April Health Update

If you've come for the glamour and glimpse at a perfect life, you've definitely come to the wrong place. There is no glamour in cancer treatments, it's all raw, unfiltered and messy - saving your life is messy, that's just the way it is.

This is me, being pumped with radioactive dye and watching Outer Banks in a little room at the radiologists.

3 weeks ago I had an emergency PET/CT to check on the raised lymph nodes on the back of my neck. The good news is the lymph nodes didn't light up, they are just lymph nodes doing non-cancery lymph node things. In fact, nothing lit up on my scan, I'm still NED (no evidence of disease) 2 years and 4 months post diagnosis. What did light up is a very active ovary - now this is not good for me, because I'm supposed to be in a chemically induced menopause or at least a 'peri-menopause' state. I am 'triple positive'- ER/PR+ Her2+. Hormones are basically fertilizer for my cancer.

Cue today's attractive plaster placement after a zoladex injection. This sub-cut implant injection needs to happen once every 28 days, and its job is to shut my ovaries down, put them to sleep and stop them doing ovary things. How will we know it's working? We wait for the side effects to start happening; hot flashes and dramatic mood swings, fun for the whole family!