It's time for your girl Amy's diagnosis story! What up to the "Stage 2B ER/PR+ Her2- IDC, grade 3 w/ a side of DCIS**" homies in the crowd!! We've got another misdiagnosis (hey docs, what do they teach you in medical school, anyway?) and a lot of lost time. Luckily, a boob-biting baby re-rings the breast cancer alarm 13 months later and that bitch--the cancer, not the baby--is huge, but she hasn't spread. Listen hard to catch Amy accidentally saying "niagdosed." Let's all make fun of her when we see her.
Risk of Fear Spiral: Low. Some "cancer surprises," but it's chill.
**Amy here: a few quick notes about my diagnosis story in response to two listener letters - This episode describes the leapfrogging we do from base to base (in a minefield) as we unearth more about our specific -and all very different- conditions. This story is mine. It’s important to point out that some listeners w/BC have it better, and some have it worse and it’s no picnic for any of us... In this episode, my reaction to my staging/tumor size/type in no way is meant to make stage 4 gals feel crappy, OR those dealing with “DCIS-only” feel like it’s “not real cancer”. DCIS is its own little jerk-monster and I DO sort of “brush it off” in the episode. So sorry for that! We’ll talk more about DCIS in the future. And please note that relief to learn I wasn’t metastatic isn’t meant to make gals with mets feel like they’re screwed. (At the time of my diagnosis I certainly didn’t know much about it and above all I was just terrified of everything.) Everyone listening “belongs” no matter what you’re stage or how big your little bitch tumor is and it sucks all around for all of us, including me. 💗
(Recorded a couple o’ months ago.)
Risk of Fear Spiral: Low. Some "cancer surprises," but it's chill.
**Amy here: a few quick notes about my diagnosis story in response to two listener letters - This episode describes the leapfrogging we do from base to base (in a minefield) as we unearth more about our specific -and all very different- conditions. This story is mine. It’s important to point out that some listeners w/BC have it better, and some have it worse and it’s no picnic for any of us... In this episode, my reaction to my staging/tumor size/type in no way is meant to make stage 4 gals feel crappy, OR those dealing with “DCIS-only” feel like it’s “not real cancer”. DCIS is its own little jerk-monster and I DO sort of “brush it off” in the episode. So sorry for that! We’ll talk more about DCIS in the future. And please note that relief to learn I wasn’t metastatic isn’t meant to make gals with mets feel like they’re screwed. (At the time of my diagnosis I certainly didn’t know much about it and above all I was just terrified of everything.) Everyone listening “belongs” no matter what you’re stage or how big your little bitch tumor is and it sucks all around for all of us, including me. 💗
(Recorded a couple o’ months ago.)
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