May 20 Felt lump in the middle of the night
May 21 Regularly scheduled annual wellness appointment
May 22 Mammogram and ultrasound
May 25-27 Went to see Aunt Karla six weeks post-op from her double mastectomy/reconstruction.
May 28 Contrast mammogram & breast biopsy
June 1 Diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma and then went to my son’s vocal concert
June 4 Met with oncologist and surgeon for the first time and learned that I’d need chemo, surgery and radiation
June 5 Breast MRI and lymph node biopsy (from hell)
June 6 PET scan
June 8 Call from oncologist that my cancer is stage iiic due to “extensive lymph node involvement.” No time to do clinical trial. Will start chemo ASAP.
June 9 Left for pre-planned Florida family vacation (beach, not Disney)
June 16 Came home
June 17 Port surgery
June 19 First of 16 chemo cycles. Taxol, Perjeta, Herceptin
June 26 Second infusion Taxol & Herceptin
June 30 First haircut at uptown Juut with Kathryn
July 2 Third infusion Taxol & Herceptin
July 8 Fourth infusion Taxol, Perjeta, Herceptin
July 9 Jillian’s birthday + Hair loss begins
July 13 Impromptu Haircut Party
July 15 Fifth infusion Taxol & Herceptin, meet with oncologist and learn that I have confusing cancer cells. It appears my lymph nodes are no longer enlarged (what!? Yes!!! Cautiously optimistic the chemo is working…)
July 16 “Chicago Kim” comes to town for 24 hours + I meet with the surgeon
July 17 Brent shaves my head
July 21 Sarah Epp comes to visit before moving to Switzerland
July 22 Sixth infusion Taxol & Herceptin
July 29 Seventh infusion Taxol, Herceptin, Perjeta
August 3-10 We are cowboys and cowgirls in the wild west. AKA, our trip to Wyoming
August 12 Eighth Chemo Taxol, Herceptin
August 17 MRI to see if chemo is working
August 19 Ninth Chemo Taxol, Herceptin, Perjeta
August 26 Tenth Chemo Taxol and Herceptin
September 2 Drop Phoebe off for her first day of Kindy and then do my Eleventh round of Chemo
September 10 Chemo. Last one of Taxol, Herceptin and Perjeta
September 16 First of four Adriamycin and Cytoxan (AC) infusions. Chemo is now every other week.
September 30 Second AC infusion
October 14 Third AC infusion
October 17 ER visit with chest pains, cleared to come home after CT scan, blood work, EKG, etc…
because lemons happened 
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