I wanted to post on Friday, which was exactly two years on from the day we had the results of the biopsy on Janet’s breast, but didn’t manage it due to work.
Things really are looking good now. When I read the posts from the early part of this blog, it almost seems like it happened [...]

It’s been ages since I posted here. Partly it’s because I’ve been quite busy with work, and partly because for a while there wasn’t much to say and I got out of the habit. I’ve lost touch a bit with the discussion forums and other blogs, but perhaps it is a good thing to get [...]

“You need to move on now.”  This is a phrase often heard by people who have been through some difficult times, implying that they should set aside the bad experience and get on with living life again. Of course, that’s not always so easy to do, though. The difficult times usually cannot be isolated from [...]

On Monday we met with the breast surgeon (I’ll call her “Mrs O”) who did Janet’s operation. One of the issues we raised with her was the problem of bone and joint pain, which is causing Janet a lot of difficulties, even though she handles it so well. We were a bit surprised with the [...]

Brilliant. We went to the Herceptin clinic for the next review this morning, after 10 doses of Herceptin. We got the result from an echo-cardiogram that we went for last week, and Janet’s ejection fraction is up to 73%, with all other parts looking good. This means she is getting fitter each time we go. [...]

Janet had her first haircut for over a year on Friday, with highlights added and it looks great. The curls seem to be getting less prominent, which she is very pleased about. Another landmark reached.
We also got the results from the bone density scan yesterday. It seems she is slightly osteopenic, which means the mineral [...]

Well, I’m feeling guilty now that I haven’t posted for such a long time, but there hasn’t been  a lot to say (in the sense that nothing has changed really). We seem to have been quite busy over the summer as well, so it’s harder to take out time for ‘blog writing.
The various doctors seem [...]

There seem to be lots of “one year” things now. I suppose this could go on for … well … a year!  Today’s “one year” thing was a visit to the Breast Care Unit to see the team there – the ones who deal with the looking, feeling and cutting rather than the poisoning and [...]

As you can see, I haven’t posted anything for a month. This seems to fit the pattern of many other blogs that I follow (see right); I suppose it relates to the speed at which things happen in the treatment as well as the severity and speed of the side effects of that treatment. The [...]

We went back to Christie’s this morning for Janet to be checked out after the first 5 Herceptin treatments, having been for the echo-cardiogram last Monday evening. All is extremely well – Janet’s ejection fraction has actually gone up to 70% from 66% before the Herceptin started. (Remember, this is the fraction of blood that [...]