In chronological order…..

This is an attempt to put the story into its chronological order.  By nature of being a blog, it means that it reads from the present backwards, and that makes it harder to trace this account from its beginning.

These are the headlines only – there are many snippets and updates which are not indexed.  Bear with me………….this is a work in progress 🙂

1. The beginning – finding something suspicious
2. The diagnosis
3. The diagnosis sinks in
4. The surgery
5. Post surgery
6. The lymph node story
7. Getting out of hospital
8. Results and the treatment plan
9. What it does to your mind
10. The second surgery
11. The first chemotherapy
12. Post chemo 1 – introducing the Groundhog Days
13. The amazing Port and how it works
14. Losing the hair
15. Dealing with mastectomy – the non medical side
16. Graduating to the second chemo – enter Taxotere………
17. ………and its lovely side effects
18. Things will never be the same again.
19. Losing more hair!
20. Cancer treatment as the Triathlon from Hell!
21. And Chemo as a Boxing Match!
22. The Final Chemo, finally
23. Introducing Radiation
24. Radiation begins
25. A twist in the tale – Bankok’s Breast Cancer Correspondent
26. Entering a new phase – return, recovery……
27. The strange post treatment phase – part one and part two
28. The lopsided look!
29. The first 3 month check (August 2010) and afterwards
30. Life with my new constant companion – Tamoxifen
31. The “new normal” – or “Same, same – but different”
32. Approaching a year from diagnosis
33. And the Cancerversary – how I marked it and why

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