The Follow-up..again

Monday, Oct. 10: I have a follow up visit with the surgeon again from the second surgery. My port looks good. I have another insision that is only covered with dermabond--great stuff. I went for my echo of my heart and the Pet scan last week. She is able to get my results and everything on the scan shows no sign of cancer tumors anywhere in my body! YEAH!!!! I feel so much better knowing that. But I did get some bad news. I had ordered some books and I was decifering different things on my path reports. I noticed that on one of my reports it said that my HER2/neu was 1.9. Above 2 is positive, below 2 is negative. But I also noticed another report called a FISH test, it is more accurate and the test that you would want to have done to test if you have this protein. The FISH test said "positive for overamplification of HER2" Now, that doesn't sound negative to me, which is what I was told I was. You want to be negative, not positve. So, I showed my surgeon this and she realized that they had done the first test. It showed 1.9, which is borderline so they sent if for the better test, the FISH. This came back positive for HER2. So, I thought I was the better, negative but I am not, I am positive. This is a more aggressive cancer so it is fought more aggressively. Dr. Barber called the oncologist to make sure that she knew that I was positve and she did catch it. So the treatment that the oncologist told me they were going to do still stays the same. So, I got some good news, no cancer anywhere else but also bad news, I am HER2 positive. It seems I never get just good news, always some bad comes with it. It is like its 50/50 all the time. Well, tomorrow I visit the oncologist and they want to go ahead and start chemo. I think I will if I get all my questions answered. The sooner I start, the sooner I will get done.