Carmin’s Corner
A spot for me to put reclaim my place on the Internet.
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends
Or Happy Anniversary to me! Today is the one year anniversary of my breast cancer diagnosis. To celebrate, I get one last surgery! It’s a simple in-office procedure but I did my best to get it done within the one-year! For why I need it: basically, the plastic surgeon overestimated the damage radiation would do
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Paying it forward
I wanted to take a minute to list the organizations that have been very helpful to me and why. I will offer the caveat that I have not done the full deep dive on the financial structure of each of these. I know there are ways that people try to track effectiveness and costs on
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Anastrozole/Lupron
I’ve been on Kisqali for one cycle and it has gone well, which brings me to the other drugs that I’m on. I’ve been on Anastrozole, an aromatase inhibitor (sometimes called an AI), since February 1st and overall it has been ok. So, what is it? Because my breast cancer was hormone receptor-positive, I need