My six-month checkup was reduced to two, as my oncologist checked out her hunch about my left eye. Apparently malfunction of neck lymph nodes can affect the eye, with swelling around the eyelid, dilated pupils. Being super-cautious, Dr. Lisa Pickering took another look. I had the eye checked by my eye doc two months ago and my vision is really good for somebody with eyeballs shaped like eggs instead of spheres! Dr. P confirms all my blood(y) tests indicate my bone marrow has fuly recovered from the onslaughts of chemo, my VitD good (deficiency being something being associated with many cancers) and generally I am in really good shape. Yeah. I am now back on a 6 month recall.
Some good news. The Johns Hopkins hospital, a leader in health care and esp. breast cancer treatment, confirms that women who received Herceptin combined with chemo have a 25% better survival than those who had it sequentially. Good to know my docs ae on the leading edge of treatment for this horrible disease.
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