16/06/2021
Dear Friends😊🤗🌷🌸
6 weeks past after my surgery and I would like to let you know I am doing well and better a bit each week🤗🌸
The first 2 weeks was very difficult as I still had a wund drainer in my body which caused pain and discomfort a lot but it got a lot better after it was removed. On the first picture with my boyfriend is my first time out of the house on a longer walk without the drainer.😊
On the 3rd week the stitches were removed and again it got better. Only my arm is not as it was before yet. Due to all the lymph node which were removed in the beginning it was quite hard to lift my arm above my head and in order to manage it I had to do (still doing) daily medical excercise to improve it. It's going better but not perfect yet.
On the 5th week I started with excercise of light run and walk and I attempted to go back on the horse also🐴❤️Of course for short time only not to over push but force the body a bit into motion.
After 6 weeks I feel well and have energy though I still get fast tired sometimes then I need to take it easy and give it a rest and time to recover😅
In the meantime I received the final result of the characteristics of the tumor as well.
The good news is that the biggest metastied lyph node which was 29 mm shrunk by the time of surgery with 8 mm after 1.5 month of special medicine I used which is nearly 30%.🙏
As well my tumor marker decreased from 31.5 to 20 which is very good news.👏
The bad news is that they found the tumor a more aggressive type grade 3 therfore the oncologist came out with a plan of 16 rounds of chemo (4 strong and 12 lighter one for a time of 6 month) as well radiation therapy and endocrine teraphy (hormon pills) to suppress my estrogen and progesteron level.☹️
This was all quite scary as these chemo drugs would damage my bone marrow on short term, damage my immune system, my ovaries, my heart on long term and could also cause leukemia. It did not sound right to me to follow this path. Therefore we consulted the American doctors who makes the special medicine and they positively think we should give a chance to my immune system to stand up and work it out. If I step on the road of chemo later only more chemo could help me as my immune system will be gone. If my immune system handle it I will win and the chance of recurrence is much much lower. Therfore I choose to go the next 3 month without chemo and radiation as well without endocrine therapy and stay on the special medicine as well a very special anti cancer diet which is plant based and also estrogen blocker. My oncologist accepted my decision and she is supporting me with check ups like MRI, PETCT, blood tests etc to monitor my progress and in case of problem we of course would change therapy but right now my healing progress seems promising the way I am doing.🌷
Due to the aggressive characteristics of the cancer it is necessary I complete the full 6 month therapy of the special medicine. This means 3 month more funds to be raised. While I was in the hospital I received many donations and thanks to that and a dear friend from Denmark the full 4th month of medicine has been funded and I received it already.🤗
Only 2 more month missing which is 14000 USD in total. Still a lot but I have gone this far to heal I won't give up near the finish and I know I will manage to fully heal.😊
The next 3 month I will focus a lot on getting the best nutrition into my body possible to make it strong, getting my immune system up and running, excercise, horse ride (once a week at least) to strengthen body condition, address the emotional part of my reasons that led to this condition, doing the oxigen therapy as well the special medicine and I am positive by september I will have a diagnosis of No evidence of disease.🙏🙏
Please be with me and support me on this a lot as this is my chance of healing for real.🌸
Please support the go fund me site if you can and please share it around again as I am not far from winning this fight against cancer.🙏
https://gofund.me/eb30ffb0
Thank you for all your love and support.❤️
Hugs, Barbara🤗
