Hi Sam,
That is such wonderful news, so pleased for you. How are you feeling now? Hope you’re healing well, gaining back strength and starting to rebuild your life. I had my penultimate Kadcyla last Wednesday. Feeling a bit weak and breathless as my blood levels drop but not too bad and hopefully will be on the up again next week. Then start to get back some strength ahead of my son’s graduation at the end of September. Will be having an oopherectomy in October, and will be continuing with Letrozole but hope to return to work (I run a psychotherapy private practice) before or just after Christmas. Treatment will have been 17 months in total but I know I’m lucky to have been offered so much on the NHS.
Wishing you all the best.
Helen.xx
So glad you’re managing @Thetawave. I know how hard it is to have to face and do another 10 months of treatment when we’ve already been through chemo, radio and surgery, but once completed we’ll be so glad we did, to know we blasted any residual cancer in the macro cells and that we threw everything at it. We do it for our children and future grandchildren, to be there for them and to enjoy of much of life as we can moving forward. I lost my Mum to this dreadful disease 27 years ago and I know how lucky I am to have been offered so much, as she wasn’t, they didn’t have the understanding or drugs back then 
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Nearly there now, you’re doing amazingly.xx
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Thank you so much Nellby23 xxxx
Just a quick note to see how you are now that you’ve finished Kadcyla? Also wishing you well for your upcoming oopherectomy. Still ploughing through the Phesgo here!
Hi Sam,
Thank you for checking in and asking after me. I really appreciate it. Sorry
I haven’t replied earlier, just picked up your message.
I’m doing okay after Kadcyla, not picking up as rapidly as I would have liked after my last cycle as I picked up a cold bug and am struggling to get back my strength. It’s v slow going. I did make it last week to my son’s graduation down in Oxford though, drove down from Lancashire and spent a long day at the lunch and then graduation. Drove back the next day -4 hr journey. Still feel I’m improving this week in spite of all that last weekend so am pleased. The oopherectomy has been upgraded to a vaginal hysterectomy as I need a prolapse repair as well, so finally I met with a gynaecologist who will do it all in one operation rather than two. I’m v scared about it and how much pain I’ll be in afterwards. Also how my body will cope with yet another ‘battering’. Though I tell myself if I can start to recover a bit after the lumpectomy which was only 4.5 weeks after my last chemo, and I was strong enough to start Kadcyla 4 weeks after that. At least this is the last stage hopefully, I can start to rebuild my strength and my life too. It’s been over 18 months since I found the lump. Can’t complain though, they’ve thrown the kitchen sink at me and I’m v lucky and grateful for that.
How are you doing? How are you finding the Phesgo as you plod through the cycles? Hope your friend is coping with the Ksdcyla and ticking off each one in her mind.
Best wishes.
Helen.
Hi @Thetawave,
Just wanted to check in see how you’re doing, how your Mum is as well. Hope you’ve finished Kadcyla now and you’re coping as best you can as a family. Sending you my best wishes. You’re a trooper and a star.
Hugs,
Helen.