greatly, thank you.....Jim S from WV(USA)
Aw Jim! Wishing you the best of luck with it all!!
I'm a new subscriber, you are such a beautiful woman and your very strong, you can make it through this, my prayers are with you!! 😊💕
E C thank you!!
Sorry for your cancer, I had stage 4 colon cancer twice, did surgery, and chemo, which was hard, the 24th Dec, I found out I do have Pancreas cancer, looking to see my Oncologist this coming next week, I want you to be strong have faith in God, do you have a port, its much better then a Pic line. Make sure you get Zofran for your nausea. I took 14 months of chemo, 6 days a week. It was terminal, so I did aggressive treatment, it was hard, I was almost at my 4 yr mark, if you can get past 5 yrs your good. Many Blessings to you and yours.
Thank you for this. My journey is so similar to yours except I’m ER and PR negative HER2 positive...my Chemotherapy starts in 6 days, same cycle as yours except no hormone treatment I’ll have herceptin. I’m so scared and you inspire me....
MissTiaPet ah Tia x lovey .... best of luck!! And thank you
My mom finished her cemo last month
Enjoy your videos 👍🏻
I had Stage 3b with 8 lymph nodes that went as far as my lymph nodes in my axillary and collarbone nodes. Plus 2 that were positive, were clumped together so that raised my chances of it spreading. And like you, I was I was Highly ER/PR positive and HER2 negitive. I actually had 3 tumors in my left breast, and grouping of cells in my right breast. The tumors in my left breast were all different types of breast cancer. my largest was about 4 cm and was the one they based my stats on. It was invasive ductal carcinoma, the second and third tumors were not sized after I had my chemo, during my mastectomies. At that time one was a 1 cm invasive lobular carcinoma, and the other was a 1/2 cm ductal carcinoma in situ. I always wonder how I had all of that cancer in one breast, when I was barly a size 34aa. LOL! After my implants, I am actually bigger now. But I am still only an 34A. Anyway, you said that you had an implant injection to stop the estrogen,since you are estrogen positive. I've never heard of that before. Here in America, or at least when I was going through treatment in 2010-2012, they typically give you tamoxifen to take if you are premenopausal, or an Aromatase inhibitors for postmenopausal women. I first was given tamoxifen, because I was only 36 yrs old and of course, not ready for menopause yet. Just like you. But after 2 months, it turned out I was allergic to it. So because I was so highly estrogen-positive, and already had three children, I was offered to have a bilateral oophorectomy, and had my fallopian tubes removed, to force me into menopause. Then I was able to take the Aromatase inhibitors. And believe it to not, I beat that cancer! I do have a totally different terminal cancer now. But at least I can say that I Beat Breast Cancer! But honestly, it there was something I could have had injected into my body, to keep the production of estrogen away, instead of what I had to go through the surgeries, I would have chosen that. Maybe they didn't have that available at that time. So I am glad you that is an option now. I did also have dose dense AC/Taxol just like you. I had bilateral Mastectomy with expanders placed at the same time. Then Rads, and I tried the tamoxifen right after I stopped the chemo, before Rads. I had my bilateral oophorectomy, and had my Fallopian tubes removed 4 months after Rads ended. Then, believe it or not, I had to have my gallbladder removed sometime in there too. Then after 6 months, I had my expanders remove, and implants placed. I never had any nipple reconstruction or tatoos because I didn't want anymore surgeries. Then for the next 2 yrs was off and on different aromatase inhibitors. However, I ended up stopping them, due to the immense side effects. They are not ease! But I have always been more sensitive to medication. So most people do well on them. As for the genetic side of breast cancer? My paternal grandmother, and her daughter, my aunt, also had breast cancer. But neither me or my aunt have the genes. And on my moms side, 2 of her sisters had early stage breast cancer. and I am pretty sure one had ovarian cancer. And my mom had pre cancerous tumors on her overies when she was in her 40's, which caused her to have a hysterectomy. Plus her mother died from colon cancer. And although no genes have been detected yet, I am certain there has to be some kind of genetic factor here. I will keep you in my prayers!
Tammy Grosso wow! That is one heck of a story Tammy! You have really been through so much! I’m so sorry you had to endure those surgeries because of the Tamoxifen issues. The Zoladex injection is in addition to the hormone therapies - it “puts the ovaries to sleep”. So don’t worry - it isn’t something that could have saved you those surgeries xx
Thank you for sharing your story and for being so supportive! I am so happy to hear you beat the breast cancer - you truly are a fighter!! Your children must be very proud!
Thank you for keeping me in your thoughts x You’ll be in mine!
Great to add all the information on the cancer types, etc., that is so valuable to other women with BC., it's so hard for women like my wife, to hear of other women with it and not have any detailed info online. Great to hear you beat BC, so sorry to hear you have an unrelated stage 4 disease. All the best... life is not fair, but good luck with great quality of life and great modern treatment..!
Thank you for sharing. 🙏
Hi Dee Ive just been diagnosed with breast cancer I'm a 56 yr old guy and I have the same type (DCIS) stage 2 A
I had a biopsy last Thursday and hope to get the results on Monday or Tuesday
I was schedule to have 17 chemos on chemo 15 I began to feel a sharp pain in my breast 5 days later I felt the lump. I am schedule to have a mastectomy in 4 days; I am so confused and disturb that after going through chemo and ALL the side effects I am going back like the beginning when I was diagnose with inflammatory breast cancer 3. I have been all along, have a 41 years old daughter with special needs, I can only think about her, what's going to happen to her? Have a 33 years old son that has been distant regarding this process has not expressed any concern about my daughter or me. If it was not for her existant I would not bother, but she exist and I have to pick up my pieces and make myself again. Thank you for your videos and the opportunity to write on your blog.
