4/9/12 HOT FLASHES! One Minute Hot/Cold=Meds/WORKING!phyllis

The Arimidex anastrozole 1 mg ...has become my best friend.  It is depleting the estrogen in my body that feeds the hungry MASS..The best part the MASS gets smaller everyday. It was like a large grapefruit. Now the size of an orange. Thursday I will have completed one month of being on this med.  I must be on it for one more month.
Then my team will decide what the next step will be. Everything depends on the size of the MASS. I continue to
walk my four miles most days.  I have had days when I am tired and I give in to sleep during the day.  I must say, My! that feels good.  The Arimidex anastrozole 1 mg..makes me dryer all over, especially my mouth and my esophagus along with the Allegra I take for allergies = these two meds are like drying the clothes in the dryer two times..To compensate I carry a bottle of water around with me and drink water like I am in the bottom of a swimming pool..all day long. So there you have it..an update. I could not sign in properly as the Blog Co. was
going through some changes. I had to put one blog under comments! BUT THEN, Real like gets in the way!
Hugs..phyllis ...get its a beautiful day! .

Pretty Amazing! This Bump in the Breast I Have! 3/31/12 phyllis!

It is amazing!  I must say  that. I have energy.  I continue to do my four mile early a.m. walks   My daily med
for the cancer is Arimidex anastrozole 1 mg. I have no ill effects from the med. It is doing the job of taking the estrogen out of my body and shrinking the MASS. I can tell the MASS is getting smaller to what extent I do
not know, that's what the four place wonderful team will tell me, through blood tests they have taken and
sharing with one another at their weekly meetings..over lunch! My next appointment with my Oncologist:
Dr. Richard Weiss is Thursday April 5, 2012..so I will learn more then. I continue on with many projects. Bill does the same. He is quite good as he just had more skin cancer taken off his arm and ear.  He does not
flinch..just ....pour it on BABY! and off we go after that..probably for my allergy shots! What did Roseanna
Dana! from the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE years ago, she would say..."If it's not this it's that and so on! Of course she was funny..but then I am not on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE! www.women70andover.com
hugs..phyllis 3/31/12 without family and friends..I am nothing!

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Did You Laugh at Yourself? I do! Tell Me! Share/ phyllis 3/23/12

When we have a "booboo" ..we all want to make it better! With mine..tell me something funny!  I dropped my medicine container...on the floor by the computer..In the meantime..I did some chores around the house..quick..that's how I move..fast and dangerous! Because I can easily throw something out in a fast clean-up...I looked at my desk area..no! no! meds..Later! I looked in the sea of wires from my computer, ect..and there was the medicine. There is a whole world at your feet! Come on!  Tell me?  What has happened in your day? www.women70andover.com  Have a fun week-end..Hugs..phyllis

Sugeon: Dr. Joseph D. Bianchi....Great! Everyone would love him! I do!

Met with my surgeon, Dr. Joseph D. Bianchi to go over “the plan”, which is shrinking of the mass.  I have taken Arimidex anastrozole 1 mg. for a week.  I will continue this for two months.  This also will continue to take the estrogen out of my system, which feeds the mass and tumor growth. During this time, I will have blood tests and be monitored by my medicine Oncologist, Dr. Richard Weiss.  So there you have it.  For me it is a comfortable plan.  I feel well.  I have energy and can walk each early a.m. So I have no complaints. On the other hand, I am most grateful to my medical team and to Bill for his endless patience.

He continues to go to the doctor to have cancer removed from his skin every few months.  He does very well with the treatment and goes about his business, as if nothing happened. It looks like we are off to a good weekend, like normal folks and will be with friends.  Just kick back!  I wish you the same. 3/22/12 www.women70andover.com  Hugs, Phyllis

Do You Have Cancer in Your DNA? Cost? Information Below! phyllis

Good Evening..dear friends and Blog Photos! Feel MY hugs!

Today was a good day..It is the second day of my taking the shrink the estrogen from the mass pill, which is
Arimidex Snastrozole 1 mg..so far, so good..no ill effects except a hot flash every now and then.
This is an interesting find:

CONCLUSIONS:

Ductal carcinoma incidence rates remained essentially constant from 1987-1999 while lobular carcinoma rates increased steadily. This increase presents a clinical challenge given that lobular carcinoma is more difficult to detect than ductal carcinoma by both physical examination and mammography.

from/

Trends in incidence rates of invasive lobular and ductal breast carcinoma.

Li CI, Anderson BO, Daling JR, Moe RE.

Source

Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, MP 381, PO Box 19024, Seattle, Wash 98109-1024, USA. cili@fhcrc.org

I encourage all of you and me for sure..to dig for info..thank heavens for Google!

3/17/12  hugs..Phyllis  www.women70andover.com