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VIDEO - HERSTORY: Irene Shares The Status Of Her Cancer Treatment

March 19, 2009 - 4:29pm 429 reads 1 comments

Irene describes how she is feeling now and the status on her breast cancer treatment.

Irene:
I feel very good, I feel wonderful. I had surgery and, the initial surgery was in October and they had to go back and get better margins in early November, and I went home for a recuperation period. I came back in late December for my simulation for radiation. The doctor talked to me about a test to determine if chemotherapy was in my treatment plan and it was determined that it was not.

I started radiation on the 5th of January and I have gone through 20 treatments of radiation. I have about 17 more to go and the radiation staff is just great. You look forward to going there, I do; I look forward to meeting them, they’re all smiles. Whenever they are little bit late and sometimes the machine might have a little problem, they are a little bit late, they come in and apologize as if it was their responsibility and it isn’t. Of course, we understand that. But they talk to us like, some of them like they are our children because they are pretty young some of them, but certainly like they are part of our family.

So, I am assuming based on where I am right now, if everything continues to go well, I have about another three weeks here and I will be going home.

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