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Roxanna Vanderhorst you are right to fight for your daughter. What a blessing to have her, and a reason to battle on. The chemo really targets the rogue cancer cells around the body ... my Cancer also grew during chemo. Trust in your treatment and believe that you will be well again for your daughter. I’m sorry about your son x
Thank you for these videos because I was told today I have stage 2 breast cancer and I’m so lost 😔 I know I have a long road ahead of me so any info I can get I’ll take ❤️
You’ll be a rockstar
You’ve got this! I was diagnosed a couple weeks ago. We can beat this
My wife 28 was diagnosed this oct breast cancer. Its tough but i pray for her and all you other girls to fight and beat this!
I follow you and back after 5 years and im happy you healthy i was also same stage 3 2019 now im cancwr free .But continue hormonal therapy to block estrogen anastrozole with zoladex shot i gate this a lot sude effects especially early menopause,"painful sex,dry skin from 135 gain to 158 even eat small, exercise still difficult loose weight but im here❤wish you the best❤
Hii Mam... My mom was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma of thyroid... After surgery her thyroid level becomes very high... I dnt know what to do... Tmrw is her scanning...??? Hope it will be all OK... Bt the biopsy report suggest that the cancer is limited to thyroid only... Pls God save us...
You are an inspiration. X
Xo Xo thank you x
Hi Dee. I've just found your videos. Oh my gosh you're so beautiful physically and mentally... and your boys beautiful too!! 💙💙 they remind me very much of my grandson 💙
My sister went through a similar experience with her breast cancer journey some 7yrs ago. Cross fingers she still is in the clear. I know it's not an easy process though honey 😒
I hope and pray all is ok with your journey sweetheart... I'm sure it will be!
I am going to ask you a very superficial question now and hoping you wont mind.. if you don't want to reply then I will very much understand and respect your decision... anyway my question is what colour and make nail polish you have on here?. It's so pretty. Sending you and your family love and hugs and the wish for everything positive and good that could possibly happen to you xxx
asceses Glitter haha! Actually they were glue on nails that I had cut and filed. They were from Claires and they were a pink chrome.
@@DeeDoherty ahh bless you sweetheart. Thank you for your reply which I'd missed and only just found!!! 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Gosh you'd never guess they were stick ons!! They looked so real too!! Xxx
asceses Glitter I cut them down and filed them! I can’t stand the long ones!
I'm getting the same chemo as you.
Hi how are you doing this days
Hi, I’m new to your channel. I also have breast cancer. My question is the implant injection, I don’t quite understand. I get Zoladex injection every 28days on my stomach. Thank You
Reina Juarez yes that’s the implant injection that I do too. I do it every 4 weeks
Mine was er+ pr+ her2-
How did you find this out? What have your symptoms been so far. Menopause symptoms do or don't happen. I went through it without even realizing it. I am the only female in 3 generations to not have had bc. You did not mention your faith
How did I find out I had breast cancer? I found lumps. But by that stage it had been there for a year. The very first sign was chest pain that did not go away. There are many symptoms other than lumps, you can find this information online. In Ireland, you visit your family doctor with your symptoms. They refer you to a Breast Clinic and you will wait some time (depending on what risk category they put you into at triage). You get an Ultra Sound, Mammogram and Biopsy if necessary. If you are worried at all... I would strongly recommend that you get a check. Not trying to scare you at all! I just mean better safe than sorry... I wish I'd found mine earlier!
And my mom had it in stage 1
I am a new subscriber and you are my daughter's age. She just had a baby and she noticed a lump under her arm. She sees her OB doc on Tuesday. I hope it is just breastfeeding related? Love your personality and videos ❤️
Vicky Rogers Hi Vicky! I am glad she’s getting it checked and I hope you have nothing to worry about! Pregnancy and breastfeeding cause so many changes and lumps - I know it’s scary, try not worry too much xx
How is she? X
danielle daffers they are 'watching it' until August. It makes me very nervous. Thank you for asking. That is very sweet of you! ❤️
No problem! Hope everything goes ok! I’m at the docs today I have a lump 2 x
danielle daffers I will definitely keep you in my prayers sweetie ❤️. I hope all goes well!! 🙏🏻
Is it possible to have breast cancer in a age of 20.I am having some of the symptoms.I can't understand how to manage this..
It was sad to read your comment Riya and I hope you are okay. Please consider talking with a medical professional about your symptoms and take it from there.
May God be with you and show you His wonderful kindness and grace dear friend.
May the love of His Son Jesus surround you and embrace you warmly.
Please take care.
The government does not encourage mammograms? All American women are encouraged to get a mammogram. (Baseline) Sounds like good advice but unless your income is at poverty level or if you don't have expensive insurance you will accumulate massive debt! If you are lucky maybe a group will have a fundraiser in your behalf to help defray costs,
Hope you ladies don't mind me sitting in.
Movable lump in breast is a cancerous lump?
Are you asking me or telling me?
@@DeeDoherty asking
Even unmovable lumps can be cancer. If you feel a lump get it checked.
Hi I know this is an older video but were you on any type of birth control?
Breanna Manning no never. I have a pituitary tumour so I could never take anything like that
Oh yea, I am not sure if it was this video or another one, but you mentioned you live in Ireland. Which area? I have cousins who live in the Belfast area, Northern Ireland. I think.
Tammy Grosso I live in Wicklow. It’s down south, very close to Dublin. :)
Dee Doherty Wow! How weird would it be if you actually knew my cousin. I know the chances are low, but I can always imagine. Their names are Paddy Crozier and his sister is Deirdre. One, I think, now lives in Edinburgh though. BTW- I also have chest issues pre-breast cancer diagnosis too. But they never think breast cancer when you are so young.