DEAREST FAMILY AND FRIENDS
JANUARY 9, 2009
Prayer request: Please pray for Dianne and that her upcoming chemotherapy treatments will be successful with minimal controllable side effects.
Update:
Physical therapy - Dianne has been having physical therapy twice per week due to the continuous pain she has been having in her arm as result of the axillary node surgery on Dec 8th. The pain is a result of the damage to the local nerves as well as the side effects of removing regional lymph nodes. The physical therapy along with time and healing should aid in reducing the pain.
Chemotherapy -
- We met again today with Oncologist Dr. Edenfield and Dianne will have 1st chemotherapy injections on Friday Jan 16th. She will have to receive some tests next week prior to her treatment.
- Each of her treatment injections will take about 2 1/2 hours at the GHS Cancer Center.
- She will receive the TAC [3 drugs] chemotherapy regimen.
- There will be total of 6 treatments, each scheduled every 21 days.
- In between treatments there will be testing to check different functions.
- The TAC chemo regimen was decided based upon her cancer profile as being in excellent health, histologic grade 2, tumor size 1.7 cm, 1 node involved, and her biomarkers - estrogen receptor positive and HER2 negative.
- TAC is a standard protocol regimen that would be used for her breast cancer whether she was at Sloan Kettering, MD Anderson, Mayo, or any other major cancer center.
Dianne is extremely happy with her Oncologist, Dr. Edenfield; he is very bright and he connects and communicates well with Dianne. Dr. Blouin, Dianne's surgeon, highly recommends Dr. Edenfield.
Our Pastor, Charlie Boyd, said something last Sunday in his message which has stuck with me this week - God is our only constant and we need to trust his ways and not our ways. Dianne and I are thankful to God for his grace and the peace of mind that we receive from him through prayer and receiving of his grace.
We continue along this journey and have faith that God will cure her of this disease.Dianne and I cannot express enough how thankful we are for your continuous faithful prayers for her.
May God bless each one of you in this New Year.
love you all ......Bruce and Dianne
DIANNE CHAMBERS
CELL: 864-420-1719
HOME: 864-288-6093
EMAIL: SDCHAMBERS@CHARTER.NET
BRUCE CHAMBERS
CELL: 864-420-1719
EMAIL: BWCHAMBERS@CHARTER.NET
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