July 2009...I feel weird like something is wrong at the age of44... I was thinking maybe I am Premenopausal....So I go to the ob and have a yearly exam and asked her to run a hormone test called an FSH meaning Follicle Stimulating Hormone Test..Well...I had just had two children ... after having complete reconstructon of my tubes after having them tied in Jan 1990. I talked to the Nurse Practioner at the Ob Checkup and told her something was wrong I had been waking up at night ...feeling strange... It was like my body was trying to tell me something was wrong,,, So she advised me to go have a mammogram. I was over 40. She could not feel any lumps..One day I reached up and touched my breast area close to my underarm and I found a lump. I recvd a call from my doctor while on the way home from the mammogram telling me that I had a possible malignancy....well of course I freaked out and went and had a biopsy and my doctor called and told me it was malignant....Had surgery and found out it had gotten into 4 lymph nodes under my arm ....1 lymph node and micro amounts in the other three well...of course this meant I was Stage 3A !!! 14 months later I have had a lumpectomy not mastectomy clear margins 1.8 cm tumor grade 2 HER+ I have had 12 rounds of chemo and herceptin since Oct 2009. At first, every week and then herceptin every three weeks!!! 37 rads including boost...I have had a complete hysterectomy due to the her 2 status and now take a pill called femara....I take very good care of myself and love and cherish each and every precious day of life!!

Trina
Perry, GA