Getting a scrap of sanity back

Hey Fer,

I’m a headin’ back to the gym! Yep, in eight short hours I will be sweating out Coors Light and cancer care-giver stress. I’m aiming for twenty on the treadmill, as it’s been a year since Bally’s has seen this sad and sorry face. I’m banking on this to rebalance my brain juice. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow after work, just know that you were always a super fun girl.

So radiation has started. Steph went today for her first. That makes one down, 39 to go. This is her profile on the triple negative forums:

dx Sept. 4 2007

IDC (stage 2-3ish-neoadjuvant chemo)

BRCA2 positive

4 A/C 4 Taxol

Bilateral mastectomy 2-15-08

5 nodes neg

Start rads 4-7-08

Need a translator? Here, let me assist. She was diagnosed September 4th of last year with infiltrating ductal carcinoma. She had eight rounds of chemo, four of Adriamycin/Cytoxin, four of Taxol, before any other treatment (hence the neo) in order to shrink the 2.7 cm tumor in the left breast, which she used to have. They’re both in the incinerator at Northwestern as of February 15 of this year. All lymph nodes taken were found to be negative of cancer, due to chemo before surgery, so we’ll never know if the fucker spread. She was beamed today for the first time, so when you and Brenna make your trek to the Chi please pack some SPF.

Girl, if that $10 mascara makes you look 26, you just got yourself a bargain. Buying it just because Drew said to? Wise decision. She’s like one of three straight girls I find totally hot.

Heading out. Gotta make a batch of tea that’ll keep me young and juice $40 worth of veggies that’ll keep me full until lunch. Love you.

Squats and lunges,

Britto