My first Enhertu Treatment

I had my first Enhertu infusion on August 5th (the day after my port placement on August 4th, after a hot mess attempt at a picc line placement on July 31). Here's a little video update on how that went.

My first Enhertu infusion seemed to go well. I had a port placed on Monday (I had previously had a port back in 2012 that was removed I believe in 2014). So, I needed a new one. They tried to put a picc line in on the Thursday before, but it was a hot mess at the hospital and it turns out I couldn't get the procedure. The radiologist recommended a port instead, which we honestly preferred anyway. God worked it all out for us. I ended up having a bad reaction to one of the drugs they put into the port before the Enhertu, so we had to quickly get a bag of saline, Benadryl and steroid and Ativan into my body before beginning the Enhertu. It knocked me out and the rest of the infusion went well. The Enhertu infusion was supposed to be longer than the future infusions, at 90 minutes. Instead, we went even slower and did a smaller dose over 2 hours. Between that and the reaction, we ended up not leaving until 2pm. We were there from 7a-2pm. SO it was a long day, and so far, no nausea or other issues. Just pain in the neck area where the port was placed. But, it gets slightly better with each day. Thanks so much for your prayers friends! Excited to share upcoming miracles with you!

A little cancer backstory...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted this video on youtube. Being on the comouter has been difficult, so I apologize for the delay in posting this. But I am trying to catch up now. I figured some are new and may be curious about the backstory. So, here's a little bit:

Here is the description from the youtube video, with the actual video just below:

I was diagnosed with Stage 3C breast cancer (ER/PR+, Her2-) in September 2012, At the time, our youngest was an infant and son was only 2 years old. It was a very tough time in our lives, with lots of suffering and trials, but God brought us through it all. Then, in October 2021, unfortunately, I caught Covid and my health sort of went downhill from there. Covid wasn't a hard illness for me at all, it was just the aftermath that got me. I got some respiratory viruses easily after that and in December/January had a cough that just wouldn't go away. It seemed there was a lot of inflammation in my body. We went on a trip to Colorado in early May, and I struggled with the elevation and hiking (I was super fit so this really alarmed me), When I returned back home, I went to the asthma/allergy doctor and he said my small lung capacity was terrible. I tried to show him a hard lymph node in my neck and he refused to touch it saying to go to the oncologist. He said I showed all asthma symptoms and prescribed some inhalers. (While I waited to see my oncology team, I decided to go back to juicing and eating ultra healthy, while researching all the natural treatments--the cough finally went away and I went back a month later to the allergy doctor and retested my lung capacity and it was practically normal--this was before starting any oncologist's cancer treatment. This told me these God-created, natural healing methods would be important in my treatment). I had just seen the PA at the oncology office in March and she didn't seem as concerned about my lymph node, which was hard and immovable. She said to just continue to monitor it and it could be from the cough. After researching, I saw that lymph node was not connected to the lungs, but rather the liver and other areas. So, I went to the oncologist in May after our trip to Colorado and to the allergy doctor ( I was REALLY hoping it was related to the cough), they scheduled me for a biopsy and in June 2022, I was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer that had spread to my Liver, Bones, and lymph nodes above and below my diaphragm. That's the short backstory and I will tell details in upcoming videos.