Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Back to Work

Dear Team Charlene,

For those who didn't hear, the pathology on the surgery came back 100% clean. Specifically, the skin was clean, the 44 lymph nodes, and the muslcle. What great news!!!!!!!! The doctors were all ecstatic and looking forward to a positive future. The treatment plan is still the same, next is radiation for 6 weeks. Start date TBD, pending flexibility in her arms. Then a vaccine clinical trial followed by a clinical trial of post surgery chemo. The triple negative breast cancer hit "mom"hard, so she hit back even harder. The post surgery treatment will hopefully give her an increasesd chance of remaining cancer free. Yes that is right "Mom" is once again cancer free. Thanks to all you thoughts and prayers her spirits remained high and she never let the diease get her down. Many thanks friends, family, her wonderful support group and amazing team of doctors at Dana-Farber, Brighman and Women's, Faulkner, and New England Baptist. Love you Dr. Tolaney and Dr. Dominici, you are both rock stars!!! We will never forget the help of Dr. Ferzoco and Dr. Bern whom got things moving and continue to treat "mom" like the queen bee. As treatment continues we look forward to the future and the long range goals of our family.

Big News, Mom went back to work today. We are so happy that she was able to return to some normalcy. We will miss her hanging out with us all day, but it will be worth the happiness that she feels from being able to be around the animals and her co-workers. We hear that she is on paperwork and desk duty, but just being there is amazing at 3 weeks post-op.



A big Thank You to:


"Mom" just signed up for the Stowe Weekend of Hope, she is so excited. She is looking forward to a getaway with her friends and hopefully some dancing and dessert.

Love the Puppers and Kitty,

Ginger, Liz, and Baby (Meowwwwwwwwwww)