<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Lori's Journal RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/rss</link><description>Lori's Journal RSS Feed</description><item><title><![CDATA[1 year mark]]></title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8243</link><guid>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8243</guid><description><![CDATA[July 10th will be one year from starting chemo - I am scheduled for an MRI that day and will see my surgeon (he's more of a "people" person than my oncologist and we'd rather discuss the results with him) on the 17th for the results. I feel like this will be the longest week and a half of my life, the waiting seems to wear me out. At least when you have the results, you can either plan for the next course of treatment or adjust to no more doc visits every 3 weeks - the waiting is the worst! I'm so ready to be done with this 1 1/2 yr old journey - Lori]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the end in sight?]]></title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8152</link><guid>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8152</guid><description><![CDATA[I will have 1 more Herceptin treatment on July 2nd and they have scheduled the MUGA test, CT scan and MRI for first part of July. July 17th will be the big day that we get all reports from the tests to see if I'm cancer free - (it will be a year from treatment) I truely believe that this is scarier than taking treatment! 
So ready to move on.........]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[MRI Status]]></title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8073</link><guid>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8073</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, noone in my health care network can really tell me why I continue to have the pain in the back of my head. MRI and scan's do not show anything (I think they think I'm nuts and it's all "in my head") It starts on the right side of the base of my skull and travels around the right side near my ear. They had me take predisone for a week, that's an experience but did not help. Next step would be to take an anti-seizure med, that doesn't even sound good so I've elected to take nothing, do nothing - guess in hopes it will go away and/or I just get use to it. The nuero guy even looked at the results and saw nothing, so......here I'm am. The weight gain/unable to lose the 10-15 lbs gained over this journey is probably my biggest obstacle right now when does this all end? Feeling my lowest....]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[MRI results]]></title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8013</link><guid>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8013</guid><description><![CDATA[Good news/probably not so good news from my MRI this week. No cancer in the brain, however, they found "abnormal signal intensity and enhancement within the C2 vertebral body, including the odontoid. In light of the history of BC, this finding is suspicious for bony metastasis to the odontoid" I'm having a bone scan today and an MRI of the neck on Monday. Guess I'm numb at this point - medical jargan too much to absorb right now, but does not sound good to me. I have an appt with my oncologist for the 9th when I do the Herceptin so guess we will go over all the results then. Anyone familiar with this? Thanks, Lori]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Cancer?]]></title><link>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8002</link><guid>http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/mynbcf/members/lori/journals/8002</guid><description><![CDATA[To make a long story short, I had a lump removed from both breasts May of 07, 6 rounds of chemo and 33 radiation treatments which ended first week of Jan 08. Still taking Herceptin every 3 weeks until end of July 08. I've been experiencing pain in the back of my head, base of my neck, down my spine and across my shoulder blades for going on 2 weeks. Blood tests showed nothing so will have an MRI of the brain and brain stem tomorrow. Scared to death is an understatement. Anyone have any experience like this? Wonder why a PET scan was not down when I completed radiation, is that "normal"? Again, anyone out there with some info? Thanks so much, Lori]]></description></item></channel></rss>