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Tanya (tanya)


October 31, 2006


Portland, Maine


April 7, 1975


Cancer Survivor

Cancer Info


Ovarian Cancer


Right Ovary: Atypical proliferative (borderline) serous tumor with multiple foci of invasive low grade serous carcinoma. Left Ovary: Same thing, just micro-invasive.


September 2006


Stage 1


07


Grade 1


No


Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel)


Waiting for test results!!


None really, maybe a little bloating and abdominal pain. This is the scary thing about ovarian cancer; few women have any symptoms at all.

I’ve had 3 surgeries total. The 1st was laproscopic when they discovered I didn’t have endometriosis, what they originally thought I had. That’s when they discovered that the 2 huge tumors were either cancerous or pre-cancerous. On the 2nd surgery they removed the 2 tumors and managed to save my ovaries, but the patholgy sent to Johns Hopkins came back showing a 6 mm invasive carcinoma in my right ovary, and the left ovary had a micro-invasive tumor. On January 29th, 2007, I had a total ovarian hysterectomy.

Paclitaxel(Taxol)/Carboplatin(Paraplatin) combination, intravenous, 4 treatments total, 3 weeks apart. My first treatment was Oct. 17th. The side effects weren’t been too horrible. Days 3-6 I felt really bad, but I never vomited! I just felt VERY weak, and VERY sick. I was so pale I scared myself in the mirror, and sometimes I felt so bad I couldn’t even talk. I had HORRIBLE constipation like never before, and I still have heartburn, which I never got before.

Bio-identical HRT in the form of transdermal creams: includes Bi-estrogen, Progesterone, and Testosterone…started March 2007.

No side effects to speak of so far! I highly recommend seeing a HRT specialist to look into bio-identical HRT. After reading “What your doctor may not tell you about menopause” I refuse to go on the “conventional” synthetic hormones most doctors prescribe.


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April 13, 2007

Run/Walk (crawl) For a Cure!
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I was just looking through the community calendar here, and I came across the revlon run/walk for a cure. And I signed up.

So, I’m going to NYC on May 5th to participate!

Here’s a link to my fund raising website:

https://www.revlonrunwalk.com/ny/secure/MyWebPage.cfm?pID=367134

My goal isn’t so much fund raising, although that would be great too; I’m more interested in raising awareness about ovarian cancer specifically since it’s such a nasty cancer and has so few symptoms.

I better start getting in shape!

: )

Posted on April 13, 2007 at 9:18:56 AM by Tanya (Link to this post. , Post a comment. 7 comments)



Okay, I’m impressed. How far is it? I did the walk here the fall after my lumpectomy. Got really tired. I hung on to my husband the last half. The next year I was too tired. Go for it!
Hugs!
Karen

avatar Posted on April 13, 2007 at 2:54:22 PM by kleebeck

I will think about ya as you walk for all of us.

On another note. We get to get out of Dodge (AZ) The Dr. gave me walking paper. No Appt until Nov.

Love ya and God Bless!

Sherri

avatar Posted on April 13, 2007 at 3:54:25 PM by karlak

For some reason I never got an email saying I had comments…. So the “race” is 5k, or about 3 miles. I’m starting to feel like I jumped in the deep end! Since I’ve already raised pledges I have to go! My mom just signed up with my “team”, maybe I’ll try to make t-shirts!

Sherri…I feel like poop for not recognizing you from the pledge! Maybe it’s a little like seeing your 1st grade teacher in the grocery store…you don’t recognize them in another setting!

avatar Posted on April 15, 2007 at 7:01:44 AM by tanya

I might join you. I’ve just ordered 1000 stickers that say “f*ck cancer” and 250 that say “cancer sucks”. Maybe I’ll give some away there. NYC is only a 2 hour train ride for me.

I’m doing a 5k in philly in two weeks. My goal is to run the entire time. I am no runner so it will be a huge challenge.

Did you watch the video on the NYC race? It made me cry.

avatar Posted on April 15, 2007 at 4:18:49 PM by slockwooclimbs

Yeah! That would be GREAT! I didn’t watch the video on the nyc race, but now I will.

avatar Posted on April 16, 2007 at 5:23:28 AM by tanya

Hey Tanya! I just wanted to say how wonderful it was to see you again before you left for Maine. I’ll keep up with your blog to see how you are doing from time to time. Good luck in Maine! Take care and say hi to Irvin for us!
Mb, Matt, and Cole

Posted on April 22, 2007 at 5:16:59 PM by Marybeth and Matt (unverified)

Tanya. You go girl, show them what you got.

Good luck on the walk.

Love ya, Sherri

avatar Posted on May 2, 2007 at 10:21:57 AM by karlak



